The New Dark Age

'Socialism or Barbarism'

October 2019

  • 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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  • 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

  • The Chilean Tsunami

    Piñera’s regime – and I insist on “regime” because a government that represses with the brutality that everyone has seen cannot be considered democratic – faces the most serious popular threat ever faced by any government since the overthrow of Popular Unity on September 11, 1973. Ridiculous official explanations do not even convince those who… Continue reading

  • Judge Denies Assange Extension on Extradition Hearing

    The judge in Julian Assange’s extradition process on Monday denied his lawyer’s appeal for more time to prepare his case as the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher weakly told the court he was unable to “research anything” in the conditions under which he is being held in high-security Belmarsh Prison. Continue reading

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  • Syria News Links 20-21 October 2019

    21 October 2019 • 18:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Syrian Army Sends More Battle Tanks And Troops To Border Ahead Of Resumption Of Turkish Offensive (Video) Trump ‘fully prepared’ for military action against Turkey – Continue reading

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  • GMO Myths and Truths (4th edition) includes new chapter on gene editing

    Book explains the threat to food safety and environment posed by gene-edited GMOs Continue reading

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  • Capitalism ‘Good’ & ‘Bad’: A Reply to Stiglitz and Macron By Jack Rasmus

    I was recently asked by a media source to answer the followning questions for an interview about the future of capitalism in general, and about recent comments on that theme by economist, Joseph Stiglitz, and France’s president, Macron. Here are my responses to the questions asked by the reporter: Continue reading

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  • Brexit News Links 21 October 2019

    21 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 Brexit: MPs’ vote on deal ruled out by Speaker John Bercow https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50128740 Brexit: No 10 to push again for vote on Boris Johnson’s deal https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50117284 Continue reading

  • Ecuador News Links 21 October 2019

    21 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 Peace Restored in Ecuador. But Is Trust Restored? https://www.globalresearch.ca/peace-restored-ecuador/5692594 Indigenous Rising in Ecuador and International Solidarity https://www.globalresearch.ca/indigenous-ecuador-international-solidarity/5692553 Continue reading