March 2019
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America’s Venezuela Strategy: Coup By Sheer Narrative Control by Caitlin Johnstone
The Trump administration is working to overthrow the government of Venezuela. They are not at this time doing this by military invasion, nor by funneling thousands of armed militants into the country, nor even solely with starvation sanctions and CIA ops. The first and foremost means of overthrowing Venezuela’s government currently being utilized by the… Continue reading
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Censorship and Arrests in Wake of Christchurch Attack By Kit Knightly
No matter the source of the violence, no matter the politics or casualties or the location, it seems the reaction of governments in the face of “terrorism” is virtually always the same – clamp down, hard, on individual rights. Continue reading
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New Zealand Mosque Massacre: White Supremacy and Western Wars By James Petras
The mass murder and wounding of 97 Muslim worshipers in Christchurch, New Zealand (NZ) which took place on Friday, March 15, 2019, has profound political, ideological and psychological roots. Continue reading
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Selected Articles: The Planet Is Collapsing Before Our Very Eyes
19 March 2019 — Global Research Planetary Collapse Threatens Our Survival: A New Study Says that More than 1,200 Species “Will Almost Certainly Face Extinction” By Michael Snyder, March 19, 2019 We are witnessing a worldwide environmental collapse, and nobody seems to know how to stop it. As you will see below, a study that was Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 19 March 2019
19 March 2019 21:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting Impact of the Economic War on the People of Venezuela https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/03/19/impact-of-the-economic-war-on-the-people-of-venezuela/ Electric Sabotage: How an Electromagnetic Weapon Works https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/03/19/electric-sabotage-how-an-electromagnetic-weapon-works/ Continue reading
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Rich countries must pay for cyclone devastation in southern Africa By Ian Angus
Climate change, caused by industrialized rich countries, is responsible for the disaster now unfolding in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi. Continue reading
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Anti-Semitism and “The Israel Project” By Askiah Adam
Israel is off-limits. The criminalisation of anti-Semitism means nothing short of this. In fact, France’s President Macron says anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Semitism and both are now legally defined as “hate crimes”. Will this be a global precursor? Will the world uphold such a sweeping, broad legal definition that has the potential to embrace… Continue reading
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Major Human Rights Groups Consistently Supporting US Proxy Figures within Cuba By Shane Quinn
Human Rights Watch (HRW), in their 2019 report on revolutionary Cuba, have once more been championing American-sponsored proxy gatherings within the Caribbean island, such as the Ladies in White. This century, the most notable of these “dissident groups” in Cuba are indeed the seemingly virtuous Ladies in White, who in 2005 won the Sakharov Prize… Continue reading
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Where do the interests of democracy lie? Working Group responds to UK minister’s attack on critics of the “Integrity Initiative” By Tim Hayward
In December 2018 we posted a briefing note on the Integrity Initiative, examining the documents that had appeared online about this ostensibly charitable programme funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Continue reading
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The Destruction of Freedom: Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange And The Corporate Media
In 2010, US Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning was given a 35-year prison sentence after she had leaked more than 700,000 confidential US State Department and Pentagon documents, videos and diplomatic cables about the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to WikiLeaks. Perhaps the most notorious of the releases was a US military video that WikiLeaks… Continue reading
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Moscow, Damascus say Syrians ‘won’t get a dime’ of US aid money earmarked for them
Russian and Syrian inter-agency coordination headquarters believe that Syrian citizens won’t receive a dime out of the $400mln assistance allocated by Washington, they said in a joint statement released on Tuesday. Continue reading
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Ghosts of Massacre in Haiti Haunt Bolsonaro Government Generals By Leonardo Fernandes
In the early morning of July 6, 2005, troops of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), commanded by the Brazilian army, conducted a “pacification” operation in the largest slum in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, known as Cité Soleil. According to witnesses, some 300 heavily armed men invaded the neighborhood and murdered 63 people, leaving… Continue reading
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US TO ICC – WE WILL BREAK YOUR LEGS BY Andre Vltchek
Well, not exactly like that, but in a way, yes. Now, finally, ‘the gloves are off’. The U.S. is openly threatening the historically timid ICC (International Criminal Court) and its judges. And unexpectedly, the ICC is hitting back. It refuses to shut up, to kneel, and to beg for mercy. Continue reading
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The Threat to the Media Posed by the Trump Administraion’s Prosecution of Julian Assange
The Trump Administration has confirmed that it has charged WikiLeaks’ publisher Julian Assange and that it seeks his extradition from the United Kingdom.[5] The charges relate to WikiLeaks’ 2010-2011 joint publications on war, diplomacy and rendition with a range of media organizations; these were published in Europe while Julian Assange was in Europe.[6] In the… Continue reading
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The Assault On UK Food and Environment Rules in Brexit Trade Deal With USA
By Lawrence Carter – Unearthed: US agribusiness lobby calls on Trump to target UK food and environment rules in Brexit trade deal. American agriculture interests have flooded the US government’s trade agency with demands to pressure the UK into slashing food standards after Brexit, official documents show. Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 18 March 2019
18 March 2019 16:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting Tragicomedy of Errors https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/03/18/tragicomedy-of-errors/ Who’s to Blame for the Crisis in Venezuela? A Response to Gabriel Hetland https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/14392 Continue reading
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Venezuela: Westerners have lost the ability to reason! (PART 2) by Luis Garcia
If you are an honest person now reading this article, and if you really seek the truth about what’s going on in Venezuela, you can’t afford to ignore documentaries like The Revolution Will Not Be Televised or The War on Democracy. These two and others more contain footage and evidences that are crucial to understand and to prove what I just… Continue reading
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The guilty silence over the jailing of Chelsea Manning By Andre Damon
It has been ten days since a federal judge imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning for refusing to testify before the secret grand jury in Virginia, which is preparing an indictment against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 18 March 2019 (07/19)
18 March 2019 — Statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/mar/email-18-mar.pdf Please to support our work STATEWATCH NEWS 1. EU: Open letter to MEPs: oppose mandatory fingerprinting for national identity cards 2. EU: Security Union: new measures introduce biometric identity cards and a new database 3. ECHR: Three judgments: detention of and lack of care for unaccompanied Continue reading
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Yankees go home! Global mobilizations in solidarity with Venezuela
From Malaysia to the Argentina, peoples movements and organizations mobilized on Saturday March 16, to express their solidarity with Venezuela amid one of the most brutal attacks on the country by the US and its allies Continue reading
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