Iran News Links 8 July 2019

8 July 2019 • 18:35 — The New Dark Age

Piracy on the High Seas… US and British Aim to Sink Iran Nuclear Deal by Finian Cunningham
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2019/07/08/piracy-on-the-high-seas-us-and-british-aim-to-sink-iran-nuclear-deal-by-finian-cunningham/

US and Europe to Iran: Do as We Say, Not as We Do — Or Else!
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-europe-iran-do-we-say-not-we-do/5683020

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Giant US healthcare corporations fear hostile takeover by high-tech companies By Benjamin Mateus

8 July 2019 — WSWS

UnitedHealth Group Inc. brought a lawsuit earlier this year against a former information technology executive, David Smith, accusing him of stealing trade secrets and taking them to his new employer. This was the still unnamed joint venture known as ABC, a healthcare initiative that was launched in 2018 by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase that supposedly intends to address the bloated health industry’s inefficiencies and high costs.

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US Now Admits it is Funding “Occupy Central” By Tony Cartalucci

8 July 2019 — Land Destroyer
October 1, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci – LD) – Just as the US admitted shortly after the so-called “Arab Spring” began spreading chaos across the Middle East that it had fully funded, trained, and equipped both mob leaders and heavily armed terrorists years in advance, it is now admitted that the US State Department through a myriad of organizations and NGOs is behind the so-called “Occupy Central” protests in Hong Kong.

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Venezuela News Links 8 July 2019

8 July 2019 — The New Dark Age

There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day

Guaido agrees to new round of talks with Maduro, but only to ‘end the dictatorship’
https://www.rt.com/news/463607-venezuela-talks-guaido-demand/

Venezuela’s opposition agrees to meet with country’s authorities in Barbados
https://tass.com/world/1067460

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China News Links 7-8 July 2019

8 July 2019 — The New Dark Age

There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day

Cooperation with Africa: You Can have None, as the West Got it All
https://journal-neo.org/2019/07/08/cooperation-with-africa-you-can-have-none-as-the-west-got-it-all/

One year since the start of US trade war against China
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/08/trad-j08.html

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Tired of Being Ignored, Refugees in Calais Are Learning to Do Their Own Press

7 July 2019 — Novara Media

On a sunny afternoon in June, thirty people from Sudan, Iran and Ethiopia gathered in the quiet back room of a local day centre near the port of Calais in northern France. One man volunteered to translate from English to Arabic so everybody present could understand, as a coach explained how to take control and set the agenda when speaking to journalists.

Julian Assange News Links 7-8 July 2019

8 July 2019 — The New Dark Age

There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day

Paris Police Teargas Peaceful Climate Demonstrators
https://socialistproject.ca/2019/07/paris-police-teargas-peaceful-climate-demonstrators/

SEP (Australia) holds rally in Brisbane to demand freedom for Assange and Manning
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/08/rally-j08.html

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Guilt of anti-semitism now needs no evidence By Jonathan Cook

8 July 2019 — Jonathan Cook

A deadly serious tweet at the weekend from Armando Iannucci, the comedy writer responsible for the hugely popular Westminster TV satire show The Thick of It, reveals something significant about the problem of resolving the so-called Labour anti-semitism “crisis”. In response to a tweet by a follower discussing my recent blog post entitled “The plot to keep Corbyn out of power”, Iannucci observed: “Fresh insight on the Labour antisemitism story. It’s all a lie stoked up by Jews.”

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