December 2021
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Ukraine News Links 30-31 December 2021
31 December 2021 — The New Dark Age The Ukrainian Foreign Minister Is a Delusional Madman NATO’s cognitive warfare and the destruction of the truth https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2021/12/natos-cognitive-warfare-and-destruction.html Saker’s View of the Conflict. https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2021/12/sakers-view-of-conflict.html Continue reading
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Omicron in the Spotlight
Data from South Africa indicated that the impact of the omicron wave was much lower than previous covid. However, South Africa had already a total infection rate of about 80%, indcluding about 200,000 covid deaths in 60 million people, i.e. a population fatality rate of about 0.3%. Continue reading
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Top 10 C&C articles of 2021 … and all time
31 December, 2021 — Climate & Capitalism There are now 2,776 articles on the Climate & Capitalism website. How many have you read? In 2021, Climate & Capitalism published 91 new articles. These attracted the most readers. Continue reading
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NATO’s cognitive warfare and the destruction of the truth
History is constrained by a series of laws. Empires fall, productive forces become obsolete after society gets ready to outgrow them, inequalities destroy societies when they get too big, the environment turns against civilizations when it’s abused too much, and so on. These principles conflict with the ideology of the capitalist ruling class, especially in… Continue reading
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Colonialism: a cancer on the planet
This highly unusual book highlights a forgotten journalist and thinker, but just as much, the assiduous research and interpretations by Tony Pecinovsky, a St. Louis activist and non-academic scholar, on the history of the U.S. Left. W.A. Hunton, to quote W.E.B. Du Bois, was “the kind of absolutely honest and unselfish scholar who is apt… Continue reading
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We Dance into the New Year Banging Our Hammers and Swinging Our Sickles: The Fifty-Second Newsletter (2021)
30 December 2021 — Tricontinental P.S. Jalaja (India), We Surely Can Change the World, 2021. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Bittersweet is the passage of this year. There have been some immense victories and some catastrophic defeats, the most terrible being the failure of the Global North countries to Continue reading
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Russia’s shadows in Sahel region
On Friday, Mali’s transitional government has clarified that it is engaged with Russian military trainers even as French troops are drawing down. So, it is official that Russian security personnel are deployed to Mali. France, the erstwhile colonial power that ruled Mali, and Germany, another colonial power with a violent history in Africa, have been… Continue reading
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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Putin Speaks
As the Russian president’s year-end presser helped underscore, Europe will increasingly understand itself as the western end of Eurasia rather than the eastern shore of the Atlantic. Continue reading
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Exit Nord Stream 2, Enter Power of Siberia 2
Coming straight from President Putin, it did sound like a bolt from the sky: “We need long-term legally binding guarantees even if we know they cannot be trusted, as the U.S. frequently withdraws from treaties that become uninteresting to them. But it’s something, not just verbal assurances.” And that’s how Russia-U.S. relations come to the definitive… Continue reading
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Covid Vaccines: A Reality Check
28 December 2021 — Swiss Policy Research European soccer players with sudden cardiac issues (more) The latest unbiased facts on covid vaccine safety and effectiveness. Please note: No medical advice; patients are asked to consult a doctor. Continue reading
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Chris Hedges: PEN America and the Betrayal of Julian Assange
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Nils Melzer, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, is one of the very few establishment figures to denounce the judicial lynching of Julian Assange. Melzer’s integrity and courage, for which he has been mercilessly attacked, stand in stark contrast to the widespread complicity of many human rights and press organizations, including PEN America, which… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 27-28 December 2021
28 December 2021 — The New Dark Age How about Leaving the South Caucasus Alone? https://journal-neo.org/2021/12/28/how-about-leaving-the-south-caucasus-alone/ Yes, There Were 10 Good Things About 2021 https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/12/yes-there-were-10-good-things-about-2021/ Continue reading
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The January 2022 issue of ColdType (Issue 230) is now online
28 December 2021 — ColdType Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 26-27 December 2021
27 December 2021 — The New Dark Age Will 2022 be Better Than the Outgoing Year? https://journal-neo.org/2021/12/27/will-2022-be-better-than-the-outgoing-year/ Big, Big Difference. https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2021/12/big-big-difference.html 2022 — Year Of Major Power Conflict Over Ukraine https://popularresistance.org/2022-year-of-major-power-conflict-over-ukraine/ Continue reading
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War in Ukraine? NATO expansion drives conflict with Russia
6 December 2021 — The Grayzone Aaron Maté Russia is seeking a legally binding pledge that NATO will stop expanding east, including to Ukraine. If the US refuses, is war next? Richard Sakwa joins Pushback. Russia is seeking a legally binding pledge that NATO will stop expanding east, including to Ukraine. If the US refuses, Continue reading
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Putin hints at military options in Ukraine
The Rossiya 1 state television in Moscow broadcast today President Vladimir Putin’s annual press conference on Friday. It conveys a much fuller picture of the grave crisis brewing in the Russian-American relations than what the excerpts in the Russian media sought to convey over the weekend. Continue reading
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Leaked files expose Syria psyops veteran astroturfing BreadTube star to counter Covid restriction critics
By covertly recruiting popular YouTube influencer Abigail Thorn to counter growing opposition to UK gov’t Covid restrictions, psy-ops pros are bringing home the tactics they honed in the Syrian dirty war. Continue reading
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Twitter: Singing in the Rain
Barely two years after becoming a major Twitter shareholder, US hedge fund billionaire Paul Elliott Singer has managed to oust Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. For Twitter users, this will likely mean more aggressive advertising and more political censorship. How can advanced Twitter users respond to this development? Ten suggestions. Continue reading
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Japan-US ‘island chain’ will roil China, Russia
A Kyodo News agency report on Friday cited Japanese government sources to the effect that Tokyo and Washington have drawn up a draft joint operation plan that would enable the setup of an attack base along the Nansei island chain in Japan’s southwest in the event of a Taiwan contingency. Continue reading
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