July 19, 2019
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Brain-Damaging Pesticide for Use on Foods Kids Eat. It’s Legal
Farmers can keep spraying fruits and vegetables with a pesticide shown to harm a child’s brain even at low levels of exposure, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency said today. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 19 July 2019: Imperialism is White Supremacy; Trump-Pelosi Lovefest; Go Gang of Four; Myths of Exceptionalism
19 July 2019 — Black Agenda Report The “Squad” Will Need to Realize that You Can’t Defeat White Supremacy with White Supremacy Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist The “squad” condemns Trump for his white nationalism, not understanding that as a white supremacist settler-colonial state, white nationalism is “American” nationalism. Freedom Rider: The Trump and Continue reading
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Julian Assange Newslinks 19 July 2019
19 July 2019 • 20:45 — The New Dark Age Twitter Restores Assange Activism Account In Response To Backlash http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/885gCLlnJjI/twitter-restores-assange-activism-account-in-response-to-backlash.html In a Crisis of Democracy, We Must All Become Julian Assange https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/in-a-crisis-of-democracy-we-must-all-become-julian-assange/ Continue reading
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Protests flare up in Puerto Rico: Hundreds of thousands flood streets
Hundreds of thousands have marched in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory since 1898, for the fifth consecutive day on Thursday. They are calling for the resignation of Ricardo Rosselló, governor of the financial crisis shattered and billions of dollars debt burdened island territory. Protestors cleared of the streets Thursday morning after clashing with police all… Continue reading
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French intelligence strategy document warns of “insurrectional violence” By Will Morrow
The French national intelligence and counterterrorism organization quietly released the first update to its five-year public strategy document on Monday. The report—which was uploaded to a ministerial website and not accompanied by any presidential press release—states that the role of France’s counterterrorism agencies is to fight “subversive movements” and the threat of “insurrectional violence” in… Continue reading
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From Mad Cow Disease to Agrochemicals: Time to Put Public Need Ahead of Private Greed by Colin Todhunter
The first part of this article documenting the development of BSE in Britain was written by Rosemary Mason and is taken from her new report. It is fully referenced and cites sources and evidence in support of her claims. Additional reporting for the second part of the article was provided by Colin Todhunter. Continue reading
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Iran News Links 19 July 2019
19 July 2019 • 20:20 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Iran ‘seizes British-flagged oil tanker’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49053383 Iran publishes video footage disproving reports of US downing Iranian drone https://tass.com/world/1069540 Continue reading
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Twitter Restores Assange Activism Account In Response To Backlash by Caitlin Johnstone
After a week of vocal protests from online supporters of Julian Assange, Twitter has reversed its unjust removal of the prominent pro-Assange activism account @Unity4J. Continue reading
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China is Most Definitely Not a Semi-Colony
I have prepared this posting in a landscape form because it is more suited to bullet points. Many Marxist sects still hold to the view that China remains a form of workers’ state and if not a workers’ state then definitely a semi-colony. Marx always held the view that the critique of political economy, commonly… Continue reading
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Some like it hot by William Bowles
18 July 2019 — Investigating Imperialism I am nothing if not an optimist, a trait that most on the Left seem to share. A belief in the future, that there is one that includes us. That things, eventually, get better, if we fight for it. ‘Unrealistic’, I hear you say, what is there to be Continue reading
The New Dark Age 