30 May 2018 — Moon of Alabama
An “enemy of Putin” is attacked. Authorities immediately raise accusations against Russia and the Kremlin. Public condemnation follows. There are calls to sanction Russia.
Month: May 2018
On the Liberation of The Yarmouk Refugee Camp from ISIS. Syrian and Palestinian Struggles Indivisible By Ken Stone
30 May 218 — Global Research
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA), allied Palestinian militias, and the government of Syria deserve high praise for the recent liberation of Yarmouk refugee camp from ISIS.
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 the terrorist occupation of Yarmouk, we were among the activists denounced by the misguided persons above as being “Assad apologists.”
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, guns or butter, and social justice versus police repression.
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
The flames that killed Fathi Harb should make us all burn with guilt and shame
27 May 2018 – Jonathan Cook
The National – 27 May 2018
Fathi Harb should have had something to live for, not least the imminent arrival of a new baby. But last week the 21-year-old extinguished his life in an inferno of flames in central Gaza.
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.
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
Trump Seeks Regime Change in Iran, Ripping up Nuclear Deal and Imposes ‘Strongest’ Sanctions
25 May 2018 — TRNN
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
Trump Seeks Regime Change in Iran, Ripping up Nuclear Deal and Imposes ‘Strongest’ Sanctions
25 May 2018 — TRNN
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
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
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
The U.S. and Israel Are Marching towards War with Iran By Dr. Ludwig Watzal
25 May 2018 — Global Research
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, perhaps together with Israel, which Pompeo didn’t say. But everybody knows that Israel is hell-bent to crush Iran.
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 road to “regroupment” or whatever you want to call run through supporting Corbyn or opposing Corbyn and the LP? To me it’s the same question that was faced in Greece 2015. Did regroupment require supporting or opposing Syriza. And in either case, why? And what is the alternative?
Stand up against censoring copyright laws!
24 May 2018 — Savethelink
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.
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).
Amazon providing facial recognition technology to police agencies for mass surveillance By Will Morrow
24 May 2018 — WSWS
The technology giant Amazon is providing police agencies and private intelligence contractors in the United States with facial recognition and video tracking algorithms to conduct mass surveillance on the population.
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
Urge Ecuador to Protect WikiLeaks from Persecution by Team Trump
24 May 2018 — RootsAction
Over the years, WikiLeaks has published thousands of documents revealing misdeeds of corporate and political elites, including war crimes and foreign policy abuses committed by the U.S. government. As a result of its publishing activities, WikiLeaks was threatened and harassed by Washington; some political and media figures called for the murder of its founding editor. Continue reading
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 it govern the way the left talks to itself. That cannot possibly end well.
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 able to alter certain important biological parameters in rats, mainly relating to sexual development, genotoxicity and the […] The post Monsanto in Epic Fail with Attempted Attack on Global Glyphosate Study appeared first on … Continue reading
Media Lens: ‘Skirmishes’ – Israel’s Syria Blitz
23 May 2018 — Media Lens
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 groups of people are involved, only one group is being killed and wounded.
The New Dark Age 