August 23, 2020
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The Scene and the Crime: The Salisbury Poisonings
Nine months after Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned in March 2018, the BBC’s ‘Panorama’ screened a documentary about it, Salisbury Nerve Agent Attack: the Inside Story. The show backed the Tory government’s conviction that Russian GRU officers attacked the former Russian double agent and his daughter. But British experts pointed to its factual errors,… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 19 August 2020
19 August 2020 — Black Agenda Report Free All Political Prisoners – and Say Their Names! Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor It is righteous and correct to say the names of victims of police violence, but we must also “Say the names!” of our living political prisoners. Freedom Rider: “Feet to the Fire” and Other… Continue reading
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Watch: How does China plan to counter US sanctions?
In the second part of the conversation on the US tech war on China, Charles Xu from Qiao Collective talks about the short and medium-term strategy of Huawei and China in general to deal with the US sanctions. Continue reading
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PPE: Why are they refusing to publish the contracts?
We know from Treasury documents that Government has approved a staggering and unprecedented £15 billion for PPE procurement to protect frontline staff. But what we see is implausible counterparties, staggering sums of money, political connections, vast waste on duff product – and most of all a lack of transparency. Continue reading
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On Facebook Banning Pages Associated with Anarchism
Facebook has taken down multiple Facebook pages they believe to be connected with crimethinc.com and itsgoingdown.org, among other anarchist and anti-fascist publishing projects,1 officially on the pretext that they “support violence.” This has nothing to do with stopping violence and everything to do with suppressing social movements and the publishers that cover them. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 