18 February 2020 — The New Dark Age
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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/
18 February 2020 — Consortium News
18 February 2020 — Craig Murray
18 February 2020 — True Publica
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.
18 February 2020 — WSWS
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 decide Assange’s fate.
17 February 2020 — Strategic Culture Foundation
18 February 2020 — Sustainablepulse.com
18 February 2020 — WSWS
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.
18 February 2020 — TASS
THE HAGUE, February 18. /TASS/. 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.
18 February 2020 — The New Dark Age
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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
18 February 2020 — Jonathan Cook
UN efforts to protect Palestinian land from economic exploitation are failing, and exposing the hypocrisy of western states
The National – 18 February 2020
After lengthy delays, the United Nations finally published a database last week of businesses that have been profiting from Israel’s illegal annexation and settlement activity in the West Bank.
18 February 2020 — Grayzone
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.By John Pilger
7 February 2020 — Colin Todhunter
This month, India’s Supreme Court will hold a lengthy hearing on the commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) mustard, which would be the country’s first GM food crop. The court has asked the chair of the Technical Expert Committee to be present and says that the decision on GM mustard cannot be kept pending. The TEC has come out against using genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Indian agriculture.
17 February 2020 — Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 17, 2020
17 February 2020 — In Gaza
Not for the first time I write about this sordid reality.
From the very beginning of the war on Syria, from early 2011, terrorists (then dubbed “unarmed protesters”) have slaughtered Syrian civilians, military and government employees (including famously throwing the bodies of slain postal workers from a post office rooftop).
16 February 2020 — Telesur
The U.S.-backed opposition politician is involved in a US$116 billion damage to the Venezuelan people.
Venezuela’s Communication Minister Jorge Rodriguez Saturday presented new evidence on a series of corruption acts in which the U.S.-backed opposition lawmaker Juan Gaido is the main protagonist.
16 February 2020 — theplanningmotivedotcom
[Absolute MUST READ for anyone interested in why capitalism is fucking up the planet and sowing the seeds of human extinction. WB]
The above title may appear facetious, but it is not. It is scientific. Many of the economic practices designed to maximise profits are unnatural. In terms of ecology they are discordant and as the productive capacity of capitalism grows, so the rebound effect from nature is multiplied. The coronavirus now beginning to spread globally, despite the unashamed cover-ups in the West, is such an effect. This article attempts to describe the balancing role played by viruses in nature.
