March 2020
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Global Recession Is Underway: Selected Stories
31 March 2020 — Global Research Warnings of Economic Depression By Stephen Lendman, March 31, 2020 According to a March 20 – 26 online survey of over 250 companies of varying sizes and business sectors, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported that nearly half the number surveyed are likely to lay off workers over the next Continue reading
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Craig Murray: Daily Record Investigates My Home and Finances
The day after I publish my article accusing the corporate media of being an active part of the conspiracy against Alex Salmond, and of giving disgracefully selective, slanted and biased coverage of the evidence of his trial, the Daily Record has decided to investigate my home and personal finances. Is not life full of little… Continue reading
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‘Can I Keep You Safe? Your Future Is Uncertain’: Climate And The Fate Of Humanity
In the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the most immediate objective is to slow its spread, minimise the death toll and help people through the crisis. But, despite government promisesto support citizens who are now losing their jobs and income, the underlying establishment concern will be as it always has been: to preserve the global inequitable… Continue reading
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Amid coronavirus crisis, China demonstrates that an alternative to the US-led, neoliberal order is possible
For nearly four decades the United States and its Western allies have proclaimed to the world that “there is no alternative” to neoliberalism, maligning the state and public sector as inefficient and unproductive. If the 2008 financial crisis loosened this myth’s stranglehold on notions of what is possible, the current coronavirus pandemic has shattered it. Continue reading
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Putchists in the Shadow of the Coronavirus
While the public’s eyes are riveted on the progression of coronavirus numbers, a profound reorganization of the executive is taking place, giving primacy to senior health officials over policy. In the shadows, bankers and soldiers are agitating in the hope of confiscating power for their own benefit. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio for week of March 30, 2020
30 March 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford COVID-19 May Trigger a “Crisis of Legitimacy” / Bernie Sanders’ Socialism Isn’t the Real Thing / Can Black Marxists Imagine the Unimaginable? / Mumia: Things Fall Apart Continue reading
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COVID-19 MAY NOT ONLY KILL THROUGH INFECTION, BUT THROUGH RADIATION AS WELL!
Under the consistent (sic) hand of helmsman Trump, official estimates for the death toll in the USA are ranging up to 200,000. More worrying from the perspective of profits, talk is now centring on the probability of a six month lockdown. If the economy of the USA collapses while China’s recovers, then the US’s global… Continue reading
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Coronavirus: The view from Germany
29 March 2020 — Youtube An open letter to the Chancellor of Germany Continue reading
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J’Accuse By Craig Murray
A 22 person team from Police Scotland worked for over a year identifying and interviewing almost 400 hoped-for complainants and witnesses against Alex Salmond. This resulted in nil charges and nil witnesses. Nil. The accusations in court were all fabricated and presented on a government platter to the police by a two prong process. The… Continue reading
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Covid19 yet to impact Europe’s overall mortality Year-to-date statistics show excess mortality lower than previous years
The official figures for 24 countries across Europe show, not only that overall mortality is not increasing, but – so far – it is actually well below recent averages. Continue reading
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NHS Must Explain Role Of Surveillance Company in Covid Battle
Peter Theil is the co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies. Palantir is a data-mining company – nice words for it activity of surveillance and espionage. Their activities have been found in the past to breach all sorts of privacy laws. Its algorithms vacuumed up emails and browser histories, GPS locations from smartphones, printer and download… Continue reading
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The real reason UK government pushed through such draconian powers?
No-one in the mainstream media has made mention of what has happened here. Everyone has remained silent. No public figure of significance has raised an eyebrow. Everyone has gone along with this. Even human rights and civil liberty NGO’s have been motionless by what can only be described as a huge assault on the fundamental… Continue reading
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As Netanyahu uses coronavirus to consolidate power, Israel’s opposition leader gives in
Benny Gantz, the former Israeli general turned party leader, agreed late last week to join his rival Benjamin Netanyahu in an “emergency government” to deal with the coronavirus epidemic. Continue reading
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A war economy?
If all country pandemics were the same, then the figure below would be how this pandemic will come to an end. The start-to-peak ratio of Covid-19 infections for all countries would be 40-50 days. Many countries are not yet near the peak point and there is no guarantee that the peak will at the same… Continue reading
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An Inglorious Opportunity: Coronavirus and Emergency Powers
There has been a hurried spate of cancellations and suspensions of elections across the globe because of the risk posed by COVID-19. The trend is unsurprising. In the age of post-democratic process, suspending the procedure should only induce a cough of recognition. But it is troubling for those who take the ceremonial aspect of these… Continue reading
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COVID-19 Crisis Positive Side Effects: End of Dog-Eat-Dog Civilization?
Before the pandemic, our world was already sick. Profoundly pathological and dysfunctional in our values, personal connections and, first and foremost, our species’ deadly impact on the natural world and its disequilibration of our host, planet Earth. But like any enormous collective challenge, it is the way we deal with it that will determine the… Continue reading
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Prof. Mario Caligiuri: “The Coronavirus Represents the Death of Capitalism and an Opportunity to Reinvent Society”
Mohsen Abdelmoumen: What is the situation in your country Italy in the context of the Covid19 virus epidemic? Continue reading
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Covid-19: The Panic Is Worse Than the Pathogen
The Corona Virus Disease 2019 or “Covid-19” is a coronavirus similar to the virus that causes pneumonia. Covid-19 is a danger to at-risk groups including the elderly and the chronically ill. If you are not elderly and if you are in good health you have virtually no chance of dying from it. Continue reading
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Devastating Revelations About the Truth Behind the Destruction of MH17
On 17 July 2014 MH 17, a Malaysian airlines flight en route from Amsterdam in The Netherlands to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia was shot down while in transit over Ukrainian airspace. Although there were no admissions as to culpability and at least initially very little factual data available, it did not stop an immediate blame… Continue reading
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10 MORE Experts Criticising the Coronavirus Panic
Following on from our previous list, here are ten more expert voices, drowned out or disregarded by the mainstream narrative, offering their take on the coronavirus outbreak. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 