January 2022
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U.S. – Russian Talks Show Signs Of Progress
It feels weird to watch the delusional talk of the United States towards Russia. How can people who are as wrong as Biden and Blinken be at the top of a state? Continue reading
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Ukraine Crisis: US ‘Toolboxes’ Are Empty
The toolbox is empty. Russia knows this. Biden knows this. Blinken knows this. CNN knows this. The only ones who aren’t aware of this are the American people, says Scott Ritter. Continue reading
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World’s farms at a breaking point
Almost 10% of the 8 billion people on earth are already undernourished with 3 billion lacking healthy diets, and the land and water resources farmers rely on stressed to “a breaking point.” And by 2050 there will be 2 billion more mouths to feed, warns a new report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Continue reading
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Neo Hindus – Ain’t No Black In The Union Jack
This term, Neo Hindus, is a very recent phenomenon, perhaps in the last twenty-five years or so. It was always sort of hanging around amongt us; like an optical illusion, lurking like a thief who is unable to make that final reach to grab the handbag, (so near; yet so far). It may have been… Continue reading
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Military Spy Drones: How Domestic U.S. Drone Integration is Propelling Next Wave of Killer Drone Proliferation
Drones, or Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), were developed for war. The idea was first conceived in World War I and they were first adopted for surveillance purposes at the end of World War II and in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Then military drones like the Predator became armed during the “Global War on Terror.” Continue reading
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Massacre In Yemen: Saudi-led Coalition Airstrikes Killed Or Wounded More Than 170 People (18+ Videos)
Early on January 21, more than 170 people were killed or wounded when Saudi-led coalition warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on a prison in the northern Yemen province of Saada, the heartland of the Houthis (Ansar Allah). Continue reading
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The Czech Republic Scraps Mandatory Vaccination Requirements
Why have so many doctors and scientist around the world who present evidence opposing vaccine mandates been censored and ridiculed? Why can’t a peaceful balanced discussion ever be presented to the masses via the mainstream media? Continue reading
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No 10 lockdown parties: Why the media are complicit
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s head is on the chopping block. Each day, the media digs up more embarrassing details of parties hosted at his No 10 residence or other government buildings, in flagrant violation of strict lockdown rules enforced on the rest of the country. Continue reading
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South Africa: Fugitive collaborations in art and jazz
Friday, 21 January 2022 — New Frame South African jazz artists tend to immerse themselves in art spaces other than music. It is a visual and musical communing across forms that meet not only in artistry, but also in politics. ‘Painting a Melody’. (Illustration by Anastasya Eliseeva) By: Percy Mabandu Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 19-21 January 2022
Friday, 21 January 2022 • 15:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular. Moscow Continue reading
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UK: Big Brother has a little sister
Friday, 21 January 2022 — The New Dark Age Priti Patel, the UK Home secretary Continue reading
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US nearly wiped out tens of thousands of civilians with dam strike in Syria – NYT
In 2017, the US bombed a piece of strategic infrastructure in Syria, the Tabqa Dam on the Euphrates River, despite it being on a no-strike list, the New York Times reported. Continue reading
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Israel is Tightening Its Grip on Syria’s Golan Heights by Creating “Facts on the Ground”
In the occupied Golan Heights, the population of Settlers and Syrians is approximately equal, but experts fear that a new Israeli project will turn Syrians into a demographic minority on their own land. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report January 19, 2022 – One Year of the Biden Administration
Thursday, 20 January 2022 — Black Agenda Report On the Biden Plantation The idea that Joe Biden would provide harm reduction was created to help the unpopular candidate secure an electoral victory. The reality is a litany of lies and certain defeat for democrats at the polls. There is no harm reduction in a system Continue reading
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Human Rights as Privileges
Thursday, 20 January 2022 — Institute of Race Relations This week, a beleaguered Boris Johnson administration reacted to calls for his resignation by announcing it will defund Britain’s public broadcaster and further militarise the Franco-British border. With many speculating it is a matter of when, not if, Johnson falls, it is important to recognise that such populist Continue reading
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‘CIA Sidekick’ NED Gives £2.6M to UK Media Groups
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a non-profit corporation funded by the U.S. Congress, has ploughed over £2.6m into seven British independent media groups over the past five years. Continue reading
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We Are Human, but in the Dark We Wish for Light: The Third Newsletter (2022)
For over a decade, Alaa Abd el-Fattah has been in and out of Egypt’s prisons, never free of the harassment of the military state apparatus. In 2011, during the high point of the revolution, Alaa emerged as an important voice of his generation and since then has been a steady moral compass despite his country’s… Continue reading
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“The World’s Most Evil Company” May Lose a Few Court Fights—But Will Keep On Poisoning and Killing Millions of People with Its Carcinogenic Pesticide ‘Roundup’
Monsanto (now part of Bayer AB) had to pay $78 million in 2018 and $10 billion more in 2020 to settle 100,000 cancer lawsuits. But that won’t stop a company whose 2021 revenues will top $49.991 billion…which is why Roundup is still being profitably sprayed in 160 countries around the world. Continue reading
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Blinken delays US response to Russia
A special press briefing in unseemly hurry by the US state department to warn an imminent Russian assault on Ukraine; a surprise call by state secretary Blinken to his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov to be followed by an unscheduled meeting in Geneva Friday; a whirlwind tour of Kiev and Berlin through Thursday — US diplomacy… Continue reading