June 15, 2020
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 15, 2020
15 June 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford Police Must Answer to the Community / Beware “Domestication” of Protest / Repaying the Movement for Her Freedom / Huge Teenage Linebackers Can Be Hurt by Racism and Abuse Continue reading
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Lockdown: Violence, hunger and indifference
As we mark the anniversary of the June 16 1976 uprising, many young people are experiencing hunger and there is widespread violence emanating from security forces. While it is understandable that many problems of the “state of disaster” could not be anticipated, there is an element of indifference that is cause for disquiet. Continue reading
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“Putin’s Gonna Get Me”
Shakespeare’s heirs at the BBC produced this deathless and entirely convincing line as the climax of the first episode of “The Salisbury Poisonings”, a three part piece of state propaganda on the Skripal saga, of which I watched Part 1 as it was broadcast last night. The other two parts are to be broadcast today… Continue reading
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The Corona Pandemic and Trump’s Trade War against China: America’s Dependence on “Made in China”
The US has been threatening China with trade sanctions for several years. At the outset of the Trump administration in January 2017, Washington not only envisaged punitive trade measures, it also called for “an investigation into China’s trade practices” focussing on alleged violations of U.S. intellectual property rights. Continue reading
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Black Lives Matter & The Question of Violence | Gary Younge
5 June 2020 — Youtube Double Down News “Riots are often justified, what’s the French Revolution but a riot blessed by history” Full 33 minute interview with Gary Younge: https://www.patreon.com/posts/full-33min-gary-37948951 Continue reading
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Turkey’s unprecedented ascent to drone superpower status
In late February 2020, at least 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in an airstrike in Syria’s Idlib province which Ankara blamed on the government of President Bashar al-Assad, although many suspected that it was in fact carried out by Russian forces. At the time, those monitoring events in Syria feared that the attack could trigger… Continue reading
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Post-Pandemic Economic Scenarios-Interview #3
Following is the 3rd excerpt from my late April interview with Konrad Stachnio of Poland for his forthcoming volume on the current pandemic crisis from a European perspective. In this concluding segment, Konrad asks my views on subjects like the next global depression, the future of digital money, financialization, my response to corporate ideologists’ interpretations… Continue reading
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Brave New Normal (Part 2)
My columns haven’t been very funny recently. This one isn’t going to be any funnier. Sorry. Fascism makes me cranky. Continue reading
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European Union Council: repression and jail for those who report the health dangers of 5G
The news that will make the international movement Stop 5G tremble comes from Brussels: the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union has sent all delegates the conclusions entitled “Shaping Europe’s digital future”, approved by written procedure on 9 June 2020. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 