October 2020
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Why America’s economic war on China is failing
U.S. President Donald Trump—supported by most of the U.S. establishment—deepened the U.S. government’s assault on the Chinese economy. The “trade war” seemed to play well with Trump’s political base, who somehow hoped that an economic attack on China would miraculously create economic prosperity for them. In 2018, Trump slapped tariffs on more than $200 billion… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 8 October 2020
8 October 2020 — Black Agenda Report Bidens and Trumps, Foxes and Wolves Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor The fox and wolf parties – both corporate canines – debate how best to acclimate the masses to their deepening state of precarity. Continue reading
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The Bridge: Connecting Past and Present through Archival Research on Russia
Despite all indications to the contrary, many of the most important Russian archives are open and are worth investigating. Continue reading
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‘None Of It Reported’: How Corporate Media Buried The Assange Trial
One of the most imposing features of state-corporate propaganda is its incessant, repetitive nature. Over and over again, the ‘mainstream’ media have to convince the public that ‘our’ government prioritises the health, welfare and livelihoods of the general population, rather than the private interests of an elite stratum of society that owns and runs all… Continue reading
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Hydroxychloroquine is a Cheap and Effective Remedy for COVID-19: Anthony Fauci’s “Big Lie”
With a grand jury approach, the revealing of evidence herein shows that Dr. Anthony Fauci has deliberately ignored massive amounts of data showing that hydroxychloroquine is a safe, cheap and effective remedy for COVID-19. By ignoring his ethical responsibility as a physician to first do no harm, his behavior continues to cause preventable pain, suffering… Continue reading
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Infectious Conspiracies: Donald Trump, Coronavirus and Reality
One measure of success in politics is the degree enemies imitate you, even if done insincerely and without flattery. Insincere imitation has become the preserve of a whole panoply of Donald Trump’s critics stretching from the money, corporate side of the Democrats to the sandalled warriors who believe in environmental eschatology. Continue reading
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The Police Can Only Become More Racist, Unless They Are Abolished
The British public imagination remains replete with nightmares about racialised crime. This year, there are statue desecrators. In the 1980s, there were muggers. There is always the figure of the thug. The illegal immigrant. The terrorist. More recently, over the past decade, there have emerged particularly frightening types of gang: drill music-producing gangs escalating knife… Continue reading
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UK: Launching The Book of Homelessness
The Book of Homelessness is the first ever graphic novel created by people affected by homelessness that tells the stories of their lives. Continue reading
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Pemberstone – the company trying to demolish 70 homes in a Leeds housing estate
After a two-year long battle by families to save their homes, 70 homes in the Sugar Hill estate in Oulton, Leeds remain at risk of demolition. Pemberstone, the company that owns the land, are trying to win permission to knock down the existing homes and “regenerate” the estate with less affordable housing. Continue reading
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Bayer’s Monsanto headache persists
Efforts at settling the mass of lawsuits brought in the United States by tens of thousands of people who claim Monsanto’s Roundup herbicides gave them cancer continue to inch forward, but are not addressing all outstanding cases, nor are all plaintiffs offered settlements agreeing to them. Continue reading
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John Stauber: “Elections Are Essential to Continued Social and Political Control by The Corporate Elite Through Their System of Two-Party Oligarchy”
John Stauber: The American Empire is collapsing from within. The huge divisions – rich versus the rest of us, white versus colored, young versus old, religious extremists versus rational thinkers, xenophobes versus internationalists, urban versus rural, elite versus populist, radical versus reactionary, etc. – have never been so pronounced. This is the result of decades of the… Continue reading
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The War on Truth, Dissent and Free Speech Syria, the OPCW Douma Investigation and the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media
On Saturday 13 June 2020 the Times newspaper published its third attack on academics associated with researching British government propaganda and the war in Syria. This time the attack focused on smearing myself and Professor David Miller with the objective of discrediting an academic organization we established, the Organisation for Propaganda Studies (OPS), designed to… Continue reading
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Medical Doctor Warns that “Bacterial Pneumonias Are on the Rise” from Mask Wearing
“A group is suing Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum and Tulsa Health Department Executive Director Bruce Dart, saying the city’s mask mandate is harmful to healthy people,” reports Activist Post. The group includes business owners and two doctors who “are asking the city to immediately repeal the mask mandate which was passed by city council last month.” Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 6 October 2020
6 October 2020 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Environmental Factors to Blame for Increase in Childhood Cancers – New Coalition Report A 34% increase in childhood cancers since 1975 has led a group of scientists, health professionals, businesses, and advocates to ignite a call to action to highlight preventable environmental factors that threaten our children. Continue reading
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Rishi Sunak’s planned cut to benefits is much bigger than Osborne’s in 2015
Back in 2015, 3.3 million working families were on track to lose an average of over £1,000 a year from the following April. As Figure 1 shows, today, the income of roughly twice as many families is at risk, with 6 million households (containing 12 million adults and 6 million children) set to have their… Continue reading
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The Grayzone’s Aaron Maté Testifies at UN on OPCW Syria Cover-up
In remarks to the UN Security Council, The Grayzone’s Aaron Maté details the OPCW’s Douma cover-up scandal and urges UN members to support the chemical watchdog’s inspectors whose evidence was suppressed. Continue reading
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UK Court Decision on Venezuela Gold Deals Blow to Regime Change Efforts
A UK court ruled that the administration of Boris Johnson’s position that Juan Guaidó is the legitimate ruler of Venezuela is far from equivocal, paving the way for over $1 billion of the country’s gold to be released. Continue reading
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(More) Money for Dominic Cummings’ mates
A lobbying firm run by allies of Dominic Cummings was handed a contract worth £900,000 to conduct public opinion polling on the coronavirus pandemic. The contract was awarded to Hanbury Strategy without any advertisement or competitive tender process. And it was awarded to Hanbury despite the fact that – as our sworn evidence discloses -… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 2 September – 5 October 2020
5 October 2020 • 18:00 — The New Dark Age On Contact: Assange Extradition Hearing 6 Wikileaks Revelations Expose Corporate Abuse at Expense of People and Planet Continue reading
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