11 January 2019 — IRR
Institute of Race Relations weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice
Happy New Year!
The IRR marks the start of 2019 by remembering Barbara Harlow who died in January 2017 and A. Sivanandan who passed away a year ago.
Day: January 11, 2019
Trump at the Rubicon
11 January 2019 — WSWS
US President Donald Trump visited the southern border of the United States on Thursday, where he continued to peddle his lying claims that the country is in the jaws of a crisis caused by criminals and drugs flowing in from Mexico.
Corporate media smears WikiLeaks and Julian Assange By Oscar Grenfell
11 January 2019 — WSWS
Julian Assange
A number of corporate media outlets have begun the year by publishing scurrilous and derisive attacks against WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.
Integrity Initiative: Covert British Military-Smear Machine Moving into US
10 January 2019 — Consortium News
After mobilizing a disinformation campaign across Europe, documents show that the Integrity Initiative is now infiltrating the U.S., report Max Blumenthal and Mark Ames.
By Max Blumenthal and Mark Ames
Grayzone
A bombshell domestic spy scandal has been unfolding in Britain, after hacked internal communications exposed a covert U.K. state military-intelligence psychological warfare operation targeting its own citizens and political figures in allied NATO countries under the cover of fighting “Russian disinformation.”
NSA: Cybersecurity: When Hackers Went to the Hill — Revisiting the L0pht Hearings of 1998
9 January 2019 — National Security Archive
Landmark Senate Hearings Exposed Risks and Threats That Are Still Being Confronted
Declassified Records Offer Roadmap to Often Incomplete U.S. Government and Industry Response
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 655
Ocean warming sets new records year after year
10 January 2019 — Climate & Capitalism
Earth in hot water
The oceans are heating up faster than predicted, and the speed is accelerating. Expect higher seas, stronger storms, and extreme precipitation.
Heat trapped by greenhouse gases is raising ocean temperatures faster than previously thought, concludes an analysis of four recent ocean-heating observations. The results provide further evidence that earlier claims of a slowdown or “hiatus” in global warming over the past 15 years were unfounded.
Black Agenda Report 10 January 2019: Raising the Bar on Green New Deal; Ocasio-Cortez, Socialism & Austerity; Phony Resistance Won’t Beat Trump
10 January 2019 — Black Agenda Report
Raising the Bar on the Green New Deal
– Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
20 million jobs. Medicare For All, and decent affordable housing. Free college tuition and student loan forgiveness. Zero emissions by 2030. That’s a Green New Deal
Selected Articles: Media Disinformation and The Protest Movement
10 January 2019 — Global Research
In Pictures: The Largest Strike in History Is Happening in India Right Now
By Ben Cowles, January 09, 2019
Around 150 million people began a two-day general strike in India today against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s anti-Labour and anti-trade union policies in India.
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Britain: could there be a second EU referendum?
10 January 2019 — In Defence of Marxism
Image: Socialist Appeal (UK)
Theresa May’s decision last year to postpone the vote on her Brexit deal has done little other than provide a brief respite from her insoluble dilemma. Her negotiated package remains hated by all sides. Rather than bringing people round to her proposal, the Christmas period has hardened the resolve of Brexiteers and Remainers alike.
The New Dark Age 