Unlike ‘western’ politicians I try to think ahead of the consequences certain foreign relation policies might have.
On March 9 2022 I predicted:
The Sanction Backlash Will Push The ‘West’ To Accept Russia’s Demands
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Scheduled for 3 Mar 2023
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate cover the growing pressure on the Biden administration to take its Ukraine proxy war to Crimea, while military leaders openly discuss plans for war with China over Taiwan, while acknowledging the inevitability of Taiwan’s destruction. The militaristic fever comes as antiwar rallies gain momentum across the Atlantic and Ukraine’s military appears bogged down in the Donbas.
35 hours of Wayne’s music, everything from his work with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Miles Davis, Weather Report and of course his own music on Blue Note through to his later work like Atlantis and rebroadcast of the late, great jazz broadcaster Phil Schapp’s marathon on WKCR on Wayne Shorter (who I had the pleasure of meeting in the 1980s in the WKCR studio). Great listening!
See the short Bio on Phil Schaap here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Schaap
A century has passed, but faraway leaders still leave the common soldier to face the consequences of their decisions.It is always interesting to look back upon history if only to draw parallels with the present, and a review of British operations during the First World War caused the author to reflect upon mistakes made in the past and to compare them with the policies of today. This shorter article will examine the similarities between the trenches of the Somme and the truths of today. Before we examine the analogies between the past and present, we have to take a look at what went before.
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Caitlin Johnstone: Media Muzzling Anti-War Protests
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/02/caitlin-johnstone-media-muzzling-anti-war-protests/
The US diplomatic efforts to curtail Turkish independence continue
https://journal-neo.org/2023/03/02/the-us-diplomatic-efforts-to-curtail-turkish-independence-continue/
WATCH: The Vietnam Peace Movement & Ukraine Today
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/01/watch-the-vietnam-peace-movement-ukraine-today/
Since our last newsletter in which we reported on the eruption of violence in Knowsley, Merseyside, we have seen the spreading of a relentless campaign targeting hotels accommodating asylum seekers across England, with protests in Rotherham, Skegness, Newquay, Long Eaton and Dunstable in the past weeks.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
On 28 October 2005, a special event was held in Caracas at the National Assembly of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. At this gathering, held on the birthday of Simón Rodríguez (Simón Bolívar’s teacher), the Venezuelan government announced that nearly 1.5 million adults had learned to read through Mission Robinson, a mass literacy programme that it initiated two years earlier. The mission was named after Rodríguez (who was also known by the pseudonym Samuel Robinson).
East Palestine, Ohio and the Oligarchy
Margaret Kimberley
A freight train derailment brought environmental catastrophe to a small Ohio town. While the circumstances are somewhat unique, events there followed a predictable pattern in a country run by and for the ruling class.
ESSAY: Canada in the Caribbean, Caribbean International Service Bureau, 1971
Editors, Black Agenda Review
A 1971 statement shines a bright white light on the long history of Canadian imperialism in the Caribbean.
Winter War on the SteppeWhere is the big Russian offensive? This is, at the moment, the million dollar question that inevitably intrudes on any discussion of the war’s current course. It is probably not surprising (to those of us that are familiar with human nature, at least) that this question becomes a Rorschach test in which everybody sees their own prior assumptions about the Russian military.
US Berates Georgia for Not Being Sufficiently Anti-Russian
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/01/us-berates-georgia-for-not-being-sufficiently-anti-russian/
Zionists Attack Palestinian Writers and Australian Free Speech
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/03/zionists-attack-palestinian-writers-and-australian-free-speech/
African Union under Western pressure
https://journal-neo.org/2023/03/01/african-union-under-western-pressure/
INVESTIGATION:
Executives at the software giant Oracle have made it clear that they’re loyal to the settler-colonial government of Israel that’s occupying Palestinian land. They have also managed to win contracts that put Oracle in charge of sensitive data from the UK government.
The downing of a Chinese balloon by the United States was a clear episode of hysteria. In fact, the US has a history of unhinged responses to perceived threats.
On February 6th, Syria and Turkey were brutally rocked by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, one of the most devastating recorded in the Levant’s history. Ever since, residents of these countries and the region more widely have been subjected to a particularly unforgiving – yet illuminating – crash course in Western double standards over humanitarian aid.
Ukraine: The Tunnel at the End of the Light
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/02/28/ukraine-the-tunnel-at-the-end-of-the-light/
At Sixty-Five, the Peace Symbol Endures; Peace Not So Much
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/02/at-sixty-five-the-peace-symbol-endures-peace-not-so-much/
Antiwar, Apathy, and War Hawks
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/02/antiwar-insouciance-and-war-hawks/
Quoth the Vultures “Evermore”
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/02/quoth-the-vultures-evermore/
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) met with Member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Wang Yi, Kremlin, Moscow, February 22, 2023The ‘butterfly effect’ of the visit by the Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China and Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee Wang Yi to Moscow on February 21-22 is already discernible. It can influence a much larger complex system still.
LIVE with Omali Yeshitela at 8PM eastern, 5PM Pacific TONIGHT
The chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party will join Margaret Kimberley and I as we discuss the FBI raid on the organization as NATO’s war in Ukraine accelerates a new McCarthyism
Danny Haiphong
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
The Digital ID they are proposing is a slippery slippery slope as they are bringing it in on the basis that they can add any types of data that they want to in the future.
Furthermore it will be very hard to avoid as they will make it a requirement to do so many things.
I don’t want to consent, you don’t want to consent, but there’s things on that list that I do want and need.
It is why we must object now as they will take our silence as consent.
Take these two actions now if you haven’t already:
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Use the guide linked below so you can fill out the online consultation (the link to which is on the first slide of the guide).
This is best viewed on a desktop with two windows open; one for the guide and one for the consultation.
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Below the guide is the option to send an email response to the consultation which also sends a copy to your MP. This takes less than 30 seconds as it finds your MP for you.
This means they get more responses and the MPs know before it even comes to Westminster that thousands and thousands of us object.
After Peru’s Indigenous President Pedro Castillo was removed from power through lawfare in December 2022, his supporters took to the streets for waves of protests in which the police killed dozens.
Eliana Carlin, a Peruvian political scientist, joins Lee Camp for a live interview on the situation on the ground today, and the Peruvian campaign to overturn the US-backed legislative coup.
Part of the aftermath of a “state-sanctioned” settler rampage in the West Bank village of Huwwara, 27 February, Ilia Yefimovich DPAIn early January, as Israel was forming its most openly extreme right-wing government yet, Nadav Tamir, a former Israeli diplomat and current lobby group director, gave a prescient warning.
