CNN Arts Story by Reuters George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” set in an imagined future where totalitarian rulers deprive their citizens of all agency in order to maintain support for senseless wars, has topped electronic bestseller lists in Russia. The novel is the most popular fiction download of 2022 on the platform of the Russian […]

WP Washington Post Story by Liz Sly, Kostiantyn Khudov  To varying degrees, residents of Kyiv are contemplating the once unthinkable possibility that their city could be targeted by a nuclear bomb. Ominous references by Russian President Vladimir Putin that he is prepared to use “all necessary means” to win in Ukraine and frequent chatter on […]

RT The platform’s co-founder says Twitter gained “too much power” over the “public conversation” Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has issued a response to the recently leaked ‘Twitter Files’, admitting to a host of major mistakes during his time as chief executive, while warning against “centralized control” of the internet by governments and corporations. The tech […]

BY STACEY LENNOX 5:46 PM ON DECEMBER 13, 2022 It has been a bad couple of months for BlackRock and its CEO, Larry Fink. Earlier this quarter, one analyst downgraded its stock due to the risk posed by Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing. Several states have announced they will remove pensions and other state treasury funds from the […]

MacKenzie Sigalos@KENZIESIGALOS Rohan Goswami @ROGOSWAMI https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/12/ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-arrested-in-the-bahamas-after-us-files-criminal-charges.html KEY POINTS The cofounder and former CEO of bankrupt crypto trading firm FTX was arrested in the Bahamas after the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York shared a sealed indictment with the Bahamian government. His arrest is the first concrete move by regulators to hold individuals […]

Essay by Victoria Nikiforova (columnist at RIA Novosti), Dec 12, 2022. (Translated and published into English here on A Socialist In Canada, Dec 12, 2022. The original in Russian is here. You can read the essay here in pdf format: The US is planning a full-scale war with Russia. The influential and well-informed U.S. publication Foreign Policy has recently revealed a […]

RT The Ukraine conflict could erupt into a full-fledged war between Russia and NATO, the military bloc’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said. He also claimed that NATO has been focused on avoiding a new global conflict. “I fear that the war in Ukraine will spiral out of control and become a major war between […]

RT Washington now reportedly believes such strikes are less likely to trigger a direct clash between Moscow and NATO The US has quietly given Ukraine the go-ahead to launch long-range strikes against targets inside Russian territory, The Times reported on Friday, citing sources. The Pentagon has apparently changed its stance on the matter as it […]

Date: December 6, 2022 Author: Tom Luongo The counter-revolution at the counter of a store People buy the things they want and borrow for a little more All those wasted years All those precious, wasted years  Who will pay? — RUSH, “Heresy” There is no bigger heresy at this point in history than to suggest the US is […]

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