Comrade Quan Le, a member of the China Writers Group has brought this indispensable material to our attention, Michael Hudson’s 3-part analysis of the clash between China and the US, an empire in economic, social and political free fall due to its embrace of inherently predatory financialization.
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An irrefutable argument about the criminal complicity of the corporate media in selling war to scandalously disinformed publics. In this video Carl Zha, Brian Berletic & Daniel Dumbrill watch and react to 60 Minutes Australia – War with China special.
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The NY State governor’s new order is both illegal, cruel, irrational, and impossible to implement. It shows, however, how fast the US ruling class is marching in lockstep down the path of fascism. NOTE: Be sure to check out a companion article on this site, by the respected journalist Jim Kavanagh
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JANICE KORTKAMP—WDRVM’s name comes from the first letters of the Elias family members involved in this tremendous effort: Father Walid, mother Denise, son Rabi, and daughters Valirina and Marquize. It was Valirina who fearlessly climbed out the top of the 80m high turbine with the Syrian flag.
What didn’t exist in Syria, they made. Skills and expertise in the wind energy field were hard to find there, so they trained Syrian engineers and scientists and factory workers to become experts. Women and men, Syrians from all backgrounds working together to produce something to help provide much-needed electricity and jobs as well as a model for future businesses.
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Glenn Greenwald on the current and (ever) present evil: The Assange Dossier & CIA war against WikiLeaks
76 minutes readAt meetings between senior Trump administration officials after WikiLeaks started publishing the Vault 7 materials, Pompeo began discussing kidnapping Assange, according to four former officials. While the notion of kidnapping Assange preceded Pompeo’s arrival at Langley, the new director championed the proposals, according to former officials.
Pompeo and others at the agency proposed abducting Assange from the embassy and surreptitiously bringing him back to the United States via a third country — a process known as rendition. The idea was to “break into the embassy, drag [Assange] out and bring him to where we want,” said a former intelligence official. A less extreme version of the proposal involved U.S. operatives snatching Assange from the embassy and turning him over to British authorities.
Such actions were sure to create a diplomatic and political firestorm, as they would have involved violating the sanctity of the Ecuadorian Embassy before kidnapping the citizen of a critical U.S. partner — Australia — in the capital of the United Kingdom, the United States’ closest ally. Trying to seize Assange from an embassy in the British capital struck some as “ridiculous,” said the former intelligence official. “This isn’t Pakistan or Egypt — we’re talking about London.”