2022-12-05: News Headlines

Alexander Neu (2022-12-05). Russia's war in the mirror of western international law nihilism and propaganda. indybay.org With Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine and the Western response, the world may be headed in leaps and bounds toward the nuclear abyss: The escalation dynamic is gaining speed. More and more conventional weapons with better and better effect are being moved by the West to Ukraine, while asserting that they are not a party to the war.

WSWS (2022-12-05). German parliament supports far-right war propaganda with "Holodomor" vote. wsws.org November 30, 2022 will go down in history as the date on which the German parliament (Bundestag) sacrificed historical truth and the freedom of opinion and scholarship on the altar of militarism.

WSWS (2022-12-05). Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Right-wing propaganda disguised as historical scholarship — Part Three. wsws.org This is the third part of a five-part review of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands.

WSWS (2022-12-05). Health experts warn of impending public health crisis as China quickly adapts itself to the herd immunity policy. wsws.org Published estimates suggest that the ending of Zero-COVID in China, now being demanded by the corporate media, could cost 1 to 2 million lives immediately.

Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović (2022-12-05). The 2002 Bush Junior Doctrine and the Pandora Box of "Preemptive Warfare" globalresearch.ca

____ (2022-12-05). (W.E. Talk) Karl-Heinz Pohl: Reflections on the methodology of a cross cultural dialogue. ecns.cn My talk is called "reflections on the methodology of a cross cultural dialogue". And I will propose ten methodological considerations, concerning how to proceed with a cross-cultural dialogue, what the influencing parameters are, what its limitations are, and what are favorable conditions for it.

Khubaka, Michael Harris (2022-12-05). Golden Harvest Ceremony – Growing food in Historic Negro Bar, Lake Natoma, California. indybay.org 1848 Negro Hill, Mormon Island and Negro Bar Gold Mining District on Ancient Indigenous Lands in California. "It's important to keep the focus squarely on the culprit that brought us to this point today. And that's the US government. Its subtle and overt expansion of White supremacy is to blame here. These are two incredibly aggrieved, hyper-marginalized groups,"

Staff (2022-12-04). GOP Silence on Trump's Call to Axe Constitution Reveals 'Full Embrace of Fascism': House Dem. commondreams.org "Last week the leader of the Republican Party had dinner with a Nazi leader and a man who called Adolf Hitler 'great,'" said Rep. Bill Pascrell. "Yesterday Trump called for throwing out the Constitution and making himself dictator."

Dave DeCamp (2022-12-04). Rep. Adam Smith Says Calls for Ukraine Aid Oversight are 'Russian Propaganda'. news.antiwar.com Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), the head of the House Armed Services Committee, said Saturday that the growing calls for more oversight of the billions of dollars the US is spending on Ukraine are "part of Russian propaganda." While the majority of Republicans strongly favor continuing to arm Ukraine, even the more hawkish GOP members have …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-12-04). The Covid "Killer Vaccine". People Are Dying All Over the World. It's A Criminal Undertaking. globalresearch.ca First published on November 26, 2022 | *** | We are being accused of "spreading disinformation" regarding the Covid-19 vaccine. | The Reuters and AP media "trackers" and "fact checkers" will be out to smear the testimonies of parents who have lost their …

_____ (2022-12-04). The Volatility Of US Hegemony In Latin America, Part II. popularresistance.org The US has long considered Latin America and the Caribbean to be its "backyard" under the anachronist 1823 Monroe Doctrine. And even though current US President Biden mistakenly thinks that upgrading the region to the "front yard" makes any difference, Yankee hemispheric hegemony is becoming increasingly volatile. A "Pink Tide" of left electoral victories since 2018 have swept Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Honduras, Chile, Columbia, and Brazil. At the same time, China has emerged as an economic presence while tumultuously inflationary winds blow in the world economy. | In this larger context, the socialist tr…

Marjorie Cohn (2022-12-04). "Publishing Is Not a Crime": The New York Times Joins the Fight to Free Assange. truthout.org In a stunning development earlier this week, The New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, DER SPIEGEL and El País signed a joint open letter calling on the U.S. government to dismiss the charges against Julian Assange for obtaining and publishing classified military and diplomatic secrets. "Publishing is not a crime," the letter states. "The U.S. government should end its prosecution of Julian… |

Yuri Rubtsov (2022-12-03). History: Hitler was Financed by the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England. globalresearch.ca Note to readers: please click the share buttons above | feature image: Hitler, Schacht and Prescott Bush | First published by Global Research in May 2016, Minor edits by Global Research. Title as in the original. | Incisive historical analysis. | From World War …

_____ (2022-12-03). New York Times Has Found New Neo-Nazi Troops To Lionize In Ukraine. popularresistance.org The New York Times has found another neo-Nazi militia to fawn over in Ukraine. The Bratstvo battalion "gave access to the New York Times to report on two recent riverine operations," which culminated in a piece (11/21/22) headlined "On the River at Night, Ambushing Russians." | Since the US-backed Maidan coup in 2014, establishment media have either minimized the far-right ideology that guides many Ukrainian nationalist detachments or ignored it completely. | Anti-war outlets, including FAIR (1/28/22, 3/22/22), have repeatedly highlighted this dynamic—particularly regarding corporate media's lionization of…

WSWS (2022-12-03). Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Right-wing propaganda disguised as historical scholarship—Part Two. wsws.org The role that Snyder is playing in justifying the imperialist proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and the alliance of US imperialism with the Ukrainian far right make it imperative to investigate his book more closely.

_____ (2022-12-03). Zero Covid And The Protests In China. popularresistance.org Establishment media have seized on protests over Covid lockdowns to rehearse their favourite anti-China narratives. | Ever since the world's first Covid outbreak in Wuhan, the virus has been used as a stick to beat China. | Donald Trump cynically portrayed the pandemic as a Chinese weapon — "the worst attack we've ever had on our country … worse than Pearl Harbour." | Trump's ravings were seldom taken seriously even by US allies. But the resurrection of the "lab leak" conspiracy theory by the Joe Biden administration made it respectable, and the judgement of a World Health Organisation scientific team, th…

Zachary L Cox, JoAnn Lindenfeld (2022-12-03). [Comment] STRONG start for implementation of guideline-directed medical therapies. thelancet.com Several publications have proposed potential strategies for novel, rapid optimisation of guideline-directed medical therapy to address the sizeable gap between evidence and implementation in patients with heart failure.1—4 The benefit of an optimised guideline-directed medical therapy regimen consisting of an angiotensin receptor-neprilysin (ARN) inhibitor, Œ≤ blocker, mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist, and SGLT2 inhibitor is substantial, adding an estimated 6 ∑3 years of additional survival for individuals aged 55 years with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction compared with subopti…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-12-03). "Wiki-Gate": Julian Assange Was Framed by the People Who Supported Him. globalresearch.ca Assange has been the object of an all out smear campaign by those who supported him. The Economist which granted Assange the New Media Award in 2008 intimates that he is an "enemy agent" responsible for "information anarchy … culminating in the destabilization of American democracy"

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