February 2020
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Black Agenda Report 13 February 2020
13 February 2020 — Black Agenda Report Free All Political Prisoners –- Including Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning Glen Ford, BAR executive editor Julian Assange and his protégés have made common cause with Black revolutionaries in their zeal to lay bare the dictatorial nature of the omni-pervasive national security state and the sheer, racist barbarity of the Continue reading
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Coronavirus – Statistical Change Causes Confusion While The New Case Count Continues To Decline
The battle against the infections with the novel coronavirus in China continues. China is doing its best to win it. The declining trend of the number of newly suspected and newly confirmed cases per day is now obvious to everyone. Continue reading
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IRR News (29 January – 12 February 2020)
Nearly two years since the Windrush scandal broke, only 36 people have received compensation, from a fund meant to compensate up to 15,000, while thousands, whose lives were ruined by the Home Office, and who remain in debt, find the compensation forms impossible to fill in, as they are being asked to produce the same… Continue reading
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Major Uprisings in Haiti Appear New, but Reflect Centuries of Haitian Resistance to Oppression
Mass protests have been taking place in the small Caribbean country of Haiti for several months now. Those protests are so intense that they threaten to bring the country to a complete standstill. The Haitian government’s response to the protests have resulted in dozens of deaths and massive destruction throughout various parts of Haiti, particularly… Continue reading
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The Story of the Haiti’s Earthquake Camps
Haiti’s Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake – a decade ago this week — was one of history’s great natural disasters. However, it was not as great as the world’s large humanitarian relief organizations and their allied media outlets would have us believe. It became a money-making tragedy. Continue reading
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The kidnapping of Haiti By John Pilger
The theft of Haiti has been swift and crude. On 22 January 2010, the United States secured “formal approval” from the United Nations to take over all air and sea ports in Haiti, and to “secure” roads. No Haitian signed the agreement, which has no basis in law. Power rules in a US naval blockade… Continue reading
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‘Burned At The Stake’ – The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Demolishes The Fake Claims Targeting Julian Assange
Last December, we witnessed the awesome capacity of state-corporate power to manipulate public opinion and undermine a democratic election with a ruthless propaganda campaign smearing Jeremy Corbyn, a passionate anti-racist. The campaign depicted Corbyn, not just as an anti-semite, but as someone who might ‘reopen Auschwitz’. The truth wasn’t just distorted, it was reversed. Continue reading
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Prevent and Countering Violent Extremism usher in ‘whole society’ surveillance
In the aftermath of Sudesh Amman’s attacks in London on February 2, the Evening Standard London ran as its frontpage an appeal from Counter-terror police chiefs, calling for the public to take a more active role in stopping terror threats. Continue reading
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I Am Tired of Holding Other Worlds in My Fist: The Seventh Newsletter (2020)
13 February 2020 — Tri-Continental Raúl Martínez, Rosas y Estrellas (Roses and Stars), 1972. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In November 2019, the Bolivian army – with a nudge from the shadows – told its President Evo Morales Ayma to resign. Morales would eventually go to Mexico and Continue reading
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Poll: Labour members say anti-Semitism crisis “invented”
Almost three quarters of the UK Labour Party’s members agree that the anti-Semitism crisis in the party has been “invented or wildly exaggerated.” Continue reading
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US Policy Vs. Iran: Apex Desperation
In Washington’s losing battle to maintain hegemony in the Middle East at the expense of the actual people and nations that exist there – it has resorted to high-level assassinations, unilateral strikes against targets within sovereign nations against the expressed will of the governments presiding over them, all while exposing what appears to be growing… Continue reading
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United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture on the Julian Assange Case
In this speech, Nils Melzer, a United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Professor of international law at the University of Glasgow, talks about the case of Julian Assange. This speech was recorded on the 4th of February, 2020 at the Royal National Hotel in London in a public rally organized by the Don’t Extradite… Continue reading
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Iran News Links 6-12 February 2020
12 February 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 “Mobbed up” American Policy, the Global Shakedown https://journal-neo.org/2020/02/12/mobbed-up-american-policy-the-global-shakedown/ How The 1979 Revolution Reshaped Iran as well as Saudi Arabia https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-1979-reshaped-iran-saudi-arabia/5703483 Continue reading
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US Regime Change in Venezuela: The Documented Evidence
The judge who was previously in charge of the Julian Assange extradition case was in the headlines again over another extradition case, this time refusing to extradite a UK couple because they faced a life sentence for murder, with no prospect of release. Continue reading
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Assange Extradition: Blatant Judicial Double Standards
The judge who was previously in charge of the Julian Assange extradition case was in the headlines again over another extradition case, this time refusing to extradite a UK couple because they faced a life sentence for murder, with no prospect of release. Continue reading
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Cuba in the Struggle Against Coronavirus Epidemic
Cuba’s biotechnological industry developed the antiviral recombinant Interferon alpha 2B (IFNrec) to combat viral infections affecting patients with HIV, hepatitis B and C,recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, condyloma acuminatum, as well as various types of cancer. Now, China’s National Health Commission selected IFNrec to fight the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, which appeared in the city of Wuhan at… Continue reading
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Antisemitism threats will keep destroying Labour
If there is one issue that denotes the terminal decline of Labour as a force for change – desperately needed social, economic and environmental change – it is not Brexit. It is the constant furore over an “antisemitism crisis” supposedly plaguing the party for the past five years. Continue reading
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Syria News Links 7-12 February 2020
12 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 Press review: Turkey may be using proxies in Syria and Russian envoy chides US visa policy https://tass.com/pressreview/1119129 Erdogan claims at least 14 Turkish servicemen dead during shelling in Syria’s Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 7-12 February 2020
12 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 Rank-and-file teachers in Sydney adopt resolution defending Assange and Manning http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/12/nswt-f12.html Britain’s Got A Supreme Court Scandal: NEW Damning Emails Show UK Corruption In The Case Against Julian Assange Continue reading
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U.S. & NATO Rush To Add Fuel To Fire Of Idlib Conflict
The Washington-led establishment are attempting to seize the opportunity and push Turkey further into the Idlib tensions, and encourage it to carry out agressive actions in the region. Continue reading
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