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Anger against racist police violence swells in the UK after killing of Chris Kaba
Calls for truth and justice have intensified in the UK following the police killing of a 24-year-old Black man earlier this month. Chris Kaba was shot in the head by a firearms officer of the Metropolitan Police in Streatham Hill, London, on September 5. The killing sparked mass outrage and renewed protests against police violence… Continue reading
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“Racial engineering” behind Israel’s new West Bank entry restrictions
New Israeli defense ministry restrictions on the entry of foreigners to the occupied West Bank will infringe on Palestinians’ basic rights, including to family life, when they are imposed next month. Continue reading
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The War On Germany Just Entered Its Hot Phase
That war, hidden behind the U.S. created Ukraine crisis, is designed to destroy Europe’s manufacturing advantage compared to the U.S. It is more likely though to strengthen the economic position of China and other Asian economies. Continue reading
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Brainwashed for war with Russia
Thanks to Establishment media, the sorcerer apprentices advising President Joe Biden—I refer to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, national security adviser Jacob Sullivan, and China specialist Kurt Campbell—will have no trouble rallying Americans for the widest war in 77 years, starting in Ukraine, and maybe spreading to China. And, shockingly, under false pretenses. Continue reading
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Free Market Genocides: The Real History of Trade
What role should greed play in how we run the world? Should it rule us and shape all that we do? Continue reading
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FM Lavrov: Formal Transcript: 77th UNGA
We are meeting at a both challenging and dramatic moment. Crisis situations are growing, and the international security situation is deteriorating rapidly. Continue reading
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The U.S. Is Winning Its War On Europe’s Industries And People
What the U.S. needed was to provoke Russia, and later China, into reacting to U.S. arranged threats in a way that would oblige its ‘allies’ to follow its sanction policies. Continue reading
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Fascism returns to Europe’s centerstage
The stunning victory of a far-right coalition in Italy’s parliamentary election on Sunday is largely seen from the distinct prospect of Giorgia Meloni becoming the country’s next prime minister, whose hardline views on immigration and the preservation of the “Christian family” are rooted in the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a party founded after World War II by… Continue reading
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The Tories Declare Class War
The “cap” on bankers bonuses that the Tories have just removed had been set at double their annual salary. Yes, double their annual salary. So a banker on £320,000 a year could only get an annual bonus of £640,000. That has now been lifted so they will be able to get annual bonuses of millions… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 16 – 25 September 2022
Sunday, 25 September 2022 • 21:00 — The New Dark Age Just clearing up the backlog of links. Unfortunately, these are not necessarily in chronological order. As Democracy Dies in the EU, Von der Leyen Reveals Its Sins https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/09/25/as-democracy-dies-in-the-eu-von-der-leyen-reveals-its-sins/ As We Move Closer To WW3, It’s A Good Time To Reassess Our Priorities In Life… Continue reading
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Labour officials laughed at death of member accused of anti-Semitism
Labour officials laughed after learning that a member expelled for alleged anti-Semitism had died. The callous incident is revealed in Saturday’s episode of The Labour Files, the second of a new three-part series by Al Jazeera’s investigative unit. Former Labour investigations officer Halima Khan fights tears as she recounts the story, saying she blamed herself. Continue reading
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Europe’s Economic Hara-Kiri
THE cessation of natural gas supplies from Russia to Europe in retaliation against Western sanctions imposed on Russia because of the Ukraine war, is threatening Europe not only with a winter with inadequate heating that will take a big toll in terms of lives among poor people, but also with large-scale closures of enterprises; such… Continue reading
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Without Culture, Freedom Is Impossible: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter (2022)
In 2002, Cuba’s President Fidel Castro Ruz visited the country’s National Ballet School to inaugurate the 18th Havana International Ballet Festival. Founded in 1948 by the prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso (1920–2019), the school struggled financially until the Cuban Revolution decided that ballet – like other art forms – must be available to everyone and so must be… Continue reading
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MoA’s take on the Empire’s Proxy War against the Global South
Friday, 23 September 2022 — The New Dark Age I couldn’t resist publishing the backlog of Moon of Alabama’s take on the Empire’s war on the Global South. It complements, to some degree, MK Bhadrakumar’s excellent analysis reproduced below. B Historic Context Of The Referenda In Ukraine https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/historic-context-of-the-referenda-in-ukraine.html Ukraine Open Thread 2022-155 https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/ukraine-open-thread-2022-155.html Russia Announces… Continue reading
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Why Ukraine referendum is a big deal
The referendum on September 23-27 in the Donbass and southern Kherson and Zaporozhye regions of Ukraine on their accession to Russian Federation is, prima facie, an exercise of the right of self-determination by the native population who reject the western-backed regime change in Kiev in 2014 and the ascendancy of extreme nationalist forces with neo-Nazi leanings in… Continue reading
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Taking a break…
Saturday, 17 September 2022 — The New Dark Age Updates below… Sunday, 18 September, 2022 – Sunset From my hospital Window I’m kinda ‘under the weather’ right now, in fact I’m feeling rather shitty, some kind of chest infection which, hopefully will respond to antibiotics (when I can get hold of them with our trashed… Continue reading
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India’s gaffe at Samarkand
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Samarkand on September 16 after the SCO Summit turned into a media scandal. The Western media zeroed in on six words culled out of context in the PM’s opening remarks — “today’s era is not of war” — to triumphantly proclaim that India is finally distancing… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 15-16 September 2022
Friday, 16 September 2022 •22:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular and some… Continue reading
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US Does Not Want Data on Its Biological Activities to Become Public
The US does not want information about its military-biological activities, which are carried out in violation of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC), to become known to the global community, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said at a briefing on Tuesday. Continue reading
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