December 2024
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MICHAEL HUDSON ON WHAT’S GOIN’ ON
Monday, 16 December 2024 — Pepe Escobar “Well, the bigger picture is that it’s much bigger than Syria. The United States says, “We are ending up with total war with Russia and with China.” Russia is saying, “We hope that there’s peace in the Near East.” China is saying, “We want peace. We don’t want Continue reading
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Labour Advisor’s ‘Racist Rant’ Must Be Heard To Be Believed!
A TV interview described as a ‘racist rant’, a book filled with more of the same and a job as a Spad to a top minister. Continue reading
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GM Watch 15 December, 2024 – Lobby Watch
Sundauy, 15 December 2024 — GM Watch Welcome to our latest LobbyWatch Review, with some stunning examples of the corporate capture of lawmakers (see FREEDOM TO HARM), regulators and experts. And we have all the latest on POISON PR – how the industry’s PR people are tracking and vilifying those with concerns about GMOs and Continue reading
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A Major War in the Middle East is Inevitable
Glenn Diesen The overthrow of Assad in Syria by Western-backed jihadists has set in place developments that will most likely result in a major war in the Middle East. While the media celebrates that “freedom” and “peace” have arrived in Syria, the reality is that the regional balance of power has unravelled. Former allies will… Continue reading
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THE WAR IN LEBANON AND THE WAR IN SYRIA REPRESENT ONE IMPERIALIST FRONT.
No sooner had a ceasefire been declared in Lebanon ending one invasion, then another invasion broke out in Syria. It is now clear what the Zionist intention was behind their invasion of Lebanon. Not so much to conquer Southern Lebanon, which was beyond the capacity of the Israeli forces, and recognised to be so, as… Continue reading
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The fragility of nuclear deterrence
History will not be kind to those who play with the future of humanity for the sake of their own political vanity. The danger of nuclear escalation is real. The international balance has hitherto been based on deterrence as an instrument of ‘guarantee’. But if this changes or fails, what will happen? Continue reading
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Statewatch 13 December 2024: Our work in 2024
Friday, 13 December 2024 — Statewatch statewatch.org / X / Mastodon / BlueSky / LinkedIn / Facebook / RSS Issue 24/22, 13 December 2024 Welcome to the final edition of Statewatch News for 2024. Before we share our work from the last two weeks with you, we want to provide an overview of what we’ve Continue reading
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The UK government issued a “special mission” certificate to Israel’s military chief to avoid arrest
The UK government issued a “special mission” certificate to Israel’s military chief to avoid arrest Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 12 December 2024
Thursday, 12 December 2024 — GM Watch GM salmon company AquaBounty shuts down operations The troubled biotechnology company AquaBounty has announced it will stop production of all genetically modified salmon and is closing its last working facility, at Bay Fortune in Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada, reports Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN). AquaBounty released the Continue reading
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The Eighth Continent Is the Continent of Sleaze: The Fiftieth Newsletter (2024)
Thursday, 12 December 2024 — The Tricontinental Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. The eighth continent is the Continent of Sleaze. You and I have never been there, only heard rumours about it. On that continent, there are rivers of money in which corporate executives bathe and from which Continue reading
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Death of a nation: Black Flags, massacres, land grabs as vultures feed on the carcass of Syria
The standard modus operandi of the Hegemon is always Divide and Rule. Cornered by the inexorable rise of the multi-nodal (italics mine) reality, they saw an opening for an imperial reboot, betting everything on establishing the “Greater Middle East” outlined still during the Cheney era. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report December 11, 2024
Wednesday, 11 December 2024 — Black Agenda Report War Propaganda and the Fall of Syria Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist A succession of U.S. presidents have been committed to regime change in Syria. That long-held goal has been achieved in part through a sustained campaign of war propaganda. Continue reading
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Watch: Pepe Escobar: Syria in Ultimate Chaos w/R. Alkhorshid
Wednesday, 11 December 2024 — Pepe Escobar Continue reading
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My Internal Exile
Long ago, but what seems like only yesterday, I didn’t go to the U.S. war against Vietnam but the war came to me. It was when my exile began. Continue reading
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Syria’s post-mortem: Terror, occupation, and Palestine
The short headline defining the abrupt, swift end of Syria as we knew it would be: Eretz Israel meets new-Ottomanism. The subtitle? A win-win for the west, and a lethal blow against the Axis of Resistance. Continue reading
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Disappearing Genocide: BBC ‘Balance’ Between Perpetrator Israel And Palestinian Victims After Damning Amnesty Report
Imagine that the world’s largest and most respected human rights group issued a report detailing Russian war crimes in Ukraine and concluding that Russia was committing genocide. Western news media would devote massive coverage to the report. Newspaper and website headlines, together with television and radio broadcasts, would highlight Russia’s genocide and the bitter denunciations… Continue reading
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❗️Key comments by Sergey Naryshkin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)
🔺 The West may, in the medium term, try to unleash a global armed conflict, with the epicenter in Eurasia; Continue reading
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A Hydra of Betrayals: Syria’s Collapse and the Imperial Playbook
The swift collapse of Assad’s regime raises troubling questions. In 2015, under far grimmer odds, Syria’s Republican Guard et Tiger Forces held the line against larger US-Turkish-Israeli proxies. Latakia’s coast and critical supply routes were defended heroically, and Damascus, despite being struck almost daily, stood resolutely. Today, that same Damascus has fallen without a fight.… Continue reading
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Winners and losers in Syria
Iran and Russia are the two big losers in the ouster of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday by the Sunni Islamist groups affiliated to al-Qaeda. Assad fled in the nick of time after giving orders that there be a peaceful handover of power. The likelihood is that he is in Russia. At any rate,… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 