June 2022
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Nuclear terrorist, Genocidally Racist and International Law-violating Apartheid Israel among World Leaders for Killing Kids
Apartheid Israel in its illegal, war criminal and 55-year occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory is among world leaders in “children killed per year per million of total territory population” with a value of 25.8 as compared to 75.7 (Honduras), 53.6 (Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo), 7.6 (the World), and 2.6 (Kashmir, India). Continue reading
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If the media can probe Shireen Abu Akleh’s death, why not the murder of other Palestinians?
An Israeli sniper shot the Al-Jazeera journalist, according to four US news organisations. But the only investigation the Biden administration will heed is an Israeli one Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 22 June 2022
Wednesday, 22 June 2022 — Black Agenda Report The January 6th Scam Margaret Kimberley Democrats are using the hearings investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol as one long campaign commercial. They believe that saying the name Trump often enough will inspire disappointed and angry people to vote for them despite their lies and failures. INTERVIEW: Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer Continue reading
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Southern Ukraine is the priority in NATO’s planning
On the night of February 24, when Russian forces crossed the western and northern borders of Ukraine, the world’s attention was riveted on the fate of Kiev. Hardly anyone paid attention to the far south in the Black Sea, some 140 kms from Odessa, when Russian Navy attacked that night and captured the entire Ukrainian… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 21-22 June 2022
Wednesday, 22 June 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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US-China détente on the horizon
The Kyodo news agency reported on Monday that Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand are holding a four-way summit on the fringes of the NATO leaders’ gathering in Spain next week. Continue reading
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Let’s Fight WW3 Over Lithuania: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
The problem with anti-imperialists who spend all their time criticizing the evil US empire is that there aren’t nearly enough of them. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 20-21 June 2022
Tuesday, 21 June 2022 • 15:00 — 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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Zugzwang*
Western self-destruction – a puzzle defying any unique causal explanation – continues. The examples where policy is pursued in apparent indifference to anything resembling rigorous reflection, has become so extreme as to provoke a former British military chief (and former head of NATO forces in Afghanistan), Lord Richards, to huff that the relationship between strategy… Continue reading
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Your Man in Saughton Jail Part 2
I was walking down that improbably long central corridor in a group of about eight mainstream prisoners heading for legal visits, when panic broke out among the escorting guards. About a hundred yards further down, and coming towards us, was an overweight and bearded old man walking with a zimmer frame and wearing the maroon… Continue reading
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Baltic Battles?
Sundays are more usually dedicated to less serious articles than this, yet a video posted by Gonzalo Lira gives a lot of pause for thought. This longer article will look at the reasons events may happen as well as the events themselves. In the interests of brevity, links will be provided to previous posts in order that… Continue reading
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Bridging the Gap
Last week saw the Lithuanian government prohibit the transport of EU sanctioned goods across its territory from the Russian Federation to the exclave of Kaliningrad. This article subsequent to a previous one that examined the Baltic states from another angle, will look at what this means and what reaction this may elicit from Moscow. Continue reading
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No Finger on the Trigger
Much has been made over recent months concerning the weapons that western nations have given to the Ukrainian government, yet an increasingly pressing issue is beginning to make itself felt as Kiev’s efforts to bring the Russians to a halt turns is actually turning into a rout that accelerates by the day. That problem is… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 19-20 June 2022
Monday, 20 June 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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The Guardian Churns Out Embarrassingly Awful Empire Propaganda
The Guardian has put out a smear piece on critics of the imperial Syria narrative that reads like propaganda made by seven year-olds without adult supervision. Continue reading
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West at inflection point in Ukraine war
Henry Kissinger predicted some three weeks ago that the Ukraine war was dangerously close to becoming a war against Russia. That was a prescient remark. The NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in a weekend interview told Germany’s Bild am Sonntag newspaper that in the alliance’s estimation, the Ukraine war could wage for years. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 18-19 June 2022
Sunday, 19 June 2022 • 18:00 — 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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St. Petersburg sets the stage for the War of Economic Corridors
In St. Petersburg, the world’s new powers gather to upend the US-concocted “rules-based order” and reconnect the globe their way Continue reading
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A tightening world
It’s been a big week for the major central banks. First, the European Central Bank (ECB) called an emergency meeting because government bond yields were rising sharply in the more indebted Eurozone economies like Italy and Spain. That threatens to deliver a new sovereign debt crisis as happened after the Great Recession from 2010-2014, leading to… Continue reading