Thursday, 9 February 2023 — The Left Lens
Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris of The Duran return to the program to discuss their impressions and analysis of the last year of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.
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Watch: The War in Ukraine at One Year with The Duran!
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, February 2023
Wednesday, 8 February 2023 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism
Reading matter that really matters. Seven new books on how the world works, from cells to imperialism
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 books say.
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Ukraine News Links 7-8 February 2023
Wednesday, 8 February 2023 — The New Dark Age
The Ukraine War In The Light Of The UN Charter
https://popularresistance.org/the-ukraine-war-in-the-light-of-the-un-charter/Anti-Imperialists Protest Docking Of US Warship At Greek Port
https://popularresistance.org/anti-imperialists-protest-docking-of-us-warship-at-greek-port/Is It a Monkey Wrench or C4, or Some Form of War?
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/02/is-it-a-monkey-wrench-or-c4-or-some-form-of-war/
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Justice Department Fights Lawsuit Over Secret JFK Files
Tuesday, 7 February 2023 — The Dissenter
Photo from the Justice Department’s website and in the public domainKevin Gosztola
The United States Justice Department (DOJ) will fight a lawsuit intended to force President Joe Biden and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to release records on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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Abahlali baseMjondolo and the fight of the organized poor against a hostile justice system
Tuesday, 7 February 2023 — Peoples Dispatch
Months after being imprisoned on a murder charge, three leaders of the eKhenana Commune of Abahlali baseMjondolo have been finally granted bail. Their arrests are part of a lengthy history of violent persecution of the shack dwellers’ movement
Abahlali baseMjondolo leaders Maphiwe Gasela, Siniko Miya and Landu Tshazi, welcomed by the movement after being released on bail. (Photo: Abahlali baseMjondolo)
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With tanks on the way, Nato is inching toward full-scale war with Russia
Tuesday, 7 February 2023 — Jonathan Cook
Increasingly, the Ukraine war looks like a feature – rather than a bug – of Washington’s post-Cold War planning
Middle East Eye – 7 February 2023
Almost as soon as major Nato countries, led by the US, promised to supply Ukraine with battle tanks, the cry went up warning that tanks alone would be unlikely to turn the war’s tide against Russia.
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Ukraine News Links 6-7 February 2023
Tuesday, 7 February 2023 — The New Dark Age
All Aspects Of The U.S.-And-Allied War Against Russia Are Now Failing
https://orientalreview.org/2023/02/07/all-aspects-of-the-u-s-and-allied-war-against-russia-are-now-failing/Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on the country’s declining birth rate
https://journal-neo.org/2023/02/07/japanese-prime-minister-fumio-kishida-on-the-countrys-declining-birth-rate/Chris Hedges: A Declining US Empire Is Committing Suicide
https://popularresistance.org/chris-hedges-a-declining-us-empire-is-committing-suicide/
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Earthquake Damage In Syria Must Lead To Sanction Relief
Tuesday, 7 February 2023 — Moon of Alabama
Earlier today two large earthquakes have caused widespread damage in south Turkey and north Syria:
Nine hours after a first earthquake of magnitude M7.8 that hits south-eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, February 6th 2023 at 1h17 UTC, a second M7.5 occurs (at 10h24 UTC) 100km further north. More information on the main shock (M7.8) is available here and for the 7.5 (here).
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Lee Camp & David Swanson: Can The March To WW3 Be Stopped?
Tuesday, 7 February 2023 — MintPress News
- Can the US proxy war in Ukraine be stopped?
- Where is the cold war with China leading?
- Does NATO create more war than it stops?
- Can the movement to end all wars succeed?
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Adani’s fraudulent empire exposed
Sunday, 5 February 2023 — Peoples Democracy
Gautam Adani (Photo: counterview.net) A SMALL U.S. investor firm has challenged the Indian behemoth, the Adani group, and shaken it to its foundations. The Hindenburg Research, a short selling firm, brought out a 129-page report on the Adani group marshaling evidence of all the funding operations and offshore activities of the 578 subsidiaries and shell companies linked to the seven listed companies of the Adani group. The report states that this is the “biggest con in corporate history”.
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Keynes and the left
Tuesday, 7 February 2023 — Michael Roberts Blog
“The theories of John Maynard Keynes provide the sound intellectual framework for the views which trade unionists had always instinctively held and known to be right” (TUC, 1968, p. 85)
The ideas and theories of John Maynard Keynes still dominate the economic views and policy proposals of the leaders of the labour movement in the major capitalist economies. Keynes is seen as offering a ‘third way’ between the pro-capitalist ‘free market’ economics that dominates the universities (and among the strategic advisers of government) and the opposite of dangerously revolutionary Marxian economics. Keynes argued that, with a judicious range of policy measures, capitalism can be made to work better and can be managed so that it meets the needs of the many, without disrupting the social structure of society.
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Nestlé’s Blatant Misconduct Shows Us the Darkness of Capitalism
Tuesday, 7 February 2023 — CoverAction Magazine
[Source: boucherie-abolition.com]From inventing the need for mass-scale baby formula leading to the deaths of infants, to redirecting much needed water from impoverished areas to bottle and sell back to the same communities, to exploiting child labor and slavery, Nestlé will stoop to any moral low to make a buck.
[This article inaugurates Ms. Gjovik’s new column for CovertAction Magazine spotlighting the abuses of U.S. multinational corporations worldwide.—Editors]
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Ukraine News Links 5-6 February 2023
Monday, 6 February 22023 — The New Dark Age
U.S. Laid Trap for Russia Has Trapped West Instead
https://popularresistance.org/u-s-laid-trap-for-russia-has-trapped-west-instead/A panicked Empire tries to make Russia an ‘offer it can’t refuse’
https://popularresistance.org/a-panicked-empire-tries-to-make-russia-an-offer-it-cant-refuse/It’s Turkey vs NATO – once again
https://journal-neo.org/2023/02/06/it-s-turkey-vs-nato-once-again/
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Ahmad Jamal: ‘Autumn Leaves’
Monday, 6 February 2023 — Jazz on the Tube
I just love Ahmad Jamal!! WB
Ahmad Jamal became a significant pianist in the early 1950s and he was still at the top in 2017 when he was 87.
Jamal’s “less-is-more” approach was a contrast to the dominant bebop style in his early days, his use of space and dynamics in his continuous close interaction with his sidemen remained a constant, and he continued to grow within his own individual style for decades.
On this intriguing and often-surprising version of “Autumn Leaves,” Jamal is joined by bassist James Cammack, drummer Herlin Riley, and percussionist Manolo Badrena
-Scott Yanow
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Ukraine News Links 3-5 February 2023
Sunday, 5 February 2023 — The New Dark Age
Facebook Protects Nazis to Protect Ukraine Proxy War
https://popularresistance.org/facebook-protects-nazis-to-protect-ukraine-proxy-war/Facepalm Of The Week.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/02/facepalm-of-week.htmlThe US Empire is Starting to Fall Apart
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/02/the-us-empire-is-starting-to-fall-apart/
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On Cop City, Lützerath, and biodiversity & colonialist conservation
Sunday, 5 February 2023 — Uneven Earth
Photo: Jesse Pratt López via ViceOnce a month, we put together a list of stories we’ve been reading: news you might’ve missed or crucial conversations going on around the web. We focus on environmental justice, radical municipalism, new politics, political theory, and resources for action and education.
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Not The India that Modi Sees
December 2019 — The New Dark Age
By Supratim Barman
[I wrote this in December 2019, and, I feel it to be still relevant today within the context of the recently published 2-part BBC Documentary on PM Modi, as well as the nearly 65% loss in Market Value of Adani Enterprises after the publication of the Hindenberg Research Report; that shorted their shares.
The federated Indian Republic is a vast, diverse and complex nation and I hope that readers outside the territory of the Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic of India, (i.e, the actual official designation of India as defined in her Constitution) would see these images, the history and stories of a part of India that is hardly known by most people, (even within India itself) – Supratim Barman]
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Ukraine—The Inevitable War
Sunday, 5 February 2023 — CovertAction Magazine
By Chay Bowes
[Source: laptrinhx.com]Why negotiate a diplomatic settlement and adhere to the Minsk agreement when there is so much money in war?
During a recent interview with German magazine Der Spiegel, former Chancellor and European political heavyweight Angela Merkel revealed that the Minsk accords, a comprehensive 2015 diplomatic treaty, agreed by the EU, United States, Russia, and Kyiv to end the civil war in eastern Ukraine, was essentially subverted by the Ukrainians in an attempt to buy time to expand its military capabilities.
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Blinken’s Travel Canceling Adds To China Hate
Sunday, 5 February 2023 — Moon of Alabama
In 1964 Richard Hofstadter wrote about The Paranoid Style in American Politics:
Events since 1939 have given the contemporary right-wing paranoid a vast theatre for his imagination, full of rich and proliferating detail, replete with realistic cues and undeniable proofs of the validity of his suspicions. The theatre of action is now the entire world, and he can draw not only on the events of World War II, but also on those of the Korean War and the Cold War. Any historian of warfare knows it is in good part a comedy of errors and a museum of incompetence; but if for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination. In the end, the real mystery, for one who reads the primary works of paranoid scholarship, is not how the United States has been brought to its present dangerous position but how it has managed to survive at all.
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They’re Not Worried About “Russian Influence”, They’re Worried About Dissent
Sunday, 5 February 2023 — Caitlin Johnson
Caitlin Johnstone
Listen to a reading of this article:
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Being labeled a Russian propagandist all day every day for criticizing US foreign policy is really weird, but one advantage it comes with is a useful perspective on what people have really been talking about all these years when they warn of the dangers of “Russian propaganda”.
The New Dark Age 