The New Dark Age

Empire of Lies Eager to Receive Mr. Sarmat’s Business Card

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Friday, 29 April, 2022 — Strategic Culture Foundation

Pepe Escobar

Amidst the propaganda dementia cum acute cognitive dissonance overdrive across the whole NATOstan sphere, the only antidote is served by sparse voices of reason, which happen to be Russian, thus silenced and/or dismissed.

Russia’s Gazprom HALTS gas flows to Poland and Germany; Europe in PANIC as rolling blackouts are inevitable unless Europe finds RUBLES

Thursday, 28 April 2022 — NWO Report

Author: Nwo Report

Source: (Natural News) In the bombshell news of the week, Russia’s Gazprom natural gas exporter, exactly has promised, is shutting off gas flows to nations whose gas importers refuse to pay for gas in Rubles.

EU Über Alles

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Friday, 29 April 2022 — The New Dark Age

Ursula Von den Leven

How vested interests rewrote the IPCC’s latest report

Thursday, 28 April 2022 — Climate & Capitalism

Science overruled

Corporations and politicians edited the Policy Summary to omit the scientists’ most powerful conclusions

by Juan Bordera
Antonio Turiel (Spanish National Research Council)
Fernando Valladares (Spanish National Research Council)
Marta García Pallarés
Javier de la Casa (Ecological and Forestry Applications Center)
Fernando Prieto (Sustainability Observatory)
Ferran Puig Vilar (engineer and climate expert)

Originally published in CTXT – Contexto y Acción, translation published by MR Online.

The Summary for Policymakers for the April 2022 Working Group III Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — the third part of the IPCC’s 2021-2022 Sixth Assessment Report addressing Mitigation , is according to UN Secretary General António Guterres, “a litany of broken climate promises.… Simply put, they [the vested interests] are lying,” denying the science, present in the report as a whole but excluded or downplayed in the Summary for Policymakers.

Ukraine News Links 28-29 April 2022

Friday, 29 April 2022 — The New Dark Age

Africa and the Collective West after the Start of Russia’s Special Operation in Ukraine
https://journal-neo.org/2022/04/29/africa-and-the-collective-west-after-the-start-of-russia-s-special-operation-in-ukraine/

Turkey Should Be Praised For Its Pragmatic Stance Towards Black Sea Geopolitics
https://orientalreview.org/2022/04/29/turkey-should-be-praised-for-its-pragmatic-stance-towards-black-sea-geopolitics/

On Ukraine, The World Majority Sides With Russia Over U.S.
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/04/on-ukraine-the-world-majority-sides-with-russia-over-u-s/

It’s about time

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Thursday, 28 April, 2022 — Edward Curtin

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Isn’t it always?

With the start of World War III by the United States “declaring” war against Russia by its actions in Ukraine, we have entered a time when the end of time has become very possible. I am speaking of nuclear annihilation.

The Police Bill has received Royal Assent. Get ready to resist!

Thursday, 28 April 2022 — NetPol

It’s time for collective solidarity

On 28th April, the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill received Royal Assent. Thousands of us took to the streets to resist this draconian legislation. But the battle against the bill was never going to be won in parliament, and it’s now down to all of us to make it unenforceable on the streets.

Fighting regressive legislation: No defeat is ever complete – IRR News 28 April 2022

Thursday, 28 April 2022 — The Institute of Race Relations

The fact that within the last 72 hours opposition in the House of Lords to four bills, including the Nationality and Borders Bill and the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, has crumbled, is, to say the least, a setback for the struggle for racial and social justice. But no defeat is ever complete and the stories we document this week in our regular calendar of racism and resistance, suggest that opponents are not going to allow these laws, and others yet to come, to set regressive new norms.

Ukraine News Links 27-28 April 2022

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Thursday, 28 April 2022 • 16:00 — The New Dark Age

How Could the U.S. Help to Bring Peace to Ukraine?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-could-us-help-bring-peace-ukraine/5778849

$4 Billion and Counting: The D.C. War Machine Feasts on Ukraine
https://www.globalresearch.ca/4-billion-counting-dc-war-machine-feasts-ukraine/5778827

US Intel Helped Ukraine Shoot Down Russian Plane Carrying “Hundreds” of Paratroopers
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-intel-helped-ukraine-shoot-down-russian-plane-carrying-hundreds-paratroopers/5778817

Peace Movement Needs to Demand Dismantling of NATO

Thursday, 28 April 2022 — CovertAction Magazine

By Harry Targ

[Source: greatgameindia.com]

NATO went from fighting socialism to enforcing global empire

It looks a lot like a return to the past. Founded in 1949 to defend against the “Soviet threat,” the NATO alliance is facing a return to mechanized warfare, a huge increase in defense spending, and potentially a new Iron Curtain falling across Europe. After struggling to find a new post-Cold War role, countering terrorism following the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001 and a humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, NATO is back encroaching on its original nemesis.[1]
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I Cannot Live on Tomorrow’s Bread: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2022)

Thursday, 28 April 2022 — The Tricontinental

Takashi Murakami (Japan), Tan Tan Bo Puking – a.k.a. Gero Tan, 2002.

Dear friends,

Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

On April 19, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its annual World Economic Outlook, which forecasted a severe slowdown in global growth along with soaring prices. ‘For 2022, inflation is projected at 5.7 percent in advanced economies and 8.7 percent in emerging market and developing economies – 1.8 and 2.8 percentage points higher than projected in … January’, the report noted. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva offered a sobering reflection on the data: ‘Inflation is reaching the highest levels seen in decades. Sharply higher prices for food and fertilizers put pressure on households worldwide – especially for the poorest. And we know that food crises can unleash social unrest’.

The Little-Known International Charter At The Center of Ukraine War and China’s Future Defense

Wednesday, 27 April 2022 — Internationalist 360°

Jacqueline Luqman

The U.S. talks about “rule based order” because international law is not on its side. The 1999 OSCE Charter explains why the Biden administration would rather make up a new phrase out of whole cloth than live up to agreements it signed.

Has globalisation ended?

Wednesday, 27 April 2022 — Michael Roberts Blog

michael roberts

Apart from inflation and war, what grips current economic thought is the apparent failure of what mainstream economics likes to call ‘globalisation’. What mainstream economics means by globalisation is the expansion of trade and capital flows freely across borders. In 2000, the IMF identified four basic aspects of globalisation: trade and transactions, capital and investment movements, migration and movement of people, and the dissemination of knowledge. All these components apparently took off from the early 1980s as part of the ‘neoliberal’ reversal of previous national macro-management policies adopted by governments in the environment of the Bretton Woods world economic order (ie US hegemony). Then the call was to break down tariff barriers, quotas and other trade restrictions and allow the multi-nationals to trade ‘freely’ and to switch their investments abroad to cheap labour areas to boost profitability. This would lead to global expansion and harmonious development of the productive forces and resources of the world, it was claimed.

Politico: “Germany approves tank sales to Ukraine, bowing to pressure”

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Wednesday, 27 April 2022 — Moon of Alabama

Did Germany really decide to deliver tanks to the Ukraine?

The German government said Tuesday it will deliver anti-aircraft tanks to Ukraine after facing strong pressure at home and abroad to abandon its reluctance to supply heavy weapons to Kyiv.

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Putin warns the US to back off in Ukraine

April 28, 20222 Comments

Wednesday, 27 April 2022 — Indian Punchline

by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR

US Def. Secy. Lloyd Austin (3rd from right) chairing Ukraine Security Consultative Group meeting, Germany, April 26, 2022

The Western narrative of the two-month old war in Ukraine imbued with the rhetoric of “democracy versus autocracy,” has dramatically changed with the assertion by the US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin at a news conference in Poland Monday following his and Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to Kiev, that Washington wants to “to see Russia weakened.”

US recruits Israel against Russia

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Tuesday, 26 April 2022 — Indian Punchline

by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR

Israel’s Iron Dome missile shield (File photo)

For more than one reason, the US President Joe Biden’s call with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday is hugely consequential. This has been Biden’s second phone conversation with Bennett in four weeks. On March 30 Biden called to express his “deepest condolences” following the terrorist attacks that killed 11 people in three Israeli cities.

The D-Notice: A Very British Way Of Censoring The Press

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Tuesday, 26 April 2022 — The Dissenter

BY KIT KLARENBERG

Defense and Security Media Advisory Commitee members from 2021 (Photo from DSMA’s government website and in the public domain)

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On April 20, a British judge approved the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the U.S., to face trial under the Espionage Act. Home Secretary Priti Patel will now decide whether to sign off on the decision.

Ukraine News Links 25- 27 April 2022

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Wednesday, 27 April 2022 — The New Dark Age

The White House is Turning the War in Ukraine into a New Gold Rush
https://journal-neo.org/2022/04/27/the-white-house-is-turning-the-war-in-ukraine-into-a-new-gold-rush/

A More Effective Russian Strategy Against Further Enlargement Of NATO
https://orientalreview.org/2022/04/27/a-more-effective-russian-strategy-against-further-enlargement-of-nato/

The Ukraine Crisis Can’t Save Biden
https://popularresistance.org/the-ukraine-crisis-cant-save-biden/