31 August 2022 — The Grayzone
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1 comment on Jon Stewart and the Pentagon honor Ukrainian Nazi at Disney World
Jon Stewart and the Pentagon honor Ukrainian Nazi at Disney World
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Emily Maitlis is right about BBC bias – but for the wrong reasons
Tuesday, 6 September 2022 — Jonathan Cook
Journalists aren’t too deferential and timid, as the ex-Newsnight presenter claims. They are only too ready to bare their teeth when it serves establishment interests
Jonathan Cook
Middle East Eye – 6 September 2022
It took no great powers of prognostication for Emily Maitlis to predict in her recent MacTaggart lecture to the Edinburgh Television Festival that critical comments about her former employer, the BBC, would plunge her into controversy. Maybe that was the point.
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GERMANY WHERE NEXT? Q2 DATA INCLUDING RATE OF PROFIT
3 September 2022 — theplanningmotivedotcom
The German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) has released its estimates for the second quarter of 2022 allowing the preparation of turnover and profits for the non-financial sector in Germany. Following this fundamental analysis of the German economy comment will be made on Germany’s prospects given that it and Britain are most at risk from current market conditions
germany-aug-2022.pdf
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European police facial recognition system must be halted, warns new paper
Wednesday, 7 September 2022 — Statewatch
A new position paper published today by the European Digital Rights (EDRi) network calls for MEPs to oppose plans to create an EU-wide police facial recognition system that may, in the future, also include the UK.
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Ukraine: The IAEA has gone to the dark side
Wednesday, 7 September 2022 — Eurasia & Multipolarity
The IAEA has published a report “Nuclear Safety, Security and Safeguards in Ukraine“. It provides an overview of all nuclear facilities on Ukrainian territory, with the bulk of the report devoted to the Zaporizhzhya NPP.
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Ukraine Loses Soldiers – Europe Its Economies – All For No Gain
Wednesday, 7 September, 2022 — Moon of Alabama
When the Ukraine launched its Kherson ‘counteroffensive’ on August 29 I was pretty aghast and judged that it was destined to fail:
To break the reinforced Russian lines now would have taken more troops than were available.
I am sure that the Ukrainian military knew that this offensive would fail.
For political reasons Zelenski ordered them to launch it anyway. There are now another 1,000+ Ukrainian and Russian lives lost for nothing other then some sensational headlines and political optics.
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2019 RAND Paper Warned US of Failure During Ukraine Conflict
1 September, 2022 — Youtube
As far back as 2019, US Army-commissioned studies examined different means to provoke and antagonize Russia who they acknowledged sought to avoid conflict.
However, they also warned that if Russia was pushed too far, it could trigger an escalation that would spiral out of Washington’s control.
Today we are watching this conflict unfold. Just how accurate was the study’s predictions?
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Court orders Deutsche Welle to reinstate second Palestinian journalist
Tuesday, 6 September 2022 — The Electronic Intifada
Farah Maraqa, a Palestinian-Jordanian journalist, stood up to Deutsche Welle and won.Monday was a “date for celebrations,” Farah Maraqa wrote.
The Palestinian-Jordanian journalist had just won her lawsuit against Deutsche Welle.
The German state broadcaster was ordered by the Berlin labor court to reinstate her and pay all her legal costs.
The decisive victory “suggests that the court recognized that Farah’s termination, based on a controversial investigation and unfounded allegations of anti-Semitism related to reports published before her employment contract, was illegal,” said the European Legal Support Center.
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Ukraine: How British Intelligence Globalized Online Trolling
Tuesday, 6 September 2022 — Internationalist 360°
Since the conflict in Ukraine began, numerous commentators have drawn attention to the blatant weaponization of social media in service of the proxy war.
Legions of users on Facebook, Twitter, and other major platforms, many anonymous and recently registered, have relentlessly propounded pro-intervention, pro-Ukraine propaganda, viciously attacking all those deviating even slightly from established Western narratives. It has created an unprecedented situation, which writer Caitlin Johnstone calls “the most aggressively trolled war of all time.”
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Why does the United States continue to occupy a Haitian island?
15 August 2022 — Ayibo Post
The Americans mined a million tons of guano on the island without paying a cent to the Haitian authorities. Other countries have sold the product for hundreds of millions of dollars
In 1857, two Americans, Peter Duncan and Edward Cooper, landed on the coast of La Navase, an island of 5 km square, located 40 km from the town of Jérémie. It is an island that belongs to Haiti, according to the Haitian Constitution of 1801.
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India’s energy diplomacy blossoms, finally
Wednesday, 7 September 2022 — Indian Punchline
Indian Oil Corporation’s Numaligarh Refinery, Assam (File photo)To be sure, energy security has surged as the key to a country’s strategic autonomy and independence, as world events testify, currently within the matrix of “food-fertiliser-fuel” sufficiency where the global supply chains are disrupted. Europe’s missteps on this front, upon the advice of the US to atrophy and sever the continent’s seven decades-long economic links with Russia, is proving to be a Himalayan blunder that threatens the western economies with recession and brewing political turmoil.
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Half of Brits ‘disappointed’ with Truss as PM – poll
Monday, 5 September 2022 — RT (The source may or may not be available due to erratic Western censorship)
Only 4% of Britons say they are ‘very pleased’ to see Liz Truss become the new prime minister, according to a YouGov poll
Britons do not appear particularly enthusiastic about Foreign Secretary Liz Truss taking over as the new prime minister, a YouGov poll published on Monday suggests. Around half of the people in the UK say they are ‘disappointed’, with one-third ‘very disappointed’.
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British Media Turn on Putin War Plan. But Will They Turn on the New Clown in Downing Street?
Tuesday, 6 September, 2022 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Martin Jay
It’s becoming harder and harder for any British PM to state that the British are not part of the war in Ukraine, Martin Jay writes.
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Why are so many people dying?
Monday, 5 September 2022 — HART
The endless butterfly effects of damaging policies
The disappointment from Covidean doom-mongers about the recent – and entirely expected – downtick in cases of respiratory disease has been palpable, presumably because this has happened without recourse to ‘clever’ public health interventions.
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Ukraine News Links 5-6 September 2022
Tuesday, 6 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.
The CIA, movement wreckers, & the threats the communist movement faces
https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-cia-movement-wreckers-threats.htmlNatural Disaster and Domestic Political Developments in Pakistan
https://journal-neo.org/2022/09/05/natural-disaster-and-domestic-political-developments-in-pakistan/Europe Faces ‘Winter Of Discontent’ As US Profits From Energy Crisis
https://popularresistance.org/europe-faces-a-winter-of-discontent-as-the-us-profits-from-the-energy-crisis/
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UK Crony Capitalism: Caught in a Cycle of Despair and Exploitation
Tuesday, 6 September 2022 — Craig Murray
So the UK today gets its fourth successive Tory Prime Minister, despite the fact the previous three all crashed in failure, even in their own terms.After presiding over crippling austerity as a policy response to Gordon Brown’s massive handover of public money to the casino bankers, David Cameron’s attempt to control the lunatic right of his party by offering a Brexit referendum backfired spectacularly. Theresa May was brought down by that same right wing when she attempted to devise a Brexit deal which allowed for a sensible trading relationship with the European Union. Johnson realised that governing from the far right was the only way to handle the Conservative Party, but the lies and corruption of his government led to him being quite exploded, like Bunbury.
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Moment of truth in the Ukraine war
Sunday, 4 September 2022 — Indian Punchline
Ukrainian counteroffensive has begun in Kherson OblastThe fog of war envelops the Ukrainian “counteroffensive” in southern Kherson region where Kiev hopes to regain lost territories. But by the sixth day of operations, the echo chamber in the West has fallen silent. There are no tall claims.
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RIP Great Britain
Monday, 5 September 2022 — Moon of Alabama
On July 7, when Boris Johnson finally stepped down as Prime Minister of great Britain, I wrote:
A current poll says that party members would favor the current defense secretary Ben Wallace. But that does not mean they will get him as one of the two candidates to vote on as the MPs have the say over that choice.
Johnson may try to get someone elected who would look worse in office than he did. Liz Truss is a good candidate for that.
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Kherson ‘Counteroffensive’ – Zelenski Is Going For Broke
Monday, 5 September 2022 — Moon of Alabama
After the first Ukrainian attempt to push towards had failed it is now reinforcing that failure. As I describe the move:
The only ‘successful’ attack was across the Inhulet river near Andriivka in the direction of the dam and river crossing that closes off the Kakhovka Dnieper reservoir.
The troops were cut off and mostly destroyed. On the western side of the salient a Russian unit crossed the Inhulet towards north and attacked the Ukrainians on that side. It soon had to pull back and the Ukrainians used the Russian crossing to reconnect with the cut off units in the salient.
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