February 2022
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The Specious Reasoning Behind Claims That The US Thwarted An Invasion Of Ukraine
Back in November The Military Times published a Ukrainian intelligence claim, which was picked up and repeated by numerous other mainstream publications, alleging that Russia was going to invade Ukraine by the end of January. Continue reading
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The Year of the Tiger Starts with a Sino-Russian Bang
The Year of the Black Water Tiger will start, for all practical purposes, with a Beijing bang this Friday, as Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, after a live meeting before the initial ceremony of the Winter Olympics, will issue a joint statement on international relations. That will represent a crucial move in the Eurasia vs.… Continue reading
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Don’t just do something, stand there!
A few months ago, I resolved not to write anything more about COVID19. I was having zero apparent effect on anything, or anybody, and I was just getting increasingly despondent at the destruction of science, debate, logic, humanity, personal freedoms … life. Continue reading
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MintPress Study: NY Times, Washington Post Driving US to War with Russia Over Ukraine
This MintPress study reveals that ninety percent of recent opinion articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have taken a hawkish view on the Ukraine conflict written by pundits tied to the national security state promoting NATO as a defender of the free world & describe Putin as… Continue reading
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The Great Russian Chinese Fireworks Of Beijing
While the fireworks of the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony light up the sky over Beijing another firework comes in the form of a Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development by President Vladimir Putin of Russia and the President of… Continue reading
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Attack of the Transphobic Putin-Nazi Truckers!
They rolled up on Ottawa’s Parliament Hill like one of the plagues in the Book of Revelations, honking their infernal air horns, the grills of their tractors grinning demonically, the sides of their dry vans painted with blasphemies like “FREEDOM TO CHOOSE,” “MANDATE FREEDOM,” “NO VACCINE MANDATES,” and “UNITED AGAINST TYRANNY.” Continue reading
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As Workers Resist, the Left Recoils
If you consider yourself on the political Left, you might be forgiven for not knowing very much about the many acts of worker resistance against the COVID-19 vaccination mandates that have taken place all around the world over the last year. This is because the professional Left media and activist class—while happy to cover traditional… Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: Losses of nearly £10 billion incurred over PPE
By TruePublica: The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) support ministers in leading the nation’s health and social care and in their words – “to help people live more independent, healthier lives for longer.” Unfortunately, corruption by these ministers overtook them and billions in taxpayer funds have been blown. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 3-4 February 2022
Friday, 4 February 2022 • 20:00 — 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. AP… Continue reading
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US pips regional states at race for Kabul
In a hugely consequential advisory, the US Treasury Department quietly signalled on Wednesday that it was “tweaking” the sanctions against the Haqqani Network. The international banks can transfer money to Taliban, including Haqqani Network without fear of breaching sanctions. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 3 February 2022
Thursday, 3 February 2022 — Black Agenda Report The U.S. Black Political Class and War What passes for leadership is always a joke played upon Black people. The high water mark of the CBC being the “conscience of the congress” is long gone. No one can look to them on the issue of Ukraine or… Continue reading
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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
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Analyzing President Putin’s Response To The Undeclared US-Provoked Missile Crisis
For the time being at least, diplomacy is still ongoing, which speaks to the suggestion that Russia isn’t yet ready to resort to kinetic means for ensuring its national security red lines. This also hints that they haven’t yet been fully crossed either otherwise Moscow would likely have already acted. Continue reading
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The British Medical Journal Story That Exposed Politicized “Fact-Checking”
The fact-checkers who flagged Paul Thacker’s British Medical Journal article about a Pfizer subcontractor for Facebook admitted they police narrative, not fact Continue reading
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