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WILLIAM SCHRYVER—The heretofore reigning global hegemon designed to inflict upon Russia — its long-time nemesis — a decisive strategic defeat that would deliver the greatest spoil ever taken, and thereby consolidate its power base into the foreseeable future and beyond. The empire imagined Russia to be at its civilizational nadir: weak, vulnerable, and finally ripe for the picking.

Notwithstanding the now proverbial failures of the empires that preceded it, the current masters of the Anglo-American empire, in tandem with its European vassal states and a willing proxy force in Ukraine, believed “things are different this time”. They convinced themselves that the power differential between the latest iteration of western empire and its putative Russian adversary was so pronounced as to assure victory over “the gas station masquerading as a country”.

G. ROBERTS—Deng’s withdrawal of Mao’s tuition subsidies crushed the dreams of millions, while his decision to maintain them for African students touched off race riots in Nanjing, where students rampaged through the Africans’ quarters. Beijing students carried banners (“No Offend Chinese Women,” “Kill the foreigners!”), screamed insults at Deng, and marched on Party leaders’ living quarters at Zhongnanhai. Workers echoed students’complaints. One explained that everyone in her industry had much less opportunity to participate within the system than in the 1970s, when meetings were called for every problem and people could raise opinions that today would result in their dismissal. By the Fall, State-owned companies had dumped millions of workers into an unprepared labor market, where inflation consumed their six months severance pay in six weeks.

BRIAN BERLETIC—The editor of The New Atlas files a haunting message in homage to Aaron Bushnell’s sacrifice for the sake of Gaza’s salvation. Moral cowards will attack him as being an extremist or a mental case, but Bushnell was not mental. He simply woke up to the horrors of what his country does and has been doing, and wanted no part of it. Bushnell chose self-immolation to arouse attention and hopefully action against the perverted and hypocritical involvement of America and its equally complicit allies in possibly one of the greatest crimes in history. It took a long time and millions of people to create this evil system; it will take a long time and millions of people to bring it down, notes Berletic. So join those who are working to build a different world. Support the alternative media. Break out of your isolation. Fight today, fight tomorrow, don’t give up.

EDITOR—Some of the phrasing and images used by CBS on this piece may still be the familiar pro-Israel propaganda slant (i., “barbaric Hamas attack,” or allusion to UNRWA employees who “betrayed the values” (sic) of the organisation by supporting the Hamas/Palestinian cause), but, overall the images and much of the narration, approximate the truth. That said, the segment is much too sanitised, and way too short to repair the propaganda damage of not just months, but long decades, of lies, omissions and grotesque distortions favoring the depraved Zionist oppression of the Palestinian people. 

EDITOR—Johnson was appointed by the Attorney General to be a “special advocate” in around 2007, Declassified understands. These are specially vetted barristers who act for the purpose of hearing secret evidence in a closed court.

Special advocates “must undergo and obtain Developed Vetting (the highest level of HM Government security clearance) prior to their appointment”, government guidance states.  Developed Vetting is required for individuals having “frequent and uncontrolled access to TOP SECRET assets or require any access to TOP SECRET codeword material”. 

In 2016, Johnson acted as a special advocate in the case of Abdel Hakim Belhaj, a Libyan national who accused the UK government and MI6 of participating in kidnapping him and his pregnant wife, Fatima Bouchar. The UK government later apologised for its actions that contributed to Belhaj and Bouchar’s rendition, detention and torture.