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Husband │ dad │ journalist │ writer │ socialist. New book just out: “The Covid Consensus”. Columnist: @unherd , @compactmag_ . Substack: .
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It’s finally out! Proud to say we achieved what seemed impossibile: writing the first “general theory” of the pandemic management, from the cover-up of the virus’s origins to the effects of lockdowns, from the vaccine rollout to the rise of the biostate.
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Pope Francis on Israel’s assault on Gaza: “This is not war, it is terrorism”.
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This testimony from Paul Ley, a doctor at the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza, is absolutely sickening:
“I have worked in hospitals in Afghanistan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Cambodia... but I have never operated on so many injured children as I am now in the…
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Sweden joining NATO in 2024 has gotta be one of the dumbest geopolitical moves in recorded history. Getting your official “US vassal” membership card at a time when the US-centric system is collapsing before our own eyes. Like joining the Warsaw Pact in early ‘91.
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The legendary John Pilger — journalist, filmmaker, relentless critic of Western foreign policy — passed away today. These were the last words he wrote a month ago:
“Spartacus was the rebellious leader of Rome’s slaves in 71-73 BC. There is a thrilling moment in the Kirk Douglas…
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Once again, pro-Israelis and Zionists are trying to use the Holocaust card to silence and smear (or worse) anyone who criticises Israel’s policies — including Jewish people.
This is Norman Finkelstein’s famous reply to a student who tried to pull the card on him.
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John Mearsheimer, one of the world’s leading international relations scholars, agrees Israel is committing genocide in Gaza:
“I believed Israel was guilty of serious war crimes — but not genocide — during the first two months of the war, even though there was growing evidence…
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“Have you all lost your minds?”.
Amazing and terrifying speech by
@SWagenknecht
on the folly of Germany’s warmongering approach to Russia.
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🧵In all Western countries, people are dying at much higher rates than the pre-pandemic average, and only a fraction of these deaths are attributable to Covid. More young people are dying today than during the pandemic. What the hell is going on?
A THREAD.
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Yesterday, Marky Ramone of the late band Ramones was supposed to play a gig in Italy. When he saw the Palestinian flag on stage he demanded it be removed. The organisers replied that if he wasn’t willing to have that flag on stage he could go back to where he came from. Respect.
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🧵 The World Health Organization failed catastrophically during the pandemic. Yet it is now engaged in a silent coup to gain even more power — for itself and its corporate backers like Gates — at the expense of states and democratic oversight.
A THREAD.
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@adam_tooze
: “Zionism has to be understood as a product of its era i.e. as a settler-colonial project, typical of European global thinking in the late 19th and early 20th century. What is distinctive about it, is that the Israelis are the last group of (mainly) Europeans to…
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Over the past year the signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration -
@MartinKulldorff
,
@SunetraGupta
and
@DrJBhattacharya
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It’s hard to see how Israel can ever recover from this. There’s a worrying level of detachment from reality — not just among the Israeli establishment, but among pro-Israelis in general — in not realising what the overwhelming majority of people on the planet think when they see…
We can't get into Gaza, but Yousef Hammash lives there. He works for Norwegian Refugee Council and is a filmmaker - this is just some of his reporting on how children in Gaza have experienced the war
#Gaza
#Palestine
#childreninGaza
#Gazankids
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Watching non-Western politicians and commentators taking the piss out of Western politicians and journalists on a regular basis gives me hope for the future of the planet.
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Belgian left-wing MEP to Ursula von der Leyen: “100 millions Europeans are at risk of poverty and you’re giving away billions to arms manufacturers”.
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Each year the UN adopts by a large majority a resolution “against the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling racism”. Each year NATO countries abstain and two countries systematically vote against: the United States and Ukraine.
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🔴 BREAKING: Germany’s health minister Karl Lauterbach — a pro-lockdown and pro-vax hawk who infamously claimed that Covid vaccines were “without side effects” — has now admitted he was wrong.
Here’s my take on the biggest vaccine-injury scandal yet 👇🏻
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🧵 The Ukraine war, far from isolating Russia, has hastened the rise of a post-Western international order — comprising 90% of the world’s population — in which it is the West that is looking increasingly isolated from the rest of the world.
A THREAD.
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This has got to be one of the biggest gaffes ever. The US embassy in Prague captions a picture “Odessa, 2023”, suggesting that it depicts some Russian act of violence, when in fact it depicts the 2014 Odessa Massacre in which Ukrainian nationalists murdered 50…
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Haaretz editorial: “The disaster that befell Israel is the clear responsibility of one person: Benjamin Netanyahu. The prime minister... completely failed to identify the dangers he was consciously leading Israel into when establishing a government of annexation and…
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Robert Fico, the new socialist Slovak PM, who campaigned against Russian sanctions and NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine: “The Soviets freed us from the Nazis, we should show some respect. We must tell the whole world that freedom comes from the East, war always comes from the West”.
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It takes a special, all-American level of depravity to invent an imaginary genocide to cover up your active support for an actual genocide.
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The legendary Daniel Ellsberg passed away yesterday. In his final interview, just a few days ago, he made a very important point: Russia wasn’t just provoked by the US into invading Ukraine ― it was deliberately provoked, meaning the US was hoping for this outcome, i.e. war.
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Sunak’s speech is truly chilling: a billionaire oligarch who isn’t directly legitimated by a single vote accusing a working-class politician who has just overwhelmingly won a popular vote of being anti-democratic — and promising to “take action” against him.
They’re simply terrified at the idea that people might actually use the ballot box to elect someone who’s not part of the oligarchy. Says everything you need to know about Western “democracy”.
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Liberals: “Using the wrong pronoun makes you a literal Nazi”.
Also liberals: “Being in the SS doesn’t necessarily mean you were a Nazi”.
OPINION: A lie can make it halfway around the world before the truth has even got its boots on.
And the ongoing turmoil over Canada’s parliament recognizing former SS trooper Yaroslav Hunka highlights one of the most important reasons why.
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This is hilarious. EU funds amount to something like 2% of Hungary’s GDP. The truth is that there’s little the EU can do to harm Hungary economically because the latter was smart enough to keep its own currency. If Hungary had the euro, it would be a very different story: Orbán…
A file seen by the FT outlines a confidential plan by Brussels to shut off all EU funding to Budapest in order to spark a run on Hungary's currency and drive a collapse in investor confidence
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Just a year ago, Justin Trudeau was cheering the unlawful, extrajudicial murder of Ayman al-Zawahri by the US.
The death of Ayman al-Zawahiri is a step toward a safer world. Canada will keep working with our global partners to counter terrorist threats, promote peace and security, and keep people here at home and around the world safe.
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Seymour Hersh on the one-year anniversary of the Nord Stream bombing:
“The Biden administration blew up the [Nord Stream] pipelines but the action had little to do with winning or stopping the war in Ukraine. It resulted from fears in the White House that Germany would waver…
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A reminder:
Pope Francis on Israel’s assault on Gaza: “This is not war, it is terrorism”.
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Yesterday, speaking at the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg admitted that NATO is responsible for deliberately provoking the war in Ukraine:
“President Putin in the autumn of 2021 sent a draft treaty that they wanted…
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🧵 Western corporations are refusing to go along with the US-Western strategy of decoupling from China — and the militarisation of great-power relations. Is the capitalist class revolting against the military-industrial complex and the neocons?
A THREAD.
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On this day in 1999, NATO began its 78-day illegal bombing campaign of Yugoslavia, the first act of aggression against a sovereign state committed in Europe since the Second World War — and the beginning of the 25-year-long US-led New World Disorder that is now finally coming to…
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Robert Fico, the new socialist Slovak PM: “The war in Ukraine didn’t start yesterday or last year. It began in 2014, when the Ukrainian Nazis and fascists started to murder the Russian citizens in Donbas and Luhansk”.
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@ScratchOneBetty
Another genocide apologist. Shocking how many sick freaks are out there...
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Everyone’s jumping ship. It’s really over for Ukraine. Now, of course, in an attempt to deny their moral complicity, they’ll try to gaslight everyone into believing the carnage was necessary to avoid a worse outcome. That’s not true: Russia today is in a much better negotiating…
I have been one of the most vocal supporters of our help to Ukraine. It was the right thing to do. But it's time to bring the war to an end.
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Most people know that Israel is one of the world’s top weapons producers and exporters. Less known is the fact that Israel, especially since 1967, has used its weapons industry to arm and support some of the most brutal regimes of the second half of the twentieth century,…
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The most disturbing video you’ll see today: the weird-ass recruitment video from the US Army’s 4th Psychological Operations (PSYOP) Group.
“Have you ever wondered who’s pulling the strings?”.
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They’re simply terrified at the idea that people might actually use the ballot box to elect someone who’s not part of the oligarchy. Says everything you need to know about Western “democracy”.
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#BREAKING
: Rishi Sunak Responds To Galloway Win - Calls For Tougher Policing on Pro-Palestine Protests
He refers to
@georgegalloway
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Full address below:
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A deranged woman dressed in yellow is travelling across Europe desperately trying to start World War III. If spotted do not approach her and immediately notify the police.
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🧵 The Ukraine war — or more precisely the West’s response to the latter — is causing Europe to deindustrialise at frightening speed. What’s worse, there is ample evidence that, from America’s perspective, this was the intended outcome all along.
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Former US ambassador Chaz Freeman: “Israel is conducting genocide in Gaza and the US is complicit”.
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No one documents Israeli war crimes as thoroughly as the Israelis themselves.
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@AvniItamar
Imagine thinking advertising your depravity in front of the whole world with comments like these actually helps Israel's cause.
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South Africa’s ICJ case against Israel is a win-win for the Global South:
- If the ICJ rules against Israel, it will be a massive, irreparable blow to Israel and to its Western backers and enablers.
- If the ICJ recuses to acknowledge the obvious — that Israel’s actions in…
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On this day, 48 years ago, Aldo Moro, president of the ruling Christian Democracy Party, was kidnapped by the Red Brigades. He was murdered 55 days later, changing Italian history forever and putting an end to the country’s attempts to develop an autonomous policy from the US. We…
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Translated: Ukraine is planning a terrorist attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. God help us all.
We have just had a report from our intelligence and the Security Service of 🇺🇦.
Intelligence has received information that Russia is considering a scenario of a terrorist attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. A terrorist attack with radiation leakage. They have prepared…
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Nature study confirms massive discrimination suffered by the unvaccinated during the pandemic:
“We found evidence of discriminatory attitudes against unvaccinated individuals — including support for the removal of fundamental rights — in all countries”.
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🚨 BREAKING: The powerful opening statement by South Africa’s legal team in its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
#GazaGenocide
#ICJ
#icj4Israel
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Taken from these two interviews:
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Pretty astonishing — and terrifying — speech by Gen. Christopher Cavoli, NATO supreme allied commander and head of U.S. European Command.
Here are the main takeaways:
- The US and Russia have virtually no active nuclear hotline — which was one of the…
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I’m truly baffled by the inability of people, especially on the left, to separate the existence of a problem from the establishment’s political use of the latter. Yes, Covid was real — but it was clearly exploited by the ruling classes to push through an authoritarian…
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In Italy unvaccinated citizens will only be allowed to enter supermarkets and other essential stores - and even then only to buy "primary goods". This is what you get when you mix fascism, sadism, sociopathy and quackery.
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@PSulliv
@DougHenwood
@adam_tooze
So you're saying Europeans murdering other Europeans justifies the decades-long dispossession, colonisation and brutalisation of the Palestinians?
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The price the world will pay for not stopping Israel sooner is the Israelisation of global politics, where everyone will feel legitimised to violate even the most basic rules of international diplomacy — such as the inviolability of embassies. The whole world is Gaza now.
#Breaking
: The
@DanielNoboaOk
regime in
#Ecuador
invaded the Embassy of
#Mexico
tonight to kidnap the former vicepresident
@JorgeGlas
, who sought legal asylum there. The Mexican ambassador was violently beaten and the staff were forced out.
In legal terms, this is an invasion of…
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Well you’ve got to give credit to the dude for candidly admitting what everyone else denies: governments are artificially increasing unemployment through monetary/fiscal austerity in order to weaken labour’s bargaining power. Simple as that. Nothing to do with “fighting…
Gurner Group founder Tim Gurner tells the Financial Review Property Summit workers have become "arrogant" since COVID and "We've got to kill that attitude."
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Italy's decision to introduce a vaccine mandate for over-50s has nothing to do with public health. Rather, the motive is political: to fuel social conflict and further cement Draghi's authoritarian grip on the country.
My take for
@unherd
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A new book by David Michael Smith, Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire, estimates that the US empire is responsible, or shares responsibility, for close to 300 million deaths — making the most murderous empire ever.
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Jeffrey Sachs: “The fatal flaw [of US foreign policy] is that the US has just 4% of the world population, and lacks the economic, financial, military, and technological capacities, much less the ethical and legal claims, to dominate the other 96%”.
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Very interesting interview with Russo-Ukrainian political scientist Rostislav Ishchenko on why the collapse of the West is a big problem for Russia as well:
“Our enemies’ problems are growing. The Western system is no longer able to stabilise itself. It is self-destructing…
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BREVE STORIA TRISTE SULLA DECADENZA DELL'OCCIDENTE
Selvaggia Lucarelli risponde ad Alessandro Barbero.
FINE
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At least 100,000 dead Ukrainians = “cheap”. Tells you everything you need to know about how much Western leaders value Ukrainian lives. Also definitely not a proxy war.
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Biden to his Japanese counterpart: “Generation after generation we have fought together” 😂
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Well, that’s weird: Hamas leader demands international investigation into the October 7 attack.
Basem Naim, one of the leaders of Hamas, told Italian TV: “I don't agree with the manner of what happened on October 7th. Not even we know exactly what happened. We want an…
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There are only two scenarios here:
- European elites are operating under the assumption that no matter what they do Russia won’t retaliate. Obviously false.
- European elites want a hot war with Russia.
So they are either clinically delusional or batshit crazy.
JUST IN: France is preparing to deploy 2,000 troops to Ukraine to help fight Russia, Director of Russian Foreign Intelligence Service says.
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Jeffrey Sachs: “Israel is running out of time to save itself — not from Hamas, which lacks the means to defeat Israel militarily, but from itself. Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, verging on the crime of genocide according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, threaten to destroy…
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The EU asking Musk to censor information not conforming to the Western narrative over the Israel-Hamas war. This is what the
#DSA
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Myth: “Hamas is an organisation opposed to any form of negotiation or peace agreement and is committed to one and only one thing: the complete destruction of Israel, as stated in the Hamas charter”.
Reality: in January 2004, Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin offered Israel a ten-year…
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Within a week police intervened to shut down two conferences in Europe: a pro-Palestine conference in Berlin and, yesterday, the National Conservatism conference in Brussels. Not only does this signal the EU’s inexorable slide from soft to hard fascism. But it should make it…
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It really says everything you need to know about the Western media that they’ve spent the past two days repeating “This is a totally unprovoked aggression [where have I heard that before?], Israel bear no responsibility whatsoever, crush those evil Palestinians”, only for the…
Haaretz editorial: “The disaster that befell Israel is the clear responsibility of one person: Benjamin Netanyahu. The prime minister... completely failed to identify the dangers he was consciously leading Israel into when establishing a government of annexation and…
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For all his faults, Berlusconi tried to assert a degree of national autonomy — and that’s why the Euro-Atlantic establishment brought him down in 2011. Since then Italy’s politicians have morphed into mere implementers of foreign diktats.
Me for
@unherd
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*** BREAKING ***
Yet another embarrassment for the West/NATO — and proof of its rapidly declining influence even within the G20:
“G20 leaders have failed to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a joint statement after China and Russia rejected language that blamed Moscow…
G20 statement drops reference to Russia aggression ‘against’ Ukraine
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Sunak’s attack on
@georgegalloway
shows that our elites have become so averse to democracy that they’re shocked at the idea that people might actually use the ballot box to elect someone who’s not part of the oligarchy.
My latest:
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The day will come when Ukrainians will realise the US is their worst enemy. And it won’t be pretty.
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The various shades of Euro-fascism all in one picture: wannabe fascism, ethno-fascism and techno-fascism.
#G7
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Karl Polanyi, one of the twentieth century’s most insightful and influential socialist thinkers, passed away exactly 60 years ago. His masterpiece, The Great Transformation, remains the most powerful critique yet produced of market liberalism — the belief that societies can and…
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The events of the past weeks confirm, I think, that the climate movement is rapidly turning into the most dangerous doomsday cult the world has ever known. Indeed, it’s the first global movement of this kind: never before have millions of people been convinced that the world is…
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@AP
Believing Davos “involves a group of elites manipulating events for their own benefit” is neither a conspiracy nor a theory but a fact (which the WEF is quite open about):
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My opening speech at yesterday’s
@unherd
debate on Ukraine. It’s time to end this war that is only benefiting the US military-industrial complex and corporate-financial interests while laying waste to Ukraine, destabilising Europe and plunging millions of European into poverty.
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So the hashtag
#unprovoked
is trending. Speaking of which, here’s a 2008 classified cable from the then-American ambassador to Russia, William J. Burns, explaining how pushing for Ukraine’s entry into NATO was likely to spark civil war:
“Not only does Russia perceive…
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The Economist says we must prepare for a forever war in Ukraine
The latest edition of The Economist outlines what the next phase of the Ukraine war will look like.
So here’s what you need to know about the future of the conflict — straight from the mouth of the Western…
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🧵 As
#NATO
leaders gather in Vilnius today, no one will be asking the most important question: what is the reason for NATO’s existence?
A THREAD.
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So I read the latest “China is taking over the world” FT article, accompanied by the trademark scary dragon imagery. Here’s what I learnt:
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Your daily reminder that two years ago the US bombed Western Europe and since then everyone has pretended it never happened.
Nordstream was unequivocally the largest act of war against the EU since its founding, with devastating consequences for its energy security and Europeans' prosperity.
So naturally we choose to stay silent on who did it 🤦
It's obvious why. The perpetrator is almost certainly…
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The Ukraine war — or more precisely the West’s response to the latter — is causing Europe to deindustrialise at frightening speed. What’s worse, there is ample evidence that, from America’s perspective, this was the intended outcome all along.
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Yet another Covid taboo falls: even the NY Times admits that Covid deaths were massively overcounted as a result of absurd statistical methods — i.e. classifying as a Covid death any deceased, for whatever reason, who had recently tested positive.
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So America surrounds China with military bases, engages in constant provocation over Taiwan, wages economic warfare in an explicit attempt to slow down China’s development, openly talks of China as an existential enemy. Then has the mainstream press in its vassal states warn of…
The front page of one of Australia's leading newspapers warns that Australia "must prepare" for threat of war with China. Australia is an important defense ally of the United States. Yet another key reminder for Americans to wake up to the very real possibility of war with China
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This is a war crime.
Article 33 of the Geneva Convention: “No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited”.
Israel orders total Gaza siege: "We are fighting human animals."
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🧵 Traditional farming is under attack. In the name of “sustainability”, small/medium farmers across the world are being forced to shut down — to the benefit of Big Agro and the world’s food oligarchs. The consequences could be catastrophic.
A THREAD.
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The US establishment would do well to meditate on Kissinger’s final warning: that America’s increasingly desperate attempts to preserve its dying hegemony won’t save the country. Rather, they will only accelerate its decline.
My latest for
@unherd
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Germany is the second-largest supplier of weapons to Israel, after the US. Maybe there’s more than just guilt about its past behind its blind support for Israel’s actions in Gaza.
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After vaccinating hundreds of millions of kids around the world, causing untold harm to young people who were at zero risk from Covid, the WHO now revises its vaccination policy based on what was known from day one.
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The counteroffensive has been a colossal failure. Does this mean the West is coming round to the need for a diplomatic solution? Unfortunately not. The plan is now a long war of attrition that will benefit only the US — and destroy Ukraine .
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@PSulliv
@DougHenwood
@adam_tooze
That desire for self-preservation doesn't justify the erasure of another people. That one even has to explain that is crazy.
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As an old-school socialist, in recent years I’ve often found myself more aligned with people on the right than on the left — on issues such as national sovereignty and the EU, opposition to the Covid regime, the defense of free speech and the whole gender ideology madness. This…
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