January 8, 2022
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CSTO in Kazakhstan annoys U.S.
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s Press Availability at Washington on Friday was largely devoted to Ukraine and the forthcoming strategic stability talks with Russia. But in response to a carefully planted question at the fag-end of the interaction, Blinken reflected bitterly on the deployment of Russian troops to Kazakhstan. Continue reading
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Is Israel’s Operation Persia Underway?
The successive Israeli military offensives against Gaza and the West Bank have always been protected by the “vortex of silence” of the main world mass media controlled by the transnational Israeli lobby, a theory formulated by the German political scientist Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann in her book “The Vortex of Silence. Public Opinion: Our Social Skin” (1977).… Continue reading
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Kazakhstan News Links 7-8 January 2022
Saturday, 8 January 2022 — The New Dark Age CSTO in Kazakhstan annoys US Kazakhstan unrest: Ex-intelligence chief arrested for treason https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-59922258 Kazakhstan (new open thread) http://thesaker.is/kazakhastan-new-open-thread/ Continue reading
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Sir Tony Blair: Bloody Knight of the Realm
Awards and honours bestowed by States or private committees, republican or monarchical, are bound to be corrupted by considerations of hypocrisy, racketeering and general, chummy disposition. From the Nobel Peace Prize to the range of eccentric and esoteric orders bestowed each year in Britain by Her Majesty, diddling and manipulating is never far behind. You… Continue reading
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Probing the depths of the CIA’s misdeeds in Africa
In 1958, a year after it achieved independence from colonial rule, Ghana hosted a conference of African leaders, the first such gathering to ever take place on the continent. At the invitation of Ghana’s newly elected prime minister, Kwame Nkrumah, more than 300 leaders from 28 territories across Africa attended, including Patrice Lumumba of the… Continue reading