July 30, 2020
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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