Day: March 1, 2020

Afghan peace comes with caveats but can’t be snuffed out By M.K. Bhadrakumar

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1 March 2020 — Indian Punchline

US Special Representative for Afghan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad (L) and co-founder of Taliban movement Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (R) signed the Afghan peace agreement., Doha, February 29, 2020

The chasm between illusion and reality in politics remains perennial. Wars seldom ended according to the script of peace agreements. The fall of Saigon in April 1975 ending Vietnam War, with defeated Americans hastily retreating in helicopters from the rooftop of their embassy, was not anticipated in the Paris Peace Accords of January 1973 that was painstakingly negotiated by Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese politburo member Le Duc Tho.

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Julian Assange News Links 1 March 2020

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1 March 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

NATO: From Covert Sponsor to Artillery for Terrorists in Syria + Assange Rips the Matrix by Finian Cunningham
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2020/03/01/nato-from-covert-sponsor-to-artillery-for-terrorists-in-syria-assange-rips-the-matrix-by-finian-cunningham/

More ‘bombshells’ from Assange lawyers. Extradition case exposed as seriously flawed.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/AVSVjV-T0xQ/

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What is Happening in Wet’suwet’en?

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29 February 2020 — Internationalist 360° – Fire This Time!

An RCMP officer stands near the Morice River bridge, the only entrance point to the Unist’ot’en healing centre and sole access road to Coastal GasLink work sites. A barrier built across the bridge bears a sign saying “Reconciliation,” which was disassembled by workers in yellow vests. Photo: Amber Bracken / The Narwhal

“They’re invading our people again, starting in the wee hours of the morning, arresting people who have been providing food and medical supplies to our camps, who are camped out along the side of the road doing amazing and righteous work. And right now, they’re being arrested, and they’re being removed,” –Sleydo’ (Molly Wickham), spokesperson for the Gidimt’en land defenders camp, reported through a video on Facebook.

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Did Turkey Just Sacrifice Their Own Troops to Protect Al-Qaeda?

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1 March 2020 — Strategic Culture Foundation

Matthew Ehret
After 33 Turkish troops were killed in a Syrian army offensive on February 27 amidst the current Russia-backed campaign to liberate Idlib, Erdogan responded by laying the blame entirely on Russia and Syria – successfully avoiding all mention of the uncomfortable fact that Turkey has been protecting radical terror networks not only in Idlib but across Syria as a whole for years.

The Viral Blame Game: Xenophobia, Attribution and Coronavirus

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1 March, 2020 — Counter Currents

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Moralising the way diseases and viruses are transferred is a very human, and particularly nasty trait.  “We don’t need this kind of riff-raff on our shores,” screamed The New York Times in 1892 in response to Russian Jewish immigrants arriving at Ellis Island by boat.  (The occupants hosted lice which, in turn, led to typhus.)

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“The truth about mobile phone and wireless radiation” — Dr Devra Davis

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3 December 2015 — Youtube

The University of Melbourne

“The truth about mobile phone and wireless radiation: what we know, what we need to find out, and what you can do now”

Presented by Dr Devra Davis, Visiting Professor of Medicine at the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, and Visiting Professor of Medicine at Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey.

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Chile News Links 1 March 2020

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1 March 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

Chile’s Struggle To Democratize The State
https://popularresistance.org/chiles-struggle-to-democratize-the-state/

The fall of the U.S. empire and the coming economic crash
https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-fall-of-us-empire-and-coming.html

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COVID-19 Coronavirus: A Fake Pandemic? Who’s Behind It? Global Economic, Social and Geopolitical Destabilization

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1 March 2020 — Global Research

The media hype and disinformation campaign regarding the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus have created a Worldwide atmosphere of fear and uncertainty following the launching of  a global public health emergency by the WHO on January 30th.

The fear campaign is ongoing.  Panic and uncertainty. National governments and the WHO are misleading  the public.

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