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NATO’s military buildup on eastern flank to lengthen, broaden war
Transferring massive weapons to Ukraine, massing a large number of troops in eastern Europe, and welcoming Sweden and Finland to join the alliance, NATO has been very much engaged itself so far in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
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“One less traitor”: Zelensky oversees campaign of assassination, kidnapping and torture of political opposition
While claiming to defend democracy, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has outlawed his opposition, ordered his rivals’ arrest, and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents across the country.
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Naïve questions about Russia’s war economy
“Tell me, please, Grandpa,” the little boy asked the Red Army veteran, “what does a war economy mean and how is it different from now?”
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Ukrainian Refuseniks on why many won’t fight for Ukraine
Aside from reports of civilians volunteering in a variety of non-military support roles, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky and other state officials have urged civilians to take up arms. Then, on March 9, Zelensky approved a law that allows Ukrainians to use weapons during wartime and negates legal responsibility for any attack on people perceived to be acting in aggression against Ukraine. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense even posted a graphic online with instructions on how to launch Molotov cocktails at tanks.
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NATO’s warmongering voice in the Caribbean
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Sir Ron Sanders, Antigua and Barbuda’s ambassador to the U.S. and the OAS, has emerged as one of the most strident Caribbean voices in favour of U.S./NATO warmongering in eastern Europe.
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Scoring the U.S. working class: expropriation and digitalization
Working-class people in the United States are now at a turning point–whether to compliantly return to the pre-Covid conditions capital set for them, or to shift toward a new militancy toward capitalism.
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How Zionism is fuelling a religious war over al-Aqsa Mosque
The ongoing attempts to take over Muslim holy places, whether in Jerusalem, Hebron, or in Nablus, continue apace, as does valiant Palestinian resistance to them.
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U.S., EU sacrificing Ukraine to ‘weaken Russia’: fmr. NATO adviser
Former Swiss intelligence officer and NATO adviser Jacques Baud on the roots of the Ukraine-Russia war and its growing dangers.
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Russia’s Sergey Glazyev introduces the new global financial system
The world’s new monetary system, underpinned by a digital currency, will be backed by a basket of new foreign currencies and natural resources. And it will liberate the Global South from both western debt and IMF-induced austerity.
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We do not want a divided planet; we want a World without walls: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2022)
While the United States began its illegal war against Iraq in 2003, Cuba’s President Fidel Castro spoke in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ‘Our country does not drop bombs on other peoples’, he said, ‘nor does it send thousands of planes to bomb cities … Our country’s tens of thousands of scientists and doctors have been educated on the idea of saving lives’.
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Russia investigating ISIS-style Ukrainian “social ad”
The unsettling video portrays a mock execution of a Russian soldier.
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Washington Post calls for censoring Chinese media, praises purge of Russian outlets
The Washington Post–owned by billionaire oligarch Jeff Bezos, who has CIA and Pentagon contracts–has called for censoring Chinese news outlets on social media, while praising Silicon Valley for purging Russian publications.
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“Chinese Exclusion Act 2.0”
The new Cold War and the spread of anti-Asian racism.
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International law and ‘European civilisation’
Despite its promises of universalism, international law has clearly not yet shaken its foundation as a racial order.
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NED finances key Ukrainian propaganda organ, the Kyiv Independent
One NED-sponsored journalist even fights with the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and openly advocates for the commission of war crimes.
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They saw and heard the truth — then lied about it: media on Donbass delegation omitted mention of Ukraine’s 8 year war on the autonomous Republics
In the last week of March, I stood on a central Donetsk main street next to two of the impact points of a Ukrainian missile attack that had killed 21 civilians and injured nearly 40 more on March 14.
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The Ukrainian conflict is a U.S./NATO Proxy War, but one which Russia is poised to win decisively – Scott Ritter
The West has sown the wind in sanctioning Russia; Russia will not reap the whirlwind, says Scott Ritter in an interview with the Strategic Culture Foundation.
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Unionization spreads across Starbucks outlets in U.S. despite efforts to intimidate workers
According to Starbucks Workers United, which is organizing workers to form unions, workers from over 200 outlets have already approached the National Labor Relations Board for a union vote.
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The horrific scam that water billionaires are running on poor Countries
Mega corporations like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Danone are making around 494 times what they spend by bottling water in Mexico and selling it back to locals who have no choice but to buy it.
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