August 2020
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Definitive Eurasian Alliance Is Closer than You Think
We have seen how China is meticulously planning all its crucial geopolitical and geoeconomic moves all the way to 2030 and beyond. What you are about to read next comes from a series of private, multilateral discussions among intel analysts, and may helpfully design the contours of the Big Picture. Continue reading
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Building Immunity to Viral Pandemics
We are facing two viral pandemics in 2020 which are oddly related yet profoundly different – the pandemic of a novel Coronavirus, and the extraordinarily contagious virus of disinformation, falsehoods, and bad science about that pandemic, itself being shared and spread in countries around the globe. Continue reading
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Who Buys This Phony ‘Anti-Semitism’ Smear Language?
Semites are a language group not a religious group. They spoke (and still do) Semitic languages, especially the Canaanite and later Aramaic dialects of Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, and the Palestinian territories. Continue reading
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“Your Economics Professor is almost Certainly a Charlatan: A review with commentary of ‘My Mis-Education in 3 Graphics’,” a film by Mary Filippo
This fifty-eight-minute film will interest anyone who has taken a college-level course in economics, especially those who were baffled by the professor’s pronouncements but too insecure or embarrassed to ask an obvious question. Filmmaker Mary Filippo began in 2004 to audit economics classes in the hope that she could “learn something about globalization. Does it… Continue reading
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The U.S. Imperialists Continue To Conceal Their Destruction & Robbery Of Syria
According to what we’ve been hearing from the Western media for these last nine years since the Syrian war started, the U.S. hasn’t had any detrimental role to play-and imperialism couldn’t possibly be any kind of relevant factor. But there’s a reason why non-imperialist Syria reporters like Vanessa Beeley have been thoroughly attacked, and why so many… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 27 August 2020
27 August 2020 — Black Agenda Report Biden Offers Nothing But More War, Austerity and White Supremacy – Without Trump Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor Biden is an unreconstructed racist and warmonger who has been in the forefront of austerity, and Harris is a party hack and mass Black incarcerator who became a prosecutor with Continue reading
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Watch: COVID Vérité: Leading French Expert Destroys Gov’t Case for Masks and Lockdown
For months, government officials in countries like the United States and Britain have been claiming that the world is in the midst of an unprecedented ‘pandemic’. But how much of this crisis is truly down to a pathogen and how much is really down to governments’ reactionary lockdown policies? Are decisions really being made based… Continue reading
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Global Appeal to Nine Nuclear Governments
RootsAction.org is joining with a rapidly growing list of organizations and individuals from around the world to send an urgent appeal to the presidents, prime ministers, and legislatures of nine nuclear nations: China, France, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Continue reading
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Only the Struggle of the People Will Free the Country: The Thirty-Fifth Newsletter (2020)
27 August 2020 — Tricontinental Amadou Sanogo (Mali), Sans-Tete (2016). Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 18 August, soldiers from the Kati barracks outside Bamako (Mali) left their posts, arrested president Ibrahim Boubacar Këita (IBK) and prime minister Boubou Cissé, and set up the National Committee for the Continue reading
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Sadistic Facebook shuts down Gaza health ministry page
26 August 2020 — The Electronic Intifada Ali Abunimah Update After The Electronic Intifada reported on the removal of the Gaza health ministry’s page, Facebook restored it. Continue reading
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The coronavirus crisis: revealing an ugly truth about the UK and human rights
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed to many what was already obvious to plenty: that after forty years of privatisation and deregulation and after 10 years of austerity, the United Kingdom is a country in which financial interests too often override those of our most vulnerable citizens. Continue reading
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Deloitte gets another huge COVID contract – for ‘crazy’ plan to test millions each day
Operation Moonshot could be the biggest NHS privatisation in history, and civil servants are shaking their heads in disbelief. 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… Continue reading
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If you are reading this, you might be a Conspiracy Theorist
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. Continue reading
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Belarus News Links 23-25 August 2020
25 August 2020 — The New Dark Age Belarus Opposition Candidate Revealed As Western Regime Change Puppet https://popularresistance.org/belarus-opposition-candidate-revealed-as-western-regime-change-puppet/ Belarus’s Options In The Midst Of A Color Revolution https://popularresistance.org/belaruss-options-in-the-midst-of-a-color-revolution/ Continue reading
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Does fighting climate change require postponing the fight for system change?
Should ecosocialists put aside calls for radical social change until after we win reforms that solve the climate crisis within capitalism? Continue reading
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Ahead Of Major Assange Hearing, UK Court Urged To Ensure Press Access
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. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio for 24 August 2020
25 August 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford Creating Ownership, Equity and Income for College Athletes / To Ignore Political Prisoners is Hypocrisy / Getting Out the Word: #PrisonsKill / Media Revelations Spur Covid Cleanup in Cali Prison Continue reading
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China: Everything Proceeding According to Plan, Complete Interruption of Relations with US?
Let’s start with the story of an incredibly disappearing summit. Every August, the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) converges to the town of Beidaihe, a seaside resort some two hours away from Beijing, to discuss serious policies that then coalesce into key planning strategies to be approved at the CCP Central Committee plenary… Continue reading
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The Virus: Governments Are Faking It, and Copying Each Other
A mystery for months is how it is that so many governments in so many different places on earth could have adopted the same or very similar preposterous policies, no matter the threat level of the virus, and without firm evidence that interventions had any hope of being effective. Continue reading
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China’s Belt and Road (BRI): Investment and Lending Practices in Developing Countries. Is There a “Debt Trap”?
China’s One Belt One Road project has been a great source of speculation for some time since its announcement by the Communist Party of China and China has since fielded a barrage of endless accusations that they are seeking to assert “global hegemony” and consequently engaging in imperialism since then. Continue reading