December 2020
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US risks confrontation with Russia
The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov remarked last week that Moscow expects nothing good in relations with a “deeply hostile” US under the incoming administration of Joe Biden. He further said in an interview with the Interfax published Wednesday, “We are heading from bad to worse. The next US president has been left with… Continue reading
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The Future Will Only Contain What We Put into It Now: The Fifty-Third Newsletter (2020)
31 December 2020 — Tricontinental Image in homage of Bolivian people’s resistance by Tings Chak (China) Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Towards the end of November, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres addressed the German Bundestag to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations (UN). At the Continue reading
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What is left to say?
If I were to recommend actions. I would recommend that we stop testing – unless someone is admitted to hospital and is seriously ill. Mass testing is simply causing mass panic and achieves absolutely nothing. At great cost. We should also just get on with our lives as before. We should just vaccinate those at… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of December 28, 2020
28 December 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford South African Police More Lethal Than US Cops / Capitalism + Covid-19 = Mass Death in US / Corporate Baseball’s “Feeble” Gesture to Negro Leagues South African Police More Lethal Than US Cops Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley Continue reading
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The dreaded lurgi strikes By William Bowles
24 December 2020 — Investigating Imperialism Stop the world I want to get off! – Anthony Newly Update 3: 24 December 2020 Officially Covid 24 December 2020 So I’m now officially Covid Positive. After my trauma of taking a shower on Monday, yesterday, I got transported to my local hospital’s A&E department to get checked Continue reading
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All the Cannons Will Silently Rust: The Fifty-Second Newsletter (2020)
24 December 2020 — Tricontinental Chittaprosad (India), Peace, undated. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Our year has been eclipsed by the pandemic, the rush of a virus paralysing societies across the world. Some governments offered smarter, more scientific, and humane approaches to the pandemic; many (but not all) Continue reading
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Take action now: Solidarity with Cressingham Gardens
Cressingham Gardens is a council owned estate – the building has been lauded by architects as a human and community centered building and what you’ll find at Cressingham Gardens is a testament to that. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 18 December 2020
18 December 2020 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Mexico Confirms Phase-Out of GMO Corn and Glyphosate Herbicides as World Recognizes Leydy Pech A decree was released last week on Mexico’s National Commission for Regulatory Improvement (CONAMER) website that confirms a phase-out of use of both glyphosate and genetically modified (GMO) corn for human consumption in Continue reading
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When Role of Vaccines as Public Health Clashes with Their Role As Source of Super Profits
In recent years a different role for vaccines emerged – vaccines as a source of huge profits. Things became more worrying when this role of vaccines started clashing with the role of vaccines as public health and even appeared to be superseding it. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 17 December 2020
17 December 2020 — Black Agenda Report You Can’t Shame the Shameless Black Misleadership Class Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor The Black misleaders have been busy selling out Black people for half a century, but are still only barely tolerated by the rich man’s Democratic Party and its racist figurehead, Joe Biden. Continue reading
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The Revolutionaries, When They Rise, Care for Nothing but Love: Newsletter Fifty-One (2020)
17 December 2020 — Tricontinental El Zeft (Egypt), Nefertiti in a Gas Mask, 2012. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. A decade has now slipped by since a man named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in the Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid on 17 December 2010. Bouazizi, a Continue reading
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Red, red Kerala hails Pinarayi’s leadership
Malayalis attribute high importance to democratic elections in general, but the elections to the local bodies and the state assembly are of exceptional importance. Like in any part of the world where the roots of democracy and representative rule run deep and devolution of power percolates down to the grass roots, it is the local… Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, December 2020
16 December 2020 — Climate & Capitalism Winter Solstice reading for reds and greens: Disappearance of Butterflies; Multidisciplinary Anthropocene; Future Sea; Age of Low Tech; Diversifying Power; Commercial Capitalism. Ecosocialist Bookshelf is an occasional feature. We can’t review every book we receive, but we will list and link to any that seem relevant to Climate & Continue reading
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Watch: Rafael Correa on Venezuela, Assange, and ‘preventing the total destruction of our homeland’
Max Blumenthal interviews former Ecuador President Rafael Correa, who was in Venezuela to observe its legislative elections and show support to a government under sustained economic and political attack by the US (inc. transcript). Continue reading
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The Real Crime Isn’t Australian War Crimes—but a Chinese Political Cartoon About Australian War Crimes
Is information inherently less trustworthy and authoritative because the source is Chinese? It’s a question Westerners must grapple with as the US government and corporate journalists intensify their online “psychological operations” against China to manipulate public opinion in support of another Cold War (FAIR.org, 5/15/20), Continue reading
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Iraq to Sue US over Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons: Official
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An adviser to the Iraqi parliament’s foreign affairs committee said the Baghdad government is planning to lodge an international lawsuit against the US for using internationally-banned munitions in civilian areas. Continue reading
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the general meeting of the Russian International Affairs Council, Moscow, December 8, 2020
The international agenda has been packed with crises and conflicts. As if this was not enough, COVID-19 appeared and has done tangible damage to the global economy. State borders are still closed or subject to different restrictions. Human contact has been disrupted in all spheres without exceptions. It is only possible to counter this virus… Continue reading
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Getting India out of the hole with China is still possible
Two Indian correspondents based in Beijing drew out the Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying at a press briefing Thursday on the recent ‘frank’ remarks by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar about India’s problematic relationship with China in an interview with the Australian think tank Lowy Institute. A purpose was served. Continue reading
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Assertive Germany muddles Iran issue
Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister, in a speech in Moscow on December 8 dwelt on the western attempts lately to maintain the model of a unipolar world order. He said the European Union’s dalliance with the idea of itself being a pole in a multipolar system is dissipating and warned of Germany’s recent policies in… Continue reading
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Will China Run the World? Should it?
[Prefatory Note: Interview Responses to Questions of Javad Heiran-Nia on world order in the time of COVID-19, with emphasis on China & United States, especially as reflected in the restructuring of the world economy. The underlying issue is whether the Chinese or U.S. approach to global policy and world order will gain the upper hand,… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 