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Europe’s Economic Hara-Kiri
Sunday, 25 September 2022 — Peoples Democracy
Prabhat Patnaik
THE cessation of natural gas supplies from Russia to Europe in retaliation against Western sanctions imposed on Russia because of the Ukraine war, is threatening Europe not only with a winter with inadequate heating that will take a big toll in terms of lives among poor people, but also with large-scale closures of enterprises; such closures would push up the unemployment rate, and significantly increase poverty and destitution among the workers.
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Without Culture, Freedom Is Impossible: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter (2022)
Thursday, 22 September 2022 — The Tricontinental
Roberto Matta (Chile), Cuba es la capital (‘Cuba Is the Capital’), 1963.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
In 2002, Cuba’s President Fidel Castro Ruz visited the country’s National Ballet School to inaugurate the 18th Havana International Ballet Festival. Founded in 1948 by the prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso (1920–2019), the school struggled financially until the Cuban Revolution decided that ballet – like other art forms – must be available to everyone and so must be socially financed. At the school in 2002, Castro remembered that the first festival, held in 1960, ‘asserted Cuba’s cultural vocation, identity, and nationality, even under the most adverse circumstances, when major dangers and threats loomed over the country’.
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MoA’s take on the Empire’s Proxy War against the Global South
Friday, 23 September 2022 — The New Dark Age
I couldn’t resist publishing the backlog of Moon of Alabama’s take on the Empire’s war on the Global South. It complements, to some degree, MK Bhadrakumar’s excellent analysis reproduced below. B
Historic Context Of The Referenda In Ukraine
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/historic-context-of-the-referenda-in-ukraine.htmlUkraine Open Thread 2022-155
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/ukraine-open-thread-2022-155.htmlRussia Announces Partial Mobilization
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/russia-announces-partial-mobilization-the-gloves-are-coming-off.htmlOn The Upcoming Putin Speech And Announcements
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/on-the-upcoming-putin-speech-and-annoucements.html‘Slamming’ Moon of Alabama
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/slamming-moon-of-alabama.htmlPutin’s Press Conference On Ukraine, Terrorism, Fertilizer, Europe’s Energy Crisis
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/putins-press-conference-on-ukraine-terrorism-fertilizer-europes-energy-crisis.htmlUkraine Open Thread 2022-153
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/ukraine-open-thread-2022-153.htmlUkraine – Dissecting Some War Propaganda News Items – Addendum
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/09/ukraine-dissecting-some-war-propaganda-news-items-addendum.html
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Why Ukraine referendum is a big deal
Thursday, 22 September 2022 — Indian Punchline
Russia’s newest ICBM Sarmat equipped with maneuvering warheadsThe referendum on September 23-27 in the Donbass and southern Kherson and Zaporozhye regions of Ukraine on their accession to Russian Federation is, prima facie, an exercise of the right of self-determination by the native population who reject the western-backed regime change in Kiev in 2014 and the ascendancy of extreme nationalist forces with neo-Nazi leanings in the power structure.
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Taking a break…
Saturday, 17 September 2022 — The New Dark Age
Updates below…
Sunday, 18 September, 2022 – Sunset From my hospital WindowI’m kinda ‘under the weather’ right now, in fact I’m feeling rather shitty, some kind of chest infection which, hopefully will respond to antibiotics (when I can get hold of them with our trashed NHS!), so I won’t be updating the site for a couple of days I think.
William
Wednesday, 21 September 2022
From my hospital window somewhere in London, around 7am.I’m planning at least one piece on the neoliberal, authoriatarian transformation of the National Health Service [sic], the NHS. Oh, and it wasn’t some shitty chest infection but once again, my heart. Not a heart attack but very close to it. Right now, I’m shattered but as I say above, this transformatiom is very closely connected to my health, or lack of.
Friday, 23 September 2022
Well my illness is a deal more serious than I thought. I’m not dying, well not immediately anyway but I have to take it real easy for awhile, which means I’ll continue the updating but at nothing like the usual rate. My daily Ukraine News Links will have to be suspended for awhile unfortunately but I will publish stuff that I think is important, for example, MK Bhadrakumar’s excellent analysis that essentially presents the view from the Global South (I hope he doesn’t disagree with that!).
That’s all for now folks…
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India’s gaffe at Samarkand
Tuesday, 20 September 2022 — Indian Punchline
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Samarkand, Uzbekistan, September 16, 2022Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Samarkand on September 16 after the SCO Summit turned into a media scandal. The Western media zeroed in on six words culled out of context in the PM’s opening remarks — “today’s era is not of war” — to triumphantly proclaim that India is finally distancing itself from Russia on Ukraine issue, as the US and European leaders have been incessantly demanding.
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Ukraine News Links 15-16 September 2022
Friday, 16 September 2022 •22:00 — 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.
‘Samarkand Spirit’ to be driven by ‘responsible powers’ Russia and China
https://thesakeris.global/2022/09/16/samarkand-spirit-to-be-driven-by-responsible-powers-russia-and-china/Greece Follows a Two-Faced Policy Toward Turkey
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/09/16/greece-follows-a-two-faced-policy-toward-turkey/Irish Government Moves Nearer NATO and War With Russia
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022/09/16/irish-government-moves-nearer-nato-and-war-with-russia/
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US Does Not Want Data on Its Biological Activities to Become Public
13 September 2022 —
TEHRAN (FNA)- The US does not want information about its military-biological activities, which are carried out in violation of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC), to become known to the global community, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said at a briefing on Tuesday.
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Statewatch News 16 September (Issue 15/22)
Friday, 16 September 2022 — Statewatch
(also available as a PDF)
We are back after a break with a bumper issue, including:
- Europe-wide facial recognition system intrusive and unnecessary
- Spanish AI agency should prioritise human rights
- The future of travel: “a future with even more surveillance”
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Police response to anti-monarchy protests shows the need for Netpol’s Charter for Freedom of Assembly Rights
Friday, 16 September 2022 — NetPol
There has been outrage at the arrests. But protest is not illegal!
There has been outrage this week at the arrests and threat of arrest of anti-monarchy protesters. However the arrests have also led to a lot of misinformation and alarmist statements about the law and our right to protest.
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COMMENT: police ‘not knowing’ whether protest is permitted is deliberate – and it has to end
Thursday, 15 September 2022 — NetPol
There has been considerable press interest in the fairly small number of arrests (or threats of arrests) of anti-monarchists since the Queen’s death on 8 September.
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Want to protest against the monarchy? These are your rights!
Thursday, 15 September 2022 — NetPol
In recent days, there’s been outrage as anti-monarchy protesters have either been arrested or threatened with arrest.
However, the arrests have also led to a lot of misinformation and alarmist statements about the law and our rights.
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UK Crony Capitalism: Cool Observation of Mass Hysteria
Friday, 16 September 2022 — Craig Murray
When the so-called “Leader of the opposition” opposes protest against a new unelected head of state, out of respect for the previous unelected head of state, you know you live under totalitarianism.
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Royal Money: Charles III and the Wealth Dimension
Friday, 16 September 2022 — CounterCurrents
Once the fixated adoration with the late Queen Elizabeth II starts cooling, the accountants of public welfare and decency will be stunned to realise the costs and wealth associated with the royal institution. Her successor, Charles III, is continuing in that vein, a jarring note of wealth and pomp even as prices rise and the hefty bills for citizens (should we say subjects?), bite.
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Ukraine – Dissecting Some War Propaganda News Item
Friday, 16 September 2022 — Moon of Alabama
Last night a Reuters headline claimed:
Mass grave of more than 440 bodies found in Izium, Ukraine -police
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Uprising targets Canada’s man in Haiti
Friday, 16 September 2022 — Yves Engler
Sign: “Banks are not innocent in our misery”A popular uprising has paralyzed life in much of Haiti. While police are violently suppressing protesters, don’t expect Canadian officials to criticize security forces they fund.
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Crown prosecutor levels blackmail charges against Palestine Action
Thursday, 15 September 2022 — The Electronic Intifada
Palestine Action continues its protests in spite of an impending court case that could land several activists in prison for years. Martin Pope SOPA ImagesIn June, I wrote an analysis of Britain’s disturbingly draconian new Sections of that bill give every appearance of having been specifically drawn up in order to undermine Palestine Action.
Openly committed to damaging and destroying the British-based assets of top Israeli arms manufacturers, including Elbit Systems, Palestine Action has since launch in mid-2020 pulled off a string of successes, resulting in the closure of the company’s sites, and abandonment of offices by companies leasing space to Elbit.
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Chris Kaba – a family fights for justice
Thursday, 15 September 2022 — Institute of Race Relations
The accession of a new monarch has led many to question the nature of their citizenship (along with their right to protest). But the citizenship of many British citizens, particularly Muslims, has been in question for some time. A new IRR report, Citizenship: from right to privilege by Frances Webber shows how changes in the law over the past two decades have made citizenship precarious, disposable and contingent for a number of minority ethnic Britons, mainly Muslim, leading to a ‘second class citizenship’ for British Muslims.
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Russia won’t congratulate CIA on its diamond jubilee
Thursday 15 September 2022 — Indian Punchline
A US Senate commission in 1975 counted eight assassination attempts by CIA agents on Fidel Castro during 1960-1965In the Russian journal Natsionalnaya Oborona (National Defence), the chief of Russia’s foreign intelligence Sergey Naryshkin has written a riveting essay on the 75th anniversary of the Central Intelligence Agency, which falls on Sunday. It is an unusual gesture, especially in the middle of the hybrid war in Ukraine.
