June 2020
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Why Do the Police Exist?
As we witness uniformed police officers pepper spray a seven-year-old in the United States or arrest a black ambulance driver in the UK, we have to ask: why does the police exist? Continue reading
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Britain to join despised TTP: Wikileaks – “a huge transfer of power from people to big business”
TruePublica Editor: I have always maintained from the soon after the EU referendum that Brexit was a con. The team here at TruePublica have relentlessly warned that far from taking back control, Brexit was a trojan horse for big business, to gain control and dominate our lives. Half of our modest lobbying budget went to… Continue reading
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Palestinians win damages over “Labour anti-Semitism” libel
The UK’s Palestinian Return Centre revealed to The Electronic Intifada on Friday that it won more than $43,000 in libel damages against The Mail on Sunday. Continue reading
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COVID-19 Cold War: Will the 2nd Wave Come from Vaccine Trials?
In the fast-track system, a pharmaceutical company hardly examines the results of a phase one trial before moving on to phases two and three. | Photo: NIAID An FDA “fast-track” designation has essentially accorded a carte blanche to a set of vaccines that are financed by CEPI, an alliance of Bill Gates with the six… Continue reading
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What Journalism Needs Is Not More Diversity, but Less White Supremacy
As police violence against Black people and those who would rise in their defense forces a national engagement—of a sort—with the reality of white supremacy in our institutions, the widening recognition that the batons and tear gas are just one part of it, that there is more than one way to choke the life out… Continue reading
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Fresh concerns over privacy and profit in NHS Covid data deals
Documents obtained by openDemocracy suggest the UK government has misled the public about how it is protecting the privacy of millions of NHS users in its major Covid-19 data deals – and about how the controversial tech firms involved stand to profit in the long term. Continue reading
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From Dodgy Dossiers to the Sacking of Whitlam: The British Empire Stands Exposed
I used to believe as many do, in a story called “the American Empire”. Over the last decade of research, that belief has changed a bit. The more I looked at the top down levers of world influence shaping past and present events that altered history, the hand of British Intelligence just kept slapping me… Continue reading
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DeSmog UK Weekly: Leading by leaving
19 June 2020 — DeSmog UK It has perhaps been a long time coming, but the UK government is finally thinking about putting its money where it’s mouth is. Or should that be withdrawing its money from where its mouth shouldn’t be? This week, it was announced that the government was considering steps to stop supporting fossil Continue reading
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June 27 – #CantPayWontPay Day of Action
The government has announced a 2 month extension of the eviction ban – the first victory of the Can’t Pay Won’t Pay campaign. Research by the Resolution Foundation showed that hundreds of thousands of renters across London are in debt to their landlord. Unless the government cancels rent debt and makes the eviction ban permanent, renters will… Continue reading
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Welfare Weekly 19 June 2020
19 June 2020 — Welfare Weekly Disabled women over 11 times more likely to die of Coronavirus, analysis shows Government accused of failing to protect disabled people from the Coronavirus pandemic. Read the post Continue reading
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Dark Clouds of Military Tension Over the Korean Peninsula, North Korea Waited, Disappointed and Now Angry
In 2012, a young man educated in the West took over the power in Pyongyang; he has decided to transform North Korea into an ordinary country where people can live decent life. His name is Kim Jong-un. He has given everything to achieve his objectives. He met three times Moon Jae-in, president of South Korea… Continue reading
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Nixon-Trump vs. the Strategy of Tension
Trump’s MAGA woes have been compounded by a shoddy geopolitical move in tandem with Law and Order: his re-election campaign will be under the sign of “China, China, China.” When in trouble, blame a foreign enemy. That comes from serially failed opportunist Steve Bannon and his Chinese billionaire sidekick Guo Wengui, or Miles Guo. Here… Continue reading
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The Bolton Book Battle
19 June 2020 — The National Security Archive Trump Cites National Security Secrets to Block Bolton’s Book – Don’t Believe It National Security Archive Posts Documents Showing Government Secrecy Claims Often Exaggerated in Prepublication Reviews From Bolton in 2020 to Retired CIA Operative Kermit Roosevelt in the 1970s, Prepublication Review Has Plagued Memoirs of Former Officials Continue reading
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UK: Elites will use this crisis to reshape the state. We have to push back
The coronavirus lockdown is easing and more businesses are reopening. But what kind of a society will the UK be? Continue reading
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IRR: It Happens Here Too
As the world wakes up to police racism following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, activists and campaigners are working tirelessly to draw attention to the long histories and present day realities of the violence of police racism in the UK – it happens here, too. Continue reading
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Facebook Surrounds Africa
Many industries and service companies are failing or shrinking due to the lockdown and subsequent crisis. Instead, there are those who have gained from all this. Facebook, Google (YouTube owner), Microsoft, Apple and Amazon – writes The New York Times – “are aggressively placing new bets, as the coronavirus pandemic has made them nearessential services.” All these… Continue reading
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World-Leading Infectious Disease Expert Explains Why Government Lockdowns Should End
In 2010, The Atlantic said that Dr. John Ioannidis “may be one of the most influential scientists alive.” The article, written by David H. Freedman, made it clear the Greek-American physician-scientist’s rising star stemmed in part from the fearlessness he demonstrated in challenging bad science in the medical research field. Continue reading
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1962 India-China war redeux?
The Indian analysts have been comparing the military build-up in the India-China border in eastern Ladakh to the Doklam standoff in 2017. This was only to be expected since the leitmotif was once again a road construction in disputed border regions. Continue reading
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From Toxic Food to Agrarian Disaster: Dirty Deals Done Dirt Cheap
During the early days of the coronavirus lockdowns, in some quarters there was a certain degree of optimism around. Although millions of people were suffering, the hope was that the Covid-19 crisis would shine light on societal and economic systems across the world, exposing some of the deep-rooted flaws of capitalism. There was a belief that people… Continue reading
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#CoronaCapitalism: how capitalism spreads the virus
#CoronaCapitalism: Commodified death; Jim Ratcliffe; Blame capitalism; Corona and prisons; Reading list updated Continue reading
The New Dark Age 