May 16, 2018
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Oliver North’s Checkered Iran-Contra Record
Oliver North’s conduct during the infamous Iran-Contra affair featured a pattern of deliberate deception, a willingness to cooperate with known drug dealers, and according to some colleagues a propensity for flawed judgment, a review of declassified documents and sworn testimony shows. Continue reading
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Conspiracy emerges to push Julian Assange into British and US hands By Mike Head
Moves are afoot to force Assange out of Ecuador’s London embassy, where he sought political asylum close to six years ago and has been forced to live as an effective prisoner. If he is taken into custody by British authorities, he faces being handed over to the US government, which has long sought to place… Continue reading
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NHS data-sharing U-turn is welcome – but more to do to scrap the ‘hostile environment’By Peter Pannier
Recent attention to the Windrush scandal has focused attention on the many ways migrants are deterred from accessing healthcare. The government has this week announced it will be suspending “with immediate effect” the controversial memorandum of understanding (MOU) under which NHS Digital shared NHS patients’ details with the Home Office. Continue reading
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North Korea May Cancel Summit Over Bolton’s ‘Absurd’ Demands
The Trump administration thought it was an easy path in its negotiations with North Korea. Trump was euphoric when North Korea released three U.S. prisoners and proudly announced the June 12 summit with Kim Jong-un in Singapore where North Korea would agree to give up all its nuclear weapons and nuclear development programs. Trump would… Continue reading
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The West’s pampering of Israel will lead to the next Gaza massacre By Jonathan Cook
Faced with protests at the perimeter fence in Gaza, Israeli snipers killed dozens of unarmed Palestinians and wounded more than 2,000 others, including children, women, journalists and paramedics, in a hail of live fire. Amnesty, the international human rights organisation, rightly called it a “horror show”. Continue reading
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‘A Suffocating Groupthink’: Sampling The Corporate Media On Israel, Iran, Syria And Russia
The gaping chasm between reality and unreality is exemplified by recent contrasting statements about journalism from two veteran reporters. On the one side we have Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s Middle East editor, who enjoys a public image of principled honesty and a supposedly fierce commitment to news balance and impartiality. But, when he was challenged… Continue reading
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Global Glyphosate Study Pilot Phase Shows Adverse Health Effects at ‘Safe’ Doses
The results reveal that glyphosate based herbicides (GBHs) were able to alter certain important biological parameters, mainly relating to sexual development, genotoxicity and the alteration of the intestinal microbiome. Continue reading
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The ISO and the imperialist politics of the pseudo-left By Barry Grey
The International Socialist Organization is stepping up its efforts to legitimize American imperialism’s military interventions in the Middle East in the wake of US-British-French missile strikes against Syria, the intensified offensive against Iran signaled by President Donald Trump’s pullout from the Iran nuclear agreement, and the Israeli bombardment of Iranian forces in Syria. Continue reading
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Prediction of New False-Flag Gas Attack in Syria Seems to Fit US Escalation Plans By Whitney Webb
If a chemical weapons “attack” comes to pass in the place it has been predicted, it would be the first such provocation blamed on Assad to take place in territory occupied by a foreign power, likely triggering an intensified military response from the U.S. Continue reading
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Iran News Links 15-16 May 2018
16 May 2018 — williambowles.info Was There Ever an Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program? https://www.globalresearch.ca/was-there-ever-an-iranian-nuclear-weapons-program/5640634 Brzezinski’s Ghost Shapes Washington Eurasia Geopolitics By F. William Engdahl https://williambowles.info/2018/05/16/brzezinskis-ghost-shapes-washington-eurasia-geopolitics-by-f-william-engdahl/ Tribute to Robert Parry, Founder and Editor of Consortium News, May 19, Berkeley, CA https://dissidentvoice.org/2018/05/tribute-to-robert-parry-founder-and-editor-of-consortium-news-may-19-berkeley-ca/ Continue reading
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Gaza News Links 15-16 May 2018
16 May 2018 — williambowles.info Live Blog: Massacre in Gaza as US and Israel celebrate embassy move to Jerusalem http://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/massacre-celebrate-jerusalem/ Gaza protests: All the latest updates https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/gaza-protest-latest-updates-180406092506561.html US embassy opens in Jerusalem amid lockdown https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/jerusalem-lockdown-moves-israeli-mission-180514112733896.html Continue reading
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Brzezinski’s Ghost Shapes Washington Eurasia Geopolitics By F. William Engdahl
Contrary to a widely-held belief that US President Trump acts only out of impulse or is being unpredictable, I believe that the opposite is the case. Strategic geopolitical policies of the Trump Administration are a response, not of the President himself, but rather of the powers that be, the permanent establishment who actually control what… Continue reading
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