April 2019
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Julian Assange and the Problem of ‘Solidarity’ by Ash Sarkar
It’s been almost a week since Julian Assange had his asylum revoked by the Ecuadorian government. As a result, he was arrested by the Metropolitan policefor his failure to appear in court in June 2012 regarding allegations made by two Swedish women in which they accused him of sexual molestation, coercion and rape. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Assange Arrest – Part 1: ‘So Now He’s Our Property’
If ‘journalism’ meant what it is supposed to mean– acting as the proverbial ‘fourth estate’ to challenge power and to keep the public informed – then Julian Assange and WikiLeaks would be universally lauded as paragons. So would Chelsea Manning, the brave former US Army whistleblower who passed on to WikiLeaks more than 700,000 confidential… Continue reading
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Defiant Resistance: The Venezuelan Crises and the Possibility of Another World By Jeremiah Gaster
There is great urgency as an ever-increasing escalation of violence is being perpetuated by those who would destroy Venezuela, including several attacks on Venezuela’s electrical grid over the last few weeks. But let me be clear: the Venezuelan poor are resilient, and any change will be on their terms. Most importantly, Venezuelan politics is collective,… Continue reading
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It’s worse than we thought
Last week the Government unveiled ambitious new plans to protect UK Internet users from digital threats including “behaviours which are harmful but not necessarily illegal.” Open Rights Group agrees that companies deal with material that is illegal or breaks their own community guidelines, but the way the White Paper on Online Harms is pushing is a huge step… Continue reading
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Where next for the student climate strikes?
Months later, on 15 March, over 1.5 million students in 125 countries (in more than 2,000 locations worldwide) went on strike together to demand systemic and radical change to stop global warming. Continue reading
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Julian Assange Newslinks 16 April 2019
16 April 2019 20:50 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting Julian Assange’s Victory https://journal-neo.org/2019/04/16/julian-assange-s-victory/ From Tribe, to King, to ‘Democracy’ to Mafia. The Criminalization of US Politics https://www.globalresearch.ca/tribe-king-democracy-mafia/5674526 Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 14-16 April 2019
16 April 2019 20:50 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting What I saw in Venezuela revealed a horrifying gap between reporting and reality http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/lW5aNCyB1g4/ Humanitarian Crisis in Venezuela? What Crisis? https://www.globalresearch.ca/humanitarian-crisis-venezuela-what-crisis/5674525 Continue reading
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Extinction/Rebellion News 15 April 2019
16 April 2019 — extinction/rebellion Webversion After so many months of preparation and planning, today our Rebellion has begun! In 25 countries around the world, rebels of all kinds and backgrounds have begun taking non-violent direct action in a bid to save our planet from catastrophe. From today onwards we will be writing history. Continue reading
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Military & civil cooperation between Moscow & NATO nonexistent – Russian deputy FM
NATO has reverted to Cold War behavior and virtually no cooperation between the bloc and Moscow exists, the Russian deputy FM says. There are no signs the situation will improve, since the alliance is craving a new arms race. Continue reading
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Julian Assange’s Nightmarish Future
The WikiLeaks publisher is in a maximum-security prison that has been called the UK’s Guantanamo Bay, Elizabeth Vos reports. Continue reading
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Assange BULLETIN – 2: 15 April 2019
15 April 2019 — Countercurrents Assange and Lula the same case to silence their voices, says Chomsky If Assange is criminalized & incarcerated, you’ll never be free again, says George Galloway Assange must face Swedish justice first: 70 UK MPs and peers The US case against Assange could change the future of journalism Journalists in the Continue reading
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Is the U.S. Prepared to Accept a Defeat in Venezuela?
The attack should have been short since the Maduro administration was not strong enough to resist. This was the conviction of the United States as they carried out a strategy to overthrow him: they built a President 2.0 Juan Guaido; they gave him a fictionalized government, international recognition, a collective narrative among mass media companies,… Continue reading
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New book: “Latin America in the Vortex of Social Change”
The first decade of the new millennium opened, and threatened to close, with an involution in the system of global capitalist production—a multiple crisis of global proportions in the first instance and a region-wide crisis in Latin America in the second. Continue reading
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Julian Assange Newslinks 14-15 April 2019
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 Continue reading
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Glyphosate Worse Than We Could Imagine By F. William Engdahl
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… Continue reading
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In his own words: Assange’s statement By Philip Roddis
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? Continue reading
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Welfare Weekly Issue: 14 April, 2019
14 April 2019 — Welfare Weekly Benefit claimant with broken back killed himself after being found ‘fit for work’ by DWP He was left pennniless and unable to pay the rent or top up his electricity meter. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 15 April 2019 (09/19)
15 April 2019 — Statewatch Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/apr/email-15-april.pdf Please to support our work ANALYSIS Statewatch: Italy’s redefinition of sea rescue as a crime draws on EU policy for inspiration STATEWATCH NEWS 1. EU: Europol’s anti-terrorist unit demands removal of adverts, books, and more from web archives 2. EU: Council wants a “comprehensive study” on Continue reading
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Brexit – The truth about the economy and what’s next
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… Continue reading
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Annexation may provide the key to unlocking Netanyahu’s legal troubles
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. Continue reading
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