Month: May 2023

“Sudan’s crisis and the hidden hands of the IMF” — Dian Maria Blandina

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Fighting in Sudan. Photo: CGTN. As the people of Sudan continue to experience conflict and violence, the role played by international financial institutions is often ignored. Decades of IMF-imposed austerity policies and cuts on spending played a huge role in the deterioration of living conditions in the country
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“US ‘Seizes’ Web Domains Related to Hezbollah” — by Peoples Dispatch

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Hezbollah posters around the streets of Baalbek, Lebanon, 2009. (Will De Freitas, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Most of the dozen or so domains seized on Thursday were registered in the U.S. and belonged to Al Manar TV which is affiliated with the Lebanese resistance group.
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“Ukrainian Media Asks ‘Who Should be Next’ After Car Bombing of Russian Writer” — by Alexander Rubinstein

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A Ukrainian media group partnered with BBC, Der Spiegel and other Western outlets polled readers on which Russian intellectual should be assassinated following a car bomb attack on writer Zakhar Prilepin. The Biden administration has greenlit Kiev’s campaign of terror.
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“Protests Erupt Against U.S. Military Exercises and Expansion of U.S. Military Footprint in The Philippines” — Jeremy Kuzmarov

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Demonstrators burn a U.S. flag during a rally in front of Camp Aguinaldo military headquarters in Quezon City, Philippines, on April 11, 2023, as they protest opening ceremonies for the joint military exercise Balikatan, Tagalog for “shoulder-to-shoulder.” The U.S. and the Philippines began their largest combat exercises in decades that will involve live-fire drills, including a boat-sinking rocket assault in waters across the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait. [Source: defensenews.com].
Filipinos Don’t Want to Be Used as a “Footstool for American Power Projection and Provocation” Says Filipino Peace Activist
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“John Pilger: The Coming War — Time to Speak Up” — by John Pilger

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Dec. 20, 2008: Protesters in Montreal threw shoes at a target poster of President George Bush outside the U.S. Consulate to show support for the Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zeizi , who threw his shoe at the real Bush. (Anirudh Koul, Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0). Silences filled with a consensus of propaganda contaminate almost everything we read, see and hear. War by media is now a key task of so-called mainstream journalism.
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