May 2019
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The New Authoritarians
David Renton discusses his new book The New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right. Although the new wave of right-wing politicians is not fascist, it is dangerous and must be studied closely in order for the left to have a chance to fight back. The book focuses on the U.S, UK and France, and shows the…(inc.… Continue reading
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Write to your MP: Protect Julian Assange
If you’re in the UK, writing to your MP is an important way you can help Julian Assange in his fight against extradition to the United States. An email written in your own words will be noticed. Your opinion matters. Regardless of what your MP thinks about this issue, they should pass on your concerns… Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 28 May 2019
28 May 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day US boycotts arms control conference in protest at Venezuela https://www.rt.com/news/460471-us-boycotts-conference-venezuela/ Venezuela Resisting Venezuela Reconstructing: A photo-feature https://countercurrents.org/2019/05/venezuela-resisting-venezuela-reconstructing-a-photo-feature Continue reading
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China Holds Three Trump Cards In War Against US
China’s main foreign-policy publication, the Global Times, points to three trump cards that Beijing could use to at least level the playing field in its fight with the Trump administration and cause appreciable harm to the US economy, possibly forcing its opponent to temporarily scale back its ambitions. Continue reading
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Douma chemical deaths: research and reports By Tim Hayward
This page provides selected links (most recent first) with brief annotations on how public understanding has developed in relation to the event and the informational contestation surrounding it. Continue reading
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Rafael Correa: “We All Have to Be Prepared for Treason”
This interview with former President Rafael Correa is the first step in a more ambitious project that we have proposed in Misión Verdad: to go to the vanguard of Latin American political leaders and invite them to reflect on the future rather than on the current situation. Correa accepted our invitation and summoned us to… Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 28 May 2019
28 May 2019 • 18:25 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day Andre Vltchek: It Is Indifference of the Israelis That Is Killing People https://www.mintpressnews.com/it-is-indifference-of-the-israel-that-is-killing-people/258811/ It is the Indifference of Israelis that is Killing People https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/05/it-is-the-indifference-of-israelis-that-is-killing-people/ Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 28 May 2019
28 May 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day Leaked OPCW engineering report concludes alleged 2018 chemical attack in Syria was staged http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/28/doum-m28.html US-Backed Terrorists “Struggle” After Returning from Syria https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/05/27/us-backed-terrorists-struggle-after-returning-from-syria/ Continue reading
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European election debacle for Conservatives and Labour By Robert Stevens
Coming fifth nationwide with just 9 percent of the vote and taking just three seats, the Tories were eviscerated, suffering the largest ever loss since the party was founded in 1834. Their previous worst national performance was in the 2014 European election when they received just 24 percent, more than double that just recorded. Continue reading
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“Yellow Vest” Facebook group with 350,000 members frozen on European election day By Will Morrow
On Sunday, polling day in the European elections, the largest Facebook group associated with the “yellow vest” protests in France, with more than 350,000 members, was frozen so that members could not publish or share information in it. Continue reading
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New York Times Supports False Trump Claims About An “Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program” That Does Not Exist
The Trump administrations hostility to Iran has nothing to do with anything nuclear. The U.S. wants hegemony over the Persian Gulf region. Iran rejects such imperial desires. The U.S. wants to control the flow of hydrocarbon resources to its competitors, primarily China. Iran does not allow such controls over its exports. The U.S. wants that… Continue reading
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Abuses show Assange case was never about law By 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.” Continue reading
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UN report on UK poverty – “systemic immiseration” of millions across the UK
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. Continue reading
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Julian Assange Newslinks 27 May 2019
27 May 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day 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 Continue reading
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China Newslinks 26-27 May 2019
27 May 2019 • 21:25 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day 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/ Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 26-27 May 2019
27 May 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day 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/ Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 26-27 May 2019
27 May 2019 • 21:25 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day 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/ Continue reading
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Books: Review of Alan Nasser’s, Overrripe Economy
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… Continue reading
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US Sanctions Leave Millions of Venezuelans Without Water
“You can’t blame the Maduro government, but as for the United States, this Donald Trump is mean. He’s mean and he’s blocked a lot of things. We have to support each other and this U.S. blockade has to end.” — Yolimar Contreras (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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