24 August 2020 — Consortium News
WikiLeaks editor Kristinn Hrafnsson leads a discussion with investigative journalists Iain Overton and Chris Woods about the impact of the Iraq War Logs’ release a decade ago.
Day: August 24, 2020
Statewatch News Online 24 August 2020 (10/20)
24 August 2020 — Statewatch
Also available as a pdf: https://www.statewatch.org/media/1322/email-24-8-20-final.pdf
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Press release: EU’s planned ‘deportation machine’: expensive, dangerous and lacking in transparency and accountability measures
Plans to increase the number of deportations from the EU will cost hundreds of millions of euros, create giant, opaque and unaccountable agencies and further undermine claims that the EU occupies the moral high ground in its treatment of migrants, argues a new report by the civil liberties organisation Statewatch
From Lockdown to Police State: The “Great Reset” Rolls Out
23 August, 2020 — Global Research
By Ellen Brown
Mayhem in Melbourne
On August 2, lockdown measures were implemented in Melbourne, Australia, that were so draconian that Australian news commentator Alan Jones said on Sky News: “People are entitled to think there is an ‘agenda to destroy western society.’”
The 2020 Covid Global Economic Meltdown: “Political Trickery” and the Relevance of 9/11
23 August, 2020 — Global Research
The execution and spinning of 9/11 were instrumental in creating the repertoire of political trickery. Wealth appropriation and strategic patterns of kleptocratic activity
The world economic crisis of 2020 is creating the context for large-scale repeats of some key aspects of the bailout of 2007-2010. The bailout of 2007-2008 drew, in turn, from many practices developed in the period when the explosive events of 9/11 triggered a worldwide reset of global geopolitics.
While the events of 2008 and 2020 both drew attention to the geopolitical importance of Wall Street, the terrible pummelling of New York’s financial district was the event that ushered in a new era of history, an era that has delivered us to the current financial meltdown/lockdown.
Another lucrative contract for friends of Gove and Cummings
24 August 2020 — Good Law Project
How is it that Public First, long-time associates of Michael Gove and Dominic Cummings, have been awarded yet another contract, without any advertising or competitive tendering process?
The New Dark Age 