1 April 2019 — Michael Roberts Blog
The first three months of 2019 have shown a significant slowing in global economic activity. Global manufacturing output (as measured by JP Morgan economists) is actually falling.
So too is global trade for the first two months of this year.
1 April 2019 20:40 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting
The coup failed. Venezuelans now brace themselves for slow, punishing economic warfare.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/oUtdmhsdL0c/
Tensions in Venezuela may escalate soon, warns expert
http://tass.com/politics/1051630
1 April 2019 — Countercurrents
1 April 2019 — Novara Media
On 1 April 2009, in the midst of a huge protest against the G20 summit in London, newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson was violently assaulted by Metropolitan police officer Simon Harwood. This was an unprovoked attack, causing severe internal bleeding that led to Tomlinson’s death.
1 April 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Venezuela is home to the largest oil deposits in the world, which makes the political stakes involved much higher than they would be otherwise. Enter Juan Guaidó, Washington’s puppet leader in Caracas, who will be attempting to rally the country against legitimate (i.e., democratically elected by the people) President Nicolas Maduro next month.
1 April 2019 — New Eastern Outlook
Less than a week ago, President Macron was lambasting Italy for signing agreements with China in the context of their New Silk Road, alias President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), in the same breath he was criticizing China for attempting to undermine Europe with new trade individual country deals under the pretext of BRI. However, Italy, also scolded by Brussels for her single-handed deals with China, was, in fact, the first G7 country for signing a number of contracts with China to use Italian ports under the BRI, making Italy also the first official EU partner of China’s BRI.
1 April 2019 — WSWS
The prospect of leaving the European Union has provoked the deepest crisis of rule in the post-war history of British imperialism. But the great danger is that the working class is not only being prevented from intervening in its own interests, it is being divided against itself and politically subordinated to one or the other of two right-wing pro-capitalist factions.
1 April 2019 — Statewatch
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31 March 2019 — Jonathan Cook
The National – 31 March 2019
The 350,000 Palestinian inhabitants of occupied East Jerusalem are caught between a rock and hard place, as Israel works ever harder to remove them from the holy city in which they were born, analysts and residents warn.
31 March 2019 — Welfare Weekly
Thousands call on DWP to stop telling GPs not to give sick notes to benefit claimants31 March 2019 — planningmotivedotcom
Israeli sponsored Zionism excels in political white noise. Every-time the State of Israel engages in an atrocity or is being accused of an atrocity, the anti-Semitic volume control is turned up to drown out what is happening. When the brave Palestinians in Gaza decided to rattle their cage to draw the world’s attention to their plight and were shot down by their jailers, the accusations of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party were ratcheted up to unbalance the party and deflect this crime. Now that the International Criminal Court is about to charge Israel with war crimes, the accusations of anti-Semitism are once again flying everywhere.
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