Ukraine News Links 30-31 July 2022

Sunday, 31 July 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 may not work, depending on your location but I’ve kept them anyway, so at least the reader has some idea of the scale of censorship now operating in the ‘democratic’ West.

Almost No One Trusts US Media, After Decades Of War Propaganda And Lies
https://popularresistance.org/polls-show-almost-no-one-trusts-us-media-after-decades-of-war-propaganda-and-lies/

Kim Jong Il denounced libertarianism for a reason: it undermines the class struggle
https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2022/07/kim-jong-il-denounced-libertarianism.html

U.S. empire losing control over its neo-colonies, drifting closer towards collapse
https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2022/07/us-empire-losing-control-over-its-neo.html

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Africa, China, and US Imperialism

Saturday, 30 July 2022 —  Internationalist 360°

This important essay by US scholar Joel Wendland-Liu, originally published on the CPUSA website, provides a serious and detailed comparison of the US-Africa relationship and the China-Africa relationship. Referencing numerous recent studies indicating that Africans – and particularly younger Africans – have a more favorable opinion of China than of the US, the author contrasts the West’s record of military, economic and political coercion on the continent with China’s record of extensive, mutually-beneficial cooperation.

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UK: ‘An attack on solidarity’

Thursday, 28 July 2022 — Morning Star Online

Trade unions furious with Sir Keir for sacking shadow transport secretary as McDonnell backs growing calls for a general strike


Labour leader Keir Starmer

LABOUR went into meltdown today as union leaders and MPs blasted Sir Keir Starmer for sacking Sam Tarry from his front-bench team.

The fallout came as former shadow chancellor John McDonnell backed calls for a general strike.

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Former Bolivian President Evo Morales Calls For a Global Campaign to Eliminate NATO

Saturday, 30 July 2022 — CovertAction Magazine – Declassified UK

By Jeremy Kuzmarov

Evo Morales [Source: declassifieduk.org]

In interview with a British journalist, Morales says the U.S. uses NATO to provoke wars and sell weapons. U.S./UK-backed coup against him in 2019 was undertaken for lithium and because his government advanced an alternative economic model to the neoliberal “Washington Consensus”

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Going to Samarkand

Saturday, 30 July 2022 — Strategic Culture Foundation

Pepe Escobar

The SCO and other pan-Eurasian organizations play a completely different – respectful, consensual – ball game. And that’s why they are catching the full attention of most of the Global South.

The meeting of the SCO Ministerial Council  in Tashkent this past Friday involved some very serious business. That was the key preparatory reunion previous to the SCO summit in mid-September in fabled Samarkand, where the SCO will release a much-awaited “Declaration of Samarkand”.

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Ukraine News Links 29-30 July 2022

Saturday, 30 July 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 and some links may not work, depending on your location but I’ve kept them anyway, so at least the reader has some idea of the scale of censorship now operating in the ‘democratic’ West.

Zelensky Told Americans That His Country Should Be More Important To Them Than Their Own

US lawmakers introduce bill to arm Taiwan
https://www.rt.com/news/559898-taiwan-lend-lease-act/

Going to Samarkand
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/07/30/going-to-samarkand/

The Corporate Oligarchs Have Put Humanity on a Path Toward Self-Annihilation
https://countercurrents.org/2022/07/the-corporate-oligarchs-have-put-humanity-on-a-path-toward-self-annihilation/

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Last Tango in Washington?

Saturday, 16 June, 2022 — Consortium News

Michael Brenner sizes up the scale of the West’s blunder in trying to use a crisis in Ukraine as the lever to bring down Putin and Russia along with him. 

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin hosts Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, June 15. (DoD/Chad J. McNeeley)

By Michael Brenner

Reality has a way of catching up to us. Sometimes it comes via a sudden shock — Sputnik or Tet. Sometimes it creeps up incrementally — as in Ukraine with each thousand round Russian artillery barrage and the steady rise of the ruble now 25 percent higher than at the onset of the crisis.

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US-NATO Intent upon Boycotting Russia-India Relations

Friday, 29 July 2022 — Global Research – InfoBrics 28 July 2022

By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida

The US seems once again interested in boycotting good relations between Russia and India. Congressmen in Washington are proposing that New Delhi be included in the NATO-Plus group, guaranteeing a series of privileges in military cooperation. Obviously, the military ties between both countries are not recent, but this type of maneuver precisely at the current moment indicates the concern on the part of the US with the rapprochement between India and Russia.

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‘Israel’ Bombed Nablus and Failed its Largest Operation in the City Since 2002

Thursday, 28 July 2022 — Internationalist 360°

Robert Inlakesh

Drones, helicopters, militarized vehicles, anti-tank missiles and armor piercing rounds were all deployed by Israeli forces, yet they were unable to arrest or harm their target suspect.

In the early hours of Sunday morning, Palestinian resistance factions based in the West Bank city of Nablus fought Israeli occupation forces for over three hours, during which missiles were used to attack Palestinians. Despite how heavy handed the occupation forces came in, they failed to achieve their objectives due to the unity of the northern West Bank resistance.

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 Poland’s Position as the “Next Ukraine”

Saturday, 30 July, 2022 — Land Destroyer

(Brian Berletic – New Eastern Outlook) – While Western governments and the Western media continue clinging to the hope of an eventual “victory” for Kiev’s forces in Ukraine, the “frontline” is quietly being moved back to western Ukraine and even Poland just across the border. Recent pledges by NATO as well as arms deliveries this year and next appear to be headed in the direction of using Poland as the next battering ram with which US-led NATO will use against Russia.

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What Presidents Say Does Not Matter. It Is The Execution Of Policies That Counts

Saturday, July 30, 2022 — Moon of Alabama

Yesterday, on July 28/29 2022 three independent entities stated the obvious fact that the president of the United States is just a front puppet who has no power to fulfill the promises he makes during various interactions with foreign leaders. The dangers evolving from this state are enormous but rarely noted.

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Shouldn’t Biden be talking directly to Putin?

Saturday, 30 July 2022 — Indian Punchline

by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (L) spoke with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at latter’s request, Jul 29, 2022

No sooner than Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov returned to Moscow after the SCO ministerial in Tashkent, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s pending request for a conversation was scheduled late Friday evening. This has been their first conversation since the war began in Ukraine in February.

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Don’t say we didn’t warn you – Symposium of China’s top think tank sends classic, pre-war warning to provocative Pelosi

Friday, 29 July 2022 — Global Times

Led by the guided-missile frigate Yongzhou (Hull 628), a frigate flotilla with the navy under the PLA Southern Theater Command steams in formation in an undisclosed sea area during a maritime training exercise in early December 2020. Photo: China MilitaryLed by the guided-missile frigate Yongzhou (Hull 628), a frigate flotilla with the navy under the PLA Southern Theater Command steams in formation in an undisclosed sea area during a maritime training exercise in early December 2020. Photo: China Military

“Don’t say we didn’t warn you!” – a phrase that was used by the People’s Daily in 1962 before China was forced to fight the border war with India and ahead of the 1979 China-Vietnam War, was frequently mentioned during a forum held Friday by a high-level Chinese think tank, as analysts warned that open military options and comprehensive countermeasures ranging from the economy to diplomacy from China await if US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gambles with a visit to the Taiwan island during her Asia tour.

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My Body Is Not Your Capital-Producing Machine – Or Is It?

Friday, 29 July, 2022 — Susan Rosenthal

There are three basic freedoms: freedom to say NO; freedom to move away; and freedom to change what does not work. 

Individual freedom requires social support. To say NO, you need others to respect your choice and not force you to obey. To move freely, you need others to support your movement and not erect walls and roadblocks. To change what does not work, you need others who are affected to accept the change.

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Black Agenda Radio July 29, 2022

Friday, 29 July 2022 — — Black Agenda Radio

Black Agenda Radio July 29, 2022
Glen Ford debating Michael Eric Dyson on Democracy Now in 2008, the abuses of the child welfare system in North Carolina, and residents of the University City Town Homes in Philadelphia face mass eviction.

Glen Ford and Michael Eric Dyson 2008 Debate on Democracy Now
On January 9, 2008 Glen Ford debated Michael Eric Dyson on the program Democracy Now. The topic of discussion was Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.

Abuses in the Child Protection System
Across the country entities that are known as child welfare agencies regularly break up black families by claiming to care for the needs of children. Amanda Wallace is the founder of Operation Stop CPS in Durham, North Carolina. She joins us to discuss protest against a case in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Save the University City Town Homes
Rasheda Alexander is a tenant organizer at the University City Town Homes in Philadelphia. She joins us to discuss their struggle to stop a mass eviction amidst the proposed sale of their affordable housing.

Dead men tell no tales! Ukraine Slaughters its own!!!

Friday, 29 July 2022 — Telegram

Update 29/7 16:00:

There are videos and pics of bits of US HIMARS rockets, here: https://t.me/intelslava/34206


Still from a short video of the remains

Intel Slava Z, [29/07/2022 13:55]
[ Video ]
🇺🇦🇷🇺 Fragments of HIMARS missiles found at the site of the strike on the colony with Ukrainian prisoners of war in Yelenovka

Azov deadThe Yelenovskaya Colony (or what’s left of it)

Intel Slava Z, [29/07/2022 10:11]
[Forwarded from Donbass Devushka (M V)]
[ Video ]
⚡️ Frames 18
The first is visible from the Yelenovskaya colony, which was fired at night from the Himars MLRS

By order of Zelensky, fire was opened on the barracks tonight where captured Nazis from the “Azov” were kept. So far, 40 people have been killed and more than 140 injured.

Zelensky executed his own people!!
“Rudenko”

https://t.me/intelslava/34196

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Provoking Beijing

July 28, 2022 — Moon of Alabama

Yves Smith is aghast about the U.S. eyepoking of China:

The neocons above all seem unable to process that the days of US hegemony are over. It boggles the mind that they are not just eyepoking but escalating greatly with China via the still-planned Pelosi visit to Taiwan in August. As we’ll explain, China is fully cognizant of the fact that Pelosi is number two in line after Harris should something happen to the increasingly addle-brained Biden. And they don’t buy for a second that Pelosi is operating without the explicit approval of the Administration.

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Ukraine News Links 28-29 July 2022

Friday, 29 July 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 may not work, depending on your location but I’ve kept them anyway, so at least the reader has some idea of the scale of censorship now operating in the ‘democratic’ West.

Will Christina Quinn Impose US-style Democracy on Armenia?
https://journal-neo.org/2022/07/29/will-christina-quinn-impose-us-style-democracy-on-armenia/

All That I Ask Is That You Fight for Peace Today
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/07/all-that-i-ask-is-that-you-fight-for-peace-today/

Lessons from recent US history
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/07/lessons-from-recent-us-history/

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Glyphosate, GMOs and Pesticides – Weekly Global News Bulletin 28 July 2022

Thursday, 28 July 2022 — Sustainable Pulse

Glyphosate & Roundup: Poison In Our Daily Bread – Fork the System Podcast

It’s not surprising that glyphosate, the so-called active ingredient in Bayer-Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, is found in foods made with glyphosate-tolerant GMO crops like corn, soy and canola. But why is glyphosate herbicide showing up in non-GMO and organic foods too? In the first episode of Fork the System, GMO/Toxin Free USA staffer Nomi Carmona hosts […]

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