April 2022
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Billionaires Only Come To The Rescue In Movies And Comic Books
Rightists are having a merry old time making fun of the melodramatic reactions from high-profile liberals who fear Elon Musk’s purchase will lead to more free speech on the platform for people who don’t align with them politically, and many of the blue-checkmarked commentariat who live on Twitter and can’t go five minutes without checking their notifications… Continue reading
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An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm
Monday, 25 April 2022 — MintPress News Old propaganda, new Cold War “Censorship is the last resort of desperate and unpopular regimes. It magically appears to make a crisis go away. It comforts the powerful with the narrative they want to hear, one fed back to them by courtiers in the media, government agencies, think Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 24-26 April 2022
Tuesday, 26 April 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. LOL. Continue reading
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Eva Bartlett Reports from Mariupol: “Ukraine Forces Used Scorched Earth Tactics”
Monday, 25 April 2022 Internationalist 360° Valerie, a woman I met in Mariupol some days ago, speaks on Azov occupying residential buildings & bombing them. “Our land must be cleaned of crazy people. Some people call them Nazis, I think this is the only word you can say, Nazis.” Continue reading
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A Recap Of The War In Ukraine – by Gonzalo Lira
Tuesday, 26 April 2022 — Moon of Alabama Gonzalo Lira just delivered a decent recap of the war in Ukraine. Gonzalo Lira @GonzaloLira1968 – 10:28 UTC · Apr 26, 2022 Quick recap for those who haven’t followed what’s been going on in Ukraine but want to understand: 02/24: The Russians invaded from the south, south-east, Continue reading
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Evidence Based Medicine – it was a good idea
Once upon a time I was a member of the General Practitioners Committee. A sub-committee of the British Medical Association that represents GPs. This was during a time when the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) system was being rolled out. There is hardly anyone working in the NHS, including almost all hospital doctors, who has… Continue reading
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Russia Releases Documents on US-Funded Bio-Weapons, Hunter Biden Exposed
The Russian Defense Ministry has exacerbated an already flared scandal of Hunter Biden‘s connection and correspondence with employees of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and Pentagon contractors in Ukraine. This comes after Putin had already demanded Washington expose its biological activities in Ukraine, which have been threatening Russia and Europe inclusively. Continue reading
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What is propelling the U.S. into increasing international military aggression?
The international escalation of U.S. military aggression over a period of more than two decades is clear. However, even within that framework, the events leading to the Ukraine war represent a new qualitative step in this U.S. military policy. Before the Ukraine war, the U.S. carried out military confrontations only against developing countries which had… Continue reading
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2005-22′: The crisis of western capitalism behind the left and far right radicalism
In a previous article we have tried to explain the rise of the extreme right in Europe, in its various forms, as a result of the deep crisis of world (western) Capitalism. The same is true of the rise of the radical left, where and when we witness it. It is simply impossible to understand what is… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 23-24 April 2022
Sunday, 24 April 2022 — 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. Ukraine: how the Continue reading
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US narrative won’t survive defeat in Donbass
An extraordinary thing about British diplomacy is that it continually looks for ways to stay ahead of the curve and provide added value to its customer across the Atlantic, the United States. That makes the remarks on Ukraine conflict by the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson at his press conference in New Delhi on Friday… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 22-23 April 2022
Saturday, 23 April 2022 — 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. The Persian Gulf Continue reading
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‘One Less Traitor’: Zelensky Oversees Campaign of Assassination, Kidnapping and Torture of Political Opposition
While claiming to defend democracy, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has outlawed his opposition, ordered his rivals’ arrest, and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents across the country. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 21 April 2022
Thursday, 21 April 2022 • 20:30 — 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. Western-Led Continue reading
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These Dark Times Are Also Filled with Light: The Sixteenth Newsletter (2022)
Thursday, 21 April 2022 — The Tricontinental Shengtian Zheng and Jinbo Sun, Winds of Fusang, 2017. ‘Fusang’ is an ancient Chinese word referring to what some believe to be the shores of Mexico. The work is an homage to Latin America’s influence on China, particularly that of Mexican artists on the development of modern Chinese Continue reading
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Say No To Censorship: Here’s How We’re Rebuilding Alternative Media
With the war in Ukraine raging on and corporate media outlets pushing a pro-NATO agenda – we’ve entered war time and having access to alternative information is crucial to preventing escalation. Continue reading
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Some Of The Weapons Delivered To Ukraine Will Be Used Against Us
The U.S. and its proxies in Europe are moving an enormous amount of weapons into Ukraine. But no one has an idea where those weapons will end up. It is likely that many of those will proliferate outside of the Ukraine and some of those weapons will inevitably hit those who now deliver them. Continue reading
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Migratory birds of mass destruction
The UN Security Council held an extraordinary event on April 6 under the rubric Arria Formula Meeting on Biological Security regarding the biological activities in countries including Ukraine. Predictably, the US and UK representatives didn’t show up at the event and the western media also blacked out the proceedings. But that does not detract from… Continue reading
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Israel’s fortress state is the model for the UK’s new asylum policy
There is nothing innovative or humanitarian about Britain’s new policy of shipping asylum seekers, “on a one-way ticket“, thousands of miles to central Africa. Nor is there anything surprising about the choice of destination: Rwanda. Boris Johnson’s government has simply copied wholesale a programme established by Israel eight years ago. Continue reading
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ACURA ViewPoint: Transcript of John Mearsheimer’s April 7th Presentation
Thank you very much for inviting me to be here. And I recall our travels in Germany fondly, especially when Steve and I debated the Ukraine issue back then. I agree with what you said by the way, Katrina, when you said that this is the most dangerous crisis since the Second World War. I… Continue reading
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