Syria News Links 16 October 2019

16 October 2019 • 15:30 — The New Dark Age

There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back

SDF Launches Counter-Attack In Northern Raqqa, Recaptures Several Positions From Turkish-Backed Militants

Will they, won’t they? Erdogan says he won’t meet US delegation, will only speak to Trump, walks back hours later
https://on.rt.com/a3h3

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It’s curtains for US in Syria. Russia, Iran owe big thanks to Erdogan By M.K. Bhadrakumar

16 October 2019 — Indian Punchline

Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring in Northern Syria has reportedly advanced to a 1000 square kilometers area.

The scenario agreed on behind the curtains through months of confidential exchanges, often one-on-one, between the Russian and Turkish leaders regarding north-eastern Syria is entering a critical phase of implementation on the ground with the agreement between the Kurds and the Assad regime.

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Ecuador News Links 16 October 2019

16 October 2019 — The New Dark Age

There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back

Ecuador Regime’s “Fake Deal” with Protesters: Neocon Moreno Surrendered to IMF “Financial Terrorism”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/ecuadorian-regime-deal-protesters/5692142

Corbyn and Sanders praise brave protesters who stopped austerity in its tracks
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/cf4WS9b8BdI/

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Venezuela: Deconstructing the Largest Social Engineering Experiment on the Planet

15 October 2019 — Internationalist 360°

José Negrón Valera

A famous aphorism, associated with Abraham Lincoln, says the following: “You can fool everyone for a while. You can fool some all the time. But you can’t fool everyone all the time”. But is this really so?

Photographs of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó with members of the macabre paramilitary band Los Rastrojos have been shown. Terrorist Lorent Saleh appears in a video declaring that he is willing to fill the streets of Caracas with blood. Telephone recordings are presented where Lorenzo Mendoza, owner of Venezuela’s largest business conglomerate, talks openly with Ricardo Hausmann, an economist and financial operator, about his plan to indebt the country through a multi-billion dollar loan from the International Monetary Fund.

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Scientific study drawing attention to the risks of GM mosquitoes comes under attack

14 October 2019 — GMWatch

biting mosquito

Why is an Oxitec-linked author leading an attack on her own paper? Report by Claire Robinson and Jonathan Matthews

A recent journal article about GM mosquitoes has caused quite a stir. It showed that some of the male mosquitoes that Oxitec Ltd released experimentally in Brazil had successfully interbred with the local mosquito population, and that their hybrid offspring were now spreading and propagating beyond the release area. This despite Oxitec claiming its mosquitoes had a lethal gene that made them “self-limiting“.

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Metropolitan Police impose London-wide ban on Extinction Rebellion protests as arrests top 1,500 By Chris Marsden

16 October 2019 — WSWS

Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists yesterday defied a London-wide ban on protests by the Metropolitan Police (Met). The basis cited for the ban Monday evening was a revised Section 14 order, of the Public Order Act, stipulating that by 9:00 p.m., “any assembly linked to the Extinction Rebellion ‘autumn uprising’…must now cease their protests within London.”

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5G Cell Phone Electromagnetic Radiation: Devastating Worldwide Health Impacts

16 October 2019 — Global Research – EM Radiation Research Trust 

EM Radiation Research Trust Puts UK Government on Notice

By Eileen O’Connor

For the attention of the Planning Infrastructure Division,
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government,
3rd Floor, Fry Building
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF

Friday, 11th October, 2019

To Whom It May Concern:

EM Radiation Research Trust puts UK government on notice regarding 5G amidst profound world-wide health concerns

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