The New Dark Age

'Socialism or Barbarism'

February 2023

  • Abahlali baseMjondolo and the fight of the organized poor against a hostile justice system

    Months after being imprisoned on a murder charge, three leaders of the eKhenana Commune of Abahlali baseMjondolo have been finally granted bail. Their arrests are part of a lengthy history of violent persecution of the shack dwellers’ movement Continue reading

  • With tanks on the way, Nato is inching toward full-scale war with Russia

    Almost as soon as major Nato countries, led by the US, promised to supply Ukraine with battle tanks, the cry went up warning that tanks alone would be unlikely to turn the war’s tide against Russia.  Continue reading

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  • Ukraine News Links 6-7 February 2023

    Tuesday, 7 February 2023 — The New Dark Age All Aspects Of The U.S.-And-Allied War Against Russia Are Now Failing https://orientalreview.org/2023/02/07/all-aspects-of-the-u-s-and-allied-war-against-russia-are-now-failing/ Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on the country’s declining birth rate https://journal-neo.org/2023/02/07/japanese-prime-minister-fumio-kishida-on-the-countrys-declining-birth-rate/ Chris Hedges: A Declining US Empire Is Committing Suicide https://popularresistance.org/chris-hedges-a-declining-us-empire-is-committing-suicide/ Continue reading

  • Earthquake Damage In Syria Must Lead To Sanction Relief

    Tuesday, 7 February 2023 — Moon of Alabama Earlier today two large earthquakes have caused widespread damage in south Turkey and north Syria: Nine hours after a first earthquake of magnitude M7.8 that hits south-eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, February 6th 2023 at 1h17 UTC, a second M7.5 occurs (at 10h24 UTC) 100km further north. More Continue reading

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  • Lee Camp & David Swanson: Can The March To WW3 Be Stopped?

    Tuesday, 7 February 2023 — MintPress News Can the US proxy war in Ukraine be stopped? Where is the cold war with China leading? Does NATO create more war than it stops? Can the movement to end all wars succeed? Continue reading

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  • Adani’s fraudulent empire exposed

    A SMALL U.S. investor firm has challenged the Indian behemoth, the Adani group, and shaken it to its foundations. The Hindenburg Research, a short selling firm, brought out a 129-page report on the Adani group marshaling evidence of all the funding operations and offshore activities of the 578 subsidiaries and shell companies linked to the… Continue reading

  • Keynes and the left

    The ideas and theories of John Maynard Keynes still dominate the economic views and policy proposals of the leaders of the labour movement in the major capitalist economies.  Keynes is seen as offering a ‘third way’ between the pro-capitalist ‘free market’ economics that dominates the universities (and among the strategic advisers of government) and the… Continue reading

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  • Nestlé’s Blatant Misconduct Shows Us the Darkness of Capitalism

    From inventing the need for mass-scale baby formula leading to the deaths of infants, to redirecting much needed water from impoverished areas to bottle and sell back to the same communities, to exploiting child labor and slavery, Nestlé will stoop to any moral low to make a buck. Continue reading

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  • Ukraine News Links 5-6 February 2023

    Monday, 6 February 22023 — The New Dark Age U.S. Laid Trap for Russia Has Trapped West Instead https://popularresistance.org/u-s-laid-trap-for-russia-has-trapped-west-instead/ A panicked Empire tries to make Russia an ‘offer it can’t refuse’ https://popularresistance.org/a-panicked-empire-tries-to-make-russia-an-offer-it-cant-refuse/ It’s Turkey vs NATO – once again https://journal-neo.org/2023/02/06/it-s-turkey-vs-nato-once-again/ Continue reading

  • Ahmad Jamal: ‘Autumn Leaves’

    Monday, 6 February 2023 — Jazz on the Tube I just love Ahmad Jamal!! WB Ahmad Jamal became a significant pianist in the early 1950s and he was still at the top in 2017 when he was 87. Jamal’s “less-is-more” approach was a contrast to the dominant bebop style in his early days, his use Continue reading

  • Ukraine News Links 3-5 February 2023

    Sunday, 5 February 2023 — The New Dark Age Facebook Protects Nazis to Protect Ukraine Proxy War https://popularresistance.org/facebook-protects-nazis-to-protect-ukraine-proxy-war/ Facepalm Of The Week. https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/02/facepalm-of-week.html The US Empire is Starting to Fall Apart https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/02/the-us-empire-is-starting-to-fall-apart/ Continue reading

  • On Cop City, Lützerath, and biodiversity & colonialist conservation

    Sunday, 5 February 2023 — Uneven Earth Photo: Jesse Pratt López via Vice Once a month, we put together a list of stories we’ve been reading: news you might’ve missed or crucial conversations going on around the web. We focus on environmental justice, radical municipalism, new politics, political theory, and resources for action and education. Continue reading

  • Not The India that Modi Sees

    December 2019 — The New Dark Age By Supratim Barman [I wrote this in December 2019, and, I feel it to be still relevant today within the context of the recently published 2-part BBC Documentary on PM Modi, as well as the nearly 65% loss in Market Value of Adani Enterprises after the publication of Continue reading

  • Ukraine—The Inevitable War

    During a recent interview with German magazine Der Spiegel, former Chancellor and European political heavyweight Angela Merkel revealed that the Minsk accords, a comprehensive 2015 diplomatic treaty, agreed by the EU, United States, Russia, and Kyiv to end the civil war in eastern Ukraine, was essentially subverted by the Ukrainians in an attempt to buy time to… Continue reading

  • Blinken’s Travel Canceling Adds To China Hate

    The paranoid style is not only used on the right-wing side of policies. Adam Schiff’s action during ‘Russiagate’ applied plenty of it. The paranoid style applies to internal U.S. politics as well as to foreign policies against this or that favorite enemy of that time. Continue reading

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  • They’re Not Worried About “Russian Influence”, They’re Worried About Dissent

    Being labeled a Russian propagandist all day every day for criticizing US foreign policy is really weird, but one advantage it comes with is a useful perspective on what people have really been talking about all these years when they warn of the dangers of “Russian propaganda”. Continue reading

  • Watch: Secret Power

    I spoke at this meeting on Saturday and gave a broader overview than usual of the Assange case and its importance. I think it comes over fairly cogently, even though I was actually feeling pretty dizzy and faint. Continue reading

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  • Ukraine SitRep: U.S.-Russia Talks, Bakhmut Retreat, Laughable Casualty Numbers

    The Swiss paper Neue Zürcher Zeitung published a piece today (in German) which claimed that CIA boss William Burns had offered 20% of Ukraine to Russia in exchange for peace in Ukraine. Continue reading

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  • Ukrainian refugees too racist for liberal UK hosts

    31 January 2023 — The Grayzone The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss a recent special by the UK’s Channel 4 showing British hosts of Ukrainian refugees complaining about their new guests’ fear and loathing of their Black and Muslim neighbors. Continue reading

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  • Ukraine News Links 2-3 February 2023

    Friday, 3 February 2023 — The New Dark Age Have Moscow And Budapest… https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/02/have-moscow-and-budapest.html Why 100% Of The Blame For Ukraine’s War Is Obama’s, And None Is Putin’s https://orientalreview.org/2023/02/03/why-100-of-the-blame-for-ukraines-war-is-obamas-and-none-is-putins/ Why’d The CIA Chief Unexpectedly Tell The Truth About Russian-Chinese Ties? https://orientalreview.org/2023/02/03/whyd-the-cia-chief-unexpectedly-tell-the-truth-about-russian-chinese-ties/ Continue reading