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Russian Warplanes Pounding Turkish Proxies in Greater Idlib
RUSSIAN WARPLANES POUNDING TURKISH PROXIES IN GREATER IDLIB On December 24 and 25, warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out a series of airstrikes on positions of Turkish-backed militant groups in northern Lattakia. A large part of the airstrikes targeted the outskirts of the town of Kabani. Photos shared by opposition activists show smoke […]
Leaked Documents Show How China’s Army of Paid Internet Trolls Helped Censor the Coronavirus
Leaked Documents Show How China’s Army of Paid Internet Trolls Helped Censor the Coronavirus As the coronavirus spread in China, the government stage-managed what appeared on the domestic internet to make the virus look less severe and the authorities more capable, according to thousands of leaked directives and other files. In the early hours of […]
With Biden’s New Threats, the Russia Discourse is More Reckless and Dangerous Than Ever
With Biden’s New Threats, the Russia Discourse is More Reckless and Dangerous Than Ever The U.S. media demands inflammatory claims be accepted with no evidence, while hacking behavior routinely engaged in by the U.S. is depicted as aberrational. Then-Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the Brookings Institute May 27, 2015 in Washington, DC spoke about […]
China Restricts Electricity Use Amid Coal Shortage
China Restricts Electricity Use Amid Coal Shortage Despite the swift industrial recovery from the pandemic, factories in areas in China are working only part-time, and residents in several provinces are asked to save electricity, while authorities are turning off street lights and billboards, warning of coal shortages this winter. In at least three provinces in […]
UK Retailers Urge Government To Ensure Food Supplies As French Border Shut
UK Retailers Urge Government To Ensure Food Supplies As French Border Shut British retailers have urged the government to make an urgent effort to prevent prolonged suspension of cross-Channel transport, which they say would disrupt supplies of fresh produce to UK consumers. To prevent the spread of a new, more transmissible variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist […]
China Endures Worsening Electricity Shortages In Name Of Punishing Australia
China Endures Worsening Electricity Shortages In Name Of Punishing Australia Coal is among the latest in a growing list of major Australian exports hit by severe restrictions in China, also including commodities like cotton, timber wine, lobster, and barley. While Chinese citizens might be able to forgo luxuries for a while like Aussie wine as well […]
Universal Soldiers of Resistance to Fascist Thinking: Chomsky on Extinction
Universal Soldiers of Resistance to Fascist Thinking: Chomsky on Extinction “Earth abides.” – Toilet stall graffiti, West Bank I reckon, after all is said and said about the man, he’ll end up being considered the closest we modern political movement types have had to a real life Socrates. In more recent photos, Noam Chomsky, with […]
FireEye and US Treasury Department hacked, Russia blamed
FireEye and US Treasury Department hacked, Russia blamed Security consulting company FireEye has been hacked and their “Red Team” tools, which was their proprietary intrusion detection and testing toolkit has been stolen. In a blog post about the incident the company attributed the breach to a highly skilled nation state actor possessing “world class capabilities.” FireEye’s […]
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Empire with a Human Face
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Empire with a Human Face The Biden people are unlikely to speak of a new cold war with China, but they appear likely to wage one all dressed up as a sophisticated trans–Pacific strategy. A portion of China’s Great Wall at dawn. (Hao Wei, Flickr, CC BY 2.0) Those boneheaded Trump people explained […]
You Have No Obligation To Conform To A Wildly Sick Society
You Have No Obligation To Conform To A Wildly Sick Society You have no obligation to conform to a society which brands you a Russian propagandist for criticizing the most powerful and destructive institutions on earth. You have no obligation to conform to a society which brands you a Chinese propagandist for advocating peace and […]
Finding A Way Around The World’s Largest Oil Chokepoint
Finding A Way Around The World’s Largest Oil Chokepoint Oil is sometimes referred to as ‘black gold’. The discovery and export of fossil fuels have led to tremendous wealth creation for certain countries. In this sense, no region in the world is more blessed than the Middle East. Especially the countries surrounding the Persian Gulf […]
Dangerous Crossroads: NATO’s Attempted Infringement of Russia’s Airspace and Maritime Borders
Dangerous Crossroads: NATO’s Attempted Infringement of Russia’s Airspace and Maritime Borders Recent attempted infringements of Russia’s airspace and maritime borders by NATO are very dangerous instances of de-facto brinksmanship intended to provoke the Eurasian Great Power into reacting in a way that could then be manipulated as the “plausible pretext” for imposing further pressure upon […]
Oligarchic Imperialism Is The New Dominant World Religion
Oligarchic Imperialism Is The New Dominant World Religion I was just watching a gaggle of blue-checkmarked narrative managers attack progressive commentators Katie Halper and Briahna Joy Gray on Twitter for platforming antiwar journalist Rania Khalek on the grounds that Khalek is an “Assadist”, which is imperialist for “someone who opposes western imperialism in Syria”. At no point […]
The New Ruling Coalition: Opposition to Afghanistan Withdrawal Shows Its Key Factions
The New Ruling Coalition: Opposition to Afghanistan Withdrawal Shows Its Key Factions An unholy union of the National Security State and the neocon-backed and corporate-funded Democratic Party are about to assume power: with media-supported internet censorship a key weapon. The Trump era has engendered numerous fractures, one might say realignments, in the political order. Long-time ideological […]
