31 October 2019 — Tri-Continental
Month: October 2019
Inquiry issues cover-up report on Grenfell Tower fire disaster By Robert Stevens
31 October 2019 — WSWS
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.
Four Keys to Understanding Evo’s Bolivia
27 October 2019 — Internationalist 360°
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?
Let’s try to answer to this question by giving not one but several attempts.
Killing Julian Assange: Justice Denied When Exposing Official Wrongdoing By Philip Giraldi
31 October 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
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.
COLDTYPE Issue 193 November 2019 – is now on line
Syria News Links 29-31 October 2019
31 October 2019 • 17:20 — The New Dark Age
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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/
Chile News Links 30-31 October 2019
31 October 2019 — The New Dark Age
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Chile withdraws as APEC summit host after weeks of anti-government protests
https://on.rt.com/a4dd
Military conflict between Russia and the US looms large in Deir Ez Zor
29 October 2019 — Mideast discourse
Steven Sahiounie, political commentator
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 oil at Deir Ez Zor. Esper was forced to admit that the mission was designed to prevent the oil, and revenues generated, from being used by any group other than the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), otherwise referred to as the Kurdish militia who had been US allies in the fight to defeat ISIS.
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.
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.
Here’s How Much Worse Things Will Get If Capitalism Isn’t Overthrown
30 October 2019 — See you in 2020
A supermarket during the 2019 California blackout wave
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. By doing so, they accelerate the tendency toward greater tour de force adventures, less predictability, less stability in general. The cycle of manic enthusiasm, then fear, then Partei solutions of a desperate type…all this tends to bring the most irresponsible and reckless aspirants to the top.”
Nuclear Weapons and Turkey Since 1959
30 October 2019 — National Security Archive
Members of Congress Worried in 1960 That Leaders of a Coup “Might Seize Control” of Weapons
Other U.S. Officials Feared Risks of Accidental War or Overreaction to Local Crises
During Mid-1960s Turkish Officials Were Interested in Producing an “Atomic Bomb”
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 688
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
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Lebanon News Links 30 October 2019
30 October 2019 — The New Dark Age
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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/
London Times Runs Fake Browder Opinion Piece
30 October 2019 — Consortium News
The writers of this op ed managed to put eight lies into just five opening lines, writes Lucy Komisar.
By Lucy Komisar
The Komisar Scoop
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.
British Government Retains Julian Assange in a Maximum Security Prison at the Behest of Trump Regime
30 October 2019 — Global Research
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
Our Vanishing World: Insects
30 October 2019 — Global Research
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.
“Let Them Eat Cotton” : Genetically Modified Cotton as a “Solution to Human Hunger”? Approved by FDA
30 October 2019 — Global Research
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 our food chain. Soon, as a result, the world food chain may well be contaminated with the GMO cottonseeds whose dangers have been simply ignored by authorities.
Impossible Foods wants to sell its Impossible Burgers in Europe
Media Silent as Nobel Prize Winning OPCW Found “Fixing” its Own Findings on Syria
29 October 2019 — Mint Press
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.
Julian Assange News Links 29 October 2019
29 October 2019 — The New Dark Age
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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/
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