26 September 2019 — NACLA
An Associated Press photographer and a security guard were both injured when a Haitian senator pulled out a gun and started firing outside the parliament this week. Suddenly news outlets around the world remembered Haiti. The “if it bleeds it leads” adage was proven right once again.
4 October 2019 — Elizi Danto
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi participates in a Haiti Unrest Roundtable discussion
https://bit.ly/2LIYj9a
The Core Group terrorizing Haiti are Declared Persona Non Grata
https://youtu.be/asqteh1Dv7g
3 October 2019 • 21:20 — The New Dark Age
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Boris Johnson’s Brexit plan: EU ‘open but unconvinced’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49927186
An extraordinary court case in Scotland could make Boris Johnson behind bars a reality
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/wYF-gd0iDds/
3 October 2019 — Information Clearing House
By Moon Of Alabama
China has, like Russia and Iran, used the decades the U.S. military wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan to build strength where the U.S. military has grown weaker. –Continue
1 October 2019 — Information Clearing House
By Maj. Danny Sjursen
These war crimes hardly crack mainstream media and the macabre photo evidence barely raises an American eyebrow. That’s apathy manifested as tragedy. –Continue
2 October 2019 — Grayzone
Lydia Wilson, a researcher at a US Department of Defense-backed outfit, has taken to the Times Literary Supplement to publish a malicious attack on “The Management of Savagery.” The review is a hyper-ideological defense of US empire filled with distortions and bone-headed errors.
2 October 2019 – The New Dark Age
Coverage of events in Haiti simply don’t exist in the so-called mainstream media, unless there’s an earthquake or a hurricane or when they get cheap oil from Venezuela. I’d like to be able to publish more useful stories on courageous Haiti, but as you can see from the links below, sources are thin on the ground.
As proof, here’s the opening para of ‘Haiti: The International Front Positions Itself’
‘The so-called “international community”, so far silent on the serious Haitian crisis, has just made its move. On September 30, a meeting took place between allies of the ruling party, sectors of the political opposition specifically called for their extreme moderation (if we can use the oxymoron) and the self-proclaimed “group of friends of Haiti,” better known as the Core Group. The entity is as irregular in its institutionality as it is decisive in the internal affairs of the Haitian nation, deprived of the most elementary exercise of political sovereignty. Its name, “Core Group“, leaves no doubt as to its importance. The Core Group is a para-supra-state body, a type of committee of colonial administrators that brings together representatives of the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the European Union and the ambassadors of the United States, France, Canada, Germany, Spain and an out of tune continental guest: Brazil.’
These links from Ezili Danto’s newsletter, virtually the only regular source of independent news on Haiti:
Haiti Targeted by Economic Hitmen & UN Front for Deep State Enrichment
https://youtu.be/HEacP3ISsx0
2 October 2019 • 14:55 — The New Dark Age
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New ‘Red’ Bloc: Russia -China Alliance
https://www.globalresearch.ca/new-red-bloc-russia-china-alliance/5690794
Central Bankers Go Green… Why?
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/10/02/central-bankers-go-green-why/
2 October 2019 — The New Dark Age
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Boris Johnson: No-deal only alternative to Brexit plan
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49906702
Campaign group beautifully takes the Tories down, with the words of a Conservative icon
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/cQyTI-6lNNQ/
2 October 2019 — Oriental Review
Much ink has been spilt in textbooks describing situations where autocratic states can behave badly. They abuse rights; they ignore international law and they ride roughshod over conventions. Liberal democracies may boast that they follow matters to the letter of the law, and make sure that citizens are given their fair and just cause in putting forth their cases. The practice suggests all too glaringly that the opposite is true.
2 October 2019 — WSWS
By Chris Marsden
Labour’s Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell yesterday publicly opposed plans for a “government of national unity” and insisted on Jeremy Corbyn’s right to head a “caretaker government” to prevent a no-deal Brexit.
1 October 2019 — Club Orlov
When everything is routine, world leaders generally manage to remain poker-faced or (in the case of American politicians) grinning stupidly with a vacant-eyed stare. But when things get interesting all sorts of ticks and grimaces and strange gestures and postures start showing up. And when you see one of the “world leaders” (in quotes because I use the term facetiously) looking like his entire life is flashing before his eyes at a joint press conference, you can be sure that something very funky is going down. To wit: here is the Ukraine’s new, popularly elected president, Vladimir Zelensky, appearing next to Donald Trump and looking for all the world as if he really doesn’t want to be there. A bright seven-year-old will tell you that much (I checked) but we adults wish to know more. And so I will oblige and fill you in on some of the salient details.
2 October 2019 — True Publica
Home Secretary Priti Patel has claimed that the Conservatives are “the party of law and order once again”, as she unveiled a number of measures designed to present the Tories as tough on crime. The home secretary continued: “As we renew our place as the party of law and order in Britain, let the message go out from this hall today: To the British people – we hear you.”
2 October 2019 — WSWS
The scandal over Trump’s blatant attempts to pressure Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating the son of the leading Democrat Joe Biden, which now forms the basis for a CIA-backed investigation into the possible impeachment of Trump, has thrown the Ukrainian oligarchy into deep crisis.
1 October 2019 — Climate & Capitalism
Capitalism will not and cannot prevent climate disaster. A socialist response at governmental and societal level is an historic necessity.
John Molyneux is editor of Irish Marxist Review and a supporter of People Before Profit. This article was first published on the socialist website Rebel.
1 October 2019 — FAIR
by Joshua Cho
Newsweek (9/18/19) reports NATO is losing “superiority” over Russia, without mentioning that the alliance’s combined military budget is 17 times that of Russia.
Lazy, one-sided reports like Newsweek’s “NATO Superiority Over Russia Has ‘Eroded,’ Forcing Alliance to Create New Strategy, US General Says” (9/18/19), by David Brennan, are a major reason why US officials are still taken seriously when they demand further investments in the military/industrial complex and the strengthening of an unnecessary military alliance like NATO.
23 September 2019 — Moon of Alabama
Considerable amounts of ink have been been spent in writings about the Revolution in Military Affairs. It is a concept that claims that new military doctrines, strategies, tactics and technologies would lead to an abrupt and significant change in the conduct of warfare.
1 October 2019 — Michael Roberts Blog
As we enter October, the global recession is with us – in manufacturing. The PMI manufacturing activity indexes for most of the major economies are below 50, the threshold for expansion or contraction. These are only surveys of corporate managers asking them about production, sales, employment etc. But PMIs have been reasonably accurate indicators of actual industrial and manufacturing output, the data for which follow somewhat later.
30 September 2019 — Mint Press
Working directly with Ecuador’s corrupt government, the U.S. government abandoned all sense of legality and moral decency by spying on Assange twenty-four hours a day via an illegal livestream surveillance operation set up by a private security firm and approved by Ecuador’s president.
30 September 2019 — Internationalist 360°
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov joked that CNN was “fake news” and described the network quizzing him about Moscow’s hypothetical response to a possible US intervention in Venezuela as a “fake question.” (Inc. transcript)
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