May 2019
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The American Police State: Selected Stories
14 May 2019 — Global Research Drivers Beware: The Deadly Perils of Traffic Stops in the American Police State By John W. Whitehead Trying to predict the outcome of any encounter with the police is a bit like playing Russian roulette: most of the time you will emerge relatively unscathed, although decidedly poorer and less secure about… Continue reading
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Iran calls recent tanker attacks in UAE nothing but ‘Israeli mischief’
The recent damage sustained to four commercial vessels off the UAE coast is nothing but Israeli meddling, an Iranian parliamentary spokesman said on Tuesday, as US-Iran tensions in the Persian Gulf continue to heat up. Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 13-14 May 2019
14 May 2019 22:40 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting Urgent Message from the Embassy Protection Collective to US State Department https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/05/13/embassy-protection-collective-statement/ Activists refuse to budge as US government tries to illegally seize Venezuelan embassy http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/4T_JKsl9lQo/ Continue reading
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WhatsApp claims spyware attack has ‘all hallmarks’ of Israeli company that aides govt surveillance
A WhatsApp spyware attack that targeted human rights activists has clear links to a company known to help governments snoop, the messaging app firm said in a statement. Israeli firm NSO is accused of being behind the exploit. Continue reading
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Julian Assange Newslinks 14 May 2019
14 May 2019 — The New Dark Age The Plot to Kill Venezuela Sweden reopens “preliminary investigation” and seeks extradition of Julian Assange Continue reading
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Debunking the False United States Pretext For War Against Iran at Fujairah
With a shocking level of predictability, the United States is publicly blaming “Iran or Iranian-backed proxies” for an alleged attack against Saudi-Arabian shipping at the port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, May 2019
13 May 2019 — Climate & Capitalism New books for reds and greens Two views of food and farming. The origin of climate science denial. The high cost of living well. And a socialist who mostly disagrees with ecosocialism Climate & Capitalism can’t review every book we receive, but this column lists and links to those… Continue reading
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U.S. Increases Risk Of War On Iran Without A Path To De-escalation
Is the U.S. military, which lost its powerful positions in the White House, trying to get National Security Advisor John ‘Stache’ Bolton fired? Continue reading
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With the US-Iran War Ball Now Rolling, Could an “Accident” or “False Flag” Serve as Pretext? by Whitney Webb
As tensions between the U.S. and Iran threaten to boil over, the probability of a provocation or “accident” that would provoke hostilities between the two countries is higher than ever. U.K. Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt, after meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, openly stated as much on Monday, telling reporters in Brussels that… Continue reading
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Government forced to delete millions of illegal citizen biometric voiceprints
Last year, TruePublica published an article about how the British government were now going ‘full Orwellian‘ in their attempt to build a national biometric database. The opening line to the article was – “We said that the government would eventually take the biometric data of every single citizen living in Britain and use it for… Continue reading
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Inequality and risk – both rising by Michael Roberts
The US Federal Reserve governor Lael Brainard, in a speech in Washington, revealed the extent of rising inequality in the US. Using the latest income and wealth data, she outlined that the incomes and wealth of working-class (the American establishments like to use ‘middle-class’) households in the US have been squeezed in the last 50 years and… Continue reading
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Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective Statement
The Embassy Protection Collective is a group of activists and journalists living in the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC at the invitation of the Venezuelan government. The following is a statement released by the Embassy Protection Collective to MintPress News and other media: Continue reading
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Insidious Aggression: Sanctions as Covert Warfare By Tim Beal
The most successful murder, it is said, is one that is not recognized as murder but can be passed off as suicide or accident. This avoids the problem of disposing of the body, a dangerous and troublesome thing according to the literature and one which the Saudi hit team that killed Jamal Khashoggi labored over… Continue reading
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United States and Venezuela: A Historical Background
US hostility and efforts to overthrow the Venezuelan government forms parts of a long and inglorious history of US intervention in Latin America going back to the second decade of the 19th century. Continue reading
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Evidence that Douma ‘chemical attack’ was staged: OPCW’s unpublished engineers’ report By Tim Hayward
The alleged chemical attack on Douma in April 2018 was the pretext for airstrikes on Syria by France, UK and US. The final report on the alleged attack published by the OPCW left unexplained why its Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) had made no engineering assessments during its visit to Douma in April 2018, when experts could… Continue reading
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Julian Assange Newslinks 12-13 May 2019
13 May 2019 17:56 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting Rape allegations: TIMELINE and details of Sweden’s case against Julian Assange https://www.rt.com/news/459229-assange-rape-investigation-timeline-sweden/ Assange BULLETIN: Ecuador will give US all documents & devices Assange left in London embassy Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 12-13 May 2019
13 May 2019 16:20 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting Guaido ‘Open’ to Accepting a US Offer to Invade Venezuela https://www.globalresearch.ca/guaido-open-accepting-us-offer-invade-venezuela/5677359 United States and Venezuela: A Historical Background https://petras.lahaine.org/united-states-and-venezuela-a-historical/ Continue reading
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Syria – OPCW Engineering Assessment: The Douma ‘Chemical Weapon Attack’ Was Staged
On April 7 2018 Syrian ‘rebels’ claimed that the Syrian government used chlorine gas and Sarin in an attack on the besieged Douma suburb near the Syrian capital Damascus. They published a series of videos which showed dead bodies of mainly women and children. Continue reading
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Jerusalem cable car project passes over objections from many quarters
Israel is close to building a $55 million cable car through occupied East Jerusalem, despite opposition from archaeologists, architects, Palestinians, and a tiny community of Jews. Critics say the project is intended to hide the local Palestinian population from some 3 million tourists who visit Jerusalem each year, turning the city into a ‘Disneyland’ focused… Continue reading
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