Saturday, 29 November 2024
Russia’s use of its Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile in eastern Ukraine represents an unprecedented escalation in what began as a US proxy war against Russia in 2014.
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Deception, manipulation, sabotage: How the UK works to keep the Ukraine war going
Saturday, 29 November 2024 — RT
Leaked papers expose a secret military operation that includes planning attacks, suppressing media and brainwashing the British public
By Tarik Cyril AmarUnless you want to be blind, it is obvious that Ukraine under the Zelensky regime is not remotely a free country. In politics, after massive repression, there are only remnants of an opposition, which face continuing oppression and harassment by the government, as even the French newspaper Le Monde, generally naïve about the Zelensky regime, has reported.
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Leaking Imperialism Tracing gas flows sustaining the settler occupation of Palestine
Saturday, 29 November 2024 — TransNational Insttitute
A missile attack on an Israeli gas platform and Hezbollah’s drone strike highlight the growing vulnerability of Israel’s energy infrastructure amid its military expansion. With gas supplies crucial to Israel and its allies, the rising tensions signal broader geopolitical risks. Palestinian campaigners push for a global energy embargo to challenge this reliance.
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How the Strategy of Fighting to the Last Ukrainian Was Sold to the Public as Morally Righteous
26 November 2024 — Glen’s Substack
Glenn Diese
For almost three years, NATO countries have boycotted diplomatic contacts with Russia, even as hundreds of thousands of men have died on the battlefield. The decision by diplomats to reject diplomacy is morally repugnant as diplomacy could have reduced the excess of violence, prevented escalation, and even resulted in a path to peace. However, the political-media elites skilfully sold the rejection of diplomacy to the public as evidence of their moral righteousness.
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Palestinians “are being intentionally massacred, starved, and stripped of everything needed to sustain human life.”
Saturday, 29 November 2024 — Al Mayadeen English
Pediatric Intensive Care Dr. Tanya Haj Hassan, who volunteered in Gaza, shared accounts of the horrors she witnessed in Gaza’s hospitals before the UN.
Haj Hassan said, “Spend just five minutes in a hospital there and it will become painfully clear that Palestinians are being intentionally massacred, starved, and stripped of everything needed to sustain human life.”
She recalled the story of “13-year-old Amir, who sustained severe neck trauma and kept calling for his sister,” yet “he didn’t recognize that she was the girl in the bed next to him because she had been burned beyond recognition.”
Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan dared the participants before her to “take a second and imagine all of the children that I just spoke about, their mothers, their fathers, desperately seeking medical care and searching for hope… Then the electricity cuts out. The entrance to the hospital is struck by a missile.”
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How Neoliberalism Has Wielded ‘Corruption’ to Privatise Life in Africa
26 November 2024 — Tricontinental
In Africa, the leading forces of capitalism have ruthlessly wielded a neoliberal conception of corruption to undermine states’ sovereignty and open the continent to plunder at the hands of Western multinational corporations.
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18 November 2024 — Declassified UK
Banning F-35 supplies to Israel “would undermine US confidence in the UK”, defence secretary John Healey privately warned colleagues.
UK defence secretary John Healey greets his US counterpart Lloyd Austin. (Photo: Kin Cheung / Alamy)
- Labour enabled Israel to keep receiving spare parts for F-35 warplanes while recognising it was “not committed to compliance” with international law in Gaza
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Who is behind the new Syria war flare-up?
Friday, 29 November 2024 — RT
The interplay of external forces mirrors broader trends of rivalry among major powers, increasing the likelihood of a large-scale conflictBy Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow).
Clashes between government forces and the opposition armed group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib, Syria, November 28, 2024 © Izettin Kasim/Anadolu via Getty Images(more…)
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Watch: A British Soldier Captured in Kursk, Russia
Friday, 29 November 2024 — Knowledge Kino
It has long been known that soldiers/mercenaries are fighting Russians in Ukraine and now inside Russia, in Kursk. Many continue to deny this fact. Recently, the Russian military released an interrogation video of a British soldier/mercenary they captured in the Kursk region. He identifies himself as “James Scott Rhys Anderson,” who served as a signalman in the British army, and then joined the Ukrainian army sometime in 2023, to make some money.
His interrogation is interesting for one curious reason – his claim of a working-class background, and his refined, public school accent contradict each other. The British have sent a lot of specialists into Ukraine who are leading insurgency and various terrorist efforts. But what do you think?
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Watch: Trump and Zionism
Friday, 29 November 2024 — Knowledge Kino
Why are President Trump and so many Republicans eager Zionists?
Welcome to the world of mega-donors as foreign policy strategists who ensure that Israel remains first.
This report explores the major impact of Sheldon and Miriam Adelson on the political landscapes of both Israel and the U.S.
Discover how their support for right-wing politics and pro-Israel policies has shaped the actions of key political figures, including Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, and influenced the Republican Party’s stance on Israel and the Middle East.
The entire Republican agenda of the United States for the Middle East, Iran and Israel is the creation of the Adelsons.
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On the situation around Aleppo and the collapse of the front
Friday, 29 November 2024 — Two Majors English Channel
The situation around Aleppo in recent days has reminded us of the events at the dawn of the Syrian campaign, namely the rapid rise of the terrorist group “Islamic State”, which made a splash around the world by capturing Mosul in Iraq in a matter of days. Colleagues reminded us (https://t.me/inners_of_the_politics/153) of this.
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Turkey/US/Israel aim to destabilise Syria
Friday, 29 November 2024 — Scott Ritter
The offensive against Aleppo initiated by Turkish-allied Islamists from Hayat Tahir Al-Sham (a re-branded Al Qaeda that has made common cause with ISIS) and the US-allied Syrian National Army is the consequence of a strategic plan between the Israelis and Turks, backed by the US, to cut off the supply route from Iran to Lebanon for Hezbollah, and threaten to destabilize/topple the Assad government, forcing Russia to divert resources from Ukraine to salvage their position in Syria. Ukraine has provided advisors to the anti-Assad militants on drone warfare. Israel has apparently extended its explosive pager/radio scheme into Syria as well, disrupting Syrian tactical command and control at a critical moment in the fighting.
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While the world was locked down I was locked up in the name of my safety…
22 November 2024 — Just Treatment
This blog is written by Rosie, a Just Treatment supporter based in London
At age 23, during the second year of my doctoral studies, my life took a dramatic turn and I found myself going from trainee psychologist to psychiatric patient.
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Ireland election: its economic model under threat?
Friday, 29 November 2024 — Michael Roberts Blog
The Repubic of Ireland (this excludes the northern Ireland enclave which is still part of Britain) holds a general election today. Ireland has just 5m people and is part of the European Union and the Eurozone, contributing just 1% of EU27 and 3% of EU GDP.
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How The New Russian Missiles Are Changing The Game
Wednesday, 27 November 2024 — Moon of Alabama
To describe a weapon system as a game changer on the battlefield is always open to be ridiculed. Many of the weapon systems that have been delivered to Ukraine were called game changing but failed to make any difference in the outcome of that war.
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Statewatch News 28 November 2024
Thursday, 28 November 2024 —statewatch.org
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Issue 24/21
Also available as a PDF.
In this issue:
- Border externalisation: deportation, reintegration, documentation
- Tunisia: Criminalisation of solidarity continues
- Italy abolishes transparency over border policies
- EU “operationalises” police data access plans
- New material from across Europe and beyond
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Self Government and Communal Democracy in Venezuela and Beyond
Thursday, 28 November 2024 —
Over 6,000 delegates from communes and revolutionary organizations gathered in Caracas to chart a 30-year plan for the ‘Communal State,’ the grassroots democracy Hugo Chávez envisioned. Watch the video to learn more!
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The New Dark Age 