November 2019
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Bolivia 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 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/ Continue reading
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Capitalism versus Life on Earth
Environmental destruction isn’t driven by human nature or mistaken ideas. It is an inevitable consequence of a system built on capital accumulation. Continue reading
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China, USA and the Geopolitics of Lithium
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… Continue reading
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Julian Assange appears in court via video link: Legal rights denied by judge
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange attended a procedural hearing at Westminster Magistrates Court in London via video link on Monday. He is required to appear before the court every 28 days in the run-up to US extradition hearings in February. Continue reading
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The OPCW and Douma: Chemical Weapons Watchdog Accused of Evidence-Tampering by Its Own Inspectors
Claims that President Bashar al-Assad’s forces have used chemical weapons are almost as old as the Syrian civil war itself. They have produced strong reactions, and none more so than in the case of the alleged attack in April last year on the opposition-controlled area of Douma near Damascus in which 43 people are said… Continue reading
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Unpacking Media Propaganda About Bolivia’s Election
To endorse the coup in Bolivia, numerous editorials in major US media outlets paint President Evo Morales as undemocratic. Exhibit A in their case is the Organization of American States’ (OAS) claims that there was fraud in the October 20 Bolivian election in which Morales was elected for a fourth term. They also argue that… Continue reading
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Is Corbyn a socialist and does it (no longer) matter if he isn’t?
Is this election different? Can we expect a Corbyn-led government to turn back the tide? Can we even expect an attempt at turning back the tide? Frankly, I don’t think we have much choice, after all, what else is there? The left, such as it is, is bankrupt and devoid of revolutionary ideas so the… Continue reading
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Bolivia News Links 16-18 November 2019
18 November 2019 • 19:00 — 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 Faces Croatian-Style Ethnic Cleansing & South African-Like Apartheid https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/11/18/bolivia-faces-croatian-style-ethnic-cleansing-south-african-like-apartheid/ Chile: Caution Regarding a “Constituent Assembly” and “New Constitution” https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/11/17/chile-caution-regarding-a-constituent-assembly-and-new-constitution/ Continue reading
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The Hugely Important OPCW Scandal Keeps Unfolding. Here’s Why No One’s Talking About It
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is now hemorrhaging evidence that the US and its allies deceived the world once again about yet another military intervention, which should be a front-page story all over the world. Yet if you looked at American news media headlines you’d think the only thing that matters right… Continue reading
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Anti-Semitism Bandwagon Resumes Against Corbyn
For a few months over the summer the British corporate media largely lost interest in smearing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as an anti-Semite. Maybe they had begun to worry that the constant drum-beat of the past three years was deadening the public’s sensitivity to such claims. Continue reading
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The Roger Stone – Wikileaks – Russia Hoax
As ever, the Guardian wins the prize for the most tendentious reporting of Roger Stone’s conviction. This is not quite on the scale of its massive front page lie that Paul Manafort visited Julian Assange in the Ecuadorean Embassy. But it is a lie with precisely the same intent, to deceive the public into believing… Continue reading
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Syria News Links 16-18 November 2019
18 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 Syria talks planned for early December in Kazakhstan — Kazakh foreign minister https://tass.com/world/1089751 Syria recaptures second-most powerful dam in Aleppo https://tass.com/world/1089745 Continue reading
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Brazil News Links 16-18 November 2019
18 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 Russia Hopes Expert Groups for BRICS Energy Platform to Be Formed in 2019 http://infobrics.org/post/29783/ Brazil: Lula Is Free https://popularresistance.org/brazil-lula-is-free/ Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 18 November 2019
18 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 UN special rapporteur exposes Swedish sexual misconduct frame-up of Assange http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/18/assa-n18.html Protesters at London’s Trafalgar Square speak out to demand freedom for Julian Assange http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/18/ints-n18.html Continue reading
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Wall Street Journal investigation confirms Google operates censorship blacklist
An investigation by the Wall Street Journal has confirmed many of the central allegations made by the World Socialist Web Site in 2017 regarding Google’s censorship of the internet. Continue reading
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Bolivia: 9 Corpses in 24 hours Prove Dictatorship’s Violence
16 November 2019 — Telesur Teresa Zubieta, the Ombudsman’s office delegate, holds that 23 people have died amidst the coup d’etat. Over the last 24 hours, at least nine Bolivians have died as a result of repressive actions carried out by the security forces that support the coup-based government headed by Senator Jeanine Añez. Continue reading
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“The Palace… Threatened Us a Million Different Ways”
This leaked off-air recording of ABC News anchor Amy Robach is much more revealing than anything the BBC is going to air about Andrew Saxe Coburg Gotha. Continue reading
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Karma: British “White Helmets” Co-Founder Dead in Turkey
Former British military officer James Le Mesurier suspected of ties to MI6 and the co-founder of the so-called “White Helmets” front was found dead this month in Turkey from an apparent fall from his residence. Continue reading
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Who Was the Founder of the White Helmets? Was He Killed by the Islamic State (ISIS-Daesh)?
The founder of the White Helmets, James Le Mesurier, was found dead on November 11 in suspicious circumstances after falling off a two-story apartment building in downtown Istanbul. He was a former British army veteran and a private security contractor from 2008 to 2012 working for Good Harbor [1], run by Richard Clarke, the former… Continue reading
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Arbuthnot Out as Assange’s Judge, Says WikiLeaks Lawyer Jen Robinson
WikiLeaks lawyer Jen Robinson said Lady Emma Arbuthnot, the judge presiding over Julian Assange’s extradition proceedings who is embroiled in a conflict of interest, will no longer be sitting on the case. Continue reading
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