24 August 2019 — The New Dark Age
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The Saker interviews Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/08/24/the-saker-interviews-professor-seyed-mohammad-marandi/
Today’s Links 24 August 2019
http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/08/todays-links_24.html
24 August 2019 — The New Dark Age
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US commander says navy ready for Venezuela intervention
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/24/vene-a24.html
Suddenly West is Failing to Overthrow “Regimes”
https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/suddenly-west-is-failing-to-overthrow-regimes/
24 August 2019 — Colin Todhunter
In his first speech to parliament as British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson said:
Let’s start now to liberate the UK’s extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules and let’s develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world.
Johnson reads from a well-rehearsed script. The ‘GM will feed the world mantra’ is pure industry spin. There is already enough food being produced to feed the global population yet around 830 million are classed as hungry. Feeding the world effectively, sustainably and equitably involves addressing the in-built injustices of the global food system.
24 August 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Jeff Bezos is the owner of the daily newspaper in Washington DC, the Washington Post, which leads America’s news-media and their almost 100% support of (and promotions for) neoconservatism — American imperialism, or wars. This includes sanctions, coups, and military invasions, against countries that America’s billionaires want to control but don’t yet control — such as Venezuela, Syria, Iran, Russia, Libya, and China.
24 August 2019 — Michael Roberts Blog
With perfect timing, just as the summit meeting of the leaders of the top capitalist economies (G7) met in Biarritz, France, China announced a new round of tariffs on $75bn of US imported goods. This was in retaliation to a new planned round of tariffs on Chinese goods that the US planned for December. US President Trump reacted angrily and immediately announced that he was going to hike the tariff rates on his existing tariffs on $250bn of Chinese goods and impose more tariffs on another $350bn of imports.
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