February 2019
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Resolutely Promised Prosecutions of Climate Criminals May Force Urgent Climate Action By Gideon Polya
Eminent climate scientist Professor James Hansen has published a must-read, 55-page summary of the worsening climate emergency. In short, to correct the Earth’s presently disastrous energy imbalance we must urgently reduce the atmospheric CO2 to 342-373 ppm CO2 from the present disastrous 407 ppm CO2. Continue reading
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Oil, Agriculture and Imperialism: Averting the Fast-Track to Armageddon? By Colin Todhunter
The US’s hand-picked supposed leader-in-waiting, Juan Guaido, aims to facilitate the process and usher in a programme of ‘mass privatisation’ and ‘hyper-capitalism’ at the behest of his coup-instigating masters in Washington, thereby destroying the socialist revolution spearheaded by the late Hugo Chavez and returning to a capitalist oligarch-controlled economic system. Continue reading
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Venezuela – The Straw that Breaks the Empire’s Back?
Venezuela in the limelight, on practically all the written, audio and visual mainstream media, as well as alternative media. A purposeful constant drip of outright lies and half-truths, “fake news”, as well as misleading information of all shades and hues about Venezuela is drumming into our brains, slowly bending our minds towards believing that –… Continue reading
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‘America First’ Means Nuclear Superiority By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
The US president’s annual State of the Union address traditionally focuses on domestic issues but it also throws some light on the foreign policy priorities. President Trump’s speech on Tuesday adhered to the pattern and if anything, the portions on foreign policy received scant attention, restricted to his “agenda to protect America’s National Security.” Trump’s… Continue reading
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Leaked Wikileaks Doc Reveals US Military Use of IMF, World Bank as “Unconventional” Weapons By Whitney Webb
This “U.S. coup manual,” recently highlighted by WikiLeaks, serves as a reminder that the so-called “independence” of such financial institutions as The World Bank and IMF is an illusion and that they are among the many “financial weapons” regularly used by the U.S. government to bend countries to its will. Continue reading
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Corporate tax cuts in UK save big business billions of pounds By Barry Mason
Tax cuts being implemented by Theresa May’s Conservative government will save big business billions of pounds, as austerity measures continue to pauperise millions of workers. Corporation tax will be slashed from its current figure of 19 percent to a 17 percent rate effective from April 2020. Continue reading
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Canada mobilizes support for US coup in Venezuela By Keith Jones
Canada’s Liberal government is front and center in Washington’s drive to overthrow Venezuela’s elected president, Nicolas Maduro, and install a virulent right-wing regime that will throw open the country—site of the world’s largest oil reserves—to unbridled imperialist exploitation. Continue reading
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How Chrystia Freeland Organized Donald Trump’s Coup in Venezuela By Eric Zuesse
On Monday, February 5th, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland announced that the 14 countries of the Lima Group — who had actually formed themselves under her direction into this new group on 8 August 2017 in order to overthrow and replace Venezuela’s current President Nicholas Maduro — have now been joined (though she didn’t say… Continue reading
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Venezuela – U.S. Aid Gambit Fails – War Plans Lack Support
The U.S. is using the pretext of ‘delivering humanitarian aid’ from Columbaia to Venezuela to undermine the government and to establish a supply line for further operations. It is another attempt to pull the military onto the coup plotter’s side Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 6-7 February 2019
7 February 2019 14:54 — The New Dark Age Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, Trump and the State of Imperial Decline https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/02/07/ocasio-cortez-sanders-trump-and-the-state-of-imperial-decline/ BBC’s HARDtalk turned into a cosy chat about how to run a coup in Venezuela http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/c181MAM16Gk/ Continue reading
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‘5G Will Be a Global Catastrophe’: Activist Warns of Massive ‘Human Guinea Pigs’ Trial
As word begins to spread about the corporate-government collusion in what appears to be an increasingly reckless roll-out of the new military-grade 5G cellular technology, activists around the world are now beginning to elevate this issue to the level of a bona fide public health crisis. Not surprisingly, government officials and corporate sponsors are attempting… Continue reading
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It’s finally here: Worlds End!
These are common reactions when people learn about the reality of climate change. Similarly, when people think about capitalism it can seem as though nothing can be done to change it, that it’s too big, too strong. Maybe that’s just the way the world is. But things change. Worlds end… New ones begin. Continue reading
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IRR News (23 January – 6 February 2019)
This week, the IRR is among sixty-five signatories to a Guardian letter, including educational charities, human rights organisations, musicians, academics and lawyers, all calling for an end to the use of ‘gang injunctions’ that prevent black musicians making references to individuals, events and places. We are calling for clearer thinking about the impact of such… Continue reading
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What the CIA Tells Congress (Or Doesn’t) about Covert Operations:The Barr/Cheney/Bush Turning Point for CIA Notifications to the Senate
Attorney-General nominee William P. Barr figured prominently in arguments to limit CIA responsibility to provide notification to Congress about covert actions during the 1980s, according to a review of declassified materials published today by the National Security Archive at the George Washington University. As the Iran-Contra scandal played out, Barr, who held senior posts at… Continue reading
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Venezuela Blitz – Part 2: Press Freedom, Sanctions And Oil
In support of their claim that Maduro is a ‘tyrant’ who does not allow free elections, corporate media consistently point to a lack of press freedom. When British academic Alan MacLeod of Glasgow Media Group reviewed 166 Western media articles evaluating the state of press freedom between 1998-2014, he found that all depicted Venezuelan media… Continue reading
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Did The West “Finish” With Russia? by Vladislav B. SOTIROVIĆ
After the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia was becoming a less popular area of studying and dealing with in comparison before the end of the Cold War. In the West, it was believed that after 1991 Russia was simply “finished” as Moscow was not anymore the capital of a Great Power state… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 7 February 2019: Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, Trump and the State of Imperial Decline, HR 1 Sics the Homeland Security Dogs on the US Left
6 February 2019 — Black Agenda Report Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders, Trump and the State of Imperial Decline – Glen Ford , BAR executive editor Bernie Sanders’ anticipated second run for the presidency is the 6-ton elephant in the Democratic boardroom. But the rich owners of the Party would rather lose to Trump again than win with… Continue reading
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Twitter Greenlights Venezuela’s Pro-Opposition Online Blitz – Shuts Down Genuine Opponents by Alexander Rubinstein
Shady anonymous actors are waging an information war manipulating social media with automated posts in an apparent attempt to manufacture a faux consensus for regime change in Venezuela. Continue reading
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NHS 10-year plan: Recipe for further attacks on services and privatisation in UK By Ajanta Silva
As if everyone was oblivious to the last nine years of austerity, including huge cuts to the NHS budget and privatization of health services, May claimed the Tories would be the saviours of the NHS over the next decade with the launch of the Long Term Plan (LTP). Continue reading
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French National Assembly passes police state “anti-riot” law targeting protests By Will Morrow
The French National Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Monday to approve President Emmanuel Macron’s “anti-riot” law, undermining the right to protest and further expanding police powers. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 