the unbalanced evolution of homo sapiens

Russell Brand   As Facebook changes its policy to allow praise for Ukrainian neo-Nazis, is this a further example of the double standards of censorship as well as our collective short memories?  

by Caitlin Johnstone  Australian whistleblower David McBride just made the following statement on Twitter:     "I’ve been asked if I think the invasion of Ukraine is illegal.     My answer is: If we don’t hold our own leaders to account, we can’t hold other leaders to account.     If the law is not applied consistently, it is not the law.     It is simply an excuse we use to target our enemies.     We will pay a heavy price for our hubris of 2003 in the future.     We didn’t just fail to punish Bush and Blair: we rewarded them. We re-elected them. We knighted them.     If you want to see Putin in his true light imagine him landing a jet and then saying ‘Mission Accomplished’." As far as I can tell this point is logically unassailable. International law is a meaningless concept when it only applies to people the US power alliance doesn't like. This point is driven home by the lif...

failed evolution   World's number one political prisoner, Julian Assange, still in high security prison for exposing horrendous war crimes carried out by the US imperialists and their allies.   The ruthless Western imperialist regime wants to punish the No1 real journalist in the world and make him an example for any Whistleblower or real journalist who will attempt to expose its big crimes in the future.   That Assange, who is in precarious physical and psychological health and who suffered a stroke during court video proceedings, has been condemned to death should not come as a surprise. The ten years he has been detained, seven in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and nearly three in the high security Belmarsh prison, were accompanied with a lack of sunlight and exercise and unrelenting threats, pressure, anxiety and stress.    His steady physical and psychological deterioration has led to hallucinations and depression. He takes antidepressant med...

While Western media deploys Volodymyr Zelensky’s Jewish heritage to refute accusations of Nazi influence in Ukraine, the president has ceded to neo-Nazi forces and now depends on them as front line fighters. by Alexander Rubinstein and Max Blumenthal  Part 3 - Backed by Zelensky’s top financier, neo-Nazi militants unleash a wave of intimidation   Incorporated into the Ukrainian National Guard, the Azov Battalion is considered the most ideologically zealous and militarily motivated unit fighting pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Donbass region. With Nazi-inspired Wolfsangel insignia on the uniforms of its fighters, who have been photographed with Nazi SS symbols on their helmets, Azov “ is known for its association with neo-Nazi ideology…[and] is believed to have participated in training and radicalizing US-based white supremacy organizations, ” according to an FBI indictment of several US white nationalists that traveled to Kiev to train with Azov.  Igor Kolomoisky, ...

Wi-Fi router companies say they don't track the websites you visit, but all of them collect and share user data for marketing   by Ry Crist  Part 3 - Is my router tracking the websites I visit? Almost all of the web traffic in your home passes through your router, so maybe it's difficult to imagine that it isn't tracking the websites that you're visiting as you browse. Every major manufacturer I looked into discloses that it collects some form of user data for the purpose of marketing -- but almost none of the policies I read included any language that explicitly answered the question of whether or not a user should expect their web history to be logged or recorded. The sole exception? Google. " Importantly, the Google Wifi app, Wifi features of the Google Home app, and your Google Wifi and Nest Wifi devices do not track the websites you visit or collect the content of any traffic on your network, " Google's support page for Nest Wifi privacy reads. "...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists emerged after World War II as a voice for peace by some of the scientists who developed the then ultimate weapon of mass destruction. Now, its mission has drifted into being an echo chamber for the US imperial project urging President Biden to take even more destabilizing actions against Russia. by Roger Harris   Part 6 - Reasonable peace proposals   There is not a word in these articles of how some of the Russian initiatives might prevent hostilities and make the region more secure with a reduced likelihood of war. And certainly, there is none of the following reasonable peace proposals:     +Russia and the US shall not use the territory of other countries to prepare or conduct attacks against the other.     +Neither party shall deploy short- or intermediate-range missiles abroad or in areas where these weapons could reach targets inside the other’s territory.     +Neither party shall deploy nu...

globinfo freexchange   Γράψαμε σε πρόσφατο άρθρο για τον αδίστακτο πολιτικό απατεώνα, Κυριάκο Μητσοτάκη, ότι καρφί δεν του καίγεται αν τα όπλα που θα στείλει θα προκαλέσουν ανεπανόρθωτη ζημιά στις Ελληνο-Ρωσικές σχέσεις με αποτέλεσμα να μην μπορεί η χώρα να ελιχθεί διπλωματικά αν μεθαύριο αλλάξουν οι γεωπολιτικές ισορροπίες (οι οποίες έτσι και αλλιώς είναι εξαιρετικά εύθραυστες). Δεκάρα δεν δίνει αν τα όπλα αυτά καταλήξουν στα χέρια των Ουκρανών ναζί (με όλα τα ανατριχιαστικά επακόλουθα) που θα έπρεπε να δικάζονται για φρικτά εγκλήματα, αν υπήρχε πραγματική δικαιοσύνη.   Όμως η κραυγαλέα επιπολαιότητα του Μητσοτάκη και του καθεστώτος του στον τομέα και της εξωτερικής πολιτικής, (που προκύπτει από τον ιδεολογικό τους φανατισμό και την αγωνία τους να παραστήσουν τα καλά παιδιά της Δύσης), φάνηκε από πολύ νωρίς.   Όπως γράψαμε σε άρθρο τον Αύγουστο του 2019, αμέσως μετά την αναγνώριση του αποτυχημένου πραξικοπηματία Χουάν Γκουαϊδό από την κυβέρνηση Μητσοτάκη, είχαμε ...

During their coverage of the escalating tension in Ukraine, Western media have exposed their racism, white supremacy, and hypocrisy  by Ahmad Karakira Part 2 - Hypocrisy and orientalist structures As a result of the ongoing tension and escalation, many Ukrainians had to flee their homes and seek refuge. While reporting on the refugee crisis, Western media outlets revealed their racism and orientalist approach to Arab, Muslim, and third-world countries, selectively comparing them with European refugees. " There's this idea, this orientalist idea, that war and chaos and destruction is something that takes place outside of Europe's borders ," said Denijal Jegic, postdoctoral research fellow in communication and multimedia journalism and media at the Lebanese American University. " We've seen several mainstream Western European American media using terms such as civilized, middle-class privileged and so on to refer to the refugees who were crossing from Ukraine i...

A MintPress News analysis found that in a single week Fox News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and MSNBC ran almost 1,300 separate stories on the Ukraine invasion, two stories on the Syria attack, one on Somalia, and none at all on the Saudi-led war on Yemen. by Alan Macleod  Part 3 - Invisible Yemen In contrast, there was almost no coverage of the latest attacks by Saudi-led forces against Yemen — a campaign that has already created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency. The years-long war has intensified of late, with January 2022 the worst month for civilian casualties since fighting began in 2014. On February 21, Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) reported that the Saudi Coalition bombed targets in Hajjah province in north-western Yemen, killing a number of civilians and injuring far more. Meanwhile, jets pummeled the coastal city of Hodeida. The next day, airstrikes and missiles hit residential areas...

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