September 2020
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How a Senate Inquiry Revealed the Israeli Surveillance Industry’s Role in Orchestrating Russiagate
A Senate investigation reveals that a consortium of Israeli hacking and surveillance firms coordinated and facilitated meetings between Trump campaign operatives and Russia during the 2016 campaign, but they don’t really want to talk about it. Continue reading
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From Terrorists to Viruses: Dystopian Progress
For anyone old enough to have been alive and aware of the attacks of September 11, 2001 and of so-called COVID-19 in 2020, memory may serve to remind one of an eerie parallel between the two operations. However, if memory has been expunged by the work of one’s forgettery or deleted by the corporate media… Continue reading
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America’s Current Jobs ‘Great Depression’
Two well-known and highly respected mainstream economists, Carmen Reinhart, a chief economist for the World Bank, and Vincent Reinhart, chief economist for Morgan Stanley bank, have recently published an article in the widely read capitalist source, Foreign Affairs, entitled ‘The Pandemic Depression’. Arguing primarily from a global perspective, the economists have concluded the US economy… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 11 September 2020
11 September 2020 — The New Dark Age US prosecutors disrupt Spanish probe into alleged CIA-linked firm which spied on Assange https://www.rt.com/news/500476-us-disrupt-spanish-investigation-assange-spying/ Assange’s Fourth Day At The Old Bailey: COVID In The Courtroom https://orientalreview.org/2020/09/11/assanges-fourth-day-at-the-old-bailey-covid-in-the-courtroom/ Continue reading
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Against the ‘rule of 6’
11 September 2020 — The Manifesto Club Against the ‘rule of 6′ – or 8, or 10… “Time after time, statutory instruments have been issued specifying the exact combinations in which people may meet. These aren’t voted for in parliament and the law hasn’t even been published yet. It is futile to debate whether group Continue reading
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Operation Moonshot? Leaked documents
Boris Johnson announced on Wednesday plans for an enormous expansion of the national coronavirus testing programme, named “Operation Moonshot”, and estimated to cost “over £100bn” to deliver. Continue reading
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The Covid Crisis: A Brief History of the Pandemics of the 21st Century (2000-2020)
In times of great confusion and anxiety, when it feels like everything is going down the drain, like everyone is stumbling down a steep road, driven by a supposedly unstoppable disaster, it might be helpful to take a moment and a deep breath, to step aside and turn around. One might ask: What brought us… Continue reading
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Wikileaks helped end secret U.S. killings, Assange extradition hearing is told
REVELATIONS published by Wikileaks helped to end a secret U.S. assassination programme and freed unlawfully detained prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, the Julian Assange extradition hearing was told today. Continue reading
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HAPPENING NOW: Julian Assange’s UK Extradition Hearing
10 September 2020 — Shadowproof Donate $25 to support Kevin Gosztola’s daily live coverage ### Kevin Gosztola is covering a major hearing in the extradition case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, taking place right now until September 24. The COVID-19 pandemic means journalists face increased obstacles to travel that may result in diminished coverage. Continue reading
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ColdType Extra No.2 ‘Absolute and Arbitrary Power’
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‘Absolute And Arbitrary Power’: Killing Extinction Rebellion And Julian Assange
The use and misuse of George Orwell’s truth-telling is so widespread that we can easily miss his intended meaning. For example, with perfect (Orwellian) irony, the BBC has a statue of Orwell outside Broadcasting House, bearing the inscription: ‘If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 10 September 2020
10 September 2020 • 18:30 — The New Dark Age [Once again, not a single story about Assange on the BBC’s website. A total news blackout by the British State Broadcasting Company! WB] Reprieve’s Clive Stafford Smith on US Judicial Unfairness, Assange’s Show Trial Assange targeted for political views in “terrifying threat to First Amendment,” Continue reading
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Not Just an Orchard, Not Merely a Field, We Demand the Whole World: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2020)
10 September 2020 — Tricontinental Sunil Janah, Mallu Swarajayam and other members of an armed squad during the Telangana armed struggle, 1946-1951. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. When news of the revolution in the Tsar’s empire filtered into British-dominated India in 1917-1918, the reception was universal: if they could Continue reading
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Your Man in the Public Gallery – Assange Hearing Day 8
The great question after yesterday’s hearing was whether prosecution counsel James Lewis QC would continue to charge at defence witnesses like a deranged berserker (spoiler – he would), and more importantly, why? Continue reading
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Assange’s Third Day at the Old Bailey: Bias, Politics and Wars on Journalism
The third day of extradition proceedings against Julian Assange at the Old Bailey resumed on the point of politics. Assange as a figure of political beliefs; Assange as a target of the Trump administration precisely for having them. The man sketching the portrait was Paul Rogers, Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University. Continue reading
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Inside the Gorbachev-Bush “Partnership” on the First Gulf War 1990
Washington, D.C., September 9, 2020 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev quickly decided that joint action with the United States was the most important course for the USSR in dealing with Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait 30 years ago, rather than the long-standing Soviet-Iraq alliance, and built what he explicitly called a “partnership” with the U.S. that… Continue reading
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Assange: Ask not for whom the bell tolls
The western world is inhabited by those who know we are ruled by sociopaths … and that much larger group which, taking at face value the surface forms of democracy informed by independent media, either cannot or will not accept this admittedly frightening truth. Continue reading
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The 1% blunder: How a simple but fatal math mistake by US Covid-19 experts caused the world to panic and order lockdowns
In February, US Covid guru Anthony Fauci predicted the virus was ‘akin to a severe flu’ and would therefore kill around 0.1 percent of people. Then fatality rate predictions were somehow mixed up to make it look ten times WORSE. Continue reading
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Why we need proper legal protections for our right to protest
In Britain, there are laws that are supposed to protect our civil liberties – specifically the Human Rights Act 1998, which has often proven extremely effective as a means of challenging in court injustices by the state that violates our rights. This may go a long way to explaining why the governing Conservative Party has… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 9 September 2020
9 September 2020 — Black Agenda Report Sept 19: A Nationwide Day of Protest, and of Dialogue on Community Control of Police Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor Community control puts us on the path to both defunding and abolishing the police – so why are many Black Lives Matter chapters withholding support? Freedom Rider: Losers, Suckers Continue reading
The New Dark Age 