14 August 2019 — The New Dark Age
Venezuela Retains Political Control after New US Coercive Measures
https://www.globalresearch.ca/venezuela-retains-political-control-new-us-coercive-measures/5686354
13 Million Expected to Sign Petition Against US’s Venezuela Blockade
https://www.globalresearch.ca/13-million-expected-sign-petition-against-us-venezuela-blockade/5686360
14 August 2019 — The New Dark Age
Why Gold Prices Are About to Skyrocket Even Higher
https://www.globalresearch.ca/why-gold-prices-about-skyrocket-even-higher/5686403
Is the Geopolitical Chessboard Now Digital?
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/08/14/is-geopolitical-chessboard-now-digital/
14 August 2019 — Venezuela Analysis
In a U.S. diplomatic cable, Bocaranda is dubbed a “reliable source” and to be “strictly protected.”
According to diplomatic cables from the U.S. and U.K., Nelson Bocaranda has been collaborating with foreign powers since the 1980s. (Reuters/Wikileaks)
Venezuelan Ambassador to the United Nations Samuel Moncada revealed evidence that well-known opposition ‘journalist’ Nelson Bocaranda has served as a “local agent” of the United States and United Kingdom governments since the 1980s in a series of tweets Sunday and Monday.
14 August 2019 — The New Dark Age
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Today’s Links 14 August 2019
http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/08/todays-links_14.html
Hong Kong: “path of no return” – either class struggle or defeat
http://www.marxist.com/hong-kong-path-of-no-return-either-class-struggle-defeat.htm
14 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
US media continues to downplay suspicions about Jeffrey Epstein’s death
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/08/14/us-media-continues-to-downplay-suspicions-about-jeffrey-epsteins-death/
Epstein’s “Madam” Found: Ghislaine Maxwell Living With Tech CEO in Mansion
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/g4_bIL8e8G0/epsteins-madam-found-ghislaine-maxwell-living-with-tech-ceo-in-mansion.html
14 August 2019 — Moon of Alabama
The riots in Hong Kong are about to end.
The protests, as originally started in June, were against a law that would have allowed criminal extraditions to Taiwan, Macao and mainland China. The law was retracted and the large protests have since died down. What is left are a few thousand students who, as advertised in a New York Times op-ed, intentionally seek to provoke the police with “marginal violence”:
14 August 2019 — Drone Wars
The Zephyr ‘High Altitude Pseudo Satellite’ drone
The Guardian reported recently that the Pentagon’s Southern Command are testing stratospheric balloons over the US, to combat drug trafficking and support homeland security. The news has caused concern among US civil liberties advocates angry that American citizens will be being monitored in these tests. However, these balloons are just one of a new type of unmanned aerial vehicle / drone called High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellites (HAPS). This post takes a brief look at this type of drone, which is on the horizon for a number of armed forces, and examines the UK’s development of a HAPS drone called Zephyr.
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14 August 2019 — MROnline
Sorry, readers, this update is again longer than planned, and not at all jolly. I hope the next Berlin Bulletin will be pleasanter. And again I want to mention that my book A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee with descriptions, reflections, conclusions, plus many anecdotes and some jokes, is now available.
14 August 2019 — Counter Currents
Australia has always nursed a contradictory, repressive relationship with its Pacific neighbours. Being a satrap of great powers, it has performed the role of gate keeper and monitor of regional instability, a condescending, often paternalistic agent. At stages, it has also entertained more direct colonial interests. For almost seven decades, Australia controlled Papua New Guinea, assuming power over the former British colony of Papua in 1906.
13 August 2019 — Climate & Capitalism
BOOK REVIEW
Activists make the case that this widely used pesticide is wreaking havoc on the earth, killing not just weeds but multiple species, including our own
Mitchel Cohen, editor
THE FIGHT AGAINST MONSANTO’S ROUNDUP
The Politics of Pesticides
Skyhorse Publishing, 2019
Reviewed by Chris Kinder
Better Living Through Chemistry? Think Again!
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