April 26, 2019
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Libyan National Army Press Conference on Developments in the Battle to Liberate Tripoli
An extraordinary press conference by the Spokesman for the Libyan National Army, Ahmed Al-Mesmari with English translation included. Continue reading
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Julian Assange Newslinks 25-26 April 2019
26 April 2019 15:34 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting UN official visits Julian Assange, investigating Ecuador’s illegal surveillance Assange Expected to confirm Wikileaks source of DNC Emails was Seth Rich not Russians Continue reading
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Reuters Bites Off Tongue in US War Against Venezuela – Rosneft Forces Withdrawal of News Fabrication By John Helmer
The Reuters news agency has published a retraction of an “exclusive” report on operations between the Venezuelan and Russian state oil companies, PDVSA and Rosneft, after disavowing the US-supplied source. Reuters has also acted after Rosneft applied for a criminal investigation of the media company’s operations in Russia by Moscow prosecutors. Continue reading
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Debunking Myths of ‘Red-Brown’ Alliances By Max Parry
Recently, a certain political concept has been resurrected that warrants interrogation. The notion of a ‘red-brown’ alliance has been thrown around so ubiquitously as a form of political slander that any substantive meaning to the term has been evacuated. Rather than accurately designating any associations that may exist between the left and far right, the… Continue reading
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Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the Moscow 2019 Conference on International Security by Sergey Lavrov
I am grateful for this invitation to once again speak at the Moscow Conference on International Security organised by the Russian Ministry of Defence. On behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I would like to welcome its participants coming from various countries and multilateral organisations. Continue reading
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Trump Has Murdered Over 40,000 Venezuelans With Sanctions By Caitlin Johnstone
A new study from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) has found that tens of thousands of Venezuelans have died as a direct result of Trump administration sanctions put into effect in August 2017, and that tens of thousands more are expected to die as a result of additional sanctions put into place in January of… Continue reading
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UK: May unable to stem Tory crisis over Brexit, but still propped up by Corbyn By Robert Stevens
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has headed off a potential leadership challenge once again but faces demands from Conservative backbench MPs that she set a date for her departure. Continue reading
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Workers of the World Unite (At Last) By Ronaldo Munck
Once seen as the vanguard of a new social order, the contemporary labor movement has been written off by many progressive activists and scholars as a relic of the past. They should not be so hasty. Rather than spelling the beginning of the end for organized labor, globalization has brought new opportunities for reinvention, and… Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 25 April 2019
25 April 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting Paper Flags, Tehran: City of Love and Belmonte—Alienation, loneliness and other problems http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/26/sff1-a26.html The Dilemma of Imran Khan https://journal-neo.org/2019/04/25/the-dilemma-of-imran-khan/ Continue reading
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Assange’s Imprisonment Reveals Even More Corruption Than WikiLeaks Did By Caitlin Johnstone
Consortium News has launched a new series titled “The Revelations of WikiLeaks”, geared toward helping readers come to a full appreciation of just how much useful information the outlet has made available to the world with its publications. Which is good, because there’s a whole lot of it. Understanding everything that WikiLeaks has done to shine light in areas… Continue reading
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From the BRICS countries to the townships: racial and social segregation continues
Over 25 years ago now the people of South Africa won the struggle to end the Apartheid regime.(1) Nevertheless, even though it is now against the law, de facto racial segregation is still apparent. Moreover the capitalist assault on the majority of the population is blatant. The class struggle is all the more clearly perceptible… Continue reading
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BRI Forum Shanghai: How Western “Reports” Smear China By Andre Vltchek
The second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation is about to open in Beijing. It will take place from 25th to 27th April, 2019. The Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to deliver the keynote address. Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 26 April 2019
26 April 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting Solidarity with Venezuela now! Protect the embassy US may soon attempt Venezuela-style ‘color revolutions’ in Nicaragua & Cuba – GRU chief https://www.rt.com/news/457571-us-venezuela-nicaragua-cuba-gru/ Abrams calls to ‘imagine’ Venezuela with billions of dollars from US and without Maduro https://www.rt.com/news/457565-abrams-imagine-venezuela-maduro/ Continue reading