January 2019
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Open Letter to Bayer CropScience: Bayer Has Never Been Transparent In Its Life! by Colin Todhunter
9 January 2019 — Counter Currents “Transparency creates trust. At Bayer, we embrace our responsibility to communicate how we assess our products’ safety — and we recognize that people around the world want more information around glyphosate. This month, we published more than 300 study summaries on the safety of glyphosate on our dedicated transparency website. “ Continue reading
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The Gatwick drone: A taste of the technology by Chris Cole
While many newspapers mocked the alleged incompetence of the authorities in not dealing with the situation simply and swiftly, the reality is that drones are a disruptive technology. The ability to use remote-controlled systems to intervene at distance with little or no consequences to the operator is perhaps now coming home to roost. Continue reading
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President Trump’s Losing Strategy: Embracing Brazil And Confronting China
The US embraces a regime doomed to failure and threatens the world’s most dynamic economy. President Trump has lauded Brazil’s newly elected President Jair Bolsonaro and promises to promote close economic, political, social and cultural ties. In contrast the Trump regime is committed to dismantling China’s growth model, imposing harsh and pervasive sanctions, and promoting… Continue reading
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US Snatching Chinese Executive Sets Dangerous Precedent By Tony Cartalucci
Claiming that prominent Chinese telecommunications company Huawei had violated US sanctions on Iran – Canada was requested to arrest and hand over Huawei Chief Financial Officer, Meng Wanzhou, who was transferring planes in Vancouver. Continue reading
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Extinction/Rebellion Meeting, London 9 January 2019
8 January 2019 — Extinction/Rebellion [ Not sure where this thing is going. Is it another Occupy? What’s the programme? WB] Dear London Rebels, The XR London meeting will be this Wednesday 9 January at 7pm, SOAS, University of London Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG. It will be in the Brunei Gallery, opposite Continue reading
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No one rules Britain By Anthony Barnett
Reckless Opportunists is an astonishing account of the British ruling class in decomposition. It is the result of twenty years of intense research, over 350 interviews with the heads of corporations, senior civil servants, journalists, politicians and public relations firms. Continue reading
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The Institute for Statecraft Exposed
There are now a number of articles on the Institute for Statecraft and its propaganda machine, ‘Integrity Initiative’ [sic]. Here are the pertinent documents exposed by ‘Anonymous’ (whoever they are) that reveal the objectives and the scale of this sophisticated enterprise. But already I read that some individuals are questioning the validity of these documents,… Continue reading
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Back to the USSR: How to Read Western News By Patrick Armstrong
The heroes of Dickens’ Pickwick Papers visit the fictional borough of Eatanswill to observe an election between the candidates of the Blue Party and the Buff Party. The town is passionately divided, on all possible issues, between the two parties. Each party has its own newspaper: the Eatanswill Gazette is Blue and entirely devoted to… Continue reading
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Washington’s Backfiring Bombing By Brian Cloughley
Wikipedia tells us that “The Times Square Ball is a… prominent part of a New Year’s Eve celebration commonly referred to as the ball drop, where the ball descends 43 metres in 60 seconds… to signal the start of the new year.” But there was another and less amusing ball-drop on New Year’s Day, involving… Continue reading
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Death to the DIY Society By Ted RALL
I admit it: My bias derived from self-interest. I was a bag boy. But that didn’t make me wrong when I reacted to the news that supermarkets would make customers bag their own groceries. This, I told my friends at the time, is the first brick in a road to perdition. Continue reading
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Chinese scholar offers insight into Beijing’s strategic mindset By Pepe Escobar
The top story of 2019 – and the years ahead – will continue to revolve around the myriad, dangerous permutations of the economic ascent of China, the resurgence of nuclear superpower Russia and the decline of the US’s global hegemony. Continue reading
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Bolton walks back Trump’s Syria troop withdrawal
US National Security Adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have embarked on what could be described as a “walk back” tour of the Middle East. Its purpose is to assure US regional allies that Washington is not about to implement the decision announced by President Donald Trump last month to carry out… Continue reading
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The UN Must Totally Break from US Administrative Control By Wayne Madsen
The United States has increasingly violated the US-UN Treaty by refusing to grant visas to foreign officials, UN personnel, members of the press, representatives of non-governmental organizations, UN guests, conducting business at the UN. The US has also ignored the treaty’s insistence on the inviolability of UN territorial jurisdiction by conducting illegal electronic surveillance on… Continue reading
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John Pilger Special-A Look Back at 2018, Look Forward to 2019
On this episode of Going Underground, legendary journalist and film-maker John Pilger discusses the events of 2018, including the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in Yemen, Syria, Brexit, Integrity Initiative and more! Continue reading
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UK Integrity Initiative heavily involved in Skripal affair By Robert Stevens
The Institute for Statecraft (IoS) and its Integrity Initiative (II) constitute a secret propaganda network tied to the UK security services. They bring together high-ranking military and intelligence personnel, journalists and academics to manufacture and disseminate propaganda serving the geo-political aims of British imperialism and its allies. Continue reading
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Global Economy, Geo-Politics, Militarization: Selected Stories
7 January 2019 — Global Research ‘The Decision Is Taken’: Brazil to Move Its Embassy to Jerusalem, Says Bolsonaro By Middle East Eye Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has confirmed that the South American country will move its embassy to Jerusalem, following an earlier statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was in Brazil this week to attend the new Continue reading
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The Stomach-Churning Violence of the Agrochemical Oligopoly by Colin Todhunter
As humans, we have evolved with the natural environment over millennia. We have learned what to eat and what not to eat, what to grow and how to grow it and our diets have developed accordingly. We have hunted, gathered, planted and harvested. Our overall survival as a species has been based on gradual, emerging… Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 175 January 2018 – is now on line
5 January 2019 — Coldtype Continue reading
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HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2019
4 January 2019 — Housmans Books NEWS /ACTIONS 1. A series of new year book sales at Housmans, first one starts Thursday 10th January 2. Self-care as an Act of Warfare: A Black Women’s Reading Group – new monthly group Continue reading
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AI Should Improve Quality of Life, Not Make Capitalists Rich – Lester Earnest on RAI (1-5)
Artificial Intelligence can make the world better or be a tool for war – says Lester Earnest, founder of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at Stanford, on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay Continue reading
The New Dark Age 