October 2019
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MANBIJ LIBERATED BY SYRIAN ARMY; RUSSIAN PATIENCE PROVING LETHAL TO TURK AMBITIONS; KURDS GRUDGINGLY COOPERATE
It took two buffoons like Erdoghan and Trump to make Dr. Assad’s day a very pleasant one. First, the Turks invaded northeastern Syria ostensibly to block the formation of some tin-pot Kurdish enclave bedecked in the classic style of the bargaining chip the U.S. once needed to impose elections on the Syrian government. What the… Continue reading
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Leading Israel lobby MP quits Labour By Asa Winstanley
Labour Friends of Israel’s chairperson Louise Ellman quit as a member of Labour on Wednesday evening, demanding a “different leadership” in the UK’s main opposition party. Continue reading
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Syria News Links 18 October 2019
18 October 2019 • 16:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Erdogan Says He Has No Objection To Damascus’ Control Over Northeastern Syria Syrian Army Enters More Towns In Northeast Syria To Support SDF Continue reading
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Capital not ideology By Michael Roberts
Back in 2014, French economist Thomas Piketty published a blockbuster book, Capital in the 21st century. Repeating the name of Marx’s Capital, the implication of the title was that it was an updating Marx’s 19th century critique of capitalism for the 21st century. Piketty argued that the inequality of income and wealth in the major… Continue reading
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Brace yourself for Saturday 19th October
By TruePublica Editor: This Saturday is as important as that vote back in 2016. On the 23rd of June 2016, the electorate of Britain marginally voted to leave the EU. Three years and four months later parliament decides if that should happen. After the social division, mass political back-stabbings and subsequent implosion of the Tory… Continue reading
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Truth About Syria.”How Could Corporate Journalists Get Away with Their Lies…” By Alison Banville
Eva Bartlett: ‘when I arrived on the 29th (of December 2018) I was told that, aside from yourself (gestures to Vanessa Beeley), I was the only other western journalist in Syria. And it struck me not so much as surprising, in fact it’s more expected, that corporate media journalists could very well be here, but they’re… Continue reading
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Brexit News Links 18 October 2019
18 October 2019 • 14:20 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Brexit protest message ploughed in field http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/b0YduHbOIvs/ What can we expect from a Brexit general election – and when? https://truepublica.org.uk/video-news/what-can-we-expect-from-a-brexit-general-election/ Continue reading
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Media And Pundits Misread The ‘Everyone Wins’ Plan For Syria
The U.S. media get yesterday’s talks between U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan all wrong. Those talks were just a show to soothe the criticism against President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northeast Syria. Continue reading
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Ecuador News Links 18 October 2019
18 October 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Ecuador –The fight Against Moreno and the IMF is far from Over Ecuador – The Fight Against Moreno and the IMF Is Far from Over https://www.globalresearch.ca/ecuador-fight-against-moreno-imf/5692367 Continue reading
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The IMF Does Not Fight Financial Fires But Douses Them With Gasoline: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2019)
Quito’s streets tremble between aspiration and repression; the smell of tear gas and the shouts for freedom reverberating in equal measure from one part of the city to another. President Lenín Moreno’s State of Emergency (October 3) and Curfew (October 12) give the men with guns more authority, but – despite hundreds of injured protestors and… Continue reading
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France torches Lafarge cement plant in Syria
On 16 October 2019, the International Coalition set fire to the French-owned Lafarge Cement Factory in Jalabiyeh (on the Turkish border, north of Aleppo) before the arrival of the Syrian Arab Army in the area. Continue reading
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How Capitalism ‘Solved’ the Nitrogen Crisis (continued)
Part Four of Ian Angus’s examination of the disruption of the global nitrogen cycle by an economic system that values profits more than life itself. Continue reading
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Is Johnson planning to renege on his Brexit deal?
“There is not a soul in the long corridors of Whitehall who believes the prime minister is telling the truth“. These are the words of Financial Times columnist Philip Stephens whose article is entitled – “Boris Johnson’s lies are plunging Britain into a dark morass.” Stephens is right to point out that deceiving the Queen,… Continue reading
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Syria News Links 16-17 October 2019
17 October 2019 • 19:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Military Situation In Northern Syria On October 17, 2019 (Map Update) In Video: Army Deploys Rocket Launchers In Northeast Syria To Support SDF Turkey Accuses ‘Terrorists’ Of Continue reading
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Brexit News Links 17 October 2019
17 October 2019 • 11:45 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Is Johnson planning to renege on his Brexit deal? https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/is-johnson-planning-to-renege-on-his-brexit-deal/ Brexit deal done, Boris Johnson announces http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/MNLBQrpd-0Q/ Continue reading
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These Scrubbed Reports Reveal New Secrets Into the Prince Andrew-Jeffrey Epstein Relationship
While the Jeffrey Epstein scandal has largely faded from media coverage in the United States, it has continued to attract attention abroad, particularly in the United Kingdom in connection with Epstein’s long-standing association with Prince Andrew, the Duke of York and the Queen’s son. Continue reading
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New Developments in the Skripal Case Reveal it for the Sham it Always Was By James ONeill
Whilst she was there, father and daughter became seriously ill while in the centre of town. They were found on a park bench and taken to hospital. They both recovered, and apart from a brief statement by Yulia some weeks later, neither has been heard from since. Continue reading
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China News Links 16-17 October 2019
17 October 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Huawei Moving on Without Google? http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2019/10/huawei-moving-on-without-google.html Christian Dior apologises to China over map error https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50078886 Continue reading
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No Brexit deal reached as European Union summit begins By Chris Marsden
In the end, yesterday finished with statements by a spokesman for Boris Johnson’s Conservative government that no Brexit deal would be reached as negotiations with the Tories’ political partners, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), and technical talks with the European Union (EU) were ongoing. Continue reading
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How The Win-Win-Win-Win Plan For Syria’s Northeast Succeeds
Russian troops prevented attempts by Turkish supported Jihadis to attack Manbij. Russian and Syrian units now also entered Ayn al-Arab/Kobani. Syrian government troops took control of the electricity producing dam in Tabqah and some units set up posts in Raqqa. Other units entered the Conoco and Al-Umar oil fields north of Abu Kahmal and east… Continue reading
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