Next week, IRR News publishes parts one and two of Britannia Enchained, the latest four-part series examining the state of human rights in the UK, by IRR Vice-Chair and retired barrister Frances Webber. In the meantime, you can recap on last year’s Impunity Entrenched.
One of the few international organisations based in Damascus with volunteers throughout Syria
We are trying to establish totally independent fundraising initiatives outside Syria but we are being hit by sanctions (of course). The following article demonstrates this – link to the article here:
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Crippling sanctions prevent the arrival of international rescue aircraft to Syrian airports. I speak with Kevork Almassian of Syriana Analysis about the inhumanity of Western regimes who are politicizing their response to the earthquake victims in Syrian territory under the protection of the Syrian government:
Seymour Hersh is a legendary investigative reported who has revealed dozens of crimes the U.S. government committed at home and abroad.
In his latest piece Hersh describes the destruction of the North Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea by U.S. government forces. The destruction released an enormous amount of methane, a global warming gas. It destroyed Germany’s gas lifeline with Russia and thereby heavily damaged Germany’s industry. It was ecological and economic terrorism by the U.S. government targeted at an ‘ally’.
Air Partner and Carlson Wagonlit are the grease spinning the wheels of the UK deportation machine, organising logistics for mass-deportation flights for years.
International travel megacorp Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) holds a £5.7 million, seven-year contract with the Home Office for the “provision of travel services for immigration purposes”, as it has done for nearly two decades. However, a key part of its work – the chartering of aircraft and crew to carry out the deportations – has been subcontracted to a little-known aviation charter outfit called Air Partner.
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How much of Shell’s record US $40 billion profit was due to the Ukraine war and freezing Russia out of the market?
If you apply the “excess deaths” methodology we became familiar with during covid, comparing profit against a running average of the previous five years, we get a figure of about $25 billion “excess profit”.
Northern Iraq and Syria have turned into a trap for the United States and Turkey
https://journal-neo.org/2023/02/09/northern-iraq-and-syria-have-turned-into-a-trap-for-the-united-states-and-turkey/
The United States Wants to Make Taiwan the Ukraine of the East
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/02/the-united-states-wants-to-make-taiwan-the-ukraine-of-the-east
Waiting For Biden’s Definition Of Victory In Ukraine
https://orientalreview.org/2023/02/09/waiting-for-bidens-definition-of-victory-in-ukraine/
A Ukrainian soldier adds wood to a fire to stave off the bitter cold, Bakhmut, Donbass (File photo)There was an air of magical realism in the daylong visit to Kiev last Friday by the EU’s policy commissioners comprising the executive branch of the group — the so-called College — led by the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
Every year Project Censored publishes a report on the biggest stories ignored by the media in the last year.
Project Censored’s Executive Director Andy Lee Roth joins Lee Camp for a live interview to discuss this year’s list including massive cover-ups by Big Oil, NATO’s plans for mind control, dark money in US politics, and much more.
Kawayan De Guia (Philippines), Nature of Currency, 2017.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
On 2 February 2023, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines met with US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin at Malacañang Palace in Manila, where they agreed to expand the US military presence in the country. In a joint statement, the two governments agreed to ‘announce their plans to accelerate the full implementation of the Enhanced Defence Cooperation Agreement (EDCA)’ and ‘designate four new Agreed Locations in strategic areas of the country’. The EDCA, which was agreed upon in 2014, allows the US to use land in the Philippines for its military activities. It was formulated almost a quarter of a century after US troops vacated their bases in the Philippines – including a massive base at Subic Bay – during the collapse of the USSR.
Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris of The Duran return to the program to discuss their impressions and analysis of the last year of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.
Reading matter that really matters. Seven new books on how the world works, from cells to imperialism
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.
The Ukraine War In The Light Of The UN Charter
https://popularresistance.org/the-ukraine-war-in-the-light-of-the-un-charter/
Anti-Imperialists Protest Docking Of US Warship At Greek Port
https://popularresistance.org/anti-imperialists-protest-docking-of-us-warship-at-greek-port/
Is It a Monkey Wrench or C4, or Some Form of War?
https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/02/is-it-a-monkey-wrench-or-c4-or-some-form-of-war/
Photo from the Justice Department’s website and in the public domainThe United States Justice Department (DOJ) will fight a lawsuit intended to force President Joe Biden and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to release records on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Months after being imprisoned on a murder charge, three leaders of the eKhenana Commune of Abahlali baseMjondolo have been finally granted bail. Their arrests are part of a lengthy history of violent persecution of the shack dwellers’ movement
Abahlali baseMjondolo leaders Maphiwe Gasela, Siniko Miya and Landu Tshazi, welcomed by the movement after being released on bail. (Photo: Abahlali baseMjondolo)Increasingly, the Ukraine war looks like a feature – rather than a bug – of Washington’s post-Cold War planning
Middle East Eye – 7 February 2023
Almost as soon as major Nato countries, led by the US, promised to supply Ukraine with battle tanks, the cry went up warning that tanks alone would be unlikely to turn the war’s tide against Russia.
All Aspects Of The U.S.-And-Allied War Against Russia Are Now Failing
https://orientalreview.org/2023/02/07/all-aspects-of-the-u-s-and-allied-war-against-russia-are-now-failing/
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on the country’s declining birth rate
https://journal-neo.org/2023/02/07/japanese-prime-minister-fumio-kishida-on-the-countrys-declining-birth-rate/
Chris Hedges: A Declining US Empire Is Committing Suicide
https://popularresistance.org/chris-hedges-a-declining-us-empire-is-committing-suicide/
Earlier today two large earthquakes have caused widespread damage in south Turkey and north Syria:
Nine hours after a first earthquake of magnitude M7.8 that hits south-eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, February 6th 2023 at 1h17 UTC, a second M7.5 occurs (at 10h24 UTC) 100km further north. More information on the main shock (M7.8) is available here and for the 7.5 (here).
Gautam Adani (Photo: counterview.net) A SMALL U.S. investor firm has challenged the Indian behemoth, the Adani group, and shaken it to its foundations. The Hindenburg Research, a short selling firm, brought out a 129-page report on the Adani group marshaling evidence of all the funding operations and offshore activities of the 578 subsidiaries and shell companies linked to the seven listed companies of the Adani group. The report states that this is the “biggest con in corporate history”.
