Venezuela News Links 27-28 September 2019

28 September 2019 — The New Dark Age

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Perspectives on eco-socialism
https://londongreenleft.blogspot.com/2019/09/perspectives-on-eco-socialism.html

Venezuela has become ‘the best evil experiment’ against multilateralism by US – Maduro’s VP
https://williambowles.info/2019/09/28/venezuela-has-become-the-best-evil-experiment-against-multilateralism-by-us-maduros-vp/

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The mounting human cost of the Thomas Cook collapse By Richard Tyler

28 September 2019 — WSWS

Hundreds of thousands of Thomas Cook customers had their holidays brought to a sudden end when the company was placed in compulsory liquidation in the early hours of Monday morning.

The international scale of the crisis, with devastating economic and social implications, has rapidly become clear. The collapse means that the firm’s entire 22,000-strong global workforce have lost their jobs. Some 9,000 of these are employed in the UK, with 6,000 already laid off. The firm was headquartered in Manchester, with 3,000 previously employed in the region.

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Bojo/Brexit News Links 27-28 September 2019

28 September 2019 — The New Dark Age

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UK’s Johnson Plays Court Jester for Trump to Wreck Iran Deal
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/09/28/uks-johnson-plays-court-jester-for-trump-to-wreck-iran-deal/

Boris Johnson no-confidence vote ‘next week’, says SNP MP Stewart Hosie
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-49863544

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Iran News Links 28 September 2019

28 September 2019 — The New Dark Age

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Playing hostage game like a pro: US demands release of prisoner before Iranian FM can visit cancer-stricken ambassador
https://on.rt.com/a2ih

New Wave Of Airstrikes Targets ‘Iranian Positions’ Near Syria’s Al-Bukamal – Reports

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Venezuela has become ‘the best evil experiment’ against multilateralism by US – Maduro’s VP

28 September 2019 — RT

Venezuela has become ‘the best evil experiment’ against multilateralism by US – Maduro’s VP

Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodriguez at the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., September 27, 2019. © REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

The US has slapped over 350 unilateral sanctions on Venezuela, including weaponizing the dollar and turning the country into a testing ground for its ongoing assault on the word order, Venezuela’s VP Delcy Rodriguez told the UN.

Taking the floor at the UN General Assembly on Friday, Rodriguez tore into Washington’s policy of regime change against the government in Caracas, which she said is now being conducted by the means of “economic terrorism.”

 

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Masih Ur-Rahman Mubarez – Searching for justice one year on

27 September 2019 — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

This week marks a year since Masih Ur-Rahman Mubarez’s entire family was killed. On September 23 2018, his house was hit by an airstrike. Inside were his wife, seven children and four other young relatives. No-one survived.

In the following weeks and months, as grief consumed Masih, so did an intense need for answers. Who had killed his family and why?

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