7 September 2019 — WSWS
A federal judge in Manhattan heard arguments on Wednesday regarding the imminent release of a trove of sealed documents collected during a 2015 defamation lawsuit filed against Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime confidante of Jeffrey Epstein. Among the documents are 29 depositions, other investigative records and an “address book” that contains over 1,000 names of Epstein’s contacts.
7 September 2019 — WSWS
Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared that tens of thousands of extra police would be the “absolute bedrock” of his government. He announced the measure Thursday in a speech in which a wall of police cadets were mobilised to provide a backdrop.
7 September 2019 — True Publica – Intel News
By Joseph Fitsanakis: In a move observers describe as unprecedented, a United States government regulator is preparing to recommend blocking the construction of an 8,000-mile long undersea cable linking America with China, allegedly due to national security concerns.
6 September 2019 — InfoRos
By Sarah Abed, independent journalist and analyst
Over the past few months, US Special Representative for Iran, Brian Hook the head of the Iran Action Group, has been personally writing emails and texts to over a dozen ship captains around the world, to make them an offer they can’t refuse.
6 September 2019 — FAIR
by Esha Krishnaswamy
Climate change is an existential threat to human civilization. If only corporate media acted like it.
While the majority of corporate media do not outright deny the reality of the human-caused climate crisis, they are filled with another brand of insidious ideologues that I call climate minimizers. These downplay the threat that climate change poses to all of us by ignoring scientific data, avoiding discussion on the actual impact of climate change, and hyper-focusing on trivial details.
6 September 2019 — Voltaire Network
In August 2018, the international press reported on a massive exodus of Venezuelans fleeing the famine and chavist dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro. There were 18,000 to cross the border each day. At the time, the UN predicted that there would be 5.3 million Venezuelan migrants and refugeesthroughout Latin America by the end of 2019. There was a major crisis.
5 September 2019 — Climate & Capitalism
New scientific papers explode a myth that refuses to dieIt’s a myth that won’t die. Because the word “Anthropocene” is derived from the Greek word anthropos, meaning human being, some radical critics charge that Anthropocene science blames all of humanity for the global environmental crisis. Some even claim that naming the new epoch Anthropocene is part of a deliberate effort to distract attention from capitalism’s responsibility.
6 September 2019 — WSWS
The US military has issued a call for research proposals from technology partners for the development of an automated system capable of scanning the entire internet and locating and censoring content deemed as “false media assets” and “disinformation.” According to government documents, the requested solution would provide “innovative semantic technologies for analyzing media” that will help “identify, deter, and understand adversary disinformation campaigns.”
4 September 2019 — Common Dreams
“What we need is more humming and buzzing.”
by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
The German government announced Wednesday it had agreed on a plan to phase out the use of glyphosate—the key chemical in the weedkiller Roundup—with a total ban set to begin by the end of 2023.
6 September 2019 — WSWS
The proportion of pensioners living in severe poverty, receiving less than 40 percent of median household income, has climbed to five times the level of 1986. This is an increase from 0.9 percent to 5 percent. It is the largest increase among western European countries, taking the UK from one of the lowest rates to the fourth highest.
6 September 2019 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back
Russia, China to discuss foreign media interference in domestic affairs — foreign ministry
https://tass.com/world/1076864
The West Oppressed the Third World for so Long That It Became Third World Itself
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/09/06/the-west-oppressed-the-third-world-for-so-long-that-it-became-third-world-itself/
6 September 2019 — The New Dark Age
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The Sun scores a massive own goal by openly treating its English readers like mugs
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/vliWl4Ggcjc/
As his government falls apart, Johnson chooses to meet an alleged war criminal
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/uwDWuhAOksg/
25 August 2019 — Reminiscence of the Future…
Daniel Larison arrived three days ago to a conclusion that Donald Trump Doesn’t Know How to Negotiate. Well, we have known that for quite some time now. As Larison notes:
5 September 2019 — Information Clearing House
[Due to some weirdness with ICH’s mailing list, I haven’t been able to get it delivered since 2017, until now! The archives here start in March 2003. WB]
Op-Ed
By Ted Galen Carpenter
U.S. imperialism consists of creating patron-client relationships with security dependents and enforcing that policy through a global network of military bases. –Continue
5 September 2019 — Medact
NHS Charging, data sharing and the broader Hostile Environment are undermining the principles at the heart of our NHS, prioritising immigration enforcement above people’s health and destroying the idea that care should be available to all who need it.
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5 September 2019 — Counter Currents
“The dead albatross that hangs around our neck is our legacy of arrogance, racism. And we must struggle to atone, to reconstruct, to create a different historical system.” So wrote the late sociologist and thinker Immanuel Wallerstein in unequivocal tones of repentance on Europe’s legacy, its “oldest disgrace.”
5 September 2019 — Black Agenda Report
Glen Ford, BAR executive editor
The real target of Trump’s trade war is not, primarily, the Chinese, but the U.S.-based corporations that spent the last generation outsourcing manufacturing capacity (jobs) to China.
Danny Haiphong, BAR contributor
Harris’ candidacy has since day one operated as a protest campaign against Bernie Sanders.
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5 September 2019 — True Publica
I enjoy schadenfreude as much as the next guy and for the millions of us who detest Boris, last night brought the stuff in spades. I was quite taken by Jeremy Corbyn’s comment. Too much the gentleman to refer to BoJo in person, Jezza’s was as neat a slice of alliteration as you’re likely to come across in a parliamentary put-down.
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5 September 2019 — True Publica
By TruePublica: Professor Tim Bale, the author of a modern history of the Conservative party said of Dominic Cummings – “This is someone who really believes in what he believes in,” he said. “He believes that what he wants to do will actually improve society. He’s in it for that, rather than any glory or status.”
