Nato’s new posture towards Beijing brings into question its whole claim to be a ‘defensive’ alliance
Middle East Eye – 8 July 2022
As the saying goes, if you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. The West has the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato), a self-declared “defensive” military alliance – so any country that refuses its dictates must, by definition, be an offensive military threat.
Declan Hayes
The world is at a critical inflection point as it pits the children of Ecuador, Paraguay, Russia, China, Vietnam, Gaza, the Philippines and Syria against Del Monte, Hunter Biden and Liz Truss in a fight to the death with only one winner.
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Russia makes new Hunter Biden-related bio-lab claims
https://www.rt.com/news/558642-russian-defense-ministry-us-pathogen-research/
Are US Weapons Supplied to Ukraine Ending Up on DarkNet Marketplaces?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/are-us-weapons-supplied-ukraine-ending-up-darknet-marketplaces/5786035
Rising Inflation Pushes 71 Million People Worldwide Into Poverty
https://countercurrents.org/2022/07/rising-inflation-pushes-71-million-people-worldwide-into-poverty/
Like the political equivalent of a cockroach, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived and endured one strike after another. His credibility was shot, his mendacity second to none. He lost the confidence of a party that delighted in his buffoonish performances and appeal. Fearing electoral punishment, senior ministers and aides have left his side. Labour opposition leader, Sir Keir Starmer, found himself making a witticism, calling this the first instance in history of the ship leaving the sinking rat.
Stop Killer Robots has launched our parliamentary pledge. We are calling on political representatives around the world to take action against autonomous weapons systems, reject the automation of killing, and ensure meaningful human control over the use of force.
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The Pentagon Photo: David B. Gleason / Creative CommonsUNITED States Special Operational forces have been involved in at least 23 secretive proxy wars across the world on a scale far greater than previously known, new documents indicate.
“And thus it renders more and more evident the great central fact that the cause of the miserable condition of the working class is to be sought, not in these minor grievances, but in the capitalistic system itself.” Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) (preface to the English Edition, p.36)
Spot the differenceToday sees the resignation of Boris Johnson, a British Prime Minister who has caused more problems than he has made progress. The world’s media will be covering this story in immense detail (and bias), yet there are matters concerned with both himself, his successor and the the western world as a whole that are being highlighted by this fiasco.
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With official accounts listing at least 27 wars currently raging across the world, including notably the first war in Europe since the Balkan Wars of the early 1990s, we must not forget that these wars have also spawned another overarching global war – namely the ‘war on refugees’. This is a theme taken up, in a guest post for IRR News, by Tim Naor Hilton, the CEO of Refugee Action, who reminds us of the cruelties unleashed against refugees by successive British governments and situates the resulting structural racism of our asylum system in the UK’s colonial past.
Max Ernst (Germany), Europe After the Rain, 1940–42.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Over the course of the past fifteen years, European countries have found themselves with both great opportunities to seize and complex choices to make. Unsustainable reliance on the United States for trade and investment, as well as the curious distraction of Brexit, led to the steady integration of European countries with Russian energy markets and more uptake of Chinese investment opportunities and its manufacturing prowess.
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Taiwan and the Making of an “Asian” NATO
https://popularresistance.org/taiwan-and-the-making-of-an-asian-nato/
The United States Wants to Prevent a Historical Fact: Eurasian Integration
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/07/the-united-states-wants-to-prevent-a-historical-fact-eurasian-integration/
Exorbitant Military Spending Sacrifices Public Well-being
https://dissidentvoice.org/2022/07/exorbitant-military-spending-sacrifices-public-well-being/
Caitlin Johnstone
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Boris Johnson resigning would only be interesting in an alternate universe where there was some remote chance that he won’t be replaced by another depraved sociopath.
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Maiden cargo: LNG tanker arrives in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, in 2009 with first shipment from Sakhalin 2 project in RussiaThe simmering tensions between Moscow and Japan during the past 4-month period of the war in Ukraine surged when the Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolay Patrushev sounded the warning at a meeting on national security in Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East on Tuesday that Japan is ramping up its revanchist plans for the Kuril Islands.
(Brian Berletic – New Eastern Outlook) – In Washington’s ongoing efforts to confront and contain China’s rise on the global stage, it has announced yet another bloc, the “Partnership in Blue Pacific.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L), at a meeting with Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu, revealed proposals of army commanders in Ukraine “for the development of offensive operations”, Moscow, July 4, 2022On July 1 at the White House, US President Joe Biden made a startling disclosure that “the idea we’re going to be able to click a switch, bring down the cost of gasoline, is not likely in the near term.”
Yesterday a ten year old girl became another casualty to the wholly illegal operations being carried out under orders from Kiev. Photo©️Azmilitary1Recent weeks have seen intensive bombardments by Ukrainian Army units on the city of Donetsk, an increasing desperate Kiev attempting to hit back against Russian forces that are obliterating it elsewhere. With these attacks being aimed at centers of civilian population, there have been numerous deaths as well as tremendous destruction. This article will look at the actions taken, whilst also examining Kiev’s repeated violations of international law.
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Obvious examples of Central Intelligence Agency covert action abroad are difficult to identify today, save for occasional acknowledged calamities, such as the long-running $1 billion effort to overthrow the government of Syria, via funding, training and arming barbarous jihadist groups.
We interview Omar Cabezas, legendary Sandinista guerilla and author of Fire From the Mountain, about Nicaragua today, the state of the Sandinista Revolution, and his feelings about Daniel Ortega
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Monthly Review Volume 74, Number 3
https://monthlyreview.org/product/mr-074-03-2022-07
Iranian Airbus 655 Anniversary Should Be a Chilling Reminder of U.S. Blundering
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/07/06/iranian-airbus-655-anniversary-should-be-chilling-reminder-of-us-blundering/
Ukraine Open Thread 2022-104
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/07/ukraine-open-thread-2022-104.html
