Wednesday, 22 June 2022 — Caitlin Johnson
Caitlin Johnstone
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The problem with anti-imperialists who spend all their time criticizing the evil US empire is that there aren’t nearly enough of them.
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Ukraine News Links 20-21 June 2022
Tuesday, 21 June 2022 • 15:00 — 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 I’ve kept them anyway, so at least the reader has some idea of the scale of censorship now operating in the ‘democratic’ West.
‘Russia Has Won This War’: German Journalist Says West Lying About Ukraine War
https://www.globalresearch.ca/russia-has-won-this-war-german-journalist-says-west-lying-about-ukraine-war/5784111Biden blames Russia for record number of refugees
https://www.rt.com/news/557538-biden-blames-russia-record-refugee-number/Russian journalist sells Nobel Peace Prize for $103.5 million
https://www.rt.com/news/557548-russian-journalist-sells-nobel-prize/
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Zugzwang*
Monday, 20 June 2022 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Alastair Crooke
Europe’s future looks bleak. It is now pressed by its own imposition of sanctions, and the resultant spike in commodity prices. The EU is lumbering around in a daze.
Western self-destruction – a puzzle defying any unique causal explanation – continues. The examples where policy is pursued in apparent indifference to anything resembling rigorous reflection, has become so extreme as to provoke a former British military chief (and former head of NATO forces in Afghanistan), Lord Richards, to huff that the relationship between strategy and any synchronisation of ends has become hopelessly broken in the West.
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Your Man in Saughton Jail Part 2
Tuesday, 21 June 2022 — Craig Murray
I was walking down that improbably long central corridor in a group of about eight mainstream prisoners heading for legal visits, when panic broke out among the escorting guards. About a hundred yards further down, and coming towards us, was an overweight and bearded old man walking with a zimmer frame and wearing the maroon shirt of a protected prisoner.
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Baltic Battles?
Tuesday, 21 June 2022 — The Van Says…
Gonzalo Lira may not be name known to many in the West, but he certainly has a firm grip on current affairsPreamble
Sundays are more usually dedicated to less serious articles than this, yet a video posted by Gonzalo Lira gives a lot of pause for thought. This longer article will look at the reasons events may happen as well as the events themselves. In the interests of brevity, links will be provided to previous posts in order that the reader gain a better understanding of certain key points without making this article inordinately long. The author would like to thank @Dogsareloyal1s for his invaluable assistance in the writing of this article.
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Bridging the Gap
Monday, 20 June 2022 — The van says…
The logistical corridor to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad has been cut off by the Lithuanians. What might this mean? Photo©️TassPreamble
Last week saw the Lithuanian government prohibit the transport of EU sanctioned goods across its territory from the Russian Federation to the exclave of Kaliningrad. This article subsequent to a previous one that examined the Baltic states from another angle, will look at what this means and what reaction this may elicit from Moscow.
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No Finger on the Trigger
Monday, 20 June 2022 — The Van Says…
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Badly equipped and out of his depth. In all honesty, this is the best fate for those who have been forced to fight. Photo©️ФорпостPreamble
Much has been made over recent months concerning the weapons that western nations have given to the Ukrainian government, yet an increasingly pressing issue is beginning to make itself felt as Kiev’s efforts to bring the Russians to a halt turns is actually turning into a rout that accelerates by the day. That problem is a lack of personnel and this article is going to examine why this is becoming just one more dilemma facing the Ukrainian government in Kiev.
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Ukraine News Links 19-20 June 2022
Monday, 20 June 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 I’ve kept them anyway, so at least the reader has some idea of the scale of censorship now operating in the ‘democratic’ West.
China Doubles Down On Vision With Russia
https://orientalreview.org/2022/06/20/china-doubles-down-on-vision-with-russia/The U.S. masses are harmed by capitalism far more than they benefit from imperialism
https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-us-masses-are-harmed-by-capitalism.htmlIran and Russia Revive the North-South Transport Corridor
https://journal-neo.org/2022/06/20/iran-and-russia-revive-the-north-south-transport-corridor/
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The Guardian Churns Out Embarrassingly Awful Empire Propaganda
Sunday, 19 June 2022 — Caitlin Johnson
Caitlin Johnstone
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The Guardian has put out a smear piece on critics of the imperial Syria narrative that reads like propaganda made by seven year-olds without adult supervision.
The article was initially released under the headline “Russia-backed network of Syria conspiracy theorists identified,” which was then hastily edited to “Network of Syria conspiracy theorists identified,” because the article does not even make an attempt to argue that all of the so-called “conspiracy theorists” it smears are backed by the Russian government. It claims only that the Russian government has at times cited and amplified information about Syria which is inconvenient for the US empire, which, you know, duh. Obviously it’s going to do that.
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West at inflection point in Ukraine war
Sunday, 19 June 2022 — Indian Punchline
(L-R) Romanian President Iohannis, Italian PM Draghi, Ukrainian President Zelensky, French President Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz held a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 16 June 2022.Henry Kissinger predicted some three weeks ago that the Ukraine war was dangerously close to becoming a war against Russia. That was a prescient remark. The NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in a weekend interview told Germany’s Bild am Sonntag newspaper that in the alliance’s estimation, the Ukraine war could wage for years.
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Ukraine News Links 18-19 June 2022
Sunday, 19 June 2022 • 18:00 — 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 I’ve kept them anyway, so at least the reader has some idea of the scale of censorship now operating in the ‘democratic’ West.
EU should ditch unanimity principle – Germany
https://www.rt.com/news/557450-germany-eu-reform-changes/When the Lies Come Home
http://thesaker.is/when-the-lies-come-home/US Treasury weighs in on recession prospects
https://www.rt.com/news/557446-yellen-us-treasury-recession/
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St. Petersburg sets the stage for the War of Economic Corridors
Saturday, 18 June 2022 — The Cradle
In St. Petersburg, the world’s new powers gather to upend the US-concocted “rules-based order” and reconnect the globe their way
By Pepe Escobar
At St. Petersburg on Friday, backers of multipolarity pushed forward integration of their networks * Photo Credit: The CradleThe St. Petersburg International Economic Forum has been configured for years now as absolutely essential to understand the evolving dynamics and the trials and tribulations of Eurasia integration.
St. Petersburg in 2022 is even more crucial as it directly connects to three simultaneous developments I had previously outlined, in no particular order:
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A tightening world
Sunday, 19 June 2022 — Michael Roberts Blog
It’s been a big week for the major central banks. First, the European Central Bank (ECB) called an emergency meeting because government bond yields were rising sharply in the more indebted Eurozone economies like Italy and Spain. That threatens to deliver a new sovereign debt crisis as happened after the Great Recession from 2010-2014, leading to the Greek nightmare.
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Ukraine – The West’s Response As It Meets With Reality
Saturday, 18 June 2022 — Moon of Alabama
This morning I watched an hour long discussion (vid) by ‘experts’ at the Center for Strategic & International Studies about assessing Russia’s war in Ukraine. I have to say that these folks know nothing that is relevant. They seem to have never heard of Sun Tsu’s dictum ‘Know your enemy’:
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Ukraine News Links 17-18 June 2022
Saturday, 18 June 2022 • 20:30 — 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 I’ve kept them anyway, so at least the reader has some idea of the scale of censorship now operating in the ‘democratic’ West.
NATO’s Lies Implode… Kiev Regime Told ‘Pay Price for Peace’
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/06/18/nato-lies-implode-kiev-regime-told-pay-price-for-peace/Ukraine’s Dark Web Arms Arsenal
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/06/18/ukraine-dark-web-arms-arsenal/Blogger claims she is being probed in Germany over Donbass coverage
https://www.rt.com/news/557404-german-police-probe-blogger-donbass/
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Putin Addresses St Petersburg International Economic Forum Plenary session
Friday, 17 June 2022 — The Kremlin
The President attended the plenary session of the 25th St Petersburg International Economic Forum.
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Assange Is Doing His Most Important Work Yet
Saturday, 18 June 2022 — Caitlin Johnson
Caitlin Johnstone
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❖British Home Secretary Priti Patel has authorized the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to be tried under the Espionage Act in a case which seeks to set a legal precedent for the prosecution of any publisher or journalist, anywhere in the world, who reports inconvenient truths about the US empire.
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Ukraine – The U.S. Is Moving Towards Escalation
Saturday, 18 June 2022 — Moon of Alabama
The catastrophic economic consequences of the ‘western’ proxy war with Russia are setting in. As a result the high inflation, caused by supply side constrains due to sanctions and far too much spending, will ruin the middle classes of many countries.
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Why India must decouple from I2U2
Friday, 17 June 2022 — Indian Punchline
Foreign Ministers of India, Israel, UAE, US (clockwise) held a videoconference in October 2021 to launch a ‘Quad’ for West AsiaIndian diplomacy is descending from the sublime to the absurd. Such wild swings signal rank opportunism. These are extraordinary times when to be smart is equated as being opportunistic.
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UK Home Secretary Orders Julian Assange Extradition
Friday, 17 June 2022 — Assange Defense Committee
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has made her decision. This morning, she ordered Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States.
“A Sad Day for Western Democracy”
The co-chairs of The Assange Defense Committee – Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, and Alice Walker – released the following statement in response to Patel’s decision:
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