(2025-05-05). Ukraine's battlefield position is deteriorating fast. responsiblestatecraft.org 
The election of U.S. President Donald Trump changed U.S. policy toward Ukraine from "
(2025-05-05). Zelenskyy's Dangerous Threats. unitedworldint.com The Risk to World Leaders and Global Security Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has once again demonstrated his determination to continue the war, rejecting Russia's offer of a three-day ceasefire on May 9, Victory Day, a holiday primarily celebrated in the CIS countries. According to the Kremlin, the offer was intended to test Ukraine's readiness to …
(2025-05-05). Why doesn't the 'Deal-Maker' close the deal? thealtworld.com This Trump transformation of America was intended to be rebuilt as America First. | The story, both on Ukraine and Iran, is that President Trump wants a 'deal' — and both deals are available — yet he seems nonetheless to have boxed himself in. Trump presents his Administration as being something rougher, meaner, and far less sentimental. It aspires to emerge, apparently, as also something more centralized, coercive, and radical. | In domestic policy, there may be some truth to this categorisation of the Trumpian ethos. In foreign policy, however, Trump tergiversates. The reason is not clear, but the f…
(2025-05-05). Comicomment: Who has become a joke? ecns.cn Since the Ukraine crisis escalated, the U.S. has fueled tensions, imposed more sanctions on Russia, and funneled over $100 billion in aid to Ukraine. But its real concern isn't peace or people—it's clinging to global dominance.
(2025-05-05). U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Report Prioritizes Women and Destructive Mining. indybay.org Women's rights, an end to Russia's aggression in the Ukraine, and the protection of Indigenous Peoples from mining, specifically the abuses of critical minerals extraction, were priorities of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in its final report as it concluded on Friday afternoon in New York.
(2025-05-05). Covering up Ukrainian Nazis is nothing new. defenddemocracy.press The Canadians have been doing it for almost 80 years Ian Proud Apr 28, 2025 A number of topics remain taboo in discussing the war in Ukraine. Busification, Zelensky's democratic mandate, Ukraine's casualty numbers and anything suggesting that Ukraine cannot win are all off limits. Likewise the problem of alleged neo-Nazis in Ukraine. One of …
(2025-05-05). Is Trump Selling Out to Zelensky and Neocons? defenddemocracy.press Ekaterina Blinova May 5, 2025 Donald Trump promised peace in 24 hours — but now he's arming Ukraine, just like Joe Biden, whom he blasted over the conflict. Two Patriot Systems A US Patriot air defense system from Israel will be heading to Ukraine, as Western allies weigh sending another, the NYT reported on May 4. Under US …
(2025-05-05). Ukraine War Day A Return to Chivalry? Part I. awfulavalanche.wordpress.com 
When you had left our pirate fold | We tried to raise our spirits faint | According to our custom old | With quips and quibbles quaint | But all in vain the quips we heard | We lay and sobbed upon the rocks | Until to somebody occurred | A startling paradox | A paradox? | A paradox | A most ingenious paradox! | (W.S. Gilbert, The Pirates of Penzance) | Dear Readers: | There was a Latin word caballus ("pack horse"), which was probably not of original Latin (or even Indo-European) origins, most likely borrowed from a non-Latin speaking tribe whom the Latins encountered somewhere in their distant past.
(2025-05-05). Torture, Death of a Ukrainian Journalist in Russian Custody. hrw.org Click to expand Image | A commemoration Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna who died in Russian captivity, Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kyiv, Ukraine, October 11, 2024. | © 2024 Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images…
(2025-05-05). Romania's far right wins first round of presidential elections. newarab.com 
The closely watched rerun could potentially herald a foreign policy shift in the EU country of 19 million, which has become a key pillar of NATO since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. | With 99 percent of ballots counted, nationalist AUR party leader Simion – a fan of US President Donald Trump – was leading with 40.5 percent of the vote. | He will face off against pro-EU Bu…
(2025-05-05). Odessa tragedy: 11 years without justice. pressenza.com 2 May 2024. Exactly 11 years ago, a tragedy took place in Odessa that has become a bloody stain in the history not only of Ukraine but of the whole of Europe. In the Trade Union House, a building meant to protect people's rights, dozens of anti-fascists died in the fire, suffocated in the smoke or were torn apart by the crowd. Their crime was merely disagreement with the political course established after the events of Maidan. Today, years later, their memory unites those who continue to demand the truth and punishment of those responsible. | By Jaroslav Procházka | 'Not a picnic, but hell": how it was | On May 2…
(2025-05-05). Ukraine Seemingly Gearing up for Victory Day Attack. thesiriusrepo 
Paul discusses why thwarted Ukrainian drone strikes today as well as recent statements and actions by Kiev seemingly indicate that Moscow should take the risk of an attack on Victory Day very seriously.
(2025-05-05). The US/EU/NATO's Regime Change Playbook for Burkina Faso and Captain Ibrahim Traoré. transcend.org The U.S. increases pressure on Burkina Faso through military propaganda, as Africans rise to protect the developing project.
(2025-05-05). Tripoli denounces 'degrading' images of abducted Libyan MP. newarab.com 
The North African country has been wracked by unrest since the 2011 overthrow of dictator Muammar Gaddafi in a NATO-backed uprising. | It is split between the UN-recognised government in the capital Tripoli in the west and a rival administration backed by military strongman Khalifa Haftar that rules from Benghazi and Tobruk in the east. | I…
(2025-05-05). These women are giving their legislators a piece of their mind — one quilt square at a time. anabaptistworld.org The card holders on the long dining room table offered guidance to the women assembled around it: "Keep it Constitutional" and "Keep it Kind." With those themes in mind, about 10 women, using beige or light blue fabric pieces and colorful markers, sat down to craft messages to their state representative or senator: "Checks and …
(2025-05-04). Ukraine War Day England Always The Enemy Of Russia? awfulavalanche.wordpress.com 
Dear Readers, | Continuing on my Maria Zakharova theme from yesterday's post: Stepan Bandera: The Founding Father of Independent Ukraine | Most Loyal Readers will realize why this news s…
(2025-05-04). End the Ukraine war with this one simple trick. strategic-culture.su By Daniel MCADAMS | Join us on , , and . | Contact us: | The long-debated "minerals deal" was finally signed between the US and Ukra…
(2025-05-04). Ukraine ignores Russia's truce request and prepares to sabotage Victory Day. strategic-culture.su The Kiev regime once again reveals its terrorist nature. | Join us on , , and . | Contact us: | Behind its "democratic" rhetoric and…
(2025-05-04). Michael Brenner: Core Trump. scheerpost.com President Donald Trump during his commencement address an the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa on May 1. (White House / Daniel Torok) | By Michael Brenner | So, President Donald Trump's heralded intervention to bring resolution to the Ukraine conflict has fallen flat. Rejected by Russia, by the EU states, by Kiev. An unprecedented trifecta of failed foreign policy. | His contrived scheme designed to skirt the core issues and interests at stake was a non-starter from Day One. That should have been obvious. There was no serious thinking in the White House that might produce a coherent diplomatic strategy.
(2025-05-04). Minerals deal resets geopolitics of Ukraine. indianpunchline.com Ukraine's mineral resources, December 10, 2024 [SOURCE: NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence] Moscow and Kiev have been vying with each other to curry favour with the new US administration. Just as Russian diplomacy appeared to be outstripping Kiev, things changed dramatically on April 30 with the signing of the so-called minerals deal between the … |
(2025-05-04). US pulling out of Ukraine-Russia peace talks after mineral deal. defenddemocracy.press by Craig Nigrelli May 2, 2025 Days after striking a deal with Ukraine involving rare earth minerals, the Trump administration appears to be conducting a major shift in diplomacy. Months after the president's promise to end the Ukraine-Russia war, quickly after becoming president, the U.S. announced that it would no longer engage in what is often …
(2025-05-04). Russia warns of consequences for Ukraine if it attacks Moscow. plenglish.com Moscow, May 4 (Prensa Latina) The vice-president of the Russian Security Council, Dmitri Medvedev, reacted harshly today to the refusal of the Ukrainian leader, Vladimir Zelenski, to accept a truce, and threaten the guests at the parade in Moscow.
(2025-05-04). Kemi Badenoch's call for 'massive Margaret Thatcher statue outside Parliament' met with brutal mockery. leftfootforward.org With so much going on in the world politically — the local elections, the US-Ukraine minerals deal, Israel's latest airstrikes near Syria — you might expect the leader of the opposition to stay focused. Instead, Kemi Badenoch turned attention to an unexpected priority — the erection of a 'massive' statue of Margaret Thatcher outside Parliament. | This would be in addition to the existing statue of the former prime minister located inside the Palace of Westminster. It would stand alongside Winston Churchill, Nelson Mandela, Millicent Fawcett, Abraham Lincoln and Mahatma Gandhi immortalised on th…
(2025-05-04). How Bob Parry Covered Odessa Fire That Sparked A War. popularresistance.org On May 2, 2014, Neo-Nazi gangs massacred 48 people who had rejected the U.S.-backed overthrow of a democratically-elected government in Kiev earlier that year. The deliberately-set fire in the Trade Unions Building in Odessa has never been satisfactorily investigated by Ukrainian authorities. | Eight days later two ethnic Russian majority oblasts in the east declared independence from Ukraine, leading to the U.S.-backed war against them by the unconstitutional government. Eight years later Russia intervened in the civil war. | This is how Robert Parry, founder of Consortium News, reported the story on May 10, 201…
(2025-05-04). State Department OKs $310 Million Training and Sustainment Deal for Ukraine's F-16s. news.antiwar.com