Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
9:45 AM ET, March 14, 2022

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
New York Times:
Russia Asked China for Military and Economic Aid for Ukraine War, U.S. Officials Say  —  WASHINGTON — Russia asked China to give it military equipment and support for the war in Ukraine after President Vladimir V. Putin began a full-scale invasion last month, according to U.S. officials.
RELATED:
New York Times:
Finding a Way Out of the War in Ukraine Proves Elusive  —  WASHINGTON — The United States accurately predicted the start of the war in Ukraine, sounding the alarm that an invasion was imminent despite Moscow's denials and Europe's skepticism.  Predicting how it might end is proving far more difficult.
Traci Carl / New York Times:
Ukraine and Russia Set to Meet for Peace Talks
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
Bipartisan lawmakers ramp up calls on Biden to give Ukraine weapons, fighter jets
Discussion: Japan Times and The Guardian
Mstyslav Chernov / Associated Press:
Pregnant woman, baby die after Russia bombed maternity ward  —  MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — A pregnant woman and her baby have died after Russia bombed the maternity hospital where she was meant to give birth, The Associated Press has learned.  Images of the woman being rushed to an ambulance …
Wall Street Journal:
Russian Prosecutors Warn Western Companies of Arrests, Asset Seizures  —  McDonald's and IBM are among those cautioned if leaders there criticize the government or if companies withdraw from the country  —  Russian prosecutors have issued warnings to Western companies in Russia …
RELATED:
New York Times:
‘Things Will Only Get Worse.’ Putin's War Sends Russians Into Exile.  —  Thousands of Russians saw their comfortable, middle-class lives fade overnight with the invasion ordered by President Vladimir V. Putin.  —  ISTANBUL — They lined up at ATM's, desperate for cash after Visa …
Discussion: HotAir and ImmigrationProf Blog
Matt Bai / Washington Post:
Our cause in Ukraine is inspiring.  It probably won't stay that way.  —  These opening weeks in Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine have given us two things we hardly thought possible in Washington any longer: clarity of purpose and relative unity.
RELATED:
Jeremy Kryt / The Daily Beast:
Why Putin Is Hell-Bent on Capturing Ukraine's Nuclear Reactors  —  ENDGAME  —  The takeover of Ukraine's nuclear facilities is a vital part of the Kremlin's “fear and control” strategy in the war.  —  The world watched in horror as shelling by Russian forces set fire to part of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine.
Eliot A. Cohen / The Atlantic:
America's Hesitation Is Heartbreaking  —  “When you're at war, you're at war,” the saying goes, and if so, you have to accept the implications.  So too in the present circumstance.  The United States and its NATO allies are engaged in a proxy war with Russia.
Discussion: CBS News and Insider
Sky News:
Police enter London mansion reportedly owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska after squatters occupy property  —  Deripaska, a 54-year-old industrialist who founded the aluminium giant Rusal, was added to the UK government's sanctions list on 10 March following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Discussion: Bloomberg and The Guardian
RELATED:
Katharine Murphy / The Guardian:
Roman Abramovich among Russian oligarchs targeted by new Morrison government sanctions
Discussion: Voice of America
Ben Samuels / Haaretz:
U.S. Growing Alarmed Over Israel's Safe Harbor for Russian Oligarchs
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Katherine Huggins / Mediaite:
Mark Levin Slams ‘Putin Wing of the Media’ For Pushing Ukraine Bioweapons Theory Days After Tucker Carlson Promotes It  —  Fox News' Mark Levin on Sunday those in the media promoting the conspiracy theory that Ukraine has been secretly developing bioweapons in conjunction with the U.S.
RELATED:
New York Post:
Mayors urge homeless to get off streets as ‘cold-blooded killer’ stalks NYC, DC  —  The mayors of New York City and Washington, DC, urged their cities' homeless populations to seek shelter Sunday as a “cold-blooded killer” who had shot at least five vagrants remained on the loose.
Discussion: HotAir, Bloomberg and BizPac Review
RELATED:
Stefan Becket / CBS News:
American journalist Brent Renaud shot and killed by Russian forces in Ukraine, police say  —  Washington — An American journalist was killed and another was wounded by Russian forces in the town of Irpin outside the capital of Kyiv as they were traveling to film refugees, Ukrainian police said Sunday.
Isobel Koshiw / The Guardian:
Tanks, bombs, shootings: Ukrainians describe Russian takeover of villages  —  Witnesses describe soldiers shooting people dead in the street and confiscating phones and laptops  —  Russian soldiers have shot people dead in the street as they took over Ukrainian villages, according to fleeing residents.
RELATED:
BuzzFeed News:
“I Thought I Was Going To Die”: US and UK Fighters In Ukraine Described The Chaos Of A Russian Missile Attack
Discussion: Ben's Newsletter
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Koch Industries continues doing business in Russia  —  Koch Industries, the conglomerate run by right-wing billionaire Charles Koch, has numerous ongoing business operations in Russia.  Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Koch Industries has given no indications that those business operations have been suspended.
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
With cases still rising in Hong Kong, 300,000 people are isolating at home, officials say.  —  BEIJING — Two of China's largest cities, Shenzhen and Shanghai, imposed stringent restrictions on Sunday on the movements of their residents, as a coronavirus outbreak continued to spread across much of mainland China.
Discussion: ChinaDiction and Balloon Juice
Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Ukraine dents ‘America First’ thinking deep in the heart of Trump country  —  “It breaks my heart to see this.  It's hard to sit still and not do something.  What can we do as individuals?” one GOP voter said at a town hall.  —  STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — Here in the middle …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 9:45 AM ET, March 14, 2022.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
World Wildlife Fund Won't Let Chapters Denounce Russia
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Conservative European countries facing pressure to turn woke
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Liz Cheney turns to Democrats to save her hide
Discussion: NBC News and Fox News
Natalie Allison / Politico:
GOP Senate candidates thrash each other ahead of fight for majority
Discussion: Raw Story
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Roger Stone Has Been Playing All Sides of the Gaetz Scandal
Discussion: Raw Story
Saeed Shah / Wall Street Journal:
China Pursues Afghanistan's Mineral Wealth After U.S. Exit
 Earlier Items: 
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The case for hopeful realism
Song Sang-ho / Yonhap News Agency:
N. Korea seen preparing for another imminent ICBM system test: sources
Discussion: Japan Times
Carole Cadwalladr / The Guardian:
Putin has already deployed a chemical weapon. In Salisbury
J. Kim Murphy / Variety:
William Hurt, Oscar-Winning Actor for ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman,’ Dies at 71
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Democrats question electability of Black candidates
Robert Costa / CBS News:
'Don't expect the Mueller report': Video to play key part in Jan. 6 hearings and report
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Gillian Brockell / Washington Post:
The painful, cutting and brilliant letters Black people wrote to their former enslavers
Matt Taibbi / TK News:
Orwell Was Right  —  From free speech to “spheres of influence” to our passion for endless war …
Discussion: Ty's Newsletter
 

 
From Techmeme:

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
The EU fines Meta €797.72M for tying Facebook Marketplace to Facebook and “imposing unfair trading conditions” on other online classified ads service providers

Financial Times:
Sources: the US FTC plans to investigate allegations that Microsoft is abusing its market power in productivity software to prevent customers from leaving Azure

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS can now read code from some developer-focused apps, including VS Code, Xcode, TextEdit, Terminal, and iTerm2

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page