January 28, 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
The New Dark Age 