August 20, 2020
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How Israel wages its war on Palestinian history
When the Palestinian actor Mohammed Bakri made a documentary about Jenin in 2002 – filming immediately after the Israeli army had completed rampaging through the West Bank city, leaving death and destruction in its wake – he chose an unusual narrator for the opening scene: a mute Palestinian youth. Continue reading
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Was COVID-19 a Cover for an Anticipated or Planned Financial Crisis?
20 August, 2020 — Global Research The internationalization of increased unemployment and poverty brought about in the name of combating the corona crisis is having the effect of further widening the polarization between rich and poor on a global scale. By Anthony Hall A major sign of financial distress in the US economy kicked in in Continue reading
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Belarus News Links 20 August 2020
20 August 2020 — The New Dark Age Send in the Clowns for the Circus is in Town https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/send-in-the-clowns-for-the-circus-is-in-town/ Have no doubt: it’s in the West’s interest to see Lukashenko topple http://infobrics.org/post/31601/ Continue reading
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Tell the People That the Struggle Must Go On: The Thirty-Fourth Newsletter (2020)
Young children marvel at an obvious contradiction in capitalist societies: why do we have shops filled with food, and yet see hungry people on the streets? It is a question of enormous significance; but in time the question dissipates into the fog of moral ambivalence, as various explanations are used to obfuscate the clarity of… Continue reading
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As courts re-open, Britain’s renters must confront the power of landlords
There was a moment, just after the declaration of lockdown, with the immediate loss of jobs and hours, when it seemed that a rent strike might be inevitable. Many members of London Renters Union thought there might finally be a moment of unity between renters affected by the pandemic that could be leveraged into much… Continue reading
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