September 2019
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Europe: The cracks are beginning to show Is the EU experiment coming to an end? Europe considers its options By Frank Lee
The nATO Buildup: 2014: The expansion of NATO in the late 20th and early 21st centuries had posed a serious strategic threat to Russia’s security. In 1999 the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined NATO. In 2004 they were followed by the Baltics, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Slovenia; Albania and Croatia joined in 2009. Continue reading
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Corbyn tries to unite Labour Party to solve Brexit crisis for ruling class By Thomas Scripps
At least 81 motions have been submitted by local branches calling on the party to pledge itself to campaign for the UK’s continued membership of the European Union (EU). Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson and Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer have repeatedly declared in the last weeks that “Labour is the party of remain” and… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Headlines, 20-21 September 2019
21 September 2019 — Information Clearing House Children are killed by American weapons in Yemen every year. Then a refinery blows up, and America suddenly pays attention By Anthony Harwood Human life should always matter more than the price of oil. –Continue ====== Continue reading
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Venezuela News Links 20 September 2019
20 September 2019 • 21:45 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Driving to Colombia? New photos show Juan Guaido in car with ‘drug cartel gangster’ Houthi Attack on Saudi Oil Fields – a False Flag? https://journal-neo.org/2019/09/20/houthi-attack-on-saudi-oil-fields-a-false-flag/ Continue reading
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Iran News Links 20 September 2019
20 September 2019 • 21:45 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back ‘We’ll respond to US plots, all the way from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean,’ Iran warns Washington https://on.rt.com/a22l Hormuz: a play-by-play of the worst case Continue reading
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Saudi Arabia News Links 20 September 2019
20 September 2019 • 21:40 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Twitter purges hundreds of accounts from Egypt & UAE for ‘pro-Saudi messaging’ that targeted IRAN & QATAR New Peace Initiative: Houthis Case All Missile, Drone Attacks On Continue reading
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How to Find a Tiger in Africa: Searching for Agostinho Neto (1922 –1979) By T.P. Wilkinson
What I want to do here is something very simple. I want to explain how I began to search for Agostinho Neto. I also want to explain the perspective that shapes this search.[i] Continue reading
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Will Vladimir Putin Declare Capitalism Dead Too? By Phil Butler
Is it time for a new Declaration of Independence? If true individual choice and truth are any factor of freedom, the writing is on the wall not just in the United States, but globally. The wealth divide that has grown into an impenetrable wall between the elites and the rest of us, it’s only a… Continue reading
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What’s Good For the Price of Oil……. By S. Artesian
1. Staggering under the weight of its overproduction, capitalism spies in the visage of its recent savior, China, the image of its once and future enemy, China. Every thing that was the producer of “recovery,” “growth,” “expansion,” — fracked oil, microprocessors, corn, soybeans, smartphones, flat screens, container ships, becomes a relation of relapse, decline, contraction. Continue reading
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Something interesting about Rees-Mogg and a broken oath
We in the UK are on the verge of embracing, if only through resignation, disbelief, tabloid pugilism and sheer damn tiredness, a new variant of despotism. One that will be policed and lubricated by state surveillance if it succeeds – a danger that Paul Mason set out in the Guardian. The comic photo-opportunities of Prime… Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, Sept. 2019, Part 2
19 September 2019 — Climate & Capitalism Reading matters We seldom receive enough new books to justify two columns in one month, but our red and green bookshelf is overflowing … Climate & Capitalism can’t review every book we receive, but this column lists and links to those that seem relevant to our mission, along with Continue reading
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The Crisis Over The Attack On Saudi Oil Infrastructure Is Over – We Now Wait For the Next One
The crisis about the Yemeni drone and cruise missile attack on two Saudi oil installations is for now over. The Saudis and the U.S. accuse Iran of being behind the “act of war” as Secretary of State Pompeo called it. The Saudis bomb Yemen with U.S. made bombs since 2015. One wonders how Pompeo is… Continue reading
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Iran/Saudi Arabia News Links 18-19 September 2019
19 September 2019 • 19:39 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Trump Regime Anti-Iran Blame Game https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-anti-iran-blame-game/5689657 How the Houthis overturned the chessboard https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/09/19/how-the-houthis-overturned-the-chessboard/ Continue reading
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Brexit News Links 19 September 2019
19 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 Piers Morgan leapt in to defend Laura Kuenssberg. It didn’t end well The European Union And The Euroscepticism (I) https://orientalreview.org/2019/09/19/the-european-union-and-the-euroscepticism-i/ Continue reading
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How the Houthis overturned the chessboard by Pepe Escobar
The Yemeni Shiite group’s spectacular attack on Abqaiq raises the distinct possibility of a push to drive the House of Saud from power Continue reading
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UK “justice” system tortures Julian Assange, treats fascist Tommy Robinson with kid gloves By Thomas Scripps
British class justice was on full display last Friday, as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was detained indefinitely at Belmarsh prison, beyond the completion of his sentence, while fascist leader Tommy Robinson was released 10 weeks early from the same jail. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Headlines 18 September 2019
18 September 2019 — Information Clearing House Uncle Sam Scapegoats Iran By Finian Cunningham It must be deeply troubling for the Saudis in that their oil economy seems to be defenceless – despite having spent hundreds of billions of dollars on US anti-missile systems. – Continue ====== Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 18 September 2019: Believe Nothing the US Government and Media Say / Freedom Rider: The Electability Canard / Late Stage U.S. Capitalism Fosters Death / Biden and the Black Vote
18 September 2019 — Black Agenda Report Believe Absolutely Nothing the US Government and Media Say About…Anything Glen Ford, BAR executive editor In any alliance with corporate oppression and militarism, Black America squanders reservoirs of respect among the Earth’s peoples. We betray ourselves and become Black Gringos. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 18 September 2019
18 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 World’s Most Important Political Prisoner Antiwar.com We are now just one week away from the end of Julian Assange’s uniquely lengthy imprisonment for bail violation. He will receive parole from the Continue reading
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Iran News Links 18 September 2019
18 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 If Iran behind attack, ‘US military worthless’ – Tehran prof http://thesaker.is/if-iran-behind-attack-us-military-worthless-tehran-prof/ Will Americans Let Trump Start World War III for Saudi Arabia and Israel? https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/09/18/will-americans-let-trump-start-world-war-iii-saudi-arabia-and-israel?cd-origin=rss Continue reading
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