Wednesday, 25 January 2023 — MintPress News
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Lee Camp & Guerrilla History: How History Is Used For Propaganda
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The Most Egregious Mistake
Monday, 23 January 2023 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Alastair Crooke
The U.S. government is hostage to its financial hegemony in a way that is rarely fully understood.
It is the miscalculation of this era – one that may begin the collapse of dollar primacy, and therefore, global compliance with U.S. political demands, too. But its most grievous content is that it corners the U.S. into promoting dangerous Ukrainian escalation against Russia directly (i.e. Crimea).
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US Africa Leaders Summit promises more exploitation for Africa, record profits for US mining firms
Monday, 23 January 2023 — The Grayzone
Recent deals between US Secretary of State Tony Blinken and African heads of state promise eye-popping profits for US mining multinationals and fewer protections for African laborers “toiling in subhuman conditions” to drive the digital revolution.
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China’s economy is on a rebound
18 January 2023 — Indian Punchline
China’s economic data for the year 2022 has been released in Beijing on Tuesday. The striking part is that China’s GDP growth slowed down to 3 percent.
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Harry The ‘Traitor’ And Lynch ‘The Grinch’ – The Corporate Media’s Automatic Smear Machine
Thursday, 19 January 2023 — Media Lens
If we were to choose a hill to die on, it would probably not be in defence of a British prince.
In truth, we don’t need to like or support – and may even abhor – the targets of media bias highlighted in our analyses. Our goal is simply to provide examples that most clearly expose the propaganda function of ‘mainstream’ media. Inevitably, that involves our focusing on thorns in the Establishment’s side.
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The New York Times is Orwell’s Ministry of Truth
Sunday, 22 January 2023 — Edward Curtin
“Ingsoc. The sacred principles of ingsoc. Newspeak, double-speak, the mutability of the past.” – George Orwell, 1984
As today dawned, I was looking out the window into the cold grayness with small patches of snow littering the frozen ground. As light snow began to fall, I felt a deep mourning in my soul as a memory came to me of another snowy day in 1972 when I awoke to news of Richard Nixon’s savage Christmas bombing of North Vietnam with more than a hundred B-52 bombers, in wave after wave, dropping death and destruction on Hanoi and other parts of North Vietnam. I thought of the war the United States is now waging against Russia via Ukraine and how, as during the U.S. war against Vietnam, few Americans seem to care until it becomes too late. It depressed me.
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Ukraine News Links 22-23 January 2023
Monday, 23 January 2023 — The New Dark Age
Europe Has Enemies Within, Enemies Without
https://orientalreview.org/2023/01/23/europe-has-enemies-within-enemies-without/How Evil Are The West’s Leaders?
https://orientalreview.org/2023/01/23/how-evil-are-the-wests-leaders/The New York Times is Orwell’s Ministry of Truth
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/01/the-new-york-times-is-orwells-ministry-of-truth/
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How British Intelligence Sabotaged Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Monday, 23 January 2023 — MintPress News
MintPress News can reveal the existence of a secret British intelligence network that fed top journalists and the world lies and misinformation about the Cambridge Analytica scandal, thereby amping up tensions with Russia and paving the way for World War Three.
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Europe has enemies within, enemies without
Sunday, 22 January 2023 — Indian Punchline
France’s President Emmanuel Macron (R) with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as they arrive to attend a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of the Elysee Treaty, Sorbonne university’s Grand Amphitheatre, Paris, Jan. 22, 2023The internal balances of the European Union are significantly transforming as a consequence of the US’ proxy war with Russia in Ukraine. The countries that are close neighbours of the conflict zone — countries of Eastern Europe and the Baltic States — have a greater sense of involvement in the conflict in comparison with the countries of Old Europe. These New Europeans have had a difficult history that puts them on a pronouncedly ‘anti-Russian’ trajectory.
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Ukraine – Russian Army Activates Southern Front
Saturday, 21 January 2023 — Moon of Alabama
The long expected Russian offensive in Ukraine has begun.
The Ukrainian army, egged on by its U.S. controllers, had put most of its resource into the static defense of the Bakhmut (Artyomovsk) – Soledar sector of the eastern front. An insane number of Ukrainian brigades, though many partially depleted, were concentrated on that 50 kilometer long front. This left other sectors nearly empty of Ukrainian troops.
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PSL Statement – 50 years after Roe: Mass resistance the key in abortion struggle
Sunday, 22 January 2023 — PSL
The 50th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision is both a bitter reminder of the cruelty of the current right wing-dominated Supreme Court, and a moment to recommit ourselves to the fight for abortion rights. The right wing is moving aggressively to shred women’s rights, but they are opposed by the vast majority and they can be defeated with fierce resistance. The mass sentiment in defense of abortion rights has already defeated the far-right in state referenda in “blue” and “red” states alike, but to win back and extend this right requires continuous grassroots organizing and a return to powerful, large-scale mobilizations.
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Two old men spill America’s secrets
16 January 2023 — Indian Punchline
US president Joe Biden in his classic 1967 Corvette Stingray sports car, a wedding gift from his father, that is in the eye of the raging storm over classified documents found in his garage (File photo)The probability of the scandal over Top Secret documents dating back to the Barack Obama presidency blowing up on the face of the then vice-president — and incumbent president — Joe Biden is rather low.
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Ukraine News Links 16-21 January 2023
Saturday, 21 January 2023 — The New Dark Age
A Hard-Edged Rock: Waging Economic Warfare on Humanity
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/01/a-hard-edged-rock-waging-economic-warfare-on-humanity/When Putin Finally Gave Up On The West
https://orientalreview.org/2023/01/21/when-putin-finally-gave-up-on-the-west/Please, Get Them Back To The 6th Grade.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/01/please-get-them-back-to-6th-grade.html
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Breaking the ‘colour bar’: Len Johnson & Pearl Prescod
Friday, 20 January 2023 — Institute of Race Relations
Not only has PC David Carrick pleaded guilty to 49 charges, including 24 counts of rape against 12 women over an 18-year period, but FOI requests have revealed that more than 150 Met police officers are currently on restricted duties and under investigation over allegations of racism and sexual misconduct. Cases of police racism and sexism – and the way they are dealt with – are so often linked, as reflected in this week’s calendar of racism and resistance. (Yet another case involving a racist, antisemitic and misogynistic police WhatsApp group chat is noted.) The criminal justice section of the calendar also focuses on the excessive use of force against black people, highlighting the case of Godrick Osei, who suffered from depression and drug addiction and died in July 2021 after being arrested and restrained in a cupboard during a mental health crisis at a care home in Truro, Cornwall.
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When the People Have Nothing More to Eat, They Will Eat the Rich: The Third Newsletter (2023)
Thursday, 19 January 2023 — The Tricontinental
Maruja Mallo (Spain), La Verbena (‘The Fair’), 1927.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
On 8 January, large crowds of people dressed in colours of the Brazilian flag descended on the country’s capital, Brasília. They invaded federal buildings, including the Congress, Supreme Court, and presidential palace, and vandalised public property. The attack, carried out by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, came as no surprise, since the rioters had been planning ‘weekend demonstrations’ on social media for days. When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula) was formally sworn in as Brazil’s new president one week prior, on 1 January, there was no such melee; it appears that the vandals were waiting until the city was quiet and Lula was out of town. For all its bluster, the attack was an act of extreme cowardice.
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How Elon Musk Is Aiding the US Empire’s Regime Change Operation in Iran
Thursday, 19 January 2023 — MintPress News
Elon Musk has announced that he is helping to smuggle hundreds of Starlink satellite communications devices into Iran. The South African-born billionaire made the admission on December 26, replying to a tweet lauding female Iranian protesters for refusing to cover their hair. “Approaching 100 Starlinks active in Iran”, he tweeted, clearly implying a political motivation to his work.
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A Review of Full Fact’s ‘Fact Check’ of Recent Statements by Andrew Bridgen MP
Monday, 16 January 2023– HART
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Ukraine News Links 14-15 January 2023
Sunday, 15 January 2023 — The New Dark Age
Star Dust for Capitalism’s Money-Making Geoengineering!
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/01/star-dust-for-capitalisms-money-making-geoengineering/What IS “Ukraine Model”?
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/01/what-is-ukraine-model.htmlRussian News-media are More Honest than U.S.-and-Allied Media
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/01/russian-news-media-are-more-honest-than-u-s-and-allied-media/What It Means for Hunger to Burn Through the Pentagon’s Ranks
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/01/15/what-it-means-for-hunger-to-burn-through-pentagons-ranks/
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Israeli Settler Violence
Tuesday, 17 January 2023 — MintPress News
Since the beginning of 2023, Israeli settlers have already attacked Palestinians and attempted landgrabs 1,290 times according to the Insan Center for Democracy and Rights.
2022 was the most dangerous year for Palestinians in the West Bank in almost two decades and the Zionist settlers are accelerating their provocative violence in 2023.
The New Dark Age 