December 10, 2022
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Ukraine SitRep – Catastrophic Losses, Failing Wonder Weapons, NATO Escalation
The Russian military is still integrating most of the mobilized 300,000+ men and volunteers. According to Putin 25% of the mobilized forces are in combat units, 25% in rear positions, while 50% train in Russia. It does not look like an imminent all out attack on the Ukrainian front lines is in the cards. The expected large… Continue reading
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‘Minsk II Was Agreed On To Arm Ukraine’ – Did Merkel Really Say That?
Helmholtz Smith, Andrew Korybko and Andrei Martyanov have some thoughts about a recent interview the former German chancellor Angela Merkel gave to the German weekly broadsheet Die Zeit. Continue reading
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Demons creep up from Europe’s attic
The visit of German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock to New Delhi had an anti-climatic ending. Baerbock waxed eloquently about Germany as a paragon of democratic values and claimed affinity with India. She hoped to persuade Modi government to disengage from strategic partnership with “authoritarian” Russia. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 8-10 December 2022
Saturday, 10 December 2022 — The New Dark Age Captivity, Inequality, Familiarity https://orientalreview.org/2022/12/10/captivity-inequality-familiarity/ How Bigotry Weakens A Country https://orientalreview.org/2022/12/10/how-bigotry-weakens-a-country/ Iran against the West’s hybrid warfare https://journal-neo.org/2022/12/10/iran-against-the-west-s-hybrid-warfare/ Continue reading
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Eighteen Years Ago Today, Journalist Gary Webb Was Murdered After Exposing CIA Drug Trafficking
On December 10, 2004, the body of journalist Gary Webb, 49, was discovered in his home near Sacramento after a moving company worker found a note posted to his front door that read: “Please do not enter. Call 911 and ask for an ambulance.” Continue reading
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Italy distances from ‘cancellation’ of Russia
Noam Chomsky once wrote that the astronomical cost of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, estimated into trillions of dollars, is a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 