8 October 2019 — RT
Ecuadorian authorities are trying hard to shift the blame for ongoing protests on foreign influence, yet they are the ones who have mishandled the economy, and now refuse to give up power, ex-president Rafael Correa told RT.
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No comments on Too hungry for power, too inept to rule: Moreno & his neoliberalism are behind Ecuador’s turmoil, ex-president Correa tells RT
Too hungry for power, too inept to rule: Moreno & his neoliberalism are behind Ecuador’s turmoil, ex-president Correa tells RT
Demonstrators clash with police officers during a protest against austerity measures in Quito, Ecuador on October 8, 2019. © Reuters / Carlos Garcia Rawlins
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China News Links 8 October 2019
8 October 2019 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back
SITREP: Zhongnanhai, 10-8-2019 – The Real Hot War Against the Chinese Peoples Republic http://thesaker.is/sitrep-zhongnanhai-10-8-2019-the-real-hot-war-against-the-chinese-peoples-republic/ Trump’s Impeachment is all about Russia! https://journal-neo.org/2019/10/08/trumps-impeachment-is-all-about-russia/
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Venezuela News Links 8 October 2019
8 October 2019 19:15 — The New Dark Age
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Will Fed Make Trump A New Herbert Hoover?
https://journal-neo.org/2019/10/08/will-fed-make-trump-a-new-herbert-hoover/The Real Venezuela: Dignified, Indivisible and Truthful By Nino Pagliccia
https://williambowles.info/2019/10/08/the-real-venezuela-dignified-indivisible-and-truthful-by-nino-pagliccia/
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Ecuador cracks down on protesters over austerity & IMF loan, President moves govt from capital (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
8 October 2019 — RT
Chaotic mass demonstrations are underway in Ecuador following a spate of austerity cuts tied to a recently implemented IMF deal. Police have unleashed tear gas on protesters, while the government has declared a state of emergency.
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Trump orders troop withdrawal in Syria. It could be for real By M.K. Bhadrakumar
7 October 2019 — Indian Punchline
Next to a US armoured vehicle, Syrian Kurds protest against threatened Turkish military invasion, Hasakeh province, October 6, 2019 The US president Donald Trump is not known to practise judo. A few judo techniques he may have got to know from his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, who is a Black Belt. But what Trump has just done to Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan is straight out of a Physics concept in judo.
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The Real Venezuela: Dignified, Indivisible and Truthful By Nino Pagliccia
8 October 2019 — OneWorld
All those wondering who is in charge in Venezuela, should stop reading the biased and confusing corporate media and should look at who represents the country at the United Nations. The UN is not a perfect institution but it is one that is clear on the issue of membership despite powerful attempts at obfuscating that clarity.
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Brexit: Boris Johnson moves to scrap environment safeguards to get deal with Trump
7 October 2019 — GMWatch
British negotiators keen to jettison EU restrictions on GMO foods – a key demand of US trade negotiators When Boris Johnson used his first three speeches as UK Prime Minister to flag up his desire to “liberate” GMOs as part of Brexit, we warned that this meant his priority was doing a trade deal with Donald Trump at any cost. Johnson, we said, was “simply dancing, puppet-like, to Trump’s tune”.
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Resounding “No” to Monsanto’s “Bogus” GM Drought-tolerant Maize
4 October 2019 — GMWatch
South Africa minister, appeal board, and biosafety authority reject Monsanto’s GM seeds
After more than 10 years of battling Monsanto’s “bogus” drought tolerant maize project, the African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) has welcomed the decision by the Minister of Agriculture, Ms Thoko Didiza, upholding the decision by the Executive Council: GMO Act and the appeal board to reject Monsanto’s application for the commercial cultivation of its triple-stacked “drought-tolerant” GM maize seed.
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When Ukraine’s Prosecutor Came After His Son’s Sponsor Joe Biden Sprang Into Action
3 October 2019 — Moon of Alabama
There are some serious questions around the Biden family involvement in the Ukraine that the media have not picked up on.
The first regards the ownership of the company which hired Joe Biden’s son Hunter for an exorbitant amount of money while Joe Biden ran the U.S. Ukraine policy.
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Brexit News Links 8 October 2019
8 October 2019 • 18:20 — The New Dark Age
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Brexit: Boris Johnson Moves to Scrap Environment and GMO Safeguards to Get Deal with Trump
https://www.globalresearch.ca/brexit-boris-johnson-moves-to-scrap-environment-and-gmo-safeguards-to-get-deal-with-trump/5691400Johnson’s Government Now Resorts to Threatening EU27 – Diplomatic Fallout Next?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/johnson-government-resorts-threatening-eu27/5691404
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Jonathan Sacoolas Is Not, and Has Never Been, a Diplomat
8 October 2019 — Craig Murray
UPDATE: Since I published this article the mainstream media, including at least Sky News and the Guardian, have started to report that Sacoolas does not have diplomatic immunity. This is a massive reversal in the MSM line, though to date none have published that he works for NSA or explained the NSA/GCHQ relationship. The MSM are all quoting the lawyer Mark Stephens, rather than this blog, as the source of the information. I would gently note that I can so far find no evidence of Stephens pointing out Sacoolas is not on the Diplomatic List until some hours after I broke the story, and that when he gave radio interviews yesterday Stephens was unaware of the fact.
Ultimately however it does not matter that I am not credited; what matters is my lead has in practice been followed and there is now a much stronger point of pressure available to get justice for Harry Dunn.
END OF UPDATE
There is no Jonathan Sacoolas on the official Diplomatic list. Neither Sacoolas nor his wife has any right to claim diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention.
There is no Jonathan Sacoolas on the official Diplomatic list. Neither Sacoolas nor his wife has any right to claim diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention.
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Scientific paper arguing Assad not responsible for Syria chemical attack shelved after Bellingcat-led backlash
8 October 2019 — RT
Unidentified “issues” prompted a prestigious scientific journal to withhold publication of a report challenging the mainstream narrative on a 2017 Syrian chemical attack – after ‘citizen investigation’ outlet Bellingcat objected.
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State of exception in Ecuador amid strong protests By Christian Salas
3 October 2019 — Telesur
Police repression continues in Quito’s historic center Thursday evening where thousands of protesters are marching, trying to conglomerate in front of the Presidential Palace, but are blocked by hostile police and tear gas from these militarized authorities. The peaceful protesters have been met all day with tanks, militarized police and tear gas throughout the day-long protest, but, at the same time, organized protesters that include transport unions, students and other civil society organizations have been able to ‘take over’ areas of the historic center, say sources on the ground.
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Knowledge commodities
8 October 2019 — Michael Roberts Blog
In the Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx, Thomas Rotta and Rodrigo Teixeira have a chapter called the commodification of knowledge and information. In this chapter, they argue that knowledge is ‘immaterial labour’ and ‘knowledge commodities’ are increasingly replacing material commodities in modern capitalism.
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Update on the MH17 Case
7 October 2019 — Greanville Post
Eric ZuesseThe Netherlands Government is resisting an effort by Dutch victims’ families to find out why Ukraine’s Government, on 17 July 2014 — when the Malaysian airliner MH17 was shot down while flying over Ukraine’s civil-war zone — this passenger-plane had been guided by Ukraine’s air-traffic control to fly through, instead of around (as it instructed other airliners), the war-zone. On 1 October 2019, now more than five years after 196 Dutch nationals had died from that incident, Holland’s RTL News headlined (as autotranslated into English) “Cabinet considers research into Ukraine’s role in disaster MH17”, and reported that “The cabinet will examine whether further research is possible on the role of Ukraine in the disaster with flight MH17,” because “A proposal … for the investigation received the support of all Parties present in the second chamber” of Holland’s parliament. This news-report said that, “So far, the cabinet has not taken any steps against Ukraine. As far as we know, nothing is happening behind the scenes.” Furthermore: “Last year, the Netherlands, together with Australia, decided to make Russia as a country liable. For the liability of Ukraine, according to the cabinet, there was ‘no evidence’ and also ‘no research needed’.” Moreover, Dutch Foreign Minister Stefan Blok said that “We don’t see any reason for an investigation” into that, because “The government is trying to maintain its relationship with Ukraine,” and “because then both the airspace of Ukraine and that of Russia should be looked at,” and because “there are still no indications that Ukraine can also be held liable.” But actually, from the very start of that investigation, there has been a secret agreement not to blame Ukraine for anything having to do with the incident. This agreement is kept secret from the Dutch people. Blok, in resisting to investigate why the MH17 was guided over the civil-war zone, was simply adhering to the secret agreement that Netherlands had signed with Ukraine on 8 August 2014. If he were to agree to the families’ demand, he still would be obligated, by Holland’s 8 August 2014 agreement with Ukraine, to find Ukraine not to have perpetrated the downing. But the families don’t know this.
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Ecuador: The Time of People’s Rebellion
7 October 2019 — Greanville Post
Carlos Aznarez
RESUMEN LATINOAMERICANO
It is not quite the same as the uprising that occurred during Venezuela’s Caracazoin 1989 but it is very similar. In that opportunity, then President Carlos Andres Perez,beholden to the demands of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), also decided to increase public transportation fares and a people’s rebellion provided the ground work for what would become Hugo Chavez’s Bolivarian Venezuela.
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Thomas Sankara: Imperialism is the Arsonist of Our Forests and Savannas
1 October 2019 — Internationalist 360°
This speech was first given at the first International Silva Conference for the Protection of the Trees and Forests in Paris. It has been since been disseminated by revolutionaries through many means as a way to underscore the necessity of social revolution and an environmental focus. Now more than ever this speech is necessary to internalize, as we face profound and previously unseen danger regarding environmental crises in capitalism. Comrade Thomas Sankara died in service of this task, and the very least we can do is pay tribute to what it is he died for, and internalize the lessons of the Burkinabè revolution. As always, the following has been made available here for the purposes of study and struggle.
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Haiti, More Tender than Violent By Lautaro Rivara
7 October 2019 — Internationalist 360°
Unemployment, high cost of living, misery, exodus, institutionalized corruption, international occupation and hunger unleashed a political and humanitarian crisis in the Caribbean country, which is immersed in a war both fierce and tender against its own destiny.
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5G Cell Phone Radiation: How the Telecom Companies Are Losing the Battle to Impose 5G Against the Will of the People By Claire Edwards
7 October 2019 — Global Research
The telecommunications companies and the mainstream media would have you believe that the race to roll out 5G is unstoppable. That you are nothing and no one in the face of a lethal multi-trillion-dollar agenda imposed by some of the most powerful entities on the planet.
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Rebellion in Ecuador Against Neoliberalism and Treason
6 October 2019 — Internationalist 360°
Neoliberalism is hand in hand with treason. Ecuador is rising up and confronting the measures dictated by the IMF and executed by Lenin Moreno in the streets. Hundreds of thousands of people express their discontent in different parts of the country, workers, students, indigenous movements, peasants, teachers, in a word, the people in their diverse expressions.
