Day: January 22, 2020

 Black Agenda Report 22 January 2020

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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.

Freedom Rider: The Internet Does Washington’s Dirty Work

Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
As long as the internet is in private hands it should be seen as a “frenemy” — a useful resource that can also be wielded as a weapon.
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NHS: Matt Hancock Still Doesn’t Tell You How Your Data Is Used – December 2019

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December 2019 — medConfidential

There should be a price for misleading public statements about the NHS, whether about data or everything else.

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 better word.

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US, UK Diplomats Protest Against OPCW Whistleblower Giving Evidence to United Nations

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22 January 2020 — 21st Century Wire

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 the Syria government in an alleged chemical weapons incident in Douma, Syria, in April 7, 2018.

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Julian Assange News Links 22 January 2020

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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

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Consortium News Sends Libel Notices to Canadian Signals Intelligence Agency and Major Television Network

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21 January 2020 — Consortium News

Consortium News has sent libel notices to a Canadian spy agency and major broadcaster after their reports said CN is part of a Russian-directed propaganda campaign targeting Canadian leaders.

Canada’s NSA and Global News Said CN Leads ‘Cyber-Influence Campaign’ Directed by Moscow

By Joe Lauria
Special to Consortium News

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.”

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Disinformation of Disinformation: The Russian caper

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22 January 2020 — Counter Currents

The public demands the truth and is willing to accept dishonest exaggerations.

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 to becoming a convenient method for rationalizing the Democratic defeat, for proving Democratic credentials, and for bashing Russia.

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Can GM crops really “feed the world”? Challenging the Flawed Premise Behind Pushing GMOs into Indian Agriculture

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22 January 2020 — Colin Todhunter

Colin Todhunter

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.

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Bolivia News Links 13-22 January 2020

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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/

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Iran News Links 21-22 January 2020

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22 January 2020 — The New Dark Age

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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/

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