May 2022
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Western Media Run Blatant Atrocity Propaganda For The Ukrainian Government
The Ukrainian government is quickly learning that it can say anything, literally anything at all, about what’s happening on the ground there and get it uncritically reported as an actual news story by the mainstream western press. Continue reading
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Australia: turning for the worse
If you agree that there is an imperialist bloc of countries that dominates and controls the world, then Australia should be included. It may be a new and smaller entrant to the bloc, and it may be just a satellite of US imperialism in the Asia-Pacific, but it still fits the bill as part of… Continue reading
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Russia Rewrites the Art of Hybrid War
So why would weapons peddler retrofitted as Pentagon head Lloyd “Raytheon” Austin literally beg since late February to have his phone calls answered by Russian Defense Minister Shoigu, only to have his wish finally granted? Continue reading
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Statewatch News 20 May (Issue 08/22)
Friday, 20 May 2022 — Statewatch News (also available as a PDF) Welcome to our latest edition, featuring: AI technology and migration: regulation required Frontex’s disappearing documents Italy denies rights to Tunisian deportees “On the spot” biometric ID checks, more police data Don’t forget to check out our extensive roundup of news from across Europe from the last fortnight, Continue reading
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A.K. Lukashevich, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE, at the OSCE Permanent Council Meeting on Biological Programmes and US Activities in Ukraine, Vienna, 19 May 2022
In the course of the special operation in Ukraine, newly documented evidence has been discovered that for several years components of biological weapons have in fact been created in the immediate vicinity of the Russian borders – in violation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and… Continue reading
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Leaked emails expose UK Home Secretary Priti Patel’s connection to MI6-style ‘research and influence operation’
A deeply anti-democratic MI6-linked cabal’s apparent influence on Priti Patel raises serious questions about her fitness to rule on Julian Assange’s extradition to the US. Continue reading
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Key Russian lawmaker reveals illicit Ebola, smallpox research at US-run Ukraine biolabs
MOSCOW, May 20. /TASS/. The US researched Ebola and smallpox viruses in Ukraine, says Irina Yarovaya, Co-Chair of the Parliamentary Commission on Investigation of US Biological Laboratories in Ukraine. Continue reading
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Twitter To Ramp Up Censorship Of ‘Misinformation’ About The Ukraine War
Twitter has published what it calls a “crisis misinformation policy” announcing that it will be actively reducing the visibility of content found to be false which pertains to “situations of armed conflict, public health emergencies, and large-scale natural disasters.” Continue reading
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South Africa: Let them have a ridiculously large luminous flag
The ANC has destroyed or severely damaged the post office, the national airline, the railways, the electricity system and some of our most crucial hospitals. It was recently announced that the deterioration of the country’s network of weather stations has reached a critical point. Many public buildings, as well as other infrastructure, have been abandoned… Continue reading
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‘There Is No Way To Fool Physics’: Climate Breakdown And State-Corporate Madness
In the terrifying opening to his 2020 novel, ‘The Ministry for the Future’, Kim Stanley Robinson depicts an intense heatwave in India. In an ‘ordinary town’ in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, people are struggling to cope with unbearable heat and humidity. It is the combination of the two, measured by the so-called ‘wet-bulb temperature’,… Continue reading
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U.S. empire seeks to use Ukraine to destabilize Eurasia, in the model of how it destroyed Yugoslavia
The colonization of this continent has been a disaster for the environment, both on the continent itself and throughout the rest of the globe. The settlers have ravaged the territories they’ve stolen, and built an empire which has come to primarily contribute to the climate crisis. The U.S. military is the world’s largest institutional contributor… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 19-20 May 2022
Friday, 20 May 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 and some links Continue reading
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Malak Mattar: Last Scene Before Flying with the Dove to Paradise
Thursday, 19 May 2022 — The Tricontinental This image, from the latest Tricontinental Newsletter is so beautiful as well as so sad that it deserves a page all to itself, lest we forget. Malak Mattar (Palestine), Last Scene Before Flying with the Dove to Paradise, 2019. This is an extract from an essay by Nada Continue reading
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Art Is a Dream in Which We Imagine Our Future: The Twentieth Newsletter (2022)
Thursday, 19 May 2022 — The Tricontinental Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 11 May 2022, an Israeli sniper fired at the head of the veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh as she reported on an Israeli military raid on a refugee settlement in Jenin (part of the Occupied Palestine Territories). Continue reading
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On Bush’s Freudian Confession
Oh my God. It happened. I can’t believe it really happened. During a speech in Dallas at Southern Methodist University’s George W Bush Presidential Center on Wednesday, the man himself, George W Bush, did the best thing ever. I am pretty sure it is the single best thing that has ever happened. I do not believe… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 18-19 May 2022
Thursday, 19 May 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 and some links Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 18 May 2022
Wednesday, 18 May, 2022 —Black Agenda Report Liberals Drive State Censorship Margaret Kimberley Liberals are the force behind censorship efforts. They defend the state and seek to silence anyone who questions its narratives. The New White Supremacist Consensus Part Two: Shootings in Buffalo Solidify the Consensus Ajamu Baraka The latest mass shooter in Buffalo, New Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 17-18 May 2022
Wednesday, 18 May 2022 • 19:00 — 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 and Continue reading
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United States Bioweapons Developments in Ukraine May Prove a Fatal Mistake
What is now emerging into full view is the development of bio weapons in Ukraine by the Americans. This program has been in existence for a number of years, organised by the leadership of the Democratic Party who in turn benefited from company donations from the principal organisers of the program. These companies include Pfizer,… Continue reading
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Biden returns to time past in the Gulf
The extraordinary sight of the Biden administration’s entire foreign and security policy establishment representing Washington on the occasion of the passing away of the emir of Abu Dhabi and president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan conveys a powerful message. Decoding that message may seem deceptively simple. Continue reading
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