November 2019
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The Incredible Disappearing Farage, and Other Electoral Oddities
For a decade Nigel Farage has been flung into our living rooms continually by the BBC. Even when UKIP barely registered a blip in the opinion polls, he was a regular on Question Time and the other news, current affairs and politics programme. Farage’s celebrity was a BBC creation. He served an important purpose. At… Continue reading
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The Media Is Biased Against Jeremy Corbyn – but Does That Even Matter in This Election?
On 11 April 1992, Murdoch-owned redtop newspaper The Sun ran with the headline ‘It’s the Sun Wot Won It’, proudly proclaiming to have handed a general election victory to Conservative John Major, to the detriment of ‘evil’ left-winger Neil Kinnock. However, a few years later, scientific research found ‘no support’ for this bullish claim. Continue reading
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DANISH LEGAL OPINION CONCLUDES 5G CONTRAVENES HUMAN & ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS
Attorney-at-law Christian Jensen, of Bonnor Lawyers in Denmark, examined potential health damages and risks of 5G in relation to human rights and environmental conventions. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Headlines 5-6 November 2019
6 November 2019 — Information Clearing House Leaked Audio Confirms U.S. in Bolivian Coup Plot By teleSUR Opposition politicians held talks with U.S. senators to destabilize Bolivia and organize a general strike after Evo Morales’ victory. –Continue ====== Continue reading
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Media Conceal Chile’s State Criminality, Delegitimize Bolivian Democracy
Chile’s anti-neoliberal rebellion is entering its third week, and the brutal crackdown continues. Hard-right President Sebastian Piñera and his generals have effectively decreed the country’s oligarch-dominated democracy out of existence by sending soldiers into the streets to kill, maim and torture their own people. Continue reading
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Syria News Links 5-6 November 2029
6 November 2019 • 14:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back US ‘pullout’ from Syria looking more like permanent occupation with 800 troops reportedly tasked to ‘protect’ oil https://on.rt.com/a4sz Trump Approves ‘Expanded’ Military Mission To ‘Secure’ Syrian Continue reading
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A Timeline Of Joe Biden’s Intervention Against The Prosecutor General Of Ukraine
The Washington Post provided a timeline of the 2015/206 intervention by then-Vice President Joe Biden against the then-General Prosecutor of Ukraine, Viktor Shokin. Shokin was investigating Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of the gas company Burisma Holdings which paid Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden at least $50,000 per month for being on its board. Continue reading
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U.S., UK, & France, certainly committed an international war crime against Syria on 14 April 2018
It is now clear that on 14 April 2018, the three Governments of U.S., UK, and France, fired over a hundred missiles against Syria, on no more ‘justification’ than staged videos that had been done by those regimes’ own proxy boots-on-the-ground fighters in Syria, who are trying to overthrow Syria’s existing, non-sectarian Government and replace… Continue reading
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Archive, CREW, Historians Sue Pompeo, State Department over Failure to Create Records
Washington D.C., November 5, 2019 – The National Security Archive, together with Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), sued Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the Department of State today for violating the Federal Records Act by failing to create and preserve essential State… Continue reading
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Free Julian Assange. Do not extradite him – Sign the Petition
Julian Assange is being held in prison in the United Kingdom, convicted of and charged with no crime there. He is in danger of being extradited to the United States to be prosecuted for publishing accurate information in the public interest. This is a threat to journalism and to democracy, not just to WikiLeaks and… Continue reading
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Alan Macleod reports on the recent arrest of journalist Max Blumenthal
Max Blumenthal, the editor of independent media outlet The Grayzone, was secretly arrested on October 25 in a “SWAT-style” morning raid on his Washington D.C. home. He was held in D.C. Central Detention Facility for two days incommunicado, without the ability to communicate to the outside world, having been refused a phone call. He claims to have been… Continue reading
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Julian Assange calls for workers to organise in his defence
In a letter to a supporter in France, imprisoned WikiLeaks’ publisher Julian Assange urged workers to take action in their workplaces to fight for his freedom, including through the establishment of “blocs” in their trade unions. Continue reading
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Julian Assange’s Extradition Process Is ‘A Charade’
Filmmaker John Pilger attended Julian Assange’s last court hearing and observed not only that Assange is visibly suffering from prison mistreatment, but his defense is not being given a fair chance to make its case against his extradition to the US. (Inc. transcript) Continue reading
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‘International Actors in Haiti Have Been Guarantors of the Status Quo’
Janine Jackson interviewed CEPR’s Jake Johnston about Haiti for the November 1, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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UK drones more likely to target individuals than infrastructure data analysis reveals
Examination of UK air strike data from the past two years shows that British unmanned drones have been used far more often to attack individuals on the ground in Iraq and Syria than the UK’s other strike aircraft, the Tornado or the Typhoon. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November 2019
4 November 2019 — Climate & Capitalism The red and green shelf is overflowing! Nine important new books address topics ranging from ecosocialism and rising seas to trees, growth and global poverty. Ecosocialist Bookshelf is an occasional feature. We can’t review every book we receive, but we will list and link to any that seem relevant Continue reading
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Dammed Good Question about the Green New Deal
Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest question that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with. Providing more energy than solar and wind combined, dams could well become the backup for energy if it proves impossible to get off of fossil fuels fast enough. Continue reading
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Post-Electoral Polarization. New Stage of the Imperialist Conspiracy in Bolivia
When the Bolivian political electoral process was oriented towards the institutional strengthening of radical democracy with the victory of Evo Morales in the October 20 elections, the head of a conspiracy appeared, in its most conservative forms of racism, hatred and violence against the Indians and the people, through the regional oligarchies headed by the… Continue reading
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GLYPHOSATE: DESTRUCTOR OF HUMAN HEALTH AND BIODIVERSITY
An increase in the incidence of Type 2 diabetes, obesity and autism has been reported in Scotland. Similar increases have been seen globally. The herbicide glyphosate was introduced in 1974 and its use is accelerating. The manufacturers claim it to be safe, but none of the Regulatory Agencies are monitoring glyphosate levels in groundwater. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Headlines 4 November 2019
4 November 2019 — Information Clearing House Tulsi Gabbard: U.S. Government ‘Is Hiding The Truth’ About 9/11 Terror Attacks By Ryan Saavedra Many of the figures behind this gigantic web of lies and deceit ought to answer charges up to and including treason. – Continue ====== Continue reading
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