Black Agenda Report 24 December 2018: BAP Welcomes Trump Exit from Syria; US Empire on the Ropes; Americans Not Really So “Nice”

24 December 2018 — Black Agenda Report

BAP Welcomes Trump Exit from Syria 

The Black Alliance for Peace sees the Trump administration’s announced withdrawal of US troops from Syria as “an attempt to realign itself with international law.” The US presence in Syria is “illegal,” said BAP lead organizer Ajamu Baraka. Trump should follow up the total withdrawal from Syria and partial pullback from Afghanistan with a dismantling of AFRICOM, the US Military Command in Africa.

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Two New Reports Point to Further US Decline & Higher Risk of War By James O’Neill

22 December 2018 — NEO

8854Two recent reports from the United States strongly suggest the United States is planning a major war with Russia and China, but are far from certain that they could in fact succeed in such aa war. The reports also provide insights into how the United States will meet the budgetary demands of such war preparations, but almost zero appreciation of the social and human costs of such policies.

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Yet another murder that wasn’t: The Perepilichny case and the anti-Russia campaign By Clara Weiss

24 December 2018 — WSWS

The past few days have seen the unravelling of one of the many alleged “murders” that Russian president Vladimir Putin has been accused of by the media and the intelligence agencies: after an investigation into the November 2012 death of the multi-millionaire Alexander Perepilichny, the coroner found that he “more likely than not” died of natural causes.

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A tale of two cities: Grenfell Tower and the “ultra-luxury” lives of the super-rich By Robert Stevens

24 December 2018 — WSWS

Quam bonum in Unum habitare —“What a good thing it is to dwell together in unity

The above is the motto of the Conservative-run Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea council (RBKC) in London. We suggest it be changed, as RBKC is carrying out its social cleansing agenda to such an extent that a more appropriate motto would be: “What a good thing it is for the richest to live in glorious isolation from the poor.

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