31 July 2019 — Black Agenda Report
Glen Ford, BAR executive editor
Black people are not obligated to defend opportunists and servants of white capital in Baltimore just because they were called out by Trump.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR editor and senior columnist
Anyone feeling the need to defend Baltimore from Trump’s opinions ought to talk about what really ails that city.
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31 July 2019 — The New Dark Age
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Iran’s envoy hashes over JCPOA, Persian Gulf with Russian senior diplomat
https://tass.com/politics/1071231
Today’s Links 31 July 2019
http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/07/todays-links_31.html
31 July 2019 — The New Dark Age
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The Brexit Party got taken down for spreading vicious, racist lies
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/JQ97QpkPHTo/
Today’s Links 31 July 2019
http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/07/todays-links_31.html
31 July 2019 — The New Dark Age
The Recent Japanese Elections Might Slow Down The US’ “Indo-Pacific” Strategy
https://orientalreview.org/2019/07/31/the-recent-japanese-elections-might-slow-down-the-us-indo-pacific-strategy/
Erdogan’s Risky Geopolitical Pirouette
https://journal-neo.org/2019/07/31/erdogan-s-risky-geopolitical-pirouette/
30 July 2019 — Off Guardian
Last December, the U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the Pentagon started the process of withdrawing its troops from Syria. Even then, many people were quite skeptical about the words of the American president while a number of political analysts and experts noted that the Americans are unlikely to pull out their troops from Syria, taking into account the interests of Washington in the Middle East.
30 July 2019 — Defend Wikileaks
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer visited Julian Assange at HMP Belmarsh on 9 May 2019, and has written letters to the governments of the United States, United Kingdom, Ecuador and Sweden to express that he is “gravely concerned” about Assange’s treatment and to urge the latter three governments to ensure Assange is not extradited to the United States. Melzer, who also detailed his findings about Assange’s current health and conditions, was assisted in his assessment by medical forensic expert Prof. Duarte Vieira Nuno and psychiatrist Dr. Pau Perez-Sales.
28 July 2019 — Internationalist 360°
In one of the more shocking episodes of the Cold War tens of thousands of Nazi war criminals and their fascist allies were smuggled out of Europe and resettled around the world in places like Argentina, Canada, Australia and the United States. Others were resettled throughout the middle east a few ended up as far away as South East Asia. They were considered too valuable by western intelligence to face justice for their crimes. 27 Million people were killed in the Soviet Union alone, 4 million in Poland, I’ve written of the many uses these fascist exiles were put to in my previous articles. They were used as spies, propagandists and terrorists in the west’s secret war on the Soviet Bloc and even non-aligned countries like Yugoslavia. They went to work for Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, universities, and think tanks and were even used to turn out the vote for the Republican Party in the US. The Ukrainian fascists formed a powerful lobby in the US, Canada and Australia. In Canada for example the Ukrainian Nazi exiles are so powerful that they have placed one of their own at the head of Canada’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland. As the cold war neared it’s end these fascist movements in exile returned home seizing power with the help of Western Intelligence in Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, in the 1990’s and Ukraine invatican 2004 and again in 2014. They also have a great deal of influence in the Baltic countries of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania where SS veterans hold yearly parades and are treated as heroes. Thus the fascist exiles have gone from a scandalous chapter in cold war history to the cause of a new cold war with Russia. They have played a vital role in the increasing danger of fascism worldwide.
30 July 2019 — Counter Currents
“The University of Alaska Fairbanks (“UAF”) is a hub for Arctic climate research, and a magnet for top scientists and international collaborations— and it’s in trouble.” (Source: Sabrina Shankman, A Death Spiral for Research: Arctic Scientists Worried as Alaska Universities Face 40% Funding Cut, Inside Climate News, July 19, 2019)
30 July 2019 — WSWS
The social and legal fallout from the June 2008 music vault fire in Hollywood, which destroyed an invaluable popular music archive at Universal Studios and which Universal Music Group (UMG) covered up for years, is continuing.
30 July 2019 — WSWS
A common response among workers to Boris Johnson taking leadership of the Conservative Party and becoming prime minister is to ask, “How did that happen?”
30 July 2019 — True Publica
The text below is the Executive Summary of the July 2019 BigBrotherWatch police data investigations of victims report.
The widespread use of mobile phones and other digital devices in people’s everyday lives means we increasingly leave a data trail everywhere we go.
30 July 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Britain’s new Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to “unite the nation” and usher in a “golden age” of prosperity and technological progress.
30 July 2019 • 16:00 — The New Dark Age
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Brexit: Boris Johnson says farms will thrive as PM visits Wales
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-49151870
Johnson urges voters not to back Brexit Party ahead of crunch by-election
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/uFhqzFvhI2E/
26 July 2019 — Global Research
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and Bonnie Faulkner
27 July 2019 — True Publica
The Anthropocene. A proposed new geological epoch which designates a shift to a planetary age dominated by human impacts across the geological processes of the Earth. Geologists dispute the duration, precision, relevance and even accuracy of the concept. But the term has increasingly entered the scientific lexicon as increasing numbers of experts across myriad disciplines recognise that for the first time in history, the future of the entire planet—for generations if not millennia to come—is now being fundamentally determined by the activities of the human species. But the Anthropocene is about far more than just climate change. It is about an entire system of life, whose design is to maximise resource extraction at the expense of expendable ‘Others’. It is bound up, intimately, with a global system of racism emerging from the legacy of centuries of colonialism. And it is inseparable from the ceaseless sequence of industrial wars, culminating in today’s permanent state of the endless ‘war on terror’.
30 July 2019 — WSWS
The crisis of rule in Puerto Rico deepened on Sunday when Puerto Rico’s Secretary of Justice, Wanda Vázquez, second in line to replace Governor Ricardo Rosselló, declined the appointment in a Twitter message. Rosselló announced his resignation from the governorship on July 24, following twelve days of mass popular protests. The governor’s resignation is to take effect on this Friday, August 2.
29 July 2019 — Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
The US acted as midwife to South Africa’s apartheid system, said Dr. Gerald Horne, author of “US Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs. Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela.” Horne, a professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston and possibly Black America’s most prolific living political writer, said the US Carnegie Corporation formulated “the blueprint” for South Africa’s apartheid system, imposed in 1948 as “a combination of neo-slavery and Jim Crow on steroids.”
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29 July 2019 — Youtube
A historic people’s uprising in Puerto Rico has forced the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosello – but the struggle doesn’t stop there. Protesters have voiced opposition to ‘La Junta,’ the unelected, Washington-appointed board that controls the island’s finances and promotes harsh austerity. Guest: Dr. Rima Brusi, scholar-in-residence at the Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies, Lehman College-City University of New York.
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29 July 2019 — WSWS
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer last weekend publicly released detailed letters he sent to the governments of the United States, Britain, Sweden and Ecuador in May, documenting their responsibility for the “psychological torture” inflicted upon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a result of a decade-long political persecution.
Julian Assange
