8 January 2020 — Grayzone
The farcical scene of Juan Guaido attempting to break into Venezuela’s National Assembly as its members voted him out was just the latest chapter in an absurdly bungled coup attempt, and brings Trump’s policy to a dead end.
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This might be the final episode of Juan Guaidó’s surreal Venezuela regime-change reality show
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“Iran Must Begin Acting Like A Normal Nation,” Says Totally Normal Nation
13 January 2020 — Caitlin Johnson
The government which runs a globe-spanning empire led by a reality TV host keeps talking about the lack of normality in the nation of Iran.
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Was The Shootdown Of The Ukrainian Airplane Near Tehran Intended, A Screw-Up Or A ‘Mistake’?
12 January 2020 — Moon of Alabama
After the shoot down of the Ukrainian flight PS752 the big question within Iran and within its military and political circles is what went wrong.
An analysis of the circumstances under which the incident took place unfortunately shows that nothing went wrong. The strategic and tactical decisions that were made were all rational and made sense. But unfortunately shit happens even when everything else works as it is supposed to work.
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Iran News Links 13 January 2020
13 January 2020 • 18:30 — The New Dark Age
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So, What?
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2020/01/so-what.htmlAbby Martin and Dan Kovalik: The Plot to Attack Iran: Myths, Oil and Revolution
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2020/01/13/abby-martin-and-dan-kovalik-the-plot-to-attack-iran-myths-oil-and-revolution/
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Iran News Links 11-12 January 2020
12 January 2020 • 18:00 — The New Dark Age
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Democrats Outraged at Republican Accusations of Foreign Loyalty
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/01/12/democrats-outraged-at-republican-accusations-of-foreign-loyalty/“Would the American Public Tolerate US Soldiers Defending Trump Hotels?”
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/12/would-american-public-tolerate-us-soldiers-defending-trump-hotels?cd-origin=rss
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Iran, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix by Caitlin Johnstone
12 January 2020 — Caitlin Johnson
The greatest asset of the propagandists is your belief that you haven’t been propagandized.
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Hi my name’s Maga McBootlick. I fight the establishment by cheerleading for the US President, I oppose war by supporting the same Middle East agendas as Dick Cheney, John Bolton and Bill Kristol, and I love the Iranian people so much I want to kill them with starvation sanctions.
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Upcoming Events for Julian Assange
12 January 2020 — Defend Wikileaks
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Axis Of Resistance Says How It Will Avenge Qassem Soleimani
12 January 2020 — Moon of Alabama
The media continue to tell fairytales about Qassem Soleimani and about Trump’s decision to assassinate him and PMU leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. Meanwhile the Resistance Axis announced how it will avenge their deaths.
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As Capitalism Collapses Into Totalitarianism, Socialist Revolution Looms On The Horizon
11 January 2020 — See You in 2020
For the last generation, the United States and other capitalist countries have been on a steady trajectory towards despotism. With 9/11 and the resulting return to the Cold War’s atmosphere of perpetual conflict, a change appeared in the prevailing aims of the capitalist governments. Whereas capitalist societies generally assumed they could look forward to an increasingly liberal future after the breakup of the Soviet Union and the easing of war tensions, but what’s happened throughout the 21st century is a shift towards less and less freedom.
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Iran: Nothing Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Forgiven M.K. Bhadrakumar
11 January 2020 — Indian Punchline
President Trump’s credibility is so low that it is difficult to contest the perception that he blundered into the recent confrontation with Iran by ordering the killing of Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Quds Force. Many analysts point finger at US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for persuading Trump against his better instincts.
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Democracy in Focus: A post-austerity state
8 January 2020 — Red Pepper
Illustration by Andrzej KrauzeLowering the voting age. Restoring and entrenching the powers of local government, including the power to build public housing. Ensuring that people are able to fulfil their potential (including outlawing many of the practices of the gig economy that drive its workers to suicide). Establishing a proportional election system, so that voters have a real choice and their votes make a difference.
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Big Pharma: Dangling Life Over the Dying
9 January 2020 — New Eastern Outlook
(Gunnar Ulson – NEO) – There are very few who have yet to come to the realization that Western pharmaceutical corporations and the health care systems they have created, control, manipulate and exploit represent not only a particular pinnacle of corruption, but also threaten rather than preserve the health of the many millions who fall within their reach.
They not only threaten the West by undermining what should be otherwise healthy and thriving populations, but their tentacles reach deep into Eurasia, South America, Africa and beyond.
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UK: Welfare Weekly 11 January 2020
11 January 2020 — Welfare Weekly
Up to 2,000 terminally ill people have died awaiting DWP benefit decisions
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Iran News Links 10-11 January 2020
11 January 2020 • 12:30 — The New Dark Age
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‘I wish I was dead’: Senior IRGC commander accepts responsibility for downing Ukrainian jet, says it was mistaken for missile
https://on.rt.com/a8u3
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What Passes for Reality Is Not Worth Respecting: The Second Newsletter (2020)
10 January 2020 — Tri-Continental
Dear Friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
In October of last year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its flagship World Economic Outlook. In that report, the IMF said that the global growth rate would stumble at 3% in 2019. A month ago, the IMF’s main economists returned to this theme; ‘Global growth’, they wrote, ‘recorded its weakest pace since the global financial crisis a decade ago’. The analysis of why there was such a low growth rate rested on the trade war between the United States and China and on ‘associated weaknesses’. (The IMF promises a fuller discussion about the crisis in its World Economic Outlook Update, which it will release on 20 January).
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How Many Millions Did You Make for the Pennies You Gave to the Coolies: The First Newsletter (2020)
2 January 2020 — Tri-Continental
Gao Liang, The People Who Got Land, June 1948.How Many Millions Did You Make for the Pennies You Gave to the Coolies: The First Newsletter (2020).
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Knight of Darkness – Iain Duncan Smith’s Directory Of Death
2 January 2020 — True Publica
Part of this headline is taken from an article that features in Welfare Weekly. That article is a roll-call of death caused by an ideology that, in part, ended up looking like a policy to deliberately kill the weakest and most vulnerable in our society. The headline is borderline when it comes to being libellous – but there’s a sickening reality to it and the architect of this reality is Iain Duncan Smith. Recently knighted in the New Years Honours List with nearly 200,000 signatures of objection already, IDS is a fanatical political extremist on the hard-right.
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DWP: The case for the prosecution
9 January 2020 — True Publica
This time last year, The Independent published a story where Ministers were accused of ‘failing people at the most vulnerable point in their lives’ after it emerged that nine disability claimants die each day (270 per month) while waiting for decisions on disability support. The story also stated that figures at the time revealed that 17,070 disability claimants had died while waiting for decisions on their personal independence payment (PIP) claims since 2013. This was not a new story, only that the figures of deaths were updated. Two years earlier, on a different angle, other reports emerged that 90 people a month were dying after having been found fit for work by the DWP. And yet, after all this time, the statistics, investigations and reports nothing has changed.
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Iranian Armed Forces Say They Inadvertently Shot Down The Ukrainian Plane
11 January 2020 — Moon of Alabama
The Iranian Armed Forces General Staff just admitted (in Farsi) that its air defenses inadvertently shot down the Ukrainian flight PS 752 shortly after it took off on January 8 in Tehran (machine translation, slightly edited for readability):
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Bolivia News Links 1-10 January 2020
10 January 2020 — The New Dark Age
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Iran’s Hero Has Fallen, and Now the World Is an Even More Dangerous Place
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/01/10/irans-hero-has-fallen-and-now-the-world-is-an-even-more-dangerous-place/USAID Arriving in Bolivia to ‘Monitor Elections,’ Raising Fears of US Meddling in May 3 Vote
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/10/usaid-arriving-bolivia-monitor-elections-raising-fears-us-meddling-may-3-vote?cd-origin=rss
