March 2018
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Corbyn Smeared as 'Russian Stooge' for Requesting Evidence on Poisoned Spy
While harshly condemning the Salisbury nerve agent attack, the Labour Party’s leftist leader requested evidence that the Russian government carried it out. A deluge of smears followed. Continue reading
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Corbyn Smeared as ‘Russian Stooge’ for Requesting Evidence on Poisoned Spy
While harshly condemning the Salisbury nerve agent attack, the Labour Party’s leftist leader requested evidence that the Russian government carried it out. A deluge of smears followed. Continue reading
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Israeli parliament endorses final version of ‘Jewish nation-state bill’ By Jonathan Cook
After seven years of delays, the Israeli governing parties have agreed the final terms of controversial new legislation that would define Israel exclusively as “the nation-state of the Jewish people”. Continue reading
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Realities On-the-ground in East Ghouta, Syria: We’ve Seen This All Before By Mark Taliano
None of these false flag “Assad gasses his own people” operations have withstood the scrutiny of independent investigations. They have all been perpetrated by the West and its proxies, most notably the White Helmets, al Qaeda auxiliaries, as fake pretexts for more war. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 15 March 2018
15 March 2018 — Black Agenda Report Going Down With the Bad Ship U.S.A. – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor The decline of U.S. empire is upon us, along with the politics of decline: nasty, stupid, petty and racist. Continue reading
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Liberals, Conservatives Worry About Korean Peace Threat By Gregory Shupak
Commentators across the spectrum of acceptable establishment opinion are alarmed by the possibility of peace breaking out on the Korean peninsula. Continue reading
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The World’s Darkest Hour: The British Empire As Criminal Enterprise by Romi Mahajan
No matter the facts, “Churchillian” is a metonym for Statesmanship, Churchill the cynosure of all eyes seeking freedom’s light. Bookstores have entire sections devoted to him while the colonies that suffered under the enormous weight of his hatred might merit a book or two. Quotes from him adorn presentation materials from NGOs and Governments, even… Continue reading
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Conservation as genocide in Kenya: REDD versus Indigenous rights By Martin Crook
Sengwer people attacked Neo-colonial ‘developmentalist’ forces with a green sheen are evicting and murdering people in the guise of conservation and climate change mitigation Continue reading
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UK prime minister delivers ultimatum to Russia, heightening war danger By Laura Tiernan
British Prime Minister Theresa May told the House of Commons that Russia was “highly likely” to be responsible for deploying “a military grade nerve agent” against double agent Sergei Skripal, which she declared “an indiscriminate and reckless act against the United Kingdom.” Continue reading
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The Rise of Jeremy Corbyn and Class Struggle in the UK Labour Party – RAI with Leo Panitch (3/5)
On Reality Asserts Itself, Prof. Panitch talks about how the Labour Party moved from being a Tony Blair party of class reconciliation and war, to a truly left mass party with more than 600,000 members that may take power Continue reading
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‘Modernization’: Media's Favorite Euphemism for Military Buildup By Adam Johnson
One of the most effective rhetorical tools in normalizing massive military budgets is to treat spending billions—and sometimes trillions—of dollars as something one has to do in order to be “modern.” “Modernization” is, after all, a normative label; who doesn’t want to be modern? Continue reading
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Trump’s “Spontaneous” Decision to Meet Kim Jong-un, Or was it the CIA’s Decision? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
According to the US media (in chorus) it was president Trump who took the decision (without prior consultation with his Cabinet, national security and intelligence advisors) to meet face to face North Korean leader Kim Jon-un at a US-DPRK Summit. Continue reading
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Saudi Prince Visits UK as Britain Boosts Murderous Arms Sales
The UK gave a royal welcome to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as Saudi Arabia wages a bloody war in Yemen. Analyst Ali al-Ahmed says the British government is making the humanitarian catastrophe even worse Continue reading
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Global Warfare: Selected Articles
8 March 2018 — Global Research “Wipe the Soviet Union Off the Map”, 204 Atomic Bombs against 66 Major Cities, US Nuclear Attack against USSR Planned During World War II By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, March 08, 2018 It should be understood that these US nuclear threats directed against Russia predate the Cold War. They were first formulated Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 8 March 2018
8 March 2018 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: Black Panther Movie: A Black Face in a High Place – Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist Fans of Black Panther call critics “haters” who don’t know how to have fun, but “the lack of political education amongst ourselves is the bigger issue here.” Continue reading
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IRR News (23 February – 8 March 2018)
8 March 2018 — Institute of Race Relations Institute of Race Relations weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice You can now book for ‘The heart is where the battle is – a celebration of the life of A. Sivanandan’, an event organised by IRR to be held from 1 30pm on 23 June Continue reading
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Google admits collaboration with illegal US drone murder program By Andre Damon
In another milestone in the growing integration between the military-intelligence complex and Silicon Valley, Google’s parent company Alphabet has confirmed that it has provided software to identify targets used in the illegal US government drone murder program. Continue reading
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NSA: New Findings on Clerical Involvement in the 1953 Coup in Iran
Senior Iranian clerics reportedly received “large sums of money” from U.S. officials prior to the August 1953 coup against Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, according to a contemporaneous British document located by researchers at the U.S. National Archives. It is posted in full today for the first time by the nongovernmental National Security Archive, based at… Continue reading
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Media Erase US Role in Syria’s Misery, Call for US to Inflict More Misery By Gregory Shupak
7 March 2018 — FAIR Simon Tisdall argues in the Guardian (2/10/18) that “the West let down Syria”—not by fueling a murderous civil war, but by failing to ensure that its chosen side prevailed in that war. In the Guardian (2/10/18), Simon Tisdall described the US and its Western partners as “hovering passively on the sidelines in Syria,” Continue reading
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US Destabilization Plan for Iran and the Middle East, and the Need to Strengthen the Resistance By Farhad Shahabi
The use of force, in total disregard for the UN Charter, international law, and international agreements, is today, more than ever before, the main characteristic of Washington’s policy decisions. Consequently, the world is experiencing a decisive shift to militarization rather than, and in negation of, regional and international diplomacy, in US approach to policy. Now,… Continue reading
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