March 2020
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UK government buried 2016 report exposing catastrophic NHS failings during flu pandemic
Late in 2016, the British government and health authorities held “Exercise Cygnus,” a three-day training exercise intended to determine readiness for a novel respiratory influenza pandemic. Cygnus aimed to test coordination between hospitals, health authorities, those tasked with tracking the disease and central government. The results of the report have never been made public. At… Continue reading
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First NATO-ME War Overturns Regional Order
While Europeans and Arabs are being absorbed by the coronavirus, Anglo-Saxons are changing the world order. Under US command, the United Kingdom took control of the Red Sea entrance; the United Arab Emirates turned on Saudi Arabia and inflicted a bitter defeat on South Yemen, while the Houthis did the same in North Yemen. Yemen… Continue reading
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The Propaganda of Terror and Fear: A Lesson from Recent History
The ongoing and unfolding reactions to the Corona Virus look set to have wide-ranging and long-lasting effect on politics, society and economics. The drive to close down all activities is extraordinary as are the measures being promoted to isolate people from each other. Continue reading
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Welfare Weekly Newsletter 27 March 2020
27 March 2020 — Welfare Weekly Urgent action still needed to support self-employed, says poverty charity Government plans don’t go far enough and Universal Credit should not be seen as a viable solution for the self-employed. Read the post Continue reading
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COVID-19 and the NHS—“a national scandal”
“When this is all over, the NHS England board should resign in their entirety.” So wrote one National Health Service (NHS) health worker last weekend. The scale of anger and frustration is unprecedented, and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the cause. Continue reading
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Coronavirus Has Destroyed the NHS Internal Market Overnight, Proving That It Never Worked
Covid-19 has forced the government to make drastic changes to the fundamental structure of the NHS, as the service struggles to cope. Continue reading
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The War on Death
OK, I’ve got some good news and I’ve got some bad news. The good news is mainly for authoritarians who missed all the fun during the War on Terror. The news is … welcome to the War on Death! Continue reading
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Why France is hiding a cheap and tested virus cure
What’s going on in the fifth largest economy in the world arguably points to a major collusion scandal in which the French government is helping Big Pharma to profit from the expansion of Covid-19. Informed French citizens are absolutely furious about it. Continue reading
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We Won’t Go Back to Normal, Because Normal Was the Problem: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2020)
26 March 2020 — Tricontinental Li Zhong (China), Paintings for Wuhan, 2020. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. It is hard to remember that just a few weeks ago, the planet was in motion. There were protests in Delhi (India) and Quito (Ecuador), eruptions against the old order that ranged Continue reading
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Boris Johnson’s coronavirus measures: Political criminality that will cost tens of thousands of lives
“Without a huge national effort to halt the growth of this virus, there will come a moment when no health service in the world could possibly cope; because there won’t be enough ventilators, enough intensive care beds, enough doctors and nurses,” Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared Monday. Continue reading
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The Lurgi Strikes Britain!
26 March 2020 — Youtube A blast from my youth! My dad used to take me to the Goon Show, recorded before a live audience at a theatre in North London. Continue reading
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Russia and Syria tired of being deceived
Turkey is unable to fulfill all the agreements with Russia. Following the March 5 Moscow talks, Recep Erdogan vowed to establish joint patrol of the M4 highway between Aleppo and Latakia starting March 15 in exchange for Syrian government army’s terminated offensive in the Idlib province. But he never got round to get this agreement… Continue reading
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Burned or buried, garbage spreads antibiotic resistance
Breathing can be dangerous when bacteria and Antibiotic Resistance Genes travel through the air from municipal waste to humans. Continue reading
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US is at a critical juncture, facing TWO EPIDEMICS: Covid-19 & soaring joblessness
The Senate and the White House have finally managed to negotiate a record $2-trillion stimulus aid package to ease the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak. But the money may well be too little too late. Continue reading
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UK Government officially (and quietly) downgrades COVID-19
By TruePublica: In the UK, the government response to the Covid-19 outbreak was initially to allow the population to be infected as a means of defence by creating what they termed ‘herd immunity.’ This strategy was met with clear opposition by almost all scientists, health professionals and experts very quickly. Public reaction was muted early… Continue reading
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Propaganda around the origin of Covid-19
The CIA is waging a campaign, which it portrays as “re-information,” claiming that Covid-19 originated in China while, at the same time, Russia is seeking to expose it as a US plot. Continue reading
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Italy Calls General Strike: “Our Lives Are Worth More Than Your Profits”
Italy is the global epicenter of the pandemic, with more than 64,000 cases of infection and almost 7,000 deaths, half of which occurred in the last week. This is the result of both neoliberal austerity measures that defunded healthcare in Italy and the criminal negligence of the EU. Continue reading
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How Austerity and Anti-immigrant Politics Left Italy Exposed
As the viral blitzkrieg rolls across one European border after another, it seems to have a particular enmity for Italy. The country’s death toll has passed China’s, and scenes from its hospitals look like something out of Dante’s imagination. Continue reading
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Assange Bail Application Today
Unfortunately I am in lockdown at home in Edinburgh and cannot get down to Westminster Magistrates Court for Julian Assange’s urgent bail application today. Several hearings ago, Magistrate Baraitser stated pre-emptively that she would not grant bail, before any application had been made. Today’s application will argue that Assange’s ill health puts him at extreme… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 