May 2020
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NEW! NEW! NEW! – Mid-April ColdType (Number 204) is now online
April 2020 — Coldtype ColdType: Great Reading to Keep the Boredom at Bay Continue reading
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The scarring
Optimism reigns in global stock markets, particularly in the US. After falling around 30% when the lockdowns to contain COVID-19 virus pandemic were imposed, the US stock market has jumped back 30% in April. Why? Well, for two reasons. The first is that the US Federal Reserve has intervened to inject humungous amounts of credit… Continue reading
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Neo-liberalism and how it has disrupted the bourgeois state
The incompetent and disorganised response by the US and UK government to the pandemic poses a deeper question than simply the personnel involved. Is this response accidental or predictable in so far as it has occurred in the two countries where neo-liberalism is most advanced, financialization most extreme and the state most disrupted. This article… Continue reading
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No Going Back – The COVID-19 Pandemic Theses
Public Reading Rooms is publishing these theses – on the pandemic, the nature of the crisis and the necessary next steps. We want to initiate a wide-ranging discussion on the left. Please send us any comments, thoughts or longer pieces to transform@prruk.org Continue reading
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Slavoj Zizek: May 1 in the viral world is a holiday for the NEW working class
1 May, 2020 — RT Maybe the moment has come to take a step back from our exclusive focus on the pandemic, to allow ourselves to consider what coronavirus and its devastating effects reveal about us as a society. Continue reading
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Annihilation Utopia
1. You’re heroes, don’t you know? You’re heroes for doing all the things you do when you’re scorned, ignored, mocked, abused, harassed, and exploited. Now you’re heroes for delivering food by bicycle, by cart, by hand; for delivering packages by truck or dolly or backpack. You’re heroes now for filling prescriptions; for selling paper towels;… Continue reading
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WATCH: How Bill Gates Monopolized Global Health
1 May 2020 — Off Guardian Who is Bill Gates? A software developer? A businessman? A philanthropist? A global health expert? Continue reading
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Is It Time to Launch an Investigation Into the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for Possible ‘Crimes Against Humanity’?
Occasionally, humanity is confronted with a series of events, oftentimes accompanied with tremendous human suffering, that appear to be so intricately linked and coordinated that to explain them as mere coincidence or conspiracy theory is not only reckless, but potentially criminal in itself. Continue reading
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Corporate Looting as ‘Rescue Plan,’ Robber Barons as ‘Saviors’
Framing a massive corporate bailout as a “rescue package” (NPR, 3/27/20) was a PR coup. Continue reading
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UKC News: What’s Really Behind COVID-19 Lockdowns?
The data and numbers are now pouring in and it’s looking increasingly harder for leading lockdown governments to maintain their official narratives. While the rest of the world are approaching normal, the UK and US continue to report shocking casualty numbers, now the most in Europe and globally, respectively. What is driving these unlikely trends?… Continue reading
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The Farce and Diabolical Agenda of A “Universal Lockdown”
First comes the farce, an (almost) universal government lie around the globe about a deadly virus, WHO named COVID-19. The decision for a global lockdown – literally for the collapse of the world economy – was already taken at the WEF conference in Davos, 21 – 24 January 2020. On January 30, WHO declared COVID-19… Continue reading
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Watch: Damascus walks, April 26-28, Stores Re-Opened, Life in Streets
During my hours-long daily walks all around Damascus, I’ve been delighted to note (as always) the calm and people interacting as normal on the streets, but also the re-opening of stores. That started over a week ago, with shops (non-essential) re-opening on alternate days. As of some days ago, they are allowed to open daily… Continue reading
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XLUUVs, Swarms, and STARTLE: New developments in the UK’s military autonomous systems
In November 2018 Drone Wars UK published ‘Off The Leash’, an in-depth research report outlining how the Ministry of Defence (MoD) was actively supporting research into technology to support the development of armed autonomous drones despite the government’s public claims that it “does not possess fully autonomous weapons and has no intention of developing them”. … Continue reading
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NHS ordered to hand over security keys of NHS data to GCHQ
By Rob Woodward – TruePublica: Britain’s NHS has become the latest target for big tech to stick its money funnel into and harvest our most personal and private data. It was bad enough that the state illegally and secretly stole our privacy, captured our secrets, recorded our conversations, filmed our private moments, took images of… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 