January 2021
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UK: Race, Mental Health, State Violence
28 January 2021 — Institute of Race Relations What is often overlooked in struggles around race, policing and deaths in custody, is the role of mental ill health as a key thread of vulnerability. Several stark cases have shown how black men suffering a mental health crisis can end up dead following police involvement. Continue reading
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UK Govt: They want us gone
Correspondence with Government has revealed they expect to spend a staggering £1 million defending our judicial review of their decisions to award contracts criticised by the NAO. This is a sum unprecedented in our lawyers’ experience of judicial review proceedings. We can’t but wonder whether they are trying to scare us off – using the… Continue reading
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Massive Scientific Evidence Ignored by FCC: Listen to Court Hearing Live on Monday
Environmental Health Trust (EHT), the scientific think tank headed by award-winning scientist Devra Davis PhD, MPH is the lead petitioner in a landmark case against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Continue reading
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We Should All Be Outraged, But Outrage Is Not a Strong Enough Word: The Fourth Newsletter (2021)
28 January 2021 — Tricontinental Mahmoud Sabri (Iraq), Death of a Child, 1963. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Someday the world will be free of the coronavirus. Then, we will glance backward at these years of misery inflicted by virions with spike proteins that have struck down millions of Continue reading
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More Cyber Crimes, Attributed To Russia, Are Shown To Have Come From Elsewhere
The operating center of Emotet was found in the Ukraine. Today the Ukrainian national police took control of it during a raid (video). The police found dozens of computers, some hundred hard drives, about 50 kilogram of gold bars (current price ~$60,000/kg) and large amounts of money in multiple currencies. Continue reading
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Does Lockdown work, or not?
This blog was published on RT-com, after much discussion and a few changes. It can be seen here It took a few days. The editors were concerned about the fact-checkers having a go at it and demanding retraction. Continue reading
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Is This Revolution Truly Rinky-Dink?
During the late 60s, when the US war on Viet Nam was going strong and people were questioning capitalism, I drove from Eugene to Berkeley where my sister was living. I ran into folks who invited me to a discussion about starting a commune. There, everyone talked about dropping out of consumer society and buying land to get away… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 27 January 2021
27 January 2021 — Black Agenda Report Democratic Fascists Prepare to Drop the Hammer Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor Democrats are determined to snuff out freedom of speech and assembly to protect the corporate ruling order – while pretending it’s to safeguard Black people. Continue reading
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Mega-rich recoup COVID-19 losses in 9 months but for everyone else…
The 1,000 richest people on the planet recouped their COVID-19 losses within just nine months, but it could take more than a decade for the world’s poorest to recover from the economic impacts of the pandemic, reveals a new Oxfam report today. ‘The Inequality Virus’ is being published on the opening day of the World… Continue reading
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Here’s a graph they don’t want you to see
Here’s a graph that doesn’t get shown in the mass media, and that I’m sure all those who want you to stay fearful of covid don’t want you to see. It shows the share of the tested population with antibodies to covid in Sweden week by week, beginning in the 28th week of 2020 (the… Continue reading
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REVEALED: Public money is funding private healthcare
The UK government has used half a billion pounds of aid money to fund unaffordable private healthcare services in the global south. We need to take a stand and demand that public money is used to support universal public healthcare instead. Continue reading
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US ‘Plundering’ Syrian Oil to ‘Send to Israel’
Syria’s state-run media earlier reported that 200 troops had been flown to US bases in al-Shaddadi on 21 January for future deployment at Omar oil field and Koniko gas field in neighbouring Deir ez-Zor province. It was also reported that the US-led military coalition had dispatched 40 truckloads of weapons and logistical equipment to Hasakah. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 25, 2021
25 January 2021 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford Biden Will Resume “Humanitarian” Wars / Haitians Tell President “Get Out by February 7” / “Expect Push for Censorship Under Biden Biden Will Resume “Humanitarian” Wars Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford The Biden Administration will Continue reading
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Three tragedies born in the womb of neo-liberalism
At first sight, the Pandemic, Grenfell and Brexit, don’t seem to be connected, but they are. They represent the uncivilised outcomes of an unrestrained capitalism obsessed by cutting costs, the state and regulations. The result is that the short-term enrichment of the tiny minority are now being swamped by the longer-term losses that the rest… Continue reading
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Covid and fictitious capital
During the year of the COVID, output, investment and employment in nearly all the economies of the world plummeted, as lockdowns, social isolation and collapsing international trade contracted output and spending. And yet the opposite was the case for the stock and bond markets of the major economies. The US stock market indexes (along with… Continue reading
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Is There An American ‘Deep State’?
When a society is deeply troubled, and governed in ways that seem under the influenceof dark forces and disinformation becomes part of everyday life, it seems natural that all sorts of explanations will flourish. Few of us can handle uncertainty, and so many affirm falsehoods for thesake of achieving a specious clarity about the unknowable,… Continue reading
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WHO Finally Admits COVID-19 PCR Test Has a ‘Problem’
The WHO’s new guidance, which includes lower PCR thresholds, almost guarantees COVID “case” numbers will automatically drop dramatically around the world. Continue reading
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Zoom Privilege: COVID-19 restrictions are making the rich richer & everyone else poorer
Wall Street, Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley are swimming in cash and prosperity. 2020 could not have gone better for the country’s elites. The vast majority of Americans, on the other hand, have been forced into financial, physical, and emotional ruin. 2020 served as the year that government dictates — purposed with fighting a disease… Continue reading
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If Covid-19 is Primarily a ‘First World’ Virus, Why is the Global South in Lockdown?
The currently available Covid-19 vaccines have been authorized for ‘emergency use ‘in Europe and North America. This is due to an apparent spike in Covid-19 flu cases in the northern hemisphere as winter advances. Highly advertised vaccines are being produced and rolled out at ‘warped speed’ by powerful pharmaceutical and bio-technology companies headquartered in Euro-America… Continue reading
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Israel censored this film. Watch it here
Every act of censorship inadvertently achieves its opposite by drawing attention to its subject. Last week, an Israeli court ordered the 2002 film Jenin, Jenin to be banned in Israel and all copies of it confiscated. The film – which was directed by Mohammed Bakri, a Palestinian citizen of Israel – has been the subject… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 