4 November 2019 • 17:15 — The New Dark Age
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Syrian War Report – November 4, 2019: ‘Withdrawing’ US Troops Setting Up New Military Bases
Erdogan Terrorists on Terror Frenzy in Tal Abiad and Aleppo City
4 November 2019 — National Security Archive
3 November 2019 — Popular Resistance
By The People’s Mobe | Resist!
For decades the U.S. government and its European allies have been illegally using unilateral economic sanctions (“Unilateral Coercive Measures”) as a weapon of war and mass destruction to topple governments that do not submit to the U.S. and European states’ domination of their country. The main objective of these unilateral sanctions is to destroy those small countries’ economies and bring their people to their knees through mass starvation so they will be left with no choice but to revolt against their own government. (more…)
31 October 2019 — Internationalist 360°
4 November 2019 — Caitlin Johnson
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”
~ Noam Chomsky
The plutocrat-owned narrative managers of the political/media class work constantly to shrink the Overton window, the spectrum of debate that is considered socially acceptable. They do this by framing more and more debates in terms of how the oligarchic empire should be sustained and supported, steering them away from debates about whether that empire should be permitted to exist at all.
4 November 2019 • 23:00 — The New Dark Age
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31 October 2019 — GMWatch
Over 42,000 lawsuits in the US alone allege the herbicide Roundup has caused cancer
EXCERPT: Bayer has haemorrhaged around $43 billion in market value since acquiring Monsanto.
Gregor Heard
Farm Weekly, 31 Oct 2019
https://www.farmweekly.com.au/story/6469073/bayer-faces-lawsuit-horror/
1 November 2019 — GMWatch
The European Court of Justice ruled last year that new GMOs are still GMOs: But Finland and the Commission are dragging their feet, writes Eric Meunier of Inf’OGM
3 November 2019 — The New Dark Age
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General election 2019: Nigel Farage will not stand as candidate
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50280848
Election – One million under 45s register to vote in one month
https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/election-one-million-register-to-vote-in-one-month/
31 October 2019 — Internationalist 360°
In Bolivia, the old ruling classes and privileged castes were expelled from the strategic places of the State, and a democratic and popular bloc was imposed that to this day governs with sovereignty and national independence. Never were political and economic transformations so profound, which we DO NOT WANT TO RENOUNCE AND WE ARE WILLING TO DEFEND because they are historical achievements of the Process of Change. Here is a dignified people who have resolved to be free and who are going to have to face it. Our response will be forceful, determined, UNITARY and within the framework of the historic program of national liberation forged in the popular struggles.
2 November 2019 — Peoples Dispatch
President Evo Morales emerged victorious in the first round of presidential elections in Bolivia held on October 20 but the opposition is set on rejecting the results
by Zoe PC
2 November 2019 — Indian Punchline
Amidst the excitement over the killing of the ISIS chief Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, a development of much impact on international security passed by when Denmark made the innocuous announcement on October 30 that it would permit the proposed Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to pass through its exclusive economic zone.
3 November 2019 — True Publica
TruePublica Editor: Bad news for Boris Johnson keeps piling up as election campaigning is in now full swing.
First up and quite serious for all sorts of reasons is the news that evidence that could lead to criminal charges against the pro-Brexit campaign led by Boris Johnson and his key adviser, Dominic Cummings, has now been passed by police to the criminal prosecution authorities. This is significant because the police would not have submitted evidence if it thought it could not bring and win a case like this. Is this a political move to get back at the Tories for slashing 20,000 police officers and politicising the force over the last decade? Maybe, maybe not.
3 November 2019 — The New Dark Age
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Julian Assange’s Life Is at Risk, Says United Nations Expert
“I Was Fired For Helping Julian Assange, And I Have No Regrets”
Prison conditions for Julian Assange are putting his life ‘at risk’: UN expert
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3 November 2019 — Caitlin Johnson
President Trump reiterated to the press today that the United States is maintaining its military presence in Syria not to patrol the nation’s border with Turkey, but to control its oil fields.
1 November 2019 — Friends of Syria
31 October 2019 — Open Democracy
Grenfell Tower in West London, 30 October 2019
Steve Parsons/PA Wire/PA Images
On 14 June 2017, a devastating fire broke out at Grenfell Tower, eventually killing 72 people, injuring hundreds more and leaving over 200 households homeless. Yesterday, a Prime Minister not renowned for being closely acquainted with honesty has trumpeted that the formal unveiling of the Report of Phase 1 of the Public Inquiry into the Grenfell disaster will offer the bereaved, survivors and wider affected community “the truth”. We really hope so, but the media reporting of the Inquiry’s findings so far shows the battle that lies ahead.
2 November 2019 — openDemocracy
By James Cusick: Evidence that could lead to criminal charges against the pro-Brexit campaign led by Boris Johnson and his key adviser, Dominic Cummings, has now been passed by police to the criminal prosecution authorities, openDemocracy has learned.
2 November 2019 — WSWS
By Laura Tiernan
US President Donald Trump intervened at the start of Britain’s snap general election campaign Thursday to publicly attack Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, warning that a Corbyn premiership would take the UK into “bad places.”
