January 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
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Establishment Pundits Go Nuts Over New Russian Hacking Conspiracy
The New York Times reports that GRU operatives launched a successful “phishing attack” on the Ukrainian gas company at the heart of scandalous allegations about Joe Biden, and establishment pundits are falling all over themselves to tweet the hottest take on this exciting new Russia conspiracy. Continue reading
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Iran News Links 14-15 January 2020
15 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 Britain, France and Germany (E3) Trigger JCPOA Dispute Mechanism, a Hostile Action Against Iran https://www.globalresearch.ca/e3-nations-trigger-jcpoa-dispute-mechanism-iran/5700677 Persian Peril: The Assassination of Qasem Soleimani and the Prospect of Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Headlines 13 January 2020
13 January 2020 — Information Clearing House Trump and Congress Double Down on Demonizing Iran By Philip Giraldi The United States did things based on a delusional view of the Middle East and will have to pay a price. – Continue ==== Continue reading
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Iran News Links 14 January 2020
14 January 2020 • 19:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back How Come the “War Party” Always Wins? https://journal-neo.org/2020/01/14/how-come-the-war-party-always-wins/ A US thinktank eager for war on Iran has been throwing money at Boris Johnson’s cabinet http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/Qiyj_2MfXwA/ Continue reading
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Body Bag Britain
In November 2017, landmark research found that approximately 120,000 people had died as a direct result of the Conservative party policy of driving austerity in what has since become an era now associated with what some have branded ‘economic murder.’ And even today the number of deaths is calculated to reach 200,000 by the end… Continue reading
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Minsky and socialism
Recently, the Levy Institute, the think-tank centre for post-Keynesian economics (and in particular the theories of Hyman Minsky, the radical Keynesian economist of the 1980s), published a short video that that shows Minsky explaining his theory of crises under capitalism in his own words at an event in Colombia, November 1987. It is a very… Continue reading
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The Long Planned U.S. Assassinations In Iraq Will Increase Its Political Chaos
The Trump administration has given various justification for its assassination of Major General Qassem Soleimani and commander Abu Mahdi al Muhandis. It claimed that there was an ‘imminent threat’ of an incident, even while not knowing what, where or when it would happen, that made the assassination necessary. Trump later said the thread was a… Continue reading
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The day Gaza becomes uninhabitable
In 2012, the United Nations published research suggesting that by 2016, the main aquifer supplying water to about two million Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip would be “unusable” and that by 2020, the aquifer would have been damaged irreversibly. This would make Gaza uninhabitable by 2020. Continue reading
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The West Is Run by Barbarians By Peter Koenig
How much longer are we accepting the tyrannical dictate of the American rulers? It gets worse by the day – and it looks like the western world’s “leaders” (sic – so sic!) are caving in ever more to the American killing machine – the European Union – and all its members heads of state, and… Continue reading
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‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ is a hoax
CSR is a public relations framework that lets corporations greenwash their public images, pretending to change so that everything can remain the same Continue reading
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This might be the final episode of Juan Guaidó’s surreal Venezuela regime-change reality show
The farcical scene of Juan Guaido attempting to break into Venezuela’s National Assembly as its members voted him out was just the latest chapter in an absurdly bungled coup attempt, and brings Trump’s policy to a dead end. Continue reading
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“Iran Must Begin Acting Like A Normal Nation,” Says Totally Normal Nation
The government which runs a globe-spanning empire led by a reality TV host keeps talking about the lack of normality in the nation of Iran. Continue reading
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Was The Shootdown Of The Ukrainian Airplane Near Tehran Intended, A Screw-Up Or A ‘Mistake’?
An analysis of the circumstances under which the incident took place unfortunately shows that nothing went wrong. The strategic and tactical decisions that were made were all rational and made sense. But unfortunately shit happens even when everything else works as it is supposed to work. Continue reading
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