May 2018
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Back from the dead! Propaganda Killing Kills Propaganda – First The Skripals, now it's Arkady Babchenko
An “enemy of Putin” is attacked. Authorities immediately raise accusations against Russia and the Kremlin. Public condemnation follows. There are calls to sanction Russia. Continue reading
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On the Liberation of The Yarmouk Refugee Camp from ISIS. Syrian and Palestinian Struggles Indivisible By Ken Stone
Anti-war activists took a lot of flak from some people in North America and Europe, describing themselves as Palestine solidarity activists and “leftists”, when, in 2012, Yarmouk was invaded and occupied by proxy armies of western powers and Arab monarchs. Because we condemned the US-led attack on Syria and defended the Syrian government’s resistance to… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 30 May 2018: Progressives Disappear From the Black Caucus; Why Green Parties Don't Take Off; When Uncle Tom Falls
30 May 2018 — Black Agenda Report How the “Progressives” in the Black Caucus Have Shrunk to Almost Nothing – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor There really is no “left wing” of the Democratic Party, just a tiny, ill-defined faction that can be brushed aside even on “bright line” issues of war and peace, Continue reading
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HOUSMANS BOOKS NEWSLETTER JUNE 2018
30 May 2018 — Housmans Books NEWS 1. London Radical Bookfair 2018 + ARB Shortlist 20% Discount 2. Feminist Book Fortnight: Saturday 16th June to Saturday 30th June 3. Stir To Action’s New Economy programme 4. GDPR Update Continue reading
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The flames that killed Fathi Harb should make us all burn with guilt and shame
It is believed to be the first example of a public act of self-immolation in the enclave. Harb doused himself in petrol and set himself alight on a street in Gaza City shortly before dawn prayers during the holy month of Ramadan. Continue reading
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Syria News Links 24-26 May 2018
26 May 2018 — williambowles.info The truth about the brutal four-hour battle between Russian mercenaries and US commandos in Syria http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/battle-syria-us-russian-mercenaries-commandos-islamic-state-a8370781.html Does Trump Regime Intend Full-Scale War on Syria? https://www.globalresearch.ca/does-trump-regime-intend-full-scale-war-on-syria/5641782 Credible Report Alleges US Relocates ISIS from Syria and Iraq into Russia via Afghanistan https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/05/26/credible-report-alleges-us-relocates-isis-from-syria-iraq-into-russia-via-afghanistan.htm Continue reading
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Trump Seeks Regime Change in Iran, Ripping up Nuclear Deal and Imposes ‘Strongest’ Sanctions
Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani said the US president is very “committed to regime change” in Iran, in a speech for the Iranian opposition cult the MEK. Then Trump sabotaged the JCPOA and Mike Pompeo announced “the strongest sanctions in history.” Continue reading
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Trump Seeks Regime Change in Iran, Ripping up Nuclear Deal and Imposes ‘Strongest’ Sanctions
Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani said the US president is very “committed to regime change” in Iran, in a speech for the Iranian opposition cult the MEK. Then Trump sabotaged the JCPOA and Mike Pompeo announced “the strongest sanctions in history.” Continue reading
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Iran News Links 24-25 May 2018
25 May 2018 — williambowles.info Nuclear Chutzpah https://orientalreview.org/2018/05/25/nuclear-chutzpah/ Iranian Canadian Congress: ‘Canada must defend the Iran Nuclear Deal’ https://johnriddell.wordpress.com/2018/05/23/iranian-canadian-congress-canada-must-defend-the-iran-nuclear-deal/ Video: Gina Haspel to Head the CIA, a GRTV interview with Ray McGovern https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-gina-haspel-to-head-the-cia-a-grtv-interview-with-ray-mcgovern/5641768 Continue reading
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Korea News Links 24-25 May 2018
25 May 2018 — williambowles.info Trump ‘winging it’ to blame for scuppering North Korea summit, says former White House official http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/trump-north-korea-summit-cancel-victor-cha-kim-jong-un-a8368536.html Disappointment in South Korea as Trump nixes summit with Kim https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/disappointment-south-korea-trump-nixes-summit-kim-180525050543549.html Continue reading
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The U.S. and Israel Are Marching towards War with Iran By Dr. Ludwig Watzal
On Monday, May 21, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a rant against Iran before the right-wing Heritage Foundation in Washington. It was a bullying speech to push the Iranian leadership to surrender unconditionally to US demands. If the Iranian people are unable to contrive “regime change” the US will do it by military means,… Continue reading
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Corbyn or Bust? By William Bowles
24 May 2018 — Investigatingimperialism I need to continue my previous essay, it remains woefully incomplete. I kinda hinted at it in the last para but never completed the thought. Then I got an email from a comrade and friend in NYC after I’d published it: Thanks, but the question left unanswered is: does the Continue reading
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Stand up against censoring copyright laws!
The message is clear: The Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive is a broken disastrous proposal. It contains a plan for licensing fees for sharing news links which would result in weakening the foundation of the Web, a loss of media diversity and harm acess to information across Europe. Continue reading
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IRR News (4 -16 May 2018) Weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice
24 May 2018 — Institute of Race Relations This week, the IRR welcomes two path-breaking reports, by Amnesty International and The Monitoring Group, on the racially discriminatory nature of the Metropolitan Police Service’s Trident Gangs Matrix intelligence database. IRR News also gathers together critical perspectives on gang databases from Lord Herman Ouseley and the advocacy organisation Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA). Continue reading
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Amazon providing facial recognition technology to police agencies for mass surveillance By Will Morrow
Amazon’s artificial intelligence software, named Rekognition, transforms CCTV, police body camera and other government video sources into an omnipresent eye, constantly collecting data and analyzing it in real-time using databases of tens of millions of images of the population. It provides police agencies with the power to track the movements and activities of targeted individuals… Continue reading
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Korea News Links 24 May 2018
24 May 2018 — williambowles.info Trump says US military ‘is ready’ if North Korea takes ‘foolish action’ following cancelled summit http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-north-korea-summit-latest-kim-jong-un-military-nuclear-south-korea-japan-a8367741.html Trump cancels US-North Korea summit with Kim Jong-un http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-north-korea-summit-cancel-us-kim-jong-un-a8367306.html Continue reading
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Urge Ecuador to Protect WikiLeaks from Persecution by Team Trump
Please let Ecuador’s leaders know that you support their courageous stand in protecting press freedom, as well as their right to grant political asylum and resist United States/United Kingdom intimidation. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 24 May 2018: The Left Needs Critical Debate, How the Black Caucus Sold Us Out Again, CIA and FBI Election Interference
24 May 2018 — Black Agenda Report The Left Needs More Critical Debate and Real Discussion, Less Twitter/Facebook Name Calling, Unfriending and Mic Drops – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor We’ve allowed communicative capitalism — Facebook and Twitter not only to turn our everday interactions into the private property of billionaires, we’ve let Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides: Editors’ picks
23 May 2018 — Sustainable Pulse Monsanto in Epic Fail with Attempted Attack on Global Glyphosate Study The peer-reviewed accepted manuscripts from the pilot phase of the Global Glyphosate Study were revealed last Wednesday in a Press Conference at the European Parliament. The results of the short-term pilot study showed that glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) were Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Skirmishes’ – Israel’s Syria Blitz
A key ‘mainstream’ media theme in covering the Israeli army’s repeated massacres of unarmed, non-violent Palestinian civilians protesting Israel’s military occupation in Gaza – killing journalists, a paramedic, the elderly and children – has been the description of these crimes as ‘clashes’. This has been a clear attempt to obfuscate the fact that while two… Continue reading
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