23 October 2019 • 20:40 — The New Dark Age
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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)
23 October 2019 — Asia Times
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands during a joint press conference after their talks in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on October 22, 2019. Photo: Sergei Chirikov / poll / AFP
Russia-Turkey deal establishes ‘safe zone’ along Turkish border and there will be joint Russia-Turkey military patrols
By Pepe Escobar
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.
23 October 2019 — Internationalist 360°
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, backed by the planet’s media power and the US economic and political power elite.
23 October 2019 • 15:20 — The New Dark Age
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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/
23 October 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
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.
23 October 2019 — WSWS
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.
23 October 2019 • 20:40 — The New Dark Age
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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/
22 October 2019 — The New Dark Age
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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/
22 October 2019 — Novara Media
Anita Strasser
by Andy Worthington
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 is what’s happening at Achilles Street.
22 October 2019 — WSWS
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.”
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