The New Dark Age

'Socialism or Barbarism'

December 3, 2020

  • Coke’s sickening secrets

    The Coca-Cola Company used its sponsorship of international public health conferences to deflect blame for the obesity epidemic away from its products, according to a new study based on documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know. Continue reading

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  • What way forward for equality in the UK and France?

    3 December 2020 — Institute of Race Relations Order our festive bundle for just £20 Following the IRR’s concern about the appointment of controversial ‘race iconoclast’ David Goodhart as commissioner at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and amid revelations about the views of other commissioners, Jenny Bourne sets the debate about the EHRC in historical context by examining the statutory bodies Continue reading

  • We Are Grass. We Grow on Everything: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2020)

    3 December 2020 — Tricontinental Aswath (India), Lenin met India, 2020 Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Farmers and agricultural workers from northern India marched along various national highways toward India’s capital of New Delhi as part of the general strike on 26 November. They carried placards with slogans against Continue reading

  • 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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  • Black Agenda Report 3 December 2020

    3 December 2020 — Black Agenda Report BLM Chapters Demand “Accountability” from Trio that Cashed in on the Movement  Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor  Ten chapters of the national Black Lives Matter organization are in open revolt against the individuals that have treated the mass movement as their personal vehicle for upward political, professional and financial Continue reading