January 11, 2020
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Iran: Nothing Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Forgiven M.K. Bhadrakumar
President Trump’s credibility is so low that it is difficult to contest the perception that he blundered into the recent confrontation with Iran by ordering the killing of Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Quds Force. Many analysts point finger at US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for persuading Trump against his better instincts. Continue reading
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Democracy in Focus: A post-austerity state
Lowering the voting age. Restoring and entrenching the powers of local government, including the power to build public housing. Ensuring that people are able to fulfil their potential (including outlawing many of the practices of the gig economy that drive its workers to suicide). Establishing a proportional election system, so that voters have a real… Continue reading
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Big Pharma: Dangling Life Over the Dying
9 January 2020 — New Eastern Outlook (Gunnar Ulson – NEO) – There are very few who have yet to come to the realization that Western pharmaceutical corporations and the health care systems they have created, control, manipulate and exploit represent not only a particular pinnacle of corruption, but also threaten rather than preserve the health Continue reading
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UK: Welfare Weekly 11 January 2020
11 January 2020 — Welfare Weekly Up to 2,000 terminally ill people have died awaiting DWP benefit decisions Read more Continue reading
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Iran News Links 10-11 January 2020
11 January 2020 • 12:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back ‘I wish I was dead’: Senior IRGC commander accepts responsibility for downing Ukrainian jet, says it was mistaken for missile https://on.rt.com/a8u3 Deep Breaths as We Go Continue reading
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What Passes for Reality Is Not Worth Respecting: The Second Newsletter (2020)
10 January 2020 — Tri-Continental Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In October of last year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its flagship World Economic Outlook. In that report, the IMF said that the global growth rate would stumble at 3% in 2019. A month ago, the IMF’s main Continue reading
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How Many Millions Did You Make for the Pennies You Gave to the Coolies: The First Newsletter (2020)
2 January 2020 — Tri-Continental Gao Liang, The People Who Got Land, June 1948. How Many Millions Did You Make for the Pennies You Gave to the Coolies: The First Newsletter (2020). Continue reading
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Knight of Darkness – Iain Duncan Smith’s Directory Of Death
Part of this headline is taken from an article that features in Welfare Weekly. That article is a roll-call of death caused by an ideology that, in part, ended up looking like a policy to deliberately kill the weakest and most vulnerable in our society. The headline is borderline when it comes to being libellous… Continue reading
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DWP: The case for the prosecution
This time last year, The Independent published a story where Ministers were accused of ‘failing people at the most vulnerable point in their lives’ after it emerged that nine disability claimants die each day (270 per month) while waiting for decisions on disability support. The story also stated that figures at the time revealed that… Continue reading
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Iranian Armed Forces Say They Inadvertently Shot Down The Ukrainian Plane
The Iranian Armed Forces General Staff just admitted (in Farsi) that its air defenses inadvertently shot down the Ukrainian flight PS 752 shortly after it took off on January 8 in Tehran (machine translation, slightly edited for readability): Continue reading
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