July 2019
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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 Continue reading
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The mass protests in Puerto Rico
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. Continue reading
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Why Boris Johnson Is Even More Dangerous Than Trump By Patrick Cockburn
Johnson’s supporters say that one should not take too seriously his overheated and mendacious campaign rhetoric, implying that he will adopt a more moderate approach in office. I would not count on it: many in Washington said the same about Trump, claiming that once in the White House he would come to his senses. Commentators forgot… Continue reading
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Boris Johnson premiership deepens Brexit crisis and heralds bitter class conflict By Robert Stevens
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. Continue reading
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Book Review: ‘An important contribution to the fight to stop capitalist destruction’
If you’re looking for an accessible summary of revolutionary theory and practice related to the climate crisis and how to overcome it, System Change Not Climate Change is a must-read. As the movement grows, so do debates about causes, solutions, strategies and tactics, and we need deeper understanding of what changes are needed. Continue reading
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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/ Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 23 July 2019: Reparations Demand: End Capitalism / Institutionalized Impunity for Killer Cops / Colonialism is What’s Wrong With Puerto Rico / Trump’s Message: US is White Man’s Country
23 July 2019 — Black Agenda Report Well, except for this one as it’s out early this week. Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 22, 2019 Reparations Demand: End Capitalism / Institutionalized Impunity for Killer Cops / Colonialism is What’s Wrong With Puerto Rico / Trump’s Message: US is White Man’s Country Reparations Demand: End Continue reading
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I’m taking the day off
23 July 2019 A short note. I’m taking the day off today as I’m a birthday boy (74) and off to hang out by the seaside for the day with an old friend, so no updates. Plus it’s HOT out there and London is not the place to be when in it’s in the 30s, Continue reading
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Anglo-Persian Confrontation. Britain’s Impounding of Iran’s Grace Supertanker. Former UK Foreign Minister on Britain’s “Mistreatment of Iran”
Britain’s July 4 maritime piracy, impounding Iran’s Grace 1 supertanker, reportedly bowing to Iranophobe John Bolton’s request, a foolhardy act, a UK miscalculation of Iranian resolve. Continue reading
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Two-faced Tom Watson
Isn’t it time to protect Labour members from the stench of Tom Watson hypocrisy Continue reading
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Iran News Links 22 July 2019
22 July 2019 — The New Dark Age Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Dismantled CIA Spy Network Escalation in Strait of Hormuz may threaten navigation Continue reading
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The US Police-State Is Now Undeniable: The Assange Case By Eric Zuesse
It’s not just that the United States has a higher percentage of its people in prison than does any other nation on the planet. (El Salvador — the land that was largely made what it today is, by its US trained-and-equipped death squads — is now number 2 on that measure. In another country the… Continue reading
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Max Blumenthal drops by the largest US military base in Latin America
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal rolled up on the Soto Cano / Palmerola air base in Honduras, the US military’s largest in Latin America. It plays a key role in Washington’s military strategy for Central America, and was a major factor behind the 2009 coup. Continue reading
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Britain – Divided
A struggling dad of three took his own life after being driven into debt and given an eviction order because of the minimum five-week wait for Universal Credit, it has been reported. Phillip Herron, 34, had just £4.61 in his bank account when he took the unimaginable decision to commit suicide, leaving behind three children.… Continue reading
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Labour’s Necrotising Fasciitis A response to the BBC’s Panorama “Is Labour Antisemitic?” By W Stephen Gilbert
In the long history of party politics, coordinated and systematic attacks on one political party are always initiated and perpetuated by a rival party or parties. Not least of the ways in which the increasingly murderous row about alleged anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is unprecedented is that, although it was quietly seeded by Lynton… Continue reading
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The Campaign To Stop Corbyn – Smears, Racism And Censorship
The greatest fear of those holding the most power and wealth is that they will lose their exalted position in the world. They will resist any changes to the grossly unequal and unjust class structure that causes grievous damage to so many people; and to the planet itself. Even the threat of real change must be crushed.… Continue reading
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