28 January 2020 — Global Ecosocialist Network
Rehad Desai
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 are completely fitting for the situation we now face.
13 February 2020 — Black Agenda Report
13.February 2020 — Moon of Alabama
“This looks to be a bad, heightened cold — I think that’s a rational way of thinking about it,” – Matthew Frieman, a virologist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
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.
13 February 2020 — Institute of Race Relations
On Tuesday, a charter-deportation flight to Jamaica carried passengers who had lived in the UK since early childhood – against a recommendation of the unpublished (but leaked) ‘Windrush: Lessons Learned’ review. Protesters against the deportation flight shut down Whitehall and over 170 MPs wrote asking the minister to reconsider the failure to publish the review or to follow its recommendations, indicating the government’s unconcern for both past and present victims of the Windrush scandal. Boris Johnson poured scorn on protestors as ‘the Westminster bubble’ and indicated his intention to re-examine the process of judicial review.
1 January 2020 — Internationalist 360°
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 throughout the capitol city of Port-au-Prince. The current protests have been taking place since August of this year. The masses of Africans in Haiti, infuriated by the government’s increases in fuel prices, have been engaging in open revolt against the government. The capitalist media is reporting that the basis of the protests are demands that Haitian President Jovenel Moise resign from office, but the underlining reasons for the unrest go much deeper than that.
12 February 2020 — Internationalist 360°
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.
28 January 2010 — John Pilger
[A timely reminder with this excellent essay by John Pilger from 2010. WB]
The theft of Haiti has been swift and crude. On 22 January, 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 and the arrival of 13,000 marines, special forces, spooks and mercenaries, none with humanitarian relief training.
13 February 2020 — Media Lens
On the face of it, the task seems almost hopeless. As Tolstoy wrote:
‘The power of the government is maintained by public opinion, and with this power the government, by means of its organs – its officials, law courts, schools, churches, even the press – can always maintain the public opinion which they need.’ (Leo Tolstoy, ‘Writings on Non-Violence and Civil Disobedience,’ New Society Publishers, 1987, p.111)
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.
12 February 2020 — Open Democracy
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 then seek asylum in Argentina. Jeanine Áñez, a far-right politician who was not in the line of succession, seized power; the military, the fascistic civil society groups, and sections of the evangelical church backed her. Áñez said that she would hold elections soon, but that she would herself not stand in them.
13 February 2020 — The Electronic Intifada
A new opinion poll found that 73 percent of Labour members think anti-Semitism in the party is exaggerated.
12 February 2020 — Land Destroyer
February 5, 2020 (Tony Cartalucci – NEO) – US policy versus Iran has reached new heights of desperation and new lows in terms of undermining international law and norms.
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 American military, political, and economic impotence.
12 February 2020 — TRNN
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 Assange Campaign.
12 February 2020• 18:00 — The New Dark Age
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“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
12 February 2020 — Global Research
First published on January 25, 2019:
The Latin American nation of Venezuela faces dangerous destabilization with the United States and its allies having recognized opposition figure Juan Guaido as “president” and declaring actual Venezuelan president – Nicolas Maduro – no longer recognized.
12 February 2020 — Off Guardian
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.
8 February 2020 — Internationalist 360°
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 the end of last year and as of Friday had left 722 deaths and more than 34 thousand people infected.
12 February 2020 — Jonathan Cook
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.
12 February 2020 — The New Dark Age
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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 Idlib
https://tass.com/world/1119161
12 February 2020 — The New Dark Age
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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
https://popularresistance.org/britains-got-a-supreme-court-scandal-new-damning-emails-show-uk-corruption-in-the-case-against-julian-assange/
