March 2019
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Venezuela Newslinks 6-8 March 2019
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/ Continue reading
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Venezuela: ROUNDUP1-Imperialism’s Electricity War follows failure of interventionist ploy
8 March 2019 — Countercurrents Venezuela experienced an electricity war machinated by imperialism and its proxies – the rightists, the reactionaries. Electricity War 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. Continue reading
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Pure: Ten Points I Just Can’t Believe About the Official Skripal Narrative By 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… Continue reading
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Demographic demise by michael roberts
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… Continue reading
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A Peek into the Horrific Findings of the UN Report on Israel’s Massacre of Gaza Protesters
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. Continue reading
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Jewish Labour Movement was refounded to fight Corbyn By Asa Winstanley
The Jewish Labour Movement was revived in 2015 to battle Jeremy Corbyn, The Electronic Intifada can reveal. A right-wing organization with intimate ties to the Israeli embassy, the Jewish Labour Movement claims to have been affiliated to Labour for a century. Continue reading
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US government threatens to jail whistleblower Chelsea Manning for refusing to testify against WikiLeaks By Mike Head
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… Continue reading
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The UN Screened this Video at a Meeting on Israel’s Murder of Unarmed Protesters in Gaza by Alison Weir
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’ Continue reading
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Venezuela – Guaidó Planned To Use Arms – Frustration Over Stalemate Sets In
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. Continue reading
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International Observers to Venezuela’s Election Pen Letter to the EU
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. Continue reading
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The Propaganda Multiplier
It is one of the most important aspects of our media system – and yet hardly known to the public: most of the international news coverage in Western media is provided by only three global news agencies based in New York, London and Paris. Continue reading
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Labour’s civil war on Israel has been a long time coming
Threats by a Jewish group to split from Labour is not evidence of anti-semitism, but of the party’s long indulgence of anti-Palestinian racism Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 7 March 2019
7 March 2019 20:04 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting Trump and the Venezuelan Opposition Have Much in Common https://www.mintpressnews.com/trump-venezuela-opposition-have-much-common/255992/ Greg Maybury: The Divine Right of Dark-hearted Despots (Then and Now) https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/03/07/greg-maybury-the-divine-right-of-dark-hearted-despots-then-and-now/ Continue reading
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UN Commission Report Accuses Israel of War Crimes in Gaza
International law professor Kevin Jon Heller discusses the report of the UN Human Rights Council, which says Israel must be held accountable for war crimes committed against unarmed civilians and that Israeli courts do not hold them accountable (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 7 March 2019: Reparations By Any Other Name, Black Stake in the Green New Deal, RussiaGate and Democratic Defeat
7 March 2019 — Black Agenda Report Reparations Now? Maybe In Order To Get The Job Done It’s Time to Call It Something Else – Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor While reparations for the descendants of slaves in the US is entirely morally justifiable, it’s an elusive goal. Untangling its psychological and moral baggage Continue reading
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Max Blumenthal Searches for Communist Dictatorship at Venezuelan Luxury Mall By by Max Blumenthal
Max Blumenthal visits a luxury mall in Venezuela to see just how about the country’s humanitarian crisis really is. Continue reading
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Trump: The Warlord of Economic Savagery By Wayne Madsen
Donald Trump’s decidedly neo-conservative administration is waging economic warfare through the combined imposition of tariffs and economic sanctions against nations on six continents. Trump’s policies, which fuse bull-headedness with oafishness, have wreaked havoc on the stock market, pension funds, employment, and overall economic stability on a scale not seen since the Great Depression of the… Continue reading
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‘America First’: A Stronger Monroe Doctrine By Federico Pieraccini
With the new “America First” doctrine, it is the central and southern parts of the American continent that are on the receiving end of the US struggling to come to terms with the diminishment of its hitherto untrammelled influence in the world. Continue reading
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The Recolonization of Latin America and the War on Venezuela By James Petras
Not since the US pronounced the Monroe Doctrine proclaiming its imperial supremacy over Latin America, nearly 200 years ago, has a White House regime so openly affirmed its mission to recolonize Latin America. Continue reading
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