August 21, 2019
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Labour’s poor excuses for revoking Asa Winstanley’s press pass By Ali Abunimah
Britain’s opposition Labour Party is offering excuses for its arbitrary revocation of the press pass approved for The Electronic Intifada’s Asa Winstanley to cover its upcoming annual conference. Continue reading
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Turkey faces quagmire in Syria By M.K. Bhadrakumar
The three-year old Russian-Turkish tango in Syria has been incisive, exciting and provocative, but the inability of the two partners to trust each other or surrender to the care and needs of the other has deprived the relationship of the energies to work symbiotically. Continue reading
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All along the watchtower: The follies of history
Stony smiles “all along the watchtower”, displayed as a living commentary on the rise and fall of empires, could easily connect, geopolitically, with a touch of Buddhist impermanence, to our turbulent times of Hybrid War. And to the current American empire. It’s always amusing to observe how US think tanks, such as CIA outlet Stratfor,… Continue reading
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Twitter purges 200,000 accounts “originating from China” By Oscar Grenfell
Twitter revealed on Monday that it had shut down 200,000 accounts that it claimed “originated in China,” over posts relating to the ongoing mass protests of workers and youth in Hong Kong. The purge is one of the largest in the history of the platform. Continue reading
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DWP’s £51m contract stops Citizens Advice speaking out against Universal Credit
New evidence shows that a £51m contract between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Citizens Advice (CA) contains a gagging clause. As Universal Credit rolls out across the UK, this agreement means the UK’s leading advisory charity now can’t speak out or take “any actions” which might harm the DWP’s reputation. Continue reading
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UK government prepares for social unrest following no-deal Brexit By Robert Stevens
Johnson has pledged to take the UK out of the European Union on October 31, with or without a trade and customs deal with the EU. The flare-up of tensions ahead of his trip shows that no deal is increasingly likely. Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, and Irish Premier Leo Varadkar rejected… Continue reading
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