August 5, 2019
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China News Links 5 August 2019
5 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 The Global Currency War Has Begun. China’s Yuan Breaks the 7 to $1 Band. Why is The Dollar Rising? https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-yuan-breaks-7-1-band-global-currency-war-has-begun/5685617 Currency War Begins: Chinese Yuan Crashes to New Record Low Continue reading
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Venezuela News Links 5 August 2019
5 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 Omission of Atrocities Committed by the Venezuelan “Opposition” Discredits UN Human Rights Report https://www.globalresearch.ca/omission-atrocities-committed-venezuelan-opposition-discredits-un-human-rights-report/5685622 Nobody Will Stop the US if It Blockades Venezuela https://www.globalresearch.ca/nobody-will-stop-us-it-blockades-venezuela/5685618 Continue reading
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NPR Shreds Ethics Handbook to Normalize Regime Change in Venezuela
The Reagan administration in 1982 coerced National Public Radio (NPR) to cover more favorably the US terrorist war then being waged against Nicaragua. As Greg Grandin writes, Otto Reich, head of the administration’s Orwellian propaganda outfit known as the Office of Public Diplomacy, informed the public network that his office had contracted “a special consultant service [to listen]… Continue reading
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‘Regime change begins at home’ – Max Blumenthal speaks in Venezuelan presidential palace
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and the Embassy Protection Collective address the media after meeting with President Nicolás Maduro at Miraflores palace in Caracas, Venezuela. Continue reading
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BBC Panorama on anti-semitism: a catalogue of reporting failures
The BBC transmitted an edition of Panorama on 10 July called ‘Is Labour Anti-Semitic?’, presented by John Ware. It contained allegations that senior Labour figures close to Jeremy Corbyn had interfered with the internal investigations process and that the Party was insufficiently committed to tackling anti-semitism within its own ranks. In response, the Labour Party argued that… Continue reading
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8chan: Another Mass Shooting, Another Internet Purge This is the third “mass casualty event” in less than a year that was immediately followed up by censorship of the internet
Last year, after the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, the new social-media platform Gab was attacked in the press and bullied off the internet. Earlier this year, following the Christ Church mosque attack, New Zealand briefly totally blocked access to several websites. Continue reading
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In the World of Truth and Fact, Russiagate is Dead. In the World of the Political Establishment, it is Still the New 42
Douglas Adams famously suggested that the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42. In the world of the political elite, the answer is Russiagate. What has caused the electorate to turn on the political elite, to defeat Hillary and to rush to Brexit? Why, the evil Russians, of course, are behind it all. Continue reading
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The Stubborn Truth About Employment and the Defense Industry by Nia Harris
A Marilyn has once again seduced a president. This time, though, it’s not a movie star; it’s Marillyn Hewson, the head of Lockheed Martin, the nation’s top defense contractor and the largest weapons producer in the world. In the last month, Donald Trump and Hewson have seemed inseparable. They “saved” jobs at a helicopter plant. They… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 5 August 2019 (16/19)
5 August 2019 — Statewatch Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/aug/email-5-8-19.pdf Please to support our work STATEWATCH NEWS 1. Italy-Malta “Non Paper” wants compulsory relocation mechanism rather than the voluntary one 2. EU Council Presidency proposes follow-up on extending PNR to sea and rail traffic 3. Refugee crisis: latest news from across Europe (6.7-25-7.19) Continue reading
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China’s Yuan Breaks the 7 to $1 Band–The Global Currency War Has Begun
Over this weekend, China’s Yuan currency broke out of its band and devalued to more than 7 to $1. At the same time China announced it would not purchase more US agricultural goods. The Trump-US Neocon trade strategy has just imploded. As this writer has been predicting, the threshold has now been passed, from a… Continue reading
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A life costs £10,000: how G4S’ Brook House detention contract works
In 2017, security company G4S was in the headlines again after the Panorama TV programme exposed new revelations of brutality in Brook House, one of two immigration detention centres the company runs for the Home Office. Two years later, the National Audit Office has published a report on G4S’ contract to run the centre. Continue reading
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Assange’s father speaks to the WSWS: “Julian’s resolve is fierce” By Oscar Grenfell
John Shipton, Julian Assange’s father and a leading campaigner for his freedom, spoke to the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) in Sydney yesterday about the conditions of his son’s imprisonment in Britain and the fight to prevent his extradition to the US. The WikiLeaks founder faces the prospect of 175 years in a US jail… Continue reading
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