October 23, 2019
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Syria News Links 22-23 October 2019
23 October 2019 • 20:40 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Dozens Of French, UK, U.S. Service Members Withdraw From Northeast Syria Russian MoD: Syrian Army To Establish 15 Observation Post East Of Euphrates (Map) Continue reading
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Vladimir Putin, Syria’s pacifier-in-chief
The negotiations in Sochi were long – over six hours – tense and tough. Two leaders in a room with their interpreters and several senior Turkish ministers close by if advice was needed. The stakes were immense: a road map to pacify northeast Syria, finally. Continue reading
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To Defend Evo’s Victory is to Defend the Peace, Democracy, Prosperity and Sovereignty of Latin America as a Whole
A new chapter is added to the complex scenario recently configured in Latin America with the anti-neoliberal popular rebellions in Ecuador, Haiti and Chile, in which the right-wing forces that govern in those countries have responded with the most brutal repression: the disregard of Evo Morales’ resounding electoral triumph by the Bolivian and international right-wing,… Continue reading
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Brexit News Links 22-23 October 2019
23 October 2019 • 15:20 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back How the BBC and ITV turned into full-on Tory propaganda mouthpieces http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/KQIvgovtQN0/ Boris Johnson’s hospital building programme – just another lie? https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/boris-johnsons-hospital-building-programme-just-another-lie/ Continue reading
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Burn, Neoliberalism, Burn By Pepe Escobar
Neoliberalism is – literally – burning. And from Ecuador to Chile, South America, once again, is showing the way. Against the vicious, one-size-fits-all IMF austerity prescription, which deploys weapons of mass economic destruction to smash national sovereignty and foster social inequality, South America finally seems poised to reclaim the power to forge its own history. Continue reading
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Germany, US threaten war amid Russia-Turkey summit on Syria By Alex Lantier
As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan flew to the Russian resort of Sochi for a summit yesterday with President Vladimir Putin on the war in Syria, Berlin and Washington issued bloodcurdling threats of all-out war in the Middle East. Continue reading
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Chile News Links 23 October 2019
23 October 2019 • 20:40 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Mass protests continue in defiance of military crackdown in Chile http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/23/pers-o23.html Chile’s Social Organizations Convene Constituent Assembly https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/chiles-social-organizations-convene-constituent-assembly/ Continue reading
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Ecuador 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 Ecuador: From The Middle of the World to the End of the World https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/10/21/ecuador-middle-world-end-world The Joker and Latin American Turbulence https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/10/21/the-joker-and-latin-american-turbulence/ Continue reading
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Refurbishment Is the Dirty Word We Should Be Using, Just Look at the Achilles Street Estate
Imagine living on a council estate and being given a ballot on the proposed destruction of your home as part of a ‘regeneration’ plan. Imagine that the council makes all kinds of lavish promises regarding your future housing and security, but then refuses to back up these promises with anything resembling a legally-binding contract. This… Continue reading
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The New York Times, China, and the specter of the “Yellow Peril”
In a full-page editorial in its Sunday edition, the New York Times engaged in a vicious anti-Chinese rant, warning of a “dangerous and growing threat” by the “aggressive … Communist state.” Continue reading
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