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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60257080
China has joined Russia in condemning Nato expansion as the two countries move closer togetherConsortium, a leftist progressive website, uses Ron Paul right libertarian website to criticise the American propaganda.
Unable to Produce Evidence, State Dept. Spox Hits Reporter With Russia Smear
It reminded me that the Socialist Standard wrote of this trend several years ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60248259
Russia is planning to fabricate a pretext for an invasion of Ukraine, by falsely blaming Ukrainian military for an attack on Russian-backed separatists or Russia itself, US officials say.
Is this a repeat of the earlier British unfounded claim? Are the US and the UK re-playing the Iraq WMD game-plan where they cite one another’s false intelligence as credible sources?
Gleiwitz again?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident
Mukden again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukden_IncidentBut a far more recent example was in the Kuwait War and to bring Saudi Arabia fully on board with the alliance, the USA claimed Iraqi tanks were poised on the border ready to invade – a brazen lie.
ZJW – why the Biden administration is so dismissive of Amnesty’s report but often cites its human rights research on countries like Syria and China.
I frequently come across the exact same response from the Left when such NGOs as Human Rights Watch criticises Nicaragua or Venezuela or China. I’m immediately accused of citing a biased Washington-friendly faux human rights group yet as you say they will happily resort to its reports on other issues such as Palestine.
I still honestly don’t know about the legitimacy of the White Helmets in Syria.
Membership to NATO requires unanimous agreement
With Germany already refusing to supply Ukraine with military hardware, I think we can safely speculate that it would veto Ukraine from joining.
Hungary also would be very likely to oppose Ukraine’s admission.
https://washington.mfa.gov.hu/eng/news/why-is-hungary-blocking-ukraines-nato-accession
Hungary is already rebuffing NATO efforts to reinforce it.
State ballot initiatives have expressed people’s power in the US, The conservative controlled Florida had ones that approved the $15 an hour wage and restored voting rights to felonies.
Now the Republicans are intent upon limiting the power of the people.
RT must stop broadcasting German-language programs in Germany as it “does not have the necessary broadcasting license,” the German Commission on Licensing and Supervision (ZAK) announced
https://www.dw.com/en/russias-rt-channel-blocked-by-german-regulators/a-60635397
Israel is taking part in a huge US-led naval exercise in the Middle East, for the first time joining Saudi Arabia and Oman.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/2/israel-participates-in-huge-us-mideast-naval-exercise
Our danger is as what can be described as Third-Campists is that we don’t appear to be too sympathetic to the Russians and too anti-American.
As they say, it takes two to tango.
Time for our internationalism to express itself and another call for one-world socialism be the demand.
Our last Discord meeting’s Q and A touched on the subject of countries and nation-states.
Perhaps developments in the Middle East may change America’s priorities.
Albeit the might of the USA can indeed fight multiple wars simultaneously.
Another sign of the crumbling COP26 pledges
The Abigail oil and gas field off the east coast of Scotland was quietly approved by the government’s Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) last month, defying climate experts who warned at the Glasgow conference in November that no new fossil fuel developments would be compatible with the world’s climate targets.
It is a joke
None here are calling it socialism but as Matt says it is a reform welcomed by many of our fellow workers who do not consider it a joke but a much-needed attempt to alleviate their poverty.
Now it is in place, just as it is politically difficult to dismantle the NHS free healthcare at the point of delivery, it is proving just a problem to those who seek to withdraw free public transport.
