December 2019
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How the rich plan to rule a burning planet
The climate crisis isn’t a future we must fight to avoid. It’s an already unfolding reality. It’s the intensification of extreme weather – cyclones, storms and floods, droughts and deadly heat waves. It’s burning forests in Australia, the Amazon, Indonesia, Siberia, Canada and California. It’s melting ice caps, receding glaciers and rising seas. It’s ecosystem… Continue reading
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How the Pro-War “Left” Fell for the Kurds in Syria
The October decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to withdraw American troops from northeastern Syria did not only precipitate the Turkish offensive, codenamed ‘Operation Peace Spring’, into Kurdish-held territory which followed. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 23 December 2019 (23/19)
23 December 2019 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2019/dec/email-23-12-19.pdf STATEWATCH ANALYSES 1. EU: New report: Data Protection, Immigration Enforcement and Fundamental Rights: What the EU’s Regulations on Interoperability Mean for People with Irregular Status 2. “How the hostile environment creates sites without rights”: Evidence presented to the London Hearing of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Continue reading
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India News Links 16-21 December 2019
21 December 2019 — The New Dark Age India’s 2019 Legislative Season https://journal-neo.org/2019/12/21/india-s-2019-legislative-season/ We Live in Hysteric Times: What Trump’s Impeachment Really Means https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/12/21/we-live-in-hysteric-times-what-trumps-impeachment-really-means/ The fight against communal reaction in India is the fight for socialism http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/21/pers-d21.html Continue reading
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Syria Launches New Idlib Campaign – UN Battle Over Control Of Aid For Syrians
The Syrian army campaign to liberate the terrorist held Idleb governorate was restarted yesterday. The campaign had been halted at the end of August after ceasefire negotiations between Turkey and Russia. Since then nearly a thousand people have died on all sides around Idleb during skirmishes, artillery attacks by rebels on Aleppo city and Syrian… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Headlines 20-21 December 2019
21 December 2019 — Information Clearing House U.S. Is Bent on ‘Absolute Military Supremacy,’ Mikhail Gorbachev Claims: ‘Their Obsession With Weapons Is Crazy’ By David Brennan Hegemony by one single country is not possible in today’s world. –Continue ====== Continue reading
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Why Western Media Ignore OPCW Scandal
The credibility of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is on the line after a series of devastating leaks from whistleblowers has shown that the UN body distorted an alleged CW incident in Syria in 2018. The distortion by the OPCW of the incident suggests that senior directors at the organization were pressured… Continue reading
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Boris Johnson is planning radical changes to the UK constitution – here are the ones you need to know about
18 December, 2019 — The Conversation Author Stephen Clear Lecturer in Constitutional and Administrative Law, and Public Procurement, Bangor University Disclosure statement Stephen Clear does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic Continue reading
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Hidden Evidence Regarding Ukrainegate By Eric Zuesse
On November 22nd, a 100-page Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) data-dump was made by the U.S. Department of State, to the Democratic-Party-aligned nonprofit “American Oversight,” which had been founded in March 2017 by liberals (really by the main billionaires who fund the Democratic Party) after the 2016 Democratic electoral defeat (to Republican billionaires). Continue reading
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Sustainable Pulse: Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides
20 December 2019 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks The Future of Wheat Farming is Glyphosate Residue Free – Exclusive Interview with Axis Farms Sustainable Pulse interview with Axis Farms’ Partner, Mark Sanders, discussing the future of wheat farming in Canada and why they decided it is important to certify their harvest as Glyphosate Residue Free. Continue reading
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The Hidden Military Use of 5G Technology by Manlio Dinucci
The operation organised by the “Five Eyes” against Huawei aims exclusively to ensure that 5G technology in the West will not be controlled by a Chinese company. As a Pentagon report attests, this civilian technology is primarily used for military purposes. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 20 December 2019
20 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 Connecting the Dots https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/connecting-the-dots/ Medical observers blocked from attending Assange hearing http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/20/doct-d20.html Continue reading
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Bolivia News Links 19-20 December 2019
20 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 Connecting the Dots https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/connecting-the-dots/ Bolivia’s Fascist Coup Regime Issues Arrest Warrant Against Evo Morales for “Sedition” https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/12/19/bolivias-fascist-coup-regime-issues-arrest-warrant-against-evo-morales-for-sedition/ Continue reading
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NSA: Documenting Iran-U.S. Relations, 1978-2015
Washington, D.C., December 19, 2019 – For 40 years, since the first year of the founding of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979, the United States and Iran have been the bitterest of political adversaries. Yet, every U.S. president has at a certain point reached out to the theocratic regime in Tehran, either for a… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Headlines 19-20 December 2019
20 December 2019 — Information Clearing House Dem Controlled House Impeaches Trump By Stephen Lendman Only 5% of Republican respondents support impeachment compared to 85% of Dems. –Continue ====== Continue reading
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Official Secrets, Lies and the Five Eyes
Is Putin losing his grip? Why did Russian disinformation operations fail so dramatically in the UK election? Not only did the “rabid socialist” Corbyn fail to seize power from the Russophobic cold-war warriors of Whitehall but Russia’s man in the White House is already planning to move in with them! Continue reading
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2019 – The Year of Manufactured Hysteria
Well, it looks like we’ve somehow managed to survive another year of diabolical Putin-Nazi attacks on democracy. It was touch-and-go there for a while, especially coming down the home stretch, what with Jeremy Corbyn’s desperate attempt to overthrow the UK government, construct a British version of Auschwitz, and start rounding up and mass-murdering the Jews. Continue reading
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Those Who Search for Dawn Don’t Fear the Night; Nor the Hand that Holds the Dagger: The Fifty-First Newsletter (2019)
19 December 2019 — Tri-Continental Those Who Search for Dawn Don’t Fear the Night; Nor the Hand that Holds the Dagger: The Fifty-First Newsletter (2019). Dear Friends, Greetings from the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Continue reading
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The Arrogance Of BBC News
When we started Media Lens in 2001, we had a rather naïve expectation that journalists might: a) want to respond rationally to reasoned criticism; and b) have privileged access to unparalleled journalistic resources, experts and arguments that would enable journalists to respond with serious points to our challenges. In particular, we imagined that BBC journalists and editors… Continue reading
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Bolivia News Links 18-19 December 2019
19 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 Evo Morales Condemns the Arrest of Left Voice Collaborator Whither the “Latin American Spring”? Continue reading
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