November 2019
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COLDTYPE Issue 194 Mid-November 2019 – is now online
8 November 2019 — Coldtype Continue reading
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The battle for the future of food in Africa
Certain policies, strongly promoted by the Gates Foundation, open Africa to the multinational seed companies in the name of modernization, but they undermine climate resilience and food security for Africa’s small-scale farmers. Report: Million Belay, Timothy A. Wise Continue reading
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JOHN PILGER’S NEW FILM IN CINEMAS AND ON TV THIS DECEMBER
The new John Pilger film, The Dirty War on the NHS, will be released in cinemas in the UK on 1 December and broadcast on the ITV Network on 17 December. Continue reading
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How to Help Julian Assange by Writing to Him in Prison
Not reported by ANY corporate media was the October 2 London protest to protect Julian Assange, led by Pink Floyd’s world famous co-founder, Roger Waters and award-winning journalist John Pilger, in front of Britain’s Home Office. About 1,000 people attended. Continue reading
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Assange lawyers’ links to US govt & Bill Browder raises questions
A US government lawyer in the Assange extradition case just wrote a London Times oped promoting the Browder Magnitsky hoax. Ben Brandon is one of five lawyers in a London network whose spokes link to convicted tax fraudster William Browder, the U.S. government, and to both sides of the extradition case against whistleblower publisher Julian… Continue reading
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Former British Ambassador to Syria: UK complicit in Trump’s Syria Oil Grab
The cat is out of the bag. The UK is potentially complicit in a war crime. With typical insouciance the U.S. military dropped this bombshell by tweet and apparently without realizing the implications for U.S. partners: Continue reading
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UK General Election News Links 5-7 November 2019
7 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 [I’ve included all the BBC ‘news’ coverage of the general election. Mostly it’s trivial but you be the judge. WB] Lewes Bonfire Night effigies include a urinating Boris Johnson… Continue reading
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Syria News Links 6-7 November 2019
7 November 2019 • 15:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Today’s Links 7 November 2019 http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/11/todays-links_7.html Former British Ambassador to Syria: UK complicit in Trump’s Syria Oil Grab https://www.mintpressnews.com/peter-ford-former-british-ambassador-syria-uk-complicit-trumps-syria-oil-grab/262693/ Continue reading
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US congressional panel outlines next phase of dirty war on Syria: Occupy oil fields and block reconstruction
A DC foreign-policy apparatchik who oversaw Congress’ Syria Study Group proclaimed that the US military “owned” one-third of Syrian territory, including its “economic powerhouse,” then outlined a sadistic strategy for preventing reconstruction of the “rubble.” Continue reading
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Even a Clown Is Fascinated by Ideas: The Forty-Fifth Newsletter (2019)
In 2017, Issa Shivji delivered the Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Issa, who taught at the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) for decades, reflected on the idea of revolutionary intellectuals. He remembered a lecture given by Ali Mazrui fifty years previously, where Mazrui defined an intellectual as someone… Continue reading
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Unfree Media – State Stenography And Shameful Silence
A recent viral clip of Jeremy Corbyn featured vital truths about the corporate media that ought to be at the forefront of public consciousness in the approach to the UK General Election on December 12. Continue reading
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Bolivia: Audios Linking Civic, Ex-Military And US In Coup Plans
The Radio Education Network of Bolivia (Erbol) leaked 16 audios involving opposition leaders who are calling for a coup d’etat against the government of President Evo Morales, a political action which would have been coordinated from the U.S. embassy in the Andean country . Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 6-7 November 2019
7 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 Kiev decries New York Times for indicating Crimea as Russian territory https://tass.com/world/1087432 Deep State on the National Security Council: Colonel Vindman Is an ‘Expert’ With an Agenda https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/11/07/deep-state-on-national-security-council-colonel-vindman-expert-with-agenda/ Continue reading
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REPORT: NHS privatisation – real expenditure 26 per cent, not 7 per cent
Political parties are making all sorts of claims to save the NHS from its current financial strangulation and the privatisation drive, mainly because a general election is due and the NHS is inevitably used a political football. This report really is quite explosive, not least because the general public has been ‘hoodwinked’ into believing that… Continue reading
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How the media, including the BBC is manipulated by government propaganda
By Simon Wren-Lewis: While Dominic Cummings is no genius, he does have a good understanding of how the UK media works, and therefore how to manipulate it. There are many ways to do this, but one of the most obvious is to use privileged access in return for uncritical coverage. This is how it works. Continue reading
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Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg speaks for British ruling elite in his attack on Grenfell fire victims
The derogatory comments of Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg about the 72 people who died in the Grenfell fire on June 14, 2017, have provoked widespread popular outrage. Continue reading
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Mainstream Media Pro-Johnson Propaganda Gets Into Full Swing
Ian Austin left the Labour Party nine months ago. He was then appointed by the Tories as Prime Ministerial Trade Envoy to Israel. As of yesterday, he is neither a MP nor a candidate for election. He is a minor politician who achieved only the most junior ministerial rank, PUSS, and for only seven months.… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 7 November 2019
7 November 2019 — Black Agenda Report By trying to Silence Sanders, the Corporate Media De-Legitimize Themselves Glen Ford, BAR executive editor Sanders has been made into a non-person, and his proposals routinely distorted, because the corporate media want Americans to meekly submit to the Race to the Bottom. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Headlines 6-7 November 2019
7 November 2019 — Information Clearing House Video exposes US weapons secretly arriving in Yemen Watch Under shroud of secrecy US weapons arrive in Yemen despite Congressional outrage. – Continue ====== Continue reading
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Green Tories? Don’t Believe the Hype
A leaked briefing note has revealed Tory HQ’s attack lines on climate policy for this winter’s General Election. In it, HQ cites two key figures to argue the case that the Conservative Party is the party of climate action. First, they claim that during their decade in government there has been a 25% reduction in emissions, and… Continue reading
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