October 2020
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People Need to Reclaim the Internet
No matter how much you dislike Trump, only a fool can fail to see the implications for public access to information of the massive suppression on the internet of the Hunter Biden leaks. Continue reading
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BREXIT: AN OVEN READY DEAL OR WAS THE OVEN EVEN SWITCHED ON. Populism in disarray
18 October 2020 — theplanningmotivedotcom If Johnson was serious about a “No Deal Brexit”, his government would have prepared for one, particularly at this late stage. He would have put in place the necessary infrastructure – custom officers and posts, warehouses, tarmac, computer programs, a suite of forms available for companies and so on. Instead Continue reading
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5G – Bias and conflict of interest at the BBC
Since the start of the Covid-19 crisis, in addition to a host of reports on the subject in its news and current affairs programmes, the BBC has run a few stand-alone radio and TV documentaries on what it refers to as “5G conspiracy theories”. Continue reading
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Bolivia: First Election Since US-Backed Coup Pits Right against Left, Rich Against Poor and White against Everyone Else
18 October 2020 — Mint Press Democracia? This coming Sunday represents Bolivia’s best chance to secure lasting peace, with a widely anticipated MAS victory expected to be a repudiation of last November’s US-backed military coup. by Oliver Vargas and Alan Macleod Continue reading
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Hours before Bolivia goes the polls, early results system suspended, military mobilization in La Paz
The first elections since the coup d’état will be held on October 18 amid a tense social and political climate. This includes a military mobilization in La Paz the night before the polls and the suspension of the DIREPRE early results system Continue reading
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Behind the Masquerade
Since the beginning of this year – of infernal subterfuge and chaotic transformation of civilised society – one of the few ways to assess the truth of what is happening, what is being done and by whom, is in a resort to “science”. While science in its broader sense merely means “knowledge”, I’m restricting my… Continue reading
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with radio stations Sputnik, Komsomolskaya Pravda and Govorit Moskva
14 October 2020 — Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Question: Good afternoon, Mr Lavrov. We are not going to shake hands today to comply with the coronavirus requirements, even though we are not wearing masks right now. We have been told that you are pressed for time because the Italians are waiting for Continue reading
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Reconnaissance Flights and U.S.-China Relations
Washington, D.C., October 16, 2020 – Over the years, aerial and naval encounters have threatened to destabilize U.S-China relations as the two powers contest each other’s rights in international airspace and waters. Continue reading
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Moon of Alabama – It’s time to say goodbye …in which we debunk a “debunking”
Bernhard, the proprietor of alternate-news site Moon of Alabama, has taken it upon himself to “fact-check” one of our many Covid-related articles. It was done without informing us of his intent, or indeed offering us a right of reply. Continue reading
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UK: They are 6 months late
16 October 2020 — Good Law Project You may remember Crisp Websites Limited, trading as PestFix, the company with last reported net assets of £18,047. On the 10th June, we sent a judicial review pre-action protocol letter to the Government asking why they had agreed to pay 75% upfront for isolation suits worth £32m, to PestFix. PestFix Continue reading
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We Took Action Against the Hostile Environment
This weekend, under the banner of ‘Solidarity Knows No Borders’, groups in more than 20 locations across the country joined us to take action to demand an end to the Hostile Environment. Continue reading
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What SAGE Has Got Wrong
SAGE made – and continues to make – two fatal errors in its assessment of the SAR-CoV-2 pandemic, rendering its predictions wildly inaccurate, with disastrous results. These errors led SAGE to conclude that the pandemic is still in its early stages, with the vast majority (93%) of the UK population remaining susceptible to infection and… Continue reading
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To Rebel Against Necessity and More
Autumn is the dying season. This morning when I came home from a walk, he was lying there on his back. He was dead. Continue reading
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Bullets Are Not the Seeds of Life: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2020)
15 October 2020 — Tricontinental Kamala Ibrahim Ishaq (Sudan), Procession (the Zār), 2015 Dear friends, Greetings from the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 9 October 2020, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the United Nations’ World Food Programme. In the citation for the award, the Norwegian Nobel Committee pointed to the ‘link between hunger and armed Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 15 October 2020
15 October 2020 — Black Agenda Report The Useful Tool: Kamala “Heartbeat Away” Harris Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor If Biden wins, Kamala Harris will be put forward as a kind of “co-president,” as a palliative for the lack of substantive relief from the forces that are plaguing Black lives. Continue reading
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A scientific review of the science behind lockdown concludes the policy was a Mistake
The report, analysing the information available to UK policymakers in March, says schools shouldn’t have shut, that only vulnerable groups like the old should have been isolated, & that herd immunity may have been a better route. Continue reading
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IMF Seizes on Pandemic to Pave Way for Privatization in 81 Countries
76 of the 91 loans the IMF has negotiated since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic come attached with demands for deep cuts to public services and policies that benefit corporations over people. Continue reading
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If no-one watches the watchers, we can’t defend our civil liberties
As governments seek ever-greater surveillance powers, we need to keep them under control. For almost three decades, Statewatch has reported on, analysed and fought against attempts by the EU and national governments to snoop further and further into our private lives – from the surveillance and retention of telecommunications data; to the profiling of travellers, tourists… Continue reading
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PPE Contracts: They’re keeping us in the dark
The Government is keeping billions of pounds worth of COVID-19 contracts hidden from view. We know that the Department of Health and Social Care has awarded more than £11billion worth of contracts to private companies. Yet they have failed to publish the details of contracts worth more than £3billion. What has that money been spent… Continue reading
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Lord Advocate Launches War on Twitter
In what we think is a world first, the Lord Advocate of Scotland is claiming in the contempt of court case against me that I am legally responsible for the content of replies to my tweets. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 