From the Trenches World Report

RT

Ukraine will respond “harshly and promptly” to any unfriendly gestures, including Israel’s decision to suspend the visa-free regime and demand electronic permits of Ukrainians wishing to enter the country, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff said on Tuesday.

Andrey Yermak thanked Israel for its peacemaking efforts, but said Tel Aviv’s decision to restrict entry to refugees was “surprising.” Kiev will respond to “any steps that harm the interests of Ukraine and Ukrainians,” he said. Continue reading “Ukraine blasts Israel’s ‘unfriendly step’”

Daily Mail

A black man who was charged with attempted murder as a hate crime after he was caught on video punching a 67-year-old Asian woman more than 125 times lived in the same building as the victim and has a lengthy rap sheet of 14 prior arrests – including seven felonies and three violent crimes. Continue reading “NYC man charged with hate crime for punching Asian-American woman 125 TIMES”

Newsweek

Nearly 30,000 NATO troops have begun previously planned military drills in Norway as tensions between Russia and the West increase over the former’s assault on Ukraine.

The military exercise was organized before Russia invaded Ukraine. The purpose of the drill is to see how Norway would manage its reinforcements in line with Article 5 of the NATO treaty, which says an attack against one alliance member is considered an attack against all of them.  Continue reading “NATO Military Drills Start in Norway Less Than 200 Miles From Russia Border”

ABC News

HONG KONG — China is facing its worst COVID crisis since early 2020, when the world first witnessed an entire population locked down to contain the coronavirus in Wuhan and its surrounding province.

Two years on, it’s now sending tens of millions of people into lockdown in the entire northeastern province of Jilin, where 24 million people live, and the southern cities of Shenzhen and Dongguan, with 17.5 million and 10 million, respectively. Continue reading “China orders 51 million into lockdown as COVID surges”

ABC News

SAN DIEGO — Maksim Derzhko calls it one of the most terrifying experiences of his life. A longtime opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he flew from Vladivostok to the Mexican border city of Tijuana with his 14-year-daughter and was in a car with seven other Russians. All that separated them from claiming asylum in the United States was a U.S. officer standing in traffic as vehicles inched toward inspection booths.  Continue reading “More Russians find ways around sweeping US asylum limits”

The Stream – by Mind Matters

Recently, we looked at a new idea governments are looking at — programmable digital currency. It’s all digital, issued by government, constantly trackable, and can’t be spent on items not approved by government (or only with penalties). The Federal Reserve Board (the United States’ central bank) explains, bureaucratically,  Continue reading “Government Control of What You Buy Grows More Popular”

Jonathan Turley

In World War II, Winston Churchill famously declared that “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” It appears that there may be even fewer to count on if a recent poll out this weekend is accurate. The Quinnipiac University poll asked Americans “what would you do if you were in the same position as Ukrainians are now, stay and fight or leave the country?” Only 55 percent said that they would stay and fight for this country. That included only 40 percent of Democrats. Overall 38 percent of Americans said that they would flee. It appears that this country is facing an existential crisis of faith and we should have a frank discussion about why so comparably few Americans are now willing to pledge their lives in defense of this country.  Continue reading “Almost 40% Of Americans Would Rather Flee Than Defend The US; New Poll Finds”

Zero Hedge – by Isabel van Brugen, The Epoch Times 

As sanctions cripple Russia’s aviation industry, President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday allowing foreign-owned aircraft to be re-registered as Russian for domestic use, according to state-run news agency TASS. Continue reading “Putin Signs Law To Seize Foreign Aircraft Amid Crippling Sanctions”

Washington Examiner – by Zachary Halaschak

Producer prices increased a blistering 10% for the year ending in February, according to a report Friday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the highest on record.

The inflation rate in Tuesday’s producer price index report was up 0.2 percentage points from the previous month and is the highest in the gauge’s 11-year history. Continue reading “Inflation rises to 10% in producer index, highest on record”

Summit News – by Paul Joseph Watson

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Facebook for its role in helping him win the propaganda war after the platform announced it would permit calls for violence against Russians.

Following its move to allow praise for the pro-Ukraine neo-nazi Azov Battalion last week, Facebook said they would permit ‘calls for violence against Russians’. Continue reading “Zelensky Thanks Zuckerberg For Helping Him Win the Propaganda War”

Sputnik

CAIRO (Sputnik) – At least 10 people were killed and over 20 were injured when two bombs exploded near a hotel in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday, a source in the local authorities said.

“More than 10 people were killed, more than 20 were injured when two bombs exploded in front of a hotel … in Sanaa,” the source said.

Continue reading “At Least 10 Killed, Over 20 Injured as 2 Bombs Explode Near Hotel in Yemen’s Sanaa – Source”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Oil, which earlier tumbled below $100 (for WTI) amid speculation that a Ukraine ceasefire is imminent (it isn’t) and that Chinese oil demand will collapse due to the Shenzhen lockdown (it won’t), dropped over a dollar moments ago when Reuters reported that a new source of oil may be about to emerge: Venezuela, which like Russia, is currently sanctioned by the US (but not for long). Continue reading “Oil Drops On Report Chevron Set To Start Trading Venezuelan Oil Once US Relaxes Sanctions”

Wayne Dupree – by Sophie O’Hara

There is something very odd going on at Fort Bragg.

So, incredibly odd, that an investigative reporter and the contributing editor of Rolling Stone Magazine wants to know what the heck is going on. Continue reading “There’s A Lot of Young, Healthy Servicemen Suddenly Dying in Their Bunks, and The Military Won’t Talk About It”