May 2023
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The Group of Seven Should Finally Be Shut Down: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2023)
Thursday, 25 May 2023 — The Tricontinental Leon Golub (USA), Vietnam II, 1973. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. During the May 2023 Group of Seven (G7) summit, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, near Continue reading
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EU moves against search and rescue?; Frontex takes the lead on deportations; Europol looks across the Atlantic
Thursday, 25 May 2023 — Statewatch News Also available as a PDF. Featuring: European moves against search and rescue missions? Frontex takes the lead on deportations Europol extends its reach across the Atlantic And: European Commission argues for legality of anti-encryption plans; latest documents on new EU migration and asylum laws; border police watchlist “progressing well”; open Continue reading
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NatCon and the British war on woke
The American hard Right are coming to the UK – and Europe. But, unlike in Hungary, where the gathering of Europe’s extreme-right figures (including the prime ministers of Hungary and Georgia) was an offshoot of the Trump and Bolsonaro supporting US Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the National Conservatism conference in the UK is a project backed by the Washington-based Edmund Burke Foundation.… Continue reading
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60 Minutes Australia Keeps Churning Out War-With-China Propaganda
60 Minutes Australia has been playing a leading role in saturating Australian airwaves with consent-manufacturing messaging in support of militarising to participate in a US war against China. A segment they ran a year ago is titled “Prepare for Armageddon: China’s warning to the world,” and features an image of Xi Jinping overlaid with war… Continue reading
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Anatoly S. Chernyaev Diary, 1983
Washington D.C., May 25, 2023 – The National Security Archive today marks what would have been Anatoly Sergeyevich Chernyaev’s 102nd birthday with the publication for the first time in English of his Diary for 1983. At the time, Chernyaev was deputy director of the International Department of the Central Committee responsible for the International Communist… Continue reading
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Henry Kissinger’s Documented Legacy
A DECLASSIFIED DOSSIER ON HAK’S CONTROVERSIAL HISTORICAL LEGACY, ON HIS 100TH BIRTHDAY KISSINGER’S 8 YEARS IN POWER CHANGED CHILE, CAMBODIA, EAST TIMOR, ANGOLA, AND MUCH OF THE WORLD, FOR THE WORSE Continue reading
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Russia: Western Creation of the Threatening “Bear” and Pre-Romanov History
Wednesday, 24 May 2023 — Geopolitics and Climate Change Roger Boyd “In his present mood, PM [Neville Chamberlain] says he will resign rather than sign alliance with Soviet” (Sir Alexander Cadogan, British Permanent Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, private diary entry, May 20th, 1939, quoted in Kotkin 2017, p. 642) “Russia … a riddle wrapped in Continue reading
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5 ways Israel attempts to control love in occupied Palestine…
The Israeli government briefly tried to demand that all foreign passport holders inform it of any romantic relationships they may have in the occupied West Bank. Continue reading
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British warmongering is driving Europe towards catastrophe in Ukraine
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky made an unexpected trip to Britain last week on a whistle-stop tour of European capitals, pleading for more powerful and longer-range weapons to use in his war against Russia. Continue reading
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US post-9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths, displaced 38-60 million people, study shows
Wars the US waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan following September 11, 2001 caused4.5 million deaths and displaced 38 to 60 million people, with 7.6 million children starving today Continue reading
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Know Your Rights! Get trained up with Green and Black Cross
Tuesday, 23 May 2023 — NETPOL Our friends at Green and Black Cross are running a free Know Your Rights training on Wednesday 24 May 6pm – 9.30pm! A new Public Order Act (for England and Wales only) became law in early May, and parts of it are already in force. But as police powers Continue reading
The New Dark Age 