February 3, 2022
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Ukraine News Links 2-3 February 2022
Thursday, 3 February 2022 • 23:00 — 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 updated time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular. Continue reading
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How A Misguided Grand Strategy Led To This U.S. Defeat
In response to Russia’s demand for security guarantees, especially to its request to remove foreign NATO forces from the territory of East European countries, the U.S. and Britain are moving more forces to the east: Continue reading
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The far Right, conflict narratives and race war
Thursday, 3 February 2022 — Institute of Race Relations Getting the facts out quickly about far-right violence is one of the things that motivates us to bring out IRR News, with our fortnightly calendar of racism and resistance a continuation of IRR’s role as a place of record documenting Europe’s white supremacist movements. This long monitoring experience has taught Continue reading
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Why Russia-China partnership is effective
The cascading tensions between Russia and the United States brought into play the Russian-Chinese “comprehensive strategic partnership of cooperation”. The topic has been the stuff of animated discussion among strategic thinkers lately. Continue reading
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Make Noise about the Silent Crisis of Global Illiteracy: The Fifth Newsletter (2022)
Thursday, 3 February 2022 — The Tricontinental Amadou Sanogo (Mali), Je pense de ma tête, 2016. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In October 2021, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) held a seminar on the pandemic and education systems. Strikingly, 99% of the students in Continue reading
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Blackwater is in Donbass with the Azov battalion
The phone call between President Biden and Ukrainian President Zelensky “did not go well”, CNN headlines: while “Biden warned that a Russian invasion is practically certain in February, when the frozen ground makes it possible for tanks to pass through”, Zelensky “asked Biden to lower his tone, arguing that the Russian threat is still ambiguous”.… Continue reading