CIA and NATO are waging sabotage attacks inside Russia
https://popularresistance.org/cia-and-nato-are-waging-sabotage-attacks-inside-russia/
Will the coming year 2023 be better than the outgoing one?
https://journal-neo.org/2022/12/29/will-the-coming-year-2023-be-better-than-the-outgoing-one/
2022’s Danger Signs
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/12/2022s-danger-signs/
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss The Grayzone’s biggest stories of the year and the latest developments in the Ukraine proxy war, the US occupation of Syria, the ongoing release of the Twitter files showing FBI and CIA infiltration of the social media platform, and more.
Pathy Tshindele (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Untitled, 2016.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
The United States government held the US-Africa Leaders Summit in mid-December, prompted in large part by its fears about Chinese and Russian influence on the African continent. Rather than routine diplomacy, Washington’s approach in the summit was guided by its broader New Cold War agenda, in which a growing focus of the US has been to disrupt relations that African nations hold with China and Russia. This hawkish stance is driven by US military planners, who view Africa as ‘NATO’s southern flank’ and consider China and Russia to be ‘near-peer threats’. At the summit, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin charged China and Russia with ‘destabilising’ Africa. Austin provided little evidence to support his accusations, apart from pointing to China’s substantial investments, trade, and infrastructure projects with many countries on the continent and maligning the presence in a handful of countries of several hundred mercenaries from the Russian private security firm, the Wagner Group.
It has not been a good year for our right to dissent. The vehemently resisted Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Act came into force in the summer, while the government continues to push through its Public Order Bill, aimed at criminalising our right to protest even further. The National Security Bill also includes even more measures to restrict the right to demonstrate.
At the end of every year, I attempt to make a forecast on what will happen in the world economy in the next year. Of course, forecasts are wrapped in error, given the many variables involved that drive economies. Weather forecasts are still difficult to make and here meteorologists are dealing with physical events and not (at least directly) with human actions. Nevertheless, weather forecasts up to three days ahead are now pretty accurate. And longer term climate change forecasts have been broadly borne out over the last few decades. So if we consider that economics is a science (albeit a social science), and I do, then making predictions is part of testing theories and evidence in economics too.
According to the Brussels-based daily Le Soir, Belgian investigators into the European Parliament corruption scandal have put under scritiny the Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought.
The New Dark Age 