March 29, 2021
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Priti Patel: Torturing the Scapegoat
I frequently find myself differing with readers who find it hard to understand that I can have personal friendships with people with politics very contrary to my own. I do not believe having a different opinion to me makes you a bad person. But there are times when I look at political opponents and consider… Continue reading
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Israel election: The far-right is triumphant. The only obstacle left is Netanyahu
As 13 parties struggle with Israel’s complex post-election maths, seeking alliances that can assure them power, the most significant outcome of the vote is easily missed. The religious fundamentalists and settler parties – Israel’s far right – won an unprecedented and clear-cut victory last week. Continue reading
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USA: WHY DO THEY KEEP DOING IT?
Einstein is said to have observed that insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, and expecting a different result. What a perfect description for US foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. Two decades in Iraq and Afghanistan is not enough: keep doing it. Sanctions on Russia haven’t made any… Continue reading
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COVID-19: Greed Drove Big Pharma Companies to Privatize Vaccines
29 March, 2021 — Consortium News – Common Dreams The AstraZeneca jab was actually developed by scientists from a publicly-funded institution, writes Nick Dearden in a retort to comments by Boris Johnson. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson shows proof of getting Oxford–AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine on March 19. (Andrew Parsons, No 10 Downing Street, Flickr) By Nick Dearden Common Continue reading
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The Vaccine Conundrum
Initial data from Israel and Scotland appeared to indicate a very high real-world effectiveness of covid vaccines, even in senior citizens. However, much of this data was heavily adjusted for various factors and was therefore not easy to interpret. Numerous reports of covid outbreaks in care homes even after the second vaccination have raised additional… Continue reading
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Propaganda By Omission: Libya, Syria, Venezuela And The UK
We live in a war-like society; one that supports, and is in league with, the world’s number one terrorist threat: the United States of America. Corporate media propaganda plays a key role in keeping things that way. Continue reading
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European Group on Ethics presents biased and inaccurate report on new genetic engineering
The European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE), which advises the EU Commission, has published its report on New Genetic Engineering (New GE or gene editing). The report deals with New GE applications in humans, animals and plants. While the report makes thoughtful points on gene editing in humans and livestock animals,… Continue reading
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You Refuse to Get Vaccinated, But Are You Ready to be an Outcast?
“If behavioral psychologists helped to shape the government’s strategy on mass vaccination, then in what other policies were they involved? Were these the “professionals” who conjured up the pandemic restrictions? Were the masks, the social distancing and the lockdowns all promoted by “experts” as a way to undermine normal human relations and inflict the maximum… Continue reading
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NATO Headquarters: Blinken announces last global crusade
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s address at North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters in Brussels on March 24, entitled Reaffirming and Reimagining America’s Alliances, is a landmark, a watershed articulation of the most far-ranging and perhaps the final initiative of the West to preserve and extend world domination; a crusade inaugurated by the U.S. and the… Continue reading
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Dangerous Crossroads: US-NATO vs. Russia-China in a “Hybrid War” to the Finish?
Let’s start with comic relief: the “leader of the free world” has pledged to prevent China from becoming the “leading” nation on the planet. And to fulfill such an exceptional mission, his “expectation” is to run again for president in 2024. Not as a hologram. And fielding the same running mate. Continue reading
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This is how shingles of Indian interests in Myanmar overlap Russia and China’s
India did the right thing by dissociating from other “Quad” members to join the defence attaches of Myanmar’s neighbouring countries and attend the parade on Saturday in Naypyitaw to mark the Armed Forces Day — although pro-American proxies in the media have voiced some misplaced indignation. Continue reading
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Incredible Hulk “Virus Variants” and Other COVID Science Fiction Fantasies
The idea that an “under-performing” vaccine is going to make the virus even more deadly makes no sense to me. If anything, would not an under-performing vaccine make the virus even weaker? Continue reading
The New Dark Age 