February 25, 2021
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IRR News 25 February 2021: Free speech champion for whom?
25 February 2021 — Institute of Race Relations Not just in the UK, but in Spain, Portugal and France, as our regular digest of developments across Europe shows, governments and quangos are warning universities and institutions that the re-evaluation of colonial history will bring dire consequences – at the same time presenting themselves as champions of free Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 25 February 2021
25 February 2021 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: No Human Rights in Texas Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist The people of Texas suffer unnecessarily from bad weather because their state puts oligarchs first and does not recognize the human right to health and safety. BLACK CITIZENSHIP FORUM: The Roots of Xenophobic Violence in South Continue reading
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Your Privileges Are Not Universal: The Eighth Newsletter (2021)
25 February 2021 — Tricontinental José Balmes (Chile), Lota el Silencio, 2007. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Stencilled in red on the walls of Santiago, Chile is a statement of fact: ‘your privileges are not universal’ (tus privilegios no son universales). This is a factual declaration because the Continue reading
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Censorship Gone Mad – ‘Be A Good Citizen!’
Yesterday the censorship department at Twitter went mad. Continue reading
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The Pine-eyed Boy Escapes from the Belly of the Dark Night in the Fish’s Tale
It’s hard to say where things begin, but they do, as do we, and we are somehow in them and they in us, and a story begins. Then the story gets silently disclosed as we live it, even though most of us don’t tell it until later, if we can find our tongues. But when… Continue reading
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The Insanity of the PCR Testing Saga
For several months, experts have highlighted the true cause behind the COVID-19 pandemic, namely the incorrect use of PCR tests set at a ridiculously high cycle count (CT), which falsely labels healthy people as “COVID-19 cases.” In reality, the PCR test is not a proper diagnostic test, although it has been promoted as such. Continue reading
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COVID 19: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Profitable)
24 February 2021 — theplanningmotivedotcom We have passed through the epicentre of the pandemic and the trailing winds are subsiding. Time to take stock. This article compares the contrasting impact of the pandemic in the USA to India. It is the follow up to an article first presented in May last year titled “Reversing the Continue reading
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Biden resumes adult conversations with Beijing, Moscow
17 February 2021 — Indian Punchline US envoy to Iran Robert Malley (third from left) at a 2015 meeting with Iranian officials, including Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (far R), Geneva Like a bolt from the blue, the news has appeared belatedly that the US special envoy to Iran Rob Malley initiated a call with Chinese Continue reading