November 2022
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The Battle of the Budgets
War is without doubt the greatest drain on any government’s budget, yet in stark contrast to the great conflicts of the past, both the war in the Ukraine and any potential European hostilities in the future would be approached in a very different manner. This article will look at the mechanisms behind this and examine… Continue reading
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“South Africa’s ‘Just’ Transition climate deal with the west is a betrayal of the working class”
South Africa is set to implement an $8.5bn plan funded by western countries to transition from coal-based energy to renewables. The country’s biggest union NUMSA has warned this plan will only intensify privatization while burdening South Africans with debt and poverty. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 18-19 November 2022
Saturday, 19 November 2022 — The New Dark Age Ukraine’s Military Strategy and U.S. National Interests (II) https://orientalreview.org/2022/11/19/ukraines-military-strategy-and-u-s-national-interests-ii/ NATO ravaged the globe. As imperialism declines, it will turn its weapons on North America & Europe. https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2022/11/nato-ravaged-globe-as-imperialism.html The G20 Is Dead. Long Live The G20 https://orientalreview.org/2022/11/19/the-g20-is-dead-long-live-the-g20 Continue reading
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Selling a Scrapheap
A previous article highlighted the fact that rather than certain East European nations being as benevolent as they would have us believe, much of the equipment they have sold to Kiev is little more than scrap metal. This article will look at both the buyer and the sellers, examining what is really happening here. Continue reading
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Maligned in Western Media, Donbass Forces are Defending their Future from Ukrainian Shelling and Fascism
Smeared, stigmatized, and lied about in Western media propaganda, the mostly Russian-speaking people of the Donbass region were being slaughtered by the thousands in a brutal war of “ethnic cleansing” launched against them by the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv, which the U.S. installed after the CIA overthrew Ukraine’s legally elected president in a 2014 coup. Continue reading
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Russian Missiles Strike Ukrainian Infrastructure, Ukrainian Missiles Strike Polish Farm
(The New Atlas) – Update on Russian military operations in and around Ukraine for November 16, 2022. Continue reading
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Endgame in Ukraine struggling to be born
At the White House press conference on November 9, when asked about the evacuation of the Russian forces from the Kherson Region and Kherson city, the US President Joe Biden said, “First of all, I found it interesting they (Moscow) waited until after the (midterm) election to make that judgement, which we knew for some… Continue reading
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Glyphosate, GMOs and Pesticides – Weekly Global News Bulletin 18 November 2022
Friday, 18 November 2022 — Sustainable Pulse Uncovered Mexican Study Confirms GM Soy Causes Harm to Pancreas In a new revelation reported by GMWatch this week, it has been found that a rat feeding study published in 2008 found that GM soy harms the pancreas, confirming earlier findings in mice. Source: GMWatch By Claire Robinson In Continue reading
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What Will Become of the Ukraine?
Affairs in Eastern Europe are as dynamic as ever, yet as time moves forward, people are looking to what the future may hold for the Ukraine. As much as Western powers wish this operation to be the downfall of Russia, the conflict is slowly turning into a liability for those who have invested so much… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 17-18 November 2022
Friday, 18 November 2022 — The New Dark Age WTF is FTX? https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/11/wtf-is-ftx/ Ukraine’s Military Strategy And U.S. National Interests (I) https://orientalreview.org/2022/11/18/ukraines-military-strategy-and-u-s-national-interests-i/ No DPRK nuclear test yet https://journal-neo.org/2022/11/18/no-dprk-nuclear-test-yet/ Continue reading
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Behind The Crypto Scam – “Complete Absence Of Trustworthy Financial Information”
Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism, who called everything crypto ‘prosecution futures’, provides the latest FTX bankruptcy filing: Continue reading
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Ukraine – Switching The Lights Off
The careful destruction of energy systems in Ukraine continues. Continue reading
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The G20 is dead. Long live the G20
The seventeenth G20 Heads of State and Government Summit held in Bali, Indonesia, on 15–16 November stands out as a consequential event from many angles. The international politics is at an inflection point and the transition will not leave unaffected any of the institutions inherited from the past that is drifting away forever. Continue reading
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The Real Reason The US Is Against The Entire World on Cuba
This week Lee Camp examines the cruelty and futility of the U.S. embargo on Cuba. Continue reading
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Goodbye G20, Hello BRICS+
The increasingly irrelevant G20 Summit concluded with sure signs that BRICS+ will be the way forward for Global South cooperation. Continue reading
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Fossil Drugs: Antibiotics as the fossil fuels of medicine
The discovery of antibiotics was one of humanity’s greatest achievements. But we didn’t invent them. Long before humans, microorganisms in soil evolved these molecules. It was not until the mid-twentieth century, however, that these molecules were isolated by humans and mass-produced for medicine. Continue reading
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Food, Farming, and Africa: An Open Letter to Bill Gates
We, 50 organizations focused on food sovereignty and justice worldwide, want you to know there is no shortage of practical solutions and innovations by African farmers and organizations. We invite you to step back and learn from those on the ground. —Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa Continue reading
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Those Who Struggle to Change the World Know It Well: The Forty-Sixth Newsletter (2022)
In 1845, Karl Marx jotted down some notes for The German Ideology, a book that he wrote with his close friend Friedrich Engels. Engels found these notes in 1888, five years after Marx’s death, and published them under the title Theses on Feuerbach. The eleventh thesis is the most famous: ‘philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways;… Continue reading
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The Gambler
The need to produce staggering amounts of propaganda means anyone shameless enough to toe the line will profit enormously. This has been a clarion call for a colorful cast of characters who have descended on Ukraine, willing to roll the dice in search of fame and fortune from the suffering of others. Continue reading
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Servant of the West
The recent arrival of a Ukrainian missile in Poland was seen as the harbinger of the Third World War by some, yet it was obvious from the outset that this was no attack by Russia. This has been seen not only as another failure on the part of Kiev’s, but a huge step towards the… Continue reading
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