28 August 2019 — 21st Century Wire
By Nina Cross
Alfred de Zayas, former UN Rapporteur, has described the actions of the British authorities in pursuit of Assange as “… contrary to the rule of law and contrary to the spirit of the law.” What we see on the surface is an illusion of British justice, masking a political agenda behind it.
28 August 2019 — The New Dark Age
What Is Happening in Hong Kong?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/what-happening-hong-kong/5687331
Today’s Links 28 August 2019
http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/08/todays-links_28.html
28 August 2019 — WSWS
Behind the backs of the population, a bipartisan group of US lawmakers, military leaders and intelligence agents are engaged in a secret operation to endow the executive branch with dictatorial powers to suppress social opposition in the United States.
28 August 2019 — WSWS
Australian clinical psychologist Lissa Johnson has been an outspoken defender of Julian Assange, writing extensively on the grave implications of his persecution for democratic rights and freedom of speech.
26 August 2019 — The Electronic Intifada
By Ali Abunimah
Israel is escalating its attacks across the region, with bombing and drone raids in recent days in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.
26 August 2019 — Mint Press
The same media that has spent years dragging Assange’s name through the mud is now engaging in a blackout on his treatment. If you are waiting for corporate media pundits to defend freedom of the press, you’re going to be disappointed.
237 August 2019 — Mint Press
Far from being the work of a single political party, intelligence agency or country, the power structure revealed by the network connected to Epstein is nothing less than a criminal enterprise that is willing to use and abuse children in the pursuit of ever more power, wealth and control.
27 August 2019 — True Publica
By TruePublica: The question is a valid one given the impending trade deal that the current government is likely to strike with America. So, how will food standards fall to accommodate a trade deal where standards in the USA are much lower? The good news if you happen to be in favour is that the Conservative government have been working on this for a few years now – through austerity. Analysis now shows that as a direct result of government cuts to the agencies responsible for the food chain in Britain, there is already a dramatic decline in standards. This decline is associated not with standards but with enforcement but the result in meat products, for instance, is a 50% increase of reported cases of dodgy food entering the food chain.
27 August 2019 — WSWS
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is considering every possible means to prevent a challenge to Brexit, up to and including the proroguing of parliament.
26 August 2019 — WSWS
The G7 meeting held in France over the weekend marks another stage in the breakdown of the post-war capitalist order with the major imperialist powers becoming embroiled in a series of conflicts of the kind that led to the outbreak of World War II eighty years ago.
25 August 2019 — Global Research
Listen to BBC radio: Under the Radar Episode 4 – 5G Friend or Foe? (July 2019) here.
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Open letter to the “Under the Radar” BBC Programme Producer
I was hoping that I could leave it to others to refute the latest fake news on 5G from the BBC, but I feel obliged to wade in with the evidence since the BBC signally fails to provide it, perhaps corrupted like others by its recently rumoured collaboration with various telecommunications companies (Transparency International: Investigating Corruption in the Media and Telecoms Industries).
26 August 2019 — The New Dark Age
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The Great Switch: The Geo-Politics of Looming Recession
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/08/26/the-great-switch-the-geo-politics-of-looming-recession/
Trump says US and China to resume trade talks
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49471713
26 August 2019 — Voltaire Network
Just before the opening of the Biarritz G7, an intense disinformation campaign was launched in the international press with the complicity of French President, Emmanuel Macron and the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk. It aims to allow Europeans to control the Amazon, its minerals, its pharmaceutical treasures and its precious woods.
26 August 2019 — New Eastern Outlook
People often ask and hint at the similarities between the Hong Kong protests and the French Yellow Vests. The former started on 31 March and are approaching their 19th week – the Yellow Vests (YV) have celebrated last weekend their 40th week of protests. As of recently some voices of Macron-infiltrates into the YV movement – or Fifth Columnists – have suggested that the YVs may support the Hong Kong protesters in solidarity for freedom…
26 August 2019 — Voltaire Network
It’s a stale old secret. But it is also one of the most formidable denials of the Atlantic Alliance: nuclear bombs are stored in violation of international law in Italy, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Turkey. By mistake, a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly wrote it in a report immediately withdrawn.
September 2009 — Youtube
This is one song from a fantastic concert by an unjustly ignored artist that I first saw on TV back in 1965, when this was recorded.
25 August 2019 — Jack Rasmus
Trump brags about the ‘wall of money’ now flowing into the US from abroad–from Europe, Asia, emerging market economies–as the global economy slides into recession there faster than in the US. He thinks that is great news for the US economy. But it’s quite the opposite.
24 August 2019 — The New Dark Age
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The Saker interviews Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/08/24/the-saker-interviews-professor-seyed-mohammad-marandi/
Today’s Links 24 August 2019
http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/08/todays-links_24.html
24 August 2019 — The New Dark Age
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US commander says navy ready for Venezuela intervention
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/24/vene-a24.html
Suddenly West is Failing to Overthrow “Regimes”
https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/suddenly-west-is-failing-to-overthrow-regimes/
24 August 2019 — Colin Todhunter
In his first speech to parliament as British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson said:
Let’s start now to liberate the UK’s extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules and let’s develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world.
Johnson reads from a well-rehearsed script. The ‘GM will feed the world mantra’ is pure industry spin. There is already enough food being produced to feed the global population yet around 830 million are classed as hungry. Feeding the world effectively, sustainably and equitably involves addressing the in-built injustices of the global food system.
