April 28, 2022
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Ukraine News Links 27-28 April 2022
Thursday, 28 April 2022 • 16:00 — 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. How… Continue reading
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Peace Movement Needs to Demand Dismantling of NATO
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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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The Little-Known International Charter At The Center of Ukraine War and China’s Future Defense
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. Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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Politico: “Germany approves tank sales to Ukraine, bowing to pressure”
Did Germany really decide to deliver tanks to the Ukraine? Continue reading
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Putin warns the US to back off in Ukraine
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… Continue reading
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