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Biden admin’s 5th arms sale to Taiwan slammed for double dealing

The approval of the arms sale came after a sequence of frequent interactions between senior officials from China and the US since June when both sides underscored consensus on avoiding escalating confrontations.

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MIDDLE EAST EYE

Yemenis say Biden's visit to Saudi Arabia shows he doesn't care about their plight

More than 377,000 people have died as a result of direct fighting as well as hunger and disease since the war erupted.

CNN

MBS hits back at Biden after the President confronts Saudi prince about Khashoggi

RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT

House military spending bill is a boon to the arms industry

MIDDLE EAST MONITOR

BRICS expects Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey to join group soon

LOS ANGELES TIMES

Biden vows U.S. will stay in Middle East to limit influence of Russia, Iran

CGTN

U.S., Saudi Arabia sign 18 agreements in energy, other areas

NEWSWEEK

As NATO Grows, China and Russia Seek to Bring Iran, Saudi Arabia Into Fold

Finland and Sweden's green light to join NATO is set to bring about the U.S.-led Western military alliance's largest expansion in decades.

The announcement followed Saudi Arabia joining Argentina, Egypt, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Senegal, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates at China's invitation for a "BRICS+" discussion

Eastern economy-focused blocs led by Beijing and Moscow are looking to take on new members of their own, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, two influential Middle Eastern rivals whose interest in shoring up cooperation on this new front could have a significant impact on global geopolitical balance.

DAILY SUN

Russia on the frontline of building a new world — Venezuelan top diplomat

"The US dominance is no longer an absolute one. A new world is being born, and Russia is on the frontline of this struggle," Foreign Minister Carlos Faria has said.

West responsible for civilian deaths in Donbass and Ukraine – Moscow

The West “must be aware of its responsibility” for the deaths of civilians, as Kiev uses the weapons supplied from abroad as “a means of intimidation. This is state terror,” said Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

US should pull out of NATO – congresswoman

Ukraine is the “new Iraq wrapped up with a pretty little NATO bow, with a nuclear present inside ...The American people do not want war with Russia, but NATO & our own foolish leaders are dragging us into one. We should pull out of NATO ...Grinding up Ukraine to fight with Russia is disgusting, they could have been an ally", Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted

The only people vying for a conflict with Russia are “those who make money off of it,” she claimed.

“NGOs, defense contracts of all kinds, grants, business deals, even humanitarian aid, political consultants, & more,” she wrote. “War is an industry. A deadly profitable industry.”

Warmongers in Washington seeking war with Russia “should suit up and go fight it” themselves, she suggested. “Send your kids and leave ours alone. Pay for it yourself.”

AL JAZEERA

Biden announces US military reinforcements across Europe

Biden to boost US land, sea and air military presence in several European nations as Russia’s war in Ukraine rages on.

RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT

Poll: China most influential power among young people in Africa as US influence slightly wanes

More weapons to Ukraine – more missions on the ground, Russia warns West

“Pumping up” Ukraine with Western weapons will only lead Russia “to perform more missions on the ground,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday.

AL JAZEERA

Why are some nations neutral on the Russia-Ukraine war?

The EU has been carrying out a global lobbying campaign to boost support for Kyiv, with EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Finnish President Sanna Marin and other European leaders travelling to South Asia – namely India, Africa, the Asia Pacific and Middle East. But countries have refused to isolate Moscow, despite the EU's lobbying efforts.

THE DIPLOMAT

Nepal Backs Away From US State Partnership Program

Suspicious about the military content and wary of antagonizing China, Nepal rejects a U.S. disaster mitigation program.

THE TELEGRAPH

Nato forces to increase sevenfold with 300,000 troops on high alert

Nato is set to massively increase its available forces on high alert to more than 300,000 troops in the most significant overhaul of the alliance’s defence strategy since the Cold War.

By taking on American hegemony and challenging the dollar, BRICS members represent the best hope for a fairer world order

With the potential for a new reserve currency and investment without political strings attached, the group can present an alternative to a world choked by Western dominance.

At a minimum, BRICS has a serious role in balancing out the malignant influence of the US, NATO and the prevailing Western-led world system.

ANTIWAR.COM

Biden Says US Will Beef Up Military Presence in Europe as NATO Summit Begins in Madrid

YAHOO

NATO to Label China ‘Systemic Challenge’ in Strategic Plan

ANTIWAR.COM

Biden Authorizes New $450 Million Weapons Package for Ukraine

ANTIWAR.COM

Biden Again Blames Putin For High Gas Prices as Russian Oil Sales Soar

Russia will never trust the West again – Kremlin

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told NBC News that Russia would “never trust [the] West again.” Amid a historic low-point in relations, Peskov is not the only top Russian official who has ruled out a swift return to normal.

Peskov also stated that two American citizens captured, while fighting for Ukraine, in the Donbass are considered by Moscow to be “soldiers of fortune,” and will have their fates decided by “a court decision.”

MULTIPOLARISTA

Only 4 of 55 African leaders attend Zelensky call, showing neutrality on Ukraine and Russia

France and Germany pressured African Union leaders for months to join a brief Zoom call with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky. 51 of 55 African heads of state (93%) boycotted the meeting, showing clear neutrality over the Western proxy war with Russia.

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Putin issues a warning to ‘irresponsible’ Western politicians

Russia is not threatening anyone with nuclear arms, but the president told the West to remember what Moscow is capable of

BRICS developing global reserve currency – Putin

RT | WATCH

American fighters who surrendered in Donbass speak to RT

ABC NEWS

US military ground raid in Syria captures top ISIS leader

“Though degraded, ISIS remains a threat. We remain dedicated to its defeat. Last night’s operation, which took a senior ISIS operator off the battlefield, demonstrates our commitment to the security of the Middle East and to the enduring defeat of ISIS,” said Gen. Erik Kurilla, the commander of U.S. Central Command

TRUTHOUT

Chomsky: US Is Playing With the Future of Civilization in Order to Weaken Russia

CNN

Third American missing in Ukraine is US Marine veteran Grady Kurpasi

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NBC NEWS

When the secretaries of Defense and State said publicly the U.S. wants Ukraine to win and weaken Russia, Biden said tone it down

“He was not happy with the rhetoric,” said one official familiar with President Biden's conference call with Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin.

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NBC NEWS

Report: US Secretly Reviews and Approves Many Israeli Airstrikes in Syria

According to The Wall Street Journal, Israel has been secretly coordinating with the US on many of its airstrikes in Syria, and senior officials at US Central Command have reviewed and approved many plans in recent years.

AL JAZEERA

‘Fight for freedom’: US sends $1bn in new aid to Ukraine

BLOOMBERG

Pope Repeats View NATO Positioning Was Factor in Russia War Move

ANTIWAR.COM

White House Sets Dates for Biden’s Saudi Arabia Visit Where He Will Meet MbS

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NEWSWEEK

Saudis Want Biden to Counter Iran, Forget Khashoggi in Gas Crisis Bargain

The White House has sought to downplay the importance of Biden's meeting, but the highly anticipated sit-down is likely to dominate the visit both in symbolism and substance.

WASHINGTON POST

GAO: US failed to track if arms used against Yemen civilians

NEWSWEEK

Russia Claims U.S. Ordered Ukraine to Stop Peace Talks

NEWSWEEK

China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin Pledge 'Mutual Support'

THE GUARDIAN

US says China’s support for Russia over Ukraine puts it on ‘wrong side of history’

13 June 2022

"Top Gun: Maverick" Is Military Propaganda. Official Documents Prove It

“Top Gun: Maverick” is a box-office smash, a massive hit with both critics and the public alike. Navy and Air Force units across the country have set up recruitment stalls inside movie halls, hoping to sign up individuals buzzed after watching the high-paced aviation action. But documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that the movie was made only after an agreement was signed between Hollywood and the Pentagon, with the Navy insisting on “weav[ing] in” their “key talking points” in exchange for granting the production company extensive access to military hardware.

12 June 2022

Joe Biden's Submissive -- and Highly Revealing -- Embrace of Saudi Despots

Biden's immediate abandonment of his 2020 vow to turn the Saudis into "pariahs," and his increasing support for the regime, shows the core deceit of U.S. propaganda.

Biden is ripping up his plan to ostracize Saudi Arabia as the US desperately seeks a way out of its oil crisis

8 June 2022

Biden unveils new Latin America economic plan at reboot summit dogged by dissent

President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday a proposed new U.S. economic partnership with Latin America aimed at countering China's growing clout as he kicked off a regional summit marred by discord and snubs over the guest list.

Hosting the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, Biden sought to assure the assembled leaders about his administration's commitment to the region despite nagging concerns that Washington, at times, is still trying to dictate to its poorer southern neighbors.

Biden Reaffirms Support for Regime Change in Venezuela, But Says US Could ‘Calibrate’ Sanctions

ALBA secretary: Summit of the Americas is ‘failure,’ US ‘empire is losing its power’

Snubs from key leaders at Summit of the Americas reveal Biden's struggle to assert US leadership in its neighborhood

The decision by Mexico's President to boycott this week's summit for regional leaders in Los Angeles rendered futile months of work by President Joe Biden and other top officials to convince him to attend.

Now, key nations in Central America are following President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's lead, dispatching only lower-level delegates instead of their leaders.

In the end, the White House announced Tuesday that 23 heads of state will attend this week's Summit of the Americas, with the absences of the presidents of Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala being notable since the United States has worked to cultivate those leaders as partners on immigration, an issue that looms as a political liability for Biden.

5 June 2022

Putin warns of strikes on new targets if US supplies long-range missiles to Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Moscow would “draw conclusions” if the U.S. supplies long-range missiles to Ukraine, adding that he would set his eyes on new targets that have not been attacked.

“If it now comes to rockets and they are supplied, we will draw conclusions from that and employ our weapons that we have in sufficient quantities to strike those facilities that we are not attacking so far,” Putin stated.

UK to send first long-range missiles to Ukraine despite Russia's threat

NATO Chief Says Ukraine Shouldn’t Drop Goal of Driving Russia Out of Crimea

A new generation of US-trained extremists is fighting Russia. Are we prepared for the blowback?

4 June 2022

Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen have been called war crimes. Many relied on U.S. support.

A new analysis by The Washington Post and Security Force Monitor at Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute provides the most complete picture yet of the depth and breadth of U.S. support for the Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen, revealing that a substantial portion of the air raids were carried out by jets developed, maintained and sold by U.S. companies, and by pilots who were trained by the U.S. military.

3 June 2022

Ukraine backtracks on promise to US

Ukraine will use US-supplied rocket systems to strike into Russian territory should it deem such attacks necessary, Ukrainian Presidential Adviser Alexey Arestovich said on Thursday.

Responding to a question about whether the restrictions on the use of US-supplied rocket systems apply to Crimea, a peninsula that overwhelmingly voted to become part of Russia in a 2014 referendum, Arestovich said that it belonged to Ukraine.

“Crimea is ours. It belongs to Ukraine. And they [Russia] know it. Therefore, it will fly to Crimea double-time, should the need arise”, he pointed out, alleging that Kiev has already successfully struck targets on the peninsula.

Arestovich’s comment comes despite US Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying on Wednesday that Kiev has given Washington “assurances” that it won’t use American rockets to attack targets in Russia.

2 June 2022

US confirms military hackers have conducted cyber operations against Russia in support of Ukraine

Cyber Command, the US military's hacking unit, has conducted offensive cyber operations in support of Ukraine as it defends itself against Russia's invasion, the head of the command has confirmed.

It's a rare public acknowledgment from US military officials of hacking operations that are often shrouded in mystery. The comments, and the White House's response to them, suggest that cyberspace is a domain in which the Biden administration feels comfortable countering Russia without fear of escalation.

1 June 2022

US to send advanced rocket systems to Ukraine, Biden says

In a guest essay published on Tuesday evening in The New York Times, President Joe Biden confirmed that he has decided to “provide the Ukrainians with more advanced rocket systems and munitions that will enable them to more precisely strike key targets on the battlefield in Ukraine”.

Biden had said on Monday that the US would not send Ukraine “rocket systems that can strike into Russia”.

Any weapons system can shoot into Russia if it is close enough to the border. The aid package expected to be unveiled on Wednesday would send what the US considers medium-range rockets – they generally can travel about 70km (45 miles), the officials said.

31 May 2022

How four years of US sanctions have devastated Iran's economy

After years of being financially blacklisted by the international community, Iran has learned to cope. However, the steady inflation, devaluation of the Iranian rial, and declining Global Domestic Product (GDP) have culminated in a crisis.

Biden Made Final Decision to Keep Iranian Revolutionary Guard on Terrorist Blacklist

30 May 2022

Biden rules out sending Ukraine rockets that can strike into Russia

President Biden on Monday said his administration will not send to Ukraine long-range missile systems that can strike into Russian territory, sending a conflicting message after media outlets reported that officials were preparing to send weapons with long-distance capabilities.

“We are not going to send to Ukraine rocket systems that strike into Russia,” Biden told reporters on the South Lawn.

The statement conflicts with reporting by CNN and The Washington Post that the administration was preparing to provide Ukraine with the Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS), a U.S.-made system that can fire rockets up to 300 kilometers, allowing Ukrainian forces to strike into Russian territory.

U.S. awards $624 million contract to Raytheon to replenish Stinger missiles sent to Ukraine

28 May 2022

Amid boycotts, US scrambling to make Summit of the Americas a success

The week-long Summit of the Americas, slated to start June 8 in Los Angeles, is a big deal for the Western Hemisphere -- bringing together leaders from North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean.

But President Joe Biden's opportunity to host the high-profile gathering is running into some major problems that threaten to undermine the meetings -- and Biden's push to reassert U.S. leadership in the region.

Several leaders are threatening to boycott the summit because the U.S. has decided to not invite the governments of Venezuela and Nicaragua.

"Is it going to be the Summit of the Americas or the Summit of the Friends of America? Because if those countries are excluded, what continent are they from? Are they not from the Americas?" asked Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

WATCH: BreakThrough News - Biden's Latin America Summit Is In Shambles

US support of Neo-Nazis in Ukraine since 2014

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28 May 2022

WATCH: Western leaders have many complexes – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

Western leaders believe themselves to be exceptional and are driven by delusions of grandeur and irrational fears

Blinken Calls China 'Most Serious Long-Term Challenge to the International Order'

26 May 2022

“Even as President Putin’s war continues, we will remain focused on the most serious long-term challenge to the international order — and that is the one posed by the People’s Republic of China,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.

“China is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order — and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to do it," he said. “Beijing’s vision would move us away from the universal values that have sustained so much of the world’s progress over the past 75 years.”

U.S. Alarmed by China's Support of Putin's War in Ukraine

US concerned about radicals traveling to Ukraine – Politico

25 May 2022

Dept. of Homeland Security document draws attention to the fact that some individuals might be attempting to join up with the Azov battalion, which the bulletin states is a Ukrainian nationalist group that is “actively recruiting racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist-white supremacists (RMVE-WS) to join various neo-Nazi volunteer battalions in the war against Russia.”

WATCH: May 25 RT CrossTalk on Ukraine: Negotiate or not?

‘Go f**k yourselves’ Zelensky office tells Western officials

Henry Kissinger says Ukraine should cede territory to Russia to end war

Zelensky rips Kissinger over suggestion Ukraine cede territory to Russia

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