8 June 2019 — New Eastern Outlook
We have all seen it time and again – the US walks into some developing country, gives its support to its favoured politicians, irrespective of whether they are in government or not, and then starts trying to dictate domestic policy by offering “aid” the poor country is in no position to refuse.
8 June 2019 — WSWS
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) called a news conference on Thursday to justify its raids targeting journalists at two media organisations this week.
Police spent seven hours ransacking a News Corp political reporter’s home in Canberra on Tuesday, and eight hours poring over and seizing files at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) Sydney headquarters on Wednesday.
8 June 2019 — Mint Press
Given the Trust Project’s rich-get-richer impact on the online news landscape, it is not surprising to find that it is funded by a confluence of tech oligarchs and powerful forces with a clear stake in controlling the flow of news.
8 June 2019 — WSWS
The Socialist Equality Party condemns the imprisonment of Grenfell justice campaigner Reis Morris. His jailing is a vicious act of class justice aimed at suppressing opposition and protecting those responsible for 72 deaths in the Grenfell Tower inferno.
8 June 2019 — New Eastern Outlook
On June 4th the Chinese government issued a travel alert for Chinese tourists thinking of visiting the United States, a day after it issued a similar advisory to Chinese students thinking of studying in the US over concerns for their safety and security. Chinese in the US are reporting harassment and interrogations by US immigration authorities and many now have the impression they are not welcome in the US.
8 June 2019 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day
When the Journalists Ganged Up on Assange They Ganged Up on Themselves
https://www.globalresearch.ca/when-journalists-ganged-up-assange-they-ganged-up-themselves/5679909
RT’s video agency Ruptly has obtained footage…
https://williambowles.info/2019/06/07/106051/
7 June 2019 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day
The Venezuelan Right’s Oslo Crisis
Venezuela to use ruble in trade with Russia to bypass US sanctions
https://www.rt.com/news/461385-spief-ruble-venezuela-sanctions-dollar/
7 June 2019 — RT
MANDATORY CREDIT: Ruptly and @JULIANA42636234
RT’s video agency Ruptly has obtained footage showing WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange inside Belmarsh maximum security prison.
7 June 2019 — Defend Wikileaks
7 March 2017 — WikiLeaks releases Vault 7, exposing CIA hacking tools
Largest leak of confidential CIA documents in history, details the agency’s cyber warfare capabilities
7 June 2019 — Defend Wikileaks
The expulsion of Julian Assange from Ecuador’s embassy in London on 11 April 2019 marked the culmination of President Lenín Moreno’s years-long effort to renege on Ecuador’s commitment to protect the WikiLeaks publisher from the United States’ persecution. By the time he took office on 24 May 2017, Moreno had already begun working on undermining Assange’s protections, a process that Moreno’s predecessor Rafael Correa, who granted Assange asylum in 2012, called “one of the greatest betrayals in Latin American history.”
5 June 2019 — Asia Times
Unlike Deep Purple’s legendary ‘Smoke on the Water’ – “We all came out to Montreux, on the Lake Geneva shoreline”, the 67th Bilderberg group meetings produced no fire and no smoke at the luxurious Fairmont Le Montreux Palace Hotel.
4 June 2019 — Internationalist 360°
Sudanese forces resorted to brutal violence to disperse the mass sit-in in Khartoum. Photo: AFP
After killing 35 and injuring hundreds of protesters, the notorious paramilitary force, RSF, has overrun the capital city, terrorizing the citizens seen on the streets
6 June 2019 — Links International
In the end, the European establishment parties’ almighty scare campaign about the threat of a far-right surge at the May 26 elections to the European parliament worked out quite nicely for them. True, guarding the power structures of the neoliberal European Union (EU) has become trickier now that the duopoly of the European People’s Party (EPP) and the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) has ended in a loss of 72 seats[i], but the centre has held—for now.
The New Dark Age 