wanda’s picks for august 2019

The talk this year is Reparations, not just for what African Ancestors suffered but for the continued maltreatment of African Descendants in the West, whether that is the United States, Western Europe or the Middle East. ..

farsnews

Iraqi expert warned last month that members of Ba'ath party were collecting intel for the US Western Iraq, mainly through spying on Hashd al-Shaabi forces.. ..

iran vs. spineless europe

But the question must be asked, how far will the US-western threats, sanctions and physical aggressions go? ... The saber rattling, fear mongering and sanctions are meant to intimidate and punish Iran for not bending to the tyranny of Washington – mainly changing regime and handing over..

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war, empire, and racism in the anthropocene – mondoweiss

In Afghanistan, Congressional records have revealed longstanding US-Western efforts to establish a trans-Afghan pipeline route for the transport of oil and gas from Central Asia to Western markets, bypassing US rivals Iran and Russia. ..

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bolton: russian forces in venezuela are a ‘direct threat’ to the

Russian military forces deployed to Venezuela pose a direct threat to United States and other Western Hemisphere nations, one of President Trump's top advisers warned Friday.. ..

the kremlin's military posture reconsidered

When Vladimir Putin first publicly described Russia’s latest state-of-the-art weapons systems in development and deployment one year ago, during his 1 March 2018 Address to the bicameral legislature, he said these systems would ensure the re-establishment of full strategic parity with the United..

french muslims and the secular state

The long-lasting Islamic slave trade across the Sahara was eventually matched by the Transatlantic trade from Africa into North America. Western distaste for Islam was for the most part expressed in theological terms, just as Muslim distaste for Christianity seemed a mirror image of that. ..

screaming reports on russian gru's death

He was accused of in the poisoning of Sergey and Yulia Skripal clearly staged US UK flag, unjustifiably blaming Russia for the stunt they pulled, part of blaming Kremlin for all sorts of US Western staged offenses Russian officials had nothing to do with, fact notably the ago discredited..

monthly review

Giant corporations based in the world’s richest countries—the Triad of the United States, Western Europe, and Japan—control the world’s technology, natural resources, finance, communications and information, and weapons of mass destruction. ..

socialism and the fight against war

Of these, just 147 companies—overwhelmingly the giant banks and investment funds headquartered in the United States, Western Europe and Japan—controlled 40 percent of the total wealth in the network. . 37. ..

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