July 2019
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Iran Faces US Aggression and European Hypocrisy, but this Time It’s Ready
Leaders and politicians of the self-proclaimed free and civilised world – along with some human rights organisations, major media outlets, and state-affiliated public figures – express their unique form of collective inhumanity through absolute silence. After all, repeated threats of a nuclear holocaust and genocide by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump are deeply imbedded… Continue reading
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Venezuela News Links 13-14 July 2019
14 July 2019 — The New Dark Age China will determine the future of Venezuela On January 23, when US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president of Venezuela, he thought deposing President … Venezuela Gives Colombian Rebels Free Rein The government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, weakened by U.S. sanctions and diplomatically isolated, is deepening its ties with… Continue reading
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Challenging capitalism is the ultimate climate mitigation strategy
There are no easy fixes, but to succeed, climate activists must build a broader movement to challenge and transcend global capitalism Continue reading
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Israel’s machinery of dispossession has crushed the hopes of an inspirational family By Jonathan Cook
Israeli police forced out the Siyam family from their home in the heart of occupied East Jerusalem last week, the final chapter in their 25-year legal battle against a powerful settler organisation. The family’s defeat represented much more than just another eviction. It was intended to land a crushing blow against the hopes of some… Continue reading
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US pours oil into fire in Gulf, mum’s the word for India by M.K. Bhadrakumar
The illegal seizure of an Iranian oil tanker off Gibralter by the British Navy last Friday is fast acquiring farcical character. Britain acted at the behest of the US; in turn, the US probably acted at the behest of the ‘B Team’. So far, only one top US official has expressed joy over the incident… Continue reading
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Britain Ramps up Media War on Russia by Finian Cunningham
The British government appears to be more and more aping a Monty Python-type farce with each passing day. Soon the absurd ensemble will be complete if either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt becomes the next prime minister. Continue reading
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Fanon and (Digital) Self-Determination Lizzie O’Shea
Fanon was committed to the idea of self-determination. How can his thinking influence our fight for digital self-determination? An excerpt from Future Histories by Lizzie O’Shea. Continue reading
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BBC Says China Building Schools is “Bad” by Tony Cartalucci
China’s recent building-spree of schools in its underdeveloped and remote region of Xinjiang – in a saner world – would be good news. But for editors at the BBC it is being depicted as sinister and dystopian. Continue reading
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REVIEW: Israel, a Beachhead… By Philip Roddis
This book is a timely response to three groups: Those yet to grasp that Israel in its current form is an outrage comparable to apartheid South Africa; Those who recognise this truth but fail (as had many sincere opponents of apartheid) to see the bigger picture of a Faustian bargain with Western elites; Those who… Continue reading
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Big tech ‘indenture entire populations into servitude’ to corporations & govts – Snowden
Tech giants such as Google or Facebook store vast amounts of personal data for their own gain but they are also “happy to hand over” this data to governments, making people vulnerable to persecution, Edward Snowden warned. Continue reading
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BBC Panorama witch-hunts Corbyn and Labour Party on bogus anti-Semitism charges By Richard Tyler
Britain’s Labour Party, and Jeremy Corbyn in particular, have faced a constant barrage of anti-Semitism allegations ever since he became party leader in September 2015. These allegations have originated in the Labour Party’s Blairite right wing, whose candidates for party leader lost resoundingly to Corbyn both in 2015 and again in 2016, as well as… Continue reading
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In Memory of Dawn Sturgess by Rob Slane
I couldn’t let the anniversary of the Amesbury case, in which Dawn Sturgess lost her life, pass without comment. My thanks to Duncan, Liane, and Paul especially, and many other commenters for their observations which have helped in the writing of this. It’s a long read. Here goes… Continue reading
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4IR & the ideological prison By Terry Bell
Last month saw the idea of a new, 21st Century city, complete with bullet trains, widely broadcast, all within the framework of a “developmental state”. But what this really boiled down to was a rehash of 20th Century concepts that produced Shenzhen, Brazilia, Canberra — even London’s Barbican — and, of course, the bullet trains… Continue reading
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‘Hypersonic Missiles’ Aren’t Starting an Arms Race—Washington Is by Joshua Cho
The New York Times Magazine (6/19/19) presents the push to build hypersonic missiles as driven by fear that “the nation might fall behind Russia and China”—downplaying the US’s systematic dismantling of arms control treaties. Continue reading
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Channel 4’s “Inside Idlib” – The Last Gasp of a Dying Campaign By Kit Knightly
Channel 4 just announced a new addition to their on-going “Inside Idlib” report: a 10-minute video which – they claim – is evidence of the Russian and Syrian governments committing a war crime. Continue reading
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S-400 Undermines the Global Military Cabal By Jean Perier
When every device in your life is connected to the Internet (the Internet of Things), your refrigerator will schedule an oil change for your car–or something like that–and it will be amazingly wunnerful. You’ll be able to lower the temperature of your home office while you’re stuck in a traffic jam, while your fridge orders another jar… Continue reading
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“Alexa, How Do We Subvert Big Tech’s Orwellian Internet-of-Things Surveillance?” by Charles Hugh Smith
When every device in your life is connected to the Internet (the Internet of Things), your refrigerator will schedule an oil change for your car–or something like that–and it will be amazingly wunnerful. You’ll be able to lower the temperature of your home office while you’re stuck in a traffic jam, while your fridge orders another jar… Continue reading
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Ukraine is a Trigger for World War III by Bruce Gagnon
I am like a man possessed when it comes to the Ukraine story. Not only do I suffer while watching the daily genocidal shelling by the US-backed government in Kiev of people living in the Donbass (eastern Ukraine near the Russian border). But I’ve also put my ear to the railroad tracks and hear the… Continue reading
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Top Assange Defense Account Deleted By Twitter by Caitlin Johnstone
One of the biggest Twitter accounts dedicated to circulating information and advocacy for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, @Unity4J, has been completely removed from the site. The operators of the account report that they have been given no reason for its removal by Twitter staff, and have received no response to their appeals. Continue reading
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5G Threatens Weather Forecasting. Devastating Health Impacts By Renee Parsons
It comes as no surprise that the American public remains oblivious to a not-so-slight glitch in the 5G Race with China as the US strives to be the first, the best and most technologically advanced country in the world with its guarantee of a Brave New World. But then, many Americans are unaware of the… Continue reading
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