Eve Ottenberg (2024-02-02). Nuclear War? Climate Collapse? No Worries. WEF Says Disinformation is Humanity's Most Immediate Threat. counterpunch.org The assorted billionaire geniuses and official intellectual luminaries who gathered in Davos Switzerland January 15-19 proved, for those who doubted, that neither singly nor as a group could these nincompoops find their way out of a paper bag. Weighing the world's fate in their well-manicured fingers, did they seem concerned about the Ukraine War morphing

Linda Pentz Gunter (2024-02-02). What a Turkey: Hinkley Point C Costs Hit a New High. counterpunch.org The Great Mosque of Mecca is considered the most expensive building in the world at $115.2 billion. Right behind it comes….a nuclear power plant! The two-reactor 3,260MW Hinkley Point C nuclear site still under construction in the UK will now cost at least £46 billion ($59 billion) according to the latest figures released by its developer,

Joe Lauria, Consortium News. (2024-02-02). International Court Of Justice Rules Against Ukraine On Terrorism, MH17. popularresistance.org The World Court ruled on Wednesday that Russia did not finance terrorism in its defense of separatists in Ukraine and the court refused to find Russia guilty of downing Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 as Ukraine had asked. | The case was brought to the ICJ by Ukraine in 2017, three years after the U.S.-backed coup in Kiev overthrew the democratically-elected President Viktor Yanukovych. | When Russian speakers in Donbass rebelled against the unconstitutional change in government that they had voted for, the coup leaders in 2014 launched what it called an "anti-terrorist" military operation to put down the rebellion.

Larry Johnson (2024-02-02). Turmoil in Kiev Escalates As Ukraine loses Ground to russia. sonar21.com There is a slew of reports that Friday will be General Zaluzhny's last day as the head of Ukraine's Armed Forces. I don't know what will happen. I cannot rule out that the press reports are an information operation based on wishful thinking. Then again, it may be real. I plan on doing a podcast tomorrow around noon to talk about what transpired in the Ukraine soap opera. Kudos to Alex Christoforou for dubbing this "Days of Kiev." An homage to the legendary U.S. soap, Days of Our Lives. There is no one alive and involved in the U.S. Government who was part of the lethal clown show in Vietnam that led to the…

WSWS (2024-02-02). European Union spends another €50 billion on Ukraine war. wsws.org The €50 billion is only a fraction of the sums used by the US, the EU, Germany and other European powers to finance the war against Russia.

teleSUR (2024-02-02). Russia Detects Patriot Missile Fragments at Il-76 Crash Site. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Russian investigators said that fragments of the MIM-104A anti-aircraft guided missile of the U.S. Patriot air defense system were detected at the crash site of the Il-76 transport aircraft. | RELATED: | "According to the conclusions made during the investigation, fragments seized from the crash site… are design elements of the MIM-104A anti-aircraft guided missile of the U.S. Patriot complex," th…

Susan Roberts (2024-02-02). Does the Western Mind Need Decolonising? counterpunch.org "Justice is destroyed by the violent man who possesses power." — Aquinas When Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin described Liberalism as a racist ideology, his Liberal interlocutors looked shocked. One of them, American Journalist and critic, Leon Wieseltier responded by describing Liberalism as the "Supreme achievement of the human spirit." That comes with "a portrait of

Editor (2024-02-02). From the Siege of Leningrad to the Siege of Gaza: Colonialist mentality. mronline.org Eighty years ago, on January 27, 1944, people in the street were hugging each other and weeping with joy. They were celebrating the end of a nearly 900 days brutal siege. Soviet forces lifted the siege of Leningrad after ferocious battles. Exactly a year later they liberated Auschwitz.

Labor Video Project (2024-02-02). Reinstate Namibian Hasab Mine Unionist Marcia Kauatjitotje. indybay.org Namibian unionist Marcia Kauatjitotje is a union leader at the second largest uranium mine in the world owned by Chinese state owned China General Nuclear Power Group CGNP. She was fired after exposing the conditions at the mine and participating in the Namibian Labour Tribunal last October in the capital Windhoek. She also went to the media and that was one of the charges against her. The Chinese owners said that she had exposed the work conditions embarrassing the company and it's subcontractor Eagle Night Watch. These workers are forced to do mine work at substandard wages with no healthcare and benefits. Sinc…

Elizabeth Vos, Consortium News. (2024-02-01). Russiagate And Gaza. popularresistance.org Just a few years ago, the Russiagate narrative dominated the news sphere: anyone who questioned the status quo was labeled a Putin puppet or a Russian bot, including American journalists. | In recent months, Israeli officials have similarly labeled anyone and any organization who opposes them as anti-Semitic or Hamas sympathizers, even going so far as to label the International Court of Justice anti-Semitic. | Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took both narratives a step further over the weekend, calling on the F.B.I. to investigate pro-Palestinian protests for alleged financial ties to Russia. | Her statements c…

Pressenza IPA (2024-02-01). Remembering the enormous legacy of a "Great Soul". pressenza.com On 30 January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi, a pivotal leader in the liberation of India from British rule and a living example of active nonviolence, was assassinated at the age of 78 by a Hindu fanatic. | As a lawyer and activist, he inspired his early struggle for the defense of his fellow countrymen, discriminated against and mistreated in South Africa, with a combination of Hindu culture, the ideas of the Russian Christian anarchist Tolstoy, and the action of civil disobedience advocated by the American writer Henry David Thoreau. | On his return to India in 1915, he began the movement that the world would come to kn…

albawaba (2024-02-01). China recognizes Taliban's ambassador, sets diplomatic precedent. albawaba.com ALBAWABA- Chinese President Xi Jinping formally accepted credentials from Mawlawi Asadullah, the Ambassador of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, marking the Taliban's official appointment of their ambassador to China. This move positions China as the first nation globally to acknowledge the Taliban ambassador as Afghanistan's legitimate representative abroad.ü§¨Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun told Shoigu that the PRC will support Russia on the "Ukrainian issue" despite continuous pressure from the US and Europe. | Earlier, China recognized the Taliban government in Afghanistan. | ‚…

albawaba (2024-02-01). Germany to provide Ukraine with $7.6b worth of weapons. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – German Chancellor urged on Thursday European Union countries to increase their arms deliveries to Ukraine amid the war with Russia, which began on Feb. 24, 2022. | ‚Ä® | Olaf Scholz told reporters in Brussels ahead of an extraordinary EU summit, complained that the military weapons sent to Ukraine are not enough to fight Russia.He maintained that military pledges by EU countries have been "far from being enough," while Ukraine is in desperate need to get more advanced weapons. | ‚Ä® | "The discussion must start immediately because we know that what has been planned so far,…

Rhoda Wilson (2024-02-01). 15-minute cities are being built in Russia. expose-news.com Dobrograd, a new city in the Vladimir Region of Russia, is being built according to the concept of a slow city, where everything necessary for a person is within a 15-minute walking …

ecns.cn (2024-02-01). Jilin eyes stable foreign trade growth in 2024. ecns.cn Jilin province is expected to see stable growth in foreign trade this year, driven by deepening business ties between China and Russia, surging trade volume facilitated by cross-border e-commerce, and the nation's thriving automobile industry…

teleSUR, dcdc, JCM (2024-02-01). Putin afirma que Il-76 fue derribado por misil estadounidense. telesurtv.net El mandatario indicó que el Comité de Investigación de Rusia abrió una causa por cargos de terrorismo.

Kate Hudson (2024-02-01). The Unthinkable Looms: Nuclear-Armed Israel is at War. counterpunch.org Israeli nuclear weapons pose a particular risk to peace and security in the Middle East region and internationally; not surprisingly they are seen as a significant threat by neighbouring non-nuclear states, and the ongoing catastrophe in Gaza and the extending war is exactly the situation in which they are likely to be used.

David Rosen (2024-02-01). Polyamory: Sex, Love and the Family. counterpunch.org Since the nation's founding, individuals, religious groups and radical communities have challenged conventional morality. They have contested the dominant form of monogamous, heterosexual sexuality and the patriarchal nuclear family. In 2021, only 18 percent — or 23 million — of U.S. households were "nuclear families" with a married couple and children. This is a significant drop from nearly 60 percent during the