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Biden-Putin meeting is a cliffhanger
What has unfolded in the past 24 hours in the US-Russia diplomatic tango can be seen as a foreplay of the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden, which is slated for Tuesday evening. Continue reading
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US Empire Seizes UK’s National Health Service
One of the recent roles of the Parliamentary Healthcare Committee has been to reassure the British public that any claims regarding the ‘Americanization’ of the National Health Service (NHS) were wildly overstated, “creating a climate that risks blocking the joining up of services in the interests of patients.” In fact, the penetration of the healthcare… Continue reading
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“Summit for Democracy” – Enhancing Empire, Not Defending “Democracy”
(Brian Berletic – NEO) – The very first “Summit for Democracy” will be held in early December 2021. Organized by the United States, it will include “leaders from government, civil society, and the private sector,” all unilaterally picked by the United States who, by implication, has unilaterally declared itself arbiter of which nations are deemed… Continue reading
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Camila Saab Speaks Out: Wife of Venezuelan Diplomat “Kidnapped” by US Gov’t Talks to MintPress
On Wednesday, November 24, MintPress News Editor in Chief Mnar Adley sat down to speak with Camila Saab, the wife of imprisoned Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. Saab was on a diplomatic mission to Iran in June 2020, where he was tasked with securing deals for food, medicine and personal protective equipment. His plane stopped off… Continue reading
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Fauci as Darth Vader of the Covid Wars
Robert F Kennedy Jr’s The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health should be front-page news in all the news media in the US. Instead, it has been met with the proverbial thundering silence. Continue reading
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The White House Needs An Off-ramp From War In Ukraine
Moscow sees a salami slicing tactic at work that would only end with NATO directly confronting it on all its borders Continue reading
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Sino-Russian collusion over Taiwan, Ukraine seems improbable but isn’t
US has whipped up war hysteria over satellite image of Russian military camp in Yelnya, over 500 kms from Ukraine border, to allege Moscow’s invasion plans and to justify NATO involvemenT Continue reading
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U.S. Terrorism 101: The Bert Sacks Story
Since the annual U.S. Veterans Day holiday honoring military veterans was just observed on November 11, it seems more than appropriate to suggest the creation of a U.S. Victims Day, just as in a similar effort at truth in labeling, the Defense Department should be renamed the Offensive War Department. Continue reading
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Why Joe Biden Will Soon Talk With Mohammed Bin Salman
An author for the HuffPost has written a way too long screed on Biden’s perceived lack of action against the Saudi clown prince Mohammed bin Salman. Continue reading
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The Facebook Team that Tried to Swing Nicaragua’s Election is Full of U.S. Spies
A tacit agreement between the government and Facebook appears to have been made: you can keep the profits, but we control the message. As such, a cynic might wonder what functional difference there is between Facebook and the national security state. Continue reading
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Ethiopia News Links 10 October – 5 November 2021
5 November 2021 — The New Dark Age Are Nicaraguan Migrants Escaping ‘Repression’—or Economic Sanctions? Are Nicaraguan Migrants Escaping ‘Repression’—or Economic Sanctions? Statement of the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations https://www.voltairenet.org/article214532.html Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 31 October – 1 November 2021
1 November 2021 — The New Dark Age If Assange dies in UK prison it would mean he’d been ‘tortured to death,’ UN special rapporteur on torture tells RT https://www.rt.com/news/538997-assange-torture-uk-melzer/ Human Rights are for Everyone! Including Julian Assange https://countercurrents.org/2021/10/human-rights-are-for-everyone-including-julian-assange/ Continue reading
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Blinken’s ‘Indo-Abrahamic Accords’ Unravels
Success stories are desperately needed as post-Afghanistan, the superpower has become laughing stock universally. The trans-Atlantic alliance is seriously disoriented and Russia is on the prowl in the heart of Europe with natural gas to sell. The Iranians are yet to give a date for the resumption of talks on the US’ return to the… Continue reading
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Listen: Uncovering the CIA: Whistleblower Philip Agee interviewed with John Marks (1976)
Philip Agee was a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who turned into one of the agency’s most vocal critics, and who exposed the inner workings of Unites States regime change and destablizations operations all over the world. During his nearly four decades in the intelligence game, Agee became disillusioned with his work for the agency,… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 29 October 2021
30 October 2021 • 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 Julian Assange: The Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time https://www.globalresearch.ca/most-important-battle-press-freedom-our-time/5760123 USA Vs. Assange Day Two: ‘CIA Tried To Kill Assange’ https://popularresistance.org/usa-vs-assange-day-two-cia-tried-to-kill-assange/ Continue reading
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‘Cloak and dagger’ military-intelligence outfit at center of US digital vaccine passport push
While vaccine passports have been marketed as a boon to public health, promising safety, privacy, and convenience for those who have been vaccinated against Covid-19, the pivotal role a shadowy military-intelligence organization is playing in the push to implement the system in digital form has raised serious civil liberties concerns. Continue reading
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‘If they destroy the free press, they destroy the world,’ Roger Waters says after UK court adjourns to rule on Assange extradition
Julian Assange’s extradition case could deal a fatal blow to free press worldwide, Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters told RT as a British court weighed final arguments on whether to transfer the WikiLeaks co-founder to US custody. Continue reading
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DAY TWO — ‘CIA Tried to Kill Assange;’ US: ‘He’s Only Moderately Depressed & Won’t Go to Isolation’
The United States vowed that only a “moderately depressed” Julian Assange would serve time in a humane U.S. prison if he is extradited, while lawyers for Assange told the High Court that the Central Intelligence Agency plotted to assassinate him, as a two-day U.S. appeal hearing came to a close on Thursday in London. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 28 October 2021
28 October 2021 • 22:00 — The New Dark Age Defense chronology surrounding Assange’s family and Dr Kopelman https://defend.wikileaks.org/2021/10/28/defense-chronology-surrounding-assanges-family-and-dr-kopelman/ Declaration of Assange attorney Gareth Peirce on Prof Kopelman https://defend.wikileaks.org/2021/10/28/declaration-of-assange-attorney-gareth-peirce-on-prof-kopelman/ Continue reading