January 2020
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Iran News Links 13 January 2020
13 January 2020 • 18:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back So, What? https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2020/01/so-what.html Abby Martin and Dan Kovalik: The Plot to Attack Iran: Myths, Oil and Revolution https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2020/01/13/abby-martin-and-dan-kovalik-the-plot-to-attack-iran-myths-oil-and-revolution/ Continue reading
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Iran News Links 11-12 January 2020
12 January 2020 • 18:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Democrats Outraged at Republican Accusations of Foreign Loyalty https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/01/12/democrats-outraged-at-republican-accusations-of-foreign-loyalty/ “Would the American Public Tolerate US Soldiers Defending Trump Hotels?” https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/12/would-american-public-tolerate-us-soldiers-defending-trump-hotels?cd-origin=rss Continue reading
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Iran, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone
The greatest asset of the propagandists is your belief that you haven’t been propagandized. Continue reading
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Upcoming Events for Julian Assange
12 January 2020 — Defend Wikileaks 25 January 2020 Edinburgh: Scotland Must Resist An afternoon of talks in defence of multi award-winning journalist Julian Assange. 2-4pm GMT 4042 40-42 Grindlay Street Edinburgh EH3 9AP United Kingdom Continue reading
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Axis Of Resistance Says How It Will Avenge Qassem Soleimani
The media continue to tell fairytales about Qassem Soleimani and about Trump’s decision to assassinate him and PMU leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Meanwhile the Resistance Axis announced how it will avenge their deaths. Continue reading
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As Capitalism Collapses Into Totalitarianism, Socialist Revolution Looms On The Horizon
For the last generation, the United States and other capitalist countries have been on a steady trajectory towards despotism. With 9/11 and the resulting return to the Cold War’s atmosphere of perpetual conflict, a change appeared in the prevailing aims of the capitalist governments. Whereas capitalist societies generally assumed they could look forward to an… Continue reading
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Iran: Nothing Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Forgiven M.K. Bhadrakumar
President Trump’s credibility is so low that it is difficult to contest the perception that he blundered into the recent confrontation with Iran by ordering the killing of Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Quds Force. Many analysts point finger at US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for persuading Trump against his better instincts. Continue reading
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Democracy in Focus: A post-austerity state
Lowering the voting age. Restoring and entrenching the powers of local government, including the power to build public housing. Ensuring that people are able to fulfil their potential (including outlawing many of the practices of the gig economy that drive its workers to suicide). Establishing a proportional election system, so that voters have a real… Continue reading
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Big Pharma: Dangling Life Over the Dying
9 January 2020 — New Eastern Outlook (Gunnar Ulson – NEO) – There are very few who have yet to come to the realization that Western pharmaceutical corporations and the health care systems they have created, control, manipulate and exploit represent not only a particular pinnacle of corruption, but also threaten rather than preserve the health Continue reading
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UK: Welfare Weekly 11 January 2020
11 January 2020 — Welfare Weekly Up to 2,000 terminally ill people have died awaiting DWP benefit decisions Read more Continue reading
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Iran News Links 10-11 January 2020
11 January 2020 • 12:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back ‘I wish I was dead’: Senior IRGC commander accepts responsibility for downing Ukrainian jet, says it was mistaken for missile https://on.rt.com/a8u3 Deep Breaths as We Go Continue reading
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What Passes for Reality Is Not Worth Respecting: The Second Newsletter (2020)
10 January 2020 — Tri-Continental Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In October of last year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its flagship World Economic Outlook. In that report, the IMF said that the global growth rate would stumble at 3% in 2019. A month ago, the IMF’s main Continue reading
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How Many Millions Did You Make for the Pennies You Gave to the Coolies: The First Newsletter (2020)
2 January 2020 — Tri-Continental Gao Liang, The People Who Got Land, June 1948. How Many Millions Did You Make for the Pennies You Gave to the Coolies: The First Newsletter (2020). Continue reading
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Knight of Darkness – Iain Duncan Smith’s Directory Of Death
Part of this headline is taken from an article that features in Welfare Weekly. That article is a roll-call of death caused by an ideology that, in part, ended up looking like a policy to deliberately kill the weakest and most vulnerable in our society. The headline is borderline when it comes to being libellous… Continue reading
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DWP: The case for the prosecution
This time last year, The Independent published a story where Ministers were accused of ‘failing people at the most vulnerable point in their lives’ after it emerged that nine disability claimants die each day (270 per month) while waiting for decisions on disability support. The story also stated that figures at the time revealed that… Continue reading
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Iranian Armed Forces Say They Inadvertently Shot Down The Ukrainian Plane
The Iranian Armed Forces General Staff just admitted (in Farsi) that its air defenses inadvertently shot down the Ukrainian flight PS 752 shortly after it took off on January 8 in Tehran (machine translation, slightly edited for readability): Continue reading
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Bolivia News Links 1-10 January 2020
10 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 Iran’s Hero Has Fallen, and Now the World Is an Even More Dangerous Place https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/01/10/irans-hero-has-fallen-and-now-the-world-is-an-even-more-dangerous-place/ USAID Arriving in Bolivia to ‘Monitor Elections,’ Raising Fears of US Meddling in May Continue reading
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Iran News Links 10 January 2020
10 January 2020 • 22:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Qasem Soleimani: Iran was targeting four US embassies, says Trump https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51068560 What Passes for Reality Is Not Worth Respecting https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/01/what-passes-for-reality-is-not-worth-respecting/ Continue reading
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Update On The Ukrainian Plane Incident Near Tehran
Some of the comments to yesterday’s piece on the accident disagreed with my warning that the purported evidence of a shoot down is yet insufficient and that other causes are very well possible. Continue reading
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The Deeper Story Behind the Assassination of Soleimani By Federico Pieraccini
Days after the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, new and important information is coming to light from a speech given by the Iraqi prime minister. The story behind Soleimani’s assassination seems to go much deeper than what has thus far been reported, involving Saudi Arabia and China as well the U.S. dollar’s role as the… Continue reading
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