10 December 2019 — Global Justice Now
Imagine if you met Donald Trump on your high street handing out boxes of chlorinated chicken and pesticide contaminated baby food – all with festive Christmas cheer!
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Hebron plan is Israel’s reminder to Palestinians that settler-power knows no limits
10 December 2019 — Jonathan Cook
Proposed destruction of the West Bank city’s market to make way for a new settlement is the Israeli government’s route to refashion its apartheid system as the rule of law
The National – 10 December 2019
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UK: Fake News and the “Punch” that never happened What one media lie tells us about the way our “news” works
10 December 2019 — Off Guardian
Kit Knightly
Yesterday the Health Secretary Matt Hancock went to Leeds to visit a struggling NHS hospital. It was a PR stunt designed to make the Tories look pro-active in the face of a late-campaign PR disaster.
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Syria News Links 5-10 December 2019
10 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
A Beautiful but Deceptive Documentary: “For Sama”
https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/a-beautiful-but-deceptive-documentary-for-sama/The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO): Plans for 2020
https://journal-neo.org/2019/12/10/the-collective-security-treaty-organization-csto-plans-for-2020/
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Saudi Arabia Retreats From The Troubles Its Clown Prince Caused
6 December 2019 — Moon of Alabama
When the Saudi King Salman promoted his son Mohammad bin Salman (MbS) to Defense Minister and then Crown Prince the expectations were high. But three of the major projects Muhammad launched since then soon ran into trouble. Now initiatives are under way to limit the damage he caused. The end of the five year old Saudi war on Yemen is coming into sight. The public offering of the Saudi state owned ARAMCO oil company is finally happening but with a much lower valuation than originally planned. The thirty month spat with Qatar is under repair.
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Julian Assange News Links 6-9 December 2019
10 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
Newsweek Journo Quits After Editors Kills Report On Syria Chemical Attack Scandal
https://www.mintpressnews.com/newsweek-tareq-haddad-quits-syria-douma-opcw/263292/Question for Kirbymoorside UK Hustings Meeting: Would you stand up for Julian Assange?
https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/question-for-kirbymoorside-uk-hustings-meeting-would-you-stand-up-for-julian-assange99425/
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Bolivia News Links 9-10 December 2019
10 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
Chris Hedges: Empire Striking Back In Latin America
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2019/12/09/chris-hedges-empire-striking-back-in-latin-america/
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Workshop on Northern Ireland: The legacy of collusion
9 December 2019 — Statewatch
Statewatch Workshop on Northern Ireland:
Thursday 30 January 2020: 18.00 – 20.00 at:
Statewatch, c/o: MAYDAY ROOMS,,88 Fleet St, London EC4Y
THE LEGACY OF COLLUSION
On 20 November 2019 the Presiding Coroner for Northern Ireland, the Honourable Mrs Justice Keegan, set a timetable to hear the 71 outstanding Legacy Inquests into killings that date back as far as the 1970s over the next five years. At the same time, there are a number of related on-going criminal and Police Ombudsman investigations.
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Bolivia News Links 5-8 December 2019
8 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
Stella Calloni: “We are Under a Counterinsurgency War”
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/12/07/stella-calloni-we-are-under-a-counterinsurgency-war/Bolivia: MAS Appoints Morales as Director of its 2020 Campaign
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/12/07/bolivia-mas-appoints-morales-as-director-of-its-2020-campaign/
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Patient data from GP surgeries sold to US companies
7 December 2019 — The Guardian
Dealings with international pharma raise new fears about American ambitions to access NHS
Jeremy Corbyn shows redacted documents of secret trade talks between the UK and US governments. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA Data about millions of NHS patients has been sold to US and other international pharmaceutical companies for research, the Observer has learned, raising new fears about America’s growing ambitions to access lucrative parts of the health service after Brexit.
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Journalist: Newsweek Suppressed OPCW Scandal And Threatened Me With Legal Action
8 December 2019 — Caitlin Johnson
A Newsweek journalist has resigned after the publication reportedly suppressed his story about the ever-growing OPCW scandal, the revelation of immensely significant plot holes in the establishment Syria narrative that you can update yourself on by watching this short seven-minute video or this more detailed video here.
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Uneven Earth’s Monthly Readings
7 December 2019 — Uneven Earth
[Came across this very useful resource, from yet another information source, Uneven Earth. Frankly, with the wealth of accurate information available to us these days, there really is no excuse for inaction, no matter how small, over the major issues of our time. WB]
November readings
On the wave of global protests, lessons from the 1999 Seattle shutdown, and nuclear energy
Once a month, we put together a list of stories we’ve been reading: things you might’ve missed or crucial conversations going on around the web. We focus on environmental and social justice, cities, science fiction, current events, and political theory.
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Reddit Bans Users for Telling the Truth
7 December 2019 — Off Guardian
Apparently honesty is now “Russia-like activity”
Kit Knightly
Last week (November 27th), at a press conference, Jeremy Corbyn unveiled dozens of leaked documents. Documents showing that Boris Johnson – and the Tories in general – are lying when they say there are no plans to open up the NHS to US trade.
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The Dirty War on the NHS: Save the Date: Online Cinema Screening on Mon 9 Dec
7 December 2019 — John Pilger
For those who cannot get to a cinema, we are organising an Online Cinema Screening on Monday 9 December between 6pm and 10pm. Tickets are £10. If you want to watch the film, click on the link below, buy your ticket, and on Monday you will be sent a link to the film and an access code. You can start watching any time between 6pm and 10pm. (This will only be available to people in the UK.)
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NATO Splits Reveal Alliance is Redundant
6 December 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
If the NATO summit this week marking the 70th anniversary of its foundation in 1949 was meant to be a resounding celebration, it backfired spectacularly, more as a resounding farce. Amid all the pomp and ceremony afforded by an official reception at Buckingham Palace, hosted by the British Queen, the two-day gathering descended into squabbling, sneering and back-stabbing.
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AI Border Guards are Being Tested at the Edge of Fortress Europe, Away From Public Scrutiny
6 December 209 — Novara Media
[Artificial Intelligence? It’s just software, that’s all it is! I’m amazed at how the myth of artificial intelligence has been blindly accepted by pretty much everyone but it’s been with us ever since the industrial revolution. We used to call it Machine Learning. What’s made the REAL difference is the power of modern computing, which is now able to do in ‘real time’ something that simply wasn’t possible with early computers; carry out billions of computations ‘on the fly’, thus creating the appearence of intelligence when in fact, it’s just software. WB]
by Robbie Warin
@RobbieWarin
A series of trials funded by the EU to the tune of €4.5 million ended this summer, without most people ever even having heard about them. At three points on the EU’s external border, a new form of border protection using lie-detecting artificial intelligence has been tested. The European Commission is being sued for allowing the company behind the trials to keep its methods and results away from public scrutiny.
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Journalist Exposes BBC Propaganda in Ukraine, Crimea and Beyond
5 December 2019 — 21st Century Wire
Is the BBC really an “impartial news gathering organisation”?
Independent journalist Graham Phillips gives a brief masterclass here, showing a few examples of blatant propaganda being produced by the BBC. As he points out, their reports are intended to deceive viewers by delivering an overtly anti-Russian, false portrayal of events being reported, normally devoid of any real context outside of the official western government-approved narrative. Watch:
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Ukrainian neo-Nazis flock to the Hong Kong protest movement
4 December 2019 — Grayzone
Ukrainian fascists who previously fought in a US-backed neo-Nazi militia joined the anti-China protests in Hong Kong, sharing their tactics and showing off their tattoos. By Ben Norton
Neo-Nazis from Ukraine have flown to Hong Kong to participate in the anti-Chinese insurgency, which has been widely praised by Western corporate media and portrayed as a peaceful pro-democracy movement.
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Economics as a social science
5 December 2019 — Michael Roberts Blog
Recently, Benoît Cœuré, a leading French member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, delivered an address to economics students at the job forum of Paris School of Economics. He wanted to explain to the gathered students that becoming an economist was a great thing to do and paid well. “For many, a master’s degree is a natural step towards a PhD. And a PhD is essentially a promise of employment. In the United States, for example, the unemployment rate for PhD economists is about 0.8%, the lowest among all sciences. Not a bad place to start from.”
