The Supreme Court, Proroguing & Dangerous Precedents Remainers celebrating the ruling need to consider the greater implications of a judiciary that enforces policy, not law

24 September 2019 — Off Guardian

By Kit Knightly

The Supreme Court has ruled against Boris Johnson’s proroguing of Parliament. Because of course they did, because they were always going to.

People all over the country are celebrating this ruling, but one can’t help but feel that comes from the perspective of not fully understanding what it could mean, down the line.

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Iran News Links 24 September 2019

24 September 2019 — The New Dark Age

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The Sickness of American Foreign Policy https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/09/23/the-sickness-of-american-foreign-policy/ The US Should Not Fight a War for Saudi Oil https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/09/23/us-should-not-fight-war-for-saudi-oil/

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They’re Murdering My Son – Julian Assange’s Father Tells of Pain and Anguish By Finian Cunningham

24 September 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation

Julian Assange’s father, John Shipton, gave an interview to Strategic Culture Foundation over the weekend. After arriving from his home country of Australia, Shipton is visiting several European states, including Russia, to bring public attention to the persecution of Julian Assange by British authorities over his role as a publisher and author.

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Bojo/Brexit News Links 24 September 2019

24 September 2019 — The New Dark Age

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Boris Johnson is dead in the water after Supreme Court rules he acted unlawfully
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Today’s links 24 September 2019
http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/09/todays-links_24.html

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Prorogation: Judicial Blowback

24 September 2019 — Craig Murray

The Tory government, under both May and Johnson, has made plain its contempt for the rule of law repeatedly, and not only over the prorogation of parliament. In the last few days we have seen the Tories admit to illegal sales of arms to Saudi Arabia, in direct breach of a ruling by the Court of Appeal, for which “accident” Liz Truss gave a completely fake apology.

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Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse but Business as Usual by Colin Todhunter

24 September 2019 — Counter Currents

Much of the following article is based on a new 20-page report by environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason. Readers are urged to access the full report containing all relevant citations: Download  

In a new paper published in King’s Law Journal –  ‘The Chemical Anthropocene: Glyphosate as a Case Study of Pesticide Exposures’ – the authors Alessandra Arcuri and Yogi Hale Hendlin state:

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Is the United Nations Becoming a Public Relations Asset for Wall Street? By Carla Stea

19 September. 2019 — Global Research

“My whole life in politics was marked by a political version, on a small scale, of the epic global contest that is now under way between inclusive cooperation—involving networks and diverse people working toward a common goal—and the reassertion of tribal nationalism,” he told me.  With the world aflame and even some in posh Chappaqua feeling the country to be in a kind of civil war, Clinton could not escape the possibility that his side was losing the ‘epic global contest’ that had defined his career.  His neighbor, if zany, had recently been backed up in his analysis by the writer Pankaj Mishra, who said of this explosive global moment of terrorist violence, raging xenophobia, and political upheaval, ‘Future historians may well see such uncoordinated mayhem as commencing the third—and the longest and strangest—of all world wars:  one that approximates, in its ubiquity, a global civil war.’”

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In a new report, firefighters lay the ‘ultimate responsibility’ for Grenfell at the UK government’s feet

24 September 2019 — The Canary

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Bail sentence ends: UK now holding Assange solely on US’ behalf

24 September 2019 — Defend Wikileaks

On 22 September 2019, Julian Assange’s sentence for a bail violation conviction ended, but he was not released from HMP Belmarsh. Beginning today, 23 September, the United Kingdom is detaining Julian solely on behalf of the United States, which requests his extradition and has charged him with 18 counts carrying 175 years in prison for publishing information in the public interest.

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