August 2020
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 10, 2020
10 August 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio for Week of August 10, 2020 with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford “Black August” Honors Captives of Armed Struggle / Black Brazilians Hit Hard by Covid-19 / Insurance Industry Vital to US Slavery / Midwives Could Help Stem Maternal and Infant Death Toll Continue reading
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Watch: SHAYA! Amapiano Documentary (FULL)
SHAYA! is Documentary about Amapiano music, lifestyle and culture in South Africa. The inside story about the culture and how certain things became the way they are. This 26 minute documentary features: Kabza De Small, MFR Souls,Tall Arse Tee, DJ Jaivane, JazziDisciples, Papers 707, Dimpie Dimpopo, Mbali Sibeko, Dinho Cafe, Kwiish SA, Pencil, Stokie and… Continue reading
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New Report Reveals US Special Forces Active in 22 African Countries
The US has roughly 6,000 military personnel scattered throughout the continent with military attachés outnumbering diplomats in many embassies across Africa. Continue reading
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The COVID “Second Wave” Will Tear Our Communities Apart
When the new flu season arrives in autumn 2020, our western governments and mainstream news media are preparing to go into overdrive and declare (without evidence) that the 2nd wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is here. The fact is, they’re already pushing this narrative by declaring that there’s an uptick in COVID-19 cases and so… Continue reading
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Masks Aren’t Helpful in Beating COVID-19: Europe’s Top Health Officials
Denmark boasts one of the lowest COVID-19 death rates in the world. As of August 4, the Danes have suffered 616 COVID-19 deaths, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. That’s less than one-third of the number of Danes who die from pneumonia or influenza in a given year. Continue reading
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Who Profits from the Beirut Blast?
The narrative that the Beirut explosion was an exclusive consequence of negligence and corruption by the current Lebanese government is now set in stone, at least in the Atlanticist sphere. Continue reading
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Video: Dr. Judy Mikovits and the Real Plague Infecting Humanity
Dr. Judy Mikovits is a top U.S. scientist who has played key roles in saving millions of lives. Instead of lauding her achievements and honoring her, Western governments and their agencies have sought to destroy her. Continue reading
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The COVID-19 Vaccine. The Imposition of Compulsory Vaccination with a Biometric Health Passport?
This is not just a question of being for or against vaccination in general. It is about being vigilant in the face of enormous pressure from companies and governments to inject billions of healthy people with a hastily manufactured product, using immature technologies such as DNA manipulation, with as yet unknown side effects. Continue reading
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How the Guardian betrayed not only Corbyn but the last vestiges of British democracy
It is simply astonishing that the first attempt by the Guardian – the only major British newspaper styling itself as on the liberal-left – to properly examine the contents of a devastating internal Labour party report leaked in April is taking place nearly four months after the 860-page report first came to light. Continue reading
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Invasion of the New Normals
They’re here! No, not the pod people from Invasion of the Body Snatchers. We’re not being colonized by giant alien fruit. I’m afraid it is a little more serious than that. People’s minds are being taken over by a much more destructive and less otherworldly force … a force that transforms them overnight into aggressively… Continue reading
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How the U.S. failed at its foreign policy toward Venezuela
On August 4, 2020, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on Venezuela. Appearing before the committee was U.S. State Department Special Representative Elliott Abrams. Abrams, who has had a long—and controversial—career in the formation of U.S. foreign policy, was assaulted by almost all the members of the Senate committee. The senators, almost… Continue reading
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The ‘Russian Coup’ Plot In Belarus Was Faked By Ukraine
In mid June we reported that the U.S. is preparing a ‘color revolution’ in Belarus. A sub-part of that operation has been revealed today. It was designed to denigrate Russia in the eyes of the Belorussian population and its president. Continue reading
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American Left Silence on China Helps Lay Foundation for the U.S.’ New Cold War
When it comes to China, Democracy Now, Jacobin, The Nation and others on the imperial-minded US ‘left” are allies of white supremacy. Continue reading
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As Bolivian Regime Delays Elections a Third Time, Media Continue to Ignore Coup
Reports like the Washington Post‘s (11/10/19) failed to convey the reality that Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced out by the military. In the Bolivian elections last October 20, incumbent President Evo Morales of the Movement Toward Socialism party (MAS in Spanish) won a 10-point victory over his nearest challenger, as pre-election polls predicted. The… Continue reading
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Do Not Reach for the Sky Just to Surrender: The Thirty-Second Newsletter (2020)
6 August 2020 — Tricontinental Greta Acosta Reyes (Cuba), Neoliberalism, 2020. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Beirut, mon amour. Those shattered mirrors once were The smiling eyes of children, Now are star-lit. This city’s nights are bright. and luminous is Lebanon. Beirut, ornament of our world. Faces decorated with… Continue reading
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Books: A Fifty-Year journey for truth and justice
Diana Johnstone’s fiercely courageous and independent reporting, historical analysis, and activism have stayed the course while managing to chalk up a veritable army of opponents: establishment Democrats, infantile 1960s New Leftists, would-be French student revolutionaries, identity politics adherents, influential U.S. and French intellectuals, Serbian-hating neoliberals promoting Responsibility to Protect (R2P) wars, NATO, and the U.S.… Continue reading
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Beirut Blast Wrap-up
Yesterday 2.750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded. The blast killed more than 100 people and wounded more than 4,000. Many buildings in Beirut were severely damaged. The pressure wave broke windows as far 10 miles away. Beirut’s port is mostly destroyed. Lebanon’s national grain reserve,… Continue reading
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Hiroshima ─ 75 years on
Today ─ 6th August ─ marks the 75th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of the city of Hiroshima, in 1945. It is estimated that the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the ensuing radioactive fallout claimed the lives of up to a quarter of a million Japanese people ─ to this day they provide a… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 