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Is Israel’s Operation Persia Underway?
The successive Israeli military offensives against Gaza and the West Bank have always been protected by the “vortex of silence” of the main world mass media controlled by the transnational Israeli lobby, a theory formulated by the German political scientist Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann in her book “The Vortex of Silence. Public Opinion: Our Social Skin” (1977).… Continue reading
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Kazakhstan News Links 7-8 January 2022
Saturday, 8 January 2022 — The New Dark Age CSTO in Kazakhstan annoys US Kazakhstan unrest: Ex-intelligence chief arrested for treason https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-59922258 Kazakhstan (new open thread) http://thesaker.is/kazakhastan-new-open-thread/ Continue reading
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Sir Tony Blair: Bloody Knight of the Realm
Awards and honours bestowed by States or private committees, republican or monarchical, are bound to be corrupted by considerations of hypocrisy, racketeering and general, chummy disposition. From the Nobel Peace Prize to the range of eccentric and esoteric orders bestowed each year in Britain by Her Majesty, diddling and manipulating is never far behind. You… Continue reading
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Probing the depths of the CIA’s misdeeds in Africa
In 1958, a year after it achieved independence from colonial rule, Ghana hosted a conference of African leaders, the first such gathering to ever take place on the continent. At the invitation of Ghana’s newly elected prime minister, Kwame Nkrumah, more than 300 leaders from 28 territories across Africa attended, including Patrice Lumumba of the… Continue reading
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William I. Robinson: The Global Police State, Capitalism and 21st Century Fascism
We speak to William Robinson, author of The Global Police State. He discusses how capitalism’s crises have fuelled the rise of the global police state, the drastic inequality and poverty that has become a theme of modern capitalism which necessitates the global police state, whether there is class warfare on the poor, the growing industry of… Continue reading
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Living in Epoch-Defining Times: Food, Agriculture and the New World Order
Farmerless farms manned by driverless machines, monitored by drones and doused with chemicals to produce commodity crops from patented genetically engineered seeds for industrial ‘biomatter’ to be processed and constituted into something resembling food. Data platforms, private equity firms, e-commerce giants and AI-controlled farming systems. Continue reading
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Long Read | Home and exile, freedom and loss
Mandla Langa and Mphuthumi Ntabeni’s new novels, The Lost Language of the Soul and The Wanderers, intersect in their reflections on the lives of Umkhonto weSizwe freedom fighters. Continue reading
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Omicron Today: January 6th
The importance of this research is also that it answers the question of whether those who have neither been infected of vaccinated will have a less severe course of disease. That answer is good news. Omicron is more mild for everyone, significantly more mild. Continue reading
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The Highest Attainable Standard of Health Is a Fundamental Right of Every Human Being: The First Newsletter (2022)
Thursday, 6 January 2022 — Tricontinental Ryuki Yamamoto (Japan), Chaos – Spin, 2019. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. As we enter the new year almost two years after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a pandemic on 11 March 2020, the official death toll from COVID-19 sits just below 5.5 million people.… Continue reading
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Steppe on Fire: Kazakhstan’s Color Revolution
Kazakhstan was rocked into chaos virtually overnight, in principle, because of the doubling of prices for liquefied gas, which reached the (Russian) equivalent of 20 rubles per liter (compare it to an average of 30 rubles in Russia itself). Continue reading
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British Intelligence Intensifies its Struggle against Russia and China in Central Asia
In a recent interview for the The Telegraph Damian Hinds, the British Minister of State for Security and Borders, named the most threatening states with which British politicians and secret service agents must contend. According to him, clear dangers are posed by Russia, China, and Iran. Continue reading
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Kazakhstan News Links 5-6 January 2022
Thursday, 6 January 2022 — The New Dark Age Pepe on Kazakhstan. https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/01/pepe-on-kazakhstan.html Steppe on Fire: Kazakhstan’s Color Revolution http://thesaker.is/steppe-on-fire-kazakhstans-color-revolution/ CSTO sends peacekeepers to Kazakhastan http://thesaker.is/csto-sends-peacekeepers-to-kazakhastan/ Continue reading
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The U.S. Directed Rebellion in Kazakhstan May Well Strengthen Russia
In early 2019 the Pentagon financed think tank RAND published an extensive plan for soft attacks on Russia. Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground. The 350 pages long report recommended certain steps to be taken by the U.S. to contain Russia. Continue reading
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BOMBSHELL: India’s Role in the US Proxy war on Myanmar (and on China)
January 6, 2022 (The New Atlas) – Just as India had in the past aided US foreign policy objectives against China through hosting violent militant groups targeting Tibet, India is once again hosting militants, this time targeting China’s BRI partner, Myanmar in Southeast Asia. Continue reading
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The role of continuous warfare in the age of imperial decline
The decline of the U.S. empire began much earlier than when Washington’s downward trend in global influence became widely acknowledged. As far back as the middle of the twentieth century, the U.S.-led order that formed after the second world war began to come apart. In 1949, the empire lost China to communism, an event which… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 5 January 2022
5 January 2022 — Black Agenda Report Covid Fueled by Neoliberal Austerity The neo-liberal austerity model of governance ensures that Covid-19 will continue spreading and producing new variants. Only people focused public health remedies will end the pandemic. Ukraine: What Does It Have to Do with Black Folks? “…it is imperative that everyone, in particular Black and working-class… Continue reading
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The US is Preparing a Biological Time Bomb in Kazakhstan
The Open Regulations website and the website of the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan recently published information on the Kazakh government’s intention to build a “BSL-4 laboratory and underground storage facility for a collection of dangerous and highly dangerous strains” in the south of the country in the Korday district of… Continue reading
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Eddie Palmieri – La Malanga – live in Berlin – 2012, July 27th
Youtube I can’t get enough salsa, especially if it’s one by the numero uno master musician, Eddie Palmieri! Yo to Tonxti for this one. Eddie Palmieri live and open air at the HDK – presented by http://www.salsa-berlin.de – First the introduction of the musicians – after 4:20 min starts the song La Malanga – Lead Vocal: Herman Olivera, Trombone:… Continue reading
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Watch: New US Embargo on Cambodia Over Friendship with China
(Brian Berletic – NEO) – The United States continues a process of targeting and isolating nations around the globe increasingly choosing to do business with Beijing rather than Washington. The most recent of these is the Southeast Asia nation of Cambodia. Continue reading