August 2020
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Was COVID-19 a Cover for an Anticipated or Planned Financial Crisis?
20 August, 2020 — Global Research The internationalization of increased unemployment and poverty brought about in the name of combating the corona crisis is having the effect of further widening the polarization between rich and poor on a global scale. By Anthony Hall A major sign of financial distress in the US economy kicked in in Continue reading
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Belarus News Links 20 August 2020
20 August 2020 — The New Dark Age Send in the Clowns for the Circus is in Town https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/send-in-the-clowns-for-the-circus-is-in-town/ Have no doubt: it’s in the West’s interest to see Lukashenko topple http://infobrics.org/post/31601/ Continue reading
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Tell the People That the Struggle Must Go On: The Thirty-Fourth Newsletter (2020)
Young children marvel at an obvious contradiction in capitalist societies: why do we have shops filled with food, and yet see hungry people on the streets? It is a question of enormous significance; but in time the question dissipates into the fog of moral ambivalence, as various explanations are used to obfuscate the clarity of… Continue reading
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As courts re-open, Britain’s renters must confront the power of landlords
There was a moment, just after the declaration of lockdown, with the immediate loss of jobs and hours, when it seemed that a rent strike might be inevitable. Many members of London Renters Union thought there might finally be a moment of unity between renters affected by the pandemic that could be leveraged into much… Continue reading
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Halting Our Descent into Tyranny: Defeating the Global Elite’s COVID-19 Coup
As many authors have documented, the global elite is conducting a coup to take complete control of our lives. It is doing this by using the ‘virus’ to terrorize the human population into believing that we will ‘catch’ Covid-19 if we do not submit to draconian restrictions on our rights and freedoms. Continue reading
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Scottish “friend of Israel” faked anti-Semitism for years
A pro-Israel lobbyist in Scotland may lose his teaching job over a series of anti-Semitic posts he has admitted making. Continue reading
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US govt-funded Coda Story smears American journalists who undermine new Cold War propaganda
A shadowy neoconservative website called Coda Story has launched a smear campaign against American journalists who challenge new cold war propaganda. But what this publication has not disclosed is that it is funded by the US government, backed by the European Union, linked to the NATO war alliance, and part of a larger network of… Continue reading
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CODENAME: Operation Virus Identification 2019; the Elitist Plan to Remake Society
Everything we were originally told about the Coronavirus has turned out to be wrong. In fact, it’s not a “novel” one-of-a-kind infection at all, but a member of a larger family of which there have been many iterations in the recent past. Continue reading
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Bolivia Headed for a Showdown as Mass Protests Erupt Against US-backed Anez Administration
Clashes between protesters and government-backed paramilitaries are growing increasingly violent as tensions in Bolivia reach a boiling point following the US-backed Anez administration’s decision to cancel elections for the third time this year. Continue reading
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Julian Assange Court Case Delayed Again in Bizarre Circumstances
There were bizarre scenes at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London today, as the extradition process of Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange (present via videophone from Belmarsh prison) was again delayed. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2020
18 August 2020 — Climate & Capitalism Red & green readinNew books on fungi, climate & capital, food, bluefin tuna, & Cuban agriculture. PLUS new translations of Facing the Anthropocene, and two recent C&C book reviews Ecosocialist Bookshelf is an occasional feature. We can’t review every book we receive, but we will list and link Continue reading
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The Hariri Assassination Verdict: A Billion Dollar Trial Ended after 15 Years
On February 14, 2005, an explosion rocked Beirut killing and injuring hundreds of people chief among them the former Prime Minister of Lebanon, Rafik al-Hariri. The West was quick to blame Hezbollah and Syria. In 2006, Israel and its tanks rolled into Lebanon. 15 years later, on August 4th, another explosion rocked Lebanon. This time,… Continue reading
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Lebanon News Links 7-19 August 2020
19 August 2020 — The New Dark Age The Israeli Settler-Colonial Expansionist Ambitions Behind The Color Revolution In Lebanon https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-israeli-settler-colonial.html The Strange Case of Beirut’s Missing Port https://journal-neo.org/2020/08/18/the-strange-case-of-beirut-s-missing-port/ Continue reading
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Russia takes Europe’s support to calm Belarus
The mercurial Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has not been an easy ally for the Kremlin. But the growing interference by Belarus’ “New European” neighbours is setting the stage for a “colour revolution” with potentially anti-Russian orientation. Poland, egged on by the US, has convinced itself that it has become a regional heavyweight and eyes Belarus… Continue reading
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Belarus News Links 18 August 2020
18 August 2020 — The New Dark Age Open Appeal by the Belarusian Independent Trade Union to workers http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article54410 U.S., Fascists Set Scopes On Socialist-Leaning Belarus https://popularresistance.org/u-s-fascists-set-scopes-on-socialist-leaning-belarus/ Continue reading
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Meet points announced – August 24: London-wide day of action against evictions!
Join the London-wide day of action against evictions on 24 August – we’ll be taking action outside courts across London on the day that eviction hearings restart. Continue reading
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The Virus: The PR Firm Behind WHO’s Celeb Endorsements
“Soft power” is a term that refers to stealth influencing using celebrities and other social media influencers Continue reading
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DARPA Launches Project CHARIOT in Bid to Shield Big Tech Profits
DARPA announces a new type of cryptography to protect the Big Tech firm profits from the dawn of quantum computers and allow backdoor access into 3 trillion internet-connected devices. Continue reading
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Your invite to the Trade Secrets book launch
We’re very excited to be publishing our director Nick Dearden’s new book, Trade Secrets: The truth about the US trade deal and how we can stop it, in under a week’s time. We’d like to invite you to our book launch on Tuesday 1 September, where Nick will be in conversation with Zoe Williams, journalist at The Guardian and co-host of the Another Europe Is Possible podcast. Continue reading
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Our History is the Future: The Dakota Access Pipeline and the Long Tradition of Resistance
A US district court ruled on July 6 that the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) must be shut down and emptied of oil, pending a full environmental review of the project. In March, the same court found the US Army Corps had wrongfully approved the pipeline in 2016. The Army Corps failed to assess the DAPL’s… Continue reading
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