(2022-12-26). Top 8 Political and Geopolitical Shifts in the Middle East in 2022. juancole.com Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) We saw a lot of pivotal developments in the Middle East this year, including the impact of climate change in the form of increasing aridity and massive dust storms. But there were also realignments of interests that affect the U.S. here are some of them: 1. President Biden in July …
(2022-12-26). How will California expand active engagement with the Pan African Diaspora? indybay.org President of the United States of America Executive Order on Establishing the President's Advisory Council on African Diaspora Engagement in the United States – How do we expand active engagement throughout California?>
(2022-12-26). Busloads of migrants dropped off outside U.S. vice president's residence in frigid temperatures. ecns.cn Busloads of migrants were dropped off outside the residence of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington, D.C., this weekend.
(2022-12-26). China estima que la relaciones con Rusia son sólidas como una roca. telesurtv.net El ministro de Exteriores de China hizo énfasis en el trabajo conjunto sobre la multipolaridad y una mayor democracia en las relaciones internacionales.
(2022-12-26). Chris Hedges: The Democrats Are Now the War Party. scheerpost.com 
The Democratic Party has become the party of permanent war, fueling massive military spending which is hollowing out the country from the inside and flirting with nuclear war.
(2022-12-26). Protesters: "No Democracy With Oligarchy" at Twitter HQ. indybay.org Dozens of artists, labor advocates, and climate campaigners answered a call from Climate Justice Arts on Sunday, arriving at Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco to paint the company's famed bird logo on the street outside along with pro-democracy messages.
(2022-12-26). Monday 12/26: 24th Annual, California State Capitol Kwanzaa Kickoff – World Peace Rose Garden. indybay.org California State Capitol World Peace Rose Garden – 15 and L Street – Sacramento, CA…
(2022-12-26). New high-speed railway operational in China's Hunan. ecns.cn A 91-km high-speed railway line, linking the cities of Changde and Yiyang in central China's Hunan Province, entered operation on Monday.
(2022-12-26). Tidal flats exposed due to drought in Wuhan. ecns.cn Less rainfall is predicted along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River from Dec 2022 through April 2023.
(2022-12-25). A Biden and Bankman-Fried connection emerging? americanthinker.com Is Joe Biden about to get engulfed in another huge corruption scandal?>
(2022-12-25). Schadenfreude: Department of Energy ramps up the war against their tax slaves (us). americanthinker.com Biden's criminal confederacy thrives under climate communism.
(2022-12-25). Hero Worship Of Zelensky In Washington. popularresistance.org Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky received a hero's welcome in his visit to Washington on December 21. Departing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi compared him to Winston Churchill, while President Joe Biden compared him on Hanukkah to Judah the Maccabee, who defended the Jewish temple against the Greek King Antiochus' forces in ancient times. | Befitting a great liberator, Biden promised Zelensky $1.85 billion more in security assistance, including the Patriot surface-to-air missile battery and precision aerial munitions that will be used to bomb the people of eastern Ukraine. | In his speech before Congress, Zele…
(2022-12-25). In Ukraine, It's Patriot vs. Iskander For Now. popularresistance.org With the Republicans poised to take narrow control of the House of Representatives in the US Congress in January, the Joe Biden Administration is hoping to extract as much funding as possible for the proxy war in Ukraine against Russia before the locus of legislative business shifts on the Hill. The White House is requesting nearly $45 billion in new funding. Who else could canvass better than an accomplished actor-politician? | Enter President Vladimir Zelensky. When Zelensky proposed on Sunday that he'd find time to visit Washington for a few hours on Wednesday, President Biden promptly accepted. For Zelensky t…
(2022-12-25). Reconciliation: Turkey Has Not Made Any Serious Offer to Syria. strategic-culture.org While Damascus is open to negotiations with Ankara, it is wary of being used as a Turkish pre-election political ploy. | By Erman àáETE | On 15 December, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that his government planned to schedule a Initially, he suggested the establishment of meetings between intelligence agencies, and defense and foreign ministries, to be followed by a meeting of the r…
(2022-12-25). Maldives former president gets 11-year jail term. tribune.com.pk 
The Maldives criminal court on Sunday sentenced former president Abdulla Yameen to 11 years in prison and fined him $5 million after finding him guilty of corruption and money laundering charges related to receiving kickbacks from a private company. | Yameen has denied any wrongdoing. | He lost power in 2018 but has been declared presidential candidate for the Progressive Party of the Maldives for an election due in 2023. | Already in 2019 he was sentenced to five years in jail and fined $5 million in 2019 for embezzling $1 million in state funds, which the prosecution said was acquired through the lease of re…
(2022-12-25). China stages 'strike drills' around Taiwan, citing provocation. tribune.com.pk 
China's military said it had conducted "strike drills" in the sea and airspace around Taiwan on Sunday in response to unspecified "provocation" from the democratically-governed island and the United States. | Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has complained of repeated Chinese military activity nearby over the past three years or so as Beijing seeks to pressure Taipei to accept Chinese sovereignty. | China staged war games around Taiwan in August following a visit to Taipei by then-US House speaker Nancy Pelosi, and on Saturday it condemned the United States for a new defence authorisation law t…
(2022-12-25). A Pastor Comes to Terms with the Church's Idols of Trump, Money and Power. juancole.com 
By Rev. Angela Denker | Book excerpt: A pastor comes to terms with the Church's idols of Trump, money and power Red State Christians: A Journey into White Christian Nationalism and the Wreckage it leaves behind," available everywhere books are sold. ( Minnesota Reformer ) On Sunday, January 10, 2021, I woke up …
(2022-12-25). El monumento a Fidel en Moscú. cubadebate.cu En la reciente gira del primer secretario del Comité Central y presidente de la República, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, por cuatro países de Europa y Asia, un momento particularmente emotivo fue su presencia, junto al presidente Vladimir Putin, en la inauguración de un monumento al Comandante en Jefe en el distrito Sokol, de Moscú, en la plaza que precisamente lleva por nombre Fidel Castro. Hoy conversamos con el escultor de esta obra Alexey Dmitrevich Chebanenko.
(2022-12-25). Democrats Are Making a Devil's Bargain on Pentagon Funding. It's Not Paying Off. scheerpost.com 
(2022-12-25). House Republicans report on Jan. 6. americanthinker.com House Republicans have released their own report on the infamous Capitol riot.
(2022-12-25). Global South Artists Are Upending 72 Years Of CIA Influence On Art. popularresistance.org His mouth is frozen in anguish, an infinite scream. His eyes bulge upward, overcome by horror, hands clutching his head. I cannot look away. His face is too forlorn, his backdrop too wretched. | I inch toward the banner, dated 2005, which spans the full gallery wall. With my phone's translation app, I make out some Indonesian text: "Iapa yang peduli dengan kejadian damai dan perang"‚Äâ—‚Äâ"who cares about the events of peace and war." Surrounding these words are a contented crowd of children swinging from trees, farmers working fields, and musicians serenading their communi…