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War is over-[If you want it]

Found myself wandering off in a daydream that we lived in a truly peaceful world after reading this from Caitlin Johnstone, available also on her own pages, where you can listen to a reading of it. Please consider sharing this and also to contributing to Caitlins writings -  see the ways to do this below. Hope for the coming year, thanks Caitlin       War is over If you
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Questions we should all be asking about the Ukraine war

There are questions we urgently need to ask about the Russia–Ukraine war. Questions which are important for all of us, because this war holds in it the seeds of our future, whether for good or bad. How we respond to the war as individuals and as nations depends on the answers we give, so I urge you to think in depth about your responses. I don’t offer answers of my
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The Ukraine War – Insights

Another one of those stories we have been trying to write since forever, but then research from Ali Mohammed came in and we reproduce it here, undiluted. At the end of it we add some extra pieces of information that we came across recently. Just to be clear, anyone who claims that by writing this up somehow makes us Putin Lovers or Apologists is "The Enemy"as far as we are concerned.
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Big Brother – Opening the Door to Total Financial Control

31st October 2022 - People and Power - Ido Dijkstra ‘Big Brother’-wet van Kaag opent deur naar totale financiële controle. The Dutch cabinet is the first in Europe to submit a bill that obliges banks to monitor all transactions above 100 euros of all Dutch citizens. Minister of Finance Sigrid Kaag (Party - D66) believes this is necessary in the context of combating money laundering. Critics call the law a far-reaching
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The Rule of the Uber-Rich Means Tyranny or Revolution

Art by Mr. Fish / Truthdig We are reposting this from Greanville Post, a marvellous piece by Chris Hedges written for Truthdig in 2018, and more relevant today than it was back then in our opinion At the age of 10 I was sent as a scholarship student to a boarding school for the uber-rich in Massachusetts. I lived among the wealthiest Americans for the next eight years. I listened
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The Most Powerful Weapon the West Gave Ukraine

Another excellent look at what people are not thinking about from Caitin Johnstone. Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix It's pretty wild how the US is sending weapons and armored vehicles to Haiti to help quash the exact sort of uprising it's been actively trying to create in places like Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and Hong Kong. ❖ The Pentagon is seeking sweeping new powers in preparation for a war with China,
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Giorgia on our mind

From the pen of Pepe Escobar, Columnist, Editor -at - Large and independent geopolitical analyst, via the Greanville Post   Pepe Escobar ably sorts out fact and fiction in the rise of the new "Fascist" Italian PM It’s tempting to interpret the Italian electoral results this past Sunday as voters merrily hurling a bowl of lush papardelle with wild boar ragu over the collective bland faces of the toxic unelected Euro-oligarchy sitting in
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When Freedom of Speech Can Cross the Line

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they may not want to hear." A simple yet immensely meaningful quote from an English student Alexander Butcher. My retort to such a statement is when does certain speech go too far, or can our first amendment rights ever cross the line? ( Orwellfoundation.com) Being a writer and independent podcaster I'm a staunch believer in freedom