August 3, 2019
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Julian Assange News Links 3 August 2019
3 August 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Only Superman Can Save Julian Assange Now? https://journal-neo.org/2019/08/03/only-superman-can-save-julian-assange-now/ Despite briefing by Julian Assange’s lawyer, Australian politicians still refuse to defend him http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/03/assa-a03.html Continue reading
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DNC lawsuit against WikiLeaks dismissed in major free press victory
In a historic win for WikiLeaks and its editor-in-chief Julian Assange a federal judge in New York dismissed a lawsuit by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) over WikiLeaks’ publication of DNC documents in 2016. The case sets an important precedent for freedom of the press. Continue reading
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‘You don’t have any rights’: CBP agents interrogate US citizen and seize his phone after Venezuela solidarity trip
A US citizen has told The Grayzone that the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) service detained them on their way home from Venezuela. Sergio Lazo Torrez, a 31 year-old Nicaraguan-American, said the CBP forced him to open his cellphone, grilled him about his political beliefs, and demanded information about his contact with Venezuelan… Continue reading
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Defending Venezuela Is Defending Our America By Nino Pagliccia
The Sao Paulo Forum (SPF) that took place in Caracas just ended on July 28 fittingly within the framework of remembering the 65th anniversary of the birth of Hugo Chavez with a display of affection and respect for the late Comandante with fireworks and all. By all accounts the SPF has been a politically successful event… Continue reading
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Glyphosate Should be Phased Out Worldwide. Devastating Health Impacts
Something is ‘up’. When two Financial Times columnists – pillars of the western Establishment – raise a warning flag, we must take note: Martin Wolf was first off, with a piece dramatically headlined: The looming 100-year, US-China Conflict. No ‘mere’ trade war, he implied, but a full-spectrum struggle. Then his FT colleague Edward Luce, pointed… Continue reading
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The Citadels of America’s Elites: Fractured and At Odds with Each Other By Alastair Crooke
Something is ‘up’. When two Financial Times columnists – pillars of the western Establishment – raise a warning flag, we must take note: Martin Wolf was first off, with a piece dramatically headlined: The looming 100-year, US-China Conflict. No ‘mere’ trade war, he implied, but a full-spectrum struggle. Then his FT colleague Edward Luce, pointed… Continue reading
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S&P Bearish on 5G, Tesla’s Coil and the T-Mobile Merger By Renee Parsons
The FCC, the telecoms and cooperating MSM continue their resolute pr campaign to sell 5G to an unsuspecting American public as if the technology is up and running at effortless full capacity. The truth is that even as ‘spotty’ coverage is being established in large urban markets, the telecoms are well aware that there are… Continue reading
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Faux Humanitarian Irwin Cotler, the White Helmets, and the Whitewashing of an Appalling Agenda
Cotler’s campaigns for foreign regime change or intervention almost always march in lock-step with neoconservative U.S. foreign policy. His “humanitarian” branding is but a thin veneer of hypocrisy to conceal his establishment policies — policies that almost always serve the interests of Israel. Continue reading
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UK housing crisis: 630,000 young people face homelessness in retirement By Alice Summers
Hundreds of thousands of young people in the UK risk homelessness when they retire because they will be unable to afford skyrocketing private rental costs. Continue reading
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Orwell, Hitchens, And The Hollow Self-Righteousness Of Anti-Communism
In addition to all of the propaganda pieces that anti-communists use to legitimize their position, they often utilize a more general rhetorical tool, which is the denunciations of communism that have come from two of the last century’s most prominent intellectuals: George Orwell and Christopher Hitchens. These figures maintain large cult followings and are widely seen… Continue reading
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Venezuela News Links 2 August 2019
3 August 2019 — The New Dark Age IMT World School 2019 celebrates 100 years of the Communist International http://www.marxist.com/imt-world-school-2019-celebrates-100-years-of-the-communist-international.htm XXV Sao Paulo Forum Demonstrates that Venezuela Is Not Alone! https://www.globalresearch.ca/xxv-sao-paulo-forum-demonstrates-venezuela-not-alone/5685438 Continue reading
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At Least If We All Die the Capitalists Die Too
17 May 2019 — Anti-Capital [3 August 2019: I’m republishing this essay for those who have missed it because I think it’s really important to read given current events. WB] Broletariat When sunlight strikes the Earth several things happen to it. First of all, not all of that sunlight gets to the land and water Continue reading
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