August 2020
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UK: ‘A Perpetual Motion Machine Of Killing’
On August 1, a rare in-depth investigative piece appeared on the BBC News website based on credible and serious allegations that UK Special Forces had executed unarmed civilians in Afghanistan. The BBC article was produced in tandem with a report, ‘”Rogue SAS Afghanistan execution squad” exposed by email trail’, published by the Sunday Times. Continue reading
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‘The Politic of Blood’: Political Repression in South Africa
In his famous speech from the dock in April 1964, Nelson Mandela spoke of ‘revolutionary democracy’ rooted in precolonial forms of collective deliberation and decision making. In a speech given in April 1982, Joe Foster, then General Secretary of the Federation of South African Trade Unions (Fosatu), stressed the need for workers ‘to build their… Continue reading
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The PPE that can’t be used by the NHS that cost £250 Million
The Government awarded a PPE contract worth £252 million to Ayanda Capital Limited, a ‘family office’ owned through a tax haven in Mauritius, with connections to Liz Truss. It is the largest PPE contract we have seen to date. Continue reading
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Something Rotten at The Heart of UK Government
As George Washington put it,“a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils”. He warned that sympathy for the favourite nation encourages the illusion of common interest where none really exists, risks participation in its quarrels and wars, and involves“concessions to the favourite nation of privileges denied to others which is… Continue reading
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Stinking Tory Corruption
I wrote a furious article about the £250 million PPE contract inexplicably awarded to the “family office” Ayanda Capital, an investment house for private wealth tax avoidance. We now learn £150 million of face masks delivered are unusable as they do not meet the required standards. Continue reading
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An Effective COVID Treatment the Media Continues to Besmirch
On Friday, July 31, in a column ostensibly dealing with health care “misinformation,” Washington Post media critic Margaret Sullivan opened by lambasting “fringe doctors spouting dangerous falsehoods about hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 wonder cure.” Continue reading
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New Documentary on Julian Assange is About ‘One of the Great Injustices of Our Time’, Director Says
Filmmaker and journalist Pablo Navarrete followed John Shipton, the father of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, over a number of months as he campaigns to prevent his son from being extradited to the United States and secure his release from Britain’s Belmarsh maximum-security prison. Continue reading
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UK PPE Fiasco
On Monday evening, Good Law Project is hosting a live panel discussion on our cases to challenge the award of huge PPE contracts to a number of companies, seemingly without any advertising or competitive tender process. Continue reading
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ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 75: The Illegality of Nuclear Weapons
The human race stands on the verge of nuclear self-extinction as a species, and with it will die most, if not all, forms of intelligent life on the planet earth. Any attempt to dispel the ideology of nuclearism and its attendant myth propounding the legality of nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence must directly come to… Continue reading
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China & US Power
Can China do much to fight back against the power wielded by the US in the world economy? At first sight, that looks unlikely. China is big, but world trade is conducted in dollars, and the US has economic, political and military influence across the globe. The usual result of a tally of US might… Continue reading
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‘Worst case’ emissions scenario is best match for reality
The RCP 8.5 CO2 emissions pathway, long considered a “worst case scenario” by climate scientists, is the most appropriate for conducting assessments of climate change impacts by 2050, according to a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Continue reading
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Are Face Masks Effective? The Evidence
So far, most studies found little to no evidence for the effectiveness of cloth face masks in the general population, neither as personal protective equipment nor as a source control. Continue reading
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COVID-19: We have a Treatment: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). We do Not Need a Vaccine!
We have a treatment in COVID-19 and it doesn’t have the support of Big Pharma and their experts! Continue reading
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The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II
Washington, D.C., August 4, 2020 – To mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, the National Security Archive is updating and reposting one of its most popular e-books of the past 25 years. Continue reading
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Big Pharma Giants GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi Receive $2.1 Billion to Develop COVID Vaccine
Operation Warp Speed is handing out cash at record velocity and this time, the two largest vaccine companies in the world are benefiting. Continue reading
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UK Immigration: We sued the govt and won (again!)
Wonderful news – our legal challenge has forced the government to abandon its racist visa algorithm. Lawyers from the Home Office wrote to us yesterday afternoon. The Home Secretary Priti Patel has agreed to scrap the visa streaming algorithm from this Friday – and pledged a full review of the system, including for issues of ‘unconscious bias’… Continue reading
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Federal Government Releases Bipartisan Anti-China Plan for Artificial Intelligence
A Washington think tank and Congress issued a bipartisan plan for AI, which utilizes the veneer of technology to formally cast China as the number one obstacle to US hegemony Continue reading
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Dutch Government Ditches the Mask. Political Pressure Exerted on Sovereign Governments?
Last Wednesday, the Dutch government decided not to impose any “national obligation” on its people to wear masks, reports Reuters. The reason for opting out of the global masquerade? Minister for Medical Care, Tamara van Ark, asserted that “from a medical perspective there is no proven effectiveness of masks” after a review by the Netherland’s National Institute… Continue reading
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Video: Covid-19 Lies and Fraud: How the Fear Campaign is Affecting US Hospitals and Clinics
In the following interview, Dr. Morris, a practicing physician in Florida, USA, explains how politics and fraud are root causes of the Fear campaign that is plaguing his state, and the country. Continue reading
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US GDP Collapses & Economic Rebound Fades
This past week US economy collapsed in the 2nd quarter by 32.9% at annual rate and nearly 10% just for the April-June period. Never before in modern US history—not even in the worse quarters of the 1930s great depression—has the US economy contracted so quickly and so deeply! Continue reading
The New Dark Age 