24 July 2019 — TRNN
Jeff Halper, a leader of the anti-demolitions movement, discusses the destruction of Palestinian homes, along with the history and politics that allows this violation of international law to continue (Inc. transcript)
Day: July 24, 2019
Ukraine on the cusp of change By M.K. Bhadrakumar
23 July 2019 — Indian Punchline
Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky celebrated his party’s big victory in the parliamentary election, Kiev, July 21, 2019
The thumping victory by the Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky’s Servant of the People party, securing an absolute majority of 253 seats in the 450 member parliament, can be viewed as a tectonic shift in the geopolitical landscape of Eurasia. The next big party in the parliament will be the pro-Russia Platform – For Life, which secured 44 seats. The stunning rout of the pro-western forces symbolised by former President Poroshenko’s Solidarity party (24 seats).
Israel’s Herbicide warfare against Gaza farmers By Maureen Clare Murphy
23 July 2019 — The Electronic Intifada
Thousands of acres of Gaza farmland have been damaged by Israel’s aerial spraying of herbicide. (Forensic Architecture)
Israel’s military propagandists are at it again.
A video recently tweeted by COGAT, the bureaucratic arm of Israel’s military occupation, celebrates its efforts to teach Palestinian farmers in the West Bank about hybrid fruits and vegetables.
Venezuela News Links 24 July 2019
24 July 2019 — The New Dark Age
Venezuela’s opposition-controlled parliament passes bill on foreign military aid
https://tass.com/world/1070079
“Electromagnetic Attack” Sparks Massive Blackouts Across Venezuela
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/aCt11GXghm0/electromagnetic-attack-sparks-massive-blackouts-across-venezuela.html
The mass protests in Puerto Rico
24 July 2019 — WSWS
Between 500,000 and one million Puerto Ricans took to the streets of the capital San Juan Monday in the largest demonstration in the island’s history. Even the low-end figure, 500,000, would mean 16 percent of the territory’s population of 3.2 million protested Monday.
Why Boris Johnson Is Even More Dangerous Than Trump By Patrick Cockburn
24 July 2019 — Counterpunch
Is the rise of Boris Johnson to be the next prime minister the product of a soft coup? Does Donald Trump’s racist demonisation of four non-white congress members prove him to be a “fascist” leader like Mussolini and Hitler? The two questions should be answered together because political developments in Britain tend to emulate those in the US, and vice versa, though the latter is less frequent. The Thatcher-Reagan years in the 1980s were an example of this cross-infection and it happened again in 2016, when the British electorate voted narrowly for Brexit and American voters (though not a majority of them) chose Trump as president.
Boris Johnson premiership deepens Brexit crisis and heralds bitter class conflict By Robert Stevens
24 July 2019 — WSWS
Boris Johnson won the leadership of the ruling Conservative Party Tuesday after decisively defeating Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt by a two to one margin. Johnson will take over as prime minister today from Theresa May, after she resigns following her last Prime Minister’s Questions session in parliament.
Book Review: ‘An important contribution to the fight to stop capitalist destruction’
23 July 2019 — Climate & Capitalism
Book review and full video of meeting to launch ‘System Change Not Climate Change: A Revolutionary Response to Environmental Crisis.’
- Book Review: Valerie Lannon says the new book is “an accessible summary of revolutionary theory and practice related to the climate crisis and how to overcome it.”
- Video: Martin Empson, Sarah Ensor, Ian Angus and others speaking at the book launch meeting held in London on July 4, 2019. Ian calls it “an important contribution to the fight to stop capitalism from destroying the planet our lives depend on.”
- List of essays in the book.
Iran News Links 2019
24 July 2019 — The New Dark Age
Protecting Strait of Hormuz is Iran’s business and no one else’s – President Rouhani
London Defends The Shreds Of Its Empire Against Iran
https://orientalreview.org/2019/07/24/london-defends-the-shreds-of-its-empire-against-iran/
China News Links 23-24 July 2019
24 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
China’s national defense document commends military cooperation with Russia
https://tass.com/defense/1070093
China favors banning on all nuclear weapons — national defense document
https://tass.com/defense/1070087
Julian Assange News Links 24 July 2019
24 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
Indian auto workers speak out in defence of Assange and Manning
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/24/assa-j24.html
Today’s links
http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/07/todays-links_23.html
B(o)r-exit
23 July 2019 — Moon of Alabama
The Ukraine elected a comedian for president. Great Britain felt a need to top that. The members of the ruling party thus chose a clown to become the UK’s next prime minister.
Boris Johnson – bigger
Johnson will bury the remnants of the former empire.
My sincere condolences to people of Britain.
The New Dark Age 
