January 2020
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Russians are coming — to the Indian Ocean
The Cold-War hypothesis that the Soviet Union was hoping to “wet its toes” in the Indian Ocean was in reality an extension of the geopolitical construct known as the “Anglo-Russian Question” that was written about by Lord Curzon, onetime viceroy of British India (1899-1905). We now know that the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan was due… Continue reading
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Who Targeted Ukraine Airlines Flight 752? Iran Shot It Down but There May be More to the Story
The claim that Major General Qassem Soleimani was a “terrorist” on a mission to carry out an “imminent” attack that would kill hundreds of Americans turned out to be a lie, so why should one believe anything else relating to recent developments in Iran and Iraq? To be sure, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 departing from Tehran’s… Continue reading
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Gone Fishing? No Fish but Plenty of Pesticides and a Public Health Crisis
There is mounting evidence that a healthy soil microbiome protects plants from pests and diseases. One of the greatest natural assets that humankind has is soil. But when you drench it with proprietary synthetic chemicals or continuously monocrop as part of a corporate-controlled industrial farming system, you can kill essential microbes, upset soil balance and end up feeding… Continue reading
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Iran News Links 18-19 January 2020
19 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 “Death to the Islamic Republic” they chant now- and they call themselves Iranians https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/01/18/death-to-the-islamic-republic-they-chant-now-and-they-call-themselves-iranians/ How Trump Rebelled Against The Generals https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/01/18/how-trump-rebelled-against-the-generals/ Continue reading
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French Popular Uprising: Revolution or Frozen Conflict?
This conflict is essentially over policies that put the avaricious demands of financial markets ahead of the needs of the people, writes Diana Johnstone. Continue reading
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France News Links 11-18 January 2020
18 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 Patrick Armstrong on the Russian Reshuffle https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/01/18/patrick-armstrong-on-the-russian-reshuffle/ Are France’s unions even trying to win the General Strike? http://thesaker.is/are-frances-unions-even-trying-to-win-the-general-strike/ Continue reading
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UK home secretary defends naming Extinction Rebellion as extremist
The inclusion of climate activists Extinction Rebellion (XR) by police in a guide to “ideological extremism” marks a serious escalation of the assault on democratic rights. Continue reading
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BC: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 Reeks of Northwoods
BC stands for NEO’s Banned Classic. This article was originally published by our journal on 10.09.14. For some reason, this article is missing from Google search results. Since this article remains pretty relevant to those geopolitical events that are taking place on the geopolitical stage today, we deem it possible to present it to our readers… Continue reading
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Latest MH17 Documentary By SBU Whistleblower Shares Some Shocking Truths
The latest MH17 documentary, “MH-17: In Search Of Truth” by Ukrainian SBU whistleblower Vasily Prozorov, shares some shocking truths about that tragedy which strongly make the case that the UK conspired with Kiev to take down that civilian aircraft as part of a preplanned Hybrid War plot against the Donbas rebels that was also intended… Continue reading
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Marx on British politics … and cab drivers
If you get nauseated by the perverse state of contemporary world politics and the slavish way in which mainstream media help to sustain the spectacle that is Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Rodrigo Duterte or their local variants, here is the perfect antidote: read Marx’s journalistic articles for the New York Daily Tribune. Continue reading
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Iran News Links 16-17 January 2020
17 January 2020 • 19:45 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back On Iran-US Crisis (Part I) ‘Why do you allow the United States to bully you?’ – Iranian FM to Europe over nuclear deal tensions https://on.rt.com/a927 Continue reading
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Syngenta says media has ‘overstated’ the science on insect declines
Pesticide giant Syngenta has said that the media is “overstating the science that clearly exists” on insect declines. Continue reading
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BBC an instrument of government foreign policy
In January 2015, the BBC warned the government that its global news presence will end up marginalised by overseas rivals such as Russia Today and al-Jazeera unless multimillion-pound cuts were reversed. The global news division included the BBC World Service, which had suffered big cuts. It was a stark warning that Britain’s global ‘soft-power’ was declining.… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 12-17 January 2020
17 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 Julian Assange At The Westminster Magistrates Court https://orientalreview.org/2020/01/17/julian-assange-at-the-westminster-magistrates-court/ Now twenty years later, how did Putin do it? https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/01/16/now-twenty-years-later-how-did-putin-do-it/ Continue reading
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Crisis & Critique: The Return of Guaido?
VA columnist Ociel Lopez looks at the future prospects of Juan Guaido’s US-backed opposition in the wake of the disputed January 5 parliamentary leadership elections Continue reading
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Review: Tim Anderson, Axis of Resistance: Towards an Independent Middle East
Anderson’s Axis of Resistancetakes on the leftist position of ‘a plague on all your houses’. Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, ‘the intellectual voice of the Syrian revolution’ (for westerners), presents a bleak portrait of “three monsters … treading on Syria’s corpse’: (1) the Assad regime and its allies, (2) DAESH/ISIS and the other jihadists, and (3) the… Continue reading
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After US killing of Iran’s Soleimani, narrative control on social media is getting worse by Eva Bartlett
Twitter has been on a narrative-control rampage, removing or censoring legitimate accounts that are critical of US-led wars, propaganda and lies. Facebook and Instagram have increased their Big Brother policing, too. Continue reading
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Trump’s EU Poodles – Germany, Britain And France – Obey His Order To Kill The Nuclear Deal With Iran
The European poodles who co-signed the nuclear deal with Iran – Britain, France and Germany (the EU3) – have been told by the Trump administration to kill the agreement. Today they started the process to do so. The other co-signers, Russia, China and Iran, continue to support the deal. Continue reading
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UK: Lead Us Not Into Oblivion
The simple response of course is to blame it all on Corbyn. Let’s face it, no more comprehensive bogeyman has ever been offered to the British electorate. Continue reading
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