Emily Jones
Join me in trying to make sense of a complicated world.
Category: Capitalism
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Russian demands over Ukraine
www.nytimes.com/2021/12/17/world/europe/russia-nato-security-deal.html Read.
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The Fallen Mercenaries in Russia’s Dark Army – New Lines Magazine
Ukrainian intelligence officers spent years compiling a database of Russia’s Wagner group. We found the families of those killed in battle. — Read on newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-fallen-mercenaries-in-russias-dark-army/ Read.
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How They Would Survive
It is as if Afghanistan has ceased to exist for the corporate media. If you would like to hear what the situation is like in Afghanistan, listen to this podcast. NYT The Daily https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/an-economic-catastrophe-in-afghanistan/id1200361736?i=1000545034424 Read.
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Russia Has Already Invaded Ukraine
There has been a great deal of discussion in the media lately about what the West will do if Russia launches an invasion of Ukraine. But, as has been pointed out on the podcast, Ukraine Without Hype (12/10/21), Russia has already invaded Ukraine. The United States and the members of the G7 have threatened “massive… Read.
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The Corporate Media Complicity in Distraction: Bob Dole’s body and Ukraine
My television is on TCM to avoid watching the celebrity orgy going on over the body of Bob Dole. I would encourage people to think about the amount of time wasted on this coverage, and the amount of money that has been spent moving Dole’s body around, mourning over Bob Dole’s body, securing the celebrity… Read.
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UKRAINE: WHAT WE SHOULD KNOW
Wednesday 8 December 2021 The 2014 uprising in Ukraine, the ouster of pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, and the overthrow of the Ukrainian government were severe blows to the pride of Vladamir Putin and the Russian establishment/oligarchy. Added to the economic importance of Ukraine is the profound cultural centrality of Ukrainian history as part of the… Read.
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“Over-the-Horizon” Foreign Policy” Afghanistan
Pundit after pundit in the corporate media has given the U.S. military enormous credit for coming clean and admitting to the world that they made a “mistake” with the drone strike that killed 10 people in Afghanistan, including 7 children. It seems evident, however, that the military would have never admitted the tragic error had… Read.
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michael lewis’ “the premonition.”
Michal Lewis’ new book “The Premonition” couldn’t be more newsworthy. Through the stories of three individuals who worked in the public health system, Lewis makes plain just how we ended up with a dysfunctional CDC at a time of a global pandemic. In an interview with Nicolle Wallace of MSNBC (5/12/21) Lewis notes that we… Read.
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putting “profit before candor.” Freespeech TV
The corporate news media is a vast wasteland, a mental fidget-spinner of trite nonsense. It’s purpose, as far as I can tell, is to keep the lid on, to convince the population that the “institutions are holding,” and to stupify the public into believing that nothing is really wrong. There is the endlessly repeated both-sidesism… Read.
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joe manchin’s West virginia
Chris Hedges interviews Eleanor Goldfield, director of the film, “Hard Road of Hope.” This is the state Joe (they don’t need any more money) Manchin represents. https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/514762-goldfield-west-virginia-strikes/ Notes: In the 2016 Democratic Primary, Bernie Sanders won all 55 countries in West Virginia. In the general election, however, Trump took 68.5 percent of the vote . … Read.
Law, Power, and Justice 