May 15, 2020
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How Biosecurity Is Enabling Digital Neo-Feudalism
In Tempetes Microbiennes, Patrick Zylberman, a professor of History of Health in Paris, detailed the complex process through which health security, so far at the margins of political strategies, was sneaking into center stage in the early 2000s. The WHO had already set the precedent in 2005, warning about “50 million deaths” around the world… Continue reading
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Foreign Policy Sees ‘Repression’ in Vietnam’s Fight Against Coronavirus
A recent piece in Foreign Policy (5/12/20) is headed with a photograph of a placard that features an image of a nurse demonstrating the importance of wearing a face mask as both personal and interpersonal protection against the coronavirus. But reader beware: It’s not public education, it’s a “propaganda poster”—because it’s not from New Jersey, but was… Continue reading
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Perspectives on the Pandemic | Professor Knut Wittkowski Update Interview | Episode 5
Perspectives on the Pandemic Episode 5: In this highly-charged follow-up interview, Knut Wittkowski says his initial claim has been vindicated: The lockdowns – always a dubious proposition for a respiratory virus – came too late in the U.S. and elsewhere, and were therefore even worse than useless. By turns emotional and darkly comic, Wittkowski ranges… Continue reading
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WATCH: UK Chief Medic confirms (again) covid19 harmless to vast majority
From the beginning of this crisis we have been pointing out that there are two mutually contradictory messages at the heart of the covid19 rollout, and, just as Orwell describes in 1984, a major point of the exercise seems to be to get people to believe both at the same time. Continue reading
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Revealed: UK government opposing patent-free Covid-19 vaccines
Last night BBC Newsnight revealed how the British government has been opposing patent-free coronavirus vaccines and treatments in the run up to a crucial World Health Organisation meeting on Monday.Despite government pledges to ensure vaccines are accessible to all, they are still not willing to take on big pharma and challenge their monopolies. Continue reading
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Reserve army—pandemic edition
You know things are bad—and going to get worse—when a mainstream newspaper like the Washington Post invokes the Mohr (Karl Marx) Continue reading
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UK: Coronavirus rent crisis
Two months ago, we demanded a suspension of rents, a total ban on evictions throughout the pandemic and its aftermath, and that all those in need of shelter should be housed. Continue reading
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‘Our Food System Is Very Much Modeled on Plantation Economics’
Janine Jackson interviewed the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Ricardo Salvador about the coronavirus food crisis for the May 8, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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Consequences of Coronavirus Pandemic are being Kept Under Wraps
As the global battle against the Coronavirus rages on, many fairly important processes are taking place in the international community. But current ruling elites have sought to keep silent about them and have stopped media outlets, answerable to them, from openly reporting about these developments. Continue reading
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INTERVIEW: Debunking the COVID-19 Narrative with Prof. Dolores Cahill
Are public health officials and the mainstream media really telling the public scientific accurate and correct information about the Coronavirus and treatment for COVID-19? Was there any scientific or medical basis for governments to impose a lockdown? Are the government-media complex irresponsibly spreading misinformation about COVID-19? Is this misinformation harming the public and causing needless… Continue reading