March 2021
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Government announces new restrictions to the right to protest
The coronavirus pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on our ability to take to the streets. Now the Home Office is busy preparing, in readiness for when public health restrictions start to ease, to make sweeping changes to public order legislation that will give the police extra powers to restrict future protests. Continue reading
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You Know “We’ll Never Know,” Don’t You? Review of Adam Curtis’s six-part documentary ‘Can’t Get You Out Of My Head’
The reviewer Lucy Mangan of The Guardian approvingly writes, the film is “a dazzling, overwhelming experience.” This is true, but not in the way she thinks with her five-star rating. The film does dazzle, and fascinate, but in the sense of bewildering or casting a spell. Continue reading
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Doctors and Scientists Challenge European Medicines Agency on COVID-19 Vaccine Danger
This week, a group of scientists and doctors have issued an open letter calling on the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to answer urgent safety questions regarding COVID-19 vaccines, or withdraw the vaccines’ authorisation. Continue reading
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Return of the Leviathan: The Fascist Roots of the CIA and the True Origin of the Cold War
In 1998, the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG), at the behest of Congress, launched what became the largest congressionally mandated, single-subject declassification effort in history. As a result, more than 8.5 million pages of records have been opened to the public under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act (P.L. 105-246)… Continue reading
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UN Rebuke of US Sanctions on Venezuela Met With Stunning Silence
Alena Douhan, the UN special rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, published her preliminary report on February 12 on the impact of US and European sanctions on Venezuela. Continue reading
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The Pope-Sistani riddle
By any historical measure, it was a game-changer: the first meeting since the 7th century between a Roman Catholic Pope and a Shiite spiritual leader regarded as a “source of emulation.” Continue reading
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UK: The government wants to silence dissent
Other than at a General Election – an event occurring at five-yearly intervals that hands unconstrained power to a Party that wins a majority – a citizen has but one way of registering dissent at what is done in their name: the right to protest. Yesterday the Government announced its intention to legislate that right out of… Continue reading
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Massive Secret UK Propaganda Campaign in Former Soviet Republics Seeds Contempt
From the Skripal affair to Navalny’s rise to the Russian Olympic doping scandal, these damning revelations should be enough to dispel any notions of truth in what the UK and allies tell their citizens through mainstream media outlets and the social media landscape they control. Continue reading
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Resisting Various Forms of Increasing Corporate Domination of Farming and Food Systems
Keeping in view the increasing concerns worldwide to check increasing corporate control over farming and food systems, there is a need to look more carefully at various forms of this increasing corporatization and consider carefully various ways and means of resisting this. Continue reading
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In Support Of Regime Change – The New York Times Continues To Disinform Its Readers
U.S. President Joe Biden continues Donald Trump’s regime change policy towards Venezuela. From yesterday’s press briefingby the State Department: Continue reading
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lack Agenda Report for 10 March 2021
10 March 2021 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: Trump/Biden Foreign Policy Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist Biden rules like Trump regarding Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Haiti, because the two imperial parties serve the same masters. Continue reading
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Yemen war a quagmire for Saudi Arabia
With the world’s largest oil export terminal coming under missile and drone attack — a giant Saudi Aramco complex capable of exporting roughly 6.5m barrels a day, nearly 7% of global oil demand — the war in Yemen surges in the global media. During the night on Saturday, the Houthis fired eight missiles and 14… Continue reading
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African food systems are the ‘new oil,’ UN documents say
Planning documents for the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 shed new light on the agenda behind the controversial food summit that hundreds of farmers’ and human rights groups are boycotting over its dominance by agribusiness interests. Continue reading
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The New Normal (Phase 2)
Most of Western Europe is still in “lockdown,” or “under curfew,” or in some other state of “health emergency.” Police are fining and arresting people for “being outdoors without a valid reason.” Protest is still banned. Dissent is still censored. The official propaganda is relentless. Governments are ruling by edict, subjecting people to an ever-changing series of increasingly absurd restrictions of… Continue reading
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NYT Fails to Examine Its Participation in Brazil’s ‘Biggest Judicial Scandal’
The Brazilian Supreme Court on March 8 dismissed all charges against former President Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva made during the Lava Jato investigation, a little over a month after the investigation was officially ended. The termination came shortly after the Supreme Court admitted 6 terabytes of leaked Telegram chats between public prosecutors and judges as evidence in… Continue reading
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Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 2
8 March 2021 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism Plundering a New Found Land While treasure fleets carried silver to Spain, far more ships were carrying men, fish and whale oil across the North Atlantic. Part One discussed the development of fish as a mass food commodity, and the Dutch use of factory ships in the Continue reading
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Govt-Linked CSIS Urges DC To Partner with Social Media Firms To “Promote Protests Movements”
A new report from Washington D.C.-based think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) concludes that the U.S. government should work closely with social media companies to ensure that protest movements around the world result in an outcome more conducive to American interests. Along with intern Riley McCabe, the organization’s senior fellow, Samuel… Continue reading
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Biden Iran envoy boasted of depriving civilians of food, driving up Iranian inequality in sadistic sanctions manual
Richard Nephew has taken personal credit for depriving Iranians of food, driving up their unemployment rates, and celebrated the economic destruction he caused as “a tremendous success.” Under Biden, he will help direct policy on Iran. Continue reading
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Fear and Celebration of Substack Are Both Misplaced
A debate rages in the media world about the trend of writers with substantial online followings moving away from writing for traditional publications and simply going to the website Substack, where writers sell content directly to their readers, untethered from any editorial constraint. (It’s like a less titillating version of OnlyFans.) Substack has a number… Continue reading
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