Iran News Links 20 November 2019

20 November 2019 — The New Dark Age

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With eye on India, Pakistan strengthens military ties with Iran
https://indianpunchline.com/with-eye-on-india-pakistan-strengthens-military-ties-with-iran/

Tehran Loses Patience With Modi Government’s Hide And Seek
https://orientalreview.org/2019/11/20/tehran-loses-patience-with-modi-governments-hide-and-seek/

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Julian Assange News Links 20 November 2019

20 November 2019 — The New Dark Age

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Sweden Drops Investigation Into Julian Assange as US Extradition Looms
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/R8FbAmcBlRo/sweden-drops-investigation-into-julian-assange-as-us-extradition-looms.html

Collapse of Swedish “sexual misconduct” frame-up exposes political conspiracy against Assange
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/20/pers-n20.html

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Bolivia News Links 20 November 2019

20 November 2019 — The New Dark Age

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The Rise of Militant Religious Right in Latin America
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/11/20/the-rise-militant-religious-right-in-latin-america/

Bolivia:  A Color Revolution or a New Surge for Latin American Independence?
https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/bolivia-a-color-revolution-or-a-new-surge-for-latin-american-independence/

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Capitalism versus Life on Earth

20 November 2019 — Climate & Capitalism

Deadly growth

Image by The All-Nite Images via Flickr

Environmental destruction isn’t driven by human nature or mistaken ideas. It is an inevitable consequence of a system built on capital accumulation.


Climate & Capitalism editor Ian Angus spoke at an educational conference organized by Socialist Action in Toronto, on November 16, 2019. His talk has been edited for publication.


by Ian Angus

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China, USA and the Geopolitics of Lithium

18 November 2019 — New Eastern Outlook

F. William Engdahl

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For several years since the global push to develop mass-scale Electric Vehicles, the element Lithium has come into focus as a strategic metal. Demand is enormous in China, in the EU and in the USA at present, and securing control over lithium supplies is already developing its own geopolitics not unlike that for the control of oil.