July 2020
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UK: GE deregulation amendment is withdrawn – but there is more work to do
In its last meeting before the summer recess, the House of Lords finally debated Amendment 275 of the Agriculture Bill, which proposed to deregulate products of gene editing in UK agriculture. Continue reading
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Rent debt and evictions info & solidarity meeting
Are you in debt to your landlord? Are you worried about eviction? Have you faced housing issues during the pandemic? Continue reading
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Masking the Truth
Back in 1919, when the “Spanish Flu” pandemic was cutting down millions of young men who had survived the Great War, similar measures were taken in many countries to those being used now to try to stop the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, including “social distancing” and mandatory mask wearing. Despite minimal technical abilities at… Continue reading
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Netpol calls for restrictions to police powers and a strict time-limit on ‘draconian’ Coronavirus Bill
While everyone is currently very anxious about the future, it is important that any emergency response the government plans to adopt and implement to contain the coronavirus is fair and proportionate. Continue reading
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IRR News 30 July 2020: Police forces are using software that links crime to race
Policing of black communities is at the heart of the protests of the past two months, since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Today, following the revelation that five UK police forces have used the controversial Origins software, which claims to link ethnicities to names, neighbourhoods and potentially to crimes, the IRR calls on local… Continue reading
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Racism, Sexism, Classism – The Necessary Incoherence Of ‘Mainstream’ Ethical Debate
What does it mean when journalists who spent the last two decades promoting wars of aggression on brown- and black-skinned people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen take a knee? Continue reading
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Humanity Protests Against the Crimes of Death: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2020)
30 July 2020 — Tricontinental Frew Kebede (Ethiopia), Shimutt, 2018. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 23 July, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that the world now has 15 million people infected by COVID-19. ‘The pandemic has disrupted the lives of billions of people. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 30 July 2020
30 July 2020 — Black Agenda Report The Black Caucus and the Dictatorship of (White) Capital Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor Black politics does not exist in the Democratic Party, because the duopoly system serves only the corporate rulers. Continue reading
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On Robots and Sheep
Today we are living in times of rupture. The ecological crisis poses a threat to the survival of many communities and animal species; immense inequalities increase economic and social instability that could explode with various forms of social destruction at any time. Ten years after one economic crisis we are facing another. Continue reading
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Selected Articles: Media Sabotage of Hydroxychloroquine, Censorship of Medical Doctors
29 July 2020 — Global Research News Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter Censor Viral Video of Doctors’ Coronavirus Press Conference By Allum Bokhari, July 29, 2020 The event, hosted by the organization America’s Frontline Doctors, a group founded by Dr. Simone Gold, a board-certified physician and attorney, and made up of medical doctors, came together to address Continue reading
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WHO Now Claims COVID ‘Not Seasonal’ and Will Be One Constant ‘Big Wave’
By now we all know that every revision of the ‘pandemic’ narrative is always followed by new policies. So after months of promoting the idea that the public should be living in fear of a “Second Wave” of COVID19, public health officials are attempting to revise the old script in order to keep the public… Continue reading
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Watch: A doctor speaks out on HCQ
In an impassioned speech in front of her colleagues at a hospital in Houston, Texas, a doctor talks of her experiences in using the drug Hydroxychlorquine or HCQ in the treatment of Covid-19, both as a cure and as a prophylactic (prevention). Continue reading
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Australia ‘decouples’ from US China policy
The Asian chancelleries have a great deal to mull over after the extraordinary joint press conference by the US and Australia following the AUSMIN meeting of their foreign and defence ministers in Washington, DC, on July 28. It is improbable that the Ministry of External Affairs in South Block missed out on the event. Continue reading
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It’s Pearl River all over again!
29 July 2020 — theplanningmotivedotcom MUST READ Why the US needs to launch a pre-emptive strike The window for preserving US economic and financial hegemony is closing rapidly, concertinaed by the pandemic. The IMF data released 24th June, which is continuously being revised, gives a 9% reduction in US GDP relative to China this year. Continue reading
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UK: The Tenants Taking on Their Billionaire Landlord
Jordan Osserman was knocking on doors in his east London apartment block in late April, asking his neighbours about their rental situations during the pandemic, when he noticed he was being filmed by a security guard hiding behind a stack of boxes. A few days later he was holding a banner saying “food not rent”… Continue reading
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Overview: USA vs Assange
Julian Assange faces extradition from the United Kingdom to the United States, where he has been indicted on 18 counts for obtaining, possessing, conspiring to publish and for publishing classified information. The indictment contains 17 counts under the Espionage Act of 1917 and one charge of conspiring with a source to violate the Computer Fraud… Continue reading
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‘We will coup whoever we want’: Elon Musk and the overthrow of democracy in Bolivia
On July 24, 2020, Tesla’s Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that a second U.S. “government stimulus package is not in the best interests of the people.” Someone responded to Musk soon after, “You know what wasn’t in the best interest of people? The U.S. government organizing a coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia so you… Continue reading
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