April 2020
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15 April 2020: The Dirty War on the NHS — Live Q&A TONIGHT 8:30pm (UK time)
Tonight, there will be a live Q&A with two of the film’s main contributors — Professor Allyson Pollock and Dr John Lister, hosted by Simran Hans (film critic at the Observer) at 8.30pm (UK time), which will be beamed live to your homes via Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and Curzon Home Cinema. Continue reading
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The politics of Covid-19: ‘Busy’ parks and public blame
Despite its vague, ever-changing messaging about how the UK population might shield itself against the global coronavirus pandemic, the government has been consistent in building one key narrative: ‘selfish’ people are responsible for its rapid spread. In the midst of ongoing testing and protective clothing scandals, and as ministers needlessly delay announcement of an imminent… Continue reading
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Resistance Growing to Covid-Capitalism
Covid-19 has laid bare a fundamental truth: that capitalist healthcare is a contradiction in terms, since capital – like the killer virus — cares for nothing but reproducing itself. Continue reading
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Searching for Truth in What We are being Told About Covid-19
April 14, 2020 (Tony Cartalucci – NEO) – Following the news regarding coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) we’d be led to believe humanity faces an unprecedented crisis – and judging by the socioeconomic damage being done – it is not that difficult to believe some sort of unprecedented crisis is indeed unfolding. Continue reading
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India & the Corona Virus: Independent Press Fights Back
While the corona virus has focused much of the world on Europe and the United States, India promises to be the greatest victim of the disease. But other than a slick public relations campaign, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has done little to confront the crisis. Indeed, a number of policy moves by… Continue reading
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Are Ventilators Killing More People Than They’re Saving??
“Researchers in Wuhan…reported that, of 37 critically ill Covid-19 patients who were put on mechanical ventilators, 30 died within a month. In a U.S. study of patients in Seattle, only one of the seven patients older than 70 who were put on a ventilator survived; just 36% of those younger than 70 did.” (“With ventilators… Continue reading
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Dr Shiva Blasts Lockdown, ‘Medieval Medicine’ of Fauci, Bill Gates and W.H.O.
Scientist and health freedom advocate, Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, MIT PhD and biological systems expert, is now challenging the authority and “medieval medicine” decisions being made by America’s self-appointed technocratic medical elite, namely Dr Anthony Fauci and colleague billionaire oligarch and vaccine developer, Bill Gates. Is the pharmaceutical industrial complex using the fear surrounding the COVID-19… Continue reading
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Will EU and pandemic pave way for Israeli global surveillance?
The coronavirus pandemic is a priceless opportunity for governments and spy firms to expand their reach into people’s lives. Continue reading
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Worshiping and Defiling Britain’s NHS
Tories worshipping Britain’s National Health System are akin to fanatical carnivores who suddenly extol the virtues of vegans. Has the grave response to COVID-19 signalled a change of heart? In the case of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it was all heart, quite literally. It might have stopped beating and that scruffy, buffoonish essence of… Continue reading
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The lockdown is NOT a way of beating this virus
Several politicians, including Keir Starmer, the opposition Labour Party leader, have been demanding to know the exit strategy for the lockdown. “We should know what that exit strategy is, when the restrictions might be lifted and what the plan is for economic recovery to protect those who have been hardest hit,” he said last week.… Continue reading
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Mike Davis on pandemics, super-capitalism and the struggles of tomorrow
What are the underlying political, economic and environmental structures that paved the way for this global outbreak? Where do pandemics emerge from? Is our capitalist way of life biologically sustainable? Continue reading
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If coronavirus overwhelms Gaza, Israel alone will be to blame
The Palestinians of Gaza know all about lockdowns. For the past 13 years, some two million of them have endured a closure by Israel more extreme than anything experienced by almost any other society – including even now, as the world hunkers down to try to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. Continue reading
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COVID-19 MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL
This is our recommended approach to COVID-19 based on the best (and most recent) available literature including the Shanghai Management Guideline for COVID. We should not re-invent the wheel, but learn from the experience of others around the world. It is important to recognize that COVID-19 does not cause your “typical ARDS”… this disease must… Continue reading
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USA: Capitalism & Racism + Covid-19 = Murder
April 11 — The Covid-19 pandemic is devastating New York City. Eighty refrigerator trucks are serving as mobile morgues to store the bodies. As of April 10, 92,384 people have been infected. Inmates in the Rikers Island prison are being offered $6 per hour to dig mass graves on Hart’s Island off the Bronx. That’s… Continue reading
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Wikipedia: Information Wars
Long term readers will recall the Philip Cross Affair. A Wikipedia Editor named “Philip Cross” was relentlessly conducting a propaganda operation. It had two prongs; the first was continually to denigrate the Wikipedia entry of all public figures who opposed military intervention in the Middle East, removing positive information and adding mainstream media slurs in… Continue reading
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The US economy before the virus struck
The purpose of this article is to determine the health of the US economy before it sickened from the virus. Why is this important? It is importance lies in this; the impact of the lockdown on the future of the US economy will be mediated by the state of the economy prior to the pandemic.… Continue reading
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Coronavirus Fact-Check #3: “Covid19 is 20x DEADLIER than the flu!”
Since the early days of the current pandemic, the go-to comparison has been influenza, both the specific historical outbreaks and the general seasonal “flus” (a catch-all term for respiratory viruses) which hit all over the world every winter. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 10 April 2020 (06/20)
10 April 2020 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2020/apr/email-10-4-20.pdf STATEWATCH ANALYSES & BRIEFING 1. Italy renews Memorandum with Libya, as evidence of a secret Malta-Libya deal 2. Anti-migration cooperation between the EU, Italy and Libya: some truths surfaces 3. Briefing: Spain: Migrants’ rights must be guaranteed and put at the core of measures Continue reading
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Welfare Weekly 10 April 2020
10 April 2020 — Welfare Weekly Scotland is facing a ‘cost of living crisis’, charity warns UK Government is under mounting pressure to introduce an emergency ‘universal basic income’. Read the post Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 9 April 2020
9 April 2020– Origin: Black Agenda Report Resistance Growing to Covid-Capitalism Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor Covid-19 has laid bare a fundamental truth: that capitalist healthcare is a contradiction in terms, since capital – like the killer virus — cares for nothing but reproducing itself. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 