1 July 2019 — New Eastern Outlook
As of beginning July 2019 prospects look positive for a re-election of Donald Trump as President in November 2020. Headline stock market and GDP figures all look positive…at the present. The huge unanswered question is whether that can be sustained until the fateful elections. We see signs already that spell potential trouble for the Republicans.
1 July 2019 — Oriental Review
In May 2019, a curious document was made publicly available under the aegis of the US Defense Department and the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is entitled “Russian Strategic Intentions” and was prepared as part of the Strategic Multilayer Assessment programme.
1 July 2019 — Grayzone
While National Security Advisor John Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Florida Senator Marco Rubio have helped drive the Trump administration’s maximum pressure-style campaign against Venezuela, Rubio’s counterpart, Senator Rick Scott, has been every bit as fanatical about regime change in Caracas.
1 July 2019 — Open Rights Group
The first half of 2019 has been strong for Open Rights Group (ORG). We have taken positive steps in challenging exploitative online advertising practices and protecting digital privacy. We are also getting ready for our biggest ever ORGCon London event taking place in less than two weeks!
27 June, 2019 — Research Unit for Political Economy
In the last week of June 2019, as this article was being written, tensions between the U.S. and Iranian governments escalated sharply. On June 20, 2019, in response to aggressive U.S. actions, including the mobilization of troops, naval forces, and aerial provocations, Iran shot down a U.S. surveillance drone flying near the Iranian border.[i] The U.S. government used this as an excuse to threaten to bomb Iran.[ii] The United States might implement this threat in the near future, setting off a wider conflict.
28 June 2019 — Viable Opposition
While it got very little notice, a recent acknowledgement by the “newspaper of record”, the New York Times, gives us a glimpse into the relationship between one of America’s most influential media outlets and Washington.
1 July 2019 — WSWS
It took just two days and a howl of outrage from a collection of right-wing Blairites and Zionists for Chris Williamson MP to be suspended from the Labour Party for a second time on June 28.
1 July 2019 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day
Will India And Turkey Jointly Broker An Easing Of US-Iran Tensions?
https://orientalreview.org/2019/07/01/will-india-and-turkey-jointly-broker-an-easing-of-us-iran-tensions/
Democrats back Trump’s massive “World War III” military budget
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/01/pent-j01.html
1 July 2019 — WSWS
When Nils Melzer, the UN special rapporteur on torture, issued a May 31 statement demanding an immediate end to the “collective persecution” of Julian Assange it made headlines all over the world.
1 July 2019 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day
The First China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo Held Successfully in Hunan
https://tass.com/press-releases/1066469
Hong Kong: Police and protesters clash on handover anniversary
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-48821640
30 June 2019 — planning motive.com
The discussion on how to respond to the deepening Crash of 2019 is focusing minds. It is recognised that interest rate manipulation and regular quantitative easing will not suffice to bring the global economy back into growth, especially now that international trade is so fractured. Increasingly main-stream economists are dabbling with the direct injection of cash into the economy up to and including by-passing the traditional banking sector.
29 June 2019 — Terry Bell Writes
South Africa seems to be obsessed with rainbow images. First there was that grand illusion of a rainbow nation, now faded. But it did, for some time, obscure, to a degree, rotten reality.
Now, with the latest State of the Nation (SONA) address we have what seemed to boil down to a “somewhere over the rainbow image” taken from that iconic Hollywood film, The Wizard of Oz. That 1939 movie, based on a 1900 fantasy novel, featured a young girl in dull, dusty Kansas, being swept up in her house by a tornado and landing in a glittering world “over the rainbow”.
29 June 2019 — Land Destroyer
(Gunnar Ulson – NEO) – As the wreckage of Malaysian flight MH-17 laid scattered in eastern Ukraine, and many days before the first investigators even arrived on scene, the US had already blamed Russia and separatists it accused of aiding for the tragic downing of the passenger plane and the loss of all 298 people on board.
30 June 2019 — Off Guardian
It pains and embarrasses me that I used to admire Dame Margaret Hodge. Her steely grillings of millionaires, in her capacity as chair of the select committee on tax avoidance, had once warmed me to her.
28 June 2019 — Eric Walberg
Jeremy Kuzmarov, Obama’s Unending Wars: Fronting the foreign policy of the permanent warfare state, Clarity, 2019.
In Obama’s Unending Wars, Kuzmarov has brought together many telling proofs, nuggets, of just how horrible the world is, and just how responsible the US and its henchmen around the world are. A kind of who-does-it. Kuzmarov is that rare analyst (Belen Fernandez is another) who respects footnotes, leaving fascinating bits there that would otherwise detract from his focus.
29 June 2019 — Change.org – WSWS
Rap artists Krept and Konan have launched an online petition against the banning of “drill” music. The petition protests the suspended prison sentence imposed this year on drill artists Skengdo and AM for performing a song in concert.
28 June 2019 — The Electronic Intifada
Shooting “key instigators” during unarmed protests in Gaza when they’re resting. Opening fire on teenagers attempting to make their way to pray in Jerusalem when they pose no danger.
This is the routine, unjustified and criminal use of live fire against Palestinians by Israeli occupation forces.
29 June 2019 — The New Dark Age
‘Regime change takes time’: Trump plays down stalled coup in Venezuela
https://www.rt.com/news/462988-trump-venezuela-regime-time/
The press conference came as the Venezuelan military called for respect from those looking to break it
https://williambowles.info/2019/06/29/the-press-conference-came-as-the-venezuelan-military-called-for-respect-from-those-looking-to-break-it-by-paul-dobson/
Cuba the latest victim of Ottawa’s campaign against Venezuela
https://lifeonleft.blogspot.com/2019/06/cuba-latest-victim-of-ottawas-campaign.html
29 June 2019 — The New Dark Age
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ends Iran hunger strike after 15 days
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48810394
Russian-Georgian tensions escalate amid Iran war crisis
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/06/29/geor-j29.html
