Filling Gasoline Cars Could Become Cheaper Than Charging EVs in the UK
By Tsvetana Paraskova, September 05, 2022
Due to skyrocketing energy prices, Britons could soon face higher costs for charging their electric vehicles (EVs) at home than filling up gasoline-fueled cars, The Washington Times reports.
Julian Assange: Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere
By Stella Assange, September 05, 2022
Julian is fighting for his life – his life depends on not being extradited to the United States. This is a political case, it can be stopped here and it must be stopped here. So on the 8th of October, come to London to show your solidarity, come help free Julian Assange.
Big Tech Met Regularly with Biden Officials to Discuss What to Censor: Court Documents
By Matt Lamb, September 05, 2022
Big Tech employees met regularly with Biden administration officials to discuss what to censor, according to court documents recently released by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt.
The Last Lap to Freedom: Mumia Will be Free
By Noelle Hanrahan, September 05, 2022
As I drive Route 309 past Allentown to see Mumia Abu-Jamal at SCI Mahanoy in Frackville, PA, I know I am scaling formidable walls. Just yesterday, I heard Maureen Faulkner tell Ashley Strohmier on Fox and Friends that she was going after Brown University for illuminating Mumia’s archival materials. This is a powerful development. See “Brown University Acquires the Papers of Mumia Abu-Jamal” New York Times story 8-24-22.
Russia Vows to Halt All Oil Exports to Countries that Impose “Completely Absurd” Price-Cap
By Zero Hedge, September 05, 2022
It did not take long for the Kremlin to respond to the G-7 plan to impose price-caps on Russian oil, with Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak warning that Moscow will ban exports of oil and other petroleum products to countries that impose a cap on the price of Russian crude.
US Signs Deal to Give Israel Four Refueling Planes Needed to Bomb Iran
By Dave DeCamp, September 05, 2022
The Pentagon signed a contract with Boeing on Thursday to supply Israel with four KC-46 refueling planes that are needed for potential Israeli strikes on Iran, although the aircraft won’t be delivered until at least 2025.
Think COVID Has Stunted Growth? Try 30 Years of Conflict.
By Steven Simon, September 05, 2022
The New York Times reported this morning that the pandemic reversed 20 years of progress in reading and math among elementary school students in the United States. Commentators emphasized the dire effect this would have on life prospects for these children and, by implication, the American economy at an especially challenging moment in its history.
Digital Trails: How the FBI Is Identifying, Tracking and Rounding Up Dissidents
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead, September 04, 2022
Databit by databit, we are building our own electronic concentration camps. With every new smart piece of smart technology we acquire, every new app we download, every new photo or post we share online, we are making it that much easier for the government and its corporate partners to identify, track and eventually round us up.
The Engineered Destruction and Political Fragmentation of Iraq. “America’s Third War against Iraq” initiated by Obama
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, September 04, 2022
March 2022 marks 19 years since the US-UK-led war on Iraq in 2003. And that war is still ongoing. Historically however this war on Iraq did not start in 2003. It was preceded by the so-called “Gulf War” in 1991 (The First War against Iraq). And in 2014, a third US-led war against Iraq was launched under the banner of Obama’s 2014 “counter-terrorism bombing campaign”.
The Indo-Pacific Command Is All About “Containing” China Through India
By Andrew Korybko, September 04, 2022
The US envisions India becoming a bulwark against China and functioning as Washington’s premier “Lead From Behind” partner in “containing” it, though it recognizes that it probably can’t sustain this role for too long unless it receives multilateral support, ergo the so-called “Quad” that also involves Japan and Australia and could unofficially be called the “Hex” through Vietnam and France’s participation as well.
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