September 3, 2020
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Navalny Novichok Poisoning: The (Very Unlikely) Story So Far
For those of you who haven’t been following the news – Russian politician (or “opposition figure”, as he is universally referred to in the Western press) Alexei Navalny was taken ill two weeks ago. It is now being reported he was “poisoned” with “novichok”. Continue reading
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Six Complexities of These Pandemic Times: The Thirty-Sixth Newsletter (2020)
3 September 2020 — Tricontinental Staffordshire Regiment during the Plague, Hong Kong, 1894. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Social media, in March 2020, was awash with rumours. Swans and dolphins could be seen in totally deserted Venetian canals. A group of elephants marched into a village in Yunnan Continue reading
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Novichok, Navalny, Nordstream, Nonsense
Once Navalny was in Berlin it was only a matter of time before it was declared that he was poisoned with Novichok. The Russophobes are delighted. This of course eliminates all vestiges of doubt about what happened to the Skripals, and proves that Russia must be isolated and sanctioned to death and we must spend… Continue reading
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South African movement adopts Climate Justice Charter
“As Africans, we live together on a vast and beautiful continent where the human story began. All of us are linked to the first human who walked upright, dreamed, thought and co-existed with plants, animals, rivers, oceans and forests. Today this common humanity and its future is in serious danger. South Africa cannot ignore this… Continue reading
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Chris Hedges: How Corporate Tyranny Works
The persecution of the attorney Steven Donziger is a grim illustration of what happens when we confront the real centers of power, masked and unacknowledged by the divisive cant from the Trump White House or the sentimental drivel of the Democratic Party. Those, like Donziger, who name and fight the corporate control of our society… Continue reading
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Navalny Gets Skripaled
Yawn! was my first reaction when I read this. Couldn’t they come up with a more believable fairy tale? The German government says tests performed on samples taken from Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny showed the presence of the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. Continue reading
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For years, journalists cheered Assange’s abuse. Now they’ve paved his path to a US gulag
Court hearings in Britain over the US administration’s extradition case against Julian Assange begin in earnest next week. The decade-long saga that brought us to this point should appall anyone who cares about our increasingly fragile freedoms. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 