China is still playing the long game on Taiwan

Monday, 1 August 2022 — Indian Punchline

by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR

Mao Zedong (L) shakes hands with US President Richard Nixon on weeklong visit to China in Feb 1972 in a historic strategic overture

The tame ending of the saga of Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan leaves many intriguing loose ends, although the world is lucky that she didn’t choose to test the authenticity of the Chinese rhetoric.

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China News Links 31 July – 1 August 2022

Monday, 1 August 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.

The Old Dogs Needs Some New Tricks
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/08/01/the-old-dogs-needs-some-new-tricks/

World is ‘one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation’ – UN chief
https://www.rt.com/news/560030-un-warns-of-nuclear-annihilation/

Could Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan spark a war between China and the US?
https://www.rt.com/news/560018-nancy-pelosi-visit-taiwan/

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Viral Star Audrey White on Confronting Keir Starmer, a Life of Activism

Monday, 1 August 2022 — MintPress News

The MintPress podcast, “The Watchdog,” hosted by British-Iraqi hip hop artist Lowkey, closely examines organizations about which it is in the public interest to know – including intelligence, lobby and special interest groups influencing policies that infringe on free speech and target dissent. The Watchdog goes against the grain by casting a light on stories largely ignored by the mainstream, corporate media.

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Ukraine News Links 31 July – 1 August 2022

Monday, 1 August 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.

The Oldest Trick In The Book.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-oldest-trick-in-book.html

Ukraine: a Potemkin Village Kind of War
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/08/ukraine-a-potemkin-village-kind-of-war/

Canada’s “Jekyll-and-Hyde” Masquerade as Nation that Supposedly Supports Pacifism and Progressive Principles
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/08/canadas-jekyll-and-hyde-masquerade-as-nation-that-supposedly-supports-pacifism-and-progressive-principles/

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Roger Waters Webinar August 8, 2022


RSVP to get Zoom info to join this free public webinar on matters of war, peace, art, and activism with Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters.

There will be a presentation by Roger Waters, followed by Q&A.

The event begins
August 8 at 9 a.m. in Honolulu, noon in Los Angeles, 2 p.m. in Mexico City, 3 p.m. in New York, 8 p.m. in London, 10 p.m. in Moscow.
And August 9 at 7 a.m. in Auckland.

Sponsors: Project for the Study of American Militarism, World BEYOND War, Women Against Military Madness, CODE PINK, Veterans For Peace, Andy Worthington, Mondoweiss, Just Peace Advocates / Mouvement Pour Une Paix Juste, Antiwar.com, RootsAction.org.

— The RootsAction.org Team

www.RootsAction.org

“These are animals, not people”: Zelensky frees convicted child rapists, torturers to reinforce depleted military

Saturday, 30 July, 2022 — The Grayzone

Once condemned by Ukrainian officials and imprisoned for sadistic torture and the rape of minors, leaders of the notorious Tornado Battalion are free under Volodymyr Zelensky’s orders.

After banning virtually his entire political opposition, publishing a blacklist of foreign journalists and academics accused of advancing “Russian propaganda,” and ramming through a law exempting 70% of Ukrainians from workplace protections, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy has freed from prison fascist militants convicted of some of the most heinous crimes the country has seen since World War II.

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What Game Theory Can Tell us about the War in Ukraine

Sunday, 31 July 2022 — Strategic Culture Foundation

Though peace will come to Ukraine, it will be peace with justice and dignity for the country’s Russian speakers, irrespective of the day dreams of the LA Times and NATO’s other organ grinders.

What game theory can tell us about the war in Ukraine, a recent LA Times op-ed by two American academics, has to be the worst exposition of game theory in times of war that has ever seen parchment since Thucydides discussed the Melian Dialogue 2,500 years ago in his History of the Peloponnesian Wars we previously discussed.

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Serbia News Links 1 August 2022

Monday, 1 August 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.

There Will Be No Surrender: Serbian President Calls for Peaceful Solution to Kosovo Escalation
https://countercurrents.org/2022/08/there-will-be-no-surrender-serbian-president-calls-for-peaceful-solution-to-kosovo-escalation/

In Kosovo as in Ukraine, the same Western ‘invisible hand’ foments conflict
https://www.rt.com/news/559969-serbia-kosovo-kurti-eu/

Trump’s Kosovo envoy slams US over crisis
https://www.rt.com/news/559967-grenell-kurti-kosovo-trump/

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