October 2018
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JEREMY BOWEN INTERVIEWS CHRISTIAN NDF COMMANDER – UNEDITED VERSION
11th October 2018 – the BBC published a written and video report by Middle East correspondent Jeremy Bowen. Bowen applied the BBC spin to the interview he was given by the commander of the volunteer National Defence Forces that are defending the Christian town of Al Skeilbiyyeh against attacks by terrorist groups such as Nusra… Continue reading
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Big Business Strikes Back: The Class Struggle from Above By James Petras
Introduction: Bankers, agro-business elites, commercial mega owners, manufacturing, real estate and insurance bosses and their financial advisers, elite members of the ‘ruling class’, have launched a full-scale attack on private and public wage and salary workers,and small and medium size entrepreneurs (the members of the ‘popular classes’). The attack has targeted income ,pensions, medical plans,… Continue reading
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William Blum Needs Your Help!
26 October 2018 — Anti-Empire Report I just got a very distressing email from Bill Blum’s former wife detailing an awful fall he sustained at home that left him immobolised for perhaps 2 days before being discovered by a friend! I wish him a speedy recovery but he needs your help with his medical expenses! Continue reading
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The Apocalypse Not Now By Edward Curtin
It was balmy and breezy by the bench where I sat outside a public library east of Atlanta, Georgia, brooding about the state of the world. It seemed like the end times, and I had just attended a fire and brimstone sermon, not perused the mainstream and alternative press. I had just spent a few… Continue reading
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European Union steps up Internet censorship in the name of opposing “disinformation” By Johannes Stern
The European Union (EU) summit on October 18 resolved to further tighten the censorship of the Internet. It also threatened with sanctions and penalties any party that diverges from the prescribed political line in the 2019 European election campaign. This is the response of European governments to growing opposition to militarism, social cuts and right-wing… Continue reading
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US Trashing INF – Another Reckless Blow to World Security
The United States this week gave notice it is scrapping the second of three major arms control treaties. President Trump’s announced withdrawal from the INF Treaty this week follows the unilateral abrogation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in 2002 by his predecessor GW Bush. Continue reading
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INF Treaty Newslinks 25-26 October 2018
26 October 2018 — The New Dark Age Gorbachev hopes US allies will refuse to act as launch pads for new American missiles http://tass.com/politics/1027959 INF treaty withdrawal to undermine global trust in US — Czech leader http://tass.com/world/1027951 Continue reading
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The reinstatement of North Korea: What effects on the ‘story’ of socialism?
It seems unlikely – as it defies 73 years of ongoing aggression, warfare, the near-warfare of constant tap dancing on the border, starvation-creating sanctions, false promises, broken promises, racist caricaturing, hysterical knee-jerk anti-socialism, and more besides – but what if Washington finally allows North Korea to reintegrate into the multinational world? Continue reading
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Why Washington is courting Hanoi in Vain By Martin Berger
More than half a century ago, at the height of Vietnam war US intelligence agencies were demanded to put an end to the partisan movement supporting the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam. This resulted in the so-called Phoenix Program being launched which, according to historians, allowed CIA and a number of military… Continue reading
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Khashoggi Newslinks 25-26 October 2018
26 October 2018 — The New Dark Age The Saudi Butchery in Yemen and the World’s Apathy https://www.globalresearch.ca/saudi-butchery-yemen-worlds-apathy/5658060 The Khashoggi Murder – Worse Than A Crime, A Mistake https://orientalreview.org/2018/10/26/the-khashoggi-murder-worse-than-a-crime-a-mistake/ Continue reading
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Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s Political Nightmare: a Neo-Nazi ‘Phenomenon’ Made in the USA By Edu Montesanti
The candidate of the Liberal Social Party (PSL, totally in favor of privatizations, and deeply nationalist) who leads the polls, has once said that a civil war is the only solution for Brazil. Bolsonaro often attacks his opponents with much violence, especially leftists and homosexuals promising a “zero tolerance” against them once he is elected,… Continue reading
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Nation Transfixed In Horror By Toy Bombs While Destroying Lives With Real Ones By Caitlin Johnstone
President Trump, whose administration has been dropping even more bombs than its predecessor after expanding the use of drone strikes and peeling back regulations on air strikes designed to protect civilians, was quick to condemn the headline-grabbing pipe bomb campaign which did not hurt anyone whatsoever. Continue reading
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IRR News (10 – 24 October)
25 October 2018 — Institute of Race Relations Institute of Race Relations weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice This week, we learned that the Home Office is facilitating the exploitation of migrants working in the construction of the £2.6bn Beatrice windfarm off the Scottish coast, by granting an immigration waiver to employers bringing in non-EU Continue reading
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Khashoggi Newslinks 25 October 2018
25 October 2018 — The New Dark Age Members of Asian political parties’ conference condemn Khashoggi’s murder http://tass.com/world/1027918 The Price Of Bin Salman’s Head http://thesaker.is/the-price-of-bin-salmans-head/ Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 25 October 2018: Liberals Erase, Ignore Black Political Presence, The Migrant Caravan and US Policy, Rwandan Mercs Cold Ass Mofos
25 October 2018 — Black Agenda Report The Great Un-Blackening: The Corporate Project to Erase Black People from Politics – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Corporate rule imposes a duopoly system in which one party is overtly white supremacist and the other party refuses to tackle racial oppression – but both pursue austerity and war. Continue reading
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Khashoggi, Erdogan and the Truth By Craig Murray
The Turkish account of the murder of Khashoggi given by President Erdogan is true, in every detail. Audio and video evidence exists and has been widely shared with world intelligence agencies, including the US, UK, Russia and Germany, and others which have a relationship with Turkey or are seen as influential. That is why, despite… Continue reading
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Who profits from the end of the mid-range nuclear treaty? By Pepe Escobar
The US move to shelve the Intermediate-range Nuclear-Forces treaty could accelerate the demise of the whole post-WWII Western alliance, and herald a bad remix of the 1930s Continue reading
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INF Treaty Newslinks 24-25 October 2018
25 October 2018 — The New Dark Age “Trump Breaks the Historic Nuclear Treaty with Moscow”: The White House Prepares the Return of the Euromissiles https://www.globalresearch.ca/white-house-prepares-return-euromissiles/5657952 Austria concerned about US plans to exit INF Treaty, says top diplomat http://tass.com/world/1027811 Continue reading
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The White House prepares the return of the Euromissiles By Manlio Dinucci
The announcement that “Trump breaks the historic nuclear treaty with Moscow” – the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) – was no surprise. Now, however, it is official. To understand the scope of this act, we should review the historical context from which the INF Treaty was born. Continue reading
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Listening In to Killings – and Everything Else By Brian Cloughly
It was intriguing that the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 was apparently recorded in some fashion. The BBC reported that “A Turkish security source has confirmed to BBC Arabic the existence of an audio and a video recording. What is not clear is if anyone… Continue reading
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