June 12, 2019
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Brazil: leaked conversations reveal legal stitch-up against Lula
Yesterday, The Intercept Brazil news site published a number of correspondences between former judge Sergio Moro, and the Lava Jato (“Car Wash”) prosecutors, led by Federal Public Ministry of Brazil attorney, Deltan Dallagnol. The Operation Car Wash corruption case led to the arrest and imprisonment of (among others) former PT president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva… Continue reading
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HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER JUNE 2019
June 2019 — Housmans Books NEWS /ACTIONS 1. Anarchist Festival 2019 2. Antiuniversity Now 2019 3. Rent Strike Weekender 4. Pluto Press 50th Anniversary Continue reading
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China Newslinks 12 June 2019
12 June 2019 — The New Dark Age Panda Diplomacy Much Better than Mafia Extortion of Collapsing West https://journal-neo.org/2019/06/12/panda-diplomacy-much-better-than-mafia-extortion-of-collapsing-west-1209/ ‘Make Russia Prostrate Again’ Is the Only Thing US Democrats and Republicans Can Agree on https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/06/12/make-russia-prostrate-again-is-the-only-thing-us-democrats-and-republicans-can-agree-on/ Continue reading
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Tory cuts result in 131,000 preventable deaths in the UK By Barry Mason
A reversal of public health initiatives has led to 130,000 preventable deaths since 2012. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think tank lays the blame on austerity measures pursued by the 2010 Conservative/ Liberal Democrat government and continued by the Tory government of Theresa May. Continue reading
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US Propaganda Blitz Ahead of Idlib’s Liberation
A concerted effort is being made to once again flood Western headlines with now familiar and long-since discredited war propaganda as Syrian forces and their Russian and Iranian allies move in on Idlib in northern Syria to liberate it from US-backed terrorists. Continue reading
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Israeli Private Intelligence Company Black Cube Out of Control
Shir Hever discusses the dangers of privatizing security and intelligence, as a private company called Black Cube that claims to use Israeli Mossad procedures hires out its services to the highest bidder and goes after international as well as Israeli activists, business people, and politicians Continue reading
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‘Mirthless Laugh’ – The Persecution And Torture Of Julian Assange
For anyone persuaded by the state-corporate campaign of sneers and smears depicting Julian Assange as a shit-smearing narcissist and rapist, the comments made by Nils Melzer, the UN’s special rapporteur on torture, must be deeply shocking. The BBC headline: ‘Julian Assange subjected to psychological torture, UN expert says’ Continue reading
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The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell’s 1984 Is No Longer Fiction By John W. Whitehead
Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state. Continue reading
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4 TONS OF C-4 U.S. MANUFACTURED FOUND IN DER’AH AND STORED BY ISIS!!! SAA GRINDS NUSRA IN BOTH HAMA AND IDLIB by Ziad Fadel
Don’t you just love hypocrisy? Don’t you love it when Evangelicals like Mike Pompeo and Mike Pence pontificate about Christianity and their ideological love for all things Zionist? Isn’t it just beautiful when Syrian security services come upon 4 tons of C-4 all manufactured in the United States? On June 1, 2019, that’s exactly what… Continue reading
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Britain: Labour victory in Peterborough silences the cynics By Joe Attard
The Labour right wing were fully expecting and hoping for the party to lose a key by-election in Peterborough last week. This constituency voted strongly to leave the European Union, and the press had hyped up Nigel Farage’s right-wing Brexit Party, which everybody expected to win the seat. This would’ve given a boost to the… Continue reading
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Google update sees news web traffic plummet By Martin J. Young
As many publishers across the world know well, US search giant Google can make or break an online business. A tweak in its ranking algorithm can render a website invisible overnight and cause traffic to plummet, which is exactly what happened after a major Google search function update last week. Continue reading
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