Pavel Filonov The Kolkhoznik (Member of a Collective Farm) 1931 Those winds just keep on shifting, no matter that the western press either doesn’t see them shift, doesn’t recognize them for what they are, or chooses to ignore them. But these winds bring tidings of a tectonic plate-shaking shift in the global political climate. The fires in Saudi oil installations, whether they were caused by drones or missiles, and whoever fired those, are a major story, and rightly so,
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Marcel Duchamp About young sister 1911 • US, Israel Talk About Mutual Defense Treaty – Trump (RT) • US Blames Saudi Oil Strikes On Iran, Not Houthis (BBC) • US Stands Ready To Tap Emergency Oil Reserve After Saudi Attacks (R.) • Johnson Is A Liar Who Only Backed Leave To Help His Career – Cameron (G.) • Italy’s New Government Lets Charity Ship Head To Italian Port (R.) • The Spy Who Failed (Ritter) What Putin
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Kazimir Malevich Spotrsmeny 1931 • Julian Assange To Stay In Prison Over Absconding Fears (BBC) • Hopes Of Clean Break With EU Are Nonsense: Ex-Brexit Official (G.) • McCabe Lawyer Presses Justice Department To Drop Criminal Case (R.) • Latest Russian Spy Story Looks Like Another Elaborate Media Deception (Taibbi) • Crisis-Hit Boeing Readies Huge Effort To Return 737 MAX To The Skies (R.) • ‘If I Happen to Fall out of a Window, You Can Be Sure I
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Max Ernst Untitled 1913 No, I don’t want to talk about last night’s US Democrats’ debate. That’s just lousy comedy. But I’ll admit I’m happy to see Tulsi Gabbard demolished DNC favorite Kamala Harris’s chances before the same DNC managed to get rid of Tulsi. She should have been at that debate just for having that kind of influence. Instead, unfortunately, and I’m almost apologizing, I have to revisit Brexit yet again. Hey, at least it’s better comedy. But
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Marc Chagall The watering trough 1925 • The Dogs in the Street Know (Craig Murray) • Speaker Bercow Warns Boris Johnson Against Disobeying Brexit Law (BBC) • Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Must Face Criminal Charges (CNBC) • US House Panel Wants Boeing To Allow Employee Interviews On 737 MAX (R.) • US Pressures Israel To Drop China ‘Belt And Road’ Investments (ZH) • Huawei CEO Offers To License 5G Technology To American Companies (F.) • Mnuchin Says
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Joan Miro Montroig, la iglesia y el pueblo 1918 Ok, the mailing lists still don’t work, and now the site layout is skewed too after a WordPress update. Lovely. Apologies. Working on it. • How the UK Security Services Neutralised The Guardian (Declassified) • The Consequences of the Bush-Era Assault on Civil Liberties (Taibbi) • No-Deal Brexit Papers Warn Of Shortages And Riots (BBC) • £8 Billion Bet on No Deal Crash-Out by Boris Johnson’s Leave
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Max Ernst The Angel of the home or the Triumph of Surrealism 1937 A friend of mine here in Athens, Greece, named Wayne Hall, who’s of Australian descent but moved here at about the time Napoleon headed for St. Petersburg, and works as a translator and language teacher, sent me a mail a few days ago that I thought was interesting. In particular, Wayne referred to a video I didn’t know existed, of Julian Assange hosting a get-together in
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Robert Frank White Tower, New York 1948 (Frank died yesterday, aged 94) To everyone used to receiving Automatic Earth posts in their email, I’m sorry but since Saturday they’re suddenly bouncing again en masse. This makes me very tired by now, but I’ll look for a solution. I suspect there may be a connection between this and Google accusing me of violating their rules, without telling me what rules I’m supposed to have violated. • Trump
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Pablo Picasso Composition “Peasants” 1906 It’s undoubtedly better to leave some stories alone, and this may be one of them. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov perhaps put it best when he called it “pulp fiction” (and what’s more American than that?). But this one is so exemplary of how the news is cooked up for you these days, let’s have a go anyway. What makes this story so ideal for its purpose is that it involves intelligence and state secrets,
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Marc Chagall The painter to the moon 1917 To everyone used to receiving Automatic Earth posts in their email, I’m sorry but since Saturday they’re suddenly bouncing again en masse. This makes me very tired by now, but I’ll look for a solution. I suspect there may be a connection between this and Google accusing me of violating their rules, without telling me what rules I’m supposed to have violated. • Real US Debt
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