October 2022
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Green Capitalism in Crisis: The End of a Chimera
In the face of the global climate crisis, which is now evident in the destructive force of meteorological events, the question arises once again as to how to deal with this phenomenon, the causes of which are associated with the civilizational model that has spread from the United States and Europe to the rest of… Continue reading
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OPEC’s body blow to Biden presidency
The Biden Administration is swiftly establishing a narrative that the recent OPEC decision to cut oil production by two million tonnes is a geopolitical “aligning” by Saudi Arabia and Russia. It taps into the Russophobia in the Beltway and deflects attention from the humiliating defeat of President Biden’s personal diplomacy with Saudi Arabia. But it… Continue reading
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Ukraine SitRep – Recent Incidents Of Concern For All Sides
Yesterday saw two significant developments or incidents with regard to the conflict in Ukraine. The Kerch bridges which connect Crimea with Russia, one for cars and one for trains, were sabotaged. At least one of the two road spans has fallen down while tanker rail cars on the parallel train bridge caught fire. Continue reading
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U.S. in Damning Admission of Long-Planning War Against Russia
The United States and its allies are guilty of perpetrating a deliberate war of aggression against Russia that has long been in the planning works. A study by the Rand Corporation published more than three years ago demonstrates incontestably that the war in Ukraine is in fact the manifestation of a bigger willful confrontation against… Continue reading
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Michael Hudson: A roadmap to escape the west’s stranglehold
The geoeconomic pathway away from the neoliberal order is fraught with peril, but the rewards in establishing an alternative system are as promising as they are urgent Continue reading
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Biden’s Fearmongers About A Russian Nuclear Threat That No One Has Made
The Biden administration is spewing ridiculous fear mongering propaganda Continue reading
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The Liz Truss Disaster Show
Never underestimate the power of failure. As the Liz Truss Disaster Show demonstrates, the next pitfall is probably just around the corner. The UK Prime Minister has shown, along with her distinctly oblivious Chancellor of the Exchequer, how to ballsup the economy in the shortest timeframe imaginable. Continue reading
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The BBC-to-NATO Pipeline: How the British State Broadcaster Serves the Powerful
The death of Queen Elizabeth II, where the BBC dropped programming to run endless, wall-to-wall coverage, has underlined the fact to many Britons that the network is far from impartial, but the voice of the state. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 4-6 October 2022
Thursday, 6 October 2022 — The New Dark Age Never Lose The Sight. https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/10/never-lose-sight.html As America’s Republican Party Veers To Putin, Its Democratic Party Veers To Hitler https://orientalreview.org/2022/10/06/as-americas-republican-party-veers-to-putin-its-democratic-party-veers-to-hitler/ Media Hide Fascist Ideology Of Ukrainian Militia Who Visit Congress https://popularresistance.org/media-hide-fascist-ideology-of-ukrainian-militia-which-visit-congress/ Continue reading
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Frank talk with Biden on Ukraine may help
The inconclusive outcome of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s phone call with Ukraine President Vladymyr Zelensky on Wednesday could have been easily foretold. The initiative simply didn’t make sense. Continue reading
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Can Europe Afford to Turn a Blind Eye to Evidence of a US Role in Pipeline Blasts?
The sabotage of the two Nord Stream pipelines leaves Europeans certain to be much poorer and colder this winter, and was an act of international vandalism on an almost unimaginable scale. The attacks severed Russian gas supplies to Europe and caused the release of enormous quantities of methane gas, the prime offender in global warming. Continue reading
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The Most Dangerous Situation That Humanity Has Ever Faced: The Fortieth Newsletter (2022)
Thursday, 6 October 2022 — The Tricontinental León Ferrari (Argentina), Untitled (Sermon of the Blood), 1962. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Since 1947, the Doomsday Clock has measured the likelihood of a human-made catastrophe, namely to warn the world against the possibility of a nuclear holocaust. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, who attend Continue reading
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Abahlali baseMjondolo demands justice for its members lost to “the politics of blood”
On Friday, September 30, South Africa’s militant shack dwellers’ movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), in a speech addressed to the United Nations, demanded justice for the lethal repression unleashed on its members Continue reading
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Politics By Other Means
With the sole possible exception of the great Sun Tzu and his “Art of War”, no military theorist has had such an enduring philosophical impact as the Prussian General Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz. A participant in the Napoleonic Wars, Clausewitz in his later years dedicated himself to the work that would become his iconic… Continue reading
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Ukraine’s revenge on the West
Russian Duma’s ratification of the annexation of four regions of Ukraine (Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions) and the adoption of the relevant laws thereof creates a new dynamic and will take time to create a new balance of forces on the ground. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report October 5, 2022
Wednesday, 5 October, 2022 — Black Agenda Report Congressional Black Caucus Continues Its Downward Spiral Margaret Kimberley The Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference returned with corporate sponsorships and obedience to the democratic party oligarchy. Joe Biden received a warm welcome from a group which lives off a now undeserved reputation. ESSAY: A Case of Mistaken Continue reading
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Mass Media Omertà: Burying Al Jazeera’s ‘The Labour Files
The damaging revelations about the Labour Party in the recent four-part Al Jazeera series, ‘The Labour Files’, and the almost totalitarian silence in response by British news media, should ram home the illusory nature of ‘democracy’ in the UK. Continue reading
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Media Hide Fascist Ideology Of Ukrainian Militia Which Visit Congress
‘Western’ media continue to denazify Ukraine by pretending that the Nazi formations in that country, which they had long decried, are now a harmless collection of celebrities. Continue reading
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Pipeline Terror is the 9/11 of the Raging Twenties
There’s no question that future unbiased historians will rank Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address on the Return of the Baby Bears – Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia – on September 30 as a landmark inflection point of the Raging Twenties. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 