2 September 2019 — Indian Punchline
The diplomatic manoeuvrings over the situation around Iran are entering a crucial phase with an Iranian delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi leaving from Tehran for Paris today to pick up the threads of the 3-way discussions involving France, Iran and the United States at Biarritz a week ago on the sidelines of the G7 summit.
2 September 2019 — New Eastern Outlook
Headlines emanating from the West regarding Syria’s ongoing war have a common theme – allegations of Syria and Russia’s “ruthless barrage” of the northern region of Idlib.
So often – however – has the US and its allies falsely invoked “humanitarian concern” that these headlines fall on informed and discerning ears who not only reject it, but have cemented in their minds a familiarity with this ploy that will make it all but impossible to use it again on whatever battlefield the US shifts its foreign policy to next.
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2 September 2019 — Jonathan Cook
Next month’s election is not a contest between the right and centre-left. It’s a battle between different nationalist camps
Middle East Eye – 9 August 2019
The real fight in Israel’s re-run election next month is not between the right wing and a so-called “centre-left” but between two rival camps within the nationalist right, according to analysts.
2 September 2019 — True Publica
TruePublica Editor: Eight months have passed this year and in that time the government petitions website has seen eighteen dedicated just to fighting for or against Brexit. Eleven have been against Britain leaving the EU in its various forms with a collective sum of signatures (as at 01/09/ – 0600 hrs) at 9,037,911 and seven for Britain leaving (or defending the vote to leave) the EU at 937,462. It’s 10:1 against ratio verses a referendum result of 52:48 is just a hint of where Brexit is really going.
2 September 2019 — True Publica
TruePublica Editor: Just as I predicted last year, the Conservative party is now in its implosion stage.
Dec 2018: “David Cameron, advised by pro-Brexit think tanks has brought a type of political chaos in Britain one could only imagine in some far-off banana republic. Remarkably, the Tories have not just divided the country, they have placed the country into a no-win position and quite possibly done so for a very long time to come. They have not just failed Brexit and the electorate but have created a toxic political environment leading to the economic detriment to all those except those that can afford it. They have principally done little but to divide society and make everyone poorer, whilst making a mockery of democracy. The Conservative party is finished all bar a miracle of some sort.”
2 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
United States Withdraws from INF Treaty, Torpedoing Global Arms-Control Structure
https://williambowles.info/2019/09/02/united-states-withdraws-from-inf-treaty-torpedoing-global-arms-control-structure/
The Chinese, Japanese and South Korean Foreign Ministers Meet in Beijing
https://journal-neo.org/2019/09/02/the-chinese-japanese-and-south-korean-foreign-ministers-meet-in-beijing/
2 September 2019 — Global Research
By Carla Stea
Ambassador Matjila, South Africa:
“It is indeed deeply troubling that a long-established arms control instrument such as the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty has unraveled, placing not only the region of Europe but the whole world at risk of a nuclear war and catastrophe.”
2 September 2019 — COPS
It’s been a busy time for the campaign for truth about Britain’s political secret police. Here’s an update – feel free to share it.
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1 September 2019 — Coldtype
MediaNorth, the quarterly newsletter of Britain’s Press and Broadcasting Freedom (North) is now on line at http://coldtype.net/MediaNorth.html
1 September 2019 — The New Dark Age
As Swinson goes MIA, Corbyn proves he’s Leader of the Opposition in both name and nature
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/Z79eZqunBFo/
The sharing of Johnson’s Brexit tweets raises some interesting questions
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/JFk3AFjUO0o/
1 September 2019 — Off Guardian
It is an age-old question as to the extent art reflects the world we live in. Bertolt Brecht allegedly said to the contrary that art was “not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.”
2 September 2019 — WSWS
Update: See Waters perform here: https://on.rt.com/a0z1
See also 21st Century Wire’s Facebook video: https://www.facebook.com/pjhenningsen/videos/10158118133491002/
31 August 2019 — Open Democracy
Opinion polls exude an aura of scientific truth. Those numbers and percentages are so reassuringly solid, especially when generated by one of the well-known names of the polling world, that for many people they represent hard evidence of the state of British public opinion.
31 August 2019 — Dissident Voice
The story of Jeffrey Epstein has lost its mystery as more and more commentators allow themselves to express the thought that it is a strong possibility that Epstein was connected to a crime syndicate affiliated with a Zionist political organisation or Israel and/or at least a few compromised intelligence agencies. Whitney Web and others have produced superb studies of possible scenarios, I would instead like to attack the topic from a cultural perspective. Epstein wasn’t the first Jewish sex trafficker. This seems like a good time to look back at Zwi Migdal, a Jewish global crime syndicate that operated a century ago and trafficked tens of thousands of Jewish women and under age girls as sex slaves. According to contemporary Jewish writer Giulia Morpurgo the Zwi Migdal had turned Argentina, “into a nightmare of prostitution and exploitation.”
31 August 2019 — Terry Bell Writes
‘Make the most of October: a month of anniversary events, before the bank runs, food shortages and petrol queues start . . .’ (London Review of Books advert as demonstrations erupted in several UK centres)
The decision by British premier Boris Johnson to prorogue (suspend) parliament has caused an uproar throughout Britain and Europe and has thrown into sharp focus the role of the Westminster parliament, the monarchy, the unelected House of Lords and the country’s unwritten constitution. It has also, perhaps even more worryingly, heightened tensions within Northern Ireland and in communities on both sides of the invisible border that separates the “British” north from the Irish republic.
30 August 2019 — FAIR
The New York Times (8/27/19) takes up the complaint of “some Israelis” that an HBO series “unfairly focuses on the killing of a Palestinian teen by Jews when Palestinian terrorism is more common.”
HBO has a series based on a real-life crime in Israel—a 2014 case involving (in the New York Times‘ words) “a Palestinian teenager snatched off a Jerusalem street by Orthodox Jews, choked, bludgeoned and burned to death in a forest at dawn.”
And how does the Times headline its report (8/27/19) on this series?
31 August 2019 — Medact
NHS Trusts have a duty to stand up for their patients, to support their staff, and to ensure that everyone can access the care they need. This is why hundreds of healthcare workers across the country are asking their Trust to join them and call on the Government to end NHS charging.
30 August 2019 — Moon of Alabama
Since 2011 the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used Syrian ‘rebels’ and Islamist Jihadis as proxy forces against the Syrian government. These forces are now mostly confined to Idlib governorate next to the Turkish border. The Syrian army recently made progress against the Jihadis. Turkey did not come to their help. That their resistance is futile began to dawn on them. Syria will recover the whole governorate and those who resist will be eliminated. The ‘rebels’ fear that their punishment is coming and they now want to flee to Turkey. Unfortunately Turkey does not want them.
30 August 2019 — In Defence of Marxism
[This article calls for a ‘socialist Labour Party-led government’ but fails to tell us how such a thing could be realised, let alone explain the fiction of a socialist Labour Party! Yet more wishful thinking, instead of actual analysis but you be the judge. WB]
Britain is in the midst of a profound crisis, not seen in modern times. Everywhere is in uproar. This is the view not of some left-wing newspaper, but the official view of the British ruling class.
In the past, these powerful capitalist interests called all the shots. But today they have lost control of the situation.
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30 August 2019 — Counter Currents
The rise of ‘Extinction Rebellion’ signals that climate activism is moving up a gear. Further radicalisation is probably inevitable.
