September 2022
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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
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The September 2022 issue 237 of ColdType is now online
Tuesday, 6 September 2022 — ColdType Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 5-6 September 2022
Tuesday, 6 September 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 Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: Caught in a Cycle of Despair and Exploitation
After presiding over crippling austerity as a policy response to Gordon Brown’s massive handover of public money to the casino bankers, David Cameron’s attempt to control the lunatic right of his party by offering a Brexit referendum backfired spectacularly. Theresa May was brought down by that same right wing when she attempted to devise a… Continue reading
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Moment of truth in the Ukraine war
The fog of war envelops the Ukrainian “counteroffensive” in southern Kherson region where Kiev hopes to regain lost territories. But by the sixth day of operations, the echo chamber in the West has fallen silent. There are no tall claims. Continue reading
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RIP Great Britain
On July 7, when Boris Johnson finally stepped down as Prime Minister of great Britain, I wrote: A current poll says that party members would favor the current defense secretary Ben Wallace. But that does not mean they will get him as one of the two candidates to vote on as the MPs have the say over that… Continue reading
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Kherson ‘Counteroffensive’ – Zelenski Is Going For Broke
After the first Ukrainian attempt to push towards had failed it is now reinforcing that failure. As I describe the move: The only ‘successful’ attack was across the Inhulet river near Andriivka in the direction of the dam and river crossing that closes off the Kakhovka Dnieper reservoir. Continue reading
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Mass Protests Taking Place Across Europe Against NATO Proxy War, Sanctions and the Economic Crisis
Sunday, 4 September 2022 — Internationalist 360° 70,000 Czechs take to the streets against government, EU and NATO Massive protest against NATO, the EU and soaring energy prices in Prague, Czech Republic today. pic.twitter.com/X0m336c2td — Sarah Abdallah (@sahouraxo) September 3, 2022 Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 4-5 September 2022
Monday, 5 September 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 Continue reading
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As Europe Implodes, It Plans “Radical Intervention” Including Price-Setting, Suspending Derivatives Markets And Europe-Wide Margin Call Bailouts
Just when you thought the narrative couldn’t get any more idiotic, Europe shocks just about everyone. A few days after the EU threatened commodity traders it would stage an “emergency intervention” to crush energy prices which were rising at a pace of about 20% per day (perhaps Europe can now print nat gas and electricity… Continue reading
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Watch: Botched Kherson counteroffensive
You may disagree with some details. But the issue is, how long for Zelenski? The next two weeks or so will be crucial. Continue reading
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Russophobia Running Riot
Though the news that Clown Prince Zelensky, Ukraine’s contemptible puppet President, is renting one of his Italian villas out to Russians for €50,000 per calendar month would lead to protests if his junta had not banned all such protests on pain of death, this further evidence of his corruption flies in the face of the rampant Russophobia… Continue reading
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The US Played Gorbachev for a Fool
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union who died this week, was a member of that tribe of politicians who can diagnose a problem but don’t know how to treat it. As he grew up, he couldn’t understand why a nation blessed with extraordinary natural resources and an enviable geographically strategic position had… Continue reading
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