7 October 2019 — — Information Clearing House
New U.S. Led Coup Attempt In Iraq
By Moon Of Alabama
There are legitimate reasons for protests. But those are not the reasons why the protests immediately escalated into violence. Continue
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Boris Johnson’s Arcuri scandal deepens
6 October 2019 — True Publica
On the 3rd October, a media bidding war was underway for the exclusive rights to a tell-all interview with the US businesswoman at the centre of a conflict of interest row involving Boris Johnson.
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The U.S. Led Coup Attempt In Iraq May Further Weaken That Country
6 October 2019 — Moon of Alabama
The current unrest in Iraq began a week ago after a prominent general was removed from his post:
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Canadian Imperialism in Haiti in the Spotlight by Yves Engler
6 October 2019 — Dissident Voice
Sustained committed activism is unraveling the dominant media’s shameful blackout of Canadian imperialism in Haiti. But, the bias against putting Canadian policy in a negative light is such that small breakthroughs require tremendous effort.
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Ecuador News Links 6 October 2019
6 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
State of emergency declared in Ecuador amid mass protests
https://williambowles.info/2019/10/06/state-of-emergency-declared-in-ecuador-amid-mass-protests/Network in Defense of Humanity Alert to the International Community on the State of Emergency in Ecuador
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/10/05/network-in-defense-of-humanity-alert-to-the-international-community-on-the-state-of-emergency-in-ecuador/
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OPCW: A Site of Struggle for Impartiality, Independence and International Legitimacy in War Crimes Investigations
5 October 2019 — Tim Hayward
By Tim Hayward
The use of chemical weapons is a war crime. The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) – signed by almost every nation[1] – aims to expunge their use from the face of our planet. Charged with implementing the Convention is the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Part of its task is to investigate such use when alleged to have occurred. It has played a particularly prominent role in relation to Syria since the US administration under President Obama declared the use of chemical weapons a ‘Red Line’ the transgression of which would trigger military intervention in the war.
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Network in Defense of Humanity Alert to the International Community on the State of Emergency in Ecuador
5 October 2019 — Internationalist 360°
Demonstrators confronted by riot police during protests after Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno’s government ended four-decade-old fuel subsidies, in Quito, Ecuador October 3, 2019.- REUTERS/Ivan Castaneira
ALERT ON STATE OF EMERGENCY IN ECUADOR
The Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity alerts the international community, in particular international bodies and defenders of rights and democracy, about the serious violation of human and collective rights that is evident in Ecuador, after the declaration of a state of emergency for a period of 60 days, by President Moreno.
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State of emergency declared in Ecuador amid mass protests
4 October 2019 — Peoples Dispatch
Thousands mobilized today across Ecuador in rejection of the new set of neoliberal economic measures announced by Lenin Moreno on Tuesday, 277 were detained
Student runs from police in Quito, Ecuador during mass mobilizations against the neoliberal economic reforms of the Moreno government.
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People’s insurrection against government continues in Haiti
5 October 2019 — Peoples Dispatch
Amid a fuel shortage crisis and continuing corruption allegations, the popular classes in Haiti have been on the streets daily to demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse
Protesters marched to the UN headquarters in Port-au-Prince. Photo. Ted’Actu
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WATCH: Udo Ulfkotte – Bought Journalists
6 October 2019 — Off Guardian
Subtitled and transcribed by Terje Maloy
In 2014, the German journalist and writer Udo Ulfkotte published a book that created a big stir, describing how the journalistic profession is thoroughly corrupt and infiltrated by intelligence services.
Although eagerly anticipated by many, the English translation of the book, Bought Journalists, does not seem to be forthcoming anytime soon.
[We covered that story at the time – Ed.]
So I have made English subtitles and transcribed this still very relevant 2015-lecture for those that are curious about Ulfkotte’s work. It covers many of the subjects described in the book.
Udo Ulfkotte died of a heart attack in January 2017, in all likelihood part of the severe medical complications he got from his exposure to German-made chemical weapons supplied to Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s.
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Britain’s Unconvicted Prisoner: Keeping Assange on Lockdown for Neocons in Washington
3 October 2019 — 21st Century Wire
By Nina Cross
This article is a second piece focusing on Belmarsh prison, where the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, continues to be arbitrarily detained by the British government. The first part showed how Belmarsh prison has been systematically denying Assange access to justice by restricting all the means through which he could prepare his defence; access to and possession of legal documents, talking to his US lawyers, restricted meetings with his UK lawyers, and access to a laptop as a basic means to prepare his defence. These restrictions have been imposed in contradiction to all legislation and standards regarding the rights of the prisoner. This piece looks at the weaponizing of Category A prison security and the use of prison healthcare isolation as part of a program of the state-sponsored abuse of a journalist imprisoned for releasing prima facie evidence of US war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The truth about Brexit medicine shortages
5 October 2019 — True Publica
Last week, TruePublica published an article entitled – The list of Medicines affected by no-deal Brexit, which was read by over 40,000 readers in 24 hours. We decided not to make an issue of the story and simply published the most comprehensive list of medicines either in short supply, expected to be in short supply or where significant price rises were likely.
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“Julian has reached a point where he may die”—Assange’s father John Shipton speaks with the WSWS
5 October 2019 — WSWS
By Johannes Stern
On Thursday the WSWS met John Shipton, Julian Assange’s father, in Berlin to talk about the condition of his son’s jailing in the maximum security Belmarsh Prison in London. The day before Shipton had given a press conference and addressed the weekly “Candles 4 Assange” rally in Berlin, to inform the public about his son’s illegal imprisonment and demand his freedom.
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How Britain keeps people homeless
5 October 2019 — Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Almost all two-bedroom homes available for rent across England, Scotland and Wales are too expensive for families on housing benefit, extensive research by the Bureau has found. Our reporters collected the details of more than 62,000 rental listings and found that less than 6% were affordable when mapped against the local housing benefit rates, which have been frozen since 2016.
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Millions of years of low CO2 … until now By Ian Angus
4 October 2019 — Climate & Capitalism
New study
In Facing the Anthropocene, I showed that CO2 levels are higher than they have been for 800,000 years. New research extends that to 2.6 million years
Earth System scientists describe the Anthropocene as a “no-analog state,” a time when conditions on Earth have changed in unprecedented ways. A new study confirms and extends that conclusion, showing not only that humans have never before experienced carbon dioxide levels this high, but that our ancestors didn’t either.
Greenhouse gas levels haven’t been this high since at least half a million years before homo erectus walked the Earth.
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Information Clearing House Headlines 4-5 October 2019
5 October 2019 — Information Clearing House
A father’s grief and the Made in USA cluster bomb dropped in Yemen
By Bethan McKernan in Saada
US-made bombs rain down on north Yemen with almost total impunity. – Continue======
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Western Zero-Sum Geopolitics is a Dead-End
4 October 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Editorial
The US and its Western allies are creating more international tensions and instability in a futile bid to carve the globe into “spheres of interest” and “exclusivity”. That’s the way Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov views it, and few objective observers of international relations could disagree with his admonishment.
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Iran News Links 2-4 October 2019
4 October 2019 • 19:00 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back
International Federation of Journalists calls on Iran to release detained Russian reporter
https://tass.com/society/1081577Why I Confronted Trump’s Architect of U.S. Sanctions Against Iran and Called Her a ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/10/04/why-i-confronted-trumps-architect-us-sanctions-against-iran-and-called-her-weapon?cd-origin=rss
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Brexit/Bojo News Links 4 October 2019
4 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
Brexit: Boris Johnson will send extension letter – court document
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49936352Trumpenstein Must Be Destroyed!
https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/10/trumpenstein-must-be-destroyed/
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Elite UK military unit secretly trained by leftist regime-change advocate Gilbert Achcar and other academics
5 October 2019 — The Grayzone
Government documents show scholar Gilbert Achcar and other pro-regime change academics have given training sessions to UK Ministry of Defense soldiers, helping the British military enhance its counter-insurgency tactics.
By Ben Norton
