They Do Not Report That…
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/01/they-do-not-report-that.html
Can NATO and the Pentagon Find a Diplomatic Off-Ramp from the Ukraine War?
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/01/can-nato-and-the-pentagon-find-a-diplomatic-off-ramp-from-the-ukraine-war/
NATO’s Black Hole
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/01/natos-black-hole/
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a meeting in Sochi (File photo)In his second coming as Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has hit the ground running. The international climate in which he skilfully operated for close to 15 years in two stints as prime minister has changed beyond recognition.
Monument to V. I. Lenin at pavilion No. 1 (“Central”) at VDNKh in Moscow. Photo: RIA Novosti/Alexei Filippov.By Victoria Nikiforova – Dec 5, 2022
The following essay is written and published by a columnist at Russia’s main state media outlet, RIA Novosti. The essay provides an overview of the achievements and the lasting legacy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) for today’s Russia and for the world. It is not a comprehensive history of the USSR; that is for historians to continue to write and debate. The essay’s most salient feature is the insight into the thinking of the people of the Russian Federation at this very turbulent turning point in their history.
The Biden administration has so far refrained from sending longer range missile to Ukraine. It fears a severe Russian reaction should it change that policy. Some warmongers dislike such sensible restrain.
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister likened the US-backed parliamentary coup that removed him from power in April 2022 to the violent CIA operation that overthrew Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953.
Ukraine War Tolls Death Knell For NATO
https://orientalreview.org/2023/01/02/ukraine-war-tolls-death-knell-for-nato/
Marxists didn’t anticipate how effective U.S. imperialism would be at holding back global revolution
https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2023/01/marxists-didnt-anticipate-how-effective.html
Will They Sue For “Peace”.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/01/will-they-sue-for-peace.html
Zimbabweans march against sanctions in Harare, October 25, 2019. [Source: voanews.com]January 2, 2023 (Brian Berletic – New Eastern Outlook) – US appears to be in the process of transferring its Patriot air defense missile system to Ukraine. CNN in its article, “Exclusive: US finalizing plans to send Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine,” claims the US will approve and then quickly ship the system or systems into Ukraine in just days after the decision is made.
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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.
Before laying into the drug regulators, and their inexorable move towards the dark side, I thought I should try to explain a bit more about who decides what drugs should be used, and for what conditions.
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Russia has spent years trying to decrease its dependency on the US dollar. But especially since the escalation of the proxy war in Ukraine in 2022, Moscow has accelerated its drive toward de-dollarization.
Ukraine Open Thread 2022-237
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/12/ukraine-open-thread-2022-237.html
The Real Economy Seems to Be the Biggest Winner in 2022
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/12/31/the-real-economy-seems-to-be-the-biggest-winner-in-2022/
Declassified Intelligence Files Expose Inconvenient Truths of Bosnian War
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/12/30/declassified-intelligence-files-expose-inconvenient-truths-of-bosnian-war/
Turkish military convoy in border with Northern Syria (File photo)The curtain is coming down on the brutal 11-year old Syrian conflict, which former US President and Nobel Laureate Barack Obama initiated, as the Arab Spring swept through West Asia two decades ago. The United States has suffered yet another big setback in West Asia as the year 2022 draws to a close. The unfolding Turkish-Syrian reconciliation process under Russian mediation is to be seen as a saga of betrayal and vengeance.
It’s been an eventful 2022, and you’ve helped us generate crucial momentum as we look ahead to big things in 2023 to help #FreeAssang
We’ve got a rundown of 4 of the biggest positive developments of 2022. But first, an announcement…
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What really hit me last year was the dearth of correct analyses in main stream media and in politics with regards to the war in Ukraine. Little if anything is based on facts. More than 90% of the published output is propaganda.
Caitlin Johnstone
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Western analysts spent years warning that western actions would provoke a war in Ukraine, westerners spent four years being propagandized into hating Russia, then Russia invades and now western imperialists say the war is advancing US interests. But remember: it was an “unprovoked invasion”.
Julian Assange’s father John Shipton joins Lee Camp to discuss his son’s condition, from his incarceration in London to the prospect of being extradited into the custody of the government he exposed and its Intelligence officers, who had planned to assassinate him.
Camp will also speak with journalist Kevin Gosztola about the implications of the U.S. persecution of Assange for revealing its war crimes.
CIA and NATO are waging sabotage attacks inside Russia
https://popularresistance.org/cia-and-nato-are-waging-sabotage-attacks-inside-russia/
Will the coming year 2023 be better than the outgoing one?
https://journal-neo.org/2022/12/29/will-the-coming-year-2023-be-better-than-the-outgoing-one/
2022’s Danger Signs
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/12/2022s-danger-signs/
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss The Grayzone’s biggest stories of the year and the latest developments in the Ukraine proxy war, the US occupation of Syria, the ongoing release of the Twitter files showing FBI and CIA infiltration of the social media platform, and more.
The New Dark Age 