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William Bowles
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[l] at 5/26/23 7:39am
Thursday, 25 May 2023 The Tricontinental Leon Golub (USA), Vietnam II, 1973. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. During the May 2023 Group of Seven (G7) summit, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, near Continue reading The Group of Seven Should Finally Be Shut Down: The Twenty-First Newsletter(2023)

[Category: Tricontinental]

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[l] at 5/26/23 7:36am
Thursday, 25 May 2023  Statewatch News Also available as a PDF. Featuring: European moves against search and rescue missions? Frontex takes the lead on deportations Europol extends its reach across the Atlantic And: European Commission argues for legality of anti-encryption plans; latest documents on new EU migration and asylum laws; border police watchlist “progressing well”; open Continue reading EU moves against search and rescue?; Frontex takes the lead on deportations; Europol looks across theAtlantic

[Category: Europe, UK]

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[l] at 5/25/23 1:17pm
The American hard Right are coming to the UK – and Europe. But, unlike in Hungary, where the gathering of Europe’s extreme-right figures (including the prime ministers of Hungary and Georgia) was an offshoot of the Trump and Bolsonaro supporting US Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the National Conservatism conference in the UK is a project backed by the Washington-based Edmund Burke Foundation. The NatCon participants may not be so brazen in supporting white nationalism as their counterparts in CPAC, but their preoccupations with ‘faith, flag and family’, birth-rates and ‘traditionalism’ also speaks to an Alt-Right and Christian conservative agenda. Several of the organisations represented at NatCon, such as Policy Exchange, the Common Sense Society, Free Speech Union and the Legatum Institute, have been linked to the Atlas Network, an integrated pro-corporate network which grew out of the UK-based Institute of Economic Affairs and has received funding from US billionaire and right-wing libertarian Charles Koch.

[Category: UK]

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[l] at 5/25/23 10:07am
60 Minutes Australia has been playing a leading role in saturating Australian airwaves with consent-manufacturing messaging in support of militarising to participate in a US war against China. A segment they ran a year ago is titled "Prepare for Armageddon: China's warning to the world," and features an image of Xi Jinping overlaid with war planes and explosions and captioned "POKING THE PANDA". Another from a year ago is titled "War with China: Are we closer than we think?" Another from ten months ago is titled "China's new target in the battle to control the Pacific." Another from six months ago is titled "Inside the battle for Taiwan and China's looming war threat." Another from two months ago is titled "Is the Navy ready? How the U.S. is preparing amid a naval buildup in China."

[Category: Australia, China, USA]

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[l] at 5/25/23 9:55am
Washington D.C., May 25, 2023 - The National Security Archive today marks what would have been Anatoly Sergeyevich Chernyaev’s 102nd birthday with the publication for the first time in English of his Diary for 1983. At the time, Chernyaev was deputy director of the International Department of the Central Committee responsible for the International Communist Movement (ICM). Within three years, he became the chief foreign policy adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev and a leading theorist in the era of perestroika and glasnost.

[Category: National Security Archive, Russia, Soviet Union]

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[l] at 5/25/23 8:28am
A DECLASSIFIED DOSSIER ON HAK’S CONTROVERSIAL HISTORICAL LEGACY, ON HIS 100TH BIRTHDAY KISSINGER’S 8 YEARS IN POWER CHANGED CHILE, CAMBODIA, EAST TIMOR, ANGOLA, AND MUCH OF THE WORLD, FOR THE WORSE

[Category: National Security Archive, Kissinger]

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[l] at 5/25/23 8:27am
Wednesday, 24 May 2023 Geopolitics and Climate Change Roger Boyd “In his present mood, PM [Neville Chamberlain] says he will resign rather than sign alliance with Soviet” (Sir Alexander Cadogan, British Permanent Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, private diary entry, May 20th, 1939, quoted in Kotkin 2017, p. 642) “Russia … a riddle wrapped in Continue reading Russia: Western Creation of the Threatening Bear and Pre-RomanovHistory

[Category: Russia]

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[l] at 5/24/23 11:54am
The Israeli government briefly tried to demand that all foreign passport holders inform it of any romantic relationships they may have in the occupied West Bank.

[Category: Palestine, Gaza, West Bank]

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[l] at 5/24/23 4:41am
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky made an unexpected trip to Britain last week on a whistle-stop tour of European capitals, pleading for more powerful and longer-range weapons to use in his war against Russia. 

[Category: UK, Ukraine, sunak]

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[l] at 5/23/23 3:58pm
Wars the US waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan following September 11, 2001 caused4.5 million deaths and displaced 38 to 60 million people, with 7.6 million children starving today

[Category: USA, War]

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[l] at 5/23/23 9:01am
Tuesday, 23 May 2023 NETPOL Our friends at Green and Black Cross are running a free Know Your Rights training on Wednesday 24 May 6pm 9.30pm! A new Public Order Act (for England and Wales only) became law in early May, and parts of it are already in force. But as police powers Continue reading Know Your Rights! Get trained up with Green and BlackCross

[Category: Liberties, London, UK]

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[l] at 3/29/23 9:23am
Wednesday, 29 March 2023 The New Dark Age Im afraid Ive been rather tardy of late in updating the site and I suppose I should apologise to regular visitors but Im kinda burned out and preoccupied with other concerns and frankly, feeling rather lazy, I have after all, been doing this for 40 years, Continue reading An update

[Category: William Bowles - Essays]

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[l] at 3/22/23 3:38pm
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[Category: China, Russia, Videos]

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[l] at 3/20/23 9:20am
Monday, 20 March 2023 The New Dark Age Pro-Israel and Ukraine Groups Use Identity Politics to Attack Free Speech https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/03/pro-israel-and-ukraine-groups-use-identity-politics-to-attack-free-speech/ Criminals at Large: The Iraq War Twenty Years On https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/03/criminals-at-large-the-iraq-war-twenty-years-on/ ‘Rigorous’ Maidan Massacre Exposé Suppressed By Top Academic Journal https://popularresistance.org/rigorous-maidan-massacre-expose-suppressed-by-top-academic-journal/ China’s Example Of Leadership Injects Hope Into A World Of Uncertainty https://popularresistance.org/chinas-example-of-leadership-injects-hope-into-a-world-of-uncertainty/ With the Continue reading Ukraine News Links 15-20 March2023

[Category: Ukraine]

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[l] at 3/15/23 2:06pm
Economist Michael Hudson analyzes the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate, and Signature Bank, explaining the similarities to the 2008 financial crash.

[Category: Capitalism]

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[l] at 3/15/23 11:04am
In the second week of March, thousands took to the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia, to vent their fiery indignation over a draft law requiring any NGO operating in the country that receives over 20% of its revenue from overseas to register as a “foreign agent.”

[Category: Georgia, George Soros, NED, regime change, USAID]

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[l] at 3/15/23 11:00am
Tuesday, 15 March 2023 The New Dark Age U.S. Regime Wins the Propaganda-War On Ukraine While Losing The Real War https://orientalreview.org/2023/03/15/u-s-regime-wins-the-propaganda-war-on-ukraine-while-losing-the-real-war/ The left has failed the class struggle. Marxism anti-imperialism are what can save us. https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-left-has-failed-class-struggle.html Ukraine’s Death By Proxy https://popularresistance.org/ukraines-death-by-proxy/ Leftist Parties Intensify Campaign To Maintain Swiss Neutrality https://popularresistance.org/leftist-parties-intensify-campaign-to-maintain-swiss-neutrality/ Protest At The Continue reading Ukraine News Links 13-15 March2023

[Category: Ukraine]

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[l] at 3/15/23 8:16am
Claims made by transatlantic politicians and their media partners turn reality upside down—and would baffle even George Orwell.

[Category: NATO, Russia, Ukraine]

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[l] at 3/15/23 8:07am
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 Black Agenda Report Farewell, Senior Brother: In Memory of Kevin Alexander Gray Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor Kevin Alexander Gray was a contributor and good friend to the Black Agenda Report team. His passing is a huge loss to BAR, and to the Black liberation movement. Dr. Jemima Pierre shares Continue reading Black Agenda Report March 15,2023

[Category: Black Agenda Report]

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[l] at 3/15/23 3:50am
Next Monday, an uneasy anniversary arrives. It will be 20 years since the invasion of Iraq by the United States. Britain was a pillar of the US-led ‘coalition of the willing.’ The Guardian columnist John Harris wrote on Sunday that it was “the greatest political and humanitarian disaster the UK had been involved in since the second world war… when the supposed political centre ground suddenly lurched somewhere reckless and catastrophic.” 

[Category: Germany, Russia, USA, nordstream 2]

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[l] at 3/14/23 9:42am
Finally some truth about the real state of the Ukrainian military is sneaking into main stream media. It is as bad, still not fully disclosed, as we have described it again and again.

[Category: Media, Ukraine]

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