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International Crisis Looms as NATO to Hold Emergency Meeting with Ukraine
The government of Ukraine announced today that Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba will visit NATO Headquarters tomorrow for an emergency session of the Ukraine-NATO Commission. Kuleba will meet with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and possibly with the North Atlantic Council (consisting of the ambassadors of all thirty NATO member states) as well. Continue reading
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The Desperate Plans of the Southern Command
The actions perpetrated since March 21 of this year by irregular groups coming from Colombia in La Victoria, Venezuelan territory bordering our sister country, were not improvised. They are part of Plan “B” of the Southern Command to destabilize our Nation and overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution. Continue reading
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WATCH: CN Live! — 2 Yrs After Arrest: ‘Lawmakers for Assange’; Exclusive: Labor Party Resolution of Support
On the 2nd anniversary of the arrest, Australian MPs joined CN Live! to tell PM Scott Morrison to pick up the phone and tell Joe Biden to release Julian Assange. Watch the replay here. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 12, 2021
13 April 2021 — — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 12, 2021 Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford Black Urban Crises and Push-Out “Engineered” / The Greed of San Francisco’s Hyper-Gentrifying Classes / Biden is Mass Deporter of Haitians and Other Blacks Continue reading
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Coverage of Prince Philip garners most complaints in BBC history, but…
By Rob Woodward – TruePublica: The BBC’s wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Prince Philip has become the most complained-about moment in British television history. It has elicited one of the most negative reactions to BBC programmes ever seen. Continue reading
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Remembering Ramsey Clark
Ramsey Clark was a great man, and it was my privilege to work with him closely on several occasions. His death is a time to mourn, but it is also a time to remember who he was and why his life mattered in profound ways to so many people. Continue reading
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China and climate change: an exchange
In the Notes from the Editors to the March 2021 issue of Monthly Review, the MR editors questioned some of the arguments in Richard Smith’s book, China’s Engine of Environmental Collapse, as well as replied to Simon Pirani’s related criticisms (writing under his pseudonym of Gabriel Levy) of MR editor John Bellamy Foster on China… Continue reading
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CNN – Ukrainian Trains With Heavy Weapons Going East Are ‘Russian Aggression’
Today CNN continued its long stint of publishing anti-Russian propaganda. But this video ‘report’ falls on several levels. Continue reading
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Domestic Covid-19 Identity Documents Must Be Resisted
Discrimination against people on the grounds of their health status is not acceptable, while the ever increasing reach of the surveillance state is pernicious. The idea of people without Covid-19 antibodies being treated as second class citizens should be anathema to anybody with concern for human liberty. Continue reading
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Millionaire Banker with Ties to Far-Right Wing Opus Dei Catholic Sect Defeats Socialist Candidate in Ecuador
12 April 2021 — Covert Action Magazine by Ron Ridenour Dirty Tricks in Race Pay Off Millionaire conservative Guillermo Lasso, former banker and Coca Cola director, won the run-off election over socialist candidate Andrés Arauz, 52.5% to 47.5%. Arauz had led the pack of 16 presidential candidates during the first round, on February 7th, with 32.7%… Continue reading
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What kind of “Peace” are Britain’s Private Military Companies Bringing to the Middle East?
The US government, with the UK hot on its heels, has long viewed the Middle East as a region where the presence of its army is indispensable not only because there are energy resources there, but due to the opportunity to control vast territories under the guise of “spreading democracy”. Therefore, American and British private… Continue reading
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Global Warfare: The Great Purveyor of Violence Is the United States of America. The Legacy of Ramsey Clark
Abby Martin speaks with former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, discussing Iraq before the first Gulf War, his opinions on Syria, why he legally represented Saddam Hussein, and how US sanctions have a far greater negative effect on people than on the regimes of the countries these sanctions target. Continue reading
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A “win-win” for US, Turkey in Hindu Kush
The zeal with which Washington is soliciting Turkey’s services to plot the pathway leading to the mainstreaming of Taliban in Afghanistan raises some troubling questions. Acting on Washington’s request, Turkey will be hosting high-level talks on the Afghanistan peace process (likely April 16) to bring together the Afghan government and the Taliban. Turkey has appointed… Continue reading
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Media Concern Trolling About Afghanistan Withdrawal Again
“Concerns are mounting from bipartisan US lawmakers and Afghan women’s rights activists that the hard-won gains for women and civil society in Afghanistan could be lost if the United States makes a precipitous withdrawal from the country,” CNN tells us. Continue reading
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What is the UK’s “Grey Eminence”, Charles Garrett, Doing in Kyrgyzstan?
It has long been noticed that the candidates appointed as US and UK diplomatic ambassadors all have impressive experience of military or intelligence service, which in a way shows that the tasks these countries assign to their foreign representative offices are rather of military and strategic nature, than simply a diplomatic mission. Continue reading
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The State Strikes Back
10 April 2021 — theplanningmotivedotcom the-state-strikes-back.pdf Just a few years ago, at the height of globalisation, International Trade Treaties that were being negotiated included laws binding on participating countries with enforcement devolved to offshore havens. Failure to comply would entail facing unavoidable financial penalties set offshore. This was the ultimate goal of neo-liberalism, to strip… Continue reading
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US: Indian Ocean is not India’s ocean
The guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones sailing past Lakshadweep Islands April 7 has thrown India’s Sinophobes into confusion. One leading daily noted it as a “rare falling out between the two partners in the Quad grouping.” An anti-China analyst tweeted that it’s just a “botched PR exercise” on the part of Americans. Continue reading
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How Bellingcat Launders National Security State Talking Points into the Press
For a self-proclaimed citizen journalism outfit, an alarming number of Bellingcat’s staff and contributors come from highly suspect backgrounds, including high-level positions in military and intelligence agencies. Continue reading
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Why The U.S. Might Want War In Ukraine
Yesterday CNN said that the US is considering sending warships to the Black Sea amid Russia-Ukraine tensions. That the U.S. is ‘considering’ this is however disinformation: Continue reading
The New Dark Age 