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The US tighten sanctions
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/10/8/us-sanctions-irans-entire-financial-sector
The US claim that their sanctions exempt medical and food and other humanitarian goods, but if Iran cannot use the world banks to pay, just how can they buy them. No trader will risk the wrath of being excluded by the US by facilitating credit to Iranian international trade even if it is the necessities of life itself
Early voting – 25 days until election day – 7million have already voted
I think we on another thread we have Engels calling the non-European Mexicans “lazy” which is a slur and both he and Marx supported slave-owner expansionism by the USA that other radicals of the time such as some prominent in the Chartist movement condemned and endorsed the the view that “the war was unjust to Mexico, disgraceful to the United States and a war for the extension of slavery.”.
https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/forum/topic/marx-engels-on-mexico/
And of course we have the language of Engels describing the Slavs and Celts as non-peoples.
And also we now have one of the leaders of the opposition party, Nancy Pelosi, suggest it is time to evoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump for mental incompetence.
Stranger and stranger still
I believe i heard gossip that a certain female member, CS, of the Socialist Studies grouplet was convinced that ALB was the Intelligence Services infiltrator.
Can it get any crazier? Yes
Trump calls for the arrest of Biden and Obama
“Unless Bill Barr indicts these people for crimes,” declared the president, “the greatest political crime in the history of our country, then we’re gonna get little satisfaction unless I win. Because I won’t forget it. But these people should be indicted, this was the greatest political crime in the history of our country. And that includes Obama, and that includes Biden; these are people that spied on my campaign, and we have everything.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/07/trump-demands-barr-arrest-foes-427389
A president calling for the jailing of his opponent days from an election, accusing him of being part of a coup…Unreal
Now on Countercurrents also
If you want to know someone – look at his friends.
The right-wing may be fixated on Antifa but this shows where the real threat comes from
Venezuela’s pro-government National Constituent Assembly on Thursday approved a law allowing President Nicolas Maduro to confidentially sign new oil deals with private firms and foreign nations, in response to U.S. sanctions.
The law will allow changes to the ownership of joint ventures between state oil company PDVSA private companies,
If there are any concerns of corruption, this is carte blanche for Maduro
£2bn on as many as 16 small nuclear reactors
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The most prestigious medical journals in America in a thinly veiled editorial endorses Biden without actually saying so
Another Grenfell in South Korea?
An eyewiness said “exterior material”, possibly insulation, attached to the outside of the building that caused the fire to spread quickly.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54470378
