23 April 2019 —
An extraordinary press conference by the Spokesman for the Libyan National Army, Ahmed Al-Mesmari with English translation included.
Day: April 26, 2019
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
Reuters Bites Off Tongue in US War Against Venezuela – Rosneft Forces Withdrawal of News Fabrication By John Helmer
26 April 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
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.
Debunking Myths of ‘Red-Brown’ Alliances By Max Parry
26 April 2019 — Off Guardian
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 idea of a ‘red-brown’ coalition, or ‘querfront’ (cross-front in German), is a generic abstraction cited to mischaracterize a perceived convergence of political opposites. In many respects, it is a stand-in for a similar hypothesis used by liberals — that of ‘horseshoe theory’, or the impression that the far left and far right intersect at both ends of the ideological spectrum — so as to be permitted diction for self-identified leftists. The application of the ‘red-brown’ smear produces the same result in that it situates politics from a centrist vantage point and likens the actual left to fascism. It disappears the anti-fascism of the left and anti-communism of the right while leaving the moderate center at a comfortable distance from the right-wing of which it is the more frequent collaborator.
Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the Moscow 2019 Conference on International Security by Sergey Lavrov
26 April 2019 — Voltaire Network
Colleagues,
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.
Trump Has Murdered Over 40,000 Venezuelans With Sanctions By Caitlin Johnstone
26 April 2019 — Caitlin Johnson
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 this year.
UK: May unable to stem Tory crisis over Brexit, but still propped up by Corbyn By Robert Stevens
26 April 2019 — WSWS
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.
Workers of the World Unite (At Last) By Ronaldo Munck
26 April 2019 — Great Transition Initiative
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 a sea change in both trade unions and the wider labor movement. Most notably, globalization has forced unions to think and act outside the state to build transnational solidarity across countries and sectors. Emerging transnational unionism, if it perseveres, contains the seeds of a new global movement, a new international that extends beyond labor to embrace all forces working toward a Great Transition.
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/
Assange’s Imprisonment Reveals Even More Corruption Than WikiLeaks Did By Caitlin Johnstone
25 April 2019 — Caitlin Johnson
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 that powerful people wish to keep dark makes it abundantly clear why powerful people would want to dedicate immense amounts of energy toward sabotaging it.
From the BRICS countries to the townships: racial and social segregation continues
25 April 2019 — MROnline
First part of a 2 part series
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 as the main social progress has been the rise to capitalist status of a small minority of Blacks. While there are white and black capitalists, the majority of the non white population are still living in serious to extreme hardship.
BRI Forum Shanghai: How Western “Reports” Smear China By Andre Vltchek
25 April 2019 — Off Guardian
In poorer countries, people defend BRI
Laos’ new High Speed Rail track
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.
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/
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