October 2022
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EXPOSED: Before Ukraine blew up Kerch Bridge, British spies plotted it
The secret British intelligence plot to blow up Crimea’s Kerch Bridge is revealed in internal documents and correspondence obtained exclusively by The Grayzone. Continue reading
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Ukraine war is ‘Biden’s war’ now
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Oct 18, 2022 that evidence of military personnel of United States and other Western countries having their boots on the ground in Ukraine is mounting Continue reading
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The Party is Over
The highly paid political class in charge of each of the UK’s three major political parties detests, despises, distrusts and seeks to discard their own party membership. Continue reading
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French Labor Unrest Illustrates Worsening Economic Crisis Within the EU
French workers affiliated with the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) held a “Day of Action” work stoppage on October 18. This action came on the heels of an oil workers strike which demanded a rise in salaries amid the escalating rate of inflation that has impacted people throughout the western capitalist states. Continue reading
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The Last Thing Haiti Needs Is Another Military Intervention: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2022)
At the United Nations General Assembly on 24 September 2022, Haiti’s Foreign Minister Jean Victor Geneus admitted that his country faces a serious crisis, which he said ‘can only be solved with the effective support of our partners’. To many close observers of the situation unfolding in Haiti, the phrase ‘effective support’ sounded like Geneus was signalling… Continue reading
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Difficult Months Ahead: Why Israel is Afraid of the Lions’ Den
It is true that both the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority are equally worried about the prospect of a widespread armed revolt in the Occupied West Bank, and that the newly formed Nablus-based brigade, the Lions’ Den, is the epicenter of this youth-led movement. Continue reading
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China: Xi’s third term – part 3: chips, dual circulation and imperialism
Even as Xi Jinping was promising China’s Communist Party’s national congress that China would “resolutely win the battle” in key areas of technology, employees of technology companies in China and elsewhere were being told to down tools. Dozens of the hundreds of executives and engineers with US citizenship or green cards who work in or with China’s semiconductor… Continue reading
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In neocolonial rant, EU says Europe is ‘garden’ superior to rest of world’s barbaric ‘jungle’
EU foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell showed the West’s neocolonial mentality claiming “the world needs Europe” as a “beacon” and beautiful “garden” to civilize the barbarous “jungle” in the Global South. He also called for regime change to create a “post-Putin Russia.” Continue reading
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Russian Martial Law: Kherson and diplomatic evacuations
The decision will allow Russia’s special operation to better control threats in the four new regions of the RF during an increased offensive by Ukraine in Kherson and other areas. This is just out and much more cannot yet be said. Continue reading
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Flying Flowers
The article published yesterday examined the smaller drones being used in the Ukrainian conflict and today we will look at the now famous Geran-2 (also known by its Iranian name of Shahed-136) in order to understand why they are being used and the wider results that they are effecting on the war as a whole. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report October 19, 2022
Wednesday, 19 October 2022 — Black Agenda Report No to Foreign Military Intervention In Haiti! Yes, to Haitian Self-Determination! Black Alliance for Peace, Haiti/Americas Team The Haitian people are united in their opposition to occupations of their country. The U.S. and its Core Group allies are once again using the United Nations to legitimize their Continue reading
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US Abortion Rights: Who Would Kill the Gander that Goosed a Golden Egg?
The suffering of US women under the iron heel of abortion is intensifying, especially for women of color. This makes it imperative to closely examine possible paths forward. As a teenager during the 1960s I witnessed two political paths thatremain imprinted on my mind. Continue reading
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The Leviathan Super Cycle Ends; Western Leaders Pretend They Didn’t Notice
Historic shifts in world politics happen very slowly. That was not the case however, when the U.S. first stepped onto the world stage. It happened quite suddenly in 1898 – with the invasion of Cuba: Old Europe watched with palpable anxiety …The Manchester Guardian, at the time, reported that nearly every American had come to embrace this… Continue reading
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Soros and the Kiev Regime… Supping With the Devil
A Jewish-born billionaire funding a Nazi regime in Ukraine to do his bidding is not beyond cynical calculation. It’s what capitalism is all about Continue reading
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Israel’s secret biological warfare during 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine
Poisoning Palestine’s water supply in 1948 – the Zionist genocidal campaign Continue reading
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The Other Russia-West War: Why Some African Countries are Abandoning Paris, Joining Moscow
The moment that Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was ousted by his own former military colleague, Captain Ibrahim Traore, pro-coup crowds filled the streets. Some burned French flags, others carried Russian flags. This scene alone represents the current tussle underway throughout the African continent. Continue reading
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Drones. Death and Data
We have all become familiar with the drones and UAVs that have been used by the US over recent years that have caused such death and hardship across the Middle East and elsewhere, but current hostilities in the Ukraine have highlighted the value of smaller aircraft and brought the advent of a new form of… Continue reading
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Ukraine – Drones Turn Off Electricity
Since mid September the Ukrainian counter offensive east of Kharkov has come to a halt. Despite serious Ukrainian losses the counter offensive in the southern Kherson direction has likewise not moved a lot. Both of these front lines are now stable. On the Donbas front the central Ukrainian position in Bakhmut (Artyomovsk in Russian) is… Continue reading
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The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60 How John F. Kennedy Sacrificed His Most Consequential Crisis Advisor
Washington D.C., October 17, 2022 – In a secret “eyes only” memorandum for John F. Kennedy, written 60 years ago today at the outset of the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson admonished the president to abandon his initial plan to attack Cuba and to consider, instead, the diplomatic option of dismantling U.S. missile… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 