OCCUPIED WEST BANK — On Wednesday, thousands of Israeli settlers from the Nachala settler group — along with Israeli lawmakers — flocked to the occupied West Bank and established seven illegal outposts in a land grab operation propelled by a massive fundraising campaign.
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act has changed the law on highway obstruction.
With campaigners regularly arrested for blocking roads, it is essential everyone knows about these changes and what they mean.
Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
Reading The great big book of horrible things (2012), I came to the American civil war. Bloody, but well down the list at 65. It was in the works for at least a decade and finally caught fire. Brother fighting brother over a defense of the equality of all vs white nationalism. Messy and cruel, in the end a war of attrition, with the industrial engine flattening the enemy.
Has the so-called American Century come to an end? If so, how did this come about? Was it poor leadership or the mission to lead the world itself was always destined to fail? And, what follows the end of the American Century?
CrossTalking with Pepe Escobar, Peter Kuznick, and Ajamu Baraka.
Over the last months the British MI-6 disinformation service had fun with strewing rumors over Vladimir Putin’s health, mostly via British tabloids. It used its usual tools – a former MI-6 chief, ‘former’ MI-6 spies and the ever available ‘anonymous’ Russian oligarch who lives in London. Like its other propaganda claims these were obvious nonsense but found a reliably echo in the gossip media.
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A Peculiar Math.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-peculiar-math.html
A Short Note About… Mobilization And Math.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-short-note-about-mobilization-and-math.html
Western Delusion of “Isolating” Russia
https://journal-neo.org/2022/07/21/western-delusion-of-isolating-russia/
Photograph by Wellington Lenon / MST-PRDear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
In the chilly Brazilian winter of 2019, Renata Porto Bugni (deputy director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research), André Cardoso (coordinator of our office in Brazil), and I went to the Lula Livre (‘Free Lula’) camp in Curitiba, set up just across the road from the penitentiary where former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sat in a 15-square metre cell. Lula had been in prison for 500 days. Hundreds of people gathered each day at the Lula Livre camp to wish him good morning, good day, and good night – a greeting that sought both to keep his spirits up and to offer a spirited protest of his incarceration. Eighty days later, Lula walked out of prison, free from charges that most observers rightly condemned as absurd. He is now the front-runner in the country’s presidential elections that will take place on 2 October 2022.
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This may seem like Kiev’s new toy, but many now think that Uncle Sam doesn’t trust the Ukrainians enough to let them play with it on their own.In the face of a rampant Russia, a collapsing Ukraine and a West that simply cannot abandon its political path, western MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System) units are being sent to the Ukraine if for no other reason than to shore up the headlines as nothing but bad news comes from Eastern Europe. This article will examine not only what these weapons platforms offer, but also the implications that they bring to bear, both in the Ukraine and elsewhere.
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Four militants of the national battalion “Kraken” were captured after the defeat of their assault squad near Belogorovka by the forces of motorized infantry of the Central Military District (group “O”).
One of them is the commander of a detachment of 60 nationalists.
With the fighting spirit, everything is sad. According to one of them, the battalion believes that they were redirected to Donbass for slaughter. No one can leave. The dismissal report is simply burned.
Revelations of fiends: a captured militant of the national battalion “Kraken” told why they were kicked out of Kharkov two weeks ago:
“We were sent [from Kharkov] because [call sign] Konoplya started… they found seven corpses in his backyard.”
“Who?”
“Civilians.”
“Why did he kill them?”
“Just for no reason.”
It was the Kraken militants who were involved in one of the most scandalous episodes of this conflict: they filmed how they shot the knees of captured Russian soldiers, gouged out their eyes and simply executed them, smiling and laughing.
In the rear, apparently, they were doing the same thing
📸 Clip from “Gaza Fights Back” now LIVE on MintPress News
🔥This is the story of the al-Jalaa tower, home to Gaza’s AP, Al-Jazeera & other media offices. Israel’s targeting and bombing of this civilian high-rise in May 2021 is a blatant war crime, one of several documented in our new feature film Gaza Fights Back. No justice has been served.
Samizdat | July 19, 2022
The US needs to stop “stealing” the oil from the Syrian people and state, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday, after meeting with his Iranian and Turkish counterparts in Tehran. The three guarantors of the “Astana process” also agreed that the US should leave the trans-Euphrates, and stop making the humanitarian crisis in Syria worse with their unilateral sanctions.
‘Factionalism’ is identified as an electoral liability by Labour’s new report. But it has only intensified since Jeremy Corbyn’s exit
Middle East Eye – 21 July 2022
A long-delayed report by Martin Forde QC into “factionalism” within the British Labour Party during Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure was finally made public this week, more than two years after a leaked internal report detailed efforts by senior staff to undermine the former leader.
One year ago, in July 2021, some independent covid analysts noted that in Europe, countries with high covid vaccination rates had much higher covid infection rates than countries with low vaccination rates. They proposed that covid vaccination might perhaps drive covid infections.
If you’ve kept up with the news from Germany this week, you will have heard that the soldier Franco Albrecht has been convicted of planning to attack senior politicians and public figures while posing as a Syrian refugee. This story and other concerning trends within policing and the military feature in this week’s calendar of racism and resistance. A comprehensive article by IRR director Liz Fekete published in the July issue of Race & Class (now available to order) provides many such examples of extremism in European police and armed forces. But crucially, her research, which demolishes the idea that this is a marginal problem of a few ‘rotten apples’ in an otherwise perfect barrel, asks whether we are facing a crisis of democracy within state institutions.
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by Yves Engler
Last week the Social Media Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Management released a report titled “The reach of Russian propaganda and disinformation in Canada”. According to lead author Anatoliy Gruzd, “the research provides evidence that the Kremlin’s disinformation is reaching more Canadians than one would expect. Left unchallenged, state-sponsored information operations can stoke societal tensions and could even undermine democracy itself.”
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India-Russia-Iran: Eurasia’s new transportation powerhouses
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/07/india-russia-iran-eurasias-new-transportation-powerhouses/
Yemen is in the Grip of a Severe Humanitarian Crisis
https://journal-neo.org/2022/07/21/yemen-is-in-the-grip-of-a-severe-humanitarian-crisis/
The West Against Russia: The Strategy is being Played Out in Ukraine
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/07/the-west-against-russia-the-strategy-is-being-played-out-in-ukraine/
Ahmad Manasra“We regret we failed to protect you”. This was part of a statement issued by United Nations human rights experts on July 14, urging the Israeli government to release Palestinian prisoner Ahmad Manasra. Only 14 years old at the time of his arrest and torture by Israeli forces, Manasra is now 20 years old. His case is a representation of Israel’s overall inhumane treatment of Palestinian children.
Celebrating Revolution in Nicaragua
Margaret Kimberley
Genuine peoples holidays are hard to come by in the U.S. But in Nicaragua the ongoing revolutionary process is widely celebrated.
ESSAY: Negro Revolutionary Hero: Toussaint L’Ouverture, Cyril Briggs, 1929
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
In 1929, Black radical Cyril Briggs penned an essay on Toussaint L’Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution. For Briggs, both provided inspiration for the fight against the U.S. occupation of Haiti. We need that inspiration now.
Next winter Germany, and other European countries, will have an energy crisis. This crisis, we are told, is caused by the proxy war between the U.S. and Russia in Europe. They say that Russia has cut us off from its natural gas deliveries.
That is a lie.
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Rather than Yellen putting a price cap on Russian oil, she ought to be wearing a dunce’s cap for being the prize idiot of current affairs.The western world and more pointedly the US wishes to put a cap on the price of Russian oil exports in order to alleviate rocketing fuel prices. This article will be looking at the matter, its effects and where it fits into global commodities markets.
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The New Dark Age 