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Spectre of war is haunting Europe
A fateful week is ending today for international security with the Russian Foreign Ministry releasing the two documents on security guarantees that Moscow had proposed to Washington as the basis for discussions to ease the tensions over NATO’s eastward expansion and to cease the alliance’s deployments close to Russia’s borders, including in Ukraine. Continue reading
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Mr. Blue and Maria: A Musical Dream
15 December, 2021 — Edward Curtin ejcurtin Sixty years ago in the late fall and early winter, a seventeen-year-old blue-eyed Bronx boy went by himself to see an afternoon showing of West Side Story on Fordham Road in the north Bronx. He took the bus to the theater but walked the few miles home in… Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, December 2021
16 December, 2021 — — Origin: Climate & Capitalism Six new books and six important essays for reds and greens Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C agrees with everything (or even anything!) these… Continue reading
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Ukraine – Russia Makes Serious Demands, Warns Of ‘Confrontation’
Following unfounded U.S. claims of an imminent Russian invasion of the Ukraine U.S. President Joe Biden and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin have held a virtual summit. Little has been released about its real content but the Russian follow up shows that the issues they talked about were deadly serious. Continue reading
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Statewatch News 17 December 2021 (20/21): EU attack on asylum rights; Greek hotspots and human rights; Mass surveillance strikes back?
17 December 2021 — Statewatch News (Also available as a PDF) Welcome to our last issue of the year, covering the last three weeks and featuring: EU asylum and borders proposals: the only attack taking place is the attack on peoples’ rights Greece: The new hotspots and the prevention of “primary flows”: a human rights disaster EU:… Continue reading
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UK: Removing clause 9 and beyond
Of all the abhorrent clauses in the government’s Nationality and Borders Bill, which passed its Commons stages last week, it is clause 9 – which would allow ministers to revoke the citizenship of British nationals without notice on ‘public interest’ grounds, which has caused the most outrage. When the New Statesman reported that the clause could affect up… Continue reading
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A Sino-Russian military alliance is gratuitous (as of now)
The New York Times got the story correct when its Moscow bureau watched the outcome of the videoconference between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday and assessed that the US’ two main adversaries “sought mutual support in their conflicts with the West but have not yet declared a formal alliance.” Continue reading
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They Won’t Ever Find Us Because Our Love Is Bound to the Rocks: The Fiftieth Newsletter (2021)
At the US State Department’s Summit for Democracy (9–10 December), US President Joe Biden announced a range of initiatives to ‘bolster democracy and defend human rights globally’. These measures are to be funded by $424.4 million from the United States. This money will go towards the same institutions that have – for the past sixty years – intervened to… Continue reading
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Russia-China alliance at the tipping point
The initiative by Beijing to propose a virtual meeting between President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday radically transforms the geopolitics of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s relentless eastward expansion and the Western military deployments on Russia’s borders. Continue reading
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The Assange Issue Is NOT Complicated: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
The most powerful regime on the planet imprisoning a journalist for journalistic activity is as brazen and obvious an act of tyranny as you could possibly come up with, and yet you still get pseudoleft pundits acting like you’re some kind of weird freak for expecting them to oppose it. Continue reading
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You will NEVER be “fully vaccinated”
Yesterday, in a statement to Parliament on the UK’s planned “vaccine passport”, Health Secretary Sajid Javid admitted the NHS Pass would require three shots for you to be considered “fully vaccinated”. Continue reading
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Julian Assange – If He Had Written About Russia or China, He Would Have Been Hero and Nobel Prize Candidate
In a miserable travesty of justice which is actually no surprise in our decayed western civilization – or rather non-civilization, Julian Assange is about to be extradited to the United States from the UK’s most notorious Maximum-Security Prison, Belmarsh. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Does Total DATA DUMP!
13 June 2021 — Wikileaks Complete DUMP of ALL WIKILEAKS files! Note: I inadvertently republished this link thinking it was new, well it ain’t, so I’ve moved the original post from, June ’21 to the top. https://file.wikileaks.org/file/?fbclid=IwAR2U_Evqah_Qy2wxNY12FMqFC5dAFUcZL5Kl4FIfQuMFMp8ssbM46oHXWMI Grab it while you can! Continue reading
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We’ll never give up
Covid passports could’ve been imposed three months ago, it could’ve been even earlier, but thanks to every one of you who is backing our campaign: we’ve fought, we’ve thwarted, we’ve stood our ground and we have never given up. As a result of our tireless campaigning, tonight’s vote on Johnson’s Covid IDs is one of the most… Continue reading
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Welcome to Fascist Britain! Not
The new Boarders and Nationalities Act gives the government the power to deport BRITISH CITIZENS, even for a traffic offence and without the ‘bother’ of going to court! Continue reading
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Week after Biden-Putin meeting, crunch time is coming
Russia is reiterating its ‘red lines’ seeking long-term legal guarantees against NATO’s further advancement to the east and the deployment of weapons on Russia’s western borders. The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on December 10 putting on record its expectation that long term legal guarantees must be given “within a specific time-frame and on the… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 13-14 December 2021
14 December 2021 • 18:30 — The New Dark Age Julian Assange’s mother tells of ‘unending pain’ over possible US extradition https://www.thecanary.co/global/2021/12/14/julian-assanges-mother-tells-of-unending-pain-over-possible-us-extradition/ Julian Assange – If He Had Written About Russia or China, He Would Have Been Hero and Nobel Prize Candidate https://www.globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-had-written-about-russia-china-would-have-been-hero-nobel-prize-candidate/5764648 Top Aussie official blasts hypocrisy of Assange’s possible extradition to US https://www.rt.com/news/543146-assange-extradition-australian-government/ Continue reading
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THE JUDICIAL KIDNAPPING OF JULIAN ASSANGE
In the crudest, most political judgement in memory, two High Court judges in London have ordered the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States, where a trial in a kangaroo court awaits him, followed by a life lost in a barbaric prison system. Continue reading
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Your Man Back in the Public Gallery: Assange Extradition, US Appeal Result
On Thursday afternoon I was in Edinburgh High Court to get back my passport, which had been confiscated during my own court proceedings avowedly to stop me going to Spain to testify in the trial of David Morales of UC Global. He stands accused by whistleblowers in his own company of spying on Julian Assange,… Continue reading
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Love on Fire
DIMAKATSO SEDITE Dimakatso Sedite was born in Bloemfontein in 1969. She trained as a research psychologist and has worked in the areas of child rights, livelihoods and HIV/AIDS. Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in several anthologies, journals and writer blogs. She was a joint winner of the 2019 Dalro poetry prize. Yellow Shade… Continue reading
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