13 April 2021 — Political Concern
In his March article (summarised here), Dr Steven Schofield denounces ‘Global Britain in a competitive age: The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy’ as encapsulating everything that is wrong with the British state.
13 April 2021 — Covert Action Magazine
By Frank Dorrel
[Another, more critical take on Clark’s life. An important figure in post-WWII politics, especially the US invasion and occupation of Vietnam. WB]
Ramsey Clark speaking at Riverside Church in New York in 2013. [Source: iacenter.org]
On April 9th, Ramsey Clark passed away at his home surrounded by his family.
12 April 2021 — Internationalist 360°
The government of Ukraine announced today that Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba will visit NATO Headquarters tomorrow for an emergency session of the Ukraine-NATO Commission. Kuleba will meet with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and possibly with the North Atlantic Council (consisting of the ambassadors of all thirty NATO member states) as well.
12 April 2021 — Internationalist 360°
The actions perpetrated since March 21 of this year by irregular groups coming from Colombia in La Victoria, Venezuelan territory bordering our sister country, were not improvised. They are part of Plan “B” of the Southern Command to destabilize our Nation and overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution.
12 April 2021 — Consortium News
13 April 2021 — — Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Urban Crises and Push-Out “Engineered” / The Greed of San Francisco’s Hyper-Gentrifying Classes / Biden is Mass Deporter of Haitians and Other Blacks
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13 April 2021 — True Publica
By Rob Woodward – TruePublica: The BBC’s wall-to-wall coverage of the death of Prince Philip has become the most complained-about moment in British television history. It has elicited one of the most negative reactions to BBC programmes ever seen.
13 April 2021 — Global Justice in the 21st Century
by Richard Falk
Ramsey Clark was a great man, and it was my privilege to work with him closely on several occasions. His death is a time to mourn, but it is also a time to remember who he was and why his life mattered in profound ways to so many people.
13 April 2021 — MRZine
by Richard Smith, Simon Pirani, and Eds.
In the Notes from the Editors to the March 2021 issue of Monthly Review, the MR editors questioned some of the arguments in Richard Smith’s book, China’s Engine of Environmental Collapse, as well as replied to Simon Pirani’s related criticisms (writing under his pseudonym of Gabriel Levy) of MR editor John Bellamy Foster on China and the environment. Both Smith and Pirani have written replies to our March editorial, which we are publishing here, along with our own rejoinder.
12 April 2021 — Moon of Alabama
Today CNN continued its long stint of publishing anti-Russian propaganda. But this video ‘report’ falls on several levels.
12 April 2021 — Craig Murray
Discrimination against people on the grounds of their health status is not acceptable, while the ever increasing reach of the surveillance state is pernicious. The idea of people without Covid-19 antibodies being treated as second class citizens should be anathema to anybody with concern for human liberty.
The New Dark Age 