From Jenna Orkin

U.S., Israel and Arab states to expand cooperation in unprecedented meeting

China Canceled H&M

These days it is easy enough for anyone to simply search “CIA coup d’états” and find no end of open-source material, even Agency documents describing in detail how, for example, it used false-flag “sham bombings” during the coup in Iran in 1953.

Black Ops in Hollywood: From Censorship to Normalization

Volcanologists seek answers as island in Portugal's Azores keeps shaking

China is shutting down Shanghai in two phases to control Covid

Luhansk 'may hold referendum on joining Russia', Ukraine says 'null and void'

Russian secret service agents seized millions of dollars of Swiss luxury watches from Audemars Piguet in apparent retaliation against sanctions

Russia holdout HSBC has cut references to a 'war' in Ukraine from its analyst research reports, the FT says

Committees at the research department at HSBC — which is under pressure to exit Russia — have softened the language in several publications, the FT said.

Zelenskyy says Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich has been trying to help Ukraine during Russia's invasion

Prepare to switch to rubles for natural gas exports by March 31, Vladimir Putin tells Gazprom and Russia's central bank

Daniel Yergin, of 'Peak OIl's a myth" fame is back with more reassuring wisdom: 

The US will emerge as the world's largest natural-gas exporter this year, a top energy market historian says

"The longer the war goes on, the more Russia has been separated from the global economy," S&P Global's Dan Yergin told CNBC Monday.