Ukraine News Links 12-14 February 2023

Tuesday, 14 February 2023 — The New Dark Age

Iranian-Israeli tensions are doomed to escalate in the absence of Russia
https://journal-neo.org/2023/02/14/iranian-israeli-tensions-are-doomed-to-escalate-in-the-absence-of-russia/

The Geopolitics of the “Balloon Affair”
https://journal-neo.org/2023/02/14/the-geopolitics-of-the-balloon-affair/

Musk’s Explanation For Stopping Kiev’s Military Exploitation Of Starlink Is Reasonable
https://orientalreview.org/2023/02/14/musks-explanation-for-stopping-kievs-military-exploitation-of-starlink-is-reasonable/

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Evidence Emerges: United States is Planning to Interfere in 2023 Parliamentary Elections in Ukraine

Tuesday, 14 February 2023 — CovertAction Magazine

By Valeriy Krylko

[Source: hromadske.ua]

In October 2023, Ukraine will hold elections to the Verkhovna Rada. In the previous elections Vladimir Zelensky’s party “Servant of the People” received 43.16% of the vote. Since then the popularity of the party and Zelensky himself has been gradually declining, but in 2022 it rose again.
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The West-loving liberals slowly squeezed out of non-European Eurasia?

Tuesday, 16 February 2023 — Geopolitics And Climate Change

ROGER BOYD

In many nations of the non-West there has been/is a dangerously Western liberally enamoured part of the elite, and even of the general population, that would be more than happy to act as the compradors or Quislings of the Western elites. Living a very comfortable life while selling out their nations and general populations. Many are connected to the NGO-complex that acts as a Western-paid opposition, and may be more a member of a nation’s diaspora than have grown up within their home country’s political, economic and social milieu, or are simply the rich that would love to monetize their assets in US dollars and hob nob with the global Western elite across the world. In the parts of Eurasia outside the US-captured Europe, these West-loving liberals are slowly being squeezed out.

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New Tory chairman had a hand in £25m VIP Lane contract

Monday, 13 February 2023 — Goodlaw Project

We can reveal that the newly-appointed Conservative Party chairman, Greg Hands, helped Luxe Lifestyle Ltd, a company closely associated with the then Chair of his local constituency party, Mark Higton, land a £25m ‘VIP’ PPE deal. This is despite the company having no experience in providing protective equipment.

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Manifesto for an Ecosocial Energy Transition

Sunday, 12 February 2023 — Climate & Capitalism

An appeal to leaders, institutions, and our brothers and sisters, from the Ecosocial and Intercultural Pact of the South. 

On February 10, a collective of movements, civil society organizations, activist groups and their partners launched this Manifesto. A collective effort of dozens of groups and individuals in the Global South, the manifesto outlines the shortcomings of the status quo, “clean energy” approach of the richer countries of the Global North to the transition away from fossil fuels. It also offers new visions of ecosocial transition and transformation that are gender-just, regenerative, and popular, that are at once local and international.


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