Declan Hayes
Before looking at Ukraine’s government warrants, which gives the game away to anyone with even a rudimentary financial or mathematical background, let’s just quickly survey Kiev’s empty coffers.
Because the changes needed to achieve sustainable well-being for everyone are so big, they require determined social movements with wide participation. But while history shows that inertia and defeatism can become self-fulfilling, it also shows that governments ultimately have to respond to popular pressure – or be replaced by it.
An UAV hit the roof of the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, Sevastopol, Crimea, August 20, 2022In military terms, the crude, locally assembled drone dropping a country-made bomb or two on unguarded sites in Crimea are at best pin pricks in the big picture of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. But it can be profoundly consequential in certain other ways.
By Glenn Diesen, Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and an editor at the Russia in Global Affairs journal.
The author and holocaust survivor, Victor Klemperer, identified two distinct styles of language that defined Hitler’s propaganda against the Jews: either “scornful derision” of the inferior race or “panic-stricken fear” of their threat to civilisation.
Anti-Russian propaganda over the past centuries has similarly produced two contradictory positions – disdain for Russians as an uncivilised and backward people, and simultaneously an immeasurable threat looming over Europe. A state of affairs described by one writer as “Russophrenia: the idea that Russia is simultaneously about to fall apart, and also take over the world.”
Some voices on the death of Darya Dugina:
biggerCar blast kills daughter of Russian philosopher Dugin – RT.com
Investigators suspect an improvised explosive device was used
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Galina Vasilyevna Volodina (left), and twelve-year-old Katya Kutubaeva. [Source: slippedisc.com]On August 4, Ukrainian army rockets struck the drama theater of Donetsk and a neighboring area, killing famed ballerina and teacher, Galina Vasilyevna Volodina, and one of her protégés, Katya Kutubaeva, 12, a rising young star with a brilliant future ahead of her.
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Germany has abandoned Ukraine – controversial ex-envoy
https://www.rt.com/news/561257-germany-abandoned-ukraine-military/
Ukraine Open Thread 2022-137
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/08/ukraine-open-thread-2022-137.html
Russia details use of hypersonic missiles in Ukraine
https://www.rt.com/news/561252-kinzhal-hypersonic-shoigu-ukraine/
Official Canadian foreign policy supports empire and corporate interests, but you’d never know that if you rely on the dominant media or government pronouncements.
Author: Valery Kulikov
On August 7, a delegation of 11 Lithuanian officials led by Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications Agnė Vaiciukevičiūtė arrived in Taiwan on a five-day visit. According to the Taiwanese Foreign Ministry, the purpose of the delegation’s visit is to “strengthen strategic cooperation and business ties in advanced sectors.” In reality, however, the Lithuanian vice-ministers talked about the possibility of signing documents that hinted at Taiwan’s independence, thus sending a signal to the separatist forces on the island that was not friendly to Beijing.
The news about the war in Ukraine is getting so fake that even an amateur can debunk it no time.
Consider this from the Washington Post:
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10 years after the brutal massacre of striking mine workers in Marikana in South Africa, Mbuso Ngubane, Deputy General Secretary of NUMSA, talks about questions of justice and the close ties between mining giants and the state
In a video sent via Facebook messenger in July, Ivan* can be seen standing next to his car, an early 2010s model Mitsubishi SUV. Smoke is pouring out of the rear window. Ivan laughs and pans his phone’s camera across the length of the vehicle, pointing out bullet holes. “The turbocharger died in my car,” he said, panning his phone toward the front of the vehicle. “My commander says I should pay to repair it myself. So to use my own car in the war, I need to buy a new turbocharger with my own money.”
For more than five months, full-scale hostilities have taken place on the territory of Ukraine. The number of victims is growing every day on both sides of the front line.
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Iran-US: Last Chance for a New Nuclear Deal
https://journal-neo.org/2022/08/19/iran-us-last-chance-for-a-new-nuclear-deal/
Australia and India are Coming Closer due to the Increasing Chinese Power
https://journal-neo.org/2022/08/19/australia-and-india-are-coming-closer-due-to-the-increasing-chinese-power/
Aging US Nuclear Plants Are Dangerous And Expensive
https://popularresistance.org/aging-us-nuclear-plants-are-dangerous-and-expensive-the-inflation-reduction-act-is-propping-them-up/
19 August (Issue 14/22, also available as a PDF)
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[Source: Photo courtesy of Dan Kovalik]On August 7, 2022, Gustavo Petro and his running mate, Francia Márquez, were inaugurated as the President and Vice-President of the Republic of Colombia. This was one of the most historic events in Latin America for at least a century.
Over half of all food samples tested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) contain the residues of at least one pesticide, and one in ten samples have levels that violate legal limits established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Beyond Pesticides reported Monday. Source: Beyond Pesticides These findings, published by the FDA […] Read more
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On the Transfiguration of Europe: From Nuland’s Dream to Nuland’s Nightmare
http://thesaker.is/on-the-transfiguration-of-europe-from-nulands-dream-to-nulands-nightmare/
War Propaganda About Ukraine Starting to Wear Thin
https://desultoryheroics.com/2022/08/19/war-propaganda-about-ukraine-starting-to-wear-thin/
Europe Decreasing Military Aid to Ukraine
https://www.globalresearch.ca/europe-decreasing-support-ukraine/5790596
The New Dark Age 