February 2019
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NSA: Iran’s 1979 Revolution Revisited: Failures (and a Few Successes) of U.S. Intelligence and Diplomatic Reporting
U.S. intelligence analysts and Tehran-based diplomats struggled to come to grips with the tumult of the Iranian revolution, yet still managed at times to provide considerable detail for policymakers, according to a survey of formerly classified records posted today by the nongovernmental National Security Archive. Continue reading
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Making Globalism Great Again CJ Hopkins
Maybe Donald Trump isn’t as stupid as I thought. I’d hate to have to admit that publicly, but it does kind of seem like he has put one over on the liberal corporate media this time. Scanning the recent Trump-related news, I couldn’t help but notice a significant decline in the number of references to… Continue reading
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Why The Entire Political-Media Class Just Tried To End Ilhan Omar’s Career by Caitlin Johnstone
Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has published an apology for making self-evident observations about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), an immensely influential lobbying firm which, like all lobbying firms, works to influence government policy toward a specific agenda, in this case the interests of the Israeli government. She issued the apology after hours upon… Continue reading
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Lawfare: Using “Transition” Status to Justify Intervention in Venezuela
The fact that the opposition can conspire and operate openly is proof that the government has not suppressed them in any way. While it is dangerous that they continue to collaborate to overthrow the government, they are emboldened by the freedoms granted and upheld by the same Constitution they seek to obliterate. Their continued freedom… Continue reading
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Yes of course Israel is interfering in British politics By Asa Winstanley
The “Act.IL” organization, which is coordinated and backed by Israel’s so-called Ministry of Strategic Affairs, had used a troll army to spread false information about Jeremy Corbyn – the leader of the UK’s official opposition party. Continue reading
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UK: Anti-Semitism witch-hunt provokes backlash in Labour Party By Robert Stevens
The latest crude frame-up of Labour Party members as anti-Semites has provoked a furious backlash in Liverpool. But the refusal to oppose the Blairite liars has opened the way for members of the Wavertree Constituency Labour Party to be victimised for the “crime” of moving a no confidence motion against their MP, Luciana Berger, who… Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 12 February 2019
12 February 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting Making Globalism Great Again https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/02/making-globalism-great-again/ Venezuela: A Diplomatic Coup? https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/14317 Continue reading
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Climate and contradiction in Marx’s theory of history by Matt Huber
Climate change is often seen as a “new” kind of crisis of capitalism – one that throws into question the standard Marxist analysis as having a blind spot with respect to nature. This has led to a whole host of intellectual efforts to “green” Marxism, or to argue an ecological Marxism must go beyond class… Continue reading
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How the Media Manufactures Consent for Regime Change in Venezuela
The latest extraordinary chapter in the bizarre world of Venezuelan politics is playing out before our eyes. After winning the 2018 presidential elections, Nicolás Maduro was inaugurated in January, only for the head of the National Assembly, Juan Guaidó — a man whom, at the time, less than 20 percent of the country had even… Continue reading
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A Progressive ‘Artifice’ of Democratic Impotence: The ‘World’ Finally ‘Gets It’ By Alastair Crooke
Antonio Gramsci described an interregnum as a time “when the old is dying and the new cannot be born… in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms pertain.” In such periods, the new is perceived as mad, bad and dangerous to contemplate. Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 10-11 February 2019
11 February 2019 19:16 — The New Dark Age Due to duplication, there may be some cross-posting. Podcast Ep 2: How Israel helps Latin American death squads https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora-barrows-friedman/podcast-ep-2-how-israel-helps-latin-american-death-squads Making Globalism Great Again https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/02/11/making-globalism-great-again/ Continue reading
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Elliott Abrams: The War Criminal Running US Policy in Venezuela
The recently named US Special Envoy on Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, is back in the halls of power after a career of supporting dictators, violence and genocide around the world Continue reading
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An open letter to the people of the U.S.A. from President Nicolás Maduro
If I know anything, it is about the people, because just like you, I am a man of the people. I was born and raised in a poor neighborhood of Caracas. I was forged in the heat of popular and union struggles in a Venezuela submerged in exclusion and inequality. I am no tycoon; I… Continue reading
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France: Yellow Vests and Red Unions Strike Together
At the very moment when in Paris the lower house was voting to implement Macron’s proposed laws designed to suppress public demonstrations (a legal right protected in both the French Constitution and the U.N. Human Rights Declaration) tens of thousands of their constituents were out in the streets all over the country demonstrating and striking… Continue reading
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Latest FoI release from MoD shows extent of UK air and drone war in Syria by Chris Cole
The rise in UK air and drone strikes in Syria since September 2018 has been laid bare in the MoD’s latest responses to a Drone Wars UK FoI request. The number of British strikes in Syria per month rose to its highest ever amount (75) in December 2018. Continue reading
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In Venezuela, White Supremacy is Key to Trump’s Coup By Greg Palast
On January 23, right after a phone call from Donald Trump, Juan Guaido, former Speaker of Venezuela’s National Assembly, declared himself President. No voting. When you have official recognition from The Donald, who needs elections? Continue reading
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Venezuela Coverage and Analysis
10 February 2019 — TRNN Find all of our Venezuela stories here, from the current crisis to the early days of The Real News Network Venezuela Coverage and Analysis Continue reading
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Blood for Oil in Venezuela?
Vijay Prashad discusses the extent to which US interest in Venezuelan oil and other natural resources is driving Trump’s policy of seeking regime change. The link is not that straight-forward, but it is there, says Prashad (inc transcript) Continue reading
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Welfare Weekly 10 February 2019
10 February 2019 Twin brothers found hanging from the same tree after benefits stopped Read more Continue reading
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Statewatch: New criminal records database for non-EU nationals is “disproportionate and discriminatory”
A new EU database for holding information on convicted non-EU nationals is “disproportionate and discriminatory”, says an Analysis (pdf) published today by Statewatch. Continue reading
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