May 2019
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BAT shifts nearly $1bn out of developing countries into one UK office
Tax Justice Network: For every dollar British American Tobacco (BAT) paid in tax in the countries it operates in, the giant multinational shifted more than half a dollar that would have been taxed locally to a UK subsidiary where BAT paid almost no tax.[1] New analysis by the Tax Justice Network estimates Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya,… Continue reading
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Pompeo lays down the law during UK visit By Robert Stevens
Preceding the state visit of President Donald Trump to the UK next month, Pompeo’s remit was to demand that Theresa May’s government toe the line in backing the global geo-strategic imperatives of US imperialism… or else. Continue reading
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The social crisis and the global eruption of US imperialism
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has spent the past week staging provocations and making military threats everywhere from the Caribbean shores of Venezuela to the Persian Gulf, the South China Sea and the Arctic Circle. Continue reading
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The US locomotive of world military spending By Manlio Dinucci
Every month of last year, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the federal government of the United States spent $250 per citizen. Continue reading
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D Is For Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy: Selected Stories
9 May 2019 — Global Research D Is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy By John W. Whitehead What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater. And what political theater it is, diabolically Shakespearean at… Continue reading
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DEBATE: Is The Belt & Road Initiative a global game changer or trillion-dollar blunder
The debate: Is China’s Belt & Road Project a global game changer or a trillion-dollar blunder? Intelligence Squared hosts a lively panel discussion on this important geopolitical topic. Continue reading
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Assange BULLETIN: Bay Watch star Pamela Anderson fears for Assange’s Life
The former Baywatch star said she was “deeply concerned about his well being” and does not think the Wikileaks founder will “survive it”. Continue reading
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The West: Full Spectrum Dementia By Stephen Sefton
Journalism has never been free of propaganda. News has always been produced and marketed like any other commodity, satisfying and shaping consumers’ opinions, loyalties and taste. Over the last thirty years, the US elites and their allies have effectively eliminated conventional journalism in favor of propaganda and counter-propaganda serving their relentless war on the majority… Continue reading
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Fracking industry and resigning tsar Natascha Engel hit full media spin cycle on quake rules By Melissa Jones
As an exercise in coordinated media spin, it was a tour de force. UK shale gas commissioner Natascha Engel’s resignation last weekend just seven months into a two-year taxpayer-funded appointment had astute industry PR gloves all over it. Continue reading
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South Africa: What about the workers? By Terry Bell
While there has been much media debate about what “black middle-class” voters will do today, there has been nothing about where the votes of unionised workers may go as South Africa completes its sixth non-racial election. This is perhaps because it is widely assumed that, in terms of labour voting patterns, nothing much has changed… Continue reading
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A Military Psy-Ops Campaign in the Heart of Washington is Directed at U.S. Citizens by Pat Elder
I’ve been studying the Pentagon’s use of psychological tactics in the way it recruits youth into the armed forces for 20 years, so I have a sense of the lack of boundaries practiced by the US government through its military. Now I can report on the psychological tactics employed by the State Department through the… Continue reading
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Trump’s Encircling of Venezuela: A Fool’s Errand By Wayne Madsen
Relying on the advice of neo-conservative war hawk John Bolton, pompous Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Iran-Contra scandal felon Elliott Abrams, Donald Trump has embarked on the containment encircling of Venezuela. Trump is engaged in a fool’s errand of relying on the support of fascist leaders of Venezuela’s neighbors to pressure Venezuela’s president Nicolas… Continue reading
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Iran to even the nuclear score with US By M.K. Bhadrakumar
It is going to be 30 years in another six months since the USS Abraham Lincoln, named in honour of the 16th US President, was commissioned on Nov.11, 1989 as the 5th Nimitz-class aircraft carrier of the American Navy. Now, as it leaves Croatia and heads toward the Persian Gulf, the carrier would have mixed… Continue reading
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What is the SRWP’s Vision for South Africa? By Pavan Kulkarni
With the slogan “Equality, Work, Land!”, the newly-founded Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party (SRWP) of South Africa is set to contest the general election scheduled on May 8. The party aims to use parliamentary institutions to complement mass struggles, with the slogan “socialism and nothing else”. It has unveiled a radical agenda for the country, including… Continue reading
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Uber drivers to participate in global strike By Leslie Murtagh and Jessie Thomas
Thousands of drivers for Uber, Lyft and other ride-sharing companies are expected to join in a strike today, logging off their apps at peak hours to press demands for livable wages and job security. Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 7-8 May 2019
8 May 2019 14:22 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting ‘Duly elected leader’: Pompeo echoes falsehood about Venezuela’s Guaido https://www.rt.com/news/458754-pompeo-guadio-duly-elected/ Failed ‘Coup’ Actually a Corporate Fake News Story Designed to Trick Venezuelan Soldiers and the Public https://thiscantbehappening.net/failed-coup-actually-a-corporate-fake-news-story-designed-to-trick-venezuelan-soldiers-and-the-public/ Continue reading
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Will the U.S. Start a War Against Iran? By Vijay Prashad
On Sunday, May 5, U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton announced that the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force had begun to make their way from the Mediterranean Sea toward the coastline of Iran. Iran, Bolton said, had made “a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings.” He was, characteristically, not… Continue reading
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How the West’s War in Libya Has Spurred Terrorism in 14 Countries By Mark Curtis
Eight years on from Nato’s war in Libya in 2011, as the country enters a new phase in its conflict, I have taken stock of the number of countries to which terrorism has spread as a direct product of that war.The number is at least 14. The legacy of David Cameron’s, Nicolas Sarkozy’s and Barack Obama’s… Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 7 May 2019
7 May 2019 14:53 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting A Nuclear War? Over Venezuela? https://www.globalresearch.ca/nuclear-war-venezuela/5676793 Sloppy Journalism: CNN Falsely Claims Venezuela’s Guaido Was Elected President in January https://www.globalresearch.ca/cnn-falsely-claims-venezuelas-guaido-elected-president-january/5676789 Continue reading
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Julian Assange Newslinks 7 May 2019
7 May 2019 — The New Dark Age On Venezuela and Corralling Mother Russia https://journal-neo.org/2019/05/07/on-venezuela-and-corralling-mother-russia/ Britain: National Union of Journalists World Press Freedom Day event ignores Julian Assange http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/07/free-m07.html Continue reading
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