December 2019
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Collapse of UK National Health Service threatened as Johnson government readies further onslaught
The National Health Service (NHS) faces collapse after decades of underfunding, staffing cuts and privatisation. Even before the onset of the NHS’s now-annual “winter crisis,” a heightened expression of a year-round crisis, senior doctors’ representatives warned that the health service was “on its knees.” Continue reading
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Iran News Links 26-31 December 2019
31 December 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 Washington escalates Mideast war threat with strikes on Iraq, Syria http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/31/iraq-d31.html The Syrian War: America’s “War on Terror” Exposed http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-syrian-war-americas-war-on-terror.html Continue reading
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Bolivia News Links 30-31 December 2019
31 December 2019 • 10:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Exterminating Angels Left-wing MAS Leads Voting Intentions In Bolivia https://popularresistance.org/left-wing-mas-leads-voting-intentions-in-bolivia/ The Coup in Bolivia: Lessons for our Movement https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/the-coup-in-bolivia-lessons-for-our-movement/ Continue reading
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An Improvisation 2004 – The Andrew Hill Trio
Andrew Hill (1931-2007) was a masterful pianist and a very original composer whose music fell into the avant-garde but was really in its own category. Continue reading
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Once it was the banks that were too big to fail, now it is the financial bubble
30 December 2019 — theplanningmotivedotcom A BUBBLE TOO BIG TO FAIL ‘The global economy was an economy of two halves, the halve-nots and the halves- everything. I have pointed out a number of times, that in many major economies, especially the biggest of them all, the USA, the top 10% spend as much as the… Continue reading
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Fake “Farmer Willi” part of an international fake parade
Five thousand tractors caused severe disruption in Berlin last week as farmers protested against the German government’s environmental protection policies. These include plans to limit the use of fertiliser in order to tackle nitrate pollution in groundwater, and to phase out glyphosate by 2023 to protect biodiversity. Continue reading
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After U.S. Strike On Iraqi Forces Its Troops Will (Again) Have To Leave
On Friday a volley of some 30 107mm Katyusha rockets hit the K1 base which houses Iraqi and U.S. troops near Kirkuk, Iraq. One U.S. mercenary/contractor died, two Iraqi and four U.S. soldiers were wounded. Instead of finding the real culprits – ISIS remnants, disgruntled locals, Kurds who want to regain control over Kirkuk -… Continue reading
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China News Links 26-30 December 2019
30 December 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 Seventy Years of U.S. Destabilisation in China. U.S. Sponsored Uyghur Insurgency in Xinjiang https://williambowles.info/2019/12/30/seventy-years-of-u-s-destabilisation-in-china-u-s-sponsored-uyghur-insurgency-in-xinjiang/ Iran seeks joint naval maneuvers in Caspian Sea with regional states, media reports say https://tass.com/world/1104879 Continue reading
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Depleted Uranium and Radioactive Contamination in Iraq: An Overview
First published on August 22, 2017, this authoritative report by Dr. Al- Azzawi addresses the war crimes committed by the US and its allies through the use of depleted uranium (radioactive) ammunition, resulting in countless deaths attributable to the spread of leukemia among children, congenital malformations, breast cancer. etc. Dr. Al-Azzawi is a Research Associate of… Continue reading
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Media’s Deafening Silence on Latest WikiLeaks Drops Is Its Own Scandal
WikiLeaks has published yet another set of leaked internal documents from within the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) adding even more material to the mountain of evidence that we’ve been lied to about an alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria last year which resulted in airstrikes upon that nation from the US, UK and France. Continue reading
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Seventy Years of U.S. Destabilisation in China. U.S. Sponsored Uyghur Insurgency in Xinjiang
China’s exit in October 1949, from the sphere of US control, was perhaps the heaviest blow to strike American post-World War II global hegemony. China’s successful drive for independence had been anticipated in Washington for many months. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Still Holding Powerful to Account as Founder Julian Assange “Slowly Dies” in Prison
Julian Assange is dying inside Belmarsh Prison in London. Those are his own words, relayed through English journalist Vaughan Smith, who revealed that the Wikileaks founder called him on Christmas Eve to share his greetings. Smith also divulged that Assange told him he is kept in solitary confinement 23 hours per day and is often… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Headlines 29 December 2019
29 December 2019 — Information Clearing House Media’s Deafening Silence On Latest WikiLeaks Drops Is Its Own Scandal By Caitlin Johnstone This story is being killed in news rooms all around the world. – Continue ====== Continue reading
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Bolivia News Links 28 December 2019
28 December 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 2010s: America’s Frantic Decade Of Late-Stage Imperialist Belligerence & Self-Delusion https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-2010s-americas-frantic-decade-of.html Bolivia: “For Speaking of a Coup d’état, You are Classified as ‘Seditious’ and are Criminally Prosecuted” https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/12/28/bolivia-for-speaking-of-a-coup-detat-you-are-classified-as-seditious-and-are-criminally-prosecuted/ Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Headlines 27-28 December 2019
28 December 2019 — Information Clearing House Turkey to send Syrian rebel mercenary fighters to battle Haftar in Libya By Ragip Soylu in Ankara Libyan “forces previously sent weapons and ammunition to help Syrian rebels in 2011. They even sent some commanders to help them,” – Continue ====== Continue reading
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WikiLeaks’ new leak: Senior OPCW official ordered deletion of ‘all traces’ of dissenting report on ‘Douma chemical attack’
The leadership of the chemical weapons watchdog took efforts to remove the paper trail of a dissenting report from Douma, Syria which pointed to a possible false flag operation there, leaked documents indicate. Continue reading
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OPCW-DOUMA – Release Part 4
Today WikiLeaks releases more internal documents from the OPCW regarding the investigation into the alleged chemical attack in Douma in April 2018. Continue reading
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Syrian Advisor to President Assad Warns of Operations Against US to Regain Syrian Oil
This week, Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban, a top political and media adviser to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, issued a warning of sorts to the United States – that Washington’s illegal three year occupation of various parts of northeastern Syria could be coming to an end. She warned that Damascus will not accept Washington’s open-ended military deployment… Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 196 December 2019 – is now online
27 December 2019 — Coldtype Continue reading
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Social Media and Social Control: How Silicon Valley Serves the US State Department
Facebook isn’t the only Silicon Valley firm with partisan oversight of what we see: the bipartisan billionaire class and their security state have partnered with tech firms since the dawn of the internet to control the parameters of users’ thinking. Continue reading
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