October 2019
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Tri-Continental – The Forty-Fourth Newsletter (2019)
At the edge of hope lies the gunfire from what Frantz Fanon called ‘the old granite block upon which the nation rests’. At the moment of protest, when the gunfire starts, clarity arrives. One should not be naïve about the character of the elite, whose smiles camouflage the instructions given through clenched teeth to the… Continue reading
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Inquiry issues cover-up report on Grenfell Tower fire disaster By Robert Stevens
The report of the first phase of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry confirms that it is a rotten political cover-up, designed to protect those in the corporate and political elite who are guilty of the horrific murders of 72 men, women and children. Continue reading
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Four Keys to Understanding Evo’s Bolivia
How is it possible that there are doubts about the continuity of the President responsible for the political and economic stability in the country with the largest growth rate in the region? Continue reading
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Killing Julian Assange: Justice Denied When Exposing Official Wrongdoing By Philip Giraldi
The hideous treatment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues and many observers are citing his case as being symptomatic of developing “police state” tendencies in both the United States and in Europe, where rule of law is being subordinated to political expediency. Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 193 November 2019 – is now on line
31 October 2019 — COLDTYPE Continue reading
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Syria News Links 29-31 October 2019
31 October 2019 • 17:20 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Today’s links 31 October 2019 http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/10/todays-links_31.html Tasmin: US Occupies Syrian Oil Fields https://hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com/2019/10/31/tasmin-us-occupies-syrian-oil-fields/ Continue reading
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Chile News Links 30-31 October 2019
31 October 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Chile withdraws as APEC summit host after weeks of anti-government protests https://on.rt.com/a4dd Chile and Her History of Western Interference Continue reading
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Military conflict between Russia and the US looms large in Deir Ez Zor
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper explained in a press conference Tuesday, that a new U.S. force will be stationed in eastern Syria to protect the oil fields. Barbara Starr, CNN’s Pentagon reporter, pressed Esper on whether the US military mission there will be to prevent the Russian or the Syrian government forces from accessing the… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 31 October 2019
31 October 2019 — Black Agenda Report Farewell to John Conyers Jr. – and to His Era Glen Ford, BAR executive editor John Conyers’ long career is a window on the decline of Black politics in the two generations since the demise of the mass Black movement. Continue reading
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Here’s How Much Worse Things Will Get If Capitalism Isn’t Overthrown
In his novel The Man in the High Castle, which depicts a Nazi-dominated world, Philip K. Dick describes a dynamic where the Reich, despite holding enormous power, makes itself progressively more volatile and reactive. At one point in the book, a character observes that “most high-placed Nazis are refusing to face facts vis-a-vis their economic plight.… Continue reading
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Nuclear Weapons and Turkey Since 1959
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WORRIED IN 1960 THAT LEADERS OF A COUP “MIGHT SEIZE CONTROL” OF WEAPONS Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Headlines 30 October 2019
30 October 2019 — Information Clearing House Beirut Is Burning: Rebellion Against the Elites Has Commenced By Andre Vltchek Lebanon may collapse as early as in February 2020. No more money can be looted. The end game is approaching. – Continue ====== Continue reading
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Lebanon News Links 30 October 2019
30 October 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Today’s links 30 October 2019 http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/10/todays-links_30.html Why Lebanon And Iraq Are At The Brink Of Further Strife https://popularresistance.org/why-lebanon-and-iraq-are-at-the-brink-of-further-strife/ Continue reading
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London Times Runs Fake Browder Opinion Piece
Ben Brandon and Alex Bailin are London lawyers who have co-authored a fake story based on fabrications by William Browder about Russia’s legal action against his tax evasion and the death of his accountant, Sergei Magnitsky. The writers of this London Times op ed managed to put eight lies into just five opening lines. Continue reading
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British Government Retains Julian Assange in a Maximum Security Prison at the Behest of Trump Regime
At his latest extradition hearing Julian Assange was once again denied justice by a British court. If extradited to the U.S. he faces 175 years imprisonment for revealing American war crimes committed during its regime change wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Continue reading
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Our Vanishing World: Insects
About 12,000 years ago, late stone age humans precipitated the neolithic (agricultural) revolution that marked the start of the steady rise to civilization. Coincidentally, this occurred at the same time as the beginning of what is now known as the Holocene Epoch, the geological epoch in which humans still live. Continue reading
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“Let Them Eat Cotton” : Genetically Modified Cotton as a “Solution to Human Hunger”? Approved by FDA
US Government regulators have approved a genetically modified cotton variety as a “potential solution to human hunger.” The radical decision is to permit consumption by humans, in addition to animals, of seeds of a GMO cotton developed at Texas A&M University, with no independent long-term testing. It opens grave new concerns about the safety of… Continue reading
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Impossible Foods wants to sell its Impossible Burgers in Europe
Impossible Foods Inc. has applied to start selling its plant-based GMO-containing burgers in the European Union as it looks to expand outside the US and Asia, according to a report for Bloomberg. Continue reading
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Media Silent as Nobel Prize Winning OPCW Found “Fixing” its Own Findings on Syria
Judging by the minimal impact of the news, there will likely be few consequences for those who suppressed information and misled the world, nor for those who called for war on the basis of it, their assertions proving, once again, disastrously wrong. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 29 October 2019
29 October 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back ALERTS: We must act now to save Julian Assange and the Rule of Law https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/10/29/alerts-we-must-act-now-to-save-julian-assange-and-the-rule-of-law/ Continue reading
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