November 2022
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Leaked documents: British spies constructing secret terror army in Ukraine
Documents obtained by The Grayzone reveal plans by a cell of British military-intelligence figures to organize and train a covert Ukrainian “partisan” army with explicit instructions to attack Russian targets in Crimea. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 11-12 November 2022
Saturday, 12 November 2022 — The New Dark Age John Pilger: The U.S. Is Escalating War Tensions With China in Desperate Bid to Maintain Global Power https://strategic-culture.org/video/2022/11/12/john-pilger-us-escalating-war-tensions-with-china-in-desperate-bid-maintain-global-power/ Zelensky and Bush to Give Joint Pro-War Presentation https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/11/12/zelensky-and-bush-to-give-joint-pro-war-presentation/ Leaked Documents: British Spies Constructing Secret Terror Army in Ukraine https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/11/12/leaked-documents-british-spies-constructing-secret-terror-army-in-ukraine/ Continue reading
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Stepping Forward Again
As a sequel to yesterday’s article concerning the state of affairs regarding the Russian withdrawal from Kherson, today we will be examine how Russian efforts will get the Military Operation in the Ukraine back on track. Continue reading
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Corruption exposed: US meddled in Ecuador’s election, using Julian Assange as bargaining chip
Ecuador’s former energy minister testified that the US government conspired with a right-wing political party to run a disinformation campaign against the leftist Correísta movement of ex President Rafael Correa. Continue reading
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Russia’s Kherson withdrawal is tactical
General Mark Milley, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States assessed that it would take several weeks for Moscow to complete the evacuation of some 30,000 Russian troops deployed in Kherson city in southern Ukraine. But Russians have announced that the evacuation was successfully completed in 2 days — both soldiers and over… Continue reading
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Biden nods to compromise in Ukraine
The midterm elections in the US witnessed razor-thin races as Senate and House control hangs in the balance. But that didn’t discourage President Biden from holding a press conference on Wednesday to stake claim that the “giant red wave” didn’t happen. Continue reading
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Capitalism: YES, THERE IS A GLOBAL SLUMP AND YES IT BEGAN IN SEPTEMBER
To understand the contours of this approaching slump it is necessary to observe it from the industrial heartlands which means Asia and in particular China, for this area has become the workshop of the world. It is a myth to say that services have overtaken industry and commerce. Much of the revenue found in the… Continue reading
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Peter Beinart Leads Charge to Cancel Palestinian American Journalist Mnar Adley
The latest victim of cancel culture wave is MintPress News founder and editor-in-chief Mnar Adley. Adley had been booked to host and moderate an event discussing anti-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) laws in the United States, and how Palestinians are under increasing pressure to silence themselves, when she was herself, ironically, removed from the panel at the… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 10-11 November 2022
Friday, 11 November 2022 — The New Dark Age Lessons For Armistice Day 2022 https://popularresistance.org/lessons-for-armistice-day-2022/ Why the Taliban, ISIS and Ukraine are not so different when it comes to blowing up monuments https://journal-neo.org/2022/11/11/why-the-taliban-isis-and-ukraine-are-not-so-different-when-it-comes-to-blowing-up-monuments/ The Decline Of The West: Spengler In Today’s World https://orientalreview.org/2022/11/11/the-decline-of-the-west-spengler-in-todays-world/ Continue reading
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Stepping Back and Looking
After the Russian withdrawal from Kherson, many are asking what Russia’s next step may be. This post needs not look at the withdrawal, the focus being on certain factors which were either underestimated or simply not considered by military leaders in Moscow in the earlier phases in the war. Today we will look at the… Continue reading
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Amid Growing War Frenzy in Europe, Cement King Settles Scores with China
Max Amstutz, the former head of the world’s largest cement company, Holcim, is calling on Europe, like many other Western warmongers before him, to arm itself massively against China and Russia in preparation for the inevitable major confrontation. Continue reading
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Glyphosate, GMOs and Pesticides – Weekly Global News Bulletin 11 November 2022
Friday, 11 November 2022 — Sustainable Pulse New Large Scale Biomonitoring Results Show Increasing Herbicide Exposure in Pregnant Women The average level of dicamba herbicide in the urine of pregnant women has increased more than 3-fold since 2017, the year widespread planting of dicamba-tolerant GMO crops began, Heartland Health Research Alliance (HHRA) reported on Tuesday. Continue reading
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Digital Maps Require Greater Government Oversight
Even though I have lived in Los Angeles for more than five years, I still regularly open the map on my phone to orient myself, to avoid traffic, and to choose the best restaurants nearby. Anecdotes and data tell me that I’m not alone: The majority of Americans regularly use mobile GPS navigation, even in their own cities.… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 9-10 November 2022
Thursday, 10 November 2022 • 21:30 — The New Dark Age The Military-Industrial Complex Wins Again! https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/11/10/the-military-industrial-complex-wins-again/ Sun Tzu Walks Into a Kherson Bar… https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/11/10/sun-tzu-walks-into-a-kherson-bar/ The Pullout From Kherson https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/11/the-pullout-from-kherson.html Continue reading
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Doomsday Merchants
Yesterday a pivotal decision by the Russian High Command polarized opinion on the internet. This article published yesterday cover the ins and outs of why Shiogu and Surovikin made the move that they did, yet today’s post will concentrate on the reactions shown across cyberspace as bloggers and boneheads alike commented on the day’s news. Before we… Continue reading
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UK: Manston and beyond – violence by design
The ‘hostile environment in asylum and immigration policy is an environment that fosters racism, everyday cruelty and violence by design’. So concluded the jury at the London Session of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Violations of the Rights of Migrants and Refugees in June 2019. Fast-forward to 2022, and the ‘crisis’ at the Manston asylum holding centre… Continue reading
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New Europol rules massively expand police powers and reduce rights protections
The new rules governing Europol, which came into force at the end of June, massively expand the tasks and powers of the EU’s policing agency whilst reducing external scrutiny of its data processing operations and rights protections for individuals, says a report published today by Statewatch. Continue reading
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The Attack on Nature Is Putting Humanity at Risk: The Forty-Fifth Newsletter (2022)
In the last week of October, João Pedro Stedile, a leader of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) in Brazil and the global peasants’ organisation La Via Campesina, went to the Vatican to attend the International Meeting of Prayer for Peace, organised by the Community of Sant’Egídio. On 30 October, Brazil held a presidential election, which was… Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2022
Wednesday, 9 November 2022 — Climate & Capitalism Six new books and six recent essays: important reading for reds and greens Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C agrees with everything (or even Continue reading
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Ditch the Doomsday Talk
Much has been said over previous days regarding the setbacks suffered by Russian forces in the Kherson region, and today Sergei Shoigu has ordered Russian forces to withdraw from the city and return to the eastern bank of the Dnieper river. Whilst an army of armchair warriors are throwing their hands in the air, rather… Continue reading
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