August 2020
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This is the bogus anti-Semitism report that sank Jeremy Corbyn
The road to Jeremy Corbyn’s political downfall began at Oxford University Labour Club in February 2016. A rogue inquiry by a Labour staffer with close ties to the Israeli embassy included fabricated allegations of anti-Semitism. It destroyed the lives of several pro-Corbyn students sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. Continue reading
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WATCH: WikiLeaks Iraq War Logs: What It Means for Press Freedom
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. Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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From Lockdown to Police State: The “Great Reset” Rolls Out
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.’” Continue reading
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The 2020 Covid Global Economic Meltdown: “Political Trickery” and the Relevance of 9/11
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. Continue reading
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Another lucrative contract for friends of Gove and Cummings
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? Continue reading
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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
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How the UK Government Provides Cover for Israel’s Crimes
MP Alister Jack has finally replied to my question asking where he and the UK government stand on the threat by Israel to annex more Palestinian territory known as the West Bank. It seems the Government has urged them not to do it. Continue reading
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Belarus News Links 21 August 2020
21 August 2020 — The New Dark Age Belarus unrest: Opposition leader says Belarusian people must not stop now https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-53869007 The right is leading the movement in Belarus to a dead end: is there another way? http://www.marxist.com/belarus-another-way.htm Continue reading
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CIA Behind Guccifer & Russiagate – a Plausible Scenario
William Binney is the former technical director of the U.S. National Security Agency who worked at the agency for 30 years. He is a respected independent critic of how American intelligence services abuse their powers to illegally spy on private communications of U.S. citizens and around the globe. Given his expert inside knowledge, it is… Continue reading
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Shoots Down Covid19 Myths Front-line doctor attacks media, questions need for vaccine, before interview cut short
A doctor being interviewed on Spanish television clearly went off-script and used his air time to fact-check the press, contradict the fear porn and question the need for a vaccine. Continue reading
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Deportation Union: Rights, accountability and the EU’s push to increase forced removals
Deportation Union provides a critical examination of recently-introduced and forthcoming EU measures designed to increase the number of deportations carried out by national authorities and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex. It focuses on three key areas: attempts to reduce or eliminate rights and protections in the law governing deportations; the expansion and interconnection… Continue reading
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How We Won: The Customers Who Saved Their Local Market
Having run Nour for the past two decades, the Shaheens have dealt with multiple landlords and understand the challenges that can come from a change in owner. However, in 2018, Hondo enterprises – a property investment company headed by millionaire Texan DJ Taylor McWilliams – purchased Brixton market in a joint venture for around £37.25m.… Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 21 August 2020
21 August 2020 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Florida Approves Release of 750 Million GM Mosquitoes amidst Public Outcry The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) approved Tuesday the first-ever U.S. release of genetically modified mosquitoes. Despite public outcry and scientific dispute over the human health and environment risks posed by this field trial, the Continue reading
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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
The New Dark Age 