August 2019
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Right-Wing Think Tank IEA: A year of assaults on public health initiatives
By TruePublica: The Institute for Economic Affairs is renowned for being the most powerful and influential think tank in Britain. Modelled around a right-wing American opaque so-called ‘institute’ it is littered with dodgy donors and surrounded by accusations of dark money interests. Its assaults on public health initiatives, given its real motivations, should be a… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 21 August 2019: Blacks Don’t Scapegoat Immigrants / Protest and Corporate Media / Where Bruce Dixon enters History / Rwanda’s Dissidents, Dead and DIsappearing
21 August 2019 — Black Agenda Report Blacks Don’t Blame Immigrants for the Boss’s Crimes Glen Ford, BAR executive editor Large proportions of African Americans registered strong opposition to building a wall on the southern border, keeping undocumented people in limbo, and mass deportations. Freedom Rider: Protest and the Corporate Media Margaret Kimberley, BAR editor… Continue reading
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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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Venezuela News Links 20 August 2019
20 August 2019 — The New Dark Age Nixon’s Nightmares Coming True as Russia and China Seek Further Rapprochement https://journal-neo.org/2019/08/20/nixons-nightmares-coming-true-as-russia-and-china-seek-further-raaprochennt/ Unifor Aligns with Liberal Foreign Policy instead of International Solidarity https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/unifor-aligns-with-liberal-foreign-policy-instead-of-international-solidarity/ Continue reading
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Iran News Links 20 August 2019
20 August 2019 — The New Dark Age Unifor Aligns with Liberal Foreign Policy instead of International Solidarity https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/unifor-aligns-with-liberal-foreign-policy-instead-of-international-solidarity/ Iran News Links 19 August 2019 https://williambowles.info/2019/08/20/iran-news-links-19-august-2019/ Continue reading
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Jeffrey Epstein and the Spectacle of Secrecy By Edward Curtin
When phrases such as “the deep state” and “conspiracy theory” become staples of both the corporate mainstream media and the alternative press, we know the realities behind these phrases have outlasted their usefulness for the ruling elites that control the United States and for their critics, each of whom uses them refutably or corrobatively. These… Continue reading
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Iran News Links 19 August 2019
19 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 France is interested in de-escalation of crisis over Iran nuclear program, says Macron https://tass.com/world/1074139 Professor slams US for causing ‘intense hardships’ abroad, and media for not holding it to account… Continue reading
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China News Links 19-20 August 2019
20 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 Are Recessions Inevitable? https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/08/20/are-recessions-inevitable/ 11 Reasons Why So Many Experts Believe That a US Economic Crisis Is Imminent https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/08/20/11-reasons-why-so-many-experts-believe-that-a-us-economic-crisis-is-imminent/ Continue reading
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CIA Coup-College By Tony Cartalucci
First noted by geopolitical analyst and historian Dr. Webster Tarpley, some suspicious similarities could be seen between the Egyptian unrest and another, known US-backed uprising in Serbia. Serbia’s Otpor, or the “resistance,” was funded to the tune of millions by the US National Endowment for Democracy. Its signature clenched fist logo adorned flags, signboards, and… Continue reading
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BREXIT – or Not? Masters of Manipulating Public Opinion By Peter Koenig
BREXIT deadline is 31 October 2019. On 23 June 2016, the British people voted 52% against 48% to leave the European Union. In England alone, the margin was somewhat higher, 53.4% for leaving the EU, against 46.6% for staying. In the meantime we know, that this result was influenced by Cambridge Analytica, the same as… Continue reading
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No Deal Chaos: The Brexit Cliff Face And Operation Yellowhammer By Binoy Kampmark
Britain’s Boris Johnson is driving his country to the cliff face, along the way mouthing and spouting all manner of populist reassurances. Still fresh in the job, he declared that UK preparations for a no-deal Brexit on October 31, when Britain would leave the European Union, would receive a boost – a “turbocharge”, no less. … Continue reading
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Brexit: More you have not been told about Operation Yellowhammer
By TruePublica: The so-called leak of Operation Yellowhammer, the British government’s no-deal planning dossier, that was in fact leaked over a year ago but no-one believed it – is now an eye-opener – now that they do. It determines that the current Conservative government will lead Britain, as it warns into a “far, far more… Continue reading
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Blairites and Zionists escalate witch-hunt of Labour MP Chris Williamson By Robert Stevens
The filthy witch-hunt of suspended Labour Party MP Chris Williamson by the Blairite right-wing and Zionist forces is being escalated with basic democratic rights under threat. Continue reading
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Julian Assange’s father warns WikiLeaks’ publisher’s health is “declining rapidly” in Belmarsh Prison By Oscar Grenfell
In an interview on August 16 with 3CR, a Melbourne community radio station, Julian Assange’s father John Shipton stated that the WikiLeaks founder’s health is continuing to deteriorate in Britain’s maximum-security Belmarsh Prison. Continue reading
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The Crisis in Hong Kong: Selected Stories
20 August 2019 — Global Research Hong Kong in the Crosshairs of Global Power and Ideological Struggles By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers Hong Kong is one of the most extreme examples of big finance, neoliberal capitalism in the world. As a result, many people in Hong Kong are suffering from great economic insecurity in a city with 93 billionaires,… Continue reading
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