23 July 2019 — The Electronic Intifada
Israel’s military propagandists are at it again.
A video recently tweeted by COGAT, the bureaucratic arm of Israel’s military occupation, celebrates its efforts to teach Palestinian farmers in the West Bank about hybrid fruits and vegetables.
24 July 2019 — The New Dark Age
Venezuela’s opposition-controlled parliament passes bill on foreign military aid
https://tass.com/world/1070079
“Electromagnetic Attack” Sparks Massive Blackouts Across Venezuela
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/aCt11GXghm0/electromagnetic-attack-sparks-massive-blackouts-across-venezuela.html
24 July 2019 — WSWS
Between 500,000 and one million Puerto Ricans took to the streets of the capital San Juan Monday in the largest demonstration in the island’s history. Even the low-end figure, 500,000, would mean 16 percent of the territory’s population of 3.2 million protested Monday.
24 July 2019 — Counterpunch
Is the rise of Boris Johnson to be the next prime minister the product of a soft coup? Does Donald Trump’s racist demonisation of four non-white congress members prove him to be a “fascist” leader like Mussolini and Hitler? The two questions should be answered together because political developments in Britain tend to emulate those in the US, and vice versa, though the latter is less frequent. The Thatcher-Reagan years in the 1980s were an example of this cross-infection and it happened again in 2016, when the British electorate voted narrowly for Brexit and American voters (though not a majority of them) chose Trump as president.
24 July 2019 — WSWS
Boris Johnson won the leadership of the ruling Conservative Party Tuesday after decisively defeating Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt by a two to one margin. Johnson will take over as prime minister today from Theresa May, after she resigns following her last Prime Minister’s Questions session in parliament.
23 July 2019 — Climate & Capitalism
Book review and full video of meeting to launch ‘System Change Not Climate Change: A Revolutionary Response to Environmental Crisis.’
24 July 2019 — The New Dark Age
Protecting Strait of Hormuz is Iran’s business and no one else’s – President Rouhani
London Defends The Shreds Of Its Empire Against Iran
https://orientalreview.org/2019/07/24/london-defends-the-shreds-of-its-empire-against-iran/
24 July 2019 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back
China’s national defense document commends military cooperation with Russia
https://tass.com/defense/1070093
China favors banning on all nuclear weapons — national defense document
https://tass.com/defense/1070087
24 July 2019 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back
Indian auto workers speak out in defence of Assange and Manning
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/24/assa-j24.html
Today’s links
http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/07/todays-links_23.html
23 July 2019 — Moon of Alabama
The Ukraine elected a comedian for president. Great Britain felt a need to top that. The members of the ruling party thus chose a clown to become the UK’s next prime minister.
Boris Johnson – bigger
Johnson will bury the remnants of the former empire.
My sincere condolences to people of Britain.
23 July 2019 — Black Agenda Report
Well, except for this one as it’s out early this week.
Reparations Demand: End Capitalism / Institutionalized Impunity for Killer Cops / Colonialism is What’s Wrong With Puerto Rico / Trump’s Message: US is White Man’s Country
“We cannot negotiate with the system that facilitated our ancestors’ enslavement,” sad William C. Anderson, author of the article, “Reparations is One Step in the Long Fight to End Racial Capitalism.” Said Anderson, “We need something much bigger than a settlement.”
23 July 2019
A short note. I’m taking the day off today as I’m a birthday boy (74) and off to hang out by the seaside for the day with an old friend, so no updates.
Plus it’s HOT out there and London is not the place to be when in it’s in the 30s, so a sea breeze will be a welcome relief.
Bill
22 July 2019 — Global Research
On Sunday, former Labor Foreign Secretary Jack Straw wrote a London Daily Mail op-ed on why Iranians will never trust Brits.
The same goes for their US counterparts Straw didn’t address in his opinion piece. More on this below.
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22 July 2019 — The New Dark Age
Isn’t it time to protect Labour Party members from the stench of Tom Watson’s hypocrisy
20 July 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
It’s not just that the United States has a higher percentage of its people in prison than does any other nation on the planet. (El Salvador — the land that was largely made what it today is, by its US trained-and-equipped death squads — is now number 2 on that measure. In another country the US controls, Honduras, protesters tried to burn down the US Embassy on 31 May 2019.)
22 July 2019 — The Grayzone
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal rolled up on the Soto Cano / Palmerola air base in Honduras, the US military’s largest in Latin America. It plays a key role in Washington’s military strategy for Central America, and was a major factor behind the 2009 coup.
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22 July 2019 — True Publica
By TruePublica Editor: Winston Churchill famously said in 1940, a time of the Battle of Britain, that ‘If the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, this was their finest hour.‘ Without any doubt, the Tory party can now claim for its entire existence, that right now, this has been their worst. Their party and more importantly the country is more divided than ever. Even the middle ground on Brexit has now completely collapsed, according to a new POLITICO-Hanbury poll – leading to voters so fed up that they would rather risk either revoking Article 50 or pursuing a no-deal Brexit. Both will be disastrous for a cohesive society in the years ahead.
In the background, away from the headlines of Brexit, Johnson, Trump and oil tankers in Iran – all of which are crisis upon crisis, the crisis of daily life continues in the sixth-largest economy in the world where the rich get richer and the poor are made to pay the price.
21 July 2019 — Off Guardian
Image source: The Canary
In the long history of party politics, coordinated and systematic attacks on one political party are always initiated and perpetuated by a rival party or parties. Not least of the ways in which the increasingly murderous row about alleged anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is unprecedented is that, although it was quietly seeded by Lynton Crosby’s propaganda unit in the Conservative Party back in 2016, it has been swollen into a life-threatening confrontation by elements both within Labour and with supposedly supportive links to Labour.
22 July 2019 — Media Lens
The greatest fear of those holding the most power and wealth is that they will lose their exalted position in the world. They will resist any changes to the grossly unequal and unjust class structure that causes grievous damage to so many people; and to the planet itself. Even the threat of real change must be crushed. This, in a nutshell, underpins the astonishing and relentless campaign to stop Jeremy Corbyn, a moderate leftist, from ever becoming Prime Minister.
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