27 May 2019 — Jonathan Cook
It is astonishing how often one still hears well-informed, otherwise reasonable people say about Julian Assange: “But he ran away from Swedish rape charges by hiding in Ecuador’s embassy in London.”
Day: May 27, 2019
UN report on UK poverty – “systemic immiseration” of millions across the UK
27 May 2019 — True Publica
Whilst the news headlines are dominated with the continued implosion of the Conservative Party who now aim to have a third leader in as many years whilst Britain circles the plughole, the reality of the crisis of daily life for half the population continues to worsen.
Julian Assange Newslinks 27 May 2019
27 May 2019 — The New Dark Age
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As Assange faces 170-year sentence, Trump proposes pardoning US war criminals
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/27/pers-m27.html
Attend UK public meetings to demand freedom of Assange and Manning!
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/27/meet-m27-1.html
China Newslinks 26-27 May 2019
27 May 2019 • 21:25 — The New Dark Age
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Determination, Resistance and Organization of the People Prevent Eviction in Hato Las Mercedes
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/05/27/determination-resistance-and-organization-of-the-people-prevent-eviction-in-hato-las-mercedes/
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution and Warmongering ‘Pacifists’
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/05/27/venezuelas-bolivarian-revolution-and-warmongering-pacifists/
Venezuela Newslinks 26-27 May 2019
27 May 2019 — The New Dark Age
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VENEZUELA: Westerners have lost the ability to reason! (PART 13)
Protection Of Venezuelan Embassy Continues, Opposition To US Coup Builds
https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/05/protection-of-venezuelan-embassy-continues-opposition-to-us-coup-builds/
How a Community in North London Is Fighting for the Housing It Needs by Cecilia Keating
27 May 2019 — Novara Media
At least 50 people gave up a Saturday afternoon to discuss the fate of a former hospital in north London last month.
At a crowded open meeting, local people moved from one table to the next, giving their opinions on a housing development planned for the site currently occupied by St Ann’s Hospital in south Tottenham.
Iran Newslinks 26-27 May 2019
27 May 2019 • 21:25 — The New Dark Age
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Proof U.S. Is Provoking Iran Into WAR
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/05/27/proof-u-s-is-provoking-iran-into-war/
With an Eye on Regime Change in Iran, the US Escalates Tensions
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/05/27/with-an-eye-on-regime-change-in-iran-the-us-escalates-tensions/
Books: Review of Alan Nasser’s, Overrripe Economy
25 May 2019 — MROnline
by George Fish
Alan Nasser’s Overripe Economy is a profound historical look at the U.S. economy from the 1870s on that not only brings the lessons of its history and development up to the present, but offers deep insights into the economic bases for its “degeneration” from rapacious but productive capitalism to its present financialized capitalism replete with secular stagnation and reliance on debt, credit, and financial bubbles rather than production as such. Capitalist profit now comes not from production of “widgets” as Nasser calls them, but increasingly, from financial speculation and emoluments for the already very rich. The result for the working class is massive inequality and the fall from secure full-time employment generally into the current, seemingly permanent, workforce precariat.
The New Dark Age 