➽NEW JOHN PILGER FILM IN CINEMAS IN DECEMBER. VIEW THE TRAILER On 1 December, the new John Pilger film, 'The Dirty War on the NHS', will be released in cinemas in the UK.
Pilger investigates the long and often secret campaign to dismantle Britain's pioneering National Health Service and privatise it off 'by stealth'.
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Visit the film's website at www.thedirtywaronnhs.com http://johnpilger.com/
➽US-funded "Non-Profit" Decries Huawei in Hungary
November 26, 2019 (Gunnar Ulson - NEO) - The battle between fading US tech giants and their Chinese rivals spans the globe. China's Huawei appears to have won the battle in its own backyard of Asia, but what about in Europe where the US still holds a large amount of leverage it is not afraid to use? A self-described "non-profit independent journalism center in Hungary" has recently published an article titled, "Hungary’s government is quietly neck-deep in the U.S.-Huawei war."
In it, the "non-profit" Direkt36 claims: Viktor Orban’s government has found itself in the middle of a great power conflict in 2019. Last year, a new battleground emerged in the trade war between the United States and China. Washington accused Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei of espionage on behalf of the Chinese state and of corporate espionage.
It also claims (emphasis added): Although Hungary’s significance is relatively small in NATO and EU decision-making because of the size of the country, it still plays an important role in the European debate on Huawei. Hungary’s government regularly vetoes or blocks European decisions unfavorable to China’s political leadership, and one of Huawei’s most important European hubs is in Hungary. http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/
➽Bushfire crisis: welcome to life on a burning planet
Posted Nov 27, 2019 by Eds.
Climate Change , Ecology , Environment , Health Australia Newswire
Originally published: Red Flag News by April Holcombe (November 11, 2019) |
The fires ravaging eastern Australia are visible from space. North-westerly winds carried their dust and smoke across to New Zealand, bombarding the South Island. The sky is orange above Port Macquarie on the north coast of New South Wales, where the fires are worst. An area larger than one million football fields has already burned to ash. The chain of infernos stretches from Rockhampton in northern Queensland to the bush south of Wollongong. For the first time in history, Sydney’s fire danger forecast was made “catastrophic” for 12 November. All before summer has started. https://mronline.org/2019/11/27/bushfire-crisis-welcome-to-life-on-a-burning-planet/
➽How racism works today
Posted Nov 26, 2019 by Eds.
Ideology , Race , Strategy Global Newswire
Originally published: Rebel News by John Molyneux (November 25, 2019) |
Understanding racist discourse will help us fight it. The first thing to note is that virtually everybody, including those who actively promote and trade on racial hatred—like Donald Trump—denies being ‘a racist’. Of course, sometimes they are simply deliberately lying but there is more than just that involved. There is also the fact that racist ideology has changed significantly over time and that contemporary racism is, in some ways, very different from racism in the past. Today’s racists often try to exploit this by talking as if only the older version of racism really counted. https://mronline.org/2019/11/26/how-racism-works-today/
➽How to commit war crimes—and get away with it
Posted Nov 27, 2019 by Vijay Prashad
Human Rights , Imperialism , Media , War Afghanistan , Middle East , United States Commentary , News Featured
This article was produced by Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
U.S. President Donald Trump sacked his Navy secretary on Twitter. The main reason is that the Navy secretary did not follow Trump’s advice regarding Navy Special Warfare Operator Edward Gallagher. Trump wanted Gallagher to retain his position as a Navy Seal. Gallagher was accused of stabbing to death a wounded fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) in 2017; he was also accused of other incidents of murder (of a schoolgirl and an elderly man), and then of obstruction of justice. In July 2019, a military court acquitted Gallagher of most of the charges but found him guilty of posing with the body of the fighter who had been stabbed to death. https://mronline.org/2019/11/27/how-to-commit-war-crimes-and-get-away-with-it/
➽Michael Bloomberg’s President Run Raises Questions About Democracy and a Free Press
The New Yorker’s presidential bid highlights the contradictions between both extreme wealth and a for-profit, corporate advertiser-driven media landscape and democracy and freedom of expression. After months of speculation, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg formally announced a high-profile, big-money campaign to become the Democratic Presidential nominee on November 24. The 77-year-old former Republican has decided that he is the perfect candidate to prevent the president from achieving a second term. Bloomberg has a long history of support for conservative positions, including endorsing George W. Bush’s War on Terror and defending Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza. https://www.mintpressnews.com/michael-bloombergs-president-run-raises-questions-about-democracy-and-a-free-press/263075/
➽In WWII-Era Fashion, the Saudi-led Coalition is Weaponizing Disease in Yemen
What’s happening in Yemen may not be literal biological warfare, but it is certainly biological warfare by other means reports Ahmed AbdulKareem. 2 Comments
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TAIZ, YEMEN — Beyond the devastation it has caused on the back of tens of thousands of airstrikes, a crippling blockade and the intentional targeting of civilian infrastructure, the Saudi-led coalition supported by the United States has sparked an outbreak of disease and epidemics in Yemen in a manner not seen since World War II.
Yemeni activist Aseel Sweid told MintPress News how a young boy, Abdulkarim al-Ma’amari, “died of dengue fever after it spread with alarming speed in Taiz, threatening many innocents.” Sweid added that three of his own brothers had been infected with dengue. “There are a huge amount of people with the fever in the same hospital [as my brothers].” https://www.mintpressnews.com/saudi-led-coalition-weaponizing-disease-yemen/262964/
