23 December 2019 — New Eastern Outlook
Author: Andre Vltchek
I constantly receive such letters; letters which repeat, again and again, year after year, basically the same thing: “If only we would have an opportunity to vote out our damn system!”
Day: December 24, 2019
Australian police begin “foreign interference” raids
24 December 2019 — WSWS
By Mike Head
Without providing any details whatsoever, the front-page headline on last Saturday’s Weekend Australian declared: “Police launch raids on foreign agents.”
It began: “The Australian Federal Police has frozen the bank accounts of a suspected foreign agent and will move against a range of foreign operatives in the first half of next year as part of a crackdown aimed at curbing unprecedented levels of foreign meddling.”
Syria News Links 23-24 December 2019
24 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
Militants attempt drone attack on Russian airbase at Syria’s Hmeymim
https://tass.com/world/1102767
Russian, Turkish top diplomats discuss humanitarian aid to Syria, situation in Libya
https://tass.com/world/1102733
Bolivia News Links 24 December 2019
24 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
An Impeachment for Luis Almagro?
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/12/23/an-impeachment-for-luis-almagro/
Bolivia’s Five Hundred-Year Rebellion
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/12/22/bolivias-five-hundred-year-rebellion/
BBC Director-General Calls for Media Critics to Be Purged From Social Media
18 December 2019 — Mint Press
Biased Broadcasting Corporation
The BBC has responded to criticism over its coverage of the UK’s general election by calling for their online critics to be banned from social media.
In the face of a mountain of condemnation over how it provided a key role in helping Boris Johnson win last week’s UK general elections, BBC Director-General Baron Hall of Birkenhead has called for the corporation’s critics to be purged from the internet.
Afghanistan Papers: Selected Stories 24 December 2019
24 December 2019 — Global Research
3,000 Billion Dollars into the Bottomless Well of Afghanistan
In the London Declaration, the 29 member countries of NATO reaffirmed “the engagement for the security and long-term stability of Afghanistan”. One week later, on the basis of the Freedom of Information Act, (used to empty a number of aging skeletons out of the closets, according to political necessity), the Washington Post managed to force the declassification of 2,000 pages of documents which reveal that “US civil servants fooled the public about the war in Afghanistan”. Basically, they hid its disastrous effects, including the economic effects, of a war which has been dragging on for 18 years. Read more…
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Information Clearing House Headlines 23-24 December 2019
24 December 2019 — Information Clearing House
US Making Outer Space the Next Battle Zone
By Finian Cunningham
The weaponization of space is essential to US imperialist ambitions for “full spectrum dominance” over the entire planet. – Continue
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