September 2019
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The Pentagon Adds Its Madness to “Fake News” Hysteria
23 September 2019 — Black Agenda Report Glen Ford, BAR executive editor The evil geniuses at DARPA claim to be building a defense against fake news – a sure sign that the Pentagon is actually creating fake news. Continue reading
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Brexit News Links 23 September 2019
23 September 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Thomas Cook Collapse: First Major Brexit Casualty? McDonnell backs ‘logical’ approach to delay on Labour Brexit policy http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/7SNBsF-oJzo/ Continue reading
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Labour Conference Belongs to Members, so Why Are Police Allowed to Shut Activists Out? by Chris Saltmarsh
Police have attempted to stop party members who are also climate activists, like me, from attending Labour conference this year – despite already having been sued for barring a member in 2017. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 23 September 2019 (19/19)
23 September 2019 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/sep/email-23-9-19.pdf Please to support our work STATEWATCH ANALYSIS EU: New EU deportation law breaches fundamental rights standards and should be rejected Continue reading
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Left Forum 2019: Black Liberation Strategies in the Empire of Exceptionalism
The Black Agenda Report team discusses “late stage” capitalism, the shrinking U.S. empire, and the dangers of a desperate ruling class on the wane. Continue reading
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Factional warfare over Brexit dominates Labour Party conference
A series of opportunist manoeuvres by party leader Jeremy Corbyn have failed to stop the descent of Labour’s annual conference into bitter conflict over its policy on Brexit. Continue reading
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Police surveillance used to report disabled protesters to UK government for alleged benefit fraud By Dennis Moore
Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty, spoke at a conference in Belfast last month to warn that innocent people are being caught up in a mass surveillance system enacted by the UK government to combat welfare “benefit fraud.” Continue reading
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Dedicated to David Allen Green, Joshua Rosenberg, Joan Smith, Hadley Freeman, Jess Phillips, David Aaronovitch and the entire staff of the Guardian/Observer
As of today Julian Assange has finished his jail sentence for missing police bail. There is no Swedish charge or request for his extradition, those risibly flimsy sexual allegations no longer being needed by the state. Continue reading
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The Vela Flash: Forty Years Ago
Controversy Hovers over Possible Nuclear Signal Detected in South Atlantic in 1979; Israeli or South African Origin Suspected by Some Experts – and President Carter Continue reading
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White Helmets, Black Lies By David Macilwain
This is the story of my challenge to Australia’s SBS TV over their role in passing on criminal disinformation about Syria, chemical weapons and the White Helmets. Continue reading
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Saudi Arabia News Links 22 September 2019
22 September 2019 • 15:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Aramco’s Operation Disrupted Worse Than Initially Presented: Report Iran warns foreign forces to stay out of Gulf, amid new US deployment https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-49785413 Continue reading
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Saudi Arabia: Who Launched That Mystery Attack? By Eric Margolis
The Mideast has its own variety of crazy humor. The Saudis have been blasting and bombing wretched Yemen, one of this world’s poorest nations, since 2015. These US-supported attacks and a naval blockade of Yemen imposed by Saudi Arabia and its sidekick ally, the United Arab Emirates, have caused mass starvation. No one knows how… Continue reading
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World at a Crossroads and a System of International Relations for the Future
These days, the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly opens up. So does a new international “political season”. The session begins at a highly symbolic historical moment. Next year we will celebrate two great and interconnected anniversaries – the 75th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic and Second World Wars, and the establishment… Continue reading
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EXPOSED: UK’s Censorship On Journalism
This article is part of a series dedicated to a significant and wide-reaching BigBrotherWatch publication focusing on state surveillance that has been largely ignored by the mainstream media. Today, it is a very serious worry that our entire mechanism of democracy is being undermined by excessive and uncontrolled state surveillance. This disproportionate obsession by the… Continue reading
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Iran News Links 22 September 2019
22 September 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back The Invisible Man: Trump’s New National Security Adviser ‘Don’t send warplanes & bombs’: Rouhani to present Persian Gulf ‘peace plan’ at UN https://on.rt.com/a25a Continue reading
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U.S. Ships More Air Defense Systems That Do Not Work To Saudi Arabia
The Washington Post notices Russia’s offer to sell its air defense systems to Saudi Arabia. It does not like that Continue reading
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On the Road to Damascus: International Conference in Syria on Sanctions and Its Blowback
Syrians say it’s even harder now to make ends meet than it was during the height of their country’s war because of intensified U.S and European sanctions. Continue reading
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Combat Footage: Houthis Storm Key Hilltop In Jizan (Saudi Arabia)
On September 20, the Houthis stormed and captured the key al-Suytat hilltop in the southern part of the Saudi province of Jizan. Continue reading
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Iran News Link 21 September 2019
21 September 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back We blame Iran, because Iranian arms were used! Saudis double down on claim as origin of oil-plant attack remains unclear https://on.rt.com/a24n Iraqi Intelligence Uncovers Iranian Drone Wreckage Hidden By ISIS Continue reading
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Saudi Arabia News Links 21 September 2019
21 September 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Whoever attacks Iran will become ‘main battlefield’ – IRGC commander https://on.rt.com/a24b Iran: Neither Military Action Nor Economic Sanctions Continue reading
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