18 February 2019 — Statewatch
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EU: New criminal records database for non-EU nationals is “disproportionate and discriminatory”.
19 February 2019 — COLDTYPE
19 February 2019 18:00 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting.
COLDTYPE Issue 178 Mid-February 2019 – is now on line
https://williambowles.info/2019/02/19/coldtype-issue-178-mid-february-2019-is-now-on-line/
The Saker interviews Jorge Valero, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
http://thesaker.is/the-saker-interviews-jorge-valero-ambassador-extraordinary-and-plenipotentiary-of-the-bolivarian-republic-of-venezuela/
19 February 2019 — Global Research
In a spectacular display of solidarity and strength, envoys from such distant capitals as Beijing and Havana, Moscow and Tehran, Pyongyang and Caracas, Damascus and Managua and numerous other states stood together, side by side, in front of the United Nations Security Council, declaring their determination to protect the UN Charter and International Law, and holding sacrosanct the sovereignty and inviolability of each member state.
19 February 2019 — Countercurrents.org
19 February 2019 — Investigating Imperialism
[I think it’s time to republish a piece I wrote 15 years ago, in 2004, though clearly very few took notice of it then, will it be any different this time? I doubt it, it’s probably already too late to do anything about it. What the Labour government initiated in 2004 has now reached, not only fruition but is now sweeping the ‘democratic’ West as the crisis of capital intensifies and opposition to neoliberalism intensifies. I call it what it is, Fascism. Maybe not the Fascism of Hitler or Mussolini, there are no jackboots, they don’t need them this time, they have built the corporate-security state, a state that has us all on file, a state that records our movements, a state that knows what we read, who we see, a state that now works in tandem with its corporate masters just as Mussolini’s Fascism did, a state that makes Orwell’s 1984 amateurish by comparison. Reading through it, I don’t think I need to alter one word. WB.]
24 April 2004
“Someone must have slandered Joseph K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.” –
Franz Kafka, ‘The Trial’
18 February 2019 — theplanningmotivedotcom
The capitalists always like to boast about their prowess. The fact is that only 10% of their winning decisions are based on ability. The biggest factor is economic conditions (75%). Most investors make profits when the going is good. If further proof of this was needed, look no further than indexed based funds which have now outstripped active funds (stock picking funds where ability predominates). However, these ETF’s and passive funds which appear riskless when the going is good, become ticking time bombs when stock market indexes start falling.
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19 February 2019 — WSWS
US President Donald Trump unleashed a global tirade against socialism at a Florida university Monday, in which he targeted Venezuela as the front line in this fascistic crusade.
19 February 2019 — WSWS
President Donald Trump posted two thuggish tweets Sunday morning attacking actor Alec Baldwin’s impersonation of the press conference at which he announced an unconstitutional declaration of national emergency to circumvent Congress and appropriate funds for the military to build his border wall.
Baldwin, who has frequently mimicked Trump on NBC’s satirical “Saturday Night Live” program, mocked the president in a skit broadcast on Saturday night’s episode.
19 February 2019 — WSWS
On Monday, seven right-wing MPs resigned from the Labour Party at a press conference held in London’s County Hall at Westminster.
Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Mike Gapes, Chris Leslie, Ann Coffey, Angela Smith and Gavin Shuker announced they would sit as independents in Parliament and be known as The Independent Group (IG). Their website was already up and running.
19 February 2019 — In Defence of Marxism
Seven right-wing MPs have split away from the Labour Party, much to the relief of grassroots members. But many of their treacherous ilk have been left behind. They must be replaced at the first opportunity.
19 February 2019 — WSWS
There have now been two attacks on the grave of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery in the space of just two weeks. The first and most damaging was an attempt to obliterate with a hammer Marx’s name from the original headstone marking the burial place of Karl and his wife Jenny, which was incorporated into the monument erected in his memory in 1956. The second was this weekend’s daubing of anti-communist slogans on the plinth supporting the monument’s bronze bust of Marx.
15 February 2019 — Consortium News
By Steve Ellner
Special to Consortium News
The New Dark Age 