September 7, 2022
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Ukraine News Links 6-7 September 2022
Wednesday, 7 September 2022 • 17:30 — 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 Continue reading
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Jon Stewart and the Pentagon honor Ukrainian Nazi at Disney World
31 August 2022 — The Grayzone Alexander Rubinstein Defense Department-sponsored “Warrior Games” featured liberal comedian Jon Stewart awarding a member of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion at Disney World. The Pentagon refused to tell The Grayzone whether US taxpayers funded the foreign competitors’ travel. Continue reading
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Emily Maitlis is right about BBC bias – but for the wrong reasons
Journalists aren’t too deferential and timid, as the ex-Newsnight presenter claims. They are only too ready to bare their teeth when it serves establishment interests Continue reading
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GERMANY WHERE NEXT? Q2 DATA INCLUDING RATE OF PROFIT
The German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) has released its estimates for the second quarter of 2022 allowing the preparation of tunrover and profits for the non-financial sector in Germany. Following this fundamental analysis of the German economy comment will be made on Germany’s prospects given that it and Britain are most at risk from current… Continue reading
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European police facial recognition system must be halted, warns new paper
A new position paper published today by the European Digital Rights (EDRi) network calls for MEPs to oppose plans to create an EU-wide police facial recognition system that may, in the future, also include the UK. Continue reading
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Ukraine: The IAEA has gone to the dark side
The IAEA has published a report “Nuclear Safety, Security and Safeguards in Ukraine”. It provides an overview of all nuclear facilities on Ukrainian territory, with the bulk of the report devoted to the Zaporizhzhya NPP. Continue reading
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Ukraine Loses Soldiers – Europe Its Economies – All For No Gain
When the Ukraine launched its Kherson ‘counteroffensive’ on August 29 I was pretty aghast and judged that it was destined to fail: Continue reading
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2019 RAND Paper Warned US of Failure During Ukraine Conflict
As far back as 2019, US Army-commissioned studies examined different means to provoke and antagonize Russia who they acknowledged sought to avoid conflict. However, they also warned that if Russia was pushed too far, it could trigger an escalation that would spiral out of Washington’s control. Continue reading
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Court orders Deutsche Welle to reinstate second Palestinian journalist
The German state broadcaster was ordered by the Berlin labor court to reinstate her and pay all her legal costs. The decisive victory “suggests that the court recognized that Farah’s termination, based on a controversial investigation and unfounded allegations of anti-Semitism related to reports published before her employment contract, was illegal,” said the European Legal Support Center. Continue reading
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Why does the United States continue to occupy a Haitian island?
The Americans mined a million tons of guano on the island without paying a cent to the Haitian authorities. Other countries have sold the product for hundreds of millions of dollars Continue reading
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India’s energy diplomacy blossoms, finally
To be sure, energy security has surged as the key to a country’s strategic autonomy and independence, as world events testify, currently within the matrix of “food-fertiliser-fuel” sufficiency where the global supply chains are disrupted. Europe’s missteps on this front, upon the advice of the US to atrophy and severe the continent’s seven decades-long economic… Continue reading
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Half of Brits ‘disappointed’ with Truss as PM – poll
Britons do not appear particularly enthusiastic about Foreign Secretary Liz Truss taking over as the new prime minister, a YouGov poll published on Monday suggests. Around half of the people in the UK say they are ‘disappointed’, with one-third ‘very disappointed’. Continue reading
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British Media Turn on Putin War Plan. But Will They Turn on the New Clown in Downing Street?
To understand how the British media works and what’s behind the decisions it takes you don’t have to be very bright at all. In fact, you can be really quite dim and still get it, it’s really that simple. Gone are the days when a Brit would buy a paper, perhaps in the 70s and… Continue reading
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Why are so many people dying?
The disappointment from Covidean doom-mongers about the recent – and entirely expected – downtick in cases of respiratory disease has been palpable, presumably because this has happened without recourse to ‘clever’ public health interventions. However, the news isn’t good: in fact it is bad, and sad. Far too many people are dying. Excess deaths –… Continue reading