The New Dark Age

'Socialism or Barbarism'

July 26, 2019

  • Julian Assange News Links 26 July 2019

    26 July 2019 — The New Dark Age Today’s Links 26 July 2019 http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/07/todays-links_26.html Despite Mueller debacle, Democrats step up call for crackdown on “foreign meddling” https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/07/26/despite-mueller-debacle-democrats-step-up-call-for-crackdown-on-foreign-meddling/ Continue reading

  • Boris Johnson – A Dangerous Yes Man to Washington

    His past deplorable comments about the Skripal affair blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin for ordering an assassination plot in England last year, plus his outrageous denigration of Russia’s World Cup as comparable to Nazi Germany holding the Olympic Games in 1936, demonstrate that this politician is unfit for office. He can only make relations with Russia… Continue reading

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  • PEPE ESCOBAR: US and Iran Stuck on Negotiation Ground Zero

    All bets are off in the geopolitical insanity stakes when we have the President of the United States (POTUS) glibly announcing he could launch a nuclear first strike to end the war in Afghanistan and wipe it “off the face of the earth” in one week. But he’d rather not, so he doesn’t have to… Continue reading

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  • The world’s scariest economist?

    Mariana Mazzucato is one of the world’s most influential economists, according to Quartz magazine.  She has won many awards for her work.  She is an adviser to the UK Labour Party on economic policy; she “has the ear” of radical Congress representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she advises Democratic presidential hopeful, Senator Elizabeth Warren and also Scottish… Continue reading

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  • Venezuela News Links 26 July 2019

    26 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 Venezuelan Government Accused of Using Bitcoin to Bypass US Sanctions http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/IQYxuGPjz7w/venezuelan-government-accused-of-using-bitcoin-to-bypass-us-sanctions.html Once Again Chomsky and Achcar Provide a Service to the US Global Dictatorship https://gowans.blog/2019/07/26/once-again-chomsky-and-achcar-provide-a-service-to-the-us-global-dictatorship/ Continue reading

  • Once Again Chomsky and Achcar Provide a Service to the US Global Dictatorship

    Noam Chomsky recently co-authored an op-ed in The New York Times, portraying the embattled Venezuelan government as an arbitrary undemocratic state, and calling upon it “to liberate all political prisoners, both military and civilian.” The occasion for the op-ed was the release from parole of Venezuelan judge María Lourdes Afiuni. Chomsky had weighed in on… Continue reading

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  • Wall Street demands “discipline” as protests continue in Puerto Rico By Eric London

    Hours after Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rosselló’s early Thursday morning announcement that he will resign on August 2nd, thousands demonstrated in downtown SanJuan demanding the resignation of his successor, Justice Minister Wanda Vázquez Garced. Both Rosselló and Vázquez are members of the New Progressive Party (PNP) and the Democratic Party. Continue reading

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  • China News Links 26 July 2019

    26 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 Escaping Censorship http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2019/07/escaping-censorship.html Joining Hands with WWF, GAC Motor Drives Success of China’s First National Park https://tass.com/press-releases/1070508 Continue reading

  • Russia and China display strategic coordination in Asia-Pacific

    An exciting new template has appeared in the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific last week when Russia’s Aerospace Force and China’s Air Force carried out their first-ever joint air patrol in the region. Continue reading

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  • Iran News Links 26 July 2019

    26 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 Did John Bolton Light the Fuse of the UK-Iranian Tanker Crisis? https://www.globalresearch.ca/did-john-bolton-light-fuse-uk-iranian-tanker-crisis/5684665 Washington on the Losing Side of the US-Iranian Standoff https://journal-neo.org/2019/07/26/washington-on-the-losing-side-of-the-us-iranian-standoff/ Continue reading