27 September 2019 — Drone Wars
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, manufacturer of the Reaper drone, has recently been awarded a US Air Force contract to demonstrate the ‘Agile Condor’ artificial intelligence system with the MQ-9 Reaper drone. According to General Atomics President David R. Alexander,
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26 September 2019 — MR Online –Tricontinental
As readers will notice, this is an excellent piece of work by our comrades at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. We have done our best to layout the Notebook in HTML format but we highly recommend the PDF version (click here to download), which has been laid out beautifully for the purpose of education and discussion.
26 September 2019 — The New Dark Age
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Britain: political crisis deepens as Supreme Court intervenes
http://www.marxist.com/britain-political-crisis-deepens-as-supreme-court-intervenes.htm
Odds cut on Boris Johnson being shortest serving PM
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/qugs91lT_lU/
26 September 2019 — Housmans Books
NEWS
1. Undercover Policing & Trade Unions Conference, London
2. Stop Nato – December 2019
INSTORE EVENTS
3. ‘Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown And Social Collapse’
4. ‘Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined’ with JJ Bola
5. ‘Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ + Culture’ with Amelia Abraham
6. ‘Building a New Catalonia: Self-determination and Emancipation’ with Ignasi Bernat, Liz Castro, Robert Knox and David Whyte
7. ‘Here to Stay, Here to Fight – A Race Today Anthology’
8. ‘Why I am a Pacifist’ with Tim Gee
25 September 2019 — Global Research
Hundreds of young Chinese, in front of the British Consulate in Hong Kong, sing the God Save the Queen and shout “Great Britain Saves Hong Kong”, a rally call in London by 130 parliamentarians who ask that British citizenship be given to residents of the former colony. In this way, Britain is emerging in world public opinion, particularly among young people, as a guarantor of legality and human rights. To do this, History is erased.
26 September 2019 — Black Agenda Report
20 September 2019 — Global Research
On 20 September students will be mobilizing in a global protest against climate change.
Who is supporting this Worldwide endeavour, who is funding it?
Is this a real rebellion?
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24 September 2019 —
Ismael Hossein-zadeh, an Iranian-born Kurdish economist and professor emeritus at Drake University (Iowa) wondered in a recent post why China, India, Russia and other countries do not challenge the tyranny exerted by the US over the institutions that monitor, regulate and control the functioning of the international economic and financial system such as the IMF, the WB, the WTO, the Bank for International Settlements (Basel) and the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT).(i)
25 September 2019 • 23:15 — The New Dark Age
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Corbyn cuts through the Brexit chaos and media noise during BBC interview
Britain: political crisis deepens as Supreme Court intervenes
http://www.marxist.com/britain-political-crisis-deepens-as-supreme-court-intervenes.htm
24 September 2019 — Mint Press
The Saudi-led Coalition has used systematic economic strangulation as a weapon of war. This, to the many in Yemen who celebrated the Aramco attack, is sufficient justification for targeting the heart of Saudi Arabia’s economy.
25 September 2019 — Asia Times
By Pepe Escobar, Beirut
“It is clear to us that Iran bears responsibility for this attack. There is no other plausible explanation. We support ongoing investigations to establish further details.”
The statement above was not written by Franz Kafka. In fact, it was written by a Kafka derivative: Brussels-based European bureaucracy. The Merkel-Macron-Johnson trio, representing Germany, France and the UK, seems to know what no “ongoing investigation” has unearthed: that Tehran was definitively responsible for the twin aerial strikes on Saudi oil installations.
25 September 2019 — Craig Murray
There has been remarkably little media commentary on the effect of the UK leaving the EU Common Foreign Policy, even though this is a major aim of Johnson, Gove and the Tory Brexiteers. The media appear not to have noticed the existence of the Common Foreign Policy. We saw perhaps the first public glimpse of the UK’s new foreign policy yesterday when Boris Johnson breeched the EU Common Foreign Policy to join Donald Trump in denouncing the Iran nuclear treaty. As the UK has not actually left the EU yet, that was bad faith and an illegal act against an EU treaty obligation, but following the law is evidently of no concern whatsoever to Johnson.
25 September 2019 — WSWS
Since taking office in 2017, US President Donald Trump has used his annual speech at the UN General Assembly to denounce socialism, promote nationalism and xenophobia, and bully and threaten the whole world.
25 September 2019 — WSWS
By Robert Stevens and Chris Marsden
British politics entered uncharted waters yesterday as the Supreme Court—the UK’s highest judicial body—declared illegal Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s authoritarian prorogation of parliament.
Far from resolving the crisis over Brexit, the ruling has set in motion what one political commentator described as a “constitutional earthquake.”
24 September 2019 — Voltaire Network
As we alone announced at the beginning of the month, a decisive step towards peace was made simultaneously in Syria and Venezuela on September 16th. The two nations no longer force themselves to negotiate with terrorists, but their governments have undertaken to build a new regime in conjunction with their patriotic opposition.
24 September 2019 — Off Guardian
By Kit Knightly
The Supreme Court has ruled against Boris Johnson’s proroguing of Parliament. Because of course they did, because they were always going to.
People all over the country are celebrating this ruling, but one can’t help but feel that comes from the perspective of not fully understanding what it could mean, down the line.
24 September 2019 — The New Dark Age
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The Sickness of American Foreign Policy https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/09/23/the-sickness-of-american-foreign-policy/ The US Should Not Fight a War for Saudi Oil https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/09/23/us-should-not-fight-war-for-saudi-oil/
24 September 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Julian Assange’s father, John Shipton, gave an interview to Strategic Culture Foundation over the weekend. After arriving from his home country of Australia, Shipton is visiting several European states, including Russia, to bring public attention to the persecution of Julian Assange by British authorities over his role as a publisher and author.
24 September 2019 — The New Dark Age
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Boris Johnson is dead in the water after Supreme Court rules he acted unlawfully
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Today’s links 24 September 2019
http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/09/todays-links_24.html
24 September 2019 — Craig Murray
The Tory government, under both May and Johnson, has made plain its contempt for the rule of law repeatedly, and not only over the prorogation of parliament. In the last few days we have seen the Tories admit to illegal sales of arms to Saudi Arabia, in direct breach of a ruling by the Court of Appeal, for which “accident” Liz Truss gave a completely fake apology.
