January 22, 2020
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Black Agenda Report 22 January 2020
22 January 2020 — Black Agenda Report Shaky Joe Biden, Billionaire Bloomberg, and the Global Race to the Bottom Glen Ford, BAR executive editor Bloomberg has put himself and his fortune into the contest to rally his (ruling) classmates to the task of shoring up corporate control of the Party if Sanders seizes the top spot. Continue reading
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NHS: Matt Hancock Still Doesn’t Tell You How Your Data Is Used – December 2019
Since our last update, and our first update in 2014, what a Data Usage Report should contain has reached consensus. The NHS has made some progress – not that you as patients will have seen any of it – and while NHS Digital calls it a Statement, rather than a Report, that is probably a… Continue reading
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US, UK Diplomats Protest Against OPCW Whistleblower Giving Evidence to United Nations
Yesterday, a former engineer and ballistics expert with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) delivered testimony via video link to an audience at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), accusing the chemical weapons watchdog of intentionally burying exculpatory evidence from its Fact Finding Mission (FFM) report – evidence which would have exonerated… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 22 January 2020
22 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 The Empire’s War On Oppositional Journalism Continues To Escalate by Caitlin Johnstone https://williambowles.info/2020/01/22/the-empires-war-on-oppositional-journalism-continues-to-escalate-by-caitlin-johnstone/ Brazil’s Bolsonaro government charges journalist Glenn Greenwald with “cybercrimes” http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/22/gree-j22.html Continue reading
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Nuclear War Planning and the Challenge of Civilian Oversight
Washington D.C., January 22, 2020 – In an unusual episode in the early 1970s, the Joint Chiefs Staff tried to keep Defense Secretary Melvin Laird in the dark about an aspect of secret nuclear targeting policy involving China, according to a recently declassified archival document requested by the National Security Archive. Laird only discovered the… Continue reading
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Consortium News Sends Libel Notices to Canadian Signals Intelligence Agency and Major Television Network
Consortium News has sent libel notices to the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s version of the U.S. National Security Agency, and to a major Canadian television network, Global News, for a report that said Consortium News was “part of a cyber-influence campaign directed by Russia.” Continue reading
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Disinformation of Disinformation: The Russian caper
Despite its polarizing effect, which has disturbed the political process and crippled relations between the major political Parties, the story of Russian Interference in the 2016 United States (US) presidential election has no end in discussion and no room for contradiction in the United States. It has achieved a life of its own, and grown… Continue reading
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Can GM crops really “feed the world”? Challenging the Flawed Premise Behind Pushing GMOs into Indian Agriculture
A common claim is that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are essential to agriculture if we are to feed an ever-growing global population. Supporters of genetically engineered (GE) crops argue that by increasing productivity and yields, this technology will also help boost farmers’ incomes and lift many out of poverty. Continue reading
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Bolivia News Links 13-22 January 2020
22 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 ALBA-Switzerland Committee: The De Facto Government in Bolivia and its Crimes Against Humanity https://libya360.wordpress.com/2020/01/20/alba-switzerland-committee-the-de-facto-government-in-bolivia-and-its-crimes-against-humanity/ How Michael Bloomberg’s ‘Journalists’ Propagandize for More U.S. Aggressions https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/01/21/how-michael-bloomberg-journalists-propagandize-more-us-aggressions/ Continue reading
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Iran News Links 21-22 January 2020
22 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 In the Name of ‘Security’ Retreating US Gives Israel Billions More in Military Funding Information Clearing House Headlines 21 January 2020 https://williambowles.info/2020/01/22/information-clearing-house-headlines-21-january-2020/ Continue reading
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Stakeholder capitalism in Davos
Stakeholder capitalism – that’s the way to ‘shape’ capitalism into something inclusive of all. That was the message of Klaus Schwab, the co-founder of the World Economics Forum (WEF), now in its 50th year with its annual jamboree in Davos, Switzerland. Continue reading
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The Empire’s War On Oppositional Journalism Continues To Escalate by Caitlin Johnstone
Journalist Glenn Greenwald has been charged by the Bolsonaro government in Brazil with the same prosecutorial angle used by the US to target WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Continue reading
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UN Security Council Hears OPCW Inspector Testimony About The Manipulation Of ‘Chemical Attack’ Reports
We have long maintained that the alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria, on April 7 2018 was faked by Jihadists shortly before they were evicted from that Damascus suburb. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Headlines 21 January 2020
21 January 2020 — Information Clearing House The Angry Arab: US Violated Unspoken Rule of Engagement with Iran By As`ad AbuKhalil The Trump administration has revealed the extent to which the U.S. war empire is run by the military-intelligence apparatus. – Continue ==== Continue reading
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