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November 22nd, 2019 Photo by Medea Benjamin I am writing from Bolivia just days after witnessing the November 19 military massacre at the Senkata gas plant in the indigenous city of El Alto, and the tear-gassing of a peaceful funeral procession on November 21 to commemorate the dead. These are examples, unfortunately, of the modus operandi of the de facto government that seized control in a coup that forced Evo Morales out of power. The coup has spawned massive protests, with blockades set up around the country as part of a national strike calling for the resignation of this new government. One well-organized blockade is in El Alto, where residents set up barriers surrounding the Senkata gas plant, stopping tankers from leaving the plant and cutting off La Paz’s main source of gasoline. Determined to break the blockade, the government sent in helicopters, tanks and heavily armed soldiers in the evening of November 18. The next day, mayhem broke out when the so...

November 22nd, 2019 Did you know that Donald Trump had the State Department, USAID, NED , and the CIA fund and train Neo-Nazi, fascist militias to overthrow the government of Ukraine? These riot mobs, primarily Svoboda and Right Sector , stormed the capital, firebombed and shot the police, and destroyed democracy inside Ukraine. When the legitimately elected president was forced out by the rioters, the population which had supported him in the east seceded from the country, tearing the entire nation into pieces and sparking a civil war. The Ukraine civil war has cost the lives of over 13,000 Ukrainians . There is so much blood on Donald Trump’s hands. Oh, wait a minute! That was Barack Obama . Change that paragraph, please. Since 2014, it’s been glaringly obvious to astute (and honest) observers that the Administration of Barack Obama and Joe Biden supported the most vicious street mobs in Europe, people who considered themselves proud fascists . Western media rou...

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Thanks to Kathleen Garvey for suggesting this article. The Dark History of Population Control Posted on  November 23, 2009 Book Review : Matthew Connelly: Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2008 reviewed by Simon Butler A select group of billionaires met in semi-secrecy in May 2009 to find answers to a “nightmarish” concern. Their worst nightmare wasn’t the imminent danger of runaway climate change, the burgeoning levels of hunger worldwide or the spread of weapons of mass destruction. The nightmare was other people – lots of other people. The self-styled “Good Group” included Microsoft founder Bill Gates, media mogul Ted Turner, David Rockefeller Jr and financiers George Soros and Warren Buffet. The London  Sunday Time s said they discussed a plan to tackle overpopulation, something they considered “a potentially disastrous environmental, social and industrial threat.” Yet it was far f...

Bolivia, Lithium and Hijacking the Environmental Movement November 20, 2019     Bolivian security forces were unleashed upon protesters by the new government with instructions        there would be no repercussions for firing upon them. By Guy Crittenden Back in 2007 Google launched a research initiative to accelerate the identification and adoption of renewable energy technologies to stave off man-made climate change. It was an exciting idea: a high-tech company intent on helping commercialize disruptive technologies to replace coal (at first) and ultimately reliance on fossil fuels in general. So it was quite shocking when the lead researchers advised the company to cancel its research project. You can read the details about why they did this in a decent Vox article here . The gist of the concern was that the experts discovered early on that existing technologies simply weren't up to the task of generating enough power and, worse, the vast...