April 29, 2021
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UK Crony Capitalism: The Judgment is in
Good Law Project is today able to reveal the names of four more companies awarded contracts through the VIP lane: Clandeboye Agencies, P14 Medical, Luxe Lifestyle and Meller Designs. Continue reading
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I’m Still Here, Though My Country’s Gone West: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2021)
29 April 2021 — Tricontinental A mass rally with the Free German Youth that marked the founding of the German Democratic Republic in the Soviet Occupation Zone, October 1949. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. A full generation has elapsed since the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed Continue reading
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Post-American Afghanistan through the looking glass
Ex-CIA officer Bruce Riedel at Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, whose familiarity with Afghanistan is never in doubt, has held a looking glass to figure out the future course of events even as the US troop withdrawal commences. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 29 April 2021
29 April 2021 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: No Justice Without a Movement Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist The changes needed are fundamental to a country which puts anti-black racism at the center of politics, law and economics. Continue reading
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Not so much oven-ready as ready made curtains for Mr. Johnson
Something interesting is happening in capitalist governance. The capitalist class is closing ranks, regularising and professionalising its rule by squeezing out the populist fools. Instinctively they recognise the class battles which lie ahead and they can no longer tolerate those who flippantly raise the aspirations of the masses and then misgovern. Continue reading
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Politics in Britain is entering a new phase
The successful vaccine roll out by the NHS and Starmer’s right wing gallop has given Johnson a shot in the arm. Polls put the Tories 7% ahead of Labour, and on the 6 March at 13% ahead. But the Brexit fall-out, the Covid “social murder”, the dis-United Kingdom, and the economic crisis all point towards… Continue reading
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21 April 2021: Vaccine capitalism and more
Vaccine capitalism – Penally military refugee camp closes – profiles of Deliveroo and deportation profiteer Evelop/Barceló Group Continue reading
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How Climate Collapse Will Overwhelm The U.S. Military & Jeopardize The State’s Existence
The story of the climate’s deterioration is intertwined with the story of class conflict, with the battle between the revolutionaries and the counterrevolutionaries. Much to the chagrin of U.S. national security technocrats, factors show that the instability and destruction from the climate collapse is most likely going to harm the strategic interests of the counterrevolutionaries… Continue reading
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Can sabotage stop climate change?
Despite the climate movement’s growth, epitomized by Extinction Rebellion and Student Strike for Climate, fossil fuel extraction continues to grow, and a safe climate can seem dismayingly distant. Given a choice between forgoing capital accumulation and tipping the whole world into a furnace, our rulers prefer the furnace. Continue reading
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The CIA’s Chinese Walls
It is not in dispute that the CIA is in possession of Julian Assange’s legal and medical files seized from the Ecuadorean Embassy, including correspondence and drafting by his lawyers on his defence against extradition to the USA on Espionage charges. The defence submitted evidence of this in court. After Julian was arrested in the… Continue reading
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Watch: “The Present” — A Painful Short Film Tells the Whole Story of What It Means to be Palestinian
In “The Present,” as throughout all of Palestine, soldiers, police officers, secret police, or Shabak agents, have the power — indeed they are instructed — to harass, humiliate, and take the lives of Palestinians in the most arbitrary fashion. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 