June 2019
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MODERN MONETARY THEORY or MAINSTREAM MONETARY THEORY?
The discussion on how to respond to the deepening Crash of 2019 is focusing minds. It is recognised that interest rate manipulation and regular quantitative easing will not suffice to bring the global economy back into growth, especially now that international trade is so fractured. Increasingly main-stream economists are dabbling with the direct injection of… Continue reading
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Rainbows, dreams & ethical journalism By Terry Bell
29 June 2019 — Terry Bell Writes South Africa seems to be obsessed with rainbow images. First there was that grand illusion of a rainbow nation, now faded. But it did, for some time, obscure, to a degree, rotten reality. Now, with the latest State of the Nation (SONA) address we have what seemed to Continue reading
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MH17: Turning Truth & Victims into Pawns By Gunnar Olsen
(Gunnar Ulson – NEO) – As the wreckage of Malaysian flight MH-17 laid scattered in eastern Ukraine, and many days before the first investigators even arrived on scene, the US had already blamed Russia and separatists it accused of aiding for the tragic downing of the passenger plane and the loss of all 298 people… Continue reading
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Antisemitism: what does that even mean? By Philip Roddis
Three nights ago she was on Newsnight to slam the reinstatement of Chris Williamson. In so doing Margaret Hodge issued another slander, folded into an aside on the man Williamson had – with guilt by association a standard smear in Stalinist[3] McCarthyite and other forms of witchhunt – defended at no small cost. Continue reading
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Review: Kuzmarov, Obama’s Unending Wars: Fronting the foreign policy of the permanent warfare state By Eric Walberg
In Obama’s Unending Wars, Kuzmarov has brought together many telling proofs, nuggets, of just how horrible the world is, and just how responsible the US and its henchmen around the world are. A kind of who-does-it. Kuzmarov is that rare analyst (Belen Fernandez is another) who respects footnotes, leaving fascinating bits there that would otherwise… Continue reading
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Capitalism vs. The World by James Rothenberg
It will take a new way of thinking to address existential threats, and it must involve the many over the few. People do not wish to fight in wars, thirst for water, starve for food, breathe dirty air, or withstand the elements for lack of shelter. People of any one country have to see in… Continue reading
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Petition against UK “drill” music ban defends freedom of speech By Paul Bond
Rap artists Krept and Konan have launched an online petition against the banning of “drill” music. The petition protests the suspended prison sentence imposed this year on drill artists Skengdo and AM for performing a song in concert. “According to Index on Censorship, this is the first time in British legal history that a prison… Continue reading
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Shoot protesters while they rest — Israel’s new rules By Maureen Clare Murphy
Shooting “key instigators” during unarmed protests in Gaza when they’re resting. Opening fire on teenagers attempting to make their way to pray in Jerusalem when they pose no danger. This is the routine, unjustified and criminal use of live fire against Palestinians by Israeli occupation forces. Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 29 June 2019
29 June 2019 — The New Dark Age ‘Regime change takes time’: Trump plays down stalled coup in Venezuela https://www.rt.com/news/462988-trump-venezuela-regime-time/ The press conference came as the Venezuelan military called for respect from those looking to break it https://williambowles.info/2019/06/29/the-press-conference-came-as-the-venezuelan-military-called-for-respect-from-those-looking-to-break-it-by-paul-dobson/ Cuba the latest victim of Ottawa’s campaign against Venezuela https://lifeonleft.blogspot.com/2019/06/cuba-latest-victim-of-ottawas-campaign.html Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 28-29 June 2019
29 June 2019 — The New Dark Age Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ends Iran hunger strike after 15 days https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48810394 Russian-Georgian tensions escalate amid Iran war crisis http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/29/geor-j29.html Continue reading
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Facing up to Libra by michael roberts
Libra is the name that Facebook, the global social network company, is calling its planned international digital currency. What is Facebook’s purpose with this planned new currency? Continue reading
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The press conference came as the Venezuelan military called for respect from those looking to break it. By Paul Dobson
United States Special Envoy to Venezuela Elliott Abrams has publicly welcomed Venezuela’s ex-intelligence chief to the country after he deserted and joined efforts to oust President Nicolas Maduro. Continue reading
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The $5,000,000,000,000,000 Question? By William Bowles
Apparently, if we add up all the ‘values’ that make up Planet Earth, we arrive at the figure of $5 quadrillion [1]! We’ve reduced the irreducible to the level of an accountant’s spreadsheet. Yet, it’s exactly this kind of thinking that’s created the disaster that, forget 10 years, it’s already with us and it’s been… Continue reading
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Is there a Pattern to the MH17 Blame Game? BY Grete Mautner
Washington’s recent attempt to use the tragic downing of Malaysian flight MH-17 over the Donbass region of Ukraine, which occurred on July 17, 2014 is nothing short of pathetic. Instead of making an attempt to bring to justice those responsible for this crime it tries instead to unleash yet another wave of anti-Russian hysteria. In… Continue reading
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US officials join bizarre Iranian cult MEK in rallying for regime change
The exiled Iranian MEK regime change cult rallied in front of the US State Department on June 22, just a day after Trump rejected pressure to start a war on Iran. Current and former American officials joined the bizarre organization, hailing it as the legitimate resistance to Tehran. Shadowed by a team of MEK minders,… Continue reading
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Iran Newslinks 27-28 June 2019
28 June 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day Monsters Walk the Earth. Why These Three Countries Are the Real Troika of Evil By Philip Giraldi https://williambowles.info/2019/06/28/monsters-walk-the-earth-why-these-three-countries-are-the-real-troika-of-evil-by-philip-giraldi/ Washington’s Wager Concerning Iran https://orientalreview.org/2019/06/28/washingtons-wager-concerning-iran/ Continue reading
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Consumers Comments Requested By ATSDR Regarding Glyphosate Toxicology Contamination In Food, Water & Air Due July 8, 2019
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) has gone out of its way, and even ‘fallen all over itself’ in trying to present a somewhat balanced 257-page report regarding the agricultural herbicide glyphosate for the purpose of soliciting consumer public comment by July 8, 2019, the due date. Continue reading
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Lübcke’s murderer was part of vast underground German neo-Nazi terrorist network By Johannes Stern
Stephen Ernst, the assassin of CDU politician Walter Lübcke, acted as part of a neo-Nazi network with close ties to the right-wing terrorist National Socialist Underground. Despite efforts in the aftermath of the assassination to promote a lone gunmen explanation, information that links Ernst to a vast right-wing terrorist network is emerging. Continue reading
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Venezuela Newslinks 28 June 2019
28 June 2019 • 19:25 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day US sanctions Venezuelan President Maduro’s son https://www.rt.com/news/462851-us-gunboat-diplomacy-putin/ VENEZUELA: Westerners have lost the ability to reason! (PART 21) Continue reading
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The Monkey’s Face. The Climate Crisis is Destroying “Real Environmentalism” By John Steppling
27 June 2019 — Greanville Post “The more reified the world becomes, the thicker the veil cast upon nature, the more the thinking weaving that veil in its turn claims ideologically to be nature, primordial experience.” — Theodor Adorno (Critical Models) “Nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.” — Raymond Williams Continue reading
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