December 2022
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Ukraine News Links 2-3 December 2022
Saturday, 3 December 2022 — The New Dark Age An African View On Ukraine https://popularresistance.org/an-african-view-on-ukraine/ ACTION ALERT: NYT Has Found New Neo-Nazi Troops to Lionize in Ukraine https://popularresistance.org/action-alert-nyt-has-found-new-neo-nazi-troops-to-lionize-in-ukraine/ Conflict In Ukraine Is Doomed To Escalate https://orientalreview.org/2022/12/03/conflict-in-ukraine-is-doomed-to-escalate/ Continue reading
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Is History Repeating Itself? And Who Will Be Today’s Ted Hall? An Interview with the Director of “A Compassionate Spy”
[In this piece, Ron Ridenour interviews Steve James, the director of A Compassionate Spy, and Joan Hall, Ted Hall’s wife. See Ron’s review of the documentary here.—Editors] Continue reading
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Another Look Around 12/02/2022
With there being no breaking news from Eastern Europe, now would again be a good time to look at matters which are not of primary importance, yet do have a role to play in global affairs. Continue reading
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Deliberate Ambiguity: Israel’s Nukes Are the Greatest Threat to the Middle East
As western countries are floating the theory that Russia could escalate its conflict with Ukraine to a nuclear war, many western governments continue to turn a blind eye to Israel’s own nuclear weapons capabilities. Luckily, many countries around the world do not subscribe to this endemic western hypocrisy. Continue reading
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Newsbits On Ukraine – Swamp Trenches, Short Training, Out Of Ammo
Realistic reports from the Ukrainian frontline are rare. Yesterday the British Express had this (@7:30, also here) from Bakhmut / Artemovsk in its Live coverage. One wonders how it has bypassed the censor: Continue reading
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Watch: John Pilger and Lowkey Expose the Permanent War State
On this episode of the Watchdog with Lowkey, veteran journalist John Pilger shares his opinion on political figures from Keir Starmer to Hugo Chavez and reveals the truth about our political system and its addiction to war. Continue reading
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Can An American Scientist Who Smuggled Critical Nuclear Secrets to the Russians After World War II Be Considered a “Good Guy”? New Film Says Yes
Controversial New Documentary Reveals How A Teenage Army Physicist Named Ted Hall Saved The Russian People From A Treacherous U.S. Sneak Attack In 1950-51—And May Well Have Prevented A Global Nuclear Holocaust Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 2 December 2022
Friday, 2 December 2022 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks New Figures Show Massive Decrease in Planting of GM Crops in European Union Figures for the area under MON810, the only transgenic GMO crop authorized for cultivation in the European Union, have just been published. And it’s a downward spiral: a third less than last year. Continue reading
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In the Netherlands, a Discriminatory Algorithm has Impoverished Thousands of Families
Aided by an algorithm, the Dutch tax office has plunged into distress tens of thousands of families – in particular, foreign-born mothers, in wrongfully demanding from them staggering sums. The state is proving incapable of setting things right. Continue reading
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Watch: Ukraine, NATO, and the State of the EU w/ MEP Clare Daly!
Clare Daly is a member of the European Parliament who was elected from the constituency of Dublin, Ireland in 2019. She represents Independents4Change and sits in the Left group. Previously she was a member of the Irish Parliament, a former Airport Shop Steward, and Students Union President. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 30 November – 1 December 2022
Thursday, 1 December 2022 — The New Dark Age New UK PM Enters Whilst the Rest of the World Gangs Up Against the Schoolyard Bully, America https://journal-neo.org/2022/12/01/new-uk-pm-enters-whilst-the-rest-of-the-world-gangs-up-against-the-schoolyard-bully-america/ Sharper’s Victims In The Energy Poker https://orientalreview.org/2022/12/01/sharpers-victims-in-the-energy-poker/ Debunking Lies About The War In Ukraine https://orientalreview.org/2022/12/01/debunking-lies-about-the-war-in-ukraine/ Continue reading
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#FreeAssange MOMENTUM: NY Times letter, Lula and Albanese Speak Out, and Cryptome’s Founder Says, “Prosecute Me!”
It’s been a huge week for the #FreeAssange movement and you can feel the momentum building! On the heels of the open letter from major press outlets denouncing the U.S. government’s prosecution of Julian Assange, mainstream coverage of the case has spiked. Even comedy legend Jon Stewart joined in! Continue reading
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Of Mud, Massacre and Madness
As well as watching happenings in Eastern Europe, the author frequently sees parallels between events of the past and those of today. A post on Intel Republic caused a pause for thought, this reflection comparing the misery suffered by the Ukrainians in the trenches today with the same scenario seen in France a little over a century… Continue reading
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Watch: The Secret Reason The US Is Still In Syria
This week Lee Camp delves into the ongoing US military presence in Syria. Continue reading
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan — 41
The time has come to pick up threads from my blog of January 27 titled The West co-opts the Taliban. Indeed, the wheel has come full circle: the three-day conclave in Oslo on January 23-25 between a core group of Western diplomats with Taliban officials failed to work out a reasonable a modus vivendi. The pendulum… Continue reading
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Palestine Action puts Israel’s war industry “on trial”
The Israeli weapons firm Elbit Systems is effectively being put on trial by the group Palestine Action. By intentionally damaging property that Elbit owns or rents in Britain and getting arrested as a result, Palestine Action’s campaigners have been able to present courts with evidence against the arms maker. Continue reading
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Mali’s Break with France Is a Symptom of Cracks in the Transatlantic Alliance: The Forty-Eighth Newsletter (2022)
On 21 November 2022, Mali’s interim prime minister, Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga, issued a statement on social media announcing the government’s decision ‘to ban, with immediate effect, all activities carried out by [French] NGOs operating in Mali’. This announcement came a few days after the French government cut Official Development Aid (ODA) to Mali, alleging that Mali’s government is ‘allied… Continue reading
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