January 21, 2021
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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
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My Wish Is That You Win This Fight for Truth: The Third Newsletter (2021)
21 January 2021 — Tricontinental Diego Rivera (Mexico), The Uprising, 1931. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 26 January, India’s Republic Day, thousands of farmers and agricultural workers will drive their tractors and walk into the heart of the capital, New Delhi, to bring their fight to the doors Continue reading
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Corporate Media’s Leaked Chinese Documents Confirm China Didn’t Hide Covid-19
CNN (11/30/20) examined “China’s mishandling of the early stages of Covid-19,” despite the fact that China brought its pandemic under control within two months, whereas CNN is based in a country that at the time was seeing its own outbreak surge to unprecedented heights. Continue reading
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The UK’s Singapore-on-Thames Delusion
I will not spend much time on this topic because it is so ridiculous. But the notion that the UK can become a ‘Singapore-on-Thames’ seems to underlie some Brexit fantasies. Do these have any foundation? Continue reading
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Baghdad on the Potomac: Welcome to the Blue Zone
The season opening of the Joe and Kammy Regime Change Show could not be a more appropriate roomful of mirrors reflecting the self-described US “political elite”. Continue reading
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US makes aggressive opening move on Russian chessboard
A regime change project in Russia was launched on Sunday with the return of political activist Alexei Navalny to Moscow. It was a highly symbolic event — except that Navalny was travelling by an aeroplane from Germany and not in a sealed train. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 