Month: October 2022
MintPress will continue to record Palestinian deaths at the hands of the Israeli occupation each month.Lula da Silva Wins Brazilian Presidency
Monday, 31 October, 2022 — CovertAction Magazine
By Lauren Smith
Auditorio Celso Furtado. President-Elect Lula da Silva Surrounded by Supporters at Rally [Source: photo by Lauren Smith]
Right-winger Jair Bolsonaro’s claims of election fraud reduced to sour grapes as Brazil’s bulletproof voting process shames the United States’ swiss-cheese system
Workers’ Party (PT) candidate, former president Lula da Silva, won the Brazilian presidency with just over 50 percent of the vote in the runoff election held on October 30.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is Elected President of Brazil
Monday, 31 October 2022 —
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the first former Brazilian president to be elected to serve a new term in office. At 7:57pm, the PT candidate had 59.563.912 votes and could no longer be reached by his opponent, the current occupant of the Planalto Jair Bolsonaro (PL), consolidating the victory.
Onwards towards Odessa
Monday, 31 October 2022 — The van says…
Aside from its size as a city, Odessa’s importance as a port is immeasurable to the Ukraine
Preamble
A lot has been said of late regarding happenings near Kherson, yet with the promised Ukrainian advance being as elusive as the Ghost of Kiev, there may be more to events in the area than meet the eye. This article will look both at Russia’s future push westwards as well as other matters which will see Ukrainian fortunes fall faster than the mercury in Siberia during December.
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Ukraine News Links 29-30 October 2022
Sunday, 30 October 2022 — The New Dark Age
Peskov Cuts The Crap…
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/10/peskov-cuts-crap.html
What ever happened to our fear of Armageddon?
https://popularresistance.org/what-ever-happened-to-our-fear-of-armageddon/
Noam Chomsky: Neoliberalism And The Roots Of Fascism
https://popularresistance.org/noam-chomsky-neoliberalism-and-the-roots-of-fascism/
Of Gas and Hot Air
Sunday, 30 October 2022 — The van says…
Hot air from the politicians, yet no heat for the people
Preamble
We have seen some pretty scary stories coming out of the UK of late, and the ones regarding its energy situation are even worse than those concerning the political rollercoaster that London has become of late. This shorter article will take a wry look at what it’s all about.
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Watch: 5 questions about Brazil’s historic elections
Thursday, 27 October 2022 — Peoples Dispatch
Everything you need to know about the second round presidential elections in Brazil which will see former president Lula face off against far-right incumbent Bolsonaro
On October 30, Brazilians will go to the polls to choose their next president. The two candidates – former President Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro – have very different visions of what Brazil should be and have run very different campaigns. Zoe Alexandra of Peoples Dispatch gives a primer on key questions regarding the Brazilian elections – what voter intention surveys say, the controversial campaign, the platforms and promises of Lula and Bolsonaro, and the governor’s race in Sao Paulo.
How the world now works – or doesn’t
Sunday, 30 October 2022 — Dr Malcolm Kendrick
[How fewer doctors means more doctors – it’s official]
This blog has nothing to do with heart disease, or vaccines, or anything directly about medical practice at all.
However, it does have a great deal to do with data manipulation, which is something very close to my heart. It also illustrates how a ‘fact’ can be anything but.
Brazil’s economic and political rollercoaster
Sunday, 30 October 2022 — Michael Roberts Blog
The latest polls put Workers Party leader Lula de Silva ahead in the two-horse race with incumbent right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro in today’s final round of the presidential election in Brazil. If Lula wins, it will be a dramatic comeback for the former president after having been jailed for alleged corruption under the previous right-wing Temer regime; and then finally released and allowed to run again. A Lula victory will mean that the Workers Party has regained the presidency after losing it when last WP leader Dilma Rousseff was impeached by a right-wing Congress in a ‘soft coup’ in 2016.
NATO Had Plans for a Preemptive Strike on Russia Using the Cover of a French-Led Naval Exercise in the Mediterranean
Sunday, 30 October, 2022 — CovertAction Magazine
New U.S. Army command in Wiesbaden to coordinate war support for Ukraine. [Source: stripes.com]
Revelations further underscore mendacity behind Biden administration claim that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked
POLARIS 21 was a large-scale French naval exercise in the Mediterranean that took place from November 18 to December 3, 2021, off the island of Corsica between France and Spain.
These Countries Account for Half of Global Natural Gas Consumption
Saturday, 29 October 2022 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Seven countries account for more than fifty percent of global natural gas consumption.
© Photo: SCF
The message from China’s party congress
Sunday, 30 October 2022 — Indian Punchline
Xi Jinping (left) with new politburo standing committee members Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang and Li Xi at a meeting with media, Great Hall of People, Beijing, Oct.23, 2022
The highlight of the recent 20th National Congress of the Communist Party (CPC) of China has been the re-election of Xi Jinping as the General Secretary for another five-year term. The tradition set by Deng Xiaoping in the post-Mao Zedong era has been set aside. This was not unexpected, and has been largely interpreted as a consolidation of political power by the incumbent leader. That is partly so but not entirely. Its consequences are wide-ranging.
Ducks with Ruffled Feathers
Saturday, 29 October 2022 — The van says…
Is it a lame duck, sitting duck or just a dead duck in the water? A tsunami of consequences now affects Brussels and many of its minions as the tide of events slowly sinks it.
Putin: “The situation is, to a certain extent, revolutionary”
Saturday, 29 October, 2022 — The Saker
by Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and widely cross-posted
In an all-encompassing address to the plenary session of the 19th annual meeting of the Valdai Club, President Putin delivered no less than a devastating, multi-layered critique of unipolarity.
Ukraine News Links 27-28 October 2022
Friday, 28 October 2022 — The New Dark Age
Europe Self-Destructing For U.S. Proxy War In Ukraine, W/ Prabhat Patnaik
https://popularresistance.org/europe-self-destructing-for-u-s-proxy-war-in-ukraine-w-prabhat-patnaik/
The Division Of The American Society Is In Ukraine
https://orientalreview.org/2022/10/28/the-division-of-the-american-society-is-in-ukraine/
Will Ursula von der Leyen be forced to resign, and will her deeds be investigated?
https://journal-neo.org/2022/10/28/will-ursula-von-der-leyen-be-forced-to-resign-and-will-her-deeds-be-investigated/
Statewatch News Issue 18/22: Join our Board; Refugee relocation scheme founders; Who benefits from EU security funding?
Friday, 28 October 2022 — statewatch.org
(Issue 18/22, also available as a PDF)
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Welcome to the latest edition of Statewatch News, featuring:
- Join our Board of Trustees!
- Refugee relocation scheme founders as states plan to “intensify police checks” across the EU
- Who benefits from EU military and security funding?
As well as news on a fresh round of migration control funding from Spain for Morocco (to the tune of €30 million) and our usual roundup of news and reports from across Europe.
The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60 The Cuban Missile Crisis Cover-Up
Friday, 28 October 2022 — National Security Archive
Documents Record how Kennedy Administration Buried Quid Pro Quo that Resolved Missile Crisis
Letters Implicate President Kennedy as Author of Political Attack on U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson
Bolsonaro Implements Policies that are Completely Subservient to U.S. government, Says Director of Brazilian Data Privacy Group
Friday, 28 October, 2022 — CovertAction Magazine
By Julian Cola
Jair Bolsonaro in front of U.S. flag while, fittingly, celebrating U.S. Independence Day on July 4, 2020. [Source: twitter.com]
Inauguration of a Fusion Center of Multinational Intelligence gathering located next to the pristine Iguaçu Falls—a long-held dream of the U.S. Embassy—is a case in point
“The U.S. has been a huge partner to Brazil in this project and others as well and we’re taking advantage of the model that has been built”
—Sergio Moro, Brazil’s ex-Minister of Justice and former federal judge speaking about the establishment of the Fusion Center, a high-tech intelligence hub located along the Triple Frontier in the city of Iguaçu Falls. Continue reading
Sound and Fury
Friday, 28 October 2022 — Big Serge Thoughts
On nukes, order of battle, and chariots
Big Green Tube of Death
It has been several weeks since I last posted in this space – while I could apologize for the hiatus, I actually believe that one should only write when they have something to say – I do not believe in content simply for the sake of content (call that the Disney model). Events on the ground in Ukraine have been subdued for the past few weeks. This, so far at least, is in keeping with the predictions I made in previous posts that the front would stabilize towards the end of October as Ukraine’s offensive capability degraded and Russian reserves began to enter the theater. We’ll talk on that more in a bit – the real impetus for writing now is to take stock of some of the agitation (both nuclear and conventional) that has occurred in recent weeks and discuss the risks of escalation, with some other minutia and tangential content thrown in.
Glyphosate, GMOs and Pesticides – Weekly Global News Bulletin 28 October 2022
Friday, 28 October 2022 — Sustainable Pulse
Indian Government Restricts Use of Glyphosate in Massive Blow to Agrichemical Lobby
The Indian government has restricted the use of glyphosate-based herbicides due to the risks to human and animal health. On Tuesday the Agricultural Ministry stated in a notification that “the use of glyphosate is prohibited and no person, except Pest Control Operators (PCOs), shall use glyphosate.” The government statement added that all agrichemical companies have […]
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