Ukraine News Links 5-6 July 2022

Wednesday, 6 July 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 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.

Monthly Review Volume 74, Number 3
https://monthlyreview.org/product/mr-074-03-2022-07

Iranian Airbus 655 Anniversary Should Be a Chilling Reminder of U.S. Blundering
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/07/06/iranian-airbus-655-anniversary-should-be-chilling-reminder-of-us-blundering/

Ukraine Open Thread 2022-104
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/07/ukraine-open-thread-2022-104.html

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Statewatch News 6 July (Issue 11/22)

Wednesday, 6 July 2022 — Statewatch News

(Also available as a PDF
Welcome to our latest edition, featuring:
  • EU police forces authorized to transmit DNA and fingerprint data to the UK from 30 June
  • Deportations: EU to push for new readmission agreements “using all levers and incentives available”
  • EU: End game approaching for e-evidence negotiations, says French Presidency

Don’t forget to have a look at our roundup of news from across Europe from the last fortnight, now categorised by theme.

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Why There Is No Public Sense Of A Climate Crisis

Wednesday, 6 July 2022 — Media Lens

Rousseau wrote:

‘We have physicists, geometricians, chemists, astronomers, poets, musicians and painters in plenty; but no longer have a citizen among us.’

Increasingly, now, we do have citizens among us: scientists – particularly, climate scientists – who are awakening from their ‘mainstream’ slumber to the reality that they are citizens of a decaying society on a dying planet.

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In An Attempt to Offset Rising Oil Prices, Biden Administration Makes Nice with Brutal Saudis—But Spurns Socialist Venezuela

Wednesday, 6 July 2022 — CovertAction Magazine

Saudi ArabiaJoe Biden and Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman. [Source: republicworld.com]

Right-wing lobbies and ideological zealotry continue to prevent initiation of rational policy toward Venezuela

On June 2, Saudi-led OPEC and its allies announced it will accelerate oil production in July and August, as the cartel’s key player, Saudi Arabia, agreed to U.S. pleadings that it take action to cool crude oil prices. The sharp rise in the price of a barrel of crude since the start of hostilities in Ukraine has threatened to stall the global economy with the United States being especially vulnerable.

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Black Agenda Report 6 July 2022

Wednesday, 6 July 2022 — Black Agenda Report

Protesting for Jayland Walker
Margaret Kimberley
The number of bullets used to kill Jayland Walker have sparked an outcry, but police kill one Black person every day in this country. If systemic change is not the demand all protest is for naught.

SPEECH: The Black Revolution is Part of World-wide Struggle, Malcolm X, 1964
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Malcolm X reminds us of the deceit of liberals, the power of international thinking, and the coming of Black revolution.

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