Monday, 12 December 2022 — CovertAction Magazine
By Ellen Taylor
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Will Belated Open Letter by The New York Times and other Media Outlets Be Enough to Compel Julian Assange’s Release From Prison?
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Ukraine News Links 11-12 December 2022
Monday, 12 December 2022 — The New Dark Age
Brian Berletic Sitrepping.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/12/brian-berletic-sitrepping.htmlShort Clarification On “50/50” Offensive.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/12/short-clarification-on-5050-offensive.htmlAndrei Raevsky Asks A Reasonable Question.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/12/andrei-raevsky-asks-reasonable-question.html
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The journalist-run, intelligence-linked operation that warped British pandemic policy
21 November 2022 — Grayzone
Presented as an independent voice for “unbiased” scientific advice, iSAGE provided a channel for media spinmeisters, spies and psy-op specialists to influence Britain’s pandemic policy without accountability. Leaked internal emails show members fretting over its unethical methods.
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Uneven Earth’s November readings
Monday, 12 December 2022 — Uneven Earth
On AI, the COP, and why having more fun is good for the planet
Once 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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Watch Lowkey and Matt Kennard on The British-American Project
Monday, 12 December 2022 — Lowkey
Lowkey is joined by investigative journalists Matt Kennard (Declassified UK) and Asa Winstanley (Electronic Intifada), along with activist Huda Ammori (Palestine Action), for a special episode of The Watchdog.
They explore the US Embassy-funded British-American Project and its grip on British politics. They also discuss Asa Winstanley’s new book, Weaponising Antisemitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Corbyn, and the recent victories of Palestine Action with Huda Ammori.
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The Heat of the Artemovsk Cauldron
Monday, 12 December 2022 — The van says…
The town of Artemovsk (Bakhmut) is now effectively surrounded, yet the fact that the Russians have minimized fighting in residential areas is for good reason.Preamble
As the assault on Artemovsk (Bakhmut) continues, rather than attempting to steamroll Ukrainian defenses in the town, Russian forces are now encircling the area, effectively cutting the it off from resupply and reinforcements from the rest of the Ukraine. This article will look at why Russia is choosing to do this and the potential consequences of following a plan such as this.
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Ukraine News Links 10-11 December 2022
Sunday, 11 December 2022 — The New Dark Age
Journalist in Donestk: Ukrainian Gov’t Put Me On a Hit List Because of My Reporting
https://popularresistance.org/journalist-in-donestk-ukrainian-govt-put-me-on-a-hit-list-because-of-my-reporting/Larry On The US Military…
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/12/larry-on-us-military.htmlCapitalist decay, the prospect of social upheaval, & the path to victory over the bourgeois state
https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2022/12/capitalist-decay-prospect-of-social.html
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Watch: Lift the criminal sanctions on Syria NOW! Please watch, share and write to your MP, media/government
Sunday, 11 December 2022 — UK Column
While all the focus is on the plight of Ukrainians facing a winter without energy, everyone seems to have forgotten that Syria has been living under western Sanctions for eleven years.
Vanessa Beeley explains the impact of sanctions on the people of Syria and appeals for everyone to assist in raising awareness, and having them lifted.
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War as an Option
Sunday, 11 December 2022 — The van says…
There are no half-measures with a choice such as this. It is either measured words or immeasurable suffering.Preamble
Russia’s Special Military Operation has now been ongoing since February, yet there are still an immense number of people still saying that the situation should have been solved through diplomatic rather than bellicose means. With news this week regarding Merkel’s revelations concerning the Minsk Agreements, this article shall examine whether peace ever was an option and how the war is a result not only of political excess, but also an absence of common sense and good intentions on the part of Germany as well as others.
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Ukraine SitRep – Catastrophic Losses, Failing Wonder Weapons, NATO Escalation
Saturday, 10 December, 2022 — Moon of Alabama
The Russian military is still integrating most of the mobilized 300,000+ men and volunteers. According to Putin 25% of the mobilized forces are in combat units, 25% in rear positions, while 50% train in Russia. It does not look like an imminent all out attack on the Ukrainian front lines is in the cards. The expected large winter attack may not be coming at all. Instead the new forces will rotate through the frontline and only attack locally whenever they see an opportunity.
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‘Minsk II Was Agreed On To Arm Ukraine’ – Did Merkel Really Say That?
Friday, 9 December 2022 — Moon of Alabama
Helmholtz Smith, Andrew Korybko and Andrei Martyanov have some thoughts about a recent interview the former German chancellor Angela Merkel gave to the German weekly broadsheet Die Zeit.
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Demons creep up from Europe’s attic
Saturday, 10 December 2022 — Indian Punchline
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‘Reichsbürger’ at a rally in Berlin: Neo-Nazi, or just a crackpot?The visit of German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock to New Delhi had an anti-climatic ending. Baerbock waxed eloquently about Germany as a paragon of democratic values and claimed affinity with India. She hoped to persuade Modi government to disengage from strategic partnership with “authoritarian” Russia.
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Ukraine News Links 8-10 December 2022
Saturday, 10 December 2022 — The New Dark Age
Captivity, Inequality, Familiarity
https://orientalreview.org/2022/12/10/captivity-inequality-familiarity/How Bigotry Weakens A Country
https://orientalreview.org/2022/12/10/how-bigotry-weakens-a-country/Iran against the West’s hybrid warfare
https://journal-neo.org/2022/12/10/iran-against-the-west-s-hybrid-warfare/
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Eighteen Years Ago Today, Journalist Gary Webb Was Murdered After Exposing CIA Drug Trafficking
Saturday, 10 December 2022 — CovertAction Magazine
Gary Webb with his exposé about the CIA and crack. [Source: educateinspirechange.org]On December 10, 2004, the body of journalist Gary Webb, 49, was discovered in his home near Sacramento after a moving company worker found a note posted to his front door that read: “Please do not enter. Call 911 and ask for an ambulance.”
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Italy distances from ‘cancellation’ of Russia
Friday, 9 December 2022 — Indian Punchline
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni arrives to attend the gala premiere in the country’s most famous opera house, Teatro alla Scala, which opened its new season with the Russian opera “Boris Godunov,” Milan, Italy, December 7, 2022Noam Chomsky once wrote that the astronomical cost of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, estimated into trillions of dollars, is a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to bankrupt America by drawing it into a trap.
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Dec. 10 #FreeAssange Events NATIONWIDE As Mainstream Momentum Grows!
Friday, 9 December 2022 — Assange Defense
Can you feel the momentum building!
Over the past few months, #FreeAssange activists have made huge strides. We have worked hard to grow our coalition and get press freedom groups and media outlets to speak out. Global leaders are saying “enough is enough.” We need to continue the pressure on Saturday, Dec. 10 for International Human Rights Day.
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Bye Bye Bakhmut. It’s Time for the Truth
Thursday, 8 December 2022 — The van says…
With up to a thousand casualties a day, and survivors being treated in conditions such as this, the Ukrainian defense of Artemovsk cannot last for longPreamble
A recent article covered the unraveling situation for Ukrainian forces in Artemovsk, (Bakhmut) mounting casualties beginning to bleed Kiev’s war machine white over recent weeks. Two days ago, this matter was examined by Newsweek, the article going further than any other mainstream Western piece over the last year in its criticism of both the Ukrainian military as well as its government. Whilst the dilemma facing Zelenskiy is hardly any surprise, the fact that a stalwart of the US media has published a story such as this is news indeed. This article will not only look at the possible Ukrainian withdrawal from Artemovsk, but also the shift being seen in America as Kiev’s predicament now becomes so desperate that not even the US media can ignore the obvious truths of the situation.
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Nothing Good Will Come from the New Cold War with Australia as a Frontline State: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2022)
Thursday, 8 December 2022 — The Tricontinental
John (Prince) Siddon (Australia), Slim Dusty, Looking Forward, Looking Back, 2021.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
On 15 November 2022, during the G20 summit in Bali (Indonesia), Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told journalists that his country ‘seeks a stable relationship with China’. This is because, as Albanese pointed out, China is ‘Australia’s largest trading partner. They are worth more than Japan, the United States, and the Republic of Korea… combined’. Since 2009, China has also been Australia’s largest destination for exports as well as the largest single source of Australia’s imports.
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Rich nations doubly responsible for greenhouse gas emissions
Tuesday, 6 December 2022 — JOMO
Hezri A. Adnan and Jomo Kwame Sundaram
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 06, 2022 (IPS). Natural flows do not respect national boundaries. The atmosphere and oceans cross international borders with little difficulty, as greenhouse gases (GHGs) and other fluids, including pollutants, easily traverse frontiers.
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Ukraine News Links 6-7 December 2022
Wednesday, 7 December 2022 — The New Dark Age
An overview of the situation in Pakistan
https://journal-neo.org/2022/12/07/an-overview-of-the-situation-in-pakistan/The Kazakhstan Gas Situation: A Key Indicator of Things to Come
https://journal-neo.org/2022/12/07/the-kazakhstan-gas-situation-a-key-indicator-of-things-to-come/Andrei Raevsky Posted A Good Piece…
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/12/andrei-raevsky-posted-good-piece.html
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