February 13, 2020
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Black Agenda Report 13 February 2020
13 February 2020 — Black Agenda Report Free All Political Prisoners –- Including Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning Glen Ford, BAR executive editor Julian Assange and his protégés have made common cause with Black revolutionaries in their zeal to lay bare the dictatorial nature of the omni-pervasive national security state and the sheer, racist barbarity of the Continue reading
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Coronavirus – Statistical Change Causes Confusion While The New Case Count Continues To Decline
The battle against the infections with the novel coronavirus in China continues. China is doing its best to win it. The declining trend of the number of newly suspected and newly confirmed cases per day is now obvious to everyone. Continue reading
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IRR News (29 January – 12 February 2020)
Nearly two years since the Windrush scandal broke, only 36 people have received compensation, from a fund meant to compensate up to 15,000, while thousands, whose lives were ruined by the Home Office, and who remain in debt, find the compensation forms impossible to fill in, as they are being asked to produce the same… Continue reading
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Major Uprisings in Haiti Appear New, but Reflect Centuries of Haitian Resistance to Oppression
Mass protests have been taking place in the small Caribbean country of Haiti for several months now. Those protests are so intense that they threaten to bring the country to a complete standstill. The Haitian government’s response to the protests have resulted in dozens of deaths and massive destruction throughout various parts of Haiti, particularly… Continue reading
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The Story of the Haiti’s Earthquake Camps
Haiti’s Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake – a decade ago this week — was one of history’s great natural disasters. However, it was not as great as the world’s large humanitarian relief organizations and their allied media outlets would have us believe. It became a money-making tragedy. Continue reading
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The kidnapping of Haiti By John Pilger
The theft of Haiti has been swift and crude. On 22 January 2010, the United States secured “formal approval” from the United Nations to take over all air and sea ports in Haiti, and to “secure” roads. No Haitian signed the agreement, which has no basis in law. Power rules in a US naval blockade… Continue reading
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‘Burned At The Stake’ – The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Demolishes The Fake Claims Targeting Julian Assange
Last December, we witnessed the awesome capacity of state-corporate power to manipulate public opinion and undermine a democratic election with a ruthless propaganda campaign smearing Jeremy Corbyn, a passionate anti-racist. The campaign depicted Corbyn, not just as an anti-semite, but as someone who might ‘reopen Auschwitz’. The truth wasn’t just distorted, it was reversed. Continue reading
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Prevent and Countering Violent Extremism usher in ‘whole society’ surveillance
In the aftermath of Sudesh Amman’s attacks in London on February 2, the Evening Standard London ran as its frontpage an appeal from Counter-terror police chiefs, calling for the public to take a more active role in stopping terror threats. Continue reading
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I Am Tired of Holding Other Worlds in My Fist: The Seventh Newsletter (2020)
13 February 2020 — Tri-Continental Raúl Martínez, Rosas y Estrellas (Roses and Stars), 1972. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In November 2019, the Bolivian army – with a nudge from the shadows – told its President Evo Morales Ayma to resign. Morales would eventually go to Mexico and Continue reading
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Poll: Labour members say anti-Semitism crisis “invented”
Almost three quarters of the UK Labour Party’s members agree that the anti-Semitism crisis in the party has been “invented or wildly exaggerated.” Continue reading
The New Dark Age 