UN SG António Guterres: “Afghanistan is hanging by a thread.”In a hugely consequential advisory, the US Treasury Department quietly signalled on Wednesday that it was “tweaking” the sanctions against the Haqqani Network. The international banks can transfer money to Taliban, including Haqqani Network without fear of breaching sanctions.
The U.S. Black Political Class and War
What passes for leadership is always a joke played upon Black people. The high water mark of the CBC being the “conscience of the congress” is long gone. No one can look to them on the issue of Ukraine or anything else. The people must restore the historical Black radical consensus as a matter of survival.
Crisis or Confusion? A Brief Guide for Black Folk on the Situation in Ukraine
African people are already battling against U.S. rightist forces – from the Trump/Republican supporters to the warmongering neoliberal democrats. It would be an affront to our history and people to enter this struggle on the side of empire and NATO.
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US Needs Fear of Russia to Keep Europe under Control
https://journal-neo.org/2022/02/03/the-us-needs-fear-of-russia-to-keep-europe-under-control/
Russia Accuses US And NATO Of Provoking War In Ukraine
https://popularresistance.org/russia-accuses-us-and-nato-of-provoking-war-in-ukraine/
In response to Russia’s demand for security guarantees, especially to its request to remove foreign NATO forces from the territory of East European countries, the U.S. and Britain are moving more forces to the east:
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Getting the facts out quickly about far-right violence is one of the things that motivates us to bring out IRR News, with our fortnightly calendar of racism and resistance a continuation of IRR’s role as a place of record documenting Europe’s white supremacist movements. This long monitoring experience has taught us that wars abroad provide opportunities for neo-Nazis to join up as ‘foreign fighters’ with battlefield experience subsequently brought back home and channelled into ‘race war’. This was true after the war in Vietnam (where some Vietnam veterans invigorated white power movements in the 1980s); true during the Balkans wars of the 1990s (European fascists provided material support for Serbian terror in Bosnia and glorified the ethnic cleansing of Muslims at Srebrenica) and it is true today, with neo-Nazis from Europe and the US joining ultra-nationalist and neo-Nazi Ukrainian militia, such as the Azov Battalion.
President Vladimir Putin (R) hosts Chinese President Xi Jinping on state visit at the Kremlin, Moscow, June 5, 2019The cascading tensions between Russia and the United States brought into play the Russian-Chinese “comprehensive strategic partnership of cooperation”. The topic has been the stuff of animated discussion among strategic thinkers lately.
Amadou Sanogo (Mali), Je pense de ma tête, 2016.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
In October 2021, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) held a seminar on the pandemic and education systems. Strikingly, 99% of the students in the region spent an entire academic year with total or partial interruption of face-to-face classes, while more than 600,000 children struggled with the loss of their caregivers due to the pandemic. It is further estimated that the crisis could force 3.1 million children and youth to drop out of school and force over 300,000 to go to work. At the seminar, Alicia Bárcena, the executive secretary of ECLAC, said that the combination of the pandemic, economic turbulence in the region, and the setbacks in education have caused ‘a silent crisis’.
The CIA and MI6 are reorganizing NATO stay-behind networks in Eastern Europe. If after the Second World War they relied on former Nazis to fight the Soviets, they still support neo-Nazi groups against the Russians. There is no obvious reason for this. The Nazis were plethora in the 1940s, they are very few today and only exist thanks to the help of the Anglo-Saxons.
Demonstration of the Azov battalion, in the center on the platform, its führer: Andriy BiletskyThe phone call between President Biden and Ukrainian President Zelensky “did not go well”, CNN headlines: while “Biden warned that a Russian invasion is practically certain in February, when the frozen ground makes it possible for tanks to pass through”, Zelensky “asked Biden to lower his tone, arguing that the Russian threat is still ambiguous”. As the Ukrainian president himself takes a more cautious stance, Ukrainian armed forces are massing in the Donbass near the area of Donetsk and Lugansk inhabited by Russian populations.
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Both US and NATO replies leaked to Spanish paper (full texts)
http://thesaker.is/both-us-and-nato-replies-leaked-to-spanish-paper-full-texts/
Analyzing President Putin’s Response To The Undeclared US-Provoked Missile Crisis
https://orientalreview.org/2022/02/02/analyzing-president-putins-response-to-the-undeclared-us-provoked-missile-crisis/
With the publication of Amnesty International’s new apartheid report, Israel’s supporters have just one tactic left: to accuse critics of antisemitism
Middle East Eye – 2 February 2022
The walls protecting Israel are quickly crumbling. A year ago, it was Israel’s most celebrated human rights group, B’Tselem. Months later, it was the New York-based Human Rights Watch, whose senior staff have often enjoyed a revolving door with the US State Department.
On January 13, campaigners announced that, after years of popular pressure and direct action, Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems had decided to bite the bullet and sell its factory located in Oldham in the northwest of England.
© RT Creative LabRodchenko.LIVE is a series of deepfake videos in which the artist talks about the legacy of the visionary Russian art and design school Vkhutemas (the Higher Art and Technical Studios) – the Soviet counterpart of the German Bauhaus. Rodchenko taught construction and metalwork at Vkhutemas, pioneering design ideas in Russia.
The Government wasted over £9.9 billion on PPE, which is more than it would cost to give every nurse in the NHS a 100 per cent bonus on their salary.
The figure comes from the Department of Health’s Annual Report, which reveals it spent:
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Ukrainian Riot Plotter Arrests: Genuine Grassroots Revolt or Color Revolution Plot?
Ukraine’s Exaggerated Threat of Russian Invasion Hits Its Economy as Western Diplomats Leave
US wants war in Ukraine, charges Russia at UN debate
Marxism, we are told, is Eurocentric and has lost much of its appeal in the eyes of many scholars and activists. Some have even denounced Marxism as a racist theory, irrelevant to the study of Africa. Vladimir Lenin is implicated in this critique. In a far-reaching study of Lenin’s ideas, Joe Pateman argues Lenin placed Africa at the centre of his analysis of imperialism and contemporary capitalism. Here, the author reflects on the key aspects of his analysis. Following this, Pateman’s full article in the ROAPE journal can be accessed for free.
By Joe Pateman
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Saving The World From Nuclear War
https://popularresistance.org/saving-the-world-from-nuclear-war/
Virtual Ukrainian invasion virtually imminent
http://thesaker.is/virtual-ukrainian-invasion-virtually-imminent/
Checkmate in Ukraine
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/01/30/checkmate-in-ukraine/
Ukraine’s Exaggerated Threat Of Russian Invasion Hits Its Economy As Western Diplomats Leave
https://southfront.org/ukraines-exaggerated-threat-of-russian-invasion-hits-its-economy-as-western-diplomats-leave/
America Is Reaping What It Sowed in Ukraine
https://www.globalresearch.ca/america-reaping-what-sowed-ukraine/5768708
The New Dark Age 