June 2020
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NHS: Decisions with a cost
Here are three issues from this week’s Lowdown: A&Es are being closed as a temporary measure, but often in areas where NHS leaders have been trying to permanently close them in the face of strong public objections. (2) How residents in care homes and their carers were left unprotected. (3) Private hospitals are being set… Continue reading
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Ten reasons to be concerned about 5G – and it has nothing to do with Covid-19
A copious body of scientific research has found that effects from RFR (100kHz-300GHz) at currently permitted exposure levels include: increased cancer risk, increase in harmful free radicals, genetic damage, structural and functional changes of the reproductive system, learning and memory deficits, neurological disorders, and negative impacts on general well-being. Continue reading
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Watch: The Closing Down of the Global Economy and the Corona Crisis. Poverty is Worldwide
While the lockdown is presented to public opinion as the sole means to resolving a global public health crisis, its devastating economic and social impacts are casually ignored. Continue reading
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‘Six Months To Avert Climate Crisis’: Climate Breakdown And The Corporate Media
In today’s world, the prospects for human civilisation, never mind the existence of historians in the future, look bleak indeed. According to many leading climate scientists and biologists, the most likely outcome for humanity is the collapse of what is called ‘civilisation’. They warn that it may already be too late to change course. Continue reading
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COVID-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism
COVID-19 has accentuated as never before the interlinked ecological, epidemiological, and economic vulnerabilities imposed by capitalism. As the world enters the third decade of the twenty-first century, we are seeing the emergence of catastrophe capitalism as the structural crisis of the system takes on planetary dimensions. Continue reading
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Tory MP: Student nurses ‘not deemed to be providing a service’
TruePublica Editor: This government is a constant source of amazement nowadays. They are now being sued by doctors for not providing PPE, families for the deaths of elderly parents, sons and daughters who have seen front line key workers in mortuaries and for handing out multiple £muti-million contracts to dodgy outfits who have failed to… Continue reading
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Get Active Training // Can’t Pay Won’t Pay campaign update
We’ve just launched a new video for our Can’t Pay Won’t Pay campaign. Check it out and share it on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Continue reading
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Amazon Unveils Augmented Reality to Enforce Social Distancing in New Norm for Corporate America
Amazon has started testing on several social distancing technologies following demands for public safety amid COVID-19 and the intrusive changes will likely have a permanent effect on workers’ rights to privacy. Continue reading
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US Senate Initiates Legislation Which Would Categorize Cuba’s Medical Missions as “Human Trafficking Operations”
In what has already become a parody of a shrinking empire’s habit of clutching at the vestiges of its Cold-War era mistakes, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and fellow war-hungry reactionaries in the United States Senate, Rick Scott (R-FL) and Ted Cruz ((R-TX) have put a bill on the Senate floor meant to undercut Cuba’s medical… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of June 22, 2020
22 June 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford A New Generation, Same Struggle / “Zero Degree Rage” Focuses Black Minds / Elite Deploy Spy Hi-Tech Against the People / Will Blacks Oppose or Defend US Empire? Continue reading
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4 speeches that prove Black Panther Fred Hampton was the Godfather of rap
Had he not been assassinated in a police fusilade on a bitterly cold Chicago evening 47 years ago, Fred Hampton would’ve turned 68 years old today. The former head of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense is remembered today primarily for his skills as an organizer, who coined the phrase “Rainbow… Continue reading
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Why the assault on a diplomat in Israel should come as no surprise
An Israeli [Arab] diplomat filed a complaint last week with police after he was pulled to the ground in Jerusalem by four security guards, who knelt on his neck for five minutes as he cried out: “I can’t breathe.” Continue reading
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Taking a break (not)
22 June 2020 — The New Dark Age I need to take a break from this, I am totally burned out. I’ve been running this blog for far too many years. This version started in 2003 but earlier versions first started in 1983 and ran until 1992. This is not to say that I won’t add Continue reading
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Protest, Riot, Loot, and Burn for Black Freedom in America?
In Russia Today, Helen Buyniski reflects on corporate responses to the depiction of Black people in brand labeling. Buyniski highlights the comments of B and G Foods as it jumped onto the bandwagon of corporate virtue signalling. The company signalled its intentions to “proactively take steps to ensure that we and our brands do not inadvertently contribute… Continue reading
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How we Sold the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia for Plastic Shopping Bags
For months, this has been a story that I want to share with young readers in Hong Kong. Now it seems to be the really appropriate time when the ideological battle between the West and China is raging, and as a result of it, Hong Kong and the entire world is suffering. Continue reading
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Britain’s Last Gasp – Realising Life After Brexit
This week marks four years of political acrimony in the guise of Brexit – the most divisive and toxic ideology to hit Britain since the Second World War. Having reached nothing more than a negotiated stalemate with the EU, the likelihood is that Britain will inextricably tie itself to a form of Atlantasism that will… Continue reading
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Why North Korea blew up the inter-Korean liaison office
Leaders of North and South Korea committed to refrain from provoking or threatening the other side. This presumably meant that the South Koreans would bring to a halt the war games they regularly conducted with the United States which the North Koreans regarded as dress-rehearsals for an invasion of their country. They also agreed to… Continue reading
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Socialist Party’s manifesto promises revolutionary change in Zambia
The presidential candidate of the Socialist Party (SP) of Zambia, Fred M’membe, released the party’s manifesto for the August 2021 elections at a press conference on June 18, Wednesday. “This is a manifesto for revolutionary change.. a manifesto that will release the power of ordinary people to transform this country,” said M’membe in his opening… Continue reading
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Labour Suspensions Over Leaked Antisemitism Report Include Former Senior Official Emilie Oldknow
The Labour party has suspended former senior staffer Emilie Oldknow along with several others, amid an ongoing investigation into a leaked report into antisemitism in the party, Novara Media has learned. Continue reading
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Is Kashmir a US Trap to Confront Russia and China?
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), founded in 2001 by the Shanghai Five (China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan) and to which Uzbekistan, India and Pakistan were later added would be the ALBA and Iran countries hard core of resistance to world hegemony of the United States and Great Britain. Consequently, the avowed objective of the United… Continue reading
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