July 2019
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US “Boots” Turkey from F-35 Program By Ulson Gunnar
Turkey has been officially “booted” from the F-35 multirole combat aircraft program. The F-35 multirole combat aircraft, produced by US-based arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin, is part of a massive weapons program exceeding $1 trillion. A single aircraft can cost over $100 million, or over twice the cost of Russia’s new Su-57 and many times more… Continue reading
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Video: “MH17 – Call for Justice”
Bonanza media investigative team of independent journalists take exclusive interviews with one of the suspects of downing the MH17, Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, the colonel who collected the black boxes and much more. Continue reading
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Iran News Links 21 July 2019
21 July 2019 • 21:50 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back UK Media Found ‘Russian Trace’ In Recent Tanker Seizure By Iran Washington’s bully tactics have failed to persuade Tehran to negotiate a new nuclear deal Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, July 2019
8 July, 2019 — Climate & Capitalism More books for reds and greens. Vanishing Fish … Between Earth and Empire … Making Rojava Green … One Planet, One Health … Why Carbon Trading Fails Continue reading
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As Trump Backs Down, the Pips Squeak By Tom Luongo
Last week it was all fire and brimstone. The US was threatening more sanctions on Iran, the Brits were seizing oil tankers and Iran was violating the JCPOA. Continue reading
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The UK must release the Iranian tanker; The UAE’s mission to Tehran By Elijah J. Magnier
Before Emmanuel Bonne, the special envoy of the French President Emmanuel Macron to Iran, visited President Hassan Rouhani, he promised to deal with the “Grace I” crisis between Iran and the UK. Iran considered the UK confiscation of its supertanker, loaded with two million barrels of oil, an act of unlawfulpiracy and threatened to retaliate for the British… Continue reading
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What the latest secret government file tells us about UK Middle East policy
By Mark Curtis: The British government is refusing to release a 1941 file on Palestine, as it might “undermine the security” of Britain and its citizens. Why would a 78-year-old document be seen as so sensitive in 2019? Continue reading
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Iran’s seizes UK tanker in counter-escalation By M.K. Bhadrakumar
The seizure of a British oil tanker by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on July 20 in the Strait of Hormuz has all the hallmarks of a retaliatory act in the downstream of the seizure of an Iranian tanker by the British Navy exactly two weeks ago on July 4 off Gibralter. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 20 July 2019
20 July 2019 — The New Dark Age The US Police-State Is Now Undeniable: The Assange Case https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/07/20/the-us-police-state-is-now-undeniable-the-assange-case/ ‘Anti-Trump’ CNN Presstitute Defends Trump’s Persecution Of Assange https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/07/20/anti-trump-cnn-presstitute-defends-trumps-persecution-of-assange/ Continue reading
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Britain Pirates Iranian Ship ‘Grace 1’ – Iran Responds – Takes British Tanker Hostage – (Updated 3x)
On July the Brits used their colonial outlet Gibraltar to steal the Iranian tanker ‘Grace 1’ and its load of 2 million barrel of oil. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps then threatened to take similar measures against British ships. Today Gibraltar announce that it will hold the ‘Grace 1’ for another month. We can guess… Continue reading
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Iran News Links 20 July 2019
20 July 2019 • 20:40 — The New Dark Age Britain Pirates Iranian Ship ‘Grace 1’ – Iran Responds – Takes British Tanker Hostage – (Updated 3x) Speedboats & helicopter assault: Iran shows footage of British tanker seizure (VIDEO) Continue reading
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Revolutions Are Not the Train Ride, but the Human Race Grabbing for the Emergency Brake: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2019)
There is a geography to human suffering; one that subordinates the well-being of the majority of the world’s people to the interests of a small handful of billionaires. In this world, the powerful not only control social wealth; they also control the public policy discussion — and what counts as intellectually correct. In this world,… Continue reading
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Netpol condemns calls for expanding surveillance on “far left, anarchist and environmentalist” groups
The report published today by conservative think-tank Policy Exchange, attacking campaigners from Extinction Rebellion, is a direct call for expanding surveillance on “far left, anarchist and environmentalist extremism”. Continue reading
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The UK’s dubious role in the new tanker war with Iran by Prabir Purkayastha
The standoff between the U.S.and Iran is now developing into a reenactment of the tanker wars in the Persian Gulf during the 1980–88 Iran-Iraq War. The United Kingdom seems to have become a part of the U.S.scheme of baiting Iran into military action, triggering a war. How else do we make sense of its seizure… Continue reading
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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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