December 2019
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A news chronology of France in 2019: The year of Yellow Vest rebellion
This is part of a series of dispatches by correspondent Ramin Mazaheri Continue reading
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Interview: The Mount Sinai Scandal Shows Everything Wrong with US Healthcare
A recently released report on horrifying conditions in one of New York City’s major hospitals revealed the way that profit-driven understaffing and overcrowding lead to patient death and deplorable conditions for healthcare workers. The Mount Sinai Hospital scandal is just one example of the dismal quality of care under capitalism. Continue reading
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Bolivia 24-27 December 2019
27 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 Persecution of Evo’s Main Ministers in Bolivia https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/12/21/persecution-of-evos-main-ministers-in-bolivia/ Bolivia’s Dictator Seeks to Annihilate Opposition From Exile https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/12/27/bolivias-dictator-seeks-to-annihilate-opposition-from-exile/ Continue reading
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We Are the Ones Who Will Awaken the Dawn: The Fifty-Second Newsletter (2019)
26 December 2019 — Tri-Continental Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Millions of people are on the streets, from India to Chile. Democracy is both their promise and it is what has betrayed them. They aspire to the democratic spirit but find that democratic institutions – saturated by money Continue reading
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Never Trust a Failing Empire
The Washington Post, through documents released through the Freedom of Information Act, has published a long investigation into Afghanistan. Journalists have collected over 400 testimonies from American diplomats, NATO generals and other NATO personnel, that show that reports about Afghanistan were falsified to deceive the public about the real situation on the ground. Continue reading
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A Child’s Christmas Gift of Freedom
It is heartening to know that there are young children still reading books. While a growing majority of parents have been seduced into destroying their children’s imaginations by placing them in front of screens, there are still holdouts who realize that if their children are ever to become free-thinking adults, they must grow up expanding… Continue reading
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3,000 billion dollars into the bottomless well of Afghanistan by Manlio Dinucci
The documents that the Washington Post has managed to make public concerning the war against Afghanistan do not show that the United States have failed to pacify that country. On the contrary, they show that the Pentagon is still faithfully following the strategy of « endless war » elaborated by Donald Rumsfeld and Admiral Arthur… Continue reading
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In the UK – Do Subjects Deserve their Rulers?
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!” Continue reading
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Australian police begin “foreign interference” raids
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… Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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/ Continue reading
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BBC Director-General Calls for Media Critics to Be Purged 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. Continue reading
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Afghanistan Papers: Selected Stories 24 December 2019
24 December 2019 — Global Research 3,000 Billion Dollars into the Bottomless Well of Afghanistan By Manlio Dinucci 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 Continue reading
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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 ====== Continue reading
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Syria News Links 23 December 2019
23 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 How the Pro-War “Left” Fell for the Kurds in Syria https://williambowles.info/2019/12/23/how-the-pro-war-left-fell-for-the-kurds-in-syria/ Late-Stage Capitalism Is Creating A Brutal New Kind Of Global Despotism https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2019/12/late-stage-capitalism-is-creating.html Continue reading
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Douma, Syria News Links 23 December 2019
23 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 How the Pro-War “Left” Fell for the Kurds in Syria https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/how-the-pro-war-left-fell-for-the-kurds-in-syria/ Trump Turns on Russia and Syria in “Caesar Act” Ploy https://journal-neo.org/2019/12/21/trump-turns-on-russia-and-syria-in-caesar-act-ploy/ Continue reading
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5G News Links 23 December 2019
23 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 Health and Environmental Dangers of 5G Technology. A Lethal Multi-Trillion Dollar Operation https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-health-and-environmental-dangers-of-5g-technology-a-lethal-multi-trillion-dollar-operation/5698398 Multiple Deaths Among UK Ambulance Workers. Could 5G-enabled “Smart” Ambulances Be Playing a Role? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/W9x6cFa_U2Y/multiple-deaths-among-uk-ambulance-workers-could-5g-enabled-smart-ambulances-be-playing-a-role.html Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 20-23 December 2019
23 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 Medical Opinion, Torture and Julian Assange https://orientalreview.org/2019/12/23/medical-opinion-torture-and-julian-assange/ Taking Action For Assange: This Is What Real Activism Looks Like — Politicians Exposed! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/vZ5QO2RkE1k/taking-action-for-assange-this-is-what-real-activism-looks-like-politicians-exposed.html Continue reading
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Bolivia News Links 22-23 December 2019
23 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 Late-Stage Capitalism Is Creating A Brutal New Kind Of Global Despotism https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2019/12/late-stage-capitalism-is-creating.html Impeachment Indicts Both Parties and Clarifies Our Tasks for 2020 https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/impeachment-indicts-both-parties-and-clarifies-our-tasks-for-2020/ Continue reading
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PEPE ESCOBAR: You Say You Want a (Russian) Revolution?
Once in a blue moon an indispensable book comes out making a clear case for sanity in what is now a post-MAD world. That’s the responsibility carried by “The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs,” by Andrei Martyanov (Clarity Press), arguably the most important book of 2019. Continue reading
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