4 July 2019 — InfoRos
The latest controversy surrounding Turkey demonstrates that internal discipline within NATO is crumbling
Padraig McGrath, political analyst
On July 2nd, the State Department reiterated warnings that the United States will take retaliatory measures if Turkey does not reverse its decision to buy the Russian S-400 air defence system.
4 July 219 — Global Research
Independence Holiday in the USA becomes a time when citizens tend to reflect on the nations two hundred forty year history. It is a history typical of six European empires in the areas of genocide and plunder. Read more…
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3 July 2019 — The Saker
[this analysis was written for the Unz Review]
This Spring saw a sudden increase in the volume of articles in the so-called “alternative media and blogosphere” about Putin “selling out” Syria or Iran to the Israelis and their US patrons, or both. What was particularly interesting about this campaign is that it was not triggered by any kind of event or statement by Putin or any other senior Russian decision-makers. True, Israeli politicians made numerous trips to Russia, but each time they walked away without anything tangible to show for their efforts. As for their Russian counterparts, they limited themselves to vague and well-intentioned statements. Nonetheless, the “Putin sold out to Netanyahu” campaign did not stop.
4 July 2019 — WSWS
The June 21 #SchoolCuts campaign meeting at Westminster Hall in London was billed as a day to gather “together for education, a day of celebration, campaign planning and rallying.”
The main organizer was the National Education Union (NEU), with support from the Association of School and Colleges and Leaders (ASCL), National Union of Head Teachers (NUHT), the GMB, Unison and Unite.
4 July 2019 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day
Why autoworkers need an international strategy
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/04/kell-j04.html
What ever happened to the Energy Transition?
https://londongreenleft.blogspot.com/2019/07/what-ever-happened-to-energy-transition.html
4 July 2019 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day
On Eve Of 4th Of July Parade U.S. Attempts To Lure Iran Into Shooting Down Another U.S. Plane
https://williambowles.info/2019/07/04/on-eve-of-4th-of-july-parade-u-s-attempts-to-lure-iran-into-shooting-down-another-u-s-plane/
US Senate votes to give Ukraine $300 million in military aid
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/04/ukra-j04.html
4 July 2019 — MROnline – Originally published: Medium by Kale Cable (February 14, 2019)
Humankind and the environment are hurtling toward unprecedented ecological crises. Global warming, sea level rise, and weather extremes due to carbon emissions are catastrophic enough, but they will mix and combine with ocean acidification, air and chemical pollution, water shortages, deforestation, fishery collapse, soil erosion, and mass extinction, throwing both nature and society off a cliff into the unknown.
4 July 2019 — Internationalist 360°
The month of July is beginning, a time awaited by children due to the arrival of holidays, a time to play and enjoy themselves with their families. This should have been the destiny of the 8 year old girl Carmen Sofía Speca, a little rush that was just beginning to live. Tragically, Carmen is one of the victims of this month’s 13 cases of femicide reported in the digital media. There were also two thwarted murder attempts, one of them to a baby just 10 months old. In at least 4 cases, the killers had a history of gender violence or rape. Why are these men, such as a man with 3 accusations of rape, walking the street free?
4 July 2019 — Internationalist 360°
Who would have thought that, during the attempted coup d’état in Venezuela on January 23 and its immediate aftermath, Caracas would become, only five months later, the epicentre of the Latin American left? The XXV São Paulo Forum is planned for July 25–28 in the very Caracas that was supposed to be in the hands of the US and its allies. The day of the coup attempt, international hemispheric right-wing reaction – from the north, in Ottawa, through Washington, DC, to Bogotá and southward to Lima and Santiago de Chile – was ready to get the champagne bottles popping.
3 July 2019 — Moon of Alabama
Today a manned U.S. reconnaissance plane entered Iranian airspace in a clear attempt to provoke Iran into shooting it down. Such an incident would have created an occasion for Trump to give the American people a special 4th of July fireworks.
3 July 2019 — Dandelion Salad
Panelists: David Harvey, Bertell Ollman, Michael Hudson
Climate change is the main subject of the day, and rightly so. What do Marxists have to say that may be helpful in understanding it and hopefully (and it’s only a possibility) stopping it? Or, What is the relation between climate change and class struggle?
3 July 2019 — Black Agenda Report
Memorial services for Black Agenda Report managing editor Bruce Dixon
will be held Saturday, July 6, 5:30pm to 7:30pm, at Hanley Shelton
Funeral Home, 473 Lawrence St. NE, Marietta, Georgia, 30060
(770.426.6333).
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3 July 2019 — Countercurrents Collective
Juan Guaido, the U.S.-backed self-proclaimed “interim president” has frustrated his supporters. His support is also getting lost. On the other hand, the Venezuelan government is gaining diplomatically.
2 July 2019 — The Electronic Intifada
Chris Williamson (UK Parliament)
Labour’s grassroots overwhelmingly want left-wing MP Chris Williamson back in the party, a new poll found on Tuesday.
3 July 2019 — Statewatch
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3 July 2019 • 18:50 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day
Today’s links
http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/07/todays-links_3.html
The JCPOA Nuclear Deal: Why Europe Cannot Use the ‘Snap Back’ Mechanism Against Iran
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-jcpoa-nuclear-deal-why-europe-cannot-use-the-snap-back-mechanism-against-iran/5682535
3 July 2019 — Indian Punchline
The Easter Sunday terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka on 21st April in which 259 people were killed and over 500 injured were initially attributed to the Islamic State (IS). But no hard evidence is available to substantiate such a reading and it remains an open question as to the perpetrators.
3 July 2019 — Bureau of Investigative Journalism
After six months of investigation, the Bureau can reveal how a Brazilian meat producer that had to pay record fines for corruption is still buying beef from a company that illegally grazes cattle on felled areas of Amazon rainforest — and has quietly taken over huge swathes of UK chicken production.
3 July 2019 — Climate & Capitalism
Warming the climate and polluting the sea is leading to explosive outbreaks of new infectious diseases
UK-based socialist Sarah Ensor blogs at Herring and Class Struggle. She worked in Iceland’s fishing industry for six years, and is researching the history of the working class in Iceland.
Drew Harvell
OCEAN OUTBREAK
Confronting the rising tide of marine disease
University of California Press, 2019
reviewed by Sarah Ensor
