February 2021
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EU/Germany parting of the ways?
From its inception the European Union was an ambitious strategy to build an economic bloc which would serve as a counter-weight to the US’s global economic dominance. (1) One of the primary conditions of this overall construction involved the creation of a single strong currency, the euro, that could become the rival to the US$.… Continue reading
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Deflation, inflation or stagflation?
During the year of the COVID, global consumer and producer prices dropped fell. In some manufacturing-based economies, there was even a fall in price levels (deflation) eg the Euro area, Japan and China). Continue reading
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UK Bans China’s CGTN for Being Too Much Like the BBC
The British Office of Communications (Ofcom) has pulled the license for China Global Television Network (CGTN) effectively terminating its ability to operate in the UK. Continue reading
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Statewatch News 12 February 2021 (Issue 03/21)
12 February 2021 — Statewatch Also available as a PDF) Like us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter —————————————- Support the fight for civil liberties in Europe Our small team of staff and volunteers works hard to bring you news, analysis, documentation and information on key civil liberties issues in Europe, With your support, we can maintain and Continue reading
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The Foreign Roots of Haiti’s “Constitutional Crisis”
As per usual, news on Haiti in the United States remains limited, except for during periods of “crisis.” As if on cue, U.S. media began reporting on Haiti’s “constitutional crisis” this week. Sunday, February 7 is the end of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse’s term, according to the constitution. He refuses to step down. This week,… Continue reading
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Head of Strategic Command: US Must Prepare for “Very Real Possibility” of Nuclear War With China
In an era when international cooperation in the face of pandemics and climate change is essential, the world appears to be racing towards a new Cold War, and unfortunately, few except the military top brass are talking about it. Continue reading
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Defend Wikileaks: Update on 2016 releases
Since we released this briefing, a number of developments have brought more information into the public record confirming WikiLeaks acted as a journalistic outfit in releasing DNC emails in 2016. We’ve also collated relevant commentary from intelligence officials and fellow journalists. Continue reading
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Rupert Murdoch seizing control
By TruePublica: It appears that the News Corp executive chairman Rupert Murdoch and his top executives in the UK and US met Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other high-level Government politicians seven times between them in seven weeks last summer. Worse, it has since emerged that News Corp editors and execs from the UK and America… Continue reading
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Ecuador: Between the Dispute for the Ballot and a Political Pact
Five days after the presidential and legislative elections in Ecuador, the National Electoral Council (CNE) has not yet finished counting 100% of the votes. However, with 99.88% of the ballots counted and 98.81% computed, it has been confirmed that Guillermo Lasso will enter the second round with 19.79% of the votes, while Yaku Perez, with… Continue reading
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RFK, Jr. Responds to Instagram’s Removal of His Account
Wednesday, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Instagram account was deplatformed without advanced notice. Dozens of media outlets reporting on this censorship asserted the account was removed over “false COVID vaccine claims” or “vaccine misinformation.” Some reports referred to Kennedy as an “anti-vaxxer.” Continue reading
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Queen of Chicken Hawks: Victoria Nuland Had A Hand in Every US Intervention in the Past 30 Years
As the Senate prepares to confirm Nuland for Under Secretary for Political Affairs, a reflection of her last 30 years in government shows how she was connected to nearly every foreign policy disaster undertaken by the United States. Continue reading
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Lithium, Batteries and Climate Change
I have spent the last year working on a book called Fight the Fire: Green New Deals and Global Climate Jobs. Most of it is about both the politics and the engineering of any possible transition that can avert catastrophic climate breakdown. One thing I had to think about long and hard was lithium and… Continue reading
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Facebook hires ex-NATO press officer and social media censor Ben Nimmo as intel strategist
Ben Nimmo, a former NATO press officer and current senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, has announced Facebook has hired him to “lead global threat intelligence strategy against influence operations” and “emerging threats.” Nimmo specifically named Russia, Iran and China as potential dangers to the platform. Continue reading
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‘Progressive extremism’ – casting doubt on the racial justice cause
If a Telegraph interview with the government’s ‘independent adviser on political violence and disruption’ is anything to go by (see our calendar on racism and resistance), a review of the activities of the ‘extreme fringes at both ends of the political spectrum’ will focus extensively on the threat posed by so-called ‘progressive extremism’ – ie, environmental and racial… Continue reading
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The Invincible Green Stick of Happiness
6 February 2021 — Edward Curtin Tolstoy’s grave on the edge of the ravine at his estate Yasnaya Polyana “Ясная поляна, могила Л.Н. Толстого 2” by Alexxx1979 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 After a night of haunting dreams that flowed as if they were written like running water, written on air, as the Roman Continue reading
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‘Our Indifference To Ourselves’ – Beyond The ‘Virtue’ Of Self-Sacrifice – Part 2
As we saw in Part 1, in 1914 and again in 1939, millions of men and women welcomed war. Arnold Ridley and his pals did make this choice, but in reality the choice had been made for them by decades and centuries of the relentless ‘patriotic’ propaganda described by Tolstoy, which most people were powerless to resist. Continue reading
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The Three Apartheids of Our Times (Money, Medicine, Food): The Sixth Newsletter
11 February 2021 — Tricontinental Willie Bester (South Africa), Cross Roads, 1991. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In the early months after the World Health Organisation announced the coronavirus pandemic, the Indian novelist Arundhati Roy wrote of her hope that the pandemic would be a ‘portal, a Continue reading
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UK: Public money for political advantage
Correspondence from Government shows it plans to claim a staggering £500k-600k in costs for a one day hearing of a judicial review challenge to a contract awarded by Dominic Cummings to his friends at Public First. The higher figure is more than the total value of the Public First contract of £564k. Continue reading
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Ecuador News Links 7-11 February 2021
11 February 2021 — The New Dark Age Ecuador’s US-Backed ‘Ecosocialist’ Candidate Yaku Pérez Aids The Right-Wing https://popularresistance.org/ecuadors-us-backed-ecosocialist-candidate-yaku-perez-aids-the-right-wing/ Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 10 February 2021
10 February 2021 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: Forced Labor in the U.S. Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist Forced labor of Uyghurs in China is questionable, but there is absolute proof that incarcerated people in this country are forced to work for little or no pay. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 