January 16, 2020
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Information Clearing House Headlines 16 January 2020
16 January 2020 — Information Clearing House Unintended Consequences: Did Trump Just Give the Middle East to China and Russia? By F. William Engdahl We are clearly in for some very nasty trouble in the Middle East. – Continue ==== Continue reading
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Battle of the Ages to stop Eurasian integration
A bigger bang awaits us throughout the decade: the myriad declinations of the New Great Game in Eurasia, which pits the US against Russia, China and Iran, the three major nodes of Eurasia integration. Continue reading
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Your Arrow Can Pierce the Sky, But Ours Has Gone into Orbit: The Third Newsletter (2020)
16 January 2020 — Tri-Continental Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On Wednesday, 15 January, China and the United States agreed to suspend their full-scale trade war. From February 2018, the United States placed tariffs on Chinese goods that entered the US market, and then China retaliated. This tit-for-tat game Continue reading
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Iran News Links 15-16 January 2020
16 January 2020 • 14:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back US War of Terror Continues: Assassinating Iran’s Top Anti-ISIS General http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2020/01/us-war-of-terror-continues.html US to Iraq: ‘Vote All You Want, We’re Not Leaving!’ https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/01/16/us-to-iraq-vote-all-you-want-were-not-leaving/ Continue reading
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An Animated John Coltrane Explains His True Reason for Being: “I Want to Be a Force for Real Good”
Coltrane is, of course, one of the true giants of 20th century music. He first got attention playing with the Miles Davis Quintet in the mid-1950s on albums like Relaxin’, Cookin’ and Steamin’ before he released his seminal solo album Blue Train. But his career quickly faltered. He was hooked on heroin and Davis, a… Continue reading
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Short of Time: Julian Assange at the Westminster Magistrates Court
Another slot of judicial history, another notch to be added to the woeful record of legal proceedings being undertaken against Julian Assange. The ailing WikiLeaks founder was coping as well as he could, showing the resourcefulness of the desperate at his Monday hearing. Continue reading
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Permanent War and Poverty or Widespread Truth Awareness: selected Articles
15 January 2020 — Global Research Trump Prosecutors Make Move to Ensure that Embassy Protectors Are Convicted By Kevin Zeese, Ajamu Baraka, and Bahman Azad As the trial approaches, the lawyers for the Trump Administration’s prosecution of the four Venezuelan Embassy Protectors who were arrested last May are asking the court to make sure the jury is kept ignorant Continue reading