November 2019
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Green Strategy: To beat climate change, humanity needs socialism
Humans may not survive. Reports from the UN’s Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change provoke images of land masses drowning, fleeing populations, starvation, terrible droughts, terrible storms, migrating diseases, new deserts, and intolerable heat. It’s an “ecological Armageddon,” says one expert. We hear about “the sixth extinction,” the geologic epoch that is our own. It’s called the “Anthropocene.” The… Continue reading
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Hunger Games: Food Abundance and Twisted Truths
The world already produces enough food to feed 10 billion people but over two billion are experiencing micronutrient deficiencies (of which 821 million were classed as chronically undernourished in 2018). However, supporters of genetic engineering (GE) crops continually push the narrative that GE technology is required if we are to feed the world and properly support farmers. Continue reading
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Surprise! MSM Spins OPCW Leak As Russian Disinfo
So you know that Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons scandal we’ve been talking a lot about lately? The one where evidence keeps piling up that the US, UK and France launched airstrikes against the Syrian government last year in retaliation for a poison gas attack which never took place, and then manipulated an… Continue reading
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5G Wireless Technology Is War against Humanity
This important article was first published by Global Research in February 2019. Disclosure about 5G — and its considerable risk for humanity — is occurring within the United Nations. This is thanks to longtime UN staff member and whistle-blower Claire Edwards, who recently contacted me with this powerful story which touches all of humanity and… Continue reading
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‘Mr Assange could die in prison. There is no time to lose’
Julian Assange may be in real danger of dying in a UK prison, medics from across the world warned in an open letter. He may not even be fit to stand extradition trial, given the years of denial of proper healthcare. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 21-25 November 2019
25 November 2019 — The New Dark Age International Group Of Doctors Warns Assange Will “Die In Prison” Without Urgent Medical Care http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/8MS-ApLjKYM/international-group-of-doctors-warns-assange-will-die-in-prison-without-urgent-medical-care.html Chomsky: Prosecution of Assange Reflects “Extreme” Use of State Power https://truthout.org/audio/chomsky-prosecution-of-assange-reflects-extreme-use-of-state-power/ Continue reading
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The Lies About Assange Must Stop Now
Newspapers and other media in the United States, Britain and Australia have recently declared a passion for freedom of speech, especially their right to publish freely. They are worried by the “Assange effect”. It is as if the struggle of truth-tellers like Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning is now a warning to them: that the… Continue reading
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Finally charged and lacking a mandate to govern, Netanyahu’s days are numbered
As the deadlock over forming a government continues, charges against the caretaker prime minister have tipped the country into an uncharted constitutional crisis Continue reading
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Evo Morales and Álvaro García Linera Analyze Bolivia Coup
Evo Morales On November 10, 2019, Bolivia’s military threw its support behind an uprising of rightist pro-Imperialist forces, forcing the resignation of the elected government led by President Evo Morales and driving him into exile in Mexico. Rightist gangs unleashed a wave of murderous violence across Bolivia against all suspected of sympathy with Morales. Continue reading
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UK: Labour’s economic policy: the challenge ahead
Whatever government is formed in the UK after the 12 December election, it faces an immense challenge. The British economy is in a mess and its society is riven with division. Continue reading
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Bolivia News Links 21-22 November 2019
22 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 Macri And The US Involvement In The Bolivian Coup Starting To Emerge https://popularresistance.org/macri-and-the-us-involvement-in-the-bolivian-coup-starting-to-emerge/ Impasse In Bolivia https://popularresistance.org/impasse-in-bolivia/ Continue reading
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‘Years From Now, It’ll Be Clear to Everyone There Was a Coup in Bolivia’
Janine Jackson interviewed CEPR’s Alex Main about the Bolivian coup for the November 15, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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We Thought the House Was Empty: The Forty-Seventh Newsletter (2019)
21 November 2019 — Tri-Continental Visualizing Palestine, Gaza Diet, 2018. Continue reading
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Europe’s Economy Today & Tomorrow, Part 2: Artificial Intelligence, Uberization, & Capitalist ‘Sharing Economy’ Ideology
The Wall St. Journal page one article of November 18, 2019 broadcast: “Europe’s New Jobs Stoke Discontent”. It asked: ‘why are workers so angry’, when millions more jobs have been created since Europe’s last recessions (2008-09 and 2011-13), when millions more job openings remain, and when minimum wages have been raised in most countries’? Continue reading
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Lawyers launch $500M class-action lawsuit against Roundup makers
Darryl Singer, the head of commercial and civil litigation at Diamond & Diamond, said the plaintiffs involved in this class-action lawsuit are looking not only for financial compensation, but also what he calls “behaviour modification” so that the same thing doesn’t happen again in the future with other products in Canada. Continue reading
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Cooler Heads Address the Ukraine Question
The relationship of the famous Ukrainian oligarch and billionaire Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky lends itself to various interpretations. Both Kolomoyskyi and Zelensky (rather, his spokeswoman Iuliia Mendel) are in denial mode about their past business association, but the impression lingers that the oligarch has been the kingmaker. Continue reading
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Bolivia News Links 20-21 November 2019
21 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 Capitalism’s Suicidal Trajectory can’t be ignored https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/capitalisms-suicidal-trajectory-cant-be-ignored/ Evo Morales Calls on International Organizations, Pope Francis to Create a Truth Commission https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/11/20/evo-morales-calls-on-international-organizations-pope-francis-to-create-a-truth-commission/ Continue reading
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Iran News Links 20 November 2019
20 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 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/ Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 20 November 2019
20 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 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 Continue reading
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Capitalism’s suicidal trajectory can’t be ignored
If we make it out of the climate emergency, we may come to view the few decades usually described simply as the Cold War that followed the Second World War as halcyon days – at least relative to what we are facing now. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 