July 2019
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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 Continue reading
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The super-rich are damaging the environment
In this opinion piece, Oxford University’s Danny Dorling argues that the world’s richest 1% are disproportionately damaging the environment. Continue reading
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Bought Politicians By Craig Murray
Between just 28 May and 10 June Boris Johnson received £235,500 in “private” donations, to himself personally, as he prepares to become the UK’s unelected Prime Minister. Continue reading
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Tired of Being Ignored, Refugees in Calais Are Learning to Do Their Own Press
Tired of being ignored or misrepresented, refugees stranded at the British border had arranged for a media trainer to travel from London to deliver a crash course in dealing with reporters ahead of World Refugee Week, which they marked by organising their own press conference. Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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Guilt of anti-semitism now needs no evidence By 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… Continue reading
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Policing in the Anthropocene by Aidan O’Sullivan
Extinction Rebellion (XR) is a direct action group organised on a global scale. The main target of their protests is are national governments who have demonstrated extreme inaction in the face of climate breakdown, despite stark warnings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Continue reading
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Iran News Links 7 July 2019
7 July 2019 • 13:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day Increase in uranium enrichment is attempt by Iran to ‘pressure’ Europe to honor nuclear deal https://www.rt.com/news/463578-iran-pressure-eu-nuclear-deal/ Iran denies oil tanker seized by UK was headed for Syria https://www.rt.com/news/463573-iran-uk-tanker-syria/ Continue reading
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Transcript: ‘All this fuss about spies … it is not worth serious interstate relations’
The Russian president on globalisation, China, Trump and the end of the ‘liberal idea’ Continue reading
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Rather Dangerous US Manoeuvres Around Iran By Viktor Mikhin
The US-Iranian front has recently seen lightning speed developments that keep spreading over an ever increasing number of regions, Presidents and Prime Ministers of many countries, as well as the leaders of various institutions, foundations and companies. International media provide various kinds of comment, articles, essays, hypotheses and forecasts that have literally flooded newspapers, magazines,… Continue reading
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Podcast Ep 7: Behind Israel’s troll army
On episode 7, Nora Barrows-Friedman and Asa Winstanley host a discussion about Act.IL, an online influence campaign funded by the Israeli government. Continue reading
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Stop the Police using authoritarian facial recognition cameras
Right now, the Metropolitan Police is deciding whether to roll out live facial recognition PERMANENTLY on our streets. Continue reading
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UK’s GCHQ spy centre seeks new powers to circumvent encryption By Thomas Scripps
The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has proposed that tech companies allow state spies into encrypted chats and calls. The new surveillance measures, known as a “ghost protocol,” would allow a government agent to “sit in” on ostensibly secure private conversations without the knowledge of other participants. This news comes just days after MI5 and GCHQ’s… Continue reading
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UK Border Regime updates special – Couriers win! – Summer School selling fast – Water bosses’ payouts – Priory Group makes millions
6 July 2019 — Corporate Watch First, some good news. At the end of last year we revealed the huge amounts pathology company The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) was paying to its directors and shareholders – while denying couriers the better pay they were demanding. Since then, six months of campaigning and threats of strike action by the… Continue reading
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Who has the power to restore nature? By Chris Williams
The UK’s 25 year environment plan — to lead the world in the ‘natural capital approach’ — contains many bold statements about the capacity of this approach to produce positive change for nature. One aim is for an ‘overall improvement’ in the health of the environment and to improve environmental decisions by ‘emphasising the value of the benefits the… Continue reading
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Google Promising Real-Time Censorship Search Engine Announced They Have “Tweaked” Algorithm to Boost “Authority” By Kit Knightly
Google has changed their algorithm so that it actively suppresses “misinformation” when “bad events” are taking place. This is pretty big news if you’re interested in free speech or the free flow of information. Nobody in the media treated it that way. Continue reading
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Book Review: Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else By Bryant Brown
In the nineteen seventies multinational corporations were buying all the Canadian businesses they could so the Pierre Trudeau government established the Foreign Investment Review Agency to try to control it. In Ontario we were seeing celebrities like Goldie Hawn buying up the best vacation properties in the lake district north of Toronto. Continue reading
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Iran News Links 6 July 2019
6 July 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day Royal Marines seize Iranian tanker under orders from US British Marines Seized Iranian Oil Tanker http://thesaker.is/british-marines-seized-iranian-oil-tanker/ Continue reading
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A Conversation with Evo Morales
Bolivian President Evo Morales will travel to Russia on an official visit on July 11. The Eurasian country is an important strategic partner for Bolivians, Morales told Sputnik in an interview. The president also revealed what he thinks of Donald Trump, how to solve the Venezuelan crisis and how he envisions Bolivia over the next… Continue reading
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