20 January 2020 — WSWS
By Robert Stevens
The nominally “left” candidate in the Labour Party leadership contest, Rebecca-Long Bailey, launched her campaign at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester Friday. The event confirmed that four years of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership have changed nothing fundamental about the Labour Party.
18 January 2020 — Moon of Alabama
The Trump administration sees the U.S. assassination of Qassem Soleimani as a form of deterrence not only with regards to Iran but also towards Russia, China and others. That view is wrong.
20 January 2020 — Indian Punchline
The Cold-War hypothesis that the Soviet Union was hoping to “wet its toes” in the Indian Ocean was in reality an extension of the geopolitical construct known as the “Anglo-Russian Question” that was written about by Lord Curzon, onetime viceroy of British India (1899-1905). We now know that the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan was due to force of circumstances rather than as strategy.
20 January 2020 — Global Research
The claim that Major General Qassem Soleimani was a “terrorist” on a mission to carry out an “imminent” attack that would kill hundreds of Americans turned out to be a lie, so why should one believe anything else relating to recent developments in Iran and Iraq? To be sure, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 departing from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport on the morning of January 8th with 176 passengers and crew on board was shot down by Iranian air defenses, something which the government of the Islamic Republic has admitted, but there just might be considerably more to the story involving cyberwarfare carried out by the U.S. and possibly Israeli governments.
18 January 2020 — Global Research
There is mounting evidence that a healthy soil microbiome protects plants from pests and diseases. One of the greatest natural assets that humankind has is soil. But when you drench it with proprietary synthetic chemicals or continuously monocrop as part of a corporate-controlled industrial farming system, you can kill essential microbes, upset soil balance and end up feeding soil a limited doughnut diet of unhealthy inputs.
19 January 2020 — The New Dark Age
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“Death to the Islamic Republic” they chant now- and they call themselves Iranians
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/01/18/death-to-the-islamic-republic-they-chant-now-and-they-call-themselves-iranians/
How Trump Rebelled Against The Generals
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/01/18/how-trump-rebelled-against-the-generals/
17 January 2020 — Consortium News
This conflict is essentially over policies that put the avaricious demands of financial markets ahead of the needs of the people, writes Diana Johnstone.
By Diana Johnstone
in Paris
Special to Consortium News
The people are angry with their government. Where? Just about everywhere. So what makes ongoing strikes in France so special? Nothing, perhaps, except a certain expectation based on history that French uprisings can produce important changes – or if not, can at least help clarify the issues in contemporary social conflicts.
18 January 2020 — The New Dark Age
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Patrick Armstrong on the Russian Reshuffle
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/01/18/patrick-armstrong-on-the-russian-reshuffle/
Are France’s unions even trying to win the General Strike?
http://thesaker.is/are-frances-unions-even-trying-to-win-the-general-strike/
17 January 2020 — WSWS
The inclusion of climate activists Extinction Rebellion (XR) by police in a guide to “ideological extremism” marks a serious escalation of the assault on democratic rights.
Although the guide has now been withdrawn, the Conservative government has still defended including XR.
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23 November, 2019 — Historical Materialism
Pepijn Brandon
If you get nauseated by the perverse state of contemporary world politics and the slavish way in which mainstream media help to sustain the spectacle that is Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Rodrigo Duterte or their local variants, here is the perfect antidote: read Marx’s journalistic articles for the New York Daily Tribune.
17 January 2020 • 19:45 — The New Dark Age
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‘Why do you allow the United States to bully you?’ – Iranian FM to Europe over nuclear deal tensions
https://on.rt.com/a927
13 January 2020 — UnEarthed
Pesticide giant Syngenta has said that the media is “overstating the science that clearly exists” on insect declines.
15 January 2020 — True Publica
TruePublica Editor: In January 2015, the BBC warned the government that its global news presence will end up marginalised by overseas rivals such as Russia Today and al-Jazeera unless multimillion-pound cuts were reversed. The global news division included the BBC World Service, which had suffered big cuts. It was a stark warning that Britain’s global ‘soft-power’ was declining. In November that year, the taxpayer was quietly lumbered with an £85m bill. Lord Hall, the BBC Director-General of the day, welcomed what he described as “the single biggest increase in the World Service budget ever committed by any government.’ However, after the Brexit result, funding by the government accelerated very quickly.
17 January 2020 — The New Dark Age
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Julian Assange At The Westminster Magistrates Court
https://orientalreview.org/2020/01/17/julian-assange-at-the-westminster-magistrates-court/
Now twenty years later, how did Putin do it?
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/01/16/now-twenty-years-later-how-did-putin-do-it/
16 January 2020 — Venezuelanalysis.com
17 January 2020 — Eric Walberg
Anderson’s Axis of Resistancetakes on the leftist position of ‘a plague on all your houses’. Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, ‘the intellectual voice of the Syrian revolution’ (for westerners), presents a bleak portrait of “three monsters … treading on Syria’s corpse’: (1) the Assad regime and its allies, (2) DAESH/ISIS and the other jihadists, and (3) the West (the USA, UK, France, etc). This is the general view from outside the Syrian cauldron, but leads nowhere.
17 January 2020 — In Gaza – RT.com
Twitter has been on a narrative-control rampage, removing or censoring legitimate accounts that are critical of US-led wars, propaganda and lies. Facebook and Instagram have increased their Big Brother policing, too.
