15 April 2019 — Countercurrents
14 April 2019 — Venezuela Analysis
15 April 2019 — James Petras
James Petras & Henry Veltmeyer
Unfortunately for the Left and the popular sector organizations that had pinned their hopes on these regimes, the opportunity to change the course of national development in a popular or populist direction was missed
15 April 2019 18:00 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting
Demonstrators denounce the arrest of Julian Assange outside Belmarsh prison
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/bafDE32BJuE/
Today’s links
http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/04/todays-links_15.html
15 April 2019 — New Eastern Outlook
As new studies continue to point to a direct link between the widely-used glyphosate herbicide and various forms of cancer, the agribusiness lobby fights ferociously to ignore or discredit evidence of human and other damage. A second US court jury case just ruled that Monsanto, now a part of the German Bayer AG, must pay $ 81 million in damages to plaintiff Edwin Hardeman who contracted non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma cancer. The ruling and a line-up of another 11,000 pending cases in US courts going after the effects of glyphosate, have hit Bayer AG hard with the company announcing several thousand layoffs as its stock price plunges.
15 April 2019 — Off Guardian
Do you know the Swedish Chief Prosecutor initially handling the allegations of rape against Julian Assange found no case to answer? Are you aware she was succeeded by Marianne Ny, who has pursued a legally dubious course? Have you read Assange’s detailed statement?
14 April 2019 — Welfare Weekly
Benefit claimant with broken back killed himself after being found ‘fit for work’ by DWPHe was left pennniless and unable to pay the rent or top up his electricity meter.
15 April 2019 — Statewatch
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15 April 2019 — True Publica
Last December, TruePublica broke the news that the mainstream media had either misunderstood or blatantly misquoted a very particular study about the real cost of Brexit. The most accurate of reports of that study in the MSM stated that –“Theresa May’s Brexit deal is expected to cost the UK economy as much as £100bn over the next decade compared with remaining in the EU, according to one of the country’s leading economic thinktanks.”
14 April 2019 — Jonathan Cook
The National – 14 April 2019
After winning the Israeli election with a slim majority, in a campaign that grew more sordid and vilifying by the day, Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to begin his fifth term as Israeli prime minister.
13 April 2019 — Grey Zone
EXCLUSIVE: Away from the public eye, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) think tank hosted a top-level, off-the-record meeting to explore US military options against Venezuela.
15 April 2019 — The New Dark Age
US Military Attack on Venezuela Mulled by Top Trump Advisors and Latin American Officials at Private DC Meeting
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/04/15/us-military-attack-venezuela-mulled-top-trump-advisors-latin-american-officials-private-dc-meeting.html
Venezuela has not yet transferred debt payment to Russia, says deputy minister
http://tass.com/economy/1053694
14 April 2019 — Global Research
In a March 26 United Nations press briefing strong on fact and devoid of bigotry, the United States Peace Council, headed by Bahman Azad, just returned from their recent visit to Venezuela, presented an eyewitness account of realities on the ground in Venezuela. Their factual information drastically contradicted Western media distortions and propaganda intended to discredit the government of President Maduro. The panel included Dr. Margaret Flowers a pediatrician and co-Director of Popular Resistance.org, Attorney Kevin Zeese, also co-director of Popular Resistance.org, Sara Flounders of the International Action Center and founder of the organization No War on Venezuela.
14 April 2019 — James Petras
Introduction: Over the past half decade, a small army of US analysts, politicians, academics and media pundits have been predicting the imminent fall, overthrow, defeat and replacement of the Venezuelan government. They have been wrong on all counts, in each and every attempt to foist a US client regime.
The New Dark Age 