31 December 2019 — WSWS
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.”
31 December 2019 — The New Dark Age
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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
31 December 2019 • 10:30 — The New Dark Age
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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/
31 December 2019 — Jazz on the Tube
[One of my favourite artists. I actually met him in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1975. WB.]
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.
30 December 2019 — theplanningmotivedotcom
‘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 bottom 80% on personal consumption. The top 10% rely heavily on capital gains, and their spending habits are shaped by the status of the share and bond markets.
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Remove these capital gains enjoyed by a tiny minority in each country and the global economy implodes. The world economy is now addicted to these bubbles, though the fix needed keeps growing. Nothing could be unhealthier. A capitalist economy driven by low interest rates feeding speculation rather than a high rate of profit feeding investment has scrambled the DNA of capitalism.[my emph. WB]
6 December 2019 — GMWatch
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.
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30 December 2019 — Moon of Alabama
Within Syria @WithinSyriaBlog –
Trump just made the mistake of his presidency.
That may be true or may be not true. Here is what happened.
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 – the U.S. decided that Kata’ib Hizbullah was the group guilty of the attack.
30 December 2019 — The New Dark Age
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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
22 August 2017 — Global Research
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 the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
29 December, 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation – Medium
This is getting really, really, really weird.
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.
29 December 2019 — Global Research
By Shane Quinn
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.
30 December 2019 — Mint Press
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 sedated.
29 December 2019 — Information Clearing House
By Caitlin Johnstone
This story is being killed in news rooms all around the world. – Continue
28 December 2019 — The New Dark Age
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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/
28 December 2019 — Information Clearing House
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
27 December 2019 — RT
27 December 2019 — Wikileaks
Today WikiLeaks releases more internal documents from the OPCW regarding the investigation into the alleged chemical attack in Douma in April 2018.
26 December2019 — 21st Century Wire
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 inside her country’s borders, and the ongoing theft of Syria’s natural resources.
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.
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