Day: August 26, 2020

Deloitte gets another huge COVID contract – for ‘crazy’ plan to test millions each day

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21 August 2020 — Open Democracy

Operation Moonshot could be the biggest NHS privatisation in history, and civil servants are shaking their heads in disbelief.

One down, 3,999,999 to go – Andrew Milligan/PA Wire/PA Images. All rights reserved

The British government had plans to test everyone in the country for coronavirus every week by October – and it’s handed most of the work to the global accountancy firm Deloitte, openDemocracy can reveal. Labour MP Clive Lewis has dubbed the deal “potentially the biggest NHS privatisation in history”.

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If you are reading this, you might be a Conspiracy Theorist

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21 August, 2020 — Dissident Voice

by John Steppling

…a permanent modern scenario: apocalypse looms . . . and it doesn’t occur.
— Susan Sontag, AIDs and its Metaphors, 1989

I should not misuse this opportunity to give you a lecture about, say, logic. I call this a misuse, for to explain a scientific matter to you it would need a course of lectures and not an hour’s paper. Another alternative would have been to give you what’s called a popular scientific lecture, that is a lecture intended to make you believe that you understand a thing which actually you don’t understand, and to gratify what I believe to be one of the lowest desires of modern people, namely the superficial curiosity about the latest discoveries of science. I rejected these alternatives.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, A Lecture on Ethics, 1929

If you’re reading this, then you’ve probably been called a conspiracy theorist. Also you’ve been derided and shamed for questioning the “science” of the Covid debacle.

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Does fighting climate change require postponing the fight for system change?

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25 August 2020 — Climate & Capitalism

Should ecosocialists put aside calls for radical social change until after we win reforms that solve the climate crisis within capitalism? 

by John Molyneux

Time is always an important factor in politics and history but never has it mattered as much as on the issue of climate change.

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Ahead Of Major Assange Hearing, UK Court Urged To Ensure Press Access

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26 August 2020 — The Dissenter

Global COVID-19 pandemic will likely prevent dozens of journalists from covering proceeding if court does not take action to provide live video to press

A major three-week hearing in WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition case is scheduled in London on September 7. However, the impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic will likely prevent dozens of journalists from around the world from reporting on proceedings if the Westminster Magistrates Court does not take action.