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Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Spies Who Kept a Criminal US with a Nuclear Monopoly from Making More of Them By Dave Lindorff
Cambridge, UK, Aug. 6 — Seventy-four years ago today, the US dropped the first ever atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, a non-military target of several hundred thousand, instantly vaporizing some 70,000 people, mostly civilians, and causing the painful, slower death of another 70,000 who died of burns and radioactive damage to their bodies… Continue reading
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Washington orders international embargo on Venezuela, threatens invasion By Andrea Lobo
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday freezing “all property and interests in property of the Government of Venezuela that are in the United States.” The move is the culmination of a series of increasingly severe sanctions and marks a new stage in the US coup operation against the Government of Nicolás Maduro. Continue reading
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Class War Films presents Imperial Decay
All empires are evil; they are certainly undemocratic. Can the U.S. un-imperialize itself, or must it go the way of all empires? Collapse. Continue reading
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In the World of Truth and Fact, Russiagate is Dead. In the World of the Political Establishment, it is Still the New 42
Douglas Adams famously suggested that the answer to life, the universe and everything is 42. In the world of the political elite, the answer is Russiagate. What has caused the electorate to turn on the political elite, to defeat Hillary and to rush to Brexit? Why, the evil Russians, of course, are behind it all. Continue reading
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The Stubborn Truth About Employment and the Defense Industry by Nia Harris
A Marilyn has once again seduced a president. This time, though, it’s not a movie star; it’s Marillyn Hewson, the head of Lockheed Martin, the nation’s top defense contractor and the largest weapons producer in the world. In the last month, Donald Trump and Hewson have seemed inseparable. They “saved” jobs at a helicopter plant. They… Continue reading
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China’s Yuan Breaks the 7 to $1 Band–The Global Currency War Has Begun
Over this weekend, China’s Yuan currency broke out of its band and devalued to more than 7 to $1. At the same time China announced it would not purchase more US agricultural goods. The Trump-US Neocon trade strategy has just imploded. As this writer has been predicting, the threshold has now been passed, from a… Continue reading
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Rejecting Politics of Fear, Marginalized Puerto Ricans Led the Uprising By Oscar Oliver-Didier
On July 17, 2019, a massive protest of approximately 100,000 people convened in San Juan’s historic center to call for the immediate resignation of Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló. A few days later, more than 500,000 people went on a national strike concentrated along one of the main highways of the San Juan metropolitan area. Continue reading
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‘You don’t have any rights’: CBP agents interrogate US citizen and seize his phone after Venezuela solidarity trip
A US citizen has told The Grayzone that the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) service detained them on their way home from Venezuela. Sergio Lazo Torrez, a 31 year-old Nicaraguan-American, said the CBP forced him to open his cellphone, grilled him about his political beliefs, and demanded information about his contact with Venezuelan… Continue reading
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The Citadels of America’s Elites: Fractured and At Odds with Each Other By Alastair Crooke
Something is ‘up’. When two Financial Times columnists – pillars of the western Establishment – raise a warning flag, we must take note: Martin Wolf was first off, with a piece dramatically headlined: The looming 100-year, US-China Conflict. No ‘mere’ trade war, he implied, but a full-spectrum struggle. Then his FT colleague Edward Luce, pointed… Continue reading
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S&P Bearish on 5G, Tesla’s Coil and the T-Mobile Merger By Renee Parsons
The FCC, the telecoms and cooperating MSM continue their resolute pr campaign to sell 5G to an unsuspecting American public as if the technology is up and running at effortless full capacity. The truth is that even as ‘spotty’ coverage is being established in large urban markets, the telecoms are well aware that there are… Continue reading
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Puerto Rico in Flames By Atilio Borón
The popular insurgency in Puerto Rico overthrew a corrupt, reactionary and servile government, which bowed its head and tolerated Donald Trump’s contempt and insults on the occasion of Hurricane Maria in September 2017 and the “humanitarian aid” that the New York tycoon personally went to distribute. Given that the Puerto Rican Constitution of 1952 does… Continue reading
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CounterSpin interview with Ed Morales on Puerto Rican protest
Janine Jackson interviewed Ed Morales about the Puerto Rican protest movement for the July 26, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript (inc. audio) Continue reading
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Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Unravelling of US Empire
The results of centuries of U.S. empire, which began with Manifest Destiny that crossed the North American continent and grew into a global empire, are coming home to roost in Puerto Rico and Hawaii. Continue reading
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Ratlines: The Vatican, The Nazis & Western Intelligence By Hugo Turner
28 July 2019 — Internationalist 360° In one of the more shocking episodes of the Cold War tens of thousands of Nazi war criminals and their fascist allies were smuggled out of Europe and resettled around the world in places like Argentina, Canada, Australia and the United States. Others were resettled throughout the middle east a… Continue reading
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Alaska Governor Demolishes Climate Research by Robert Hunziker
Global warming has been on a binge of late; in the North it’s heating 2-4xs faster than anywhere else on the planet. As a result, permafrost is drip-drip-drip thawing at record rates, well beyond any and all analytical predictions; it’s a real stunner! Continue reading
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Universal Music Group coverup continues in response to artists’ class-action lawsuit By Kevin Reed
The social and legal fallout from the June 2008 music vault fire in Hollywood, which destroyed an invaluable popular music archive at Universal Studios and which Universal Music Group (UMG) covered up for years, is continuing. Continue reading
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US Foreign Policy in Shambles: NATO and the Middle East. How Do You Wage War Without Allies?
What I think is important is that, de facto, Turkey is no longer part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. You may have noticed that the reaction from Washington has been dead silence and the media as well. The repercussions on the military-industrial complex are dramatic, and whatever happens, Turkey de facto is out of NATO. Continue reading
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Puerto Rican crisis deepens over Rosselló’s replacement By Rafael Azul
The crisis of rule in Puerto Rico deepened on Sunday when Puerto Rico’s Secretary of Justice, Wanda Vázquez, second in line to replace Governor Ricardo Rosselló, declined the appointment in a Twitter message. Rosselló announced his resignation from the governorship on July 24, following twelve days of mass popular protests. The governor’s resignation is to… Continue reading
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Puerto Rico ousts corrupt governor — is ‘La Junta’ next?
A historic people’s uprising in Puerto Rico has forced the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosello – but the struggle doesn’t stop there. Protesters have voiced opposition to ‘La Junta,’ the unelected, Washington-appointed board that controls the island’s finances and promotes harsh austerity. Guest: Dr. Rima Brusi, scholar-in-residence at the Center for Human Rights and Peace… Continue reading
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FIRST QUARTER 2019 REPORT ON THE RATES OF TURNOVER, EXPLOITATION AND SURPLUS FOR THE US ECONOMY
28 July 2019 — theplanningmotivedotcom USA first quarter 2019 report pdf (report) GRAPHS rate of exploitation & surplus value (spreadsheet) [I thought the following postscript to the USA first quarter report worth reproducing here. WB] A short note on the UK. “Levelling up” or an unguarded level crossing with a train approaching. As expected Boris Johnson… Continue reading
