Critical News Digest

03/05/2022

Matt Wuerker
Politico
Arlington (VA), USA, 2016
World Press Freedom Day

03/05/2022

The decision is an assault on the democratic rights of the entire population. Its content is politically, legally and morally abhorrent.

01/05/2022

Scenes of death and destruction after a strike on a Donetsk market are reminiscent of attacks on civilians in Gaza and Syria

01/05/2022

The attacks came right after one of the holiest nights in Ramadan, in a move that could prompt a direct reaction by the Palestinian resistance

01/05/2022

Mainstream media largely parrots Musk's mendacious framing — but this fight is about monopoly power, not sp*ech

30/04/2022

Renowned dissident and linguist Noam Chomsky joins The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill for a wide-ranging discussion on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, holding the ...

27/04/2022

Rulers divide the world into 'worthy' and 'unworthy' victims; those we are allowed to pity, such as Ukrainians enduring the hell of modern warfare, and those...

27/04/2022

On the topic of rich people buying media outlets...

27/04/2022

In a live interview with Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil, reporter Alejandro Kirk details what he's seen inside and around the strategic battlefront city of...

23/04/2022

The British, Australian, Ecuadorian and US Governments have made an ad about Julian Assange’s arrest and it’s surprisingly honest and informative!-*- Ways yo...

22/04/2022

22/04/2022

New Cold War Witch Hunt Targets Journalists Opposed to US Empire

The corporate media – including social media giants – are closing ranks to squeeze out anyone who dares speak up in opposition to the Pentagon’s narrative and against catastrophic confrontation between the United States and Russia.

WATCH / LISTEN: https://linktr.ee/TheSocialistProgram

22/04/2022

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained roughly 250,000 people in 200 jails in 2021, using brutal tactics to repress immigrants. This violent apparatus continues to grow under President Joe Biden.

19/04/2022

Planned social media app would also prevent workers from using terms such as ‘fire’, ‘slave labor’, ‘diversity’ and ‘injustice’

18/04/2022

The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a suicidal war with R…

18/04/2022

In 2019, Zelensky was elected on an overwhelming mandate to make peace with Russia. As Stephen F. Cohen warned that year, the US chose to side with Ukraine’s far-right and fuel war.

10/04/2022

"These are facts that almost all of us now know, and the vast majority say they accept; a terminal diagnosis for much of what we know as life on Earth, unless we act immediately to change our energy and economic model, and to stop burning fossil fuels.

Yet in the face of this huge existential crisis, what we get, from sizeable sections of our political, business and media establishment, is a desperate and indeed contemptible effort to defend the status quo; a parade of ageing, well-paid, hollow men, with dead eyes and evasive voices, who say that they accept the need for action on climate change, but then line up to argue that in the wake of the crisis, we should instead enhance our “energy security” (a laughable phrase, under the circumstances) by opening up new oil and gas fields, including the controversial Cambo field north-west of Scotland, and reversing decisions across the UK not to develop a fracking industry.

And the most profound irony of their position is that they dare to call their position “realistic”, and to mock those seriously trying to reduce carbon emissions as foolish idealists, when the exact reverse is true."

It’s 15 years since the Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein published her book The Shock Doctrine, on the theory and practice of what she called “disaster capitalism”; some admired the book, while others, at the time, dismissed her thinking about capitalism as naive, and lacking in nuance...

05/04/2022

On Saturday, Facebook deleted a video posted by the Socialist Equality Party of Germany opposing the German government’s participation in the US-led NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.

03/04/2022

"We, together with you, and with our sympathisers will move towards a multipolar, just, democratic world order," Lavrov said to the Chinese government on Wednesday.
And that right there ladies and gentlemen is the real reason we've been hearing so much hysterical shrieking about Russia these last five or six years. It's never been about Russian hackers. Nor about a Kremlin p*e p*e tape. Nor about Trump Tower. Nor about GRU bounties in Afghanistan. Nor about Manafort, Flynn, Bannon, Papadopoulos or any other Russiagate Surname of the Week. It's not even actually about Ukraine. Those have all been narrative-shaping constructs manipulated by the US intelligence cartel to manufacture support for a final showdown against Russia and China to prevent the emergence of a multipolar world."

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ The Pentagon has produced its latest National Defense Strategy (NDS), a report made every four years to provide the public and the government with a broad overview of the US war machine's planning, posturing, developments and areas of focus.

24/03/2022

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ If you use Twitter and engage with the subject of the war in Ukraine, you’ve probably noticed a verified account called The Kyiv Independent pop up whil…

20/03/2022

A bird's eye view of the vineyard

16/03/2022

There is no evidence of an Israeli gov't link to neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine, but there are clearly Israelis that are directly aiding them.

16/03/2022

Some state-backed journalists must register as “foreign agents” with the US government. But others don't have to.

16/03/2022

A bird's eye view of the vineyard

16/03/2022

BREAKING: The UK Supreme Court has rejected Assange's ability to appeal his extradition.

The extradition order now goes to Priti Patel, who will likely authorize it.

16/03/2022

11/03/2022

Dandelion Salad with Abby Martin TheRealNews on Mar 8, 2022 From the moment Russian troops invaded Ukraine the entire corporate media apparatus in the US moved to 24-7 coverage, filling airwaves wi…

11/03/2022

10/03/2022

by Glenn Greenwald

The neocon's confession sheds critical light on the U.S. role in Ukraine, and raises vital questions about these labs that deserve answers.

10/03/2022

In a series of disclosures Sunday and Monday, the Russian military revealed that the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency has been involved in the operation of more than 30 biological laboratories across Ukraine, and that these labs...

10/03/2022

For seven years, the Yemeni people have been pummelled with Saudi bombs, many from Britain. Yet Westminster is silent, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

09/03/2022

"It is the Battle of Ukraine. This is a demand for a definitive redefinition of the Ukrainian polity that has emerged since 2014. “Regime change,” if you wish, in a substantive sense. The Kiev government and its patron, the US, will not agree, and never would have agreed, to any of it, except by force.
Russia knows this. (It took them eight years to finally accept it.) Kiev knows this. The United States knows this. The only people who are being fooled and fooling themselves about it are consumers of Western media.
Russia has also, it is imperative to understand, gone all-in on this battle. Everyone has to get over how surprising that might be and confront how important it is. It means Russia will not agree to give up on its demands, except by overwhelming force.
That is because Russia considers this battle of Ukraine part of a larger war, a war for the future of the world: Will the world continue to be subject to the unipolar military, economic, financial, and ideological hegemony of the United States, or will we re-construct a multi-polar world in which the United States accepts a place within reciprocally respectful economic, political, and security relations?
For Russia, even before this battle of Ukraine, that world of unipolar US hegemony was fatal. It has meant the contemptuous and self-righteous disregard, the military encirclement, and the inexorable drive to weaken and dismember Russia. For fifteen years, Putin has been saying there is a limit to Russia’s tolerance of this, and pleading with Western media to realize and report the danger in ignoring that."

All-in Last week, I wrote that Russia was “on the offensive and impatient” and would “act very soon.” It did, but in a way that far exceeded my expectations. I thought Russia would make a direct military intervention to secure the Lugansk and Donetsk Republics (LDPR) it had newly recognized,...

09/03/2022

Almost 450 extremists from various nationalities arrive to Idlib to fight against Russian troops, after leaving Syria and passing through Turkey.

09/03/2022

"I wish to share one more defining pattern of Russian military behavior today that carries over from their operations in their Syrian campaign to destroy the US-backed terrorist groups in that country. In Syria, the Russian army established special units to sort out in field conditions the bad terrorists from the very bad terrorists. The former were allowed to lay down their arms and go home to their families. The latter were fought to the death and “neutralized.”

This slow, painstaking effort to distinguish enemies who can be brought back into civil society from those who cannot is unique to the Russian way of war today, and it deserves much more attention than it receives in our media. It is surely enabled by advanced psychological training of officers in charge. And it is an entirely different mindset from the “counterinsurgency” techniques that David Petraeus popularized and rode to fame and advancement in the Iraq War."

What I am about to say should be self-evident to anyone following closely the move of Russian forces into Ukraine and having a recollection of what the same Russian general command did in Crimea and then did again in their Syrian campaign.  Regrettably, Western audiences do not find these observati...

09/03/2022

The strategy significantly expands the growth prospects for military companies like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman.

06/03/2022

The rising tide of censorship that has caught the likes of Alex Jones, Joe Rogan and countless others in its web lately has been ramped up dramatically since...

06/03/2022

"The ISIS members, who are reportedly headed to Ukraine, underwent special training at the US army’s Al-Tanf military base in Syria.

The SVR also stated that similar extremist groups are being recruited throughout West Asia and North Africa. The militants will allegedly enter Ukraine through Poland.

The SVR statement detailed the history of the secret operation they uncovered, saying in a statement: “At the end of 2021, the Americans released from prisons … several dozen Daesh terrorists, including citizens of Russia and CIS countries. These individuals were sent to the US-controlled Al-Tanf base, where they have undergone special training in subversive and terrorist warfare methods with a focus on the Donbass region.”

The US claims that the illegal presence of their troops in northeast Syria is to protect the country’s vast oilfields from falling under the control of ISIS.

Neither Moscow nor Damascus believe this official explanation, with the latter accusing the US of using it as an excuse to steal Syrian oil.

However, ISIS fighters are not the only foreign militants to be recruited to join the fight against Russia in Ukraine."

Over the past two weeks Ukrainian officials have been calling for the formation of an 'international legion' of mercenaries