New Year in London: Mass Poverty Is Deeply Rooted. Ongoing Praise for NATO Militarization Ukraine

 

New Year in London: Mass Poverty Is Deeply Rooted. Ongoing Praise for NATO Militarization Ukraine By Kurt Nimmo, January 02, 2023 The traditional London New Year fireworks display last night was dedicated to a dead queen and neo-Nazis on the endangered list in Ukraine. Let’s call it what it is—a perverse acclamation for a dead monarch and genocidal maniacs in Ukraine.

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Vivienne Westwood: Activism and the Godmother of Punk By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, January 02, 2023 For Westwood, fashion was always meant to be a spear for change. But as she noted in her autobiography, one jointly aided by the pen of Ian Kelly, “When I turned around, on the barricades, there was no one there. That was how it felt. They were just pogoing. So I lost interest.” The kids, in other words, just wanted the gear without manifesting any grand idea; this was the confrontation of fashion without any enduring consequences.

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New Israeli Government: Far-right or Racist? By Jamal Kanj, January 02, 2023 Hanukkah 2022 would be remembered as the holiday when Israeli voters snuffed the Menorah candles and welcomed darkness by electing a refurbished Jewish version of the Taliban government. Tel Aviv mayor, Ron Huldai, characterized it as being a shift “from a (Jewish) democracy to a theocracy.”

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From Sri Lanka to Salinas By Thomas Buckley, January 02, 2023 Ah, Sri Lanka. In 2020: a beautiful, agriculturally self-sufficient island nation full of tea and tourists and holder of the highest “Environmental, Social, and Governance” (ESG) investor rating in the world.

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Africa in Review 2022: Mounting Challenges Require Long Term Solutions By Abayomi Azikiwe, January 02, 2023 A report in the Voice of America, the public international news service for the United States State Department, said that there were troop movements by the State of Eritrea from areas in the Tigray province of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia where a war has been waged over the last two years.

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Truth, Truths and Consequences: A Happier New Year in the Offing By Dr. Emanuel Garcia, January 02, 2023 As a new year dawns, these past three years of Covidian deception weigh heavily, and the cumulative weight of this deception is staggering. What have we learned? What have we suffered? What good can come out of this assault upon our rights to our own bodies and mobility and freedom of expression, undertaken globally? What truth – or truths – have emerged from so many lies?

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Seventy Years of U.S. Destabilisation in China. U.S. Sponsored Uyghur Insurgency in Xinjiang By Shane Quinn, January 02, 2023 China’s exit in October 1949, from the sphere of US control, was perhaps the heaviest blow to strike American post-World War II global hegemony. China’s successful drive for independence had been anticipated in Washington for many months.

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The 64th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution: An Unprecedented Chapter in World History By Dr. Birsen Filip, January 02, 2023 Today, Cubans are commemorating the 64th anniversary of their independence. On this day in 1959, the Cuban Revolution was successfully conducted by Fidel Castro’s 26th of July Movement and became an enduring symbol of resistance to neo-colonialism, capitalism, and hegemony. As a result, Cuba’s corrupt and brutal dictator, Fulgencio Batista (1901-1973), who had the full backing of the US government, left the island and escaped to the Dominican Republic, along with some of his loyal supporters.

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Russia Consolidates in East Mediterranean By M. K. Bhadrakumar, January 01, 2023 The curtain is coming down on the brutal 11-year old Syrian conflict, which former US President and Nobel Laureate Barack Obama initiated, as the Arab Spring swept through West Asia two decades ago. The United States has suffered yet another big setback in West Asia as the year 2022 draws to a close. The unfolding Turkish-Syrian reconciliation process under Russian mediation is to be seen as a saga of betrayal and vengeance.

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Extremist Christian Militia in Lebanon May Ignite a New Civil War By Steven Sahiounie, January 01, 2023 In Ashrafieh, the wealthy Christian neighborhood in east Beirut, there is a group of 300 young, muscular, and bearded men patrolling the streets from 6 pm. to 6 am. as part of Neighborhood Watch, but they have an extremist Christian ideology which many have termed neo-fascist. They call the group the Soldiers of God, and its members refer to themselves as the Guardian Angels.

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