By Eric Worrall | Watts Up With That? | June 22, 2018 If there is one climate program which should have died in a welter of shame, that programme is third world conservation programmes, programmes which have reportedly already caused mayhem in places where government backed forces have committed atrocities to drive farmers and tribes […]
Europe is facing the most significant refugee crisis since World War II. All attempts at resolving the issue have failed, mostly because they have ignored the root causes of the problem.
On June 11, Italy’s new Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, blocked the Aquarius rescue ship, carrying 629 refugees and economic migrants, from docking at its ports.
It appears that the Western public, both relatively ‘educated’ and thoroughly ignorant, could, after some persuasion, agree on certain very basic facts – for instance that Russia has historically been a victim of countless European aggressions, or that countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Iran or North Korea (DPRK) have never in modern history crossed the borders of foreign nations in order to attack, plunder or to overthrow governments.
Food and agriculture across the world is in crisis. Food is becoming denutrified and unhealthy and diets less diverse.
Monkey memes, Greece fires and high levels of vog + this day in history w/Lucky Lindy's ticker tape parade and our song of the day by Stephanie Hatfield on your Morning Monarchy for June 13, 2018.
Too my knowledge the US has been involved in the atrocity that is the destruction of Yemen from the get go- Therefore it's not credible to have the WSJ claim that they are "deepening" their role. The US is simply increasing the misery and it was expected that they would. As they continue on with the remake the region agenda.Reuters
One man I do revile get’s a special mention in the article posted at Consortium news- that is Bernard “I’m so full of myself “ Henri Levy. In fact I’d saved an article the other day regarding this blowhard: Bernard Henri Levy: A False ProphetRegarding Brexit. And Levy really, really wants Britain to stay in the EU.
An Anti-Imperialist Mural in Caracas, Venezuela (from Telesur)
The United States has had a policy of imperialism beginning after the Civil War. The US way of war, developed against Indigenous peoples, spread worldwide as the US sought to extend its power through military force, economic dominance and diplomatic hegemony.
The 200th anniversary of the birth of Marx has prompted The Economist to devote an article on Marx in its issue of May 5, 2018. Characteristically titled, “Reconsidering Marx. Second time farce. Two hundred years after his birth, Marx remains surprisingly relevant”!1 The article combines recognition that Marx was a genius with reactionary slandering that he was, after all, an evil genius and without him the world would certainly had been much better.
