Wednesday, 28 December 2022 — Grayzone UK
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1 comment on Zelensky appoints sexologist pyramid schemer as ambassador to Bulgaria
Zelensky appoints sexologist pyramid schemer as ambassador to Bulgaria
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The Hope of a Pan-African-Owned and Controlled Electric Car Project Is Buried for Generations to Come: The Fifty-Second Newsletter (2022)
Thursday, 29 December 2022 — The Tricontinental
Pathy Tshindele (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Untitled, 2016.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
The United States government held the US-Africa Leaders Summit in mid-December, prompted in large part by its fears about Chinese and Russian influence on the African continent. Rather than routine diplomacy, Washington’s approach in the summit was guided by its broader New Cold War agenda, in which a growing focus of the US has been to disrupt relations that African nations hold with China and Russia. This hawkish stance is driven by US military planners, who view Africa as ‘NATO’s southern flank’ and consider China and Russia to be ‘near-peer threats’. At the summit, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin charged China and Russia with ‘destabilising’ Africa. Austin provided little evidence to support his accusations, apart from pointing to China’s substantial investments, trade, and infrastructure projects with many countries on the continent and maligning the presence in a handful of countries of several hundred mercenaries from the Russian private security firm, the Wagner Group.
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Review of 2022: the year it became okay to jail protesters in Britain
14 December 2022 — Netpol
It has not been a good year for our right to dissent. The vehemently resisted Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Act came into force in the summer, while the government continues to push through its Public Order Bill, aimed at criminalising our right to protest even further. The National Security Bill also includes even more measures to restrict the right to demonstrate.
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Forecast 2023: the impending slump
Thursday, 29 December 2022 — Michael Roberts Blog
At the end of every year, I attempt to make a forecast on what will happen in the world economy in the next year. Of course, forecasts are wrapped in error, given the many variables involved that drive economies. Weather forecasts are still difficult to make and here meteorologists are dealing with physical events and not (at least directly) with human actions. Nevertheless, weather forecasts up to three days ahead are now pretty accurate. And longer term climate change forecasts have been broadly borne out over the last few decades. So if we consider that economics is a science (albeit a social science), and I do, then making predictions is part of testing theories and evidence in economics too.
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Corruption in European Parliament: Sakharov Prize in the cross-hairs
Monday, 26 December 2022 — Voltaire Network
According to the Brussels-based daily Le Soir, Belgian investigators into the European Parliament corruption scandal have put under scritiny the Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought.
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Ukraine news Links 27-28 December 2022
Wednesday, 28 December 2022 — The New Dark Age
US Patriot Missiles in Ukraine: A Desperate & Dangerous Escalation
https://journal-neo.org/2022/12/28/us-patriot-missiles-in-ukraine-a-desperate-dangerous-escalation/Will there be reconciliation between Iran and Saudi Arabia?
https://journal-neo.org/2022/12/28/will-there-be-reconciliation-between-iran-and-saudi-arabia/Our future was canceled. Yet from this could come the most radical revolution in history.
https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2022/12/our-future-was-canceled-yet-from-this.html
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How Netanyahu handed Ben-Gvir the gun to start an annexation war
Wednesday, 28 December 2022 — Jonathan Cook
Jewish Power now has dozens of ways to inflame Palestinians into all-out confrontation. A third intifada has never felt closer
Middle East Eye – 23 December 2022
Faced with criticism on whether the United States should trumpet its “unbreakable bond” with an incoming Israeli government headed by fascist parties, lawbreakers and homophobes, the Biden administration has squirmed.
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Russia, Iran open a trade route heralding a bloc
Wednesday, 28 December 2022 — Indian Punchline
A ship passing passing through a gate on the Volga-Don Shipping Canal, Russia (File photo)Consequent upon the Ukraine war, as the Sea of Azov becomes an inland sea for Russia, bracketed by the Crimean Peninsula and the mouth of the River Don, the sea and rail networks of the region extend to Iranian hubs on the Caspian Sea and ultimately lead to the Indian Ocean. A feature article in Bloomberg last week titled Russia and Iran Are Building a Trade Route That Defies Sanctions brings to centre stage this “sanctions-busting” project in the region.
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Ukraine SitRep – Counter Artillery War – Financial Disaster
Wednesday, 28 December 2022 — Moon of Alabama
Since the mid of the year it has become clear that the war in Ukraine is one that is mainly fought by artillery.
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Nuclear Bomb Connection in United States Fusion Breakthrough
Friday, 23 December 2022 — Newsclick
Neither clean energy nor lower temperatures, the latest scientific breakthrough is about testing the condition of the nuclear stockpiles of the United States.
Image Courtesy: Science.OrgThe Lawrence Livermore Laboratory’s advance in achieving fusion energy using lasers has been splashed as a huge success worldwide. So what is the success all about? The joint press release of the United States Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration says this experiment “will pave the way for advancements in national defence and the future of clean power”. In other words, there is a weapons component to the fusion experiment. The Department of Defence is the Department of War.
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Ukraine News Links 24-27 December 2022
Tuesday, 27 December 2022 19:00 — The New Dark Age
About Energy, Again.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/12/about-energy-again.htmlAfter a Fawning Netflix Doc, AOC Still Doesn’t Get It!
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/12/after-a-fawning-netflix-doc-aoc-still-doesnt-get-it/Antiwar Activist Faces Repression In Germany
https://popularresistance.org/antiwar-activist-faces-repression-in-germany/
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Ukraine war tolls death knell for NATO
Sunday,25 December 2022 — Indian Punchline
President Vladimir Putin addressed an expanded meeting of the Russian Defence Ministry Board, Moscow, Dec. 21, 2022The defining moment in US President Joe Biden’s press conference at the White House last Wednesday, during President Zelensky’s visit, was his virtual admission that he is constrained in the proxy war in Ukraine, as European allies don’t want a war with Russia.
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Ukrane News Links 23-24 December 2022
Saturday, 24 December 2022 — The New Dark Age
Ten surprisingly good things that happened in 2022
https://popularresistance.org/ten-surprisingly-good-things-that-happened-in-2022/Christmas Jottings from North Queensland
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/12/christmas-jottings-from-north-queensland/Why Time Isn’t Ripe For Ukraine Talks
https://orientalreview.org/2022/12/24/why-time-isnt-ripe-for-ukraine-talks/
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Anti-Capitalism Is The Only Way To Save Creativity From AI
Wednesday, 21 December 2022 — Passage
Photo via dacian dorca-street photographie on Flickr, licensed under CC BY 2.0.Art costs money. Creativity takes time. The combination of time and money is in short supply within capitalist democracy.
Nora Loreto
I have never thought about what I would look like as a superhero or a spaceman or, I dunno, a lion. As such, I’ve never had the desire to submit photos of myself to an AI generator to spit out stunning images of my likeness in technicolour. And I don’t begrudge the folks who have done this — they all look really, really good.
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UK: A WINTER OF DISCONTENT OR DISORGANIZATION
Friday, 23 December 2022 — theplanningmotivedotcom
The number of strikes has intensified. However, there is no attempt yet to bring the strikes together in one general public sector strike. Nothing less will suffice to break the bosses resolve. This article explains why. The capitalists in England have their back to the wall or is it the cliff?!
edinburg-recmmendations-for-the-city.pdf
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A German-China-Russia triangle on Ukraine
Saturday, 24 December 2022 — Indian Punchline
Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) with Chairman of the United Russia Party Dmitry Medvedev, Beijing, December 21, 2022The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken probably thought that in his self-appointed role as the world’s policeman, it was his prerogative to check out what is going on between Germany, China and Russia that he wasn’t privy to. Certainly, Blinken’s call to Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday turned out to be a fiasco.
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Ukraine News Links 22-23 December2022
Friday, 23 December 2022 — The New Dark Age
What is the Rules-Based Order?
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/12/what-is-the-rules-based-order/Modi Ignores West’s Sanctions On Russia
https://orientalreview.org/2022/12/23/modi-ignores-wests-sanctions-on-russia/Will Korea send its shells to Ukraine, and more importantly, which Korea?
https://journal-neo.org/2022/12/23/will-korea-send-its-shells-to-ukraine-and-more-importantly-which-korea/
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Israel murders Palestinian soccer player Ahmad Daraghmeh
Friday, 23 December 2022 — MintPress News
Credit: Carlos LatuffThe death of Palestinian soccer player Ahmad Daraghmeh, 23, is a reminder that the ongoing colonial occupation cripples the dreams of young athletes.
Daraghmeh is just one of the thousands of young athletes whose potential was taken from the world by Israeli violence.
The New Dark Age 