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Sabotage of Nord Stream won’t go unpunished
Next Monday, an uneasy anniversary arrives. It will be 20 years since the invasion of Iraq by the United States. Britain was a pillar of the US-led ‘coalition of the willing.’ The Guardian columnist John Harris wrote on Sunday that it was “the greatest political and humanitarian disaster the UK had been involved in since the second… Continue reading
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Ukraine – Media Start To Acknowledge Reality
Finally some truth about the real state of the Ukrainian military is sneaking into main stream media. It is as bad, still not fully disclosed, as we have described it again and again. Continue reading
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Foreign devils on the road to Afghanistan
On March 7, the western powers huddled together in Paris for a restricted meeting on Taliban and the Afghanistan situation. It was an exclusive meeting of the Special Representatives and Envoys for Afghanistan of Australia, Canada, the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 12-13 March 2023
Monday, 13 March 2023 — The New Dark Age American Mercenary Defected To Russia https://orientalreview.org/2023/03/13/american-mercenary-defected-to-russia/ The Realities of the International Power Struggle https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/03/the-realities-of-the-international-power-struggle/ Creating Culture on the Fly https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/03/creating-culture-on-the-fly/ Continue reading
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Michael Hudson: Why the US banking system is breaking up
The California-based, cryptocurrency-focused Silvergate Bank collapsed on March 8. Two days later, Silicon Valley Bank went down as well, in the largest ever bank run. The latter was the second-biggest bank to fail in US history, and the most influential financial institution to crash since the 2008 crisis. Economist Michael Hudson, co-host of the program Geopolitical Economy Hour, analyzes the… Continue reading
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China steps up, a new era has dawned in world politics
The agreement announced on Friday in Beijing regarding the normalisation of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran and the reopening of their embassies is a historic event. It goes way beyond an issue of Saudi-Iranian relations. China’s mediation signifies that we are witnessing a profound shift of the tectonic plates in the geopolitics of… Continue reading
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Ukraine Is Lying About Casualty Ratios To Justify Holding Of Bakhmut
Saturday, 11 March 2023 —Moon of Alabama I follow and like Adam Tooze. His Chartbooks have always good materials. This recent one on the Silicon Valley Bank crash is also fine. But I was somewhat disturbed by a recent tweet of his: Continue reading
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Israel marriage ban too racist even for apartheid South Africa
Israel is a country where people “can be assured they will not be persecuted or discriminated against because of what they believe or whom they love,” former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg boldly asserts. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 10-11 March 2023
Saturday, 11 March 2023 — The New Dark Age Georgia’s Withdrawal Of Its US-Inspired Foreign Agents Bill Won’t End Western Pressure https://orientalreview.org/2023/03/11/georgias-withdrawal-of-its-us-inspired-foreign-agents-bill-wont-end-western-pressure/ They Do Grow Them Dumb… https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/03/they-do-grow-them-dumb.html Contradictions Of The Imperialist ‘Rules-Based Order’ https://popularresistance.org/contradictions-of-the-imperialist-rules-based-order/ Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report March 8, 2023
Wednesday, 8 March 2023 — Black Agenda Report How Comrades Revealed the Existence of COINTELPRO Margaret Kimberley On March 8, 1971 a brave group of people revealed the extent of FBI spying, harassment and even the killings of US citizens. More than 50 years later we would do well to remember the significance of their… Continue reading
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US Shoots Itself in the Foot in Africa
In Africa as in the rest of the world, US machinations undermine its goals and bring other nations together as they seek to protect themselves from a desperate empire. Continue reading
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John Pilger: The Betrayers of Julian Assange
I have known Julian Assange since I first interviewed him in London in 2010. I immediately liked his dry, dark sense of humour, often dispensed with an infectious giggle. He is a proud outsider: sharp and thoughtful. We have become friends, and I have sat in many courtrooms listening to the tribunes of the state… Continue reading
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Nordstream blame game begins – The Grayzone live
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the controlled leaks aiming to deflect blame for the Nordstream attacks onto “pro-Ukrainian” elements, the failed attempt by Republican populists and Democratic progressives to withdraw US troops from Syria, and the dramatic congressional Twitter files hearing. Continue reading
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Tales or Tactical Transitions?
Whilst the world was focused on happenings in the Ukraine last year, September saw both of the Nord Stream pipelines systems supplying liquified natural gas to Germany being destroyed. After the multitude of headlines and accusations, the last week has seen a barrage of allegations placing the blame at Kiev’s door. This article will look… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 8-9 March 2023
Thursday, 9 March 2023 — The New Dark Age Eight Contradictions of the Imperialist “Rules-Based Order” https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/03/eight-contradictions-of-the-imperialist-rules-based-order/ Georgia Is Targeted For Regime Change Over Its Refusal To Open A “Second Front” Against Russia https://orientalreview.org/2023/03/09/georgia-is-targeted-for-regime-change-over-its-refusal-to-open-a-second-front-against-russia/ Hugo Chávez: Ten Years Presente! https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/03/hugo-chavez-ten-years-presente/ Continue reading
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‘Truth, No Matter What’: Why Watering Down Palestinian Reality is a Crime
On February 20, the United Nations Security Council approved a statement, described in the media as a ‘watered-down’ version of an earlier draft resolution which would have demanded that Israel “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory.” Continue reading
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Arguments Against Despair
Eliot Jacobson is a retired professor of mathematics and computer science who regularly appears on our Twitter feed discussing the climate crisis. He sends tweets under the grim title, ‘Your “moment of doom” for the day’. These channel the latest news on rapidly rising carbon emissions and temperatures, catastrophic examples of extreme weather, and so… Continue reading
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Eight Contradictions of the Imperialist ‘Rules-Based Order’: The Tenth Newsletter (2023)
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has now moved the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has been to the symbolic time of the annihilation of humanity and the Earth since 1947. This is alarming, which is why leaders in the Global South have been making the case to halt the warmongering over Ukraine and against China.… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 7-8 March 2023
Wednesday, 8 March 2023 — The New Dark Age Us Officials Point The Finger At Pro-ukrainian Group For Nord Stream Attack https://popularresistance.org/us-officials-point-the-finger-at-pro-ukrainian-group-for-nord-stream-attack/ It Is Zugzwang For Biden In Ukraine https://orientalreview.org/2023/03/08/it-is-zugzwang-for-biden-in-ukraine/ February 19 Rage Against War Rally: A Historic Success https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/03/february-19-rage-against-war-rally-a-historic-success/ Continue reading
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It is Zugzwang for Biden in Ukraine
Wednesday, 8 March 2023 — Indian Punchline by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR New York Times reported Tuesday that a ‘pro-Ukrainian group’ sabotaged Nord Stream pipeline in the Baltic on Sept. 27, 2023 There is a cardinal difference between the Washington Post report of June 18, 1972 by Alfred Lewis breaking the news of the Watergate burglary and… Continue reading
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