August 7, 2019
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Venezuela News Links 7 August 2019
7 August 2019 — The New Dark Age Corporate media enters realm of the absurd with claim that Venezuela is ‘cocaine capital of the world’ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/qyn7pTC9ioA/ Trump Regime “Maximum Pressure” High Crimes Against World Peace. Illegal Embargo against Venezuela https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-maximum-pressure-high-crimes-against-world-peace-illegal-embargo-against-venezuela/5685826 Continue reading
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Media’s Beloved “Expert” Eliot Higgins – Wrong Again And Again And Again
Eliot Higgins aka Brown Moses, the founder of Bellingcat “by and for citizen investigative journalists”, is beloved by NATO media. Higgins is always able to “prove” by amateur “analysis” of open source data that the “bad guys”, just as the U.S. or NATO claim, did indeed do the bad thing that happened. The problem is… Continue reading
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Iran News Links 7 August 2019
7 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 Iran or the fight for the strategic initiative http://thesaker.is/iran-or-the-fight-for-the-strategic-initiative/ Turkey – “Middle Kingdom” between the Two Camps https://journal-neo.org/2019/08/07/turkey-the-middle-kingdom-between-the-two-camps/ Continue reading
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China News Links 6-7 August 2019
7 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 Currency Manipulation or Currency War–radio interview https://jackrasmus.com/2019/08/07/currency-manipulation-or-currency-war-radio-interview/ Turkey – “Middle Kingdom” between the Two Camps https://journal-neo.org/2019/08/07/turkey-the-middle-kingdom-between-the-two-camps/ Continue reading
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The Skripal Poisoning: Anonymous’ Revelations Point to UK Intelligence Motives By Karin Brothers
Initially, it appeared to former government whistleblowers that the motive might have been connected to Sergei Skripal’s relationship with his handler Pablo Miller, whose name had been protected by a government gag order soon after the poisoning. Miller was a colleague of Christopher Steele, author of the fabricated Russian dossier on Donald Trump: perhaps Skripal… Continue reading
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Norman Finkelstein on Corbyn and ‘anti-semitism’ in the Labour Party
Jewish academic and son of Holocaust survivors analyses the Labour Party anti-semitism scandal and its implications for the upcoming American elections Continue reading
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Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet
Originally posted on The Decolonial Atlas: Names and Location of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet, 2019 “The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.” – Utah Phillips Just 100 companies are responsible for more than 70% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions… Continue reading
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Washington orders international embargo on Venezuela, threatens invasion By Andrea Lobo
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday freezing “all property and interests in property of the Government of Venezuela that are in the United States.” The move is the culmination of a series of increasingly severe sanctions and marks a new stage in the US coup operation against the Government of Nicolás Maduro. Continue reading
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China reacts to J&K, India demands reciprocity
In the aftermath of the Modi government’s decision to remove ‘special status’ for J&K and bifurcate the state into two union territories, the most keenly awaited regional and international reaction — and a hugely consequential one — would be that of China’s, not the US’ or even of the other three P5 member states. Continue reading
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China Considers To Protect Its Ships From … U.S. Piracy
6 August 2019 — Moon of Alabama Will China join the U.S. led ‘coalition’ to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz? It sounds unlikely but this Reuters piece claims that China is thinking about it: Continue reading
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Shooter Capitalism
It, it being capitalism, wears a thousand masks and obscures itself behind a thousand labels. Called and calling itself at one time or another —laissez-faire, free market, conservative, liberal, neo-conservative, neo-liberal, progressive, neo-progressive, state, enlightened, gangster, welfare, welfare-state, party, non-partisan, crony, democratic, radical, responsible, racketeering, managed, bureaucratic, mercantilist, free-trade, protectionist, enclave, niche, tea-party, libertarian, populist,… Continue reading