16 December 2019 — Jonathan Cook
UK officials have stonewalled a campaign to expose a group that funded a park used to aid the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
Middle East Eye – 16 January 2019
When is a war crime not a war crime? When, according to British officials, that war crime has been given a makeover as a “charitable act”.
16 December 2019 — Greg Palast
Go ahead, pop the champagne!
It took us six years of investigating and reporting on the nationwide Jim Crow Interstate Crosscheckpurge operation that cost more than 1.1 million voters of color their registrations and elected Donald Trump. But, finally, Kansas, which generates the Crosscheck secret scrub lists for other states, has agreed to kill the program. This effectively ends the entire national purge operation.
16 December 2019 — Global Research
As we transition into 2020, our World is in the grip of a deliberate attempt to destroy the fundamental values upon which all civilised life depends.
Humanitarian values of love, kindness, compassion and mutual support – are being deliberately blocked, distorted and down-graded as part of a global propaganda regime designed to indoctrinate the people of this planet into selfish, materialistic and essentially passive ‘convenience’ life styles.
16 December 2019 — Manifesto Club
It’s been a bad last 24 hours for the war propagandists.
WikiLeaks has published multiple documents providing further details on the coverup within the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) of its own investigators’ findings which contradicted the official story we were all given about an alleged chlorine gas attack in Douma, Syria last year. The alleged chemical weapons incident was blamed on the Syrian government by the US and its allies, who launched airstrikes against Syria several days later. Subsequent evidence indicating that there was insufficient reason to conclude the chlorine gas attack ever happened was repressed by the OPCW, reportedly at the urging of US government officials.
15 December 2019 — theplanningmotivedotcom
[I think this is an important piece of analysis, as far as it goes. WB]
In times of great disappointment and crisis, it is important to keep a level head, to analyse the situation coolly and calmly, and most importantly to extend one’s intellectual vision beyond the immediate. Johnson, the Tories and the media are all rejoicing in what they consider to be a resounding victory. Clearly, the capitalist class and their media united, that is as far as the façade of democracy would allow, around the narrative, that it would be better to have a hard Brexit than a Corbyn led government. Faced with the choice between a Brexit that would damage the economy, and an aroused and inspired working class, they obviously chose the former.
16 December 2019 — Global Research
Author’s note
Almost nine years since the beginning of the war on Syria in March 2011, so-called progressives have supported the so-called opposition, which is largely made up of Al Qaeda affiliated mercenaries. A US-NATO led war of aggression is portrayed as a “civil war”.
President Bashar Al Assad is casually described as a dictator who is killing his own people. The millions of deaths resulting from US-NATO led wars are not an object of concern.
12 December 2019 — Climate & Capitalism
This was a bumper year for books of interest to ecosocialists. Here are ten that we found particularly interesting or valuable, or both.
Climate & Capitalism receives more books than we can possibly review, but we can and do compile a monthly list of those that seem relevant to our mission, along with brief descriptions. The result is one of our most popular features, Ecosocialist Bookshelf.
This year the column included 68 books on subjects ranging from ancient volcanoes to the life of Marx to Malthus. The overall quality was very high, so producing a “10 Best” list hasn’t been easy, but here we go.
16 December 2019 — Information Clearing House
By Finian Cunningham
Peace will only come to Ukraine when Washington stops kicking Kiev around like a political football to gratify its Cold War hostility towards Russia. –Continue
15 December 2019 — The New Dark Age
Global Warfare: “We’re Going to Take out 7 Countries in 5 Years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran..”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-re-going-to-take-out-7-countries-in-5-years-iraq-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran/5166
US-Backed Parties Infiltrated Lebanon’s Protests, Pushing Country Toward War Amid Economic Collapse
https://popularresistance.org/us-backed-parties-infiltrated-lebanons-protests-pushing-country-toward-war-amid-economic-collapse/
15 December 2019 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back
Misleading voters should be alarming, but for the Tories it’s simply ‘career progression’
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/aGJT4QBwrzY/
General election 2019: Viral videos about the NHS dominate the digital campaign
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50744503
15 December 2019 — The New Dark Age
Opposition Led to Kalamata, Greece Joining Other European Cities in Suspending 5G Deployment
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/zEEfQe1M2bE/opposition-led-to-kalamata-greece-joining-other-european-cities-in-suspending-5g-deployment.html
AT&T Unleashes 5G in 10 More U.S. Cities Despite Warnings, Lawsuits, and Opposition
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/zhYGo6h6cWs/att-unleashes-5g-in-10-more-u-s-cities-despite-warnings-lawsuits-and-opposition.html
13 December 2019 — Morning Star Online
As soon as the scale of Labour’s shattering defeat began to emerge last night, pundits began to push the line that this was not just about Brexit but about Jeremy Corbyn, and more broadly the Labour Party’s significant shift towards socialism under his leadership.
13 December 2019 — The New Dark Age
Argentina: Devastating consequences of GMO-based intensive ag on native amphibians
https://www.gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/19263-argentina-devastating-consequences-of-gmo-based-intensive-ag-on-native-amphibians
Why Good Nutrition Will Remain a Distant Dream Unless We Stop the Chemical Onslaught on Our Food from Farm to Plate
https://colintodhunter.blogspot.com/2019/12/why-good-nutrition-will-remain-distant.html
13 December 2019 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back
Indigenous Bolivia Ready to Go to War Against Fascism
https://www.globalresearch.ca/indigenous-bolivia-ready-go-war-against-fascism/5697576
OAS Final Audit Report on Bolivia Elections Raises More Questions About Its Own Work Than It Answers, CEPR Analysis Concludes
https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2019/12/13/oas-final-audit-report-bolivia-elections-raises-more-questions-about-its-own?cd-origin=rss
13 December 2019 — Jonathan Cook
This was an election of two illusions.
The first helped persuade much of the British public to vote for the very epitome of an Eton toff, a man who not only has shown utter contempt for most of those who voted for him but has spent a lifetime barely bothering to conceal that contempt. For him, politics is an ego-trip, a game in which others always pay the price and suffer, a job he is entitled to through birth and superior breeding.
12 December 2019 — Information Clearing House
By Moon Of Alabama
The FBI agents and lawyers intentionally lied to the court. –Continue
13 December 2019 — Michael Roberts Blog
That was the campaign slogan of the incumbent Conservative government under PM Boris Johnson. And it was the message that won over a sufficient number of those Labour voters who had voted to the leave the EU in 2016 to back the Conservatives. One-third of Labour voters in the 2017 election wanted to leave the EU, mainly in the midlands and north of England, and in the small towns and communities that have few immigrants. They have accepted the claim that their poorer living conditions and public services were due to the EU, immigration and the ‘elite’ of the London and the south.
13 December 2019 — Caitlin Johnson
Ladies and gentlemen I have here at my fingertips indisputable proof that egregious election meddling took place in the United Kingdom on Thursday.
