June 8, 2020
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Police Use Contact Tracing And Big Tech To Identify Protesters (UPDATED)
Countless warnings about how law enforcement could use contact-tracing apps to monitor people have gone unheeded. As BGR.com revealed police are using contact tracing to identify protester’s affiliations. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 8, 2020
8 June 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford The “Carceral State” is the Enemy / Blacks Will No Longer Be “Chumps” for the Democrats / Community Control of Police Vs Impunity / Abolitionists Drew Blood in Fighting Slavery Continue reading
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Lockdown Catastrophe: The Need for Resilient Food Systems Agroecology
There is no doubt that, contingent on World Bank aid to be given to poorer countries in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns, agrifood conglomerates will aim to further expand their influence. Continue reading
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Watch Nkrumah: The Forces Arrayed Against Us Are Formidable
The Conference which took place in Ghana – Accra, brought together freedom fighters from all over Africa including independent and colonized states, to address the way forward to the objective of Africa’s unity. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 15 June 2020 (08/20)
8 June 2020 — Statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2020/jun/email-15-6-20.pdf STATEWATCH ANALYSIS EU: Reinforcement of Frontex runs into legal problems Continue reading
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The Moral Authority of the Lockdown Fetishists Is Gone. Thank the Protestors and Rioters
This past April, in the midst of the surging pandemic and collapsing US economy, I was interviewed by three sources in Europe for a US perspective on the events. The following is the first part of an interview with Polish social commentator, Konrad Stachnio, that will appear in a collection of interviews later this summer.… Continue reading
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Post-Pandemic Economic Scenarios (Interview #1)
This past April, in the midst of the surging pandemic and collapsing US economy, I was interviewed by three sources in Europe for a US perspective on the events. The following is the first part of an interview with Polish social commentator, Konrad Stachnio, that will appear in a collection of interviews later this summer.… Continue reading
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Regulatory chicanery – Biotech lobby quietly hijacks the UK’s Agriculture Bill to change the definition of ‘GMOs’
MPs, peers and the research establishment are urging the government to introduce genome editing into UK food and farming by sidestepping parliamentary and public scrutiny. Continue reading
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“Unprecedented” transfer of personal NHS information to shady tech Co’s
Hours before facing court proceedings from openDemocracy over its massive NHS COVID-19 data deal with private tech firms, the UK government has caved to pressure and released all the contracts governing its deals with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and controversial AI firms Faculty and Palantir. Continue reading
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Top 16 Euphemisms US Headline Writers Used for Police Beating the Shit Out of People
7 June 2020 — FAIR Neil deMause What NBC (5/31/20) described as “more aggressive tactics” included firing paint ball rounds at residents as they stood on their porches. Continue reading