February 2020
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Iran News Links 12-14 February 2020
16 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 Can The World’s Second Superpower Rise From The Ashes Of Twenty Years Of War? https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/02/15/can-the-worlds-second-superpower-rise-from-the-ashes-of-twenty-years-of-war/ Lavrov holds talks with Iran’s Zarif on sidelines of Munich Security Conference https://tass.com/politics/1120553 Continue reading
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Syria News Links 12-14 February 2020
16 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 Erdogan’s Long-Coming Reality Check https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/02/15/erdogans-long-coming-reality-check/ Leak Says U.S. Deal With The Taliban Will Allow For Permanent Troop Stay. But Is It True? https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/02/15/leak-says-u-s-deal-with-the-taliban-will-allow-for-permanent-troop-stay-but-is-it-true/ Continue reading
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Genetically Modified Seeds: Conceived as a Weapon
GM seeds and GM food carry great risks for all nations, so much so that for many reasons it is probably imperative these foods be banned outright. This subject is too large to be discussed here, but one aspect requires brief notice. If we were to ask about the origin of GM seeds, how the… Continue reading
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IRGC Aerospace Forces Commander’s debriefing about Iran’s strike against Al-Assad US Airbase
Press conference by the Commander of the Aerospace Forces of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Ali Hajizadeh, on January 10, devoted to the Iranian strikes against al-Assad US Airbase. Continue reading
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Policy of Self-Destruction: Turkey Supplies Syrian Fighters with Military Equipment
Amid a surge in military operations in Idlib governorate, Turkey has been gradually escalating military provocations, creating obstacles to the advance of the Syrian Arab Army. Currently, Ankara decided to not even try to hide the fact that it funds and supplies terrorist organizations and controlled armed groups. Continue reading
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ABC RADIO NATIONAL ON THE SUFFERING AND RESILIENCE OF JULIAN ASSANGE
Phillip Adams interviews John Pilger on ABC Radio National on the plight and hope and courage of Julian Assange ahead of his courtroom struggle to prevent extradition to the the United States. Continue reading
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Candidates to replace Corbyn denounce him as anti-Semitic
Emily Thornberry posted – but later deleted – a shamelessly anti-Palestinian tweet that same night. The posting clearly implied it was “anti-Semitic” for Labour conference delegates to fly Palestinian flags. Continue reading
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Fascism in Ukraine: the conspiracy of silence
The rise of the far right in Ukraine is one of the most disturbing trends in 21st century Europe. But it’s a story you rarely get to read about in the British press. Continue reading
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Mistrial in Trump admin’s biased case against Venezuelan embassy protectors is win for sovereignty
A hung jury in the Donald Trump administration’s case against activists who were arrested protecting Venezuela’s internationally recognized embassy in Washington, DC is being heralded as a major win for sovereignty, amid the US government’s floundering coup attempt against the Chavista government in Caracas. Continue reading
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NYC Taxpayers Spending Millions on Cyber Center with Controversial Ties to Israeli Intelligence
New York City taxpayers are on the hook for a multi-million dollar cyber center in the heart of Manhattan with deep ties to Israel’s high-tech intelligence apparatus. Continue reading
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How Iranian airliner was saved in Syrian skies
Details of a possible tragic incident were released due to an accusation by Israel of the Russian Khmeimim air base’s command of the use of the S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile system against Israeli air targets. As a result, an Israeli UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) was destroyed and an F-16 fighter was damaged. Continue reading
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Syria News Links 12-14 February 2020
14 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 Today’s Links 14 February 2020 http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2020/02/todays-links_14.html New Leaks Shatter OPCW’s Attacks on Douma Whistleblowers https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-leaks-shatter-opcws-attacks-douma-whistleblowers/5703663 Continue reading
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Bolivia News Links 10-14 February 2020
14 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: An Election in the Midst of an Ongoing Coup https://socialistproject.ca/2020/02/bolivia-election-in-the-midst-of-ongoing-coup/ The Fraud Machine At Work In Bolivia https://popularresistance.org/the-fraud-machine-at-work-in-bolivia/ Continue reading
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Time Warp UK By Craig Murray
The resignation of Savid Javid yesterday as Chancellor without even presenting a budget mirrors the resignation of Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston’s father – and in so doing says something extraordinary about lack of social progress in the UK in the intervening 130 years. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides
14 February 2020 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Fraud in German Laboratory Casts Doubt on 2017 EU Re-Approval of Glyphosate Fraud in a German laboratory has cast additional doubts on the 2017 re-approval of glyphosate and on the entire EU pesticide safety evaluation procedure, Pesticide Action Network Europe reported on Tuesday. A new study has Continue reading
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The virus that broke the camel’s back
14 February 2020 — theplanningmotivedotcom The economic difference between the current coronavirus and SARS (end of 2002) is this. In 2002 China was on the ascendancy whereas today the opposite is happening, China is in the descendancy. China is the heart of the world economy, and should this virus tip the economy into recession, it Continue reading
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Syria: M5 highway secured, time for truce By M.K. Bhadrakumar
The de-escalation talks between Moscow and Ankara over the Russian-backed offensive by the Syrian government forces in the northwestern province of Idlib didn’t help defuse tensions. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 12-14 February 2020
14 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 SEP builds support for Free Assange and Manning rallies in Australia http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/14/rall-f14.html Free All Political Prisoners –- Including Julian Assange And Chelsea Manning https://popularresistance.org/free-all-political-prisoners-including-julian-assange-and-chelsea-manning/ Continue reading
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DeSmog UK Weekly: *Bumper Cabinet Reshuffle Edition*
Who is really in charge of the UK’s government? Is it a) the elected MPs that won a landslide victory for the Conservative Party in December last year? Or b) the special advisors that always walk a respectful 5 paces behind them holding a device that looks suspiciously marionette-like? Continue reading
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Catastrophe is upon us – the grim view from Southern Africa
The word catastrophe is being used more and more by institutions reporting on the effects of extreme weather in the two regions of Africa, Southern and South Eastern Africa, and of late Australia. The word means a number of things: tragic; fiasco; utter failure; sudden and violent change in a feature of the Earth. All… Continue reading
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