June 2020
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Capitalism: All Icing no Cake
On Wednesday, 25th June, new coronavirus cases in the USA spiked to 45,557, (NBC news). This was the highest since the pandemic broke. Investors thought Covid was in the rear-view mirror when It was always in front of the windscreen, but these investors, driving with their headlights off and too short to look over the… Continue reading
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The Salisbury Poisonings: Skripal drama framed as anti-Russian propaganda
In 2018, Britain published its National Security Capability Review, outlining a new “Fusion Doctrine.” This called for the “use of all our capabilities; from economic levers, through cutting-edge military resources to our wider diplomatic and cultural influence on the world’s stage” to “project our global influence.” The BBC, especially its World Service, was named as… Continue reading
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The Stage Is Set, the Fight Is Rigged, and The End Is Near
Donald Trump is finished. He’s gone halfway to destroying the office of President of the United States. The “deep state” he swore he would eradicate, they’re massaging the shoulders of truth killer Joe Biden as if to ready him like a has-been boxer about to emerge from a sweaty arena tunnel of American politics. But… Continue reading
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Phony experts with veiled conflicts of interest polluting debates on endocrine disruptors, glyphosate, GMOs
One of France’s leading daily papers, Le Monde, just published an article on how “a group of toxicologists with tenuous expertise and veiled conflicts of interest are working to derail the implementation of European regulations” on endocrine disruptors – synthetic chemicals that are toxic at very low doses. Continue reading
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Deadly Exchange: Israel trains US Police forces
26 June 2020 — The New Dark Age [In the light of spurious charges of anti-semitism levelled against Rebecca Long-Bailey and her subsequent firing from the Labour front bench by the leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer, after endorsing the actress’s Maxine Peake comments about US police learning violent tactics from Israeli secret Continue reading
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Get ready for ‘Shock and Awe’ Brexit propaganda campaign
By TruePublica Editor: The governments’ overuse of militaristic, Churchillian and war-time cliches over Brexit and the pandemic is wearing thin and getting tiresome. But as Brexit day approaches, this is the mentality of a government obsessed with public relations. A mass propaganda invasion is to be aimed at every adult to overcome the Remainer enemy. Continue reading
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Having Sucked America Dry, Tech Giants Seek New Markets Beyond Reach of US Antitrust Laws
An aggressive push to consolidate companies in the tech sector, coupled with the world’s ever-increasing dependence on digital platforms and tools, is quickly leading to a crisis of sovereignty. Continue reading
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CNN’s Portrayal of North Korea as Lawless Aggressor Reverses Reality
FAIR (7/6/17, 6/10/19, 4/29/20) has repeatedly pointed out how coverage of North Korea epitomizes the way corporate media’s editorial standards drop as official US hostility towards a country rises—what Adam Johnson dubbed the North Korea Law of Journalism. Not only does Western media coverage of North Korea traffic in obvious falsehoods and unverifiable claims, it’s… Continue reading
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The Dangerous Incompetence of Narendra Modi and Jair Bolsonaro: The Twenty-Sixth Newsletter (2020)
25 June 2020 — Tricontinental Arpita Singh (India), My Mother, 1993. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Alarming news about the COVID-19 disease comes from Brazil and India, where the infection numbers are high, and the death count grows steadily. It appears that a million people are now infected in Brazil Continue reading
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Masters of Space: Deep Space Strategy in the Age of Trump
The United States “must be capable of winning wars that extend into space,” asserts a just-released “Defense Space Strategy” report. It is the first space strategy document issued by the U.S. since President Donald Trump, after declaring that the U.S. must achieve “dominance in space,” signed a measure this past December authorizing establishment of a… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 25 June 2020
25 June 2020 — Black Agenda Report Yes, Defund the Cops – And Put Them Under Community Control Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor Community control of the police means empowering the people to shape and oversee the mechanisms of their own security and end forever the armed occupation of our communities by hostile forces. Continue reading
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PEPE ESCOBAR: The India-China, Himalayan Puzzle
It was straight from an Orientalist romantic thriller set in the Himalayas: soldiers fighting each other with stones and iron bars in the dead of night on a mountain ridge over 4,000 meters high, some plunging to their deaths into a nearly frozen river and dying of hypothermia. Continue reading
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Join the #CantPayWontPay day of action this Saturday
Join renters from across London this Saturday as we come together for our first day of action for our Can’t Pay Won’t Pay campaign. Continue reading
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How a US & Qatari regime change deception produced the ‘Caesar’ sanctions driving Syria towards famine
Shockingly, investigators have determined that at least half of the photographs in the “Caesar” trove depict the bodies of government soldiers killed by the armed opposition. This highly inconvenient fact, which undermines the entire narrative of Caesar’s promoters and exposes them as cynical liars, has been ignored across the board by mainstream US media, Congress,… Continue reading
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Meet BlackRock, the New Great Vampire Squid
BlackRock is a global financial giant with customers in 100 countries and its tentacles in major asset classes all over the world; and it now manages the spigots to trillions of bailout dollars from the Federal Reserve. The fate of a large portion of the country’s corporations has been put in the hands of a… Continue reading
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The path the world takes out of lockdown will shape the climate struggle for decades to come
COVID-19 has forced a re-evaluation of nearly every aspect of how we fight for social and ecological justice. Yet, when it comes to the issue of climate change it can seem as if the virus has changed everything without changing anything at all. The world we live in today looks nothing like it did at… Continue reading
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Experts See Ulterior Motives Behind US Decision to Finally Deport Haitian Death Squad Leader
After decades escaping justice, the United States finally deported death squad leader Emmanuel “Toto” Constant back to Haiti yesterday. Constant, leader of the infamous Revolutionary Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti (FRAPH) paramilitary, was immediately arrested as he touched down on the tarmac in Port-au-Prince, 26 years after he fled to the United States,… Continue reading
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Watch: ‘Steal Of The Century’: Trump’s Palestine-Israel Catastrophe (Documentary) | Episode 1/2
The ‘Steal Of The Century’ (Part 1) is a documentary, by Robert Inlakesh, filmed on the ground in occupied Palestine, investigating the peace process, Donald Trump’s proposed ‘Deal of the Century’ and why the Palestinian people have unanimously rejected it. It also seeks to show the occupation faced by the Palestinian people, as well as… Continue reading
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