Farah Maraqa is among several Arab journalists purged by the German state broadcaster.

The Religious Harmony Law in Indonesia was created to regulate religious issues on the construction of houses of worship, celebration of religious holidays, and religious teachings. 

It has proven to be anything but harmonious.  

Upon the close of Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s press briefing, NATO released its official statement from the extraordinary session over the Ukraine crisis… “We, the Heads of State and Government of the 30 NATO Allies, have met today to address Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, the gravest threat to Euro-Atlantic security in decades,” the statement posted to NATO’s webs

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As the battle lines are drawn in the new cold war, a digital iron curtain is descending across the internet. Governments are increasingly cracking down on the net and attempting to limit what websites you can access. Today James walks you through some basic steps you can take to draw back the curtain and peek at the information that the censors don't want you to see.

Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies, with real life dialogue, were a staple of the Village Voice in its heyday. Now he’s back with his unique take on the 21st century.

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Il y a quelque chose dans l’expression « contrôle des prix » qui fait fuir certaines personnes, principalement des économistes. Mais l’histoire montre que les économies de marché passent rarement très longtemps sans avoir besoin d’une certaine forme de contrôle des prix – surtout en cas de crise.

Source : Jacobin Mag, Uwe Fuhrmann
Traduit par Loren Balhorn et les lecteurs du site Les Crises

The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked President Biden in a phone call earlier this month to hold off on sanctioning Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.

A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that if the US destabilizes Russia like it has other nations, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, it would lead to a nuclear “dystopia.”

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The Ukrainian government is refusing to allow transgender women to leave the country along with the millions of women and children refugees who have been streaming into Poland and other European nations. Instead, Ukrainian border guards are turning them back and forcing them to return home to join the fight.

Their reasoning might sour some trans activists in the West: Ukraine’s martial law requires all biological males between the ages of 18 and 60 to remain in the country and fight. And it makes no exceptions for trans women.

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Watching the brutish Russian invasion of Ukraine and the West’s reaction, I cannot help but think about my childhood in the United States post 9/11, growing up as a Muslim Iranian American girl.

I remember this feeling, even as a child, when my rows of Barbie dolls included none that looked like me. As a teen, I hid my ethnic origin because even the faintest mention of Islam or Iran ignited contention rather than celebration of my beautiful culture. 

Just a day ahead of the Thursday emergency meeting of NATO leaders in Brussels, which Joe Biden will attend in person, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has previewed in a new speech that countries will commit to “major increases” in troops along Europe’s ‘eastern flank’.

In a new CNN interview published Tuesday, a Kremlin spokesman refused to rule out that it might use nuclear weapons when pressed by Christiane Amanpour, during a series of questions focused on the Russia’s war in Ukraine. The discussion stemmed in part from Moscow last month placing its strategic nuclear forces on higher alert.

Bloomberg is confirming that Russia has its first high-level dissenter who has stepped down from his government post and fled the country in protest over Putin’s war in Ukraine.

PERSPECTIVE

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L’ancien dirigeant a passé des années à voler, escroquer, trafiquer de la drogue et pire encore. Quand il n’a plus été utile, les États-Unis l’ont inculpé.

Source : Responsible Statecraft, Brian Saady
Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises

Chaque semaine, nous vous proposons notre Compil’ de la Semaine : une sélection de dessins de presse à la fois drôles et incisifs, ainsi que des vidéos d’analyse participant à l’indispensable travail d’auto-défense intellectuelle.

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On Monday, the State Department signaled that the US is discouraging Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from making concessions to Russia in negotiations that are aimed at ending the fighting in Ukraine.

State Department spokesman Ned Price said Zelensky has “made it very clear that he is open to a diplomatic solution that does not compromise the core principles at the heart of the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine.”

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This week on Questions For Corbett, Coll writes in to ask about the bitcoin psyop. What is crypto and how does it work? Is it evil? James gets into all the Byzantine details.

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In the run-up to and during the Bush administration’s catastrophic invasion of Iraq, corporate media outlets were accused of acting as stenographers for the White House, amplifying official justifications for the attack—which were lies—while stifling dissenting voices.

Not Smart But Clever? The Return of ‘Dumbphones’ (Maria)

The author writes, “Five years ago, Przemek Olejniczak, a psychologist, swapped his smartphone for a Nokia 3310, initially because of the longer-lasting battery. However, he soon realized that there were other benefits. ‘Before, I would always be stuck to the phone, checking anything and everything, browsing Facebook or the news, or other facts I didn’t need to know,’ he says. ‘Now I have more time for my family and me.

For the third time in as many days, Hungary’s air force scrambled fighter jets in response to an unidentified aircraft which crossed the country’s airspace from Ukraine, reportedly headed in the direction of Slovakia.

The ministry of defense confirmed of the fresh Monday incident that Hungarian Gripen fighter jets were sent to intercept and thwart the foreign aircraft’s advance into sovereign airspace.

Attacks and raids by occupation forces are daily, often lethal occurrences.

PERSPECTIVE

Regardless of the topic, the tactic of throwing out mutually contradictory “versions” always seemed to work for the debate’s predetermined winners: 

The novel coronavirus was an American bioweapon genetically modified to infect only people of “Mongoloid” ethnicity, and the US was failing to cope with wave after wave of COVID-19 infections at home. 

Minneapolis police officers were sadist pigs, and peaceful protesters against police violence were destroying America. 

The GOP sets a different pace when it comes to Supreme Court nominations. 

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L’inflation menace de plonger des millions de personnes dans la pauvreté. Oubliez ce que dit l’establishment : les travailleurs doivent dès maintenant exiger des salaires plus élevés.

Source : Jacobin Mag, Grace Blakeley
Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises

President Biden on Monday appeared to confirm that Russia used a hypersonic missile in Ukraine over the weekend. Russia’s Defense Ministry announced Saturday that it used a Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missile in a strike that targeted a Ukrainian weapons depot.

WNBA star Brittney Griner has been detained in Russia since mid-February after arriving at a Moscow airport reportedly with an oil derived from cannabis, which was treated as a violation of the country’s strict anti-drug laws, and could carry a maximum penalty of up to a decade in prison.

The US Embassy in Moscow has stepped up its pressure on the Russian government in the last days, demanding that Griner and a couple other Americans detained in Russia get the standard consular access.

Monday’s devastating crash of a Boeing 737 operated by China Eastern Airlines has gripped the US aviation industry (aka Boeing) in what’s shaping up to be another major scandal barely a year after the plane manufacturer had finally managed to move beyond the disastrous rollout of the 737 MAX 8, which left hundreds dead as a design flaw led to two crashes, one in Ethiopia and the other in Indonesia.

Apparently not content with diplomatic war on one front with Russia, the Biden administration appears ready to escalate with China following on the heels of last week’s persistent accusations that Beijing was mulling cooperation with Moscow on weapons resupplies for its Ukraine operation, as well as assistance on Western sanctions evasion.

Nigeria, the most populous country in OPEC, can produce up to 2.5 million barrels of oil per day, according to the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

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At a moment Russian forces are believed to be on the cusp of taking the major southeast city of Mariupol, after the Ukrainians rejected the Kremlin’s terms of surrender for the city, a fresh statement from the Russian side has yet again cited “no significant progress” in ceasefire talks, while stating Moscow is not ready for a proposed meeting with Zelensky.

With China refusing to bend the knee to Washington’s “denounce Putin” demands, it appears the Biden administration’s narrative that the world is united against Russia is creaking at the seams as Bloomberg reports that cheap Russian Urals crude is finding willing buyers in India.

And why wouldn’t they… With Urals Crude trading at a stunning $30 discount to Brent, who can blame India for snapping it up.

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Greater escalation is in the air as two nuclear-armed superpowers continue stumbling toward a hugely alarming WWIII scenario as the Russian invasion of Ukraine reaches almost a full month. The Wall Street Journal on Monday has cited US defense officials who say Washington is covertly sending Soviet-made air defense equipment to Ukraine to help repel Russian air power. It seems this is the Biden administration’s ‘alternative’ to directly imposing a no-fly zone, yet it’s still a step in that direction.

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RECORDED ON JANUARY 21, 2022: Elze van Hamelen of De Andere Krant interviews James Corbett about 3D chess and geopolitical struggle and what it tells us about the larger struggle for societal control, from vaccine passports and pandemic treaties to central bank digital currencies and the digital ID grid.

Les puces de microprocesseurs sont devenues un élément central de nos vies, faisant fonctionner aussi bien les smartphones que les téléviseurs. Mais les perturbations dans l’industrie des puces font grimper l’inflation – et dévoilent l’horrible oligopole capitaliste qu’est cet industrie.

Source : Jacobin Mag, Rob Larson
Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises

Le monde doit s’adapter urgemment au changement climatique, alerte le Giec dans un rapport publié le 28 février. Vagues de chaleur, perte des rendements agricoles, pénurie d’eau, inondations : les conséquences seront nombreuses, estime-t-il.

À l’occasion de la sortie du rapport du Giec, Reporterre publie une série d’articles sur le changement climatique dont nous vous conseillons la lecture.

Luckily for us, we do not need to be mind-readers or fortune tellers to know what the globalists are preparing for our dystopian future. We simply have to read their documents. And boy, have they released some real doozies in the past month: three documents that lay out a precise timeline and an overview of what they're hoping to achieve and how they're hoping to achieve it.

Last week, after British online newspaper The Independent published a scathing op-ed piece about comedian Russell Brand, Elon Musk took to Twitter to defend the standup comedian and offer his thoughts on the mainstream media.

The exchange started when The Independent took a swipe at Brand, who has been gaining popularity online, namely for avoiding groupthink while discussing current events and politics.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that he’s “ready for negotiations” with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but that if they break down, it will lead to World War III.

“I’m ready for negotiations with him. I was ready for the last two years. And I think that without negotiations we cannot end this war,” Zelensky told CNN‘s Fareed Zakaria.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword

PART I     IDENTITY POLITICS AND CANCEL CULTURE

1    Confessions of a Crusty, Crotchety, Cantankerous, Contrarian,  Communist Casualty of Cancel Culture

2    Kimberlé Crenshaw Goes on a Safari

3    Ta-Nehisi Coates Demands Reparations, Sort of

4    Robin DiAngelo Kicks Karen’s Butt

FOREWORD

PERSPECTIVE

Michael Wasiura is a freelance writer. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he received a Master’s Degree in International Economic Analysis from Fordham University, then taught English in Moscow before becoming a fixture on Russian television.

Michael Wasiura. Photo credit: Courtesy of Michael Wasiura

Charles Koch’s organizations announced they will keep their companies open in Russia and stated that they are against sanctions.

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Dear Norm:

On Saturday a high-ranking Chinese government official lashed out at the West’s sanctions regimen against Russia in the wake of the Ukraine invasion, blasting the far-reaching punitive measures which have also served to severely isolate Moscow as increasingly “outrageous”.

 – OPINION –

Russia said it fired a hypersonic aero-ballistic air-to-ground missile for the first time in the three-week invasion of Ukraine, destroying a weapons bunker in the southwestern region of the country, according to Bloomberg.

Pour cette chronique économique, l’économiste Frédéric Farah nous parle du fonctionnement des taux de change entre les différentes monnaies qui s’affrontent sur le marché international. Ce mécanisme, à l’origine d’un système monétaire complexe dans lequel les devises sont devenues des marchandises et des produits spéculatifs à part entière, a des implications très fortes dans nos rapports de force économiques et donc, par extension, dans la bonne santé économique de notre pays. C’est pourquoi il est primordial d’en comprendre le fonctionnement !

On Friday, Jakob Kern, an emergency coordinator at the United Nations (UN) World Food Programme (WFP), warned Ukraine’s food supply chains were collapsing as Russia bombed key infrastructures such as roads, bridges, and trains.

“The country’s food supply chain is falling apart. Movements of goods have slowed down due to insecurity and the reluctance of drivers,” Kern told a Geneva during a video conference from Krakow, Poland.

Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren said Friday that the Netherlands is sending a Patriot missile defense system to Slovakia and that Germany is also sending two Patriot systems as NATO looks to bolster its forces near Ukraine.

Russia on Friday said that any weapons shipments entering Ukraine would be considered “legitimate targets” as the US is working with its NATO allies to send more arms into the warzone.

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Watch: Joseph Massad discusses the history and Western responses to the war.

TBILISI, GEORGIA — On February 24, the evening Russia invaded Ukraine, a few thousand locals gathered in front of the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi to protest. Among them were several dozen Russians. You knew at a glance they were Russian, because the signs they held said so. “I’m Russian,” one read (in English). “Sorry for that.”  

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Did Russia’s President Vladimir Putin invade Ukraine to distract attention from his own political weakness at home? Sure, he was unhappy about NATO and obsessed with restoring the glory of the Russian empire. But the timing of this war and Putin’s expectation of a quick victory may be rooted in his own domestic political failures.

This story by John R. Platt originally appeared in The Revelator and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. 

10 Ways War Harms Wildlife

La demande annoncée est grotesque, surtout si l’on considère le gaspillage incontrôlé actuel du Pentagone.

Source : Responsible Statecraft, William Hartung
Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises

Image: Shchus via shutterstock.com

Source : Le Media – 05-03-2022

On Thursday, Lithuania’s parliament unanimously passed a resolution urging for a no-fly zone over Ukraine, joining its fellow Baltic state Estonia in calling for the action, which would require shooting down Russian planes and bombing anti-aircraft missiles inside Russia.

The Lithuanian resolution “urges the United Nations to take immediate action to secure a no-fly zone over Ukraine to stop mass civilian deaths.”

The world’s top-ranked tennis player, Daniil Medvedev, could be banned from playing at Wimbledon unless he offers “assurances” that he isn’t a supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

China has issued a full response to the US regarding recent allegations related to the Ukraine war in a new Washington Post op-ed. China’s ambassador to the US blasted as total “disinformation” the White House charge that Beijing is poised to answer positively Moscow’s request for military assistance in Ukraine. Jake Sullivan had warned the China delegation in Rome that severe “consequences” would follow any Moscow-Beijing cooperation regarding Ukraine.