March 2019
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RussiaGate as Organised Distraction By Prof. Oliver Boyd-Barrett
For over two years RussiaGate has accounted for a substantial proportion of all mainstream US media political journalism and, because US media have significant agenda-setting propulsion, of global media coverage as well. The timing has been catastrophic. Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 10-11 March 2019
11 March 2019 19:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting Marco Rubio’s attempt to recover from a humiliating Twitter gaffe isn’t fooling anyone http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/a8m3eH3II4w/ Venezuela partially opens border with Colombia http://tass.com/world/1048199 Continue reading
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Selected Articles: Venezuela. Hands Off!
11 March 2019 — Global Research Trump Regime Electricity War in Venezuela More Serious than First Believed By Stephen Lendman, March 11, 2019 On Thursday, Venezuela’s Guri dam hydroelectric power plant was cyberattacked at 5:00 PM during the late afternoon rush hour to cause maximum disruption. Continue reading
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Venezuela: Roundup – 2- US presses India to stop buying oil from Venezuela: Imperial Economic War intensifies
Imperialists are intensifying their economic war against the Bolivarian Venezuela. Continue reading
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Washington is Waging a New Dimension War Against China – and will Lose out Bitterly By Peter Koenig
Once the all-encompassing chittering and chattering about tariffs on Chinese imports by the western corporate media subsided, Trump, egocentric businessman rather than the President of the Empire, “out of the blue”, one could almost say, under the pretext of ‘unfair’ Chinese trading, launches a new ferocious and as usual totally illegal campaign of aggression against… Continue reading
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Anti-Semitism Pandemic! By C J Hopkins
Get the kids into the house! Lock your doors! Board up the windows! Break out the gas masks and hazmat suits! According to the corporate media, we are now officially deep in the throes of a deadly anti-Semitism pandemic! And just as the threat of mind-controlling Russian influencers was finally waning! It seems the fabric… Continue reading
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England and Wales Authority Issues Licences to Property Developers to Kill Protected Robins, Starlings, Blackbirds, Sparrows, Bullfinches By Tom Pride
Natural England and Natural Resources Wales have mysteriously given the go-ahead for protected species such as robins, starlings, blackbirds and bullfinches to be shot: Licences granted to kill multiple Red-listed species Continue reading
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Will Trump’s Hawks Dare to Risk Israel? By Alastair Crooke
It was the eleventh, and perhaps the most important meeting between President Putin and PM Netanyahu on 27 February, writes the well-informed journalist, Elijah Magnier: “The Israeli visitor heard clearly from his host that Moscow has no leverage to ask Iran to leave – or, to stop the flow of weapons to Damascus … Moscow [also] informed Tel Aviv about… Continue reading
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Trump Regime Electricity War in Venezuela More Serious Than First Believed By Stephen Lendman
On Thursday, Venezuela’s Guri dam hydroelectric power plant was cyberattacked at 5:00 PM during the late afternoon rush hour to cause maximum disruption.Up to 80% of the country was affected, damage done more severe than initially thought. Weeks or months of planning likely preceded what happened – US dark forces almost certainly behind it, considerable… Continue reading
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Homo Sapiens Plastica: The Right to Die Forever Preserved By Paul Haeder
It was a heck of a thing – a hundred people at the Newport City Council at 6 pm most of whom wanted to talk about the proposed single-use plastic bag (grocery) ban that is an ordinance largely led by citizens, and members of the Surfrider organization. Interestingly, the Newport voters five years ago were… Continue reading
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Once again, the UN has failed to name firms that profit from Israel’s illegal settlements
The United Nations postponed last week for the third time the publication of a blacklist of Israeli and international firms that profit directly from Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied territories. Continue reading
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Free Chelsea Manning!
On Friday, a federal judge ordered the courageous whistle-blower Chelsea Manning imprisoned for refusing to testify before a secret grand jury that is drawing up fabricated charges against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange on behalf of the Trump administration. In a savage action, the judge sentenced Manning to remain in jail until she purged her contempt… Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 10 March 2019
10 March 2019 15:40 — The New Dark Age There may be duplication due to cross-posting Venezuela’s Civilian-Military Union and the White Supremacist American 17th Century Pilgrims https://www.globalresearch.ca/venezuelan-civilian-military-union/5670890 Black Alliance for Peace Heads to Venezuela https://www.globalresearch.ca/black-alliance-peace-heads-venezuela/5670905 Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 8-9 March 2019
9 March 2019 23:20 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting Venezuela: Thousands join rival rallies as power cuts continue https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-47510255 Venezuelan foreign minister labels Guaido as US president’s envoy http://tass.com/world/1048019 Continue reading
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Skripal: One Year Later Some Things are Clearer By James ONeill
This past week (4 March 2019) saw the first anniversary of the incident in Salisbury England where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia became ill in a public space in the centre of town. Within a very short time (12th March) and before evidence could possibly have been adduced, United Kingdom… Continue reading
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US Negotiations: Masters of Defeats By James Petras
The US is currently engaged in negotiations with at least a dozen countries; which involve fundamental political, military and economic issues. The US has adopted diplomatic strategies in the face of its ‘inability’ to secure military victories. The purpose of adopting a diplomatic approach is to secure through negotiations, in part or fully, goals and… Continue reading
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Would railing at a Labour Saudi lobby be racist? By Jonathan Cook
Owen Jones has made a short video discussing Labour’s crisis over anti-semitism. There are some good elements to it, not least the warning against conspiratorial thinking, and an admission, admittedly a fairly limited one, that the Labour leadership should not be accused of being anti-semitic (and implicitly that the party is not “institutionally anti-semitic”.) Continue reading
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London Metropolitan Police cite Grenfell Inquiry to justify not pressing criminal charges By Robert Stevens and Chris Marsden
London’s Metropolitan Police will not press any charges regarding the 72 deaths at Grenfell Tower until “the latter part of 2021.” They justify this extraordinary admission by citing the need to wait for the government inquiry into Grenfell to complete its business. Continue reading
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Chelsea Manning jailed for refusal to testify against WikiLeaks By Patrick Martin
A federal judge ordered Chelsea Manning to prison Friday morning for an indefinite period of time, after the former Army private, jailed for seven years for providing information to WikiLeaks exposing US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, refused on principle to answer any questions before a secret grand jury investigating the media organization and… Continue reading
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Chelsea Manning Jailed for Refusing to Cooperate with Wikileaks Grand Jury
Chelsea Manning said her testimony before her court martial is all she has to say, standing by her resistance to secret grand juries as her activist ancestors did before her. Kevin Gosztola, Managing Editor of Shadowproof, discusses the case (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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