Saturday, 29 October 2022 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Seven countries account for more than fifty percent of global natural gas consumption.
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The message from China’s party congress
Sunday, 30 October 2022 — Indian Punchline
Xi Jinping (left) with new politburo standing committee members Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang and Li Xi at a meeting with media, Great Hall of People, Beijing, Oct.23, 2022The highlight of the recent 20th National Congress of the Communist Party (CPC) of China has been the re-election of Xi Jinping as the General Secretary for another five-year term. The tradition set by Deng Xiaoping in the post-Mao Zedong era has been set aside. This was not unexpected, and has been largely interpreted as a consolidation of political power by the incumbent leader. That is partly so but not entirely. Its consequences are wide-ranging.
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Ducks with Ruffled Feathers
Saturday, 29 October 2022 — The van says…
Is it a lame duck, sitting duck or just a dead duck in the water? A tsunami of consequences now affects Brussels and many of its minions as the tide of events slowly sinks it.
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Putin: “The situation is, to a certain extent, revolutionary”
Saturday, 29 October, 2022 — The Saker
by Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and widely cross-posted
In an all-encompassing address to the plenary session of the 19th annual meeting of the Valdai Club, President Putin delivered no less than a devastating, multi-layered critique of unipolarity.
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Ukraine News Links 27-28 October 2022
Friday, 28 October 2022 — The New Dark Age
Europe Self-Destructing For U.S. Proxy War In Ukraine, W/ Prabhat Patnaik
https://popularresistance.org/europe-self-destructing-for-u-s-proxy-war-in-ukraine-w-prabhat-patnaik/The Division Of The American Society Is In Ukraine
https://orientalreview.org/2022/10/28/the-division-of-the-american-society-is-in-ukraine/Will Ursula von der Leyen be forced to resign, and will her deeds be investigated?
https://journal-neo.org/2022/10/28/will-ursula-von-der-leyen-be-forced-to-resign-and-will-her-deeds-be-investigated/
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Statewatch News Issue 18/22: Join our Board; Refugee relocation scheme founders; Who benefits from EU security funding?
Friday, 28 October 2022 — statewatch.org
(Issue 18/22, also available as a PDF)
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Welcome to the latest edition of Statewatch News, featuring:
- Join our Board of Trustees!
- Refugee relocation scheme founders as states plan to “intensify police checks” across the EU
- Who benefits from EU military and security funding?
As well as news on a fresh round of migration control funding from Spain for Morocco (to the tune of €30 million) and our usual roundup of news and reports from across Europe.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60 The Cuban Missile Crisis Cover-Up
Friday, 28 October 2022 — National Security Archive
Documents Record how Kennedy Administration Buried Quid Pro Quo that Resolved Missile Crisis
Letters Implicate President Kennedy as Author of Political Attack on U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson
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Bolsonaro Implements Policies that are Completely Subservient to U.S. government, Says Director of Brazilian Data Privacy Group
Friday, 28 October, 2022 — CovertAction Magazine
By Julian Cola
Jair Bolsonaro in front of U.S. flag while, fittingly, celebrating U.S. Independence Day on July 4, 2020. [Source: twitter.com]Inauguration of a Fusion Center of Multinational Intelligence gathering located next to the pristine Iguaçu Falls—a long-held dream of the U.S. Embassy—is a case in point
“The U.S. has been a huge partner to Brazil in this project and others as well and we’re taking advantage of the model that has been built”
—Sergio Moro, Brazil’s ex-Minister of Justice and former federal judge speaking about the establishment of the Fusion Center, a high-tech intelligence hub located along the Triple Frontier in the city of Iguaçu Falls. (more…)
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Sound and Fury
Friday, 28 October 2022 — Big Serge Thoughts
On nukes, order of battle, and chariots
Big Green Tube of DeathIt has been several weeks since I last posted in this space – while I could apologize for the hiatus, I actually believe that one should only write when they have something to say – I do not believe in content simply for the sake of content (call that the Disney model). Events on the ground in Ukraine have been subdued for the past few weeks. This, so far at least, is in keeping with the predictions I made in previous posts that the front would stabilize towards the end of October as Ukraine’s offensive capability degraded and Russian reserves began to enter the theater. We’ll talk on that more in a bit – the real impetus for writing now is to take stock of some of the agitation (both nuclear and conventional) that has occurred in recent weeks and discuss the risks of escalation, with some other minutia and tangential content thrown in.
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Glyphosate, GMOs and Pesticides – Weekly Global News Bulletin 28 October 2022
Friday, 28 October 2022 — Sustainable Pulse
Indian Government Restricts Use of Glyphosate in Massive Blow to Agrichemical Lobby
The Indian government has restricted the use of glyphosate-based herbicides due to the risks to human and animal health. On Tuesday the Agricultural Ministry stated in a notification that “the use of glyphosate is prohibited and no person, except Pest Control Operators (PCOs), shall use glyphosate.” The government statement added that all agrichemical companies have […]Read more
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Justice for the Bristol protesters!
Friday, 28 October, 2022 — NetPol
Campaign statement by Justice for the Bristol Protesters
Justice for the Bristol Protesters (JBP) is a group of parents, friends and supporters of those charged with riot and given harsh prison sentences as a result of being involved with the protest against the Police Crime and Sentencing Bill in Bristol on 21 March 2021. Most of these protesters are young people, who had never been in trouble with the police before and were demonstrating legitimately against the Police Bill for the right to peaceful protest and freedom of expression.
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Wicked Leaks – Part 2: How The Media Quarantined Evidence On BP And Cancer In Iraq
Friday, 28 October 2022 — Media Lens
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Biden Sanctions Nicaragua (Again)
Thursday, 27 October 2022 — MintPress News
On Monday, President Joe Biden announced new sanctions on Nicaragua’s state-owned mining enterprises. Revenue from these mining operations funds Nicaragua’s social welfare programs. The move comes less than 2 weeks before President Daniel Ortega’s Sandinista party is expected to secure major victories in local elections.
Last year, days before Ortega’s re-election, the U.S. imposed sanctions on Nicaragua to intimidate voters into abandoning the Sandinista party. Twitter and Facebook also banned dozens of Nicaraguan activists, influencers, and journalists under the guise of removing botnets.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60 The Most Dangerous Day
Thursday, 27 October 2022 — National Security Archive
Joint Chiefs: “The president has a feeling that time is running out”
Cascade of human errors, nuclear-armed flashpoints, on October 27 nearly started World War III by accident
JFK: “always some SOB who doesn’t get the word”
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The War that NATO cannot Fight
Thursday, 27 October 2022 — The van says…
It may not (officially) be happening yet, but that’s not to say that it won’t in the futurePreamble
From the outset, the current conflict being waged in the Ukraine has been NATO’s war against the East. Washington and its allies know as well as anyone that a resurgent Russia as well as a China that becomes more powerful by the day present a clear and present danger to a West that is sitting on a precipice of its own making. In this article, we will examine certain potential events from the author’s perspective between NATO and the East, these being a continuation of the commitments that have already been made by the Western establishment.
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Ukraine News Links 26-27 October 2022
Thursday, 27 October 2022 — The New Dark Age
How U.S. & Allies Increasingly Rely Upon Theft To Conquer The Rest Of The World
https://orientalreview.org/2022/10/27/how-u-s-allies-increasingly-rely-upon-theft-to-conquer-the-rest-of-the-world/Pakistan Coup Regime Bans Imran Khan, Dissidents Killed
https://popularresistance.org/pakistan-coup-regime-bans-imran-khan-dissidents-killed-as-us-eyes-china-ties-israel-normalization/NATO In The Amazon: Petro Plays With Fire
https://popularresistance.org/nato-in-the-amazon-petro-plays-with-fire/
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We Need a New Trade Union of the Poor Rooted in the Global South: The Forty-Third Newsletter (2022)
Thursday, 27 October 2022 — The Tricontinental
Raquel Forner (Argentina), Fin-Principio (‘End-Beginning’), 1980.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Chaos reigns in the United Kingdom, where the prime minister’s residence in London – 10 Downing Street – prepares for the entry of Rishi Sunak, one of the richest men in the country. Liz Truss remained in office for a mere 45 days, convulsed as her government was by a cycle of workers’ strikes and the mediocrity of her policies. In her mini budget, which doomed her government, Truss opted for a full-scale neoliberal assault on the British public with both tax cuts and unacknowledged cuts to social benefits. The policies startled the international financial class, whose political role emerged clearly as wealthy bondholders indicated their loss of faith in the UK by junking government bonds, thereby increasing the cost of government borrowing and raising the mortgage payments for homeowners. It was this wealthy bondholder class that acted as the real opposition to the Truss government. Even the International Monetary Fund (IMF) weighed in with a strong statement, saying that ‘the nature of the UK measures will likely increase inequality’.
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Russia felt it had to act in self-defense in special military operation
Wednesday, 26 October, 2022 — CovertAction Magazine
Documents Reveal that NATO Was Rehearsing for an Amphibious Assault on Eastern Ukraine Using Ukrainian Naval Bases Acquired in Agreement with the UK
[Source: eurasia.sever.by]Russia felt it had to act in self-defense in special military operation to thwart U.S.-UK-NATO provocations and aggression and save people of the Donbas
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Ukraine News Links 25-26 October 2022
Wednesday, 26 October 2022 — The New Dark Age
Andrei Raevsky Posted…
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/10/andrei-raevsky-posted.htmlOf Note.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/10/of-note.htmlRussia’s ‘Dirty Bomb’ Scare
https://popularresistance.org/russias-dirty-bomb-scare/
