30 October 2019 — National Security Archive
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Information Clearing House Headlines 30 October 2019
30 October 2019 — Information Clearing House
Beirut Is Burning: Rebellion Against the Elites Has Commenced
By Andre Vltchek
Lebanon may collapse as early as in February 2020. No more money can be looted. The end game is approaching. – Continue======
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Lebanon News Links 30 October 2019
30 October 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
Today’s links 30 October 2019
http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/10/todays-links_30.htmlWhy Lebanon And Iraq Are At The Brink Of Further Strife
https://popularresistance.org/why-lebanon-and-iraq-are-at-the-brink-of-further-strife/
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London Times Runs Fake Browder Opinion Piece
30 October 2019 — Consortium News
The writers of this op ed managed to put eight lies into just five opening lines, writes Lucy Komisar.By Lucy Komisar
The Komisar Scoop
Ben Brandon and Alex Bailin are London lawyers who have co-authored a fake story based on fabrications by William Browder about Russia’s legal action against his tax evasion and the death of his accountant, Sergei Magnitsky. The writers of this London Times op ed managed to put eight lies into just five opening lines.
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British Government Retains Julian Assange in a Maximum Security Prison at the Behest of Trump Regime
30 October 2019 — Global Research
At his latest extradition hearing Julian Assange was once again denied justice by a British court.If extradited to the U.S. he faces 175 years imprisonment for revealing American war crimes committed during its regime change wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Our Vanishing World: Insects
30 October 2019 — Global Research
About 12,000 years ago, late stone age humans precipitated the neolithic (agricultural) revolution that marked the start of the steady rise to civilization. Coincidentally, this occurred at the same time as the beginning of what is now known as the Holocene Epoch, the geological epoch in which humans still live.
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“Let Them Eat Cotton” : Genetically Modified Cotton as a “Solution to Human Hunger”? Approved by FDA
30 October 2019 — Global Research
US Government regulators have approved a genetically modified cotton variety as a “potential solution to human hunger.” The radical decision is to permit consumption by humans, in addition to animals, of seeds of a GMO cotton developed at Texas A&M University, with no independent long-term testing. It opens grave new concerns about the safety of our food chain. Soon, as a result, the world food chain may well be contaminated with the GMO cottonseeds whose dangers have been simply ignored by authorities.
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Impossible Foods wants to sell its Impossible Burgers in Europe
24 October 2019 — GMWatch
What will EFSA make of Impossible Foods’ rat feeding study?
Impossible Foods Inc. has applied to start selling its plant-based GMO-containing burgers in the European Union as it looks to expand outside the US and Asia, according to a report for Bloomberg.
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Media Silent as Nobel Prize Winning OPCW Found “Fixing” its Own Findings on Syria
29 October 2019 — Mint Press
Judging by the minimal impact of the news, there will likely be few consequences for those who suppressed information and misled the world, nor for those who called for war on the basis of it, their assertions proving, once again, disastrously wrong.
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Julian Assange News Links 29 October 2019
29 October 2019 — The New Dark Age
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ALERTS: We must act now to save Julian Assange and the Rule of Law
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/10/29/alerts-we-must-act-now-to-save-julian-assange-and-the-rule-of-law/
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Information Clearing House Headlines 29 October 2019
29 October 2019 — Information Clearing House
Trump Wants Deal With Exxon or Other Company to Take Syrian Oil
By Jason Ditz
Trump now says he is seeking to go into occupied Syria and take the oil. – Continue======
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In Ecuador, ‘Broken Windows Are Intolerable, but Broken People Are Fine’
29 October 2019 — FAIR
CounterSpin interview with Joe Emersberger on Ecuador protests
Janine Jackson interviewed FAIR contributor Joe Emersberger about the Ecuador protests for the October 25, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
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Wikileaks Reveals OPCW Falsified Reports to Blame Syrian Government Instead of Western Backed-Jihadis!
29 October 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Federico Pieraccini
The revelations – studiously ignored by the mainstream media – shed a light on the tangled web weaved by the complicit media and the West’s shameless hypocrisy, involving the OPCW, Wikileaks and Julian Assange’s illegal detention.
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Grenfell Report Phase 1 Seeks to Blame the Firefighters
29 October 2019 — Craig Murray
One simple fact cannot be hidden. The firefighters did not cause the fire. Phase 1 of Judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick’s report of the public inquiry into the Grenfell disaster has been released to relatives prior to publication tomorrow. According to the Guardian, it concentrates blame on the firefighters in charge of tackling the blaze. This is an entirely predictable Establishment ploy; blame the little people.
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Into the Tempest: Essays on the New Global Capitalism
28 October 2019 — Climate & Capitalism
Book Review
The alternative to global capitalism must be a transnational popular project that leads to globalization from below
William I. Robinson
Into the Tempest: Essays on the New Global Capitalism
Haymarket Books, 2018reviewed by David Klein
Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative is driving humanity to the brink of extinction. At the present rate of global greenhouse gas emissions, the climate crisis alone could soon end civilization and destroy the biosphere. Biologists report that up to a million species of plants and animals are on the verge of extinction. Global capitalism is not only creating unprecedented extremes of inequality and injustice, it is wrecking the planet.
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UK: Johnson set to win vote to hold December general election
29 October 2019 — WSWS
By Robert Stevens
MPs voted last night to reject Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s motion to call a snap general election on December 12. Johnson won the vote by 299 to 70 but the Fixed Term Parliament Act (FTPA) requires that general elections can only be called with the votes of two thirds (434) of MPs.
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Agrochemical Apocalypse: Interview with Environmental Campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason
29 October 2019 — Counter Currents
The renowned author and whistleblower Evaggelos Vallianatos describes British environmentalist and campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason as a “defender of the natural world and public health.” I first came across her work a few years ago. It was in the form of an open letter she had sent to an official about the devastating environmental and human health impacts of glyphosate-based weed killers. What had impressed me was the document she had sent to accompany the letter. It was over 20 pages long and contained official data and referred to a plethora of scientific papers to support the case she was making.
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‘This charge is 100% false’: Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal arrested months after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence
29 October 2019 — Grayzone
The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal has been arrested on false charges after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence outside the DC embassy. He describes the manufactured case as part of a wider campaign of political persecution.
By Ben Norton
Max Blumenthal, the editor of the news site The Grayzone, was arrested on the morning of October 25 on a fabricated charge related to the siege of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC that took place between April and May.
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Upcoming Events for Julian Assange
29 October 2019 — Defend Wikileaks
5 November
LONDON: Rappers MIA and Lowkey to perform and Julian Assange’s father John Shipton to speak outside the Home Office
6:00PM
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OPCW Whistleblower Panel on the Douma attack of April 2018
23 October, 2019 — Wikileaks
Today WikiLeaks publishes a statement made by a panel that listened to testimony and reviewed evidence from a whistleblower from the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) last week. To accompany this statement, Wikileaks is also publishing a previously leaked engineering assessment of the alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria on April 7th last year. This assessment was omitted in the final report by the OPCW, which does not support its findings.
