Don’t forget to have a look at our roundup of news from across Europe from the last fortnight, now categorised by theme.
Rousseau wrote:
‘We have physicists, geometricians, chemists, astronomers, poets, musicians and painters in plenty; but no longer have a citizen among us.’
Increasingly, now, we do have citizens among us: scientists – particularly, climate scientists – who are awakening from their ‘mainstream’ slumber to the reality that they are citizens of a decaying society on a dying planet.
Joe Biden and Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman. [Source: republicworld.com]On June 2, Saudi-led OPEC and its allies announced it will accelerate oil production in July and August, as the cartel’s key player, Saudi Arabia, agreed to U.S. pleadings that it take action to cool crude oil prices. The sharp rise in the price of a barrel of crude since the start of hostilities in Ukraine has threatened to stall the global economy with the United States being especially vulnerable.
Protesting for Jayland Walker
Margaret Kimberley
The number of bullets used to kill Jayland Walker have sparked an outcry, but police kill one Black person every day in this country. If systemic change is not the demand all protest is for naught.
SPEECH: The Black Revolution is Part of World-wide Struggle, Malcolm X, 1964
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Malcolm X reminds us of the deceit of liberals, the power of international thinking, and the coming of Black revolution.
The Morning Star’s International Editor Steve Sweeney joins Danny Haiphong to discuss the latest developments in Ukraine.
Despite its resounding defeat, NATO is not quite done with inflicting misery on the land of the Afghans
By Pepe Escobar
Photo Credit: The CradleThe war in Ukraine is clearly progressing in Russia’s favor. That is why I am appalled by the incompetent descriptions in ‘western’ media of past and current operations in that war.
Consider this June 21 map of the Lysichansk cauldron as it was developing. The frontline extended over 125+ kilometers (78 miles).
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‘Western’ Media Spread Copium To Prolong The War In Ukraine
https://williambowles.info/2022/07/05/western-media-spread-copium-to-prolong-the-war-in-ukraine/
Forget liberating Ukraine – We first need to liberate our minds
https://desultoryheroics.com/2022/07/05/forget-liberating-ukraine-we-first-need-to-liberate-our-minds/
Michael Tracey: NATO escalates and edges toward world war
https://anchor.fm/maxblumenthal/episodes/Michael-Tracey-NATO-escalates-and-edges-toward-world-war-e1krbk5
The “United States” fundamentally lacks the characteristics of a nation. Its people have no shared history, culture, or values, because the country they’re in came about artificially. It’s a project for building up capital, constructed on land that was annexed in wars of aggression. America’s Christian nationalists have no actual nation, only a brand. They compensate for this by promoting the myths which maintain the settler state’s illusion of not being an occupation, of being something worth defending. Violence and lies, serving to continue the extraction which fascism’s petty-bourgeois base depends upon, are the tools for survival from an empire that’s imploding in on its contradictions. Christian fascism provides a cultural foundation for this project, so all of its abuses are seen as acceptable by a ruling class that’s increasingly empowering this dangerous tendency.
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Alastair Crooke
If we determine to imagine the world as machine, then ‘reality’ will present itself as a machine, Alastair Crooke writes.
For the last four hundred years, west Europeans have lived one very particular ‘vision’; one that stands poles-apart from that which went earlier. As Galileo pursued his experimentation in Italy, it was Francis Bacon who set out a clear theory of inductive procedure – to make experiments, and to draw general conclusions from them, to be tested in further experiments.
With no bullets to fire, and no food to eat, some nations will have to bite the bulletA recent article covered the manpower issues presently facing Kiev, yet in spite of there being so few to pick up arms, those weapons are useless unless there is ordnance to fire. This article will examine yet another problem blighting both the Ukraine and potentially the West.
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The ‘Wrong’ Turning Brings on the ‘Fourth Turning’
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/07/04/the-wrong-turning-brings-on-fourth-turning/
Ukraine in the EU and NATO? The Two Europes
https://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-eu-nato/5785466
Rwanda vs Ukraine
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/06/23/rwanda-vs-ukraine/
The phone conversation on Friday between Prime Minister Modi and Russian President Putin conveyed a big signal, coming on the morrow of the release of the new Strategic Concept by NATO which called Russia the alliance’s “most significant and direct threat.” The readouts from Moscow and New Delhi both highlighted the two leaderships’ determination to carry forward the momentum of economic cooperation despite the western sanctions against Russia. (here and here)
Residents of Lisichansk were elated to finally see Russian troops enter the town. Photo©️Intel Slava ZAuthor’s note. The author wishes to apologize for the drop in output over the last week, work being very intense at this time of year. With there being a whole week since the last post, it is hoped that the material makes up for the wait! With the work situation being what it is, articles will unfortunately be published less frequently until a better work-life balance can be achieved.
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US believes it’s not yet time for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine
https://www.rt.com/news/558309-us-russia-ukraine-peace-talks/
Macron says he doesn’t want to ‘annihilate’ Russia
https://www.rt.com/news/558308-macron-russia-anglo-saxon/
G7 Envies China’s BRI
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/07/03/g7-envies-chinas-bri/
Mapping areas of agreement between two of the most important radical ecology movements
Wikimedia Commons
Ben Arthur Thomason
A decade into Syria’s catastrophe as one of the deadliest wars of the 21st century, we can take greater stock of its effects not just on geopolitics and Syria itself, but on imperial management strategies, information warfare, and popular culture, particularly when considering the interventions by the West and its regional allies. A key pillar of Western imperialist projects next to the hard power of bombs and economic sanctions is the soft power of diplomatic maneuvering, media and cultural imperialism, manufacturing public consent for war, and inventing realities to maintain ideological hegemony. The complementary dialectic between hard and soft power in the US led imperial project in Syria built on historical ventures in Muslim majority countries and evolved propaganda and civil society hybrid warfare strategies that may become foundational for 21st century warfare.
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Declan Hayes
Europe must prepare for the deluge that is coming its way, and all because NATO’s Lithuanian satrap thinks she is a Moses, who can hold apart two parts of sovereign Russia to support the world’s richest clown who has NATO’s Kiev gig.
This video describes the military situation in Ukraine on the 1st of July
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.
Lithuania’s Brinkmanship
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2022/07/01/lithuanias-brinkmanship/
Israeli mercenary fighting for Ukraine taken captive by LPR
https://uprootedpalestinians.wordpress.com/2022/07/02/israeli-mercenary-fighting-for-ukraine-taken-captive-by-lpr/
How Russia’s Military Operation in Ukraine Has Affected Chinese Views of the World
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/07/01/how-russia-military-operation-in-ukraine-has-affected-chinese-views-of-world/
Europe Wants War
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/07/01/europe-wants-war/
