November 26, 2020
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US Election: A Color Revolution ‘Comes Home to Roost’
It has been more than three weeks since election day and the incumbent US president still has yet to concede defeat. Despite the media’s distraction over the perspiration of his personal attorney during a bizarre press conference, the legal team led by former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has actually done a decent job… Continue reading
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John Pilger: ‘I spoke to impoverished families in 1975 and little has changed since then’
John Pilger interviewed Irene Brunsden in Hackney, east London about only being able to feed her two-year-old a plate of cornflakes in 1975. Now he sees nervous women queueing at foodbanks with their children as it’s revealed 600,000 more kids are in poverty now than in 2012. Continue reading
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Russia, China reinvent their moorings in Central Asia
The United States, which was de facto assuming the historical role of Great Britain in the 19th century Great Game in Central Asia, was inclined to take a relaxed view of China’s return to the region in the first decade of the post-Soviet period. China’s rise had not yet become a compelling geopolitical reality in… Continue reading
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Government plans major crackdown in 2021 on the right to protest
The Conservative government is planning to introduce major changes to public order legislation to crack down on protests, under a new “Protection of the Police and Public Bill” planned for 2021. Continue reading
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UK: Renters are bearing the cost of the pandemic
Yesterday the Chancellor had the chance to give renters struggling with rent debt some comfort over Christmas – but he failed. Continue reading
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We Suffer from an Incurable Disease Called Hope: The Forty-Eighth Newsletter (2020)
26 November 2020 — Tricontinental Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. The total level of global indebtedness now sits at an astronomical $277 trillion, an increase of $15 trillion since 2019. This amount is equivalent to 365% of the global gross domestic product. The debt burden is highest in the Continue reading
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The New Norm: Government Lawbreaking
By TruePublica: Government lawbreaking in Boris Johnson’s adminstration has now reached an unprecedented scale for a British government – and we should all be concerned. Continue reading
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ColdType Mid-November 2020 (Issue 216) is now online
26 November 2020 — ColdType Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 26 November 2020
26 November 2020 — Black Agenda Report Biden, the Emcee at the Billionaires’ Ball Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor The Lords of Capital use periods of crisis to devour the less-rich and reshape the political economy to their further advantage, so that the Joe Bidens of the world jump higher and come quicker when summoned. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 