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RT‘All of us are in danger’: John Pilger delivers a chilling warning from Julian Assange Zero HedgeHK Security Chief Says Police Battling "Elements Of Terror" - For First Time Echoing Mainland Tyler Durden Moon of AlabamaHong Kong Rioters Wage Sabotage Campaign To Press Congress Into Punishing China Sic Semper Tyrannis"The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act" Dennis Kwok Dennis Kwok Zero HedgeChina's Xinhua Issues Ultimatum: "End Is Coming" For Hong Kong ProtestersTyler...

What emotion did you feel the first time you saw Picasso's Guernica? I was blown away. I was about 22 or 23 at the time, a grad student at Columbia on my first visit to the Museum of Modern Art. I revised that picture often.I had seen reproductions on a much smaller scale and knew the background but this didn't prepare for the real thing. The size makes the experience exceptionally powerful.And this was before Vietnam radicalized me.War is truly hell.Open CultureWhat Makes Guernica So...

This week, Vladivostok, Russia is hosting the 5th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), an event which is the largest of its kind in terms of attendance, which will attract Russia’s top politicians and their Asian counterparts. This year, the forum will be attended by the heads of state and government of India, Malaysia, Mongolia and Japan, who will participate in a panel discussion alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin. The forum is unique in that it is a product of the new Russia, rather...

Hong Kong’s increasingly xenophobic protests are devolving into chaos with help from US government regime-change outfits and a right-wing local media tycoon with close ties to hardliners in Washington. Plenty of video footage here of the protestors beating up paramedics (who are trying to help people), the police, civilians, or anyone who gets in their way. No other country would put up with this level of violence on its streets. The Western media isn't showing this, or telling the...

New fourth round of tariffs on Chinese goods will hit US consumers and firms especially hard, just as the US enters an election season. Who blinks first?Asia TimesMoment of truth approaching for Trump’s trade warNile Bowie

Next week, I am attending a meeting which I hope will finalise discussions I have been having with some key prospective partners in putting together a major MMT-Green New Deal initiative in Australia which will have global ramifications. It will bring together MMT with climate action and indigenous rights interests. We propose to begin a ‘roadshow’ in November to start our campaign. Our discussions to date have been very productive and we will issue a ‘White Paper’ in the coming months to...

The British Army of the 1980s was willing to control riots by shooting people. Now VICE can reveal a secret army file, which shows how British soldiers planned to deal with unrest when Hong Kong was still a British colony in the 1980s. The file, discovered at the National Archives, shows that the British army's plans to handle a similar situation were actually much worse. While the Chinese police used tear gas, the British Army would have preferred bullets. Vice Phil Miller - The...

Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté' talk about the US coups in Latin America. The ruling elite are filled with gangsters, but people still vote for them believing that as they are the establishment then they must be honorable. They believe that they uphold law and order but that is far from the truth.Back from Honduras, The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal discusses the impact of US meddling over the last decade: a narco-President, Juan Orlando Hernández, recently named as a co-conspirator in a drug...

Just not anytime soon though — although it could happen faster than anyone thinks if conditions change sufficiently enough. Mechanisms are being put in place. Interesting post, but you probably know most of this already.The HillThe end of the dollar as we know it Andy Langenkamp, Opinion Contributor

Rick Sanchez gives an excellent lecture at the Ron Paul Institute. Very anti - imperialism and anti - war.Rick Sanchez delivers a wide-ranging address to the Ron Paul Institute wherein draws from his wealth of personal experience to discuss Washington’s age-old interventionist foreign policy, the complicity of the establishment media, censorship and political bias in the corporate news, the military-industrial complex, the role of the foreign press and more. [embedded content]