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  • October 18, 2022
    No comments on Drones. Death and Data

    Drones. Death and Data

    Tuesday, 18 October 2022 — The Van Says…

    It might not look much, but the impact drones are making is causing a revolution on the battlefield.

    Preamble

    We have all become familiar with the drones and UAVs that have been used by the US over recent years that have caused such death and hardship across the Middle East and elsewhere, but current hostilities in the Ukraine have highlighted the value of smaller aircraft and brought the advent of a new form of warfare. This article will examine what these new drones are and how they will impact both this conflict as well as warfare in general.
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    War

  • October 18, 2022
    No comments on Ukraine – Drones Turn Off Electricity

    Ukraine – Drones Turn Off Electricity

    Tuesday, 18 October 2022 — Moon of Alabama

    In early September Gallup did a survey in Ukraine:

    More than six months into a war that many around the world (including Russia) thought Ukraine would lose quickly, most Ukrainians are resolved to keep fighting.

    A clear majority — 70% of all Ukrainians interviewed in early September — say their country should continue fighting until it wins the war with Russia. Just over one in four (26%) favor negotiating to end it as soon as possible.

    That 70% poll number is likely the high point as it came at a time that promised Ukrainian successes.

    The situation for Ukraine has since gotten worse. Much worse.

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    Russia, Ukraine

  • October 18, 2022
    No comments on The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60 How John F. Kennedy Sacrificed His Most Consequential Crisis Advisor

    The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60 How John F. Kennedy Sacrificed His Most Consequential Crisis Advisor

    Monday, 17 October 2022 — The National Security Archive

    Stevenson jfk

    Documents Chart Critical Contribution of U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson in Missile Crisis Management and Resolution

    Stevenson’s Diplomatic Admonition: “Blackmail and Intimidation Never; Negotiation and Sanity Always”

    Washington D.C., October 17, 2022 – In a secret “eyes only” memorandum for John F. Kennedy, written 60 years ago today at the outset of the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson admonished the president to abandon his initial plan to attack Cuba and to consider, instead, the diplomatic option of dismantling U.S. missile bases in Europe in return for the withdrawal of the Soviet missiles in Cuba. Air strikes against Cuba would “have such incalculable consequences,” he argued, “that I feel you should have made it clear [to your advisors] that the existence of nuclear missile bases anywhere is negotiable before we start anything.”

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    Cuba, USA

  • October 18, 2022
    No comments on China: Xi’s third term – part two: property, debt and common prosperity

    China: Xi’s third term – part two: property, debt and common prosperity

    Tuesday, 18 October 2022 — Michael Roberts Blog

    In part one of my analysis of China’s economic future, I dealt with the claims that China would slow towards stagnation because its investment rate was too high, the working population was falling fast and the economy needed to become like mature Western capitalist economies based on consumption-led growth.  I argued that the Western capitalist model was hardly great shakes, given its regular and recurring crises and the much lower levels of consumption growth.  Anyway, in an economy, consumption does not lead investment and national output.  On the contrary, it is investment that leads in capitalist economies just as much as in China.

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    China

  • October 17, 2022
    1 comment on Germany´s failing ´stored´ nat-gas & LNG experiment

    Germany´s failing ´stored´ nat-gas & LNG experiment

    Saturday, 15 October 2022 — The Saker Blog

    by Jorge Vilches for the Saker blog

    the LNG click-bait

    The sitting US Secretary of State very recently declared in an official press conference that the NS1 and NS2 pipeline sabotage will have “no impact on European energy resilience”…

    We should assume that Secretary Antony Blinken was referring to the timely supply of US LNG substitute equivalent to pipeline nat-gas now theoretically available (not) which would save the European day. With a clear smile, Blinken considered it to be a “tremendous opportunity” for the US to help Europe wean off of Russian energy… with the USA ready to be “the leading supplier (of dirty fracked seaborne LNG) to Europe”. And all of it despite the great ripoff “mondepreise” moon-high prices charged by US vendors according to the German Minister of Economics Robert Habeck who is now sorrowfully surprised by the very market dynamics that he actively contributed to establish.
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    Europe

  • October 17, 2022
    No comments on Watch: Russian Gains in Bakhmut, Ukraine Overextended, & US Lectures India

    Watch: Russian Gains in Bakhmut, Ukraine Overextended, & US Lectures India

    Monday, 17 October 2022 — Land Destroyer

    (The New Atlas) – Update for Russian military operations against Ukraine for October 17, 2022.

    • Russian forces are closing in on Bakhmut city – with even the Western media noting the inevitability of Russia’s victory there;
    • Ukrainian offensives are grinding to a halt – whatever additional gains they make will be temporary and inevitably reversed as Russia prepares what appears to be a major offensive of its own;
    • Western media is depending heavily on propaganda to paper over severe weapon and ammunition shortages in Ukraine and the implications it has on Kiev’s fighting capacity;
    • The US is lashing out with an increasingly desperate tone as nations around the globe refuse to subordinate themselves and their nation’s interests to US foreign policy objectives – India being among them;

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    Russia, Ukraine, Videos

  • October 17, 2022
    No comments on A war Russia set to win

    A war Russia set to win

    Monday, 17 October 2022 — The Tribune

    The Europeans have been nicely played by the Americans

    Former Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar

    Two massive terrorist strikes misfired spectacularly and a terrible beauty is born in the Ukraine war. These two carefully planned attacks in quick succession — on Nord Stream gas pipelines and Crimean Bridge — were intended as a knockout blow to Russia. According to President Vladimir Putin, people ‘who want to finally sever ties between Russia and the EU, weaken Europe’ are behind the Nord Stream blasts. He named the US, Ukraine and Poland as ‘beneficiaries’.
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    NATO, Russia

  • October 16, 2022
    No comments on China: Xi’s third term – part one: growth, investment and consumption

    China: Xi’s third term – part one: growth, investment and consumption

    Sunday, 16 October 2022 — Michael Roberts Blog

    China’s Congress of the Communist Party takes place this week.  This is an important event not only for China, but globally.  The Western media have concentrated on the fact that current party leader Xi Jinping will be confirmed for an unprecedented third term as party leader and thus also continue as President of China when the National Congress meets next March.

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    China

  • October 16, 2022
    No comments on Getting to Know the Cubans: Khrushchev Meets the Castro Brothers

    Getting to Know the Cubans: Khrushchev Meets the Castro Brothers

    Friday, 14 October 2022 — National Security Archive

    Castro khruschevRaul Castro wanted detailed Soviet security assurances, expected U.S. intervention

    Khrushchev insisted intervention unlikely, urged flexibility on Cuba’s part

    Soviet leader promised to fully replace U.S. as trade partner

    Washington, D.C., October 14, 2022 – Today the National Security Archive publishes for the first time in any language a translation of the first meeting between Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Cuban Defense Minister Raul Castro on July 18, 1960. The newly available transcript helps explain Khrushchev’s 1962 determination that defending Cuba from U.S. intervention would require a massive Soviet military base in Cuba, together with the deployment of nuclear weapons. The Cuban leader asks for details of how the USSR could protect Cuba, but Khrushchev insists on restraint and flexibility, saying that he does not want a “big war.”

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    Cuba, National Security Archive

  • October 16, 2022
    No comments on Statewatch News Issue 17/22: Change needed at Frontex; EU seeks deportation increase; Activity report 2021

    Statewatch News Issue 17/22: Change needed at Frontex; EU seeks deportation increase; Activity report 2021

    Friday, 14 October 2022 — Statewatch News

    14 October (Issue 17/22, also available as a PDF)

    Welcome to the latest edition of Statewatch News, featuring:

    • Demands for change at Frontex
    • EU still adamant on increasing deportations
    • Our annual activity report for 2021

    And reports on the externalisation of migration controls, police exploitation of software vulnerabilities, and a joint statement on the Egyptian government’s brutal treatment of Eritrean refugees.

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    Europe, UK

  • October 16, 2022
    1 comment on The wasteland of British politics

    The wasteland of British politics

    Sunday, 16 October 2022 — Indian Punchline

    by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR

    Mary Elizabeth Truss, currently UK’s prime minister

    When an ugly power play marks the end of the career of a phenomenally successful politician, it presents a painful sight. From all accounts in the British press in the most recent weeks, it was clear that the night of the long knives was approaching for the most photogenic prime minister Great Britain and Northern Ireland ever produced — Liz Truss.

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    UK

  • October 15, 2022
    No comments on Behind The Iranian Riots

    Behind The Iranian Riots

    Saturday, 15 October 2022 — Moon of Alabama

    Over the last weeks there were some riots in Iran. At first there were protest about the falsely reported death of a young women, Mahsa Amini, who had suddenly collapsed (video) while waiting in a police station. She died a few days later. Mahsa Amini had previously had brain surgery and her collapse and death were related to that, not to police action.

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    Iran

  • October 15, 2022
    2 comments on Watch: Regime change plot in UK. Dark times ahead

    Watch: Regime change plot in UK. Dark times ahead

    Saturday, 15 October 2022 — Youtube

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    Capitalism, UK, Videos

  • October 14, 2022
    1 comment on Saudi Arabia calls out US bluster

    Saudi Arabia calls out US bluster

    Friday, 14 October 2022 — Indian Punchline

    by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR

    Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman shares a laugh with Russian President Vladimir Putin after giving the Russian leader a high-five that morphed into a handshake, on the opening day of G20 Summit, Buenos Aires,  Nov. 30, 2018. USA Today described it as ‘a car alarm blaring in a library… closely parsed for meaning’.

    Saudi Arabia has politely but firmly rebutted the threats and calumnies levelled by the US political elites in the past week since the OPEC decided to cut oil production by 2 million barrels per day. On Thursday, a Foreign Ministry official in Riyadh forcefully pushed back the allegation that the OPEC decision was at Saudi initiative and was politically motivated against the US, and, worse still, to help Russia.

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    Saudi Arabia, USA

  • October 13, 2022
    1 comment on Western Media Rely on Dubious Sources in Smears Directed Against China

    Western Media Rely on Dubious Sources in Smears Directed Against China

    Thursday, 13 October 2022 — CovertAction Magazine

    By Felix Abt

    Inside 'The Epoch Times,' a Mysterious Pro-Trump Newspaper - The Atlantic[Source: theatlantic.com]

    Much of the disinformation is drawn from the dissident Falun Gong sect whose leaders believe that aliens brought science to the world so they could take control of human bodies.

    By now, everyone in the West should know that there is mass slave labor in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, where Muslim Uyghurs live. The slaves have to work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and without pay. Worse, they are not even Uyghurs, but foreigners, and Americans at that. The inhumane owners of the cotton farms, most of whom are Uyghurs themselves, force American John Deere machines to do unlimited slave labor on their 90% automated farms.

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    China, Propaganda, USA

  • October 13, 2022
    No comments on Two potentates meet up at St. Petersburg

    Two potentates meet up at St. Petersburg

    Wednesday, 12 October 2022 — Indian Punchline

    by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
    A 19th century painting of Konstantinovksy Palace, St. Petersburg

    There was something profoundly meaningful that the President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan undertook a visit to Russia amidst the gathering storms in Ukraine. Conscious of the symbolism, Russian President Vladimir Putin received Sheikh Mohammed on Tuesday in a grand setting befitting a monarch — at the gorgeous Konstantinovksy Palace in St. Petersburg whose heritage dates back to Peter the Great, a symbol of the revival of Russia and its cultural heritage.

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    Russia, Saudi Arabia

  • October 13, 2022
    No comments on When Will the Stars Shine Again in Burkina Faso?: The Forty-First Newsletter (2022)

    When Will the Stars Shine Again in Burkina Faso?: The Forty-First Newsletter (2022)

    Thursday, 13 October 2022 — The Tricontinental

    Wilifried Balima Burkina Faso Les Trois Camarades 2018 768x768Wilfried Balima (Burkina Faso), Les Trois Camarades (‘The Three Comrades’), 2018.

    Dear friends,

    Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

    On 30 September 2022, Captain Ibrahim Traoré led a section of the Burkina Faso military to depose Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who had seized power in a coup d’état in January. The second coup was swift, with brief clashes in Burkina Faso’s capital of Ouagadougou at the president’s residence, Kosyam Palace, and at Camp Baba Sy, the military administration’s headquarters. Captain Kiswendsida Farouk Azaria Sorgho declared on Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina (RTB), the national broadcast, that his fellow captain, Traoré, was now the head of state and the armed forces. ‘Things are gradually returning to order’, he said as Damiba went into exile in Togo.

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    Africa, Tricontinental

  • October 11, 2022
    2 comments on A perfect storm in US foreign policy

    A perfect storm in US foreign policy

    Tuesday, 11 October 2022 — Indian Punchline

    By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR

    The old adage is that a good foreign policy is the reflection of the national policy. A perfect storm is brewing on the foreign policy front in America triggered by the OPEC decision on Thursday to cut oil production by 2 million barrels a day, which will on the one hand drive up the gas price for the domestic consumer and on the other hand expose the Biden Administration’s lop-sided foreign policy priorities.

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    Russia, Saudi Arabia, USA

  • October 11, 2022
    No comments on Is the Death of an Innocent Woman Being Exploited to Advance the Goal of Regime Change in Iran?

    Is the Death of an Innocent Woman Being Exploited to Advance the Goal of Regime Change in Iran?

    Tuesday, 11 October 2022 — CovertAction Magazine

    By Elizabeth Sigrun

    Mahsa Amini's brutal death may be moment of reckoning for Iran | Iran | The Guardian[Source: theguardian.com]

    It certainly looks to be that way—though many liberals and self-proclaimed feminists remain oblivious.

    In an era increasingly awash with political instability, the latest protests in Iran are yet another manifestation of the plague of Western imperialism. The sudden death of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini and the unclear circumstances surrounding her death have precipitated a remarkable global response condemning the Iranian government as well as purporting to champion the rights of Iranian women in defiance of Islamic fundamentalism.

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    Iran, USA

  • October 11, 2022
    No comments on Ukraine – War Propaganda And News Items

    Ukraine – War Propaganda And News Items

    Tuesday, 11 October 2022 — Moon of Alabama

    Today Russia’s missile and drone onslaught on Ukrainian infrastructure continues. I yesterday posted 25 headlines which over the last 7 month  predicted that Russia would soon ‘run out of missiles’.

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