How can British police, who have struggled for so long to justify its surveillance on alleged “extremists”, ever hope to adequately categorise something as subjective as people’s political opinions? As Netpol asked in March 2021, how do campaigners become “aggravated activists” – the new label applied to those taking action that challenges state and corporate interests?
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US Intends to Strengthen its Influence in Uzbekistan by Appointing a New Ambassador
https://journal-neo.org/2022/08/02/us-intends-to-strengthen-its-influence-in-uzbekistan-by-appointing-a-new-ambassador/
How China Warns Of Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip
https://popularresistance.org/how-china-warns-of-pelosis-taiwan-trip/
With RIMPAC, South Korea Expands Its Military Footprint
https://popularresistance.org/with-rimpac-south-korea-expands-its-military-footprint/
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Russia’s Vostok 2022 Has Big Messages
https://orientalreview.org/2022/08/02/russias-vostok-2022-has-big-messages/
The Prospects for Peace in Ukraine Diminish By The Day
https://journal-neo.org/2022/08/01/the-prospects-for-peace-in-ukraine-diminish-by-the-day/
How Washington is Raising the Geopolitical Temperature around Taiwan
https://journal-neo.org/2022/08/01/how-washington-is-raising-the-geopolitical-temperature-around-taiwan/
Cargo ship Razoni carrying 26000 tonnes of maize sailing from Odessa Port toward Bosphorus, Aug 1, 2022The Russian Defence Ministry announced yesterday that at around 9.20 a.m. Moscow time, Razoni, ship flying the flag of Sierra Leone, left Odessa port in Ukraine as part of the recent grain deal. Razoni is carrying a cargo of maize to Istanbul port.
By Wang Qi
A naval fleet comprised of the guided-missile destroyers Ningbo (Hull 139) and Taiyuan (Hull 131), as well as the guided-missile frigate Nantong (Hull 601), steams in astern formation in waters of the East China Sea during a maritime training drill. Photo:China MilitaryThe Chinese Foreign Ministry and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are keeping up the pressure on the US over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s potential visit to the island of Taiwan, urging the US to honor US President Joe Biden’s promise to not support “Taiwan independence,” while media outlets from the US and Taiwan reported that Pelosi is expected to visit the island shortly.
[It’s unlikely that you’ll ever find this stunning book, unfortunately, I’ve tried, I was lent a copy by a friend. It’s an incredible document of the most beautiful photographs of African-American musicians hanging out in Paris in the 1950s. Absolutely stunning! The photographer, Eddy Wiggins almost completely unknown. B]
On our burning planet, the impact of private jets, socialist solidarity, and the growth of degrowth
Once a month, we put together a list of stories we’ve been reading: news you might’ve missed or crucial conversations going on around the web. We focus on environmental justice, radical municipalism, new politics, political theory, and resources for action and education.
Defaming journalism on the OPCW’s Syria cover-up scandal, The Guardian and its NATO-funded sources out themselves as the real “network of conspiracy theorists.”On June 10th, The Guardian’s Mark Townsend published an article headlined “Russia-backed network of Syria conspiracy theorists identified.” (“Russia-backed” has since been removed).
Something weird is happening at WHO headquarters in Geneva. On Saturday July 23, 2022, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebressus held a press conference in which he declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) pertaining to the monkeypox virus.
Mao Zedong (L) shakes hands with US President Richard Nixon on weeklong visit to China in Feb 1972 in a historic strategic overtureThe tame ending of the saga of Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan leaves many intriguing loose ends, although the world is lucky that she didn’t choose to test the authenticity of the Chinese rhetoric.
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The Old Dogs Needs Some New Tricks
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/08/01/the-old-dogs-needs-some-new-tricks/
World is ‘one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation’ – UN chief
https://www.rt.com/news/560030-un-warns-of-nuclear-annihilation/
Could Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan spark a war between China and the US?
https://www.rt.com/news/560018-nancy-pelosi-visit-taiwan/
The MintPress podcast, “The Watchdog,” hosted by British-Iraqi hip hop artist Lowkey, closely examines organizations about which it is in the public interest to know – including intelligence, lobby and special interest groups influencing policies that infringe on free speech and target dissent. The Watchdog goes against the grain by casting a light on stories largely ignored by the mainstream, corporate media.
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The Oldest Trick In The Book.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-oldest-trick-in-book.html
Ukraine: a Potemkin Village Kind of War
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/08/ukraine-a-potemkin-village-kind-of-war/
Canada’s “Jekyll-and-Hyde” Masquerade as Nation that Supposedly Supports Pacifism and Progressive Principles
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/08/canadas-jekyll-and-hyde-masquerade-as-nation-that-supposedly-supports-pacifism-and-progressive-principles/
There will be a presentation by Roger Waters, followed by Q&A.
The event begins
August 8 at 9 a.m. in Honolulu, noon in Los Angeles, 2 p.m. in Mexico City, 3 p.m. in New York, 8 p.m. in London, 10 p.m. in Moscow.
And August 9 at 7 a.m. in Auckland.
Sponsors: Project for the Study of American Militarism, World BEYOND War, Women Against Military Madness, CODE PINK, Veterans For Peace, Andy Worthington, Mondoweiss, Just Peace Advocates / Mouvement Pour Une Paix Juste, Antiwar.com, RootsAction.org.
— The RootsAction.org Team
After banning virtually his entire political opposition, publishing a blacklist of foreign journalists and academics accused of advancing “Russian propaganda,” and ramming through a law exempting 70% of Ukrainians from workplace protections, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy has freed from prison fascist militants convicted of some of the most heinous crimes the country has seen since World War II.
Though peace will come to Ukraine, it will be peace with justice and dignity for the country’s Russian speakers, irrespective of the day dreams of the LA Times and NATO’s other organ grinders.
What game theory can tell us about the war in Ukraine, a recent LA Times op-ed by two American academics, has to be the worst exposition of game theory in times of war that has ever seen parchment since Thucydides discussed the Melian Dialogue 2,500 years ago in his History of the Peloponnesian Wars we previously discussed.
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There Will Be No Surrender: Serbian President Calls for Peaceful Solution to Kosovo Escalation
https://countercurrents.org/2022/08/there-will-be-no-surrender-serbian-president-calls-for-peaceful-solution-to-kosovo-escalation/
In Kosovo as in Ukraine, the same Western ‘invisible hand’ foments conflict
https://www.rt.com/news/559969-serbia-kosovo-kurti-eu/
Trump’s Kosovo envoy slams US over crisis
https://www.rt.com/news/559967-grenell-kurti-kosovo-trump/
Photo from Roger Waters’ “This Is Not A Drill” performance in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 28, 2022Kevin Gosztola reviews Roger Waters’ “This Is Not A Drill” show, which is touring North America from August to October.
Cynthia Chung
The circus around Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan is a clear sign that something incredibly reckless and stupid is about to happen.
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Almost No One Trusts US Media, After Decades Of War Propaganda And Lies
https://popularresistance.org/polls-show-almost-no-one-trusts-us-media-after-decades-of-war-propaganda-and-lies/
Kim Jong Il denounced libertarianism for a reason: it undermines the class struggle
https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2022/07/kim-jong-il-denounced-libertarianism.html
U.S. empire losing control over its neo-colonies, drifting closer towards collapse
https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2022/07/us-empire-losing-control-over-its-neo.html
The New Dark Age 