14 April 2019 — Michael Roberts
The IMF-World Bank meeting in Washington this weekend revealed again that the world economy is slowing down and the prospect of an outright recession is getting much higher. The IMF economists cut their outlook for global growth to the lowest since the global financial crisis of 2009 amid a bleaker outlook in most major advanced economies and signs that higher tariffs are weighing on trade – “a growth slowdown and precarious recovery”, the IMF called it.
14 April 2019 15:00 — The New Dark Age
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WikiLeaks’ Publication of the Collateral Murder Video, Documents on the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, US Diplomatic Cables: Why Assange’s Extradition Must be Opposed at All Costs
https://www.globalresearch.ca/julian-assanges-extradition-opposed-all-costs/5674347
The Arrest of Julian Assange: “Send a Chill into the Bones of Investigative Journalists and Whistle-Blowers around the Globe”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/arrest-julian-assange-2/5674353
14 April 2019 — New Eastern Outlook
North Africa is in turmoil again and the cause of it can be found in the plots of the Europeans and Americans to break nations states into pieces in order to control the oil and gas producing areas of the region and in the plots of against each other. In Libya the CIA trained General Haftar has begun yet another offensive against the weak UN imposed government based in Tripoli, the Government of National Accord, whose forces are weak, which has little support among the people and which has not succeeded in restoring any of the public services, from electric power and water supply to transportation to medical, education, or other administrative systems that existed under the government of the Jamarahiya Republic destroyed by the NATO aggression of 2011.
13 April 13, 2019 — Asia Times
The date – April 11, 2019 – will live in infamy in the annals of Western “values” and “freedom of expression.” The image is stark. A handcuffed journalist and publisher dragged out by force from the inside of an embassy, clutching a Gore Vidal book on the History of the US National Security State.
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14 April 2019 — Internationalist 360°
In Venezuelan domestic politics, the paradox of the debate on Venezuelan sovereignty between Chavismo and the opposition has been present for years.
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