February 18, 2020
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Syria News Links 17-18 February 2020
18 February 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 Russian-Italian bilateral mechanisms working more and more steadily — Lavrov https://tass.com/politics/1121489 Today’s Links 18 February 2020 http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2020/02/todays-links_18.html Continue reading
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Venezuela News Links 6-18 February 2020
18 February 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 Bolivia’s Coup In Practice Canada out of the Lima Group, Core Group and OAS https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/02/canada-out-of-the-lima-group-core-group-and-oas/ Categorically Debunking The Claim That China Is Imperialist https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2020/02/catagorically-debunking-claim-that.html Continue reading
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Bolivia News Links 14-18 February 2020
18 February 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 Canada out of the Lima Group, Core Group and OAS https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/02/canada-out-of-the-lima-group-core-group-and-oas/ ‘It is Clear that This is U.S. Neoliberal Interference in Bolivia’ https://libya360.wordpress.com/2020/02/16/it-is-clear-that-this-is-u-s-neoliberal-interference-in-bolivia/ Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 200 Mid-February 2020 – is now online
18 February 2020 — Coldtype Continue reading
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Doctors For Assange Ratchet Up Pressure
Doctors for Assange have launched a new campaign to get proper medical treatment for the imprisoned WikiLeaks journalist by publishing a letter in Britain’s leading medical journal. Continue reading
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Seeing Through the Lies – US Edition
The Guardian newspaper has taken the art of obfuscation, false implication and the subtler forms of journalistic lying to new heights in its very extensive coverage of the Roger Stone sentencing saga. It has now devoted fourteen articles in the last fortnight to this rather obscure episode of American political history. Yet in not one of those articles – nor in more… Continue reading
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Grenfell Tower – ‘Independent experts’ advised by lobbyists for combustible insulation manufacturers
Two of the Grenfell Inquiry’s independent experts were invited to attend an advisory group meeting with lobbyists for combustible insulation manufacturers. Both previously advised the inquiry against banning these products from high rises. Continue reading
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The Lancet publishes letter from doctors: “End torture and medical neglect of Julian Assange”
This week’s edition of the Lancet—the world’s pre-eminent peer reviewed medical journal—carries a letter from 117 medical doctors in 18 countries, renewing their call for urgent action to save the life of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Their letter appears less than one week before the start of the US extradition hearing in London that may… Continue reading
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Dresden Terror Bombing, Like Hiroshima, a Maniacal Warning to Moscow
This weekend 75 years ago, the German city of Dresden was razed to the ground by British and American aerial bombardment. At least 25,000 mainly civilians were destroyed in raid after raid by over 1,200 heavy bombers, indiscriminately dropping high explosives and incendiaries. It took seven years just to clear the rubble. Continue reading
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Bayer On The Edge As Jury Awards $265 M To US Peach Farmer Over Illegal Dicamba Drift
A jury on Saturday awarded US$ 250 million in punitive damages to a southeastern Missouri peach farmer who argued that weedkiller dicamba that had drifted onto his orchards from other farms had severely damaged his trees — an award that could bode well for over 140 other farmers suing the chemical’s makers – Bayer (Monsanto)… Continue reading
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Labour Party leadership candidates profess Zionism at Jewish Labour Movement hustings
Labour members will begin voting for the new leader of the party this week. Of the original contenders, three remain—right-wingers Sir Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy and the chosen candidate of the Corbyn “left,” Rebecca Long-Bailey. Continue reading
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No Buk missile systems detected near MH17 crash zone — leaked document
The July 2014 crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 took place in the region where no Buk missile systems were deployed at the time of the tragedy, according to a leaked document of the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service. According to the document, sent to Dutch prosecutors, flight MH17 was flying beyond the range… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 14-18 February 2020
18 February 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: Father fears ‘worried’ son’s extradition https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51530280 Twitter Locks WikiLeaks’ Account Days Before Assange’s Extradition Hearing Begins http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/IOTioiNj9e0/twitter-locks-wikileaks-account-days-before-assanges-extradition-hearing-begins.html Continue reading
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Profiting from loss: how business in illegal Israeli settlements continues unchecked
UN efforts to protect Palestinian land from economic exploitation are failing, and exposing the hypocrisy of western states Continue reading
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John Pilger: It is time for Julian Assange to be saved, not betrayed
The truth is that Australia could have rescued Julian Assange and can still rescue him. Leaders of his homeland who have betrayed him should be called out; history and decency will not forget them or those who remain silent now. Continue reading
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