30 October 2018 — Housmans
NEWS /ACTIONS
1. Housmans Peace Diary 2019 + White Poppies
2. No More War: Let’s Make Peace Happen – Sunday 11th November
3. Autonomy Now series at Housmans
4. Protest: Together For Climate Justice
Day: October 30, 2018
Two Stories From the Propaganda War By Philip Giraldi
30 October 2018 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Two recent stories about Russians have demonstrated how the news is selected and manipulated in the United States. The first is about Maria Butina, who apparently sought to overthrow American democracy, such as it is, by obtaining a life membership in the National Rifle Association. Maria, a graduate student at American University, is now in detention in a federal prison, having been charged with collusion and failure to register as an agent of the Russian Federation. She has been in prison since July, for most of the time in solitary confinement, and has not been granted bail because, as a Russian citizen, she is considered to be a “flight risk.”
Alleged “Sonic Attacks” Against US Diplomats in Havana: Rebuttal By Arnold August
30 October 2018 — Global Research
New University of Edinburgh-Based Study Provides Another Significant Rebuttal
The explanatory Commentary and Editorial published in Cortex on October 9 and 13, 2018, is timely, given that the U.S. has, for quite some time, been ratcheting up its rhetoric against Cuba. The Commentary and Editorial in this new scientific publication appears as we approach the UN’s October 31 vote on the blockade, when Washington is increasing its hostility toward Cuba, perhaps to justify its vote at the UN against lifting the blockade. The U.S. has desperately attempted to find pretexts to provide a basis for the alleged sonic attacks, for which the U.S. State Department directly or indirectly blames Cuba.
Welcome to the Jungle By Pepe Escobar
30 October 2018 — Consortium News
A troubling new era has begun in Brazil with the election on Sunday of the far-right Jair Bolsonaro as president, writes Pepe Escobar
It’s darkness at the break of (tropical) high noon.
What is not being said about the quadrilateral summit on Syria By Thierry Meyssan
30 October 2018 — VoltaireNet
The quadrilateral summit in Istanbul on Syria has endorsed the political advances of Russia, but has decided nothing. Moscow gave its Turkish, French and German partners a lesson on the situation. The allies of Washington are having a hard time digesting their defeat and drawing its conclusions.
Jair Bolsonaro: Collapse of Democracy in Brazil? Selected Articles
30 October 218 — Global Research
Far-right Jair Bolsonaro Wins Brazil’s Presidential Elections
By Telesur, October 29, 2018
Far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro has won the Brazilian presidential elections with over 55 percent of the vote beating leftist Fernando Haddad who scored 44.3 percent in the country’s most polarized elections in decades.
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The New Dark Age 