January 2020
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China’s Virus Response Has Been ‘Breathtaking’ 31 January 2020
President Xi Jinping formally told WHO head Tedros Ghebreyesus, at their meeting in Beijing earlier this week, that the coronavirus epidemic “is a devil and we cannot allow the devil to hide.” Continue reading
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People Keep Starving to Death in Tory Britain
Errol Graham was just four and a half stone when his emaciated body was found by bailiffs. The 57 year old had starved to death in a flat with no electricity or gas supply. The only food in his cupboards were two tins of fish, four years out of date. His benefits had been stopped… Continue reading
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France at a Crossroads
The nationwide general strike in France, now entering its record seventh week, seems to be approaching its crisis point. Despite savage police repression, about a million people are in the streets protesting President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed neoliberal “reform” of France’s retirement system, established at the end of World War II and considered one of the… Continue reading
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Cuba is Testing Products Against Cancer, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease
The Cuban government has announced that it is testing new medical products against a range of chronic illnesses, including cancer, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. The Caribbean country has become a hotspot for pharmaceutical research, having already developed techniques that eliminate the transmission of HIV and syphilis between mothers and children. It was not revealed which… Continue reading
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Julian Assange: Countdown to Freedom
Randy Credico’s ongoing series of interviews on the approaching extradition trial of Julian Assange in London, featuring regular updates from the Courage Foundation Continue reading
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Monsanto/Bayer News Links 30 January 2020
30 January 2020 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back EPA Reapproves Glyphosate, Claims Pesticide Poses No Human Health Threat https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2020/01/30/epa-reapproves-glyphosate-claims-pesticide-poses-no-human-health-threat?cd-origin=rss Kellogg’s will phase out pre-harvest glyphosate use https://www.gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/19298-kellogg-s-will-phase-out-pre-harvest-glyphosate-use Continue reading
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Iran News Links 29- 30 January 2020
30 January 2020 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Do All Countries have the Right to Fight Terrorism? https://journal-neo.org/2020/01/30/do-all-countries-have-the-right-to-fight-terrorism/ NIAC Action Statement on Passage of Legislation Prohibiting Unauthorized War with Iran https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2020/01/30/niac-action-statement-passage-legislation-prohibiting-unauthorized-war-iran?cd-origin=rss Continue reading
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Palestine News Links 1-30 January 2020
30 January 2020 — 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 is Washington “Liberating” Free Countries https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/how-is-washington-liberating-free-countries/ Iraq-Raping Neocon Upset That People Keep Bringing Up The Iraq Thing https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/01/30/iraq-raping-neocon-upset-that-people-keep-bringing-up-the-iraq-thing/ Continue reading
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IRR News (15 – 29 January 2020)
This week on IRR News, in another reminder that anti-racism is a necessary and indivisible practice, we continue to document in our regular calendar on racism and resistance disturbing incidents of physical violence against Jewish, Muslim, Black, LGBTQ targets. Our concern is that the kind of far-right provocations, that this week resulted in Britain First activists intimidating… Continue reading
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The FBI Has Been Lying About Seth Rich
A persistent American lawyer has uncovered the undeniable fact that the FBI has been continuously lying, including giving false testimony in court, in response to Freedom of Information requests for its records on Seth Rich. The FBI has previously given affidavits that it has no records regarding Seth Rich. Continue reading
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UK Came & Went, Leaving Europe in a Mess
As Great Britain returns to the uncertainties of the open sea, it leaves behind a European Union that is bureaucratically governed to serve the interests of financial capital, writes Diana Johnstone. Continue reading
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I Will Hold You in My Arms a Day After the War: The Fifth Newsletter (2020)
30 January 2020 — Tri-Continental Santu Mofokeng, Eyes Wide Shut, Motouleng Cave, Clarens – Free State, 2004. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On Monday, 27 January, the South African photographer Santu Mofokeng slipped away. His camera had been a familiar presence in the anti-apartheid struggle; after years of photographing Continue reading
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Trump’s Mideast “Steal of the Century”. Breaking Palestine: Selected Articles
29 January 2020 — Global Research Done Deal: How the “Peace Process” Sold Out the Palestinians By David Hearst, January 29, 2020 In November 2016, fresh off his electoral win, US President-elect Donald Trump boasted of his intention to end the Israel-Palestine conflict by striking what he called the “ultimate deal”. Calling it “the war that never ends,” Trump Continue reading
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The neocolonial system is not being dismantled
Janine Jackson interviewed Manuel Pérez-Rocha about NAFTA 2.0 for the January 24, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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Meet the Candidates Taking on Bolivia’s US-Backed Right Wing Government
Bolivian journalist Oliver Vargas takes an in-depth look at the candidates taking on the interim right-wing government of Jeanine Anez in Bolivia’s upcoming elections and the many challenges they face. Continue reading
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Iran News Links 28-29 January 2020
29 January 2020 • 18:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back U.S. Demands Iraq Either Join U.S. War Against Iran or Be Destroyed https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/01/28/u-s-demands-iraq-either-join-u-s-war-against-iran-or-be-destroyed/ Today’s Links 29 January 2020 http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2020/01/todays-links_29.html Continue reading
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Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ will not bring peace – that was the plan for the US and Israel
The so-called “Vision for Peace” unveiled on Tuesday simply confirmed that the US government has publicly adopted the long-running consensus in Israel: that it is entitled to keep permanently the swaths of territory it seized illegally over the past half-century that deny the Palestinians any hope of a state. Continue reading
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China’s New Coronavirus: An Examination of the Facts 29 January 2020
The Western mass media have discussed the new corona virus that began in the city of Wuhan in Central China but, apart from repetitive small details and the inevitable China-bashing, not much light has been shed on the circumstances. My initial commentary here is composed from a medley of nearly 100 Western news reports, primarily… Continue reading
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Trump’s “win-win” plan hands everything to Israel
After much anticipation and with great ceremony, on Tuesday US President Donald Trump presented his plan for Middle East peace. Continue reading
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