February 2021
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UK: Buying injustice
Tomorrow [3 February] sees our legal challenge for Government’s failure to disclose details of COVID-19-related contracts. The case is being brought by Good Law Project along with a cross-party group of MPs – Caroline Lucas (Green), Debbie Abrahams (Labour) and Layla Moran (LibDem). Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 4 February 2021
4 February 2021 — Black Agenda Report Nightmare Years Will Repeat Themselves – Until the People Kick Out the Cabal Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor To take on the corporate imperial racial capitalist state, we need a Black-led movement that puts politics in command and names the Democratic perpetrators and collaborators that are culpable in Continue reading
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The “Russian hacking” NATO psyop has finally been solved
To professional analysts, it has long been clear that the “Russiagate” saga – including the “Russian hacking” claims, the Trump-Russia collusion claims, as well as the “Skripal poisoning incident” and the more recent “Navalny poisoning incident” – has been a US and NATO psychological operation aimed at containing a resurgent Russia and a somewhat unpredictable… Continue reading
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Viral Inequality: From Jeff Bezos to the struggle of Indian Farmers
The world’s 10 richest billionaires have collectively seen their wealth increase by $540bn over this period. In September 2020, Jeff Bezos could have paid all 876,000 Amazon employees a $105,000 bonus and still be as wealthy as he was before COVID. Continue reading
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ColdType February 2021 (Issue 219) is now online
3 February 2021 — ColdType Continue reading
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The mainstream: meeting the historic challenges?
Recently, newly confirmed US Treasury secretary and former Fed chief, Janet Yellen, spelt out the challenges facing US capitalism in a letter to her new staff. She said: “the current crisis is very different from 2008. But the scale is as big, if not bigger. The pandemic has wrought wholesale devastation on the economy. Entire… Continue reading
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Lebanon – British Embassy Infiltrates Military Intelligence, Provides Snooping Equipment, Indoctrinates Young Palestinians
Keeping the Syrian border safe and secure is certainly not a British priority. Let’s not forget that it was Britain which hired various companies, led by ‘former’ British intelligence officers, who then organized and ran the propaganda campaigns for the Jihadi onslaught on Syria. Continue reading
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Stop the game – I want to get off!
‘Hedging’ used to be a way of reducing the risk of selling or buying. Farmers waiting for their harvest to come in are uncertain about what price per bushel they will get at the market: will they get a price that makes them a profit and a living for next year or will they be… Continue reading
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New study: low levels of glyphosate altered gut microbiome
A new animal study found that low levels of the weed killing chemical glyphosate and glyphosate-based Roundup can alter the composition of the gut microbiome in ways that may harm health. Continue reading
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“At First I Thought it Was a Joke”: Academic Media Censorship Conference Censored by YouTube
An academic critical media literacy conference warning of the dangers of media censorship has, ironically, been censored by YouTube. The Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas 2020 took place without incident online over two days in October and featured a number of esteemed speakers and panels discussing issues concerning modern media studies. Continue reading
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UK: Prorogation redux
In 1539, Henry VIII gained the right to legislate by decree, enabling him to bypass Parliament altogether. And now Boris Johnson, the man who has already tried and failed to suspend Parliament, is taking further cues on democracy from a Tudor King. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of February 1, 2021
1 February 2021 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford Billionaire Wealth Breaks All Records in Crisis / US Militarists Invent Enemies – and Russiagate — for Dollars / Abolish Police, from the US to Nigeria / Anti-Black Racism Is Environmental Hazard / The American Way of Fascism Billionaire Continue reading
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Dialogue and Reconciliation in Venezuela: A Conversation with Father Numa Molina
Numa Molina is a Jesuit priest, theologian and journalist who committed himself fully to the Bolivarian Process when most of the Catholic church’s hierarchy took sides with the fascistoid opposition. In this interview, Molina talks about dialogue and reconciliation, the ethical crisis that some sectors of Chavismo are experiencing, and the non-material dimensions of emancipation. Continue reading
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USA: CNA Nursing Home Whistleblower: Seniors Are DYING LIKE FLIES After COVID Injections! SPEAK OUT!!!
James (he gives his last name in the video) is a CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant), and he recorded this video as a whistleblower because he could not keep silent any longer. James reports that in 2020 very few residents in the nursing home where he works got sick with COVID, and none of them died… Continue reading
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UK: Cover Up? – Shocking rise in care home deaths after receiving Covid Jab!
UK authorities have been proudly telling anyone that will listen how well their vaccine roll out compares to the rest of the world. As of the 31st January we know, thanks to Matt Hancock constantly boasting about it on Twitter, that 8.3 million Brits have so far received at least one dose of the three… Continue reading
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Indian Farmers on the Frontline Against Global Capitalism
In a short video on the empirediaries.com YouTube channel, a protesting farmer camped near Delhi says that during lockdown and times of crisis farmers are treated like “gods”, but when they ask for their rights, they are smeared and labelled as “terrorists”. Continue reading
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Grenfell Tower – Government accused of covering up ‘national scandal’
The British government has been accused of trying to cover up a “national scandal” by telling local councils it was “appropriate” to block the release of information about high-rise buildings like Grenfell Tower that have potentially lethal aluminium cladding. Continue reading
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Why the US Deep State won’t forgive Russia and Iran
In a stunning interview to the Beirut-based al Mayadeen network, Hezbollah’s secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah has outlined how Maj Gen Qassem Soleimani – assassinated by an American drone strike at Baghdad airport a litle over a year ago – was instrumental in convincing Russia to help Syria militarily in its war against Salafi-jihadis. Continue reading
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UK: medConfidential Bulletin, 29th January 2021
COVID-19 is an extraordinary situation, and the Government has taken extraordinary powers. That what’s been done with them has not always been satisfactory or sufficient is a matter for public inquiry (which we weren’t the only ones calling for back in July) but regarding what has been done with patients’ data, several themes have emerged. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 