November 2020
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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
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Meet the Censored: Andre Damon
Increased content moderation has been sold as a tool to control the far right, but the World Socialist Web Site was among the first to sound the alarm Continue reading
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DIANA JOHNSTONE: The Great Pretext … for Dystopia
By titling their recently published World Economic Forum treatise Covid-19: The Great Reset, the authors link the pandemic to their futuristic proposals in ways bound to be met with a chorus of “Aha!”s. In the current atmosphere of confusion and distrust, the glee with which economists Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret greet the pandemic as… Continue reading
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COVID vaccines: calling the shots
Before the COVID-19 pandemic engulfed the world, the big pharmaceutical companies did little investment in vaccines for global diseases and viruses. It was just not profitable. Of the 18 largest US pharmaceutical companies, 15 had totally abandoned the field. Heart medicines, addictive tranquilizers and treatments for male impotence were profit leaders, not defences against hospital… Continue reading
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FBI and DOJ prepared takedown of ‘Iranian’ American Herald Tribune website with years of legal chicanery
The new powers claimed by the FBI to seize “Iranian” outlets could have serious implications for the basic American freedom to publish and access news and opinion. Continue reading
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Facing the Anthropocene: An Update
Recent scientific work strengthens and extends the arguments in Ian Angus’s pathbreaking book on fossil capitalism and the crisis of the Earth System Continue reading
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DOCTORS FOR ASSANGE STATEMENT (22/11/2020)
Sunday 22nd November 2020 marked 12 months since doctors from around the world wrote to the UK Home Secretary, Priti Patel, calling for an immediate end to the torture and medical neglect of Julian Assange. Continue reading
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UK government running ‘Orwellian’ unit to block release of ‘sensitive’ information
Exclusive: Secretive Cabinet Office ‘Clearing House’ for Freedom of Information requests also accused of “blacklisting” journalists; openDemocracy launching a legal bid for transparency Continue reading
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New report: Deadly Crossings and the militarisation of Britain’s borders
This transnational collaboration between the IRR, the Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) London steering group and French group Gisti is the first English-language analysis of the nearly 300 known border-related deaths in and around the English Channel since 1999. Continue reading
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EcoHealth Alliance orchestrated key scientists’ statement on “natural origin” of SARS-CoV-2
The recent Issue Brief by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission entitled The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: A Testbed for Chinese Power Projection takes a close look at the Chinese security footprint in Central Asia and its political dimensions. A perception has grown over the most recent years amongst great game watchers generally, especially the… Continue reading
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Return of Great Game in Post-Soviet Central Asia
The recent Issue Brief by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission entitled The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: A Testbed for Chinese Power Projection takes a close look at the Chinese security footprint in Central Asia and its political dimensions. A perception has grown over the most recent years amongst great game watchers generally, especially the… Continue reading
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24 November 2020: What happened last week at the spycops inquiry
The public was largely shut out – only given official access to a live stream in a room in London, online it was limited to a live transcript which was a real eye strain to read for hours on end. Once again, it fell to those abused by spycops to being the truth to the… Continue reading
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France challenges Russian peacekeeping in Caucasus
The trilateral agreement on November 10 between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia over Nagorno-Karabakh is leading to a geopolitical struggle in the Caucasus. So long as Armenia and Azerbaijan were ferociously fighting, the great game lurked in the shade. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 