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The Path to a ‘National Emergency’
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Doors open for SECOND BREXIT referendum courtesy of Commons Speaker John Bercow (Video)
More Brexit drama and perhaps the first signs that a second Brexit referendum is in the making. The BBC is reporting that a motion of no confidence in Commons Speaker John Bercow – who has been accused of ignoring Commons rules in allowing MPs to vote on the Grieve amendment – is now likely.
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris take a quick look at a dramatic turn of events in the Brexit saga, as Wednesday’s vote increases the likelihood for another (second) Brexit referendum. Music to the ears of the Brussels globalists. -
The truth behind China’s presence in Djibouti
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Are AR-15 Rifles a Public Safety Threat? Here's What the Data Say
Between 2007 and 2017, nearly 1,700 people were murdered with a knife or sharp object per year. That’s almost four times the number of people murdered by an assailant with any sort of rifle.
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Updated: US "Withdrawing" From Syria? Troops Not Included.
Lots and lots of reports claiming that this morning..Telegraph All reports are dependent on this:
"A convoy of ten US military vehicles was seen leaving a base in Hasakah province in northeast Syria and heading towards the Iraqi border, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights"
10 Military Vehicles leaving from Hasakah province headed for the Iraqi border.TIME
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Another Climate Propaganda Story Promoting the Normal as Abnormal
By Dr. Tim Ball | Watts Up With That? | January 8, 2019 Almost every day there are stories in the media about weather or climate events that create the impression that they are new and outside of the normal pattern. None of them are. The objective is to sensationalize the story, even if it […]
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Venezuela’s Maduro sworn in for second term amid rising social unrest and threats of intervention
President Nicolas Maduro took the oath of office Thursday morning for a second six-year term under conditions of mounting social unrest within Venezuela and a concerted drive by the US, the European Union and the right-wing governments of Latin America to force him from power. Maduro was sworn in before the Venezuelan Supreme Court and not, as is customary, before[Read More...]
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Corporate media smears WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
A number of corporate media outlets have begun the year by publishing scurrilous and derisive attacks against WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange. The coverage has the character of a coordinated political campaign, with the most sinister motives. Its aim is to legitimise the stepped-up persecution of Assange by the US and British governments, which are pursuing the journalist and[Read More...]
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Ready For Kamala?
Kamala Harris... Climbing by Nancy OhanianTarini Parti had a cute report at BuzzFeed yesterday: Here’s Trump Allies’ Plan To Meddle In The 2020 Democratic Primary.
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Oil’s Wild Price Swings Set to Create Global Chaos
As the current global oil glut shakes up petro states around the world, oil prices are becoming more volatile than Donald Trump tweets. Neither Canada, now the dumb owner of a marginal 65-year-old pipeline, nor Alberta, a key exporter of bitumen, a cheap refinery feedstock, has paid much attention to this revolution. As a consequence Canada has no strategy to[Read More...]
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The Commons, the State and the Public: A Latin American Perspective
An interview with Daniel Chavez. What are the commons and what is their political, social and economic relevance? In recent years, many researchers and social activists from very different countries, like myself, have rediscovered the notion of the commons as a key idea to deepen social and environmental justice and democratise both politics and the economy. This reappropriation has meant[Read More...]
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Furtherance: A Response to Gail Tverberg’s “World Economy is Reaching Growth Limits: Expect Low Oil Prices, Financial Turbulence”
I am always delighted to read another piece by Gail Tverberg. Her articles are consistently highly informative, and the information she presents to us is without exception well documented, clear, and concise. Her work flows from and is the extension of that of Donella and Dennis Meadows as expounded in their book The Limits of Growth, which can be downloaded from[Read More...]
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PUCL Maharashtra Statement in Solidarity with protesting BEST Workers
PUCL Maharashtra expresses shock and dismay at reports that the BMC and BEST administration have chosen to invoke draconian provisions of the Maharashtra Essential Services Maintenance Act (MESMA) against striking BEST employees, instead of taking steps to respond to their demands and alleviate their grievances at the earliest. PUCL Maharashtra learns that the BEST administration has issued eviction notices to[Read More...]
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Why is Mehbooba Mufti apologizing people of Kashmir?
Why is she nowadays visiting the militant families and apologizing the people for her past deeds and remarks? Why is she terming the slain militants as martyrs? Is it that she wanted the support of people to repeat her previous activities or the fulfillment of leftover dreams of her father? As the assembly elections of 2019 are around the corner,[Read More...]
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Good day to you all. Or is it?
Every time I watch anything to do with Israel on American TV, or listen to a radio report somewhere, or read an article in a newspaper or online, I am always confronted with the same slogan. “We must support our closest ally with whom we share values and a way of life. We must do our utmost to enable them[Read More...]
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Hypocrisy Without Bounds: The Tragedy of "Liberal" Foreign Policy
Lost in the haze of their pathological hatred of President Trump, the majority of mainstream liberal pundits and politicians can’t, for the life of them, see the good sense in extracting the troops from a couple Mideast quagmires.
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Går det att vara optimist i dag?
Voltaire, författare till "Candide – eller optimismen". Lever vi i den sämsta eller bästa av världar? Filosofiska rummet funderar på synen på optimism i dag. Med utgångspunkt i den franske 1700-talsfilosofen Voltaire och hans roman "Candide eller optimismen" från 1759 samtalar Filosofiska rummet om optimism i filosofihistorien och i samhället i dag.
Går det att vara optimist när vi så ofta pratar om jordens kollaps, att apokalypsen är nära? Är det kanske bättre att vara lite lagom pessimistisk? -
Making Sense of Trump"s Foreign Policy
The unipolar moment is over and is not coming back, especially not with Donald Trump as president. And that is a good thing for the rest of the world.
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Video: Hezbollah Warns Israel: ‘If You Dare Attack, You Will Regret it’
On the evening of Friday, November 30, Hezbollah’s war media broadcasted this video addressed to Israel and subtitled in Hebrew, in response to recent Israeli military exercises simulating an aggression against southern Lebanon, an escalation of violations of Lebanese airspace –from which aggressions against Syria are usually carried out– by Israeli drones, and new threats to assassinate Hezbollah Secretary General. The […]
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New Documents Reveal a Covert British Military-Intelligence Smear Machine Meddling In American Politics
The Integrity Initiative has mobilized an international disinformation campaign across Europe. Now, with government and right-wing foundation money, this massive “political smear unit” is infiltrating the US.
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TIDBITS: HONORABLE MENTIONS
This week was very difficult to decide what to blog about from the mass of material people sent me. Here's some "honorable mentions:" Colleague […]
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ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC DICTIONARIES TAKEN TO THE NEXT LEVEL
In my last book, Microcosm and Medium (availabel on Lulu.com), I elaborated on a concept that evolved during the era of high scale mind […]
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Inside the Mind of Edward Mandell House, Administrator
Richard Grove of TragedyandHope.com and PeaceRevolution.org joins us on this month’s edition of Film, Literature and the New World Order to discuss “Philip Dru: Administrator” by Edward Mandell House. We examine the man behind the work and how the novel presages House’s time as the power behind the throne of the Wilson presidency. -
US Mideast Policy Shambles Testament to Criminal Failure
It’s tempting to laugh at the shambles that is US policy in the Middle East. But it’s no laughing matter. The chaos of Washington’s policy is destabilizing.
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Midnight Meme Of The Day!
by NoahMotherfucker. It's only a word. It's a word! The horror! Motherfucker! A word! Oh! I feel so unclean at hearing that word! She said a bad word!No! Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib spoke truth to power. THAT is what the rightwing snowflakes of both parties and their media suck-ups are so upset about.
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Australia’s Strategic Bubble: Denial in the Face of Changing Geopolitical Realities
The next election in Australia is expected to be held on a date between March and May 2019. If two years of opinion polls are a reliable guide, the Opposition Labour party is expected to win comfortably. It should present an opportunity for a fresh start in Australia’s foreign and defence policies. That is unlikely however to be the case. -
Trump"s Hail Mary Becomes Bolton"s Nightmare
Bolton and Pompeo’s plan is so daft, so obviously being pushed by forces outside of the White House itself, that even the Washington Post had to admit to the Pentagon’s resistance to it.
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A Clinton Memo That Killed Half a Million People
A cockeyed analysis from 2012 publicized by Wikileaks—which has been overlooked due to apparent errors of dating—unleashed a catastrophe, writes Daniel Lazare. By Daniel Lazare Special to Consortium News A Hillary Clinton memo that Wikileaks made public in 2016 has…Read more →
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