May 20, 2019
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Ecuador to hand over Assange’s entire legal defense to the United States
Three weeks before the U.S. deadline to file its final extradition request for Assange, Ecuadorian officials are travelling to London to allow U.S. prosecutors to help themselves to Assange’s belongings. Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 20 May 2019
20 May 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day Venezuela’s Maduro proposes early elections for opposition-held National Assembly https://www.rt.com/news/459842-maduro-election-national-assembly/ US Foreign Policy is Nothing Short of Low-Intensity Warfare Against the Whole Planet by Finian Cunningham https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2019/05/20/us-foreign-policy-is-nothing-short-of-low-intensity-warfare-against-the-whole-planet-by-finian-cunningham/ Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 20 May 2019
20 May 2019 20:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day ‘It would mark the end of Iraq’: Shia Clerics warn against US war with Iran https://www.rt.com/news/459841-iraq-clerics-warn-war-iran/ US Foreign Policy is Nothing Short of Low-Intensity Warfare Against the Whole Planet by Finian Continue reading
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There’s Far More Diversity in Venezuela’s ‘Muzzled’ Media Than in US Corporate Press
The international corporate media have long displayed a peculiar creativity with the facts in their Venezuela reporting, to the point that coverage of the nation’s crisis has become perhaps the world’s most lucrative fictional genre. Ciara Nugent’s recent piece for Time (4/16/19), headlined “‘Venezuelans Are Starving for Information’: The Battle to Get News in a Country in… Continue reading
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Venezuela: Amnesty International in Service of Empire by Roger D. Harris
Amnesty International calls for justice about as often as it calls for punishment with the subtext that punishment of the Empire’s victims is justice writes Roger Harris. Continue reading
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China Newslinks 19-20 May 2019
20 May 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day US’s moves against Huawei will spur on new tech development in China https://www.rt.com/news/459840-huawei-google-/ Forevergate: The Pernicious Persistence of the Russian Collusion Delusion https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/05/forevergate-the-pernicious-persistence-of-the-russian-collusion-delusion/ Continue reading
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Trump manoeuvres in economic war against China By Nick Beams
The Trump administration has reached an agreement with Canada and Mexico for the removal of tariffs on steel and aluminium and decided to put on hold a decision on whether to impose a 25 percent tariff on European and Japanese autos, and auto parts for at least six months. Continue reading
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The Politics of Starvation By Dan Lieberman
After George W. Bush’s administration, Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump lessened Bush’s aggressive war policies and leaned to economic warfare. Sounds harmless when compared to exploding bombs, but it is not — economic warfare can crush an adversary without firing a shot. Gone to its extreme, economic warfare has the force of a neutron… Continue reading
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Assange: The Missing Step By Craig Murray
The European Arrest Warrant must be issued from one country to another by a judicial authority. The original Swedish request for Assange’s extradition was not issued by any court, but simply by the prosecutor. This was particularly strange, as the Chief Prosecutor of Stockholm had initially closed the case after deciding there was no case to… Continue reading
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US War Agenda: Venezuela before Iran? Selected Articles
20 May 2019 — Global Research Unlawful Arrests of Venezuelan DC Embassy Protectors Symbolic of US Decadence By Stephen Lendman According to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the premises of embassies, consulates, and other diplomatic facilities are inviolable territory — no one permitted inside without head of mission permission. Read more… Continue reading
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