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Climate Scientists Call For Civil Disobedience
A group of climate scientists have said: Time is short to secure a livable and sustainable future; yet, inaction from governments, industry and civil society is setting the course for 3.2 °C of warming, with all the cascading and catastrophic consequences that this implies. In this context, when does civil disobedience by scientists become justified. Continue reading
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Journalists who challenge NATO narratives are now ‘information terrorists’
A US state department sponsored round table on ‘countering disinformation’ was recently held at the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine. “Information terrorists should know that they will have to answer to the law as war criminals” Andrii Shapovalov Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 27-29 August 2022
Monday, 29 August 2022 • 16:00 — 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… Continue reading
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Roger Waters Added to Ukrainian Hit List
I have written about the Ukrainian hit list known as Mirotvorets, or “Peacekeeper,” twice before. The first time was in an article about internet censorship, and the second time was when a 13-year-old Ukrainian girl, Faina Savenkova, was added to the list for publicly speaking out against Kyiv’s bloody war on Russian-speaking civilians in the eastern part of Ukraine, a… Continue reading
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We won’t be fooled again, say people of Pakistan
Politicians in Pakistan rise to power and fall from grace with alarming regularity, so much so that not a single prime minister has ever completed a full term in office. The one constant has been the genuine love and affection ordinary people have for the military. However, that could be about to change now that… Continue reading
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Ukraine – ‘Game Changing’ Policy Moves That Ain’t Game Changing
When politicians throw around big numbers or plans one should always look at the details to see what they really entail. In May Biden announced and Congress passed a $40 billion package ‘for Ukraine’. Continue reading
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Ground beneath Zelensky’s feet is shifting
Reading and rereading the US President Joe Biden’s statement last Monday on Ukraine Independence Day, one is reminded of English poet John Keats’ immortal line, ‘Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter.’ Three things are striking. Continue reading
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Sanctions war isn’t going as planned – The Economist
The expected knockout blow from anti-Russia restrictions “has not materialized,” the UK magazine reports The harsh sanctions imposed on Russia by the West over the conflict in Ukraine have so far been unable to deliver the desired result, The Economist magazine has acknowledged, adding that the strategy has “flaws.” Continue reading
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Impressions of Donald Trump
Neurosis to a greater or lesser degree is the norm in western industrialized societies. Drawing on this fact is the key to effective propaganda. It is well known that neurotics always return to the place they are running away from. It’s a circle game of frustration in which being frustrated is actually the “solution,” because… Continue reading
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The ‘Fact-Checking’ Liberal Media
In a remarkably unhinged analysis, NPR host Terry Gross and New York Times Magazine writer Robert Draper claimed that Russia is a communist country — as they went on about how detached from reality rightwing Republicans are. Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 26-27 August 2022
Saturday, 27 August 2022 — 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 links… Continue reading
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Watch: Every dog has its day — and today is that day
International affairs analyst Mark Sleboda joins MintPress News’ Dan Cohen to discuss the assassination of Darya Dugina and the latest U.S. weapons package to Ukraine. They discuss how western media and intelligence agencies have distorted the role of the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, leading to the murder of his daughter. They also discuss how the… Continue reading
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Whose Grain Is Being Shipped From Ukraine?
A great humanitarian uproar in recent weeks demanding the safe shipping of Ukrainian grain to ease a hunger crisis in Africa and elsewhere is deceptive on many levels. Not the least is who owns the land on which the grain is grown and whether that grain is actually illegal GMO patented corn and other grains.… Continue reading
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Glyphosate, GMOs and Pesticides – Weekly Global News Bulletin 26 August 2022
Friday, 26 August 2022 — Sustainable Pulse Florida University Study Shows Glyphosate Causes Convulsions in Animals A recent report by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found more than 80 percent of urine samples from children and adults in the U.S. contained the herbicide glyphosate. A study by Florida Atlantic University and Nova Southeastern… Continue reading
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Where JCPOA, oil conjoin stands OPEC+
The news that made the headline today is that the Biden Administration may have inched closer to restarting the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Meanwhile, it escaped attention that Iran’s oil minister Javad Owji said just a day earlier in Tehran following a meeting with Igor Levitin, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s senior aide, that the two countries have… Continue reading
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Blaming China and other developing countries for climate change ‘is simply racist’
In response to our article posted on another Facebook environmental site commenting on how China leads the world in green energy, a US reader from New York in the USA commented: It may, but China is still the biggest CO2 emitter by far. This sort of snide response needs to be called out for what… Continue reading
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Poland goes to war with Russia
According to testimonies. regular Polish troops are inside Ukraine fighting against the Russian army. Continue reading
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In London: Free Assange Human Chain
The national Surround Parliament demonstration on Saturday 8 October is fast approaching. We need the largest possible turnout so we are asking for your help. We already have roughly one-half of the 5,000 links needed in the human chain that will surround the Houses of Parliament! Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 25-26 August 2022
Friday, 26 August 2022 — 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 links… Continue reading
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