November 2019
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The debts of undocumented Vietnamese migrants in Europe
Debt and trafficking were used to explain why 39 Vietnamese migrants were found dead in a lorry in Essex, but whom did the migrants owe? Continue reading
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Bolivia News Links 30 November 2019
30 November 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 Québec Solidaire Congress: A Few Skirmishes, But Shift Right? https://socialistproject.ca/2019/11/quebec-solidaire-congress-few-skirmishes-shift-right/ Bolivia’s Coup Dictatorship Threatens Argentine Human Rights Delegation https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/11/29/bolivias-coup-dictatorship-threatens-the-argentine-delegation/ Continue reading
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We Asked NHS Doctors About the Trade Documents Corbyn Revealed
This week Corbyn revealed un-redacted trade documents detailing talks between the Conservative government and the Trump administration between 2016 – now. He argued they prove the NHS is indeed up for sale, contradicting Boris Johnson. We asked two medical doctors to explain the papers. Featuring Dr Rita Issa and Dr Timesh Pillay. Continue reading
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OPCW Manufactured A Pretext For War By Suppressing Its Own Scientists’ Research
Leaks from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) prove that the OPCW management ignored or manipulated reports its Fact Finding Mission had written about the April 2018 Douma incident in Syria. Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 195 December 2019 – is now online
29 November 2019 — Coldtype Continue reading
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Understand The OPCW Scandal In Seven Minutes
One of the annoying things about continuing to write about the OPCW/Douma scandal in the near-total absence of mainstream media coverage is the fact that it’s difficult for a new reader to just jump in on this developing story without having followed it from the beginning. There are a lot of details to go over… Continue reading
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Member of Ukraine’s Parliament Leaks Trove of Biden Financial Records
The New York Times has once again exposed itself as an organ of US special interests operating under the guise of journalism – contributing to Wall Street and Washington’s ongoing and escalating hybrid war with China with a particularly underhanded piece of war propaganda. Continue reading
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NYT’s “Leaked” Chinese Files Story Covers For Terrorism
The New York Times has once again exposed itself as an organ of US special interests operating under the guise of journalism – contributing to Wall Street and Washington’s ongoing and escalating hybrid war with China with a particularly underhanded piece of war propaganda. Continue reading
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Who Gets to Speak for British Jews? How the Myth of ‘the Jewish Community’ Marginalises Dissent
The UK’s chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, caused yet another headache for Labour this week when he accused Jeremy Corbyn of allowing “a poison sanctioned from the top” to take root in the party. Although he didn’t explicitly tell people not to vote Labour, it was easy to read between the lines when Rabbi Mirvis mused,… Continue reading
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New Study: “Russian Trolls” Did Not “Sow Discord” – They Influenced No One
The U.S. has claimed that the Russia government tried to influence the 2016 election through Facebook and Twitter. Russia supposedly did this through people who worked the Internet Research Agency (IRA) in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia. The IRA people ran virtual persona on U.S. social networks which pretended to have certain political opinions. It also… Continue reading
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Bolivia News Links 29 November 2019
29 November 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 Russian diplomat compares developments in Bolivia to Ukrainian events https://tass.com/politics/1094011 Alternative Media promotes Canadian Foreign Policy https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/alternative-media-promotes-canadian-foreign-policy/ Continue reading
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Capitalism: The fantasy world continues
The fantasy world continues. In the US and Europe, stock market index levels are hitting new all-time highs. Bond prices are also near all-time highs. Investment in both stocks and bonds are delivering massive profits for the financial institutions and companies. Conversely, in the ‘real’ economy, particularly in the productive sectors of industry and transport, the… Continue reading
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Follow the Leader: Conservative Candidates Failing to Attend Local Climate Hustings
Conservative Party candidates across the UK appear to be following their party leader by failing to participate in public debates on the climate crisis. Continue reading
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Bolivia News Links 22-28 November 2019
28 November 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 Bolivia: Let’s Wake up. Please https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/11/27/bolivia-lets-wake-up-please/ US Is Again Complicit in an Illegal Coup, This Time in Bolivia https://truthout.org/articles/us-is-again-complicit-in-an-illegal-coup-this-time-in-bolivia/ Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 28 November 2019
28 November 2019 — Black Agenda Report A (Re)Born National “Black and Left-Led” Organization Fights for Community Control of Police Glen Ford, BAR executive editor On the momentum of Chicago’s anti-police movement – the most advanced in the nation – the city’s Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression has gone national after a highly successful conference. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Headlines 27-28 November 2019
28 November 2019 — Information Clearing House Senior Religious ‘Leader Interferes In UK Election By ICH & Agencies Corbyn:’We will recognise a Palestinian state when we take office’ – Continue ====== Continue reading
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‘The Tories Pose an Immense Risk to Us and to All Minorities’: The Jewish Groups Campaigning for Corbyn
On Tuesday, the country’s chief Rabbi criticised Jeremy Corbyn on antisemitism, saying he had allowed “a poison sanctioned from the top” to take root in the party. Earlier this month, the UK’s oldest and largest Jewish newspaper, the Jewish Chronicle, published a front page editorial that asked non-Jews to do the same. Before this, in October,… Continue reading
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UK: Chief Rabbi Mirvis is helping stoke antisemitism
Chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has not only misrepresented the known facts about Labour and its supposed antisemitism crisis. He has not only interfered in an overtly, politically partisan manner in the December 12 election campaign by suggesting that Jeremy Corbyn – against all evidence – is an antisemite. Continue reading
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A system that steals from our future
A major report on human health in the Anthropocene, published in the British medical journal The Lancet, begins by noting an apparent paradox, that global human health has been improving even while environmental destruction is undermining it. The explanation, the authors say, is “straightforward and sobering.” Continue reading
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Antisemitism claims have one goal: To stop Jeremy Corbyn winning power
A supposed antisemitism crisis in Britain’s Labour party since Jeremy Corbyn became leader has erupted back into the headlines. This time barely any effort has been made to conceal the fact that the accusations relate to the “danger” that Corbyn could soon win power, with Britain gearing up for a general election in less than… Continue reading
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