8 October 2019 • 18:20 — The New Dark Age

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Brexit: Boris Johnson Moves to Scrap Environment and GMO Safeguards to Get Deal with Trump
https://www.globalresearch.ca/brexit-boris-johnson-moves-to-scrap-environment-and-gmo-safeguards-to-get-deal-with-trump/5691400

Johnson’s Government Now Resorts to Threatening EU27 – Diplomatic Fallout Next?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/johnson-government-resorts-threatening-eu27/5691404

Judges hear arguments in Brexit case
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/0gXafTyuh_0/

Today’s Links 8 October 2019
http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/10/todays-links_8.html

MPs anxious about UK’s no-deal Brexit toilet paper supplies
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/VsHODWVNKz0/

Brexit: Deal essentially impossible, No 10 source says after PM-Merkel call
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49970267

Instead of trying to woo Tory voters, Jo Swinson should be getting behind Corbyn
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/wWuJSyIoWV0/

Brexit: Boris Johnson moves to scrap environment safeguards to get deal with Trump
https://williambowles.info/2019/10/08/brexit-boris-johnson-moves-to-scrap-environment-safeguards-to-get-deal-with-trump/

Johnson accuses EU of making it impossible to leave with a deal
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/tkZl-dE92OQ/ 

Brexit: Deal ‘essentially impossible’ after PM-Merkel call – No 10
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49970267

Boris Johnson out in the cold with no Brexit deal in sight
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/QM41dyQmKE4/

Low paid workers join no-deal Brexit legal battle
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49960647

No-deal Brexit would push UK debt to 50-year high, says think tank
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49961301

European Union set to reject Johnson’s Brexit proposal
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/08/brex-o08.html

World Bank chief expects global economic growth to be below 2.6% this year
https://tass.com/economy/1081921

Johnson’s government now resorts to threatening EU27 – diplomatic fallout next
https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/johnsons-government-now-resorts-to-threatening-eu27-diplomatic-fallout-next/

The Papers: Rows over US diplomat’s wife and Jennifer Arcuri
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-49967766

Electoral Manipulation – Questions for Johnson, Gove and Cummings
https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/electoral-manipulation-questions-for-johnson-gove-and-cummings/

GM Foods – Don’t Hide What’s Inside
https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/gm-foods-dont-hide-whats-inside/

What is a no-deal Brexit?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-49936105

The Brexit secretary’s ‘rhetoric’ exposes the DUP’s irrelevance to the Tory government
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/zYQUUuYlxgc/

The reality of Johnson’s trade deal with Trump could mean ‘maggots’ and ‘insect filth’ are allowed in food
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/qBazZYCYVm8/

PM calls on EU to ‘thrash out’ Brexit objections
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49959961

Divisions continue over opposition parties’ Brexit strategy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49962529