December 2018
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On The Road to a Post-G20 World By Pepe Escobar
The trade war launched by the Trump administration against China may not have been solved by a 2½-hour dinner between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Donald Trump at the G20 in Buenos Aires on Saturday. But it may have opened a path towards a drastic realignment. Continue reading
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Capitalist Society Under the One Party of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum By Paul Haeder
That puking up barbarism phenomena in this enclave of genocide and perpetual war, resource theft and global toxification come in a coat of many colors. In the simplest terms I see it daily in my job as underpaid and spat upon social worker jiggering with the penury, punishment and putrefying systems of bureaucratic hell and… Continue reading
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MSM Is Getting Weirder, More Frantic, And More Desperate By The Day By Caitlin Johnstone
When even the Washington Post is saying your Russiagate article is bad journalism, your Russiagate article is really, really bad journalism. Continue reading
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US Sabotages UN Attempt at Yemen Ceasefire, as Opposition to War Grows in Congress
The Trump administration claimed it would seek a ceasefire in Yemen in 30 days, but the US blocked a UN Security Council resolution submitted by Britain. Colonel Larry Wilkerson discusses Congress’ historic vote on a War Powers Resolution bill to force a military withdrawal (inc.transcript). Continue reading
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Les Gilets Jaunes – A Bright Yellow Sign of Distress By Diana Johnstone
Every automobile in France is supposed to be equipped with a yellow vest. This is so that in case of accident or breakdown on a highway, the driver can put it on to ensure visibility and avoid getting run over. So the idea of wearing your yellow vest to demonstrate against unpopular government measures caught… Continue reading
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How To Avoid A New War In Europe By Vladimir Kozin
There is a rather embarrassing negative perspective for maintaining rational military strategic parity between Russia and USA and Russia and NATO as a whole in the coming decades due to future tremendous expenditures of the USA for modernizing strategic and tactical nuclear forces that will require $ U.S. 1,2-1,7 trillion during next three decades for… Continue reading
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Emmanuel Macron: The Little Emperor and Humpty-Dumpty By Deena Stryker
After less than two years, France’s youngest President, Emanuel Macron, has become the de facto leader of Europe but the object of violence at home. Continue reading
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Yellow Vests By Richard Greeman
Ignored by Macron, distorted by the media, courted by the Right, snubbed by the Left, the self-organized mass movement known as the Yellow Vests is seriously challenging the political and economic order in France. Continue reading
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Ukraine: US-installed Fascist Tyranny in Europe’s Heartland By Stephen Lendman
Ukraine matters. It’s territory is Europe’s largest after Russia’s. It borders seven countries in Europe’s heartland – Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Russia. Continue reading
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How the West eats its children By Thierry Meyssan
For Thierry Meyssan, by taking to the streets, the French have become the first Western population to take personal risks to oppose financial globalisation. Although they do not realise it, and still imagine that their problems are exclusively national, their enemy is the same force that crushed the region of the African Great Lakes and… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 3 December 2018: Activists Demand Sanders Oppose Militarism; Pro-Cop Chicago Councillors to Face Challenge; Judge to Rule on Mumia Appeal
3 December 2018 — Black Agenda Report Activists Demand Sanders Take Stand Against Militarism David Swanson, one of 100 activists and intellectuals that sent an open letter calling on Sen. Bernie Sanders to finally tackle the US war budget, said “It’s incoherent to have a public policy that ignores over 60 percent of federal discretionary spending” Continue reading
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In the Face of Extinction, We Have a Moral Obligation By Dahr Jamail
Researching and writing about the impacts of runaway climate change, as I’ve been doing now for too many years, I’ve watched several patterns recur. Continue reading
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The blueprint for dismantling the NHS By Youssef El-Gingihy
Nostalgia won’t save the NHS from the encroachment of market forces – only a broad-based mass movement can do that. Continue reading
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Father of Green Revolution in India Rejects GM Crops By Colin Todhunter
Genetically modified (GM) cotton in India is a failure. India should reject GM mustard. And like the Green Revolution, GM agriculture poses risks and is unsustainable. Regulatory bodies are dogged by incompetency and conflicts of interest. GM crops should therefore be banned. Continue reading
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COUNT BASIE Swingin’ the Blues, 1941 HOT big band swing jazz
3 December 2018 — YouTube COUNT BASIE Excerpts from the oddly titled “Dance of the Gremlins” (thanks to mfb25890 & mbdavis10025 for the song I.D.), and “Swingin’ the Blues”, c. 1941. This is some of the HOTTEST big band swing of the 40s! Don Byas on tenor, Harry “Sweets” Edison & then later Buck Clayton, Continue reading
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Italy, the EU, and the Fall of the Roman Empire By Alastair Crooke
The French Movement, the “Yellow Gilets” has been tirelessly demonstrating throughout France without a break since 17 November 2018. On 1 December, it organized its second national demonstration in Paris. Continue reading
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1 December 2018: Insurrection Day in the centre of Paris, Marseille and Avignon
The French Movement, the “Yellow Gilets” has been tirelessly demonstrating throughout France without a break since 17 November 2018. On 1 December, it organized its second national demonstration in Paris. Continue reading
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Who profits from the incident in the Strait of Kertch? By Valentin Vasilescu
Valentin Vasilescu, an expert on military affairs, comments on the role of the Israeli and US reconnaissance planes in the incident at Kertch. These facts have been confirmed by the Russian FSB (which the Russian Federation’s Coast-Guards depend on) and which has disclosed videos recorded during the interrogations of the captured Ukrainian marines and a… Continue reading
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The Guardian/Politico Psyop Against WikiLeaks By Caitlin Johnstone
For the first few hours after any new “bombshell” Russia-gate story comes out, my social media notifications always light up with poorly written posts by liberal establishment loyalists saying things like “HAHAHA @caitoz this proves you wrong now will you FINALLY stop denying Russian collusion???” Then, when people start actually analyzing that story and noting… Continue reading
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Photo essay: Australian students strike for climate action
Thousands of Australian primary and high school students walked out of school on November 30 to demand real action on climate change. Continue reading
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