June 2020
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Dr. Wolfgang Streeck: “We Are Being Governed by An Oligarchy”
8 June 2020 — American Herald Tribune Mohsen Abdelmoumen: Can Europe survive the Covid-19 crisis? Continue reading
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Israel lobby sees Black Lives Matter as major strategic threat
Israel lobby groups have long seen the Black Lives Matter movement as a threat and have tried both to disrupt and co-opt it. Continue reading
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REPORT: Over 95% of UK “Covid19” deaths had “pre-existing condition”
Over 95% of “COVID Deaths” recorded in England and Wales had potentially serious comorbidities, according to statistics released by NHS England. Continue reading
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The US and Israel hope to scare the Hague war crimes court off from helping Palestine
In the near-two decades since the International Criminal Court was set up to try the worst violations of international human rights law, it has faced harsh criticism for its highly selective approach to the question of who should be put on trial. Continue reading
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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
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Coronavirus: Five key questions about China and COVID-19
Since the world first heard about COVID-19 in December 2019, nearly every corner of the planet has been affected by this pandemic. Based on what media around the world is saying, it’s hard to know what is true and what is not. Continue reading
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Government urged to scrap Serco’s contract after leaked email
THE government was urged to scrap Serco’s contract for the test-and-trace system today after the outsourcing giant bragged it was using it to “cement” privatisation into the NHS supply chain. Continue reading
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The Most Revealing Footage On Police Brutality Is These Cops Applauding Its Perpetrators
Among the constant deluge of police brutality footage flooding the internet as America’s armed goon patrol responds to the Black Lives Matter protests across the nation, there is one video which stands out above all the others in illustrating just how pervasively violent police culture is. Curiously enough, this video itself contains no police brutality. Continue reading
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Speak out against systemic racism
George Floyd’s murder must prompt deep interrogation of the structural racisms that pervade our society. The disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on BAME communities are increasingly clear, compounding pre-existing truths about how minority groups are more likely to suffer from impoverishment, low pay, poor housing and ill health. Continue reading
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Capitalism: As for the markets, covid-19 never happened
6 June 2020 — theplanningmotivedotcom Let us be clear. We are in the biggest bubble in history. Investors underestimated the fall in March, now they are overestimating the recovery. Therefore, they are vulnerable to bad news. And there is a lot of bad news to come. When that happens, the placard raised will read FIRE, Continue reading
The New Dark Age 