20 May 2019 — Defend Wikileaks
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.
Day: May 20, 2019
Venezuela Newslinks 20 May 2019
20 May 2019 — The New Dark Age
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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/
Iran Newslinks 20 May 2019
20 May 2019 20:30 — The New Dark Age
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‘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 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/
There’s Far More Diversity in Venezuela’s ‘Muzzled’ Media Than in US Corporate Press
20 May 2019 — FAIR
Presentacion-de-cifras-II-2018_05-12-2018.pdf
Time (4/16/19) joined in on the corporate media’s literary fad of fictionalized accounts of the Venezuelan crisis.
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 Chaos,” distinguished itself as a veritable masterpiece of this literary fad.
Venezuela: Amnesty International in Service of Empire by Roger D. Harris
20 May 2019 — Mint Press
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.
China Newslinks 19-20 May 2019
20 May 2019 — The New Dark Age
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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/
Trump manoeuvres in economic war against China By Nick Beams
20 May 2019 — WSWS
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.
The Politics of Starvation By Dan Lieberman
20 May 2019 — Counter Currents
President Donald Trump’s use of the most vicious aspects of economic warfare prompt another examination of the politics of starvation.
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 bomb; it disables the nation’s infrastructure and debilitates its population. Isolation from the international financial system, material embargos, and other sanctions reduce living standards and bring populations close to starvation The most serious aspects of economic warfare are major crimes and a form of terrorism.
Assange: The Missing Step By Craig Murray
20 May 2019 — Craig Murray
In Sweden, prosecutors have applied to the Swedish courts to issue a warrant for Julian’s arrest. There is a tremendous back story to that simple statement.
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 answer, and then another, highly politically motivated, prosecutor had reopened the case and issued a European Arrest Warrant, without going to any judge for confirmation.
US War Agenda: Venezuela before Iran? Selected Articles
20 May 2019 — Global Research
Unlawful Arrests of Venezuelan DC Embassy Protectors Symbolic of US Decadence
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…
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