Ukraine News Links 21-22 August 2022

Monday, 22 August 2022 • 23:30 — 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.

Brits will be paid to go without power-hungry appliances – media
https://www.rt.com/news/561341-uk-energy-saving-payments/

Establishment Republicans love to blame Donald Trump for their losses, but they are their own problem
https://www.rt.com/news/561159-liz-cheney-trump-republican/

Hard-partying Finnish PM’s drug test results revealed
https://www.rt.com/news/561339-marin-drug-test-results-finland/

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What do the New York Times, Kiev Independent, Euromaidan Press, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and TikTok All Have in Common?

Monday, 22 August 2022 — CovertAction Magazine

By John Parker

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They are all funded by or staffed by Western and U.S. intelligence members pushing the U.S. narrative about the war in Ukraine. This is why Struggle-La-Lucha.org organized a fact-finding mission to Ukraine and Russia to report on the suppressed information that challenges the narrative of NATO and its member states, led by the U.S.

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UK Crony Capitalism: Public Enemy Number One

Monday, 22 August 2022 — Goodlaw Project

Tory leadership candidate Rishi Sunak has launched a furious, misguided, attack on Good Law Project and its founder Jolyon Maugham QC for “wasting time and money” in the Courts. And he has threatened judges he calls “recidivist” – a word meaning the tendency of convicted criminals to continue to offend – with legislation to force them to act in accordance with his wishes.

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Achieving Earth for All

12 July, 2022 — Project Syndicate

Jayati Ghosh

Because the changes needed to achieve sustainable well-being for everyone are so big, they require determined social movements with wide participation. But while history shows that inertia and defeatism can become self-fulfilling, it also shows that governments ultimately have to respond to popular pressure – or be replaced by it.

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