12 October 2019 — WSWS
Yesterday marked six months since WikiLeaks’ publisher Julian Assange was expelled from Ecuador’s London embassy and arrested by the British police. The sight of a persecuted journalist being manhandled by five burly police in the capital of a supposedly democratic country shocked millions of people around the world.
12 October 2019 — WSWS
Permanent RecordIn the final chapter of his memoir Permanent Record, Edward Snowden issues a warning to his readers. He writes, “[I]t wouldn’t take much for an interested government to find out that you’ve been reading this book. At the very least, it wouldn’t take much to find out that you have it, whether you downloaded it illegally or bought a hard copy online or purchased it at a brick-and-mortar-store with a credit card.”
12 October 2019 — Information Clearing House
By Moon Of Aalabama
The connection to Biden has emerged a week after, the Intelligence Community’s inspector general, briefed the House Intelligence Committee on the whistleblower’s complaint.. Continue
12 October 2019 • 11:00 — The New Dark Age
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Five dead and almost 1,000 arrested as repression mounts in Ecuador
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/12/ecua-o12.html
Protest leaders in Ecuador refuse to start dialogue with authorities
https://tass.com/world/1082808
12 October 2019 — Indian Punchline
‘Operation Peace Spring’: Turkey’s military operation inside Syria launched on October 9, 2019.
Shall we sit upon the ground and tell there is no longer daylight between Russia and Turkey? We are almost there. The Turkish incursion into Syria on Wednesday is the tipping point. Turkey and Russia are closely coordinating. Consider the following.
11 October 2019 — Collective Evolution
By Arjun Walia
10 October 2019 — WSWS
Amid the storm of denunciations—extending from right-wing Republicans to the Democratic Party, the New York Times and the pseudo-left Jacobin magazine—of his decision to pull US troops out of Syria, President Donald Trump issued an extraordinary tweet on Wednesday in defense of his policy:
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