31 October 2019 — Tri-Continental
Day: October 31, 2019
Inquiry issues cover-up report on Grenfell Tower fire disaster By Robert Stevens
31 October 2019 — WSWS
The report of the first phase of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry confirms that it is a rotten political cover-up, designed to protect those in the corporate and political elite who are guilty of the horrific murders of 72 men, women and children.
Four Keys to Understanding Evo’s Bolivia
27 October 2019 — Internationalist 360°
How is it possible that there are doubts about the continuity of the President responsible for the political and economic stability in the country with the largest growth rate in the region?
Let’s try to answer to this question by giving not one but several attempts.
Killing Julian Assange: Justice Denied When Exposing Official Wrongdoing By Philip Giraldi
31 October 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
The hideous treatment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues and many observers are citing his case as being symptomatic of developing “police state” tendencies in both the United States and in Europe, where rule of law is being subordinated to political expediency.
COLDTYPE Issue 193 November 2019 – is now on line
Syria News Links 29-31 October 2019
31 October 2019 • 17:20 — The New Dark Age
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Today’s links 31 October 2019
http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/10/todays-links_31.html
Tasmin: US Occupies Syrian Oil Fields
https://hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com/2019/10/31/tasmin-us-occupies-syrian-oil-fields/
Chile News Links 30-31 October 2019
31 October 2019 — The New Dark Age
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Chile withdraws as APEC summit host after weeks of anti-government protests
https://on.rt.com/a4dd
Military conflict between Russia and the US looms large in Deir Ez Zor
29 October 2019 — Mideast discourse
Steven Sahiounie, political commentator
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper explained in a press conference Tuesday, that a new U.S. force will be stationed in eastern Syria to protect the oil fields. Barbara Starr, CNN’s Pentagon reporter, pressed Esper on whether the US military mission there will be to prevent the Russian or the Syrian government forces from accessing the oil at Deir Ez Zor. Esper was forced to admit that the mission was designed to prevent the oil, and revenues generated, from being used by any group other than the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), otherwise referred to as the Kurdish militia who had been US allies in the fight to defeat ISIS.
Black Agenda Report 31 October 2019
31 October 2019 — Black Agenda Report
Farewell to John Conyers Jr. – and to His Era
Glen Ford, BAR executive editor
John Conyers’ long career is a window on the decline of Black politics in the two generations since the demise of the mass Black movement.
John Conyers’ long career is a window on the decline of Black politics in the two generations since the demise of the mass Black movement.
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