December 2019
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Big Pharma Bought Access to Your DNA From Genealogy Company and What They’re Using It for Should Concern Everyone
Have you paid for an ancestry report? Perhaps someone gave it to you as a gift. Either way, pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline now owns your genetic fingerprint. Continue reading
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The Art of Doublespeak: Bellingcat and Mind Control
In the 1920s, the influential American intellectual Walter Lippman argued that the average person was incapable of seeing or understanding the world clearly and needed to be guided by experts behind the social curtain. In a number of books he laid out the theoretical foundations for the practical work of Edward Bernays, who developed “public relations”… Continue reading
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Jeremy Corbyn News Links 12 December 2019
12 December 2019 — The New Dark Age The British establishment is very afraid of a Corbyn victory The negative media barrage on Corbyn and Labour in the UK has been incessant but if Corbyn were to succeed it would be a major boost to the Sanders campaign in the U.S. The vilification of Jeremy Continue reading
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The Largest Vote Swings in British General Election History Censored Out By the BBC and Mainstream Media
This election is seeing the largest vote swings in British political history. But that truth has been hidden by the largest media distortion in British political history. Continue reading
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International Colloquium denounces crimes of UN Mission in Haiti
Delegates from over 100 organizations gathered in in Port-au-Prince to bring to account those responsible for the 15 years of UN occupation in Haiti and design a strategy for justice and reparations for the survivors Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 11 December 2019
11 December 2019 — The New Dark Age For the sake of press freedom, Julian Assange must be defended We wrote President Barack Obama and his attorney general, Eric Holder, urging them not to prosecute Julian Assange. The Australian hacker and … Julian Assange: A Court of Star Chamber — cruelty beyond belief Publisher, whistleblower, journalist Julian Assange has been Continue reading
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US & UK Military-Intelligence Apparatus Deploy Media Smears Against Corbyn
The popular socialist leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, could be on the verge of becoming prime minister of the United Kingdom. And the mere possibility is terrifying British intelligence services and the U.S. government. Continue reading
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The Dirty War on the NHS
I saw this film last night at a one-off screening in Derby. It’s all you’d expect of a John Pilger documentary. Polished and professional? Well of course, but more importantly: Hard hitting, its straight-from-the shoulder interrogations of power a far cry from the posturing of mainstream interviewers who, doubtless in all sincerity – albeit of… Continue reading
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10 Reasons to be Cheerful on Election Eve
11 December 2019 — Off Guardian W Stephen Gilbert In what they keep calling “the most unpredictable election of recent times”, the pundits report a continuing Tory lead in the opinion polls, indicating that Boris Johnson will have a majority in the House. Let’s just remember that, throughout this century, the polls have almost always Continue reading
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Bolivia News Links 10-11 December 2019
11 December 2019 • 21:20 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Bolivia: The 21st Century Coup d’État and its Crimes Against Humanity https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/12/11/bolivia-the-21st-century-coup-detat-and-its-crimes-against-humanity/ Operation Condor 2.0 Expanded https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/operation-condor-2-0-expanded/ Continue reading
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Venezuela News Links 10-11 December 2019
11 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 Anti-Chavismo in “Civil War” Mode: Outlook for 2020 https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/12/10/anti-chavismo-in-civil-war-mode-outlook-for-2020/ I Never Saw a World So Fragmented! https://journal-neo.org/2019/12/10/i-never-saw-a-world-so-fragmented/ Continue reading
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Syria News Links 10-11 December 2019
11 December 2019 • 21:20 — 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 shell 24 settlements in Syria in last 24 hours — Russian reconciliation center https://tass.com/world/1098521 US Policy Failures Give Glimmer of Hope to Middle East https://journal-neo.org/2019/12/11/us-policy-failures-give-glimmer-of-hope-to-middle-east/ Continue reading
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How the Global North’s Left Media Helped Pave the Way for Bolivia’s Right-Wing Coup
In our brave new age of hybrid warfare, corporate media play the role of ideological heavy artillery within the arsenal of Western imperialist powers. Day in and day out, “reputable” establishment outlets bombard progressive and/or anti-imperialist governments in the Global South with endless salvos of smears and libelous misrepresentations (e.g., FAIR.org, 5/23/18, 8/23/18, 4/11/19, 7/25/19). Continue reading
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Santa Trump comes to Brixton
Imagine if you met Donald Trump on your high street handing out boxes of chlorinated chicken and pesticide contaminated baby food – all with festive Christmas cheer! Continue reading
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Hebron plan is Israel’s reminder to Palestinians that settler-power knows no limits
Proposed destruction of the West Bank city’s market to make way for a new settlement is the Israeli government’s route to refashion its apartheid system as the rule of law Continue reading
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UK: Fake News and the “Punch” that never happened What one media lie tells us about the way our “news” works
Yesterday the Health Secretary Matt Hancock went to Leeds to visit a struggling NHS hospital. It was a PR stunt designed to make the Tories look pro-active in the face of a late-campaign PR disaster. Continue reading
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Syria News Links 5-10 December 2019
10 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 A Beautiful but Deceptive Documentary: “For Sama” https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/a-beautiful-but-deceptive-documentary-for-sama/ The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO): Plans for 2020 https://journal-neo.org/2019/12/10/the-collective-security-treaty-organization-csto-plans-for-2020/ Continue reading
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Saudi Arabia Retreats From The Troubles Its Clown Prince Caused
When the Saudi King Salman promoted his son Mohammad bin Salman (MbS) to Defense Minister and then Crown Prince the expectations were high. But three of the major projects Muhammad launched since then soon ran into trouble. Now initiatives are under way to limit the damage he caused. The end of the five year old… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 6-9 December 2019
10 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 Newsweek Journo Quits After Editors Kills Report On Syria Chemical Attack Scandal https://www.mintpressnews.com/newsweek-tareq-haddad-quits-syria-douma-opcw/263292/ Question for Kirbymoorside UK Hustings Meeting: Would you stand up for Julian Assange? https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/question-for-kirbymoorside-uk-hustings-meeting-would-you-stand-up-for-julian-assange99425/ Continue reading
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Bolivia News Links 9-10 December 2019
10 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 Stella Calloni: The New Counterinsurgency War is Not Operation Condor II. It is a Project of Recolonization Chris Hedges: Empire Striking Back In Latin America https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2019/12/09/chris-hedges-empire-striking-back-in-latin-america/ Continue reading
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