This year marks the 60th anniversary of Silent Spring, one of the most important environmental books of the 20th century. We dedicate this November issue of Pesticide News to the book’s author, Rachel Carson, who wrote a ground-breaking, ecological alarm call that we are still rallying behind today.
Ukraine is proud of its war crimes
https://thesaker.is/ukraine-is-proud-of-its-war-crimes/
Bali Fails to ‘Bail Out’ Biden
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/11/26/bali-fails-to-bail-out-biden/
The FIFA World Cup in Qatar: geopolitics, money and double standards
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/11/26/the-fifa-world-cup-in-qatar-geopolitics-money-and-double-standards/
German troops in a NATO military exercise in 2021Germany’s top newspaper Der Spiegel obtained a leaked confidential strategy paper that reveals the country’s military is preparing for a potential war with Russia.
The only way Ukrainians will see anything approximating a holiday season is if a ceasefire can be arranged by New Year’s Day, and it just might happen, regardless of President Volodomyr Zelenskiy’s repeated assertions that there will be no negotiations with Russia until it withdraws all its troops from all occupied territories, including Crimea. There are several reasons for the possible ceasefire.
Von der Leyen and Zelenskiy might see eye to eye, yet with European fortunes looking bleak, other European politicians may be again be viewing ties with Russia.The last six months have presented Western leaders with first the opportunity to wave a big stick at Moscow, then realize that the Russian Bear is a good deal less frightened of the stick than those economies that need Moscow’s materials. This article will look at certain events over the last month that may indicate that at least a few Western leaders are getting cold feet concerning the economic Cold War they were so enthusiastic to start.
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American Democracy: Buying and Selling Elections
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/11/american-democracy-buying-and-selling-elections/
BRICS breaks the hegemony of the West
https://journal-neo.org/2022/11/25/brics-breaks-the-hegemony-of-the-west/
The Medium: An Appeal for Support
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/11/the-medium-an-appeal-for-support/
‘There seems to be no study too fragmented, no hypothesis too trivial, no literature citation too biased or too egotistical, no design too warped, no methodology too bungled, no presentation of results too inaccurate, too obscure, and too contradictory, no analysis too self-serving, no argument too circular, no conclusions too trifling or too unjustified, and no grammar and syntax too offensive for a paper to end up in print.’ – Drummond Rennie.
Somewhat damning?
Exactly a year ago, a dinghy with 34 people on board sank in the English Channel. There were two survivors. In the three hours it took for the boat to sink, as distress messages flooded in from those on board, French and British coastguards debated whose responsibility it was to rescue them. No help came, as one by one the passengers died of cold or drowned. As this week’s Calendar of Racism and Resistance shows, the body investigating the deaths – the worst loss of life in the Channel in over 30 years – the Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB), will not present its findings until at least early summer next year, and has not yet been in touch with most of the families of those who died, despite being sent their contact details. The families have also been denied access to recordings of their loved ones’ final calls for help. The unmistakable message conveyed by such responses is that these deaths don’t matter and that the families of the deceased are unworthy of respect.
The Ukraine War Is A Sales-Promotion Campaign For Lockheed And Other U.S. ‘Defense’ Contractors
https://orientalreview.org/2022/11/25/the-ukraine-war-is-a-sales-promotion-campaign-for-lockheed-and-other-u-s-defense-contractors/
American Democracy: Buying and Selling Elections
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/11/american-democracy-buying-and-selling-elections/
BRICS breaks the hegemony of the West
https://journal-neo.org/2022/11/25/brics-breaks-the-hegemony-of-the-west/
Yesterday the Pentagon announced another transfer of weapons to the Ukrainian military:
According to the Pentagon, the package includes:
Additional munitions for NASMAS
150 heavy machine guns with thermal imagery sights to counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)
Additional ammunition for HIMARS
200 precision-guided 155mm artillery rounds
10,000 120mm mortar rounds
High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARMs)
150 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs)
Over 100 light tactical vehicles
Over 20,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition
Over 200 generators
Spare parts for 105mm Howitzers and other equipment
Statue of Fidel Castro, first of its kind anywhere in the world, was unveiled by President Vladimir Putin, Moscow, Nov. 22, 2022A three-meter-tall bronze statue of Fidel Castro was unveiled on Tuesday in the Fidel Castro Square in Moscow’s Sokol District by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel in memory of the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution.
Chéri Samba (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Reorganisation, 2002.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
The dust has settled at the resorts in Sharm el-Shaikh, Egypt, as delegates of countries and corporations leave the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The only advance made in the final agreement was for the creation of a ‘loss and damage fund’ for ‘vulnerable countries’. However, despite being hailed as a breakthrough, the deal is little more than the financing of the Santiago Network for Loss and Damage agreed upon at the COP25 in 2019. It also remains to be seen whether this new financing will in fact be realised. Under previous agreements, such as the Green Climate Fund established at the COP15 in 2009, developed countries promised to provide developing countries $100 billion per year in financing by 2020, but have failed to meet their stated goals. At the conclusion of COP27, the United Nations expressed ‘serious concern’ that those past pledges have ‘not yet been met’. More importantly, the Sharm el-Sheikh Implementation Plan notes that a ‘global transformation to a low-carbon economy is expected to require investment of at least $4–6 trillion a year’ – a commitment that is nowhere in sight. The International Energy Agency said that, in 2022, annual global clean energy investment will remain below $1.5 trillion. This is ‘record clean energy spending’, they announced, and yet, it is far below the amounts that are required for a necessary transition.
I Like Douglas MacGregor, But…
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/11/i-like-douglas-macgregor-but.html
Tokayev’s policies will focus on Russia, China and the West
https://journal-neo.org/2022/11/23/tokayev-s-policies-will-focus-on-russia-china-and-the-west/
Missile Attack On Poland – A Provocation By Kiev And Warsaw
https://orientalreview.org/2022/11/23/missile-attack-on-poland-a-provocation-by-kiev-and-warsaw/
Earlier today the Russian military shut down the Ukrainian electricity network.
Previous attacks had limited the distribution capacity to some 50% of demand. Controlled blackouts over several hours per day allowed to give some electricity for a few hours to most parts of the country. The attack today created a much larger problem. Not only were distribution networks attacked but also so the elements that connect Ukraine’s electricity production facilities to the distribution network. All four nuclear power stations of Ukraine with their 15 reactors are now in shutdown mode.
Xi Jinping, Justin Trudeau and White Supremacist Ideology
Margaret Kimberley
Western arrogance and anger about the economic prowess of a non-white nation resulted in Xi Jinping’s very public dressing down of Justin Trudeau.
EXCERPT: Pentagonism, A Substitute for Imperialism, Juan Bosch, 1967
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
A book by Dominican politician and historian Juan Bosch explains the connections between U.S. foreign policy, permanent war, and the defense industries.
On November 15, as 90 Russian cruise missiles struck at Ukraine’s energy network, a companion US-UK propaganda blitz blamed the Russian missiles for the deaths of two workers on a farm in Poland.
Anti-Imperialist Youth Intensify Campaign To Free Kononovich Brothers
https://popularresistance.org/anti-imperialist-youth-intensify-campaign-to-free-kononovich-brothers
Beth Van Schaak Lies…
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/11/beth-van-schaak-lies.html
Did North Korea invent a teleporter?
https://journal-neo.org/2022/11/22/did-north-korea-invent-a-teleporter/
The New Dark Age 