18 May 2019 — WSWS
The so-called “ Christchurch Call ” summit in Paris on Wednesday, led by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron, marked a significant escalation of the drive by governments throughout the world to censor the Internet.
18 May 2019 — WSWS
UK Prime Minister Theresa May is set to stand down as Tory party leader and prime minister after her European Union Withdrawal Agreement Bill goes before Parliament in the first week of June. Since May reached a deal with the EU in November, she has been unable to secure agreement from a deeply divided parliament.
18 May 2019 21:50 — The New Dark Age
Freedom Rider: U.S. Wages War Against the World
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/05/18/freedom-rider-u-s-wages-war-against-the-world/
Venezuela: Amnesty International in Service of Empire
https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/05/venezuela-amnesty-international-in-service-of-empire/
18 May 2019 — The New Dark Age
US warns airlines risk ‘miscalculation or misidentification’ over Persian Gulf
https://www.rt.com/news/459679-us-iran-miscalculation-warning/
Chinese purchases of Iranian oil raise tantalizing questions
17 May 2019 — Black Agenda Report
– Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
US rulers promised that technology would bring the return of the millions of jobs that were outsourced to low-wage countries, but America has lost the hi-tech race and excels only in weapons of war.
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17 May 2019 — Economic Questions
One of Margaret Thatcher’s often-used slogans was TINA, or “there is no alternative.” There is no alternative, she meant, to the neoliberalism that became dominant in the 1970s and 1980s. After a coup led to the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, this idea led to even more smug declarations of victory for the neoliberal order as well as the popularization of Francis Fukuyama’s articulation of the “end of history.”
16 May 2019 — Climate & Capitalism
There is a good reason why there are blue skies in much of the United States while those of us living in Northeast Asia are choking — most of their factories have moved over here.
