The New Dark Age

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October 22, 2019

  • What Does the U.S. Public Think of Its Government Arming and Bombing the World?

    Data for Progress for quite a while appeared to be yet another U.S. PEP group (Progressive Except for Peace). They were producing useful polling reports on all sorts of topics as if 96% of humanity didn’t exist. Foreign policy just couldn’t be found. They told me they were just getting around to it. You still… Continue reading

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  • Syria News Links 22 October 2019

    22 October 2019 • 17:40 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Russian & Syrian forces to deploy to northeastern Syria outside Turkey operation zone – Putin-Erdogan agreement https://on.rt.com/a3u1 Trump approves $4.5 million in aid to ‘White Helmets’ Continue reading

  • Britain’s shameful treatment of a political prisoner

    By TruePublica: Britain is no better than any other despotic regime if this is how it treats a journalist/whistleblower in custody. It makes no matter what your personal views on Julian Assange are. He is a political prisoner and like any other prisoner in the hands of the British state he should be treated with… Continue reading

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  • Bolivia News Links 22 October 2019

    22 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 President of Bolivia Celebrates Victory in the First Round of the General Elections https://williambowles.info/2019/10/22/president-of-bolivia-celebrates-victory-in-the-first-round-of-the-general-elections/ Continue reading

  • The Return of the Class Struggle

    A specter is haunting the world. It is not yet that of communism, but that of class struggle—in capital letters. This new wave of protests began with the emergence of the yellow vests in France, which for the first time in many years made the ruling class of an imperialist country fear revolt. It has… Continue reading

  • Corporate debt, fiscal stimulus and the next recession

    The debt owed by corporations in the major economies has risen since the end of the Great Recession in 2009.  With global growth slowing and the prospect rising of an outright global recession recurring ten years after the last one, the debt held by corporations may soon become so burdensome to a sufficiently large number… Continue reading

  • The US/UK trade deal is truly frightening – here’s what’s coming

    By TruePublica Editor: In the magical illusions of the smoke and mirrors ideology behind Brexit, we should be acutely aware of what a trade deal with America means. In our article this week – The MAGA Agenda – it seems that among those on the radical right – the government, their acolytes and corporate donors… Continue reading

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  • Julian Assange News Links 22 October 2019

    22 October 2019 • 15:50 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Slow-Motion US/UK Killing of Julian Assange Anti-Assange Court Continues Unfair Extradition Hearing to Railroad Assange to US Continue reading

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  • Assange in Court By Craig Murray

    I was deeply shaken while witnessing yesterday’s events in Westminster Magistrates Court. Every decision was railroaded through over the scarcely heard arguments and objections of Assange’s legal team, by a magistrate who barely pretended to be listening. Continue reading

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  • President of Bolivia Celebrates Victory in the First Round of the General Elections

    President Evo Morales announced today the victory of the Socialist Movement (MAS) for the fourth time in a row in the general elections of Bolivia, after knowing the preliminary results of Sunday’s polls. Continue reading

  • Chile News Links 21-22 October 2019

    22 October 2019 • 21:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back “We Can’t Remain Indifferent”: Chile Trade Unions Call For General Strike In Support Of Student-Led Uprising https://popularresistance.org/we-cant-remain-indifferent-chile-trade-unions-call-for-general-strike-in-support-of-student-led-uprising/ To Defend Evo’s Victory is to Defend the Peace, Continue reading