To the Barricades Comrades? By William Bowles

16 June 2017 — investigating imperialism

“From nowhere, a grassroots power base of [60,000] left-wing activists overturned Blair’s 20-year “New Labour” project, which took the party into the Clintonite center ground, and ultimately to three straight general election victories, No.10 Downing Street, and government. As the leader of Britain’s main opposition, Corbyn is technically the next prime minister in waiting. This is not a trivial achievement.

“It has left his party’s establishment stunned.” –  ‘Momentum: The Inside story of how Corbyn took control of the Labour Party‘, Business Insider, March 3, 2016

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‘Without Putin, Syria Would Have Ceased to Exist’

16 June 2017 — Global Research

UN Last Hurdle Before Israel Can Rid Itself of the Palestinians

By Jonathan Cook, June 15, 2017

Israeli and US officials are in the process of jointly pre-empting Donald Trump’s supposed “ultimate deal” to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They hope to demote the Palestinian issue to a footnote in international diplomacy.

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Iran 1953: State Department Finally Releases Updated Official History of Mosaddeq Coup

15 June 2017 — National Security Archive

Formerly Secret Documents from State, CIA Provide New Information about Covert Operations Planning and Implementation Plus Contemporaneous Analyses

Long-Awaited Volume Supplements Earlier Publication that Whitewashed U.S., British Roles

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