January 2020
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Split Hearings: The Assange Extradition Case Drags On
It is being increasingly larded with heavy twists and turns, a form of state oppression in slow motion, but the Julian Assange extradition case now looks like it may well move into the middle of the year, dragged out, ironically enough, by the prosecution. Curiously, this is a point that both the prosecutors, fronted by… Continue reading
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US plotting return of ‘strongman’ in Iraq By M.K. Bhadrakumar
The departure of the former Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani is beginning to be felt in Iraq. The two meetings that the US President Donald Trump had with the leader of Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government Nechirvan Barzani and the president of Iraq Barhem Saleh in Switzerland on Wednesday on the sidelines of the World Economic… Continue reading
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5G News Links 25 January 2020
25 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 January 25 is Stop 5G Global Protest Day! 240 Events in 36 Countries! Find Out Where You Can Participate http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/S-oEyRv9VvA/january-25-is-stop-5g-global-protest-day-240-events-in-36-countries-find-out-where-you-can-participate.html Continue reading
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2020 is hot, and it’s going to get much hotter
(London: January 24, 2020) The year is less than four weeks old, but scientists already know that carbon dioxide emissions will continue to head upwards – as they have every year since measurements began – leading to a continuation of the Earth’s rising heat. And they warn that the rise will be steeper than usual, partly because… Continue reading
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The NHS is opening up to US business – the reassurances are demonstrably false
British officials dodged invitations to exclude the NHS from a US-UK trade deal. Not surprising, given how much public money already goes to the US healthcare industry. Continue reading
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OPCW Investigator Testifies at UN That No Chemical Attack Took Place in Douma, Syria
A former lead investigator from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has spoken out at the United Nations, stating in no uncertain terms that the scientific evidence suggests there was no gas attack in Douma, Syria in April 2018. Continue reading
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Trump’s “No-Peace/Peace Plan” for Palestine: Selected Stories
24 January 2020 — Global Research Trump’s “No-Peace/Peace Plan” for Palestine. Netanyahu / Gantz Invited to White House to Discuss “Deal of the Century” By Stephen Lendman, January 24, 2020 Leaked information shows Trump’s so-called deal of the century is a one-sided scam, favoring Israel at the expense of fundamental Palestinian rights. The so-called peace process is Continue reading
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REALITY CHECK: Coronavirus fear porn 26 deaths is NOT a “global health emergency”, so why is everyone pretending otherwise?
China is shutting down, or so we’re being told. Cities are on lockdown. Disney land is closed. New Year is cancelled. Every day, China closes down more theatres or other more public spaces in their desperate attempts to thwart the spread of this terrible coronavirus. Continue reading
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Iran News Links 24 January 2020
24 January 2020 • 16:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back A Bit On Iranian Boeing And Other Business. https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-bit-on-iranian-boeing-and-other.html Three Years into Trump’s Presidency, What Left of the American Left? https://www.mintpressnews.com/three-years-trump-presidency-left-democrats/264281/ Continue reading
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One Hundred Years: The Proletariat In Search of A Class
The super-indoctrinated, Trump-voting American working class, dulled by the mass media and the “American dream”,has changed very little since the crushing of the great textile strikes that swept The United States in the 1920s. Not an iota of class-consciousness has it absorbed. (Nor has it been explained and offered to all wage earners in sufficient… Continue reading
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UK: Here Comes the Breakdown Decade
In the decade from 2010 to 2020, a period in which the Conservative government oversaw the Great Recession and managed the slowest recovery from any economic slump on record – it heaped misery on millions in the shape of a failed policy called austerity. Continue reading
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‘This Is Already a Hot War the US Is Prosecuting Against Iran’
Janine Jackson interviewed media scholar Gregory Shupak about the Soleimani assassination for the January 10, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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Washington and What Lies Ahead For Iran
While some people may think that Washington achieved its Iran-linked antiterrorism goal with the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, it appears that they would be sadly mistaken. A recent interview that appeared in a London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq al-Awsat with United States Special Representative for Iran, Brian Hook, has telegraphed Washington’s future moves against Iran which… Continue reading
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Why the New Silk Roads are a ‘threat’ to US bloc
Under the cascading roar of the 24/7 news cycle cum Twitter eruptions, it’s easy for most of the West, especially the US, to forget the basics about the interaction of Eurasia with its western peninsula, Europe. Continue reading
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Putin Calls for a New System Guided by the UN Charter… But Is It Possible? By Matthew Ehret
Anyone looking with sober eyes upon today’s world and the feeble economic and geopolitical underpinnings holding the system together must accept the fact that a new system WILL be created. Continue reading
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US Clearing Anti-War Voices Off Social Media in Vast Censorship Operation
14 January 2020 — The Mind Unleashed The Trump administration is ramping up its information war by suspending accounts and removing content. Darius Shahtahmasebi (TMU) — Instagram and its parent company Facebook are removing posts that appear to be in support of the late Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in order to comply with U.S. sanctions, Continue reading
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Selected Articles: Focus on the Davos World Economic Forum (2017-2020)
23 January 2020 — Global Research Trump Parties in Davos While Ordinary Americans Struggle to Make Ends Meet By Stephen Lendman, January 23 2020 The annual Davos billionaire’s ball — aka World Economic Forum — continues until Friday. Countless millions of US households face unacceptable choices between paying rent or servicing mortgages, seeking high-cost medical care when needed, Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 23 January 2020
23 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 ‘We simply can’t get in’: Assange lawyer complains about lack of access to WikiLeaks founder https://on.rt.com/a9ln WikiLeaks Editor: US Is Saying First Amendment Doesn’t Apply To Foreigners In Continue reading
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Iran News Links 22-23 January 2020
23 January 2020 • 17:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Dutch foreign minister’s speculations over plane crash in Iran impermissible — Zakharova https://tass.com/politics/1112407 Today’s Links 23 January 2020 http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2020/01/todays-links_23.html Continue reading
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Review: “One World Digital Dictatorship” by Soren Korsgaard – Digital Nightmare
Danish writer Soren Korsgaard (editor of Crime & Power) has written a very long and detailed account entitled “One World Digital Dictatorship” that describes the accelerating movement by both Western-style democracies and one-party states (notably China) towards world-wide Digital Dictatorship (Digital Imprisonment) involving mass data collection on everyone, mass surveillance, facial recognition-based tracking, crypotocurrency-based cashless… Continue reading
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