Thursday, 15 September 2022 — CovertAction Magazine
By John Parker
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Eyewitness: Human Toll of Eight-Year Ukrainian Army Onslaught in Eastern Ukraine is Shocking
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War Is Not the Answer to Deep Planetary Insecurity: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2022)
Thursday, 15 September 2022 — The Tricontinental
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (Iran), Sunset, 2015.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Grave news comes to us from the United Nations (UN). The latest Human Development Report (2021–22) records that for the first time in thirty-two years, the Human Development Index has registered a second consecutive year of decline. The previous five years of gains in areas such as health and education have been negated by this reversal. ‘Billions of people face the greatest cost-of-living crisis in a generation’, says the report. ‘Billions already grapple with food insecurity, owing largely to inequalities in wealth and power that determine entitlements to food. A global food crisis will hit them hardest’.
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South Africa: Civil Society, Human Rights Organizations Call for Urgent Intervention to Protect Abahlali baseMjondolo
Wednesday, 14 September 2022 —
PRESS STATEMENT
14 SEPTEMBER 2022CIVIL SOCIETY CALLS FOR URGENT NATIONAL INTERVENTION TO PROTECT ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO
On Friday, 9 September 2022, the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) sent a letter concerning the ongoing attacks on Abahlali baseMjondolo to various members of the South African executive and legislature, as well as commissioners of regional and international human rights organisations. The letter received the endorsement of over 140 civil society organisations and individuals and called for urgent intervention to protect these activists from further harm.
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Ukraine: The CIA’s 75-year-old Proxy
Monday, 12 September, 2022 — CovertAction Magazine
Friedrichstrasse, bisected by the Berlin Wall, in 1961. Operation Red Sox dropped 85 CIA agents into Soviet-controlled territory to gather intelligence about Moscow’s plans. [Source: politico.com]Joe Biden “is fueling the fire in the Ukraine.”
— Roger Waters of Pink Floyd
It takes a musical artist to cut through the morass of propaganda to educate American mainstream media (MSM) about the Russia-Ukraine crisis and the roleof the United States in instigating that conflict for its own nefarious ends.
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The Road to Fascism: How the War in Ukraine is Changing Europe
Saturday, 10 September 2022 — Palestine Chronicle
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. (Photo: Dati Bendo, via Wikimedia Commons)By Ramzy Baroud
As soon as I landed in Rome, I discovered that I was no longer able to access any Russian media whatsoever. Unfortunately, threats by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, that Europe should sever all links with “Russia’s propaganda machine” were taken seriously by the Italian government.
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Talking “MAGA Communism”, US mulling sanctions on China, and Russia’s warning to the West
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Ukraine News Links 13-14 September 2022
Wednesday, 14 September 2022 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular and some links may not work, depending on your location but at least you have some idea of the scale of censorship now operating in the ‘democratic’ West.
Why Russia Will Still Win, Despite Ukraine’s Gains
https://popularresistance.org/why-russia-will-still-win-despite-ukraines-gains/Imposed Insanity: Royalty, Propaganda And The Coming Catastrophe
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/09/imposed-insanity-royalty-propaganda-and-the-coming-catastrophe/Economist Richard Wolff: Sanctions Against Russia, Inflation
https://popularresistance.org/economist-richard-wolff-sanctions-against-russia-inflation/
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Imposed Insanity – Royalty, Propaganda And The Coming Catastrophe
Wednesday, 14 September 2022 — Media Lens
If every single high-profile journalist, politician and priest is currently expressing heartfelt devotion to Britain’s deceased, 96-year-old monarch, it is not because she ‘served’ her country diligently in doing her ‘duty’ for 70 years. The powerful interests that determine Britain’s political and media agenda are not sentimentalists; they do not impose ‘managed democracy’ as a kind of game. Propaganda blitzes are always pragmatic.
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Chris Hedges: Monarchs Belong in the Dustbin of History
Wednesday, 14 September 2022 — MintPress News
“Monarchs Belong in the Dustbin of History” writes Chris Hedges in the wake of the death of Queen Elizabeth II. This is an important moment to make this argument. As the U.K. moves to crown King Charles III while arresting anyone who dares to protest the monarchy it opens space for the question: Should people anywhere still suffer monarchy in the 21st Century?
“The fawning adulation of Queen Elizabeth in the United States, which fought a revolution to get rid of the monarchy, and in Great Britain, is in direct proportion to the fear gripping a discredited, incompetent and corrupt global ruling elite.”
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Europe, more than Putin, must shoulder the blame for the energy crisis
Wednesday, 14 September 2022 — Jonathan Cook
The same arrogant, self-righteous posturing from the West that fuelled the Ukraine war is now plunging Europe into recession
Middle East Eye – 14 September 2022
Outraged western leaders are threatening a price cap on imports of Russian natural gas after Moscow cut supplies to Europe this month, deepening an already dire energy and cost-of-living crisis. In response, Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Europe will “freeze” this winter unless there is a change of tack.
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The Kharkov Counterattack – No Big Success – No Large Defeat
Wednesday, 14 September, 2022 — Moon of Alabama
The ‘western’ media are euphoric about the ‘successful’ Ukrainian counterattack in Kharkov oblast.
Ukrainian forces retake key villages as counteroffensive advances writes the Washington Post. How Ukraine Gained Momentum Against Russia and Took a Critical Hub says the New York Times. WaPo again: Intelligence points to potential turning point in Ukraine war. Ukraine News: In Reclaimed Towns, Ukrainians Recount a Frantic Russian Retreat, headlines the NYT. Is Russia on the run? asks the Economist.
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Ukraine sliding into a real war
Wednesday, 14 September 2022 — Indian Punchline
Bakhmut’s desolate streets where intense fighting is expectedA recurring feature of the Cold War was that the United States almost always placed great store on the optics of a Soviet-American affair while Moscow chose to concentrate on the end result. The Cuban Missile Crisis is the best known example where the denouement was about the publicised abandonment of the planned Soviet deployment of missiles in Cuba and a US public declaration and agreement not to invade Cuba again. But it later came to be known that there was also an unpublicised part, namely, the dismantling of all of the Jupiter ballistic missiles that had been deployed to Turkey.
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Covid Vaccine Destroys Natural Immunity, NEJM Study Shows
Monday, 12 September 2022 — Daily Skeptic
by Will Jones
A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) shows not only that the effectiveness of the Pfizer Covid vaccine becomes negative (meaning the vaccinated are more likely to be infected than the unvaccinated) within five months but that the vaccine destroys any protection a person has from natural immunity.
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1.5°C warming may trigger multiple tipping points
Tuesday, 13 September 2022 — Climate & Capitalism
Five of sixteen identified tipping points are already in the danger zone
Click to enlarge: The location of climate tipping elements in the cryosphere (blue), biosphere (green) and ocean/atmosphere (orange), and global warming levels their tipping points will likely be triggered at. Summary Map by Earth Commission/Globaïa.
Multiple climate tipping points could be triggered if global temperature rises beyond 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, according to a major new analysis published in the journal Science. Even at current levels of global heating the world is already at risk of passing five dangerous climate tipping points, and risks increase with each tenth of a degree of further warming.
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The Folly of Following ‘The’ Science: an Exercise in Grammar
Friday, 9 September 2022 — HART
The devil is in the detail…
Rishi Sunak’s revelations in The Spectator on 1 September reveal his disquiet at the influence SAGE advisers wielded during the pandemic, the perils of applying lockdowns, the inappropriate fear messaging targeted at the public based on exaggerated modelling of data and, importantly, the censorship of dissenting views within ministerial meetings.
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Latin Americans Reject Resource Plundering by Same NATO Countries Fueling Military Conflict in Ukraine
Tuesday, 13 September 2022 — CovertAction Magazine
[Source: iuvmpress.news][The following is a slightly expanded version of a talk given by Camila Escalante to an online forum of the International Manifesto Group on August 7, 2022. The topic of the forum was ‘The conflict over Ukraine: Where should the left stand?.–Editors]
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Watch: How The US & UK Stopped Peace Deal In Ukraine
Tuesday, 13 September, 2022 — Youtube
Lee Camp proves that NATO and the U.S. want their proxy war in Ukraine to be fought to the last Ukrainian. A new report shows that Russia and Ukraine had negotiated a peace deal in April. However, as Camp explains, NATO wasn’t ready for peace so they intervened to stop it. Now, after months of grueling conflict, Ukrainian forces have suffered catastrophic losses and their friends in NATO are pushing them to face worse.
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Over-Confidence Before The Fall?
Tuesday, 13 September 2022– Geopolitics & Climate Change
In the past couple of weeks there has been much celebration in the Western media about the Ukrainian taking of territory in the Kharkov area. After the fog of war cleared a bit it has become apparent that the Ukrainians took advantage of a Russian planned retreat (to consolidate forces in the east and south) in a relatively lightly defended area to rapidly gain territory. Russia traded territory for a shorter much more easily held defensive line, on the wide Oskil river to the west and the Siversky-Donets to the south. The latter is still relatively easily passable, but will soon swell in width, depth and speed with the Fall rains.
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Ukraine News Links 12-13 September 2022
Tuesday, 13 September 2022 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular and some links may not work, depending on your location but at least you have some idea of the scale of censorship now operating in the ‘democratic’ West.
In Other News.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/09/in-other-news.htmlThe EU Brought To Its Knees By The Straussians
https://orientalreview.org/2022/09/13/the-eu-brought-to-its-knees-by-the-straussians/Sweden: Right-Wing Coalition Wins Election by the Narrowest of Margins
https://socialistproject.ca/2022/09/sweden-right-wing-coalition-wins-election-narrowest-margin/
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Russian regrouping in Kharkov will speed up Battle of Donbass
Monday, 12 September 2022 — Indian Punchline
The New York Times has disclosed that the US shared vital intelligence with the Ukrainian military and took part in the preparation of the latter’s current “counteroffensive” near Kharkov. No matter the Biden Administration’s motivations in publicising its role in what western media is celebrating as a success story — presumably, with an eye on domestic politics in America — it could be factually correct. The media leak puts the dramatic happenings in the past 3-4 days in proper perspective.
John Parker walking through a Ukrainian bunker west of Sokilnyky. [Source: Photo courtesy of John Parker]
The New Dark Age 