January 18, 2019
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Monsanto/Bayer Moving to Genome Edit Fruits and More By F. William Engdahl
Not surprising, Monsanto, today hidden behind the Bayer logo, as the world leader in patented GMO seeds and the probable carcinogenic Roundup herbicide with glyphosate, is attempting to quietly patent genetically modified or GMO varieties of fruits using controversial gene-editing. The “beauty” of this for Monsanto/Bayer is that in the USA, according to a recent… Continue reading
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Fake Labour accounts fueling “anti-Semitism crisis” By Asa Winstanley
From the start, reporting of the “anti-Semitism crisis” in the UK’s Labour Party has been characterized by dishonesty, exaggeration and outright fabrication. Continue reading
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The U.S. Has Venezuela in Its Crosshairs By VJ Prashad
Last Thursday—on January 10—Nicolas Maduro was sworn in for his second term as president of Venezuela. “I tell the people,” Maduro said, “this presidential sash is yours. The power of this sash is yours. It does not belong to the oligarchy or to imperialism. It belongs to the sovereign people of Venezuela.” These two terms—oligarchy… Continue reading
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US Blows Up INF… Another Move Towards Downfall
It is rather astounding the American double-think. It was the US side which unilaterally abolished the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty in 2002. And it is the US side which is now unilaterally threatening to walk away from a second landmark arms control treaty, the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) accord, which was first put in place… Continue reading
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UK: Police Pre-Crime ‘Minority Report’ Systems Announced
Back in May 2017, I predicted that the police would be doing just that – predicting. I warned that Britain already has a reputation for deploying the most intrusive surveillance systems against its own people in the Western world. I warned that our civil liberties are being systematically dismantled, driven through the false narrative of… Continue reading
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Report to Davos meeting points to deepening contradictions of global capitalism By Nick Beams
The report prepared by the World Economic Forum (WEF) for its annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland, next week presents a picture of the ongoing disintegration of all the mechanisms—economic, political and ideological—that have served to sustain the global capitalist order in the post-war period. Continue reading
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The US political crisis reaches fever pitch
The political battle within the US ruling elite is reaching a new peak of intensity, with an ongoing media campaign portraying Trump as a Russian agent, Democratic Party demands to cancel the State of the Union address, and Trump’s response Thursday afternoon, blocking a planned foreign trip by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that would have… Continue reading
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Syria. The Force of Civilization By Marinella Correggia
“Our millennial history will help us”. Between street mosaics, archaeological assets to be restored, photovoltaic energy for reconstruction, and agriculture that calls for peace Continue reading
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Still alive: Link Tax + Censorship Machines
The new EU Copyright Directive is only days away from being finalized. Yet some of its most toxic proposals — the Link Tax and Censorship Machines — are still alive under Articles 11 and 13. If passed, they will turn the Internet into a censored pay-to-play ghost town. Continue reading
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Every Woman Is a Working Woman: Silvia Federici in The Boston Review
Silvia Federici, an Italian expat living in New York, attended the conference and afterward returned to New York to found the New York Wages for Housework Committee. In the following years, Wages for Housework committees were launched in a number of U.S. cities. In each case, these groups organized autonomously, apart from waged male workers.… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 17 January 2019: Dems HR 1 Fakes the Funk on Voting Rights, Ethics and More; Self-Serving Black Journalists and the Corporate Duopoly
17 January 2019 — Black Agenda Report House Democrats’ HR 1 – Faking the Funk on Voting Rights, Spreading Fear and Gunning For the Greens in 2020 – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Continue reading
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ATTACK ON U.S. TROOPS IN MANBIJ WAS CIA/ZIONIST PLOT; AS EXPECTED, CANNIBALS HAVE STARTED TO EAT ONE ANOTHER; KURDS LEAVING MANBIJ! By Ziad Fadel
The largely foreign mercenaries infesting the terrorist group called Kataa`ib Al-‘Izza(Brigades of Glory) walked into another disastrous confrontation with the SAA today as they left Kafr Zaytaa. They were spotted immediately by SAA scouts and the order to fire heavy artillery at them was given. According to Wael, 31 rodents were confirmed killed or wounded… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 