May 25, 2020
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Why Barnard Castle?
Now it may be entirely a coincidence that the place to which he chose to drive for his eyesight test happened to be the site of the major factory of GlaxoSmithKline. It may be an entire coincidence that two days later, on the very day Cummings actually started work back in Downing Street he has… Continue reading
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We’re all in the big numbers now
It is the end of the affair. We are no longer at epidemic levels of covid-19 prevalence in the UK (0.27% of the population infected, where 0.4% is the low end required to be “epidemic”), and all-cause deaths have slipped back below average. Continue reading
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Why britain’s covid suffering is a crime against humanity
A rational person would question why Britain has fared so badly in the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a rich country with the sixth largest economy in the world, a proud history of public health and a National Health Service (NHS) arising from the ashes of World War II. This forms the central pillar of the… Continue reading
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Two Fictions of Mainstream Economics
Mainstream economics consistently fails to predict the future. I’m talking about those ‘schools’ of mis-thought, ranging from Paul Krugman on the ‘left’ to Glenn Hubbard and other apologists of business and neoliberalism on the ‘right’. Continue reading
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US Declares Vaccine War on the World
US President Donald Trump launched a new vaccine war this week, but not against the virus. It was against the world. The US and UK were the only two hold-outs in the World Health Assembly on the declaration that vaccines and medicines for COVID-19 should be available as public good, and not under exclusive patent… Continue reading
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The Elite’s COVID-19 Coup: Fighting for Our Humanity, Our Liberty and Our Future
We are being utterly transformed. And the world is being utterly transformed around us. Ostensibly, this is to tackle a simple virus. In reality, it is to achieve an elite design at staggering cost to humanity and to life generally. Continue reading
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Coronavirus, the economic crisis and Indian capitalism
This is a transcript of the presentation that I made on 30 April to the Indian Students Forum (TISS) in Mumbai. It has been published by Students’ Struggle, the monthly bulletin of the Students Federation of India, a student organisation associated with the Communist Party of India (Marxist). It is a little out of date on the… Continue reading
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England Falsifies COVID Data: More than A Hundred Thousand Coronavirus Tests were “Double-counted”
According to The Daily Telegraph (May 21, 2020): “samples taken from the same patient are being recorded as two separate tests in the Government’s official figures”. “Tens of thousands of Covid-19 tests have been double-counted in the Government’s official tally, public health officials have admitted. Continue reading
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USA Plan: Militarized Control of Population. The “National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan”
The Rockefeller Foundation has presented the “National Covid-19 Testing Action Plan”, indicating the “pragmatic steps to reopen our workplaces and our communities”. However, it is not simply a matter of health measures as it appears from the title. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 