8 March 2019 20:00 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting
Venezuela-Baiting: How Media Keep Anti-Imperialist Dissent in Check
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/03/08/venezuela-baiting-how-media-keep-anti-imperialist-dissent-in-check/
Inside the Neoliberal Laboratory Preparing for the Theft of Venezuela’s Economy
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/03/08/inside-the-neoliberal-laboratory-preparing-for-the-theft-of-venezuelas-economy/
8 March 2019 — Countercurrents
Venezuela experienced an electricity war machinated by imperialism and its proxies – the rightists, the reactionaries.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused the US of waging an “electricity war” against the country, as Caracas and other cities plunged into darkness Thursday night.
8 March 2019 — Craig Murray
I still do not know what happened in the Skripal saga, which perhaps might more respectfully be termed the Sturgess saga. I cannot believe the Russian account of Boshirov and Petrov, because if those were their real identities, those identities would have been firmly established and displayed by now. But that does not mean they attempted to kill the Skripals, and there are many key elements to the official British account which are also simply incredible.
8 March 2019 — Michael Roberts Blog
There is one outstanding statistical feature of 21st century capitalism. Capitalism is increasingly failing to develop what Marx called the “productive forces” (namely the technology and labour necessary to expand the output of things and services that human society needs or wants). As measured by gross national product in all the economies of the world (or per person), world capitalism is finding it more and more difficult to expand.
8 March 2019 — Mint Press
The commission found serious human rights violations that may constitute crimes against humanity and called on Israel to “Lift the blockade on Gaza with immediate effect.
8 March 2019 — Electronic Intifada
Jeremy Newmark, sitting between disgraced Israeli embassy agent Shai Masot and Israeli ambassador Mark Regev at a private meeting during Labour’s 2016 conference. Newmark is seen in undercover Al Jazeera footage giving the ambassador “intelligence.” (Al Jazeera/YouTube)
The Jewish Labour Movement was revived in 2015 to battle Jeremy Corbyn, The Electronic Intifada can reveal.
8 March 2019 — WSWS
In a heroic and principled stand in defence of fundamental democratic rights, former US army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning yesterday refused to answer questions before a grand jury in Virginia. Manning stood firm and refused to incriminate WikiLeaks and its publisher Julian Assange—or any other media organisation and individual—over her courageous 2010 disclosure of hundreds of thousands of documents that exposed US war crimes and diplomatic conspiracies.
8 March 2019 — Mint Press
An independent investigation concluded that ‘nations have a duty to ‘arrest persons alleged to have committed, or who ordered to have committed, the international crimes described in the present report’
6 March 2019 — Moon of Alabama
New reports about the U.S. coup attempt in Venezuela describe the current mood in Washington as ‘frustration’. They also shine new light on why of the opposition’s plans failed.
8 March 2019 — Off Guardian
By Jeremy Fox, Jospeh Farrell, Calvin Tucker, Dr Francisco Dominguez – Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, UK, June 26, 2018, via Venezuelan Analysis
In view of the ongoing Western attempt to destabilize Venezuela, we think it instructive to present to our readers the text of the letter the international observers to Venezuela’s last presidential election addressed to EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy in June 2018.
8 March 2019 — Off Guardian
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