Ukraine News Links 4-5 January 2023

Thursday, 5 January 2023 — The New Dark Age

US Now World’s Top LNG Exporter, As Europe Boycotts Cheaper Russian Gas
https://popularresistance.org/us-now-worlds-top-lng-exporter-as-europe-boycotts-cheaper-russian-gas/

For Palestinians, 2022 Was a Year of Renewed Tragedy and New Hope
https://popularresistance.org/for-palestinians-2022-was-a-year-of-renewed-tragedy-and-new-hope/

Where Next For Kazakhstan?
https://journal-neo.org/2023/01/05/where-next-for-kazakhstan/

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Socialism Is Not a Utopian Ideal, but an Achievable Necessity: The First Newsletter (2023)

Thursday, 5 January 2023 — The Tricontinental

Philip Guston Canada Gladiators 1940 e1671644416751Philip Guston (Canada), Gladiators, 1940.

Dear friends,

New Year greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

In May 2021, the executive director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, and the UN high representative for disarmament affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, wrote an article urging governments to cut excessive military spending in favour of increasing spending on social and economic development. Their wise words were not heard at all. To cut money for war and to increase money for social development, they wrote, is ‘not a utopian ideal, but an achievable necessity’. That phrase – not a utopian ideal, but an achievable necessity  – is essential. It describes the project of socialism almost perfectly.

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Is Ben-Gvir preparing a holy war against the Palestinians?

Thursday, 5 January 2023 — Jonathan Cook

By visiting Al-Aqsa, the Jewish Power leader showed he has the whip hand – and there are surely more provocations up his sleeve

Middle East Eye – 5 January 2023

Israel’s new national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, lost no time in demonstrating who is boss. On Tuesday, days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government was sworn in, the ultra-nationalist politician marched straight in to the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in the occupied Old City of Jerusalem – probably the most incendiary site in the Middle East.

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Key US Allies Collaborate On Espionage Laws Considered Harmful To Whistleblowers And Journalists

Thursday, 5 January 2023 — The Dissenter

Key US Allies Collaborate On Espionage Laws Considered Harmful To Whistleblowers And JournalistsPriti Patel (left), who was UK Home Secretary, and Duncan Lewis (right), who was director of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO)

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Ministers and security officials in Australia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom have coordinated with the United States to develop new espionage laws.

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