The Vote for House Speaker Obscured Democratic Treachery Margaret Kimberley House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s need for 15 rounds of voting from his party is viewed with alarm or humor. But the right wing proved that activists win if they make demands. Democrats have no members brave enough to confront leadership, and the people’s needs go unmet.
by Pepe Escobar, first published at The Cradle
The failed coup in Brazil is the latest CIA stunt, just as the country is forging stronger ties with the east.
A former US intelligence official has confirmed that the shambolic Maidan remix staged in Brasilia on 8 January was a CIA operation, and linked it to the recent attempts at color revolution in Iran.
Pierre de Gaulle [Source: rt.com]Pierre de Gaulle, a grandson of former French President Charles de Gaulle, has said the U.S. is making Europeans suffer by fueling the Ukraine conflict and waging a pre-planned economic war against Russia.
Remote land and people of the Russian ArcticThe Biden Administration’s efforts to put on fast track Sweden’s accession as a NATO member petered out as Turkiye balked, exercising its prerogative to withhold approval unless its conditions regarding Stockholm’s past dalliance with Kurdish separatist elements is fully addressed.
Information Warfare 101, or “My evening with a Ukrainian propaganda/agitation unit”
https://popularresistance.org/information-warfare-101-or-my-evening-with-a-ukrainian-propaganda-agitation-unit/
Europe And The Legitimization Of Deception
https://popularresistance.org/europe-and-the-legitimization-of-deception/
Patrushev Framed The Narrative…
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/01/patrushev-framed-narrative.html
Nearly a year after Russia’s invasion, the western narrative of an ‘unprovoked’ attack has become impossible to sustain
Middle East Eye – 10 January 2022
Hindsight is a particularly powerful tool for analysing the Ukraine war, nearly a year after Russia’s invasion.
More than 90% of the world’s population is projected to face increased risks from the compound impacts of extreme heat and drought, potentially widening social inequalities as well as undermining the natural world’s ability to reduce CO2 emissions in the atmosphere — according to a study from Oxford University’s School of Geography.
“We are carrying out NATO’s mission today. They aren’t shedding their blood. We’re shedding ours.”
Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleskii Reznikov discussed the roots of the NATO-Russia proxy war being fought in Ukraine on Ukrainian TV last week.
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin via video link on December 30, which drew alarm from certain Western media outlets. The New York Times, for example, concluded that the call came amid a “weak moment” for both leaders. Readers were led to believe that both China and Russia find themselves “isolated and desperate.” However, the assertion conceals a more difficult truth. That is, the U.S.-led unipolar order has experienced a number of challenges to its stability over the course of 2022 that show no sign of letting up in the new year.
The Ukrainian crisis as perceived by Mongolian society
https://journal-neo.org/2023/01/09/the-ukrainian-crisis-as-perceived-by-mongolian-society/
“I Speak For The Georgian Legion – We Don’t Take Russian Soldiers Prisoner!”
https://journal-neo.org/2023/01/09/i-speak-for-the-georgian-legion-we-don-t-take-russian-soldiers-prisoner/
The Trillion Dollar Silencer
https://popularresistance.org/the-trillion-dollar-silencer/
Protestors gathered at Newquay ‘Spaceport’ in October 2022 to oppose UK space launchTonight’s planned space launch from Newquay ‘spaceport’ is the latest step in a new era of expansion into space by the military with the UK wholeheartedly joining a space arms race which will inevitably lead to greater risk of instability and conflict.
President Vladimir Putin attending Christmas Mass, Annunciation Cathedral, Kremlin, Moscow, January 7, 2023The bipartisan consensus in the Beltway on the United States being the ‘indispensable’ world power is usually attributed to the neocons who have been the driving force of the US foreign and security policy in successive administrations since the 1970s.
Photo: Lula celebrates with a massive crowd of supporters on election night, October 2022. Credit: @ptbrasil/Ricardo StuckertThe Party for Socialism and Liberation joins with countless progressive people and organizations around the world in expressing our outrage over the coup attempt underway in Brazil by supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro. Today, a far right mob numbering in the thousands stormed the headquarters of the Supreme Court, Presidency, and Congress of Brazil in the capital and ransacked them. They are calling for military intervention against the government of president Luís Inácio Lula da Silva of the progressive Workers Party, who defeated Bolsonaro in democratic elections held last year.
The advent of the information age – the fusion of the internet plus computing power plus advanced algorithms, takes off at the end of the 1980s. Its development within the USA and its strategic economic importance allows the USA to once more dominate the global value chain. As a result, US Tech corporations become monopolies harvesting super profits. But this 30-year reign could be ending
We are excited to announce the creation of the independent media outlet Geopolitical Economy Report – an evolution and expansion of Multipolarista. Our team will be growing, and we have exciting new projects planned, including a regular show with economists Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai.
Editor-in-chief Ben Norton explains the changes (and the continuity).
Blows Against the Empire: 2022 in Memoriam
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/01/blows-against-the-empire-2022-in-memoriam/
Ukraine: Parliament, Army Leadership Celebrate Fascist Mass Murderer
https://popularresistance.org/ukrainian-parliament-army-leadership-celebrate-birthday-of-the-fascist-mass-murderer-bandera/
To defeat American fascism, we must exploit the weaknesses that capital has created for itself
https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2023/01/to-defeat-american-fascism-we-must.html
Twitter’s “state-affiliated media” policy has an unwritten exemption for US government-funded and -controlled news media accounts. Twitter even boosts these accounts as “authoritative” sources for news during the Russian/Ukrainian war.
The New Dark Age 