March 2020
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Where Are The Skripals?
Two years ago, on March 4 2018, Sergei Skripal a British-Russian double agent and his daughter Julia were poisoned in the streets of Salisbury, England. The British government accused Russia of an attempt to kill the Skripals with a nerve agent. Continue reading
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Syria News Links 4-5 March 2020
5 March 2020 • 18:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Selected Articles: Turkey at War with Syria https://www.globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-turkey-war-syria-whose-side-winning/5705666 Anti-Turkish Coalition is Getting Bigger by the Day https://journal-neo.org/2020/03/05/anti-turkish-coalition-is-getting-bigger-by-the-day/ Continue reading
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Review: Diana Johnstone, Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher (2020)
First, Diana Johnstone’s memoir is a classic, and will be read and quoted as long as we keep struggling for peace and justice. It is one of the great personal accounts of the anguished decline of our uncivilization, both a riveting eye-witness account of many of the horrors and perfidies, and a primer for students… Continue reading
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WaPo Prints Study That Found Paper Backed an Undemocratic Bolivia Coup
President Evo Morales won re-election in Bolivia’s presidential election last October 20, as pre-election polls predicted. He received 47% of the vote in an election with 88% turnout. He beat his nearest rival by just over 10 percentage points, which meant a second round was not required. Continue reading
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We Who Were Nothing and Have Become Everything Shall Construct a New and Better World: The Tenth Newsletter (2020)
5 March 2020 — Tricontinental Jane Norling, Sistersongs, Berkeley, California, 1975. We Who Were Nothing and Have Become Everything Shall Construct a New and Better World: The Tenth Newsletter (2020). Dear Friends, For Ernesto Cardenal (1925-2020), who has gone to hand out clandestine pamphlets in the sky. Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Continue reading
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The Alex Salmond Trial and Censorship
On Monday morning at 6am I shall again be queuing up outside a courtroom. I never had any intention this blog would become so concentrated on court reporting, but then I never expected the state to be trying to put so many of my friends in prison. Continue reading
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Netanyahu may yet prove himself the Houdini of Israeli politics
The Israeli prime minister has worn down voters by refusing to go, while his rival Benny Gantz has no visible path to power Continue reading
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Most coronavirus patients in nearly all Chinese regions recover
More than 87% patients in all Chinese regions, except for the Hubei province in central China, have recovered from diseases caused by the novel coronavirus, a spokesman at the National Health Commission Mi Feng told a news conference on Wednesday. Continue reading
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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Moscow’s Difficult Decision on Idlib
As Recip Tayyip Erdogan prosecutes his latest military intrusion southward into Syria, all the old mythologies about the Turkish president and the 9-year-old Syrian conflict are rehearsed once again, hopelessly threadbare as they are. The problem now is not the fog of war. The problem is the war of fog. Continue reading
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China suppressed Covid-19 with AI and big data
China used locational and other data from hundreds of millions of smartphones to contain the spread of Covid-19, according to Chinese sources familiar with the program. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 4 March 2020
4 March 2020 — Black Agenda Report Fear Pervades Black Politics, and Makes Us Agents of Our Own Oppression Glen Ford, BAR executive editor Many Black voters recoiled in abject terror at the very thought that the Democratic Party – “our” party, in many Black folks’ minds – might fracture under the challenge of the Continue reading
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GM food issue on the rise again in UK
Judging from the high number of media articles drawing attention to the post-Brexit threat of the US’s GM foods invading British supermarket shelves, it’s clear that the GM food issue is far from dead in the UK. It appears that it was only “sleeping” due to the fact that EU labelling and risk assessment requirements… Continue reading
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Report reveals how Westminster’s electoral system massively failed voters
By Megan Collins: Something is deeply wrong when over 70% of votes count for nothing. That’s what Westminster’s voting system did in December’s election, according to a damning new analysis from the Electoral Reform Society. Continue reading
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Spycops monthly roundup, March 2020
Here’s this month’s roundup of news from the campaign for truth and justice about Britain’s political secret police. Continue reading
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The NHS is still at risk: Email your MP!
Yesterday the government published its objectives for a trade deal with the US. As usual, the document makes a very general claim that the NHS and drug pricing will not be on the table in a trade deal with Donald Trump. But in fact, we know from last year’s leaks that the NHS and drug pricing… Continue reading
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Primary Notes from a Shit-Hole Superpower: Crashing the Party from the Top Down
12 noon: Just to be clear, the Dem establishment will gladly enable a second fascistic and ecocidal Trump term before it will get behind a progressive Dem/Sanders nomination. The neoilberal Dem masters will do everything they can, including sabotage of Sanders, to sustain the party’s status as a thoroughgoing ruling class institutional asset. They are… Continue reading
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China Treating Coronavirus COVID-19 with Intravenous Vitamin C
Intravenous vitamin C is already being employed in China against COVID-19 coronavirus. I am receiving regular updates because I am part of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Board to the International Intravenous Vitamin C China Epidemic Medical Support Team. Its director is Richard Z. Cheng, MD, PhD; associate director is Hong Zhang, PhD. Continue reading
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Keep It Simple and Question: Propaganda, Technology, and Coronavirus COVID-19
My father, a well-educated lawyer with a very sophisticated mind, used to advise me to “keep it simple.” By simple he didn’t mean simplistic. He meant fundamentally logical and to the point. So I will do that here and stick to some simple realities, now that understanding what is going on in the world has… Continue reading
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Some Emerging Truths About Ukraine and the Crash of MH17
On 17 July 2014 a Malaysian Airlines flight was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down over Ukrainian territory with the loss of all passengers and crew. The majority of the passengers were Dutch citizens, although there were significant other nationals represented, including in particular Australian citizens and residents. Continue reading
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