July 16, 2019
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Venezuela News Links 16 July 2019
16 July 2019 — The New Dark Age Venezuelan government, opposition resume talks in Barbados The Venezuelan government and the opposition are resuming talks aimed at ending the political crisis in their country, the country’s information … EU is Preparing for More Venezuela Sanctions | Voice of America – English BRUSSELS – The European Union is preparing to impose more sanctions on Venezuela targeting Continue reading
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Newspeak at the Media Freedom Conference Joint UK-Canada Event Littered With Insidious Undertones By Kit Knightly
OffGuardian already covered the Global Media Freedom Conference, our article Hypocrisy Taints UK’s Media Freedom Conference, was meant to be all there was to say. A quick note on the obvious hypocrisy of this event. But, in the writing, I started to see more than that. This event is actually…creepy. Continue reading
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OSINT for Dummies: How to Mount a Fake Investigation
Since 2012, western political and media establishments have been aggressively propping-up cutout organizations like Bellingcat, portraying them as the ‘unlikely amateur’ sleuth-heroes, running their world-beating ‘open source’ (OSINT) investigations from their laptops in the UK and the Netherlands. In every instance, their OSINT ‘findings’ will implicate the geopolitical adversaries of the US and its allies. Continue reading
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When Israel bombed disabled Palestinians By Sarah Algherbawi
The fact that Israel had caused immense damage to a charity working for people with disabilities was omitted from most, if not all, reports by mainstream media on the May offensive. Continue reading
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Shifting Alliances: Is Turkey Now “Officially” an Ally of Russia? Acquires Russia’s S-400. Exit from NATO Imminent? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Turkey is taking delivery of Russia’s S 400 missile defence system. What this signifies is that Turkey and Russia are now “officially” allies. The first shipment of the S-400 landed in Ankara on July 12, according to Turkey’s Ministry of Defense. (see image below) Continue reading
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The Assange precedent: Journalists in Britain threatened with Official Secrets Act By Robert Stevens and Laura Tiernan
London’s Metropolitan Police threatened journalists with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act last Friday in an unprecedented attack on media freedom. Continue reading
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Venezuela News Links 15 July 2019
16 July 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back President Manuel Zelaya: The US-backed Coup d’etat Turned Honduras Into Hell + Honduras Now Ruled By A Criminal Gang https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2019/07/15/president-manuel-zelaya-the-us-backed-coup-detat-turned-honduras-into-hell-honduras-now-ruled-by-a-criminal-gang/ War by Other Means: Understanding and Challenging U.S. Sanctions Policies Continue reading
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Amazon NHS partnership – more questions over backdoor privatisation
There is a lot going wrong in the world today and big tech is driving much of it in its indomitable thirst for ever greater global influence and markets to profit from. In the meantime, the British government is already making many moves to ‘Americanise’ society and continues towards its unpopular privatisation model in healthcare. Continue reading
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The fascists in the White House
The tirades by President Donald Trump over the past three days have no precedent in the history of the US presidency. Trump, backed by a cabal of advisors in the White House, speaks openly as a fascist, demonizing people of different races and national origins, vilifying socialism, and declaring that those who oppose his administration’s… Continue reading
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