NATO Learns Nothing and Forgets Nothing

NATO Learns Nothing and Forgets Nothing By George Szamuely, August 10, 2022 NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg recently addressed the Workers Youth League (AUF) summer camp in Utøya, Norway. The AUF is Norway’s largest political youth organization and is affiliated with the Norwegian Labor Party. The AUF summer camp is of course famous for being the scene of the horrific terrorist attack perpetrated by neo-Nazi Anders Breivik in 2011.

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While Cuba Deals with Blazing Fire, the U.S. Watches and Waits By Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan and Medea Benjamin, August 11, 2022 By now, the images of the oil explosion that erupted in the Cuban province of Matanzas on Friday, August 5 and continues blazing have become international news. When lightning struck an oil tank in Cuba’s largest oil storage facility, it quickly exploded and began to spread to nearby tanks. As of now, four of the eight tanks have caught fire. Dozens of people have been hospitalized, over 120 have been reported injured, at least 16 firefighters are still reported missing and one firefighter has died.

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Mass Demonstrations for Democracy: Sudan’s Coalition to End Military Rule, Demanding the Immediate Establishment of a Civilian Government By Abayomi Azikiwe, August 10, 2022 Since December of 2018, the Republic of Sudan has undergone general strikes, mass demonstrations, the forced removal of longtime former President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and the failed formations of several interim administrations. Hundreds of people have lost their lives due to the repression carried out by the military and its supporters against protests which have been led by the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) and its Popular Resistance Committees (PRC).

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Will New Zealand be the Next Member of AUKUS? Towards the Formation of an “Asia-Pacific NATO”? By Andrew Korybko, August 10, 2022 The geostrategic pieces are all falling into place one after another to create the compelling impression that the US-led NATO proxy war on Russia through Ukraine has failed to achieve the grand strategic goals that were expected of it, which is why Washington is now willing to speed up the inevitable resumption of its “Pivot to Asia” in response instead of waiting at least several years like many observers expected.

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War in Ukraine: Who Are the Winners and Losers? By Marc Vandepitte, August 10, 2022 The invasion of Ukraine has been going on for more than five months now, and hostilities may continue for quite some time. In military terms, the outcome is still uncertain, but what is already clear is who the big winners and losers of this conflict are. An overview.

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The Dark Side of the Digital Revolution: “Slowly Closing Its Grip on Our Lives” By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, August 10, 2022 People love the digital revolution.  It allows them to work from home and avoid stressful commutes and office politics.  The young love their cell phones that connect them to the world. For writers the Internet offers, for now, a far larger audience than a syndicated columnist could obtain.  But while we enjoy and delight in its advantages, the tyranny inherent in the digital revolution is slowly closing its grip on our lives.

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High-Level Ukrainian Intelligence Official Admits U.S. Deeply Involved in Ukraine Conflict By Jeremy Kuzmarov, August 10, 2022 Major General Vadym Skibitsky, the deputy head of the Kyiv regime’s military intelligence directorate, admitted in an interview with the British daily Telegraph, that the U.S. government is involved in targeting decisions regarding U.S. supplied Lockheed Martin’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS).

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“Targeted Killing” Ordered by the President of the United States: What Ever Happened to the ‘Rules-based International Order?’ By Connor Echols, August 10, 2022 Early last week, President Joe Biden announced that the United States had killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul, Afghanistan. The news initially sparked widespread media attention, but in the end it came and went with relatively little fanfare, especially for the death of a long-time American enemy with a $25 million bounty on his head.

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Pre-Emptive Murder By Craig Murray, August 10, 2022 The lives of the latest fifteen Palestinian children to be murdered by Israel in Gaza, lives ripped from their small, terrified bodies with devastating violence, do not seem of much concern to the powerful in the West, or indeed anywhere.

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WHO Renews Push for Global Pandemic Treaty, as World Bank Creates $1 Billion Fund for Vaccine Passports By Michael Nevradakis, August 10, 2022 The World Health Organization (WHO) is moving ahead with plans to enact a new or revised international pandemic preparedness treaty, despite encountering setbacks earlier this summer after dozens of countries, primarily outside the Western world, objected to the plan.

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