STALINGRAD: THROUGH THE EYES OF A GERMAN OFFICER
January 1, 2021Comments
“…Is it possible that after this meat grinder, I am driving in a passenger carriage through Stalingrad in a compartment with snow-white linen, with a cigarette in hand, carelessly unbuttoning my old uniform, and a Russian girl is talking to me in a friendly manner?…” https://www.stalkerzone.org/stalingrad-through-the-eyes-of-a-german-officer/?fbclid=IwAR06SeIaBNK4kBu1JfGkQfgjI9DKcinyU_p8Xcc_nL9jlUSqeZSrsMysMec
A Pardoning Time of Year
Will the president do the right thing? The resistance to the apparent election of Joe Biden as President of the United States is continuing to play out. Current President Donald Trump is continuing to fight against the presumed results of the November national election with his final card appearing to be a vote in Congress when it reconvenes on January 6th to throw out the results due to fraud in certain key states. https://ahtribune.ca/us/4507-a-pardoning-time-of-year.html
H/T Kimberly Todd today at 5:45 am
"It was the worst way to start a year for China. On the New Year’s eve of 2020, Chinese social media were full of rumours about re-emergence of SARS virus from 2003. Chinese New Year was about to begin in three weeks, which would involve hundreds of millions of people traveling all over the country. Xi Jinping had already warned Chinese officials a month earlier that the US-China trade war and sanctions would make 2020 a very challenging year. Now an unknown virus was about to decimate the economy and shred the China dream into pieces. Worse, as time went on, China was not only left alone to fend for itself, but the anti-China forces piled on with Psy-ops. Social media attacked the Chinese people and blamed them for “eating bats” — a popular video of a Chinese blogger eating a bat soup went viral, although it turned out that she had the soup three years earlier in an island (Palau) thousands of miles away from China. Pundits and politicians gloated on TV that the pandemic would help the US and bring China to its knees. Trump bragged that the U.S. was the best prepared country in the world to face a pandemic.
US media, filled with Shadenfreude, kept saying “deadly coronavirus” (until it spread to Europe and the US) and shouted out malevolent things to mock and frighten China:
“CCP has lost its heavenly mandate”
“Novel coronavirus is China’s Chernobyl“
“China is Asia’s sick man (referring to a racist trope from the Century of Humiliation)“
“Coronavirus will end China’s role as global manufacturing hub“
China was accused of lying and hiding everything — origins and nature of the virus, how prevalent the virus was, how many were dying and so on. Even though China had warned the WHO on Dec 31, 2019 and released the full genome of the novel coronavirus by Jan 11, western media keeps repeating that China hid some truths about the virus. (Never mind that the SARS-Cov-2 virus was spreading in the U.S., as well as in France, Italy, Spain etc. all through December).
Twitter and Facebook in January and February were full of fake videos showing Chinese people collapsing and dying on Wuhan streets. When Chinese mobile companies lost 21 million customers in March, Americans shouted that all those people had died from COVID. Western journalists who were allowed to visit Wuhan wrote only gloom-and-doom stories. Later, even US politicians were spreading conspiracy theories about the virus escaping from a Wuhan lab. Chinese people living in the West were being physically assaulted by xenophobic and ignorant idiots. It was a lonely, heart-wrenching, and an incredibly frightening moment for China. But the country ignored the judgmental, cruel world and came together as a family." https://worldaffairs.blog/2020/12/31/from-terrified-to-triumphant-how-china-flipped-2020/?fbclid=IwAR1x_c_I68qQ1nb0tPjf_Tn0wySvXl1SxiMzVbf_Nx8_nVS8V6FOM5BexPc
2020 Ends as It Began: With the Looming Threat of a US War With Iran
2020 began and ended with high-profile assassinations of Iranians, a buildup of the US military on Iran’s borders, and fears of another major war in the Middle East.
by Alan Macleod
Amid increasing hostility towards Tehran, the United States is building up its military presence on Iran’s borders. In the past three weeks alone, the U.S. has flown in a squadron of fighter jets and extra B-52 bombers while deploying the U.S.S. Nimitz aircraft carrier (with its strike group) and a large submarine to the Persian Gulf. This comes on top of the 2,500 troops it sent to Saudi Arabia earlier in the year, the first build-up of forces in the country in 17 years. The nuclear powered Nimitz is home to nine squadrons of fighting aircraft and has also long been rumored to carry nuclear weapons. https://www.mintpressnews.com/2020-ends-began-looming-threat-us-war-iran/273931/
Sardar Soleimani: Legacy of A Fallen Warrior. Dr Marwa Osman's full program, on the anniversary of his assassination. https://vk.com/timand2037?z=video404210594_456239783%2Fa569bd6395634ec42c%2Fpl_wall_404210594
Top 12 The Grayzone stories of 2020: From Julian Assange persecution to Bolivia coup defeat, corporate war on free speech to OPCW cover-up
THE GRAYZONE·JANUARY 1, 2021
2020 was a chaotic year for the planet. While the Covid-19 pandemic dominated global politics, The Grayzone continued shining a light on the machinations of empire, from the persecution of imprisoned journalist Julian Assange to the defeat of a US-backed coup regime in Bolivia, from the growing corporate war on free speech to the OPCW’s scandalous Syria cover-up. https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/01/top-the-grayzone-stories-of-2020/?fbclid=IwAR0q9AncR4NMPrS9wBedBojDqa2ro04DhntpM5GYKa58VZDfzmGm5fFXCuE
A New War in the New Year? Trump Again Takes Aim at Iran One of the most perplexing narratives presented during the waning days of the administration of President Donald J. Trump is his apparent disengagement from dealing seriously or providing leadership regarding the surging Coronavirus while at the same time continuing an activist foreign policy that in no way benefits any American. Ironically, the new administration of Joe Biden will, undoubtedly, establish its own priorities after January 20th, presuming the result of the election holds, and could easily reverse any government actions initiated overseas by Trump. https://ahtribune.ca/us/trump-at-war/4509-aim-at-iran.html
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