Sweden hustled into military pact with US

Tuesday, 10 January 2023 — Indian Punchline

by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR

Remote land and people of the Russian Arctic

The Biden Administration’s efforts to put on fast track Sweden’s accession as a NATO member petered out as Turkiye balked, exercising its prerogative to withhold approval unless its conditions regarding Stockholm’s past dalliance with Kurdish separatist elements is fully addressed.

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Ukraine News Links 9-10 January 2023

Tuesday, 10 January 2023 — The New Dark Age

Information Warfare 101, or “My evening with a Ukrainian propaganda/agitation unit”
https://popularresistance.org/information-warfare-101-or-my-evening-with-a-ukrainian-propaganda-agitation-unit/

Europe And The Legitimization Of Deception
https://popularresistance.org/europe-and-the-legitimization-of-deception/

Patrushev Framed The Narrative…
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/01/patrushev-framed-narrative.html

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Russia-Ukraine war: How the US paved the way to Moscow’s invasion

Tuesday, 10 January 2023 — Jonathan Cook

Jonathan Cook: the View from Nazareth - www.jonathan-cook.net

Nearly a year after Russia’s invasion, the western narrative of an ‘unprovoked’ attack has become impossible to sustain

Middle East Eye – 10 January 2022

Hindsight is a particularly powerful tool for analysing the Ukraine war, nearly a year after Russia’s invasion.

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90% of world’s people to face combined extreme heat and drought

Monday, M9 January, 2023 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism

Compound threats will most severely affect poor people and rural areas

More than 90% of the world’s population is projected to face increased risks from the compound impacts of extreme heat and drought, potentially widening social inequalities as well as undermining the natural world’s ability to reduce CO2 emissions in the atmosphere — according to a study from Oxford University’s School of Geography.

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