April 2021
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COVID-19: Taking Stock
What has happened with COVID19 has happened. All around the world Governments and their advisors have blundered about, all claiming they did absolutely the right thing. Maybe a bit slow in locking down here and there. Continue reading
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Heathrow’s IT errors were inconvenient, HMRC’s: stressful, the PO’s led to imprisonment, illness, premature death & suicide
The Post Office management covered up flawed IT systems & software glitches.This, the most flagrant example, ‘Britain’s most widespread miscarriage of justice’ was first reported by the BBC today; 39 former sub-postmasters were cleared of theft following the overturning of six other convictions in December. Continue reading
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New Plan for Immigration is same old Hostile Environment
At the end of March, the Home Office launched its consultation about the New Plan for Immigration. The consultation questionnaire has 45 questions – some are multiple-choice and some are open questions. But all of them are framed in such a way that it is almost impossible to answer any of them in a meaningful way.… Continue reading
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Statewatch News 23 April 2021 (Issue 08/2)
23 April 2021 — Statewatch 23 April 2021 (Issue 08/21, also available as a PDF) —————————————- Biometric databases in Africa to facilitate deportations from Europe A restricted document obtained by Statewatch provides further confirmation that biometric population databases being set up in African states, funded by the EU in the name of facilitating people’s rights, will also expedite Continue reading
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DESMOGUK 23 April 2021: The Greenwashing Files – ‘A great deception’
23 April 2021 — DESMOGUK Crashing waves, sun-bathed wind turbines, bright green algae farms. Also: women running up a steep hill, a newborn’s feet, a smiling scientist, a child in their father’s arms. Emotive imagery of nature and family life are central to adverts made by some of the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters, all Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: Explosive emails
Explosive emails revealed in a hearing on our legal challenge over direct awards of PPE contracts show civil servants raising the alarm that they were “drowning in VIP requests” from political connections that do not have “the correct certification or pass due diligence”. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 22 April 2021
22 April 2021 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: Gun Violence Starts at the Top Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist If the state reserves the right to commit mass murder no one should be surprised that the people follow suit. Continue reading
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The Ukraine Crisis Recedes – But A False Narrative Of It Leads To Bad Conclusions
Some two month ago we discussed how the U.S. focus on narratives will let it collide with reality. It is certainly not only the U.S. government that creates narratives, comes to believe in them, and then fails when it is confronted with reality. Carried by think tanks and media the narrative mold has grown throughout the… Continue reading
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IRR News 22 April 2021: A report for neoliberal times
Whilst the report by the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (CRED) has been derided by many individuals, academics, historians, trade unions, health professionals, MPs and most recently UN human rights experts, what has been muted in discussions is the wider historical context in which the report exists. This week on IRR News, Jenny Bourne provides a… Continue reading
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EVENT Friday, 1:00 PM: “Sensing Injustice” book launch
JOIN MICHAEL TIGAR, AUTHOR OF SENSING INJUSTICE: A LAWYER’S LIFE IN THE BATTLE FOR CHANGE, IN CONVERSATION WITH…. Continue reading
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Afghanistan: US exit is with caveats
The United States and NATO are yet to begin the withdrawal of their forces from Afghanistan but the eyes are cast over the horizon at what lies after the ‘forever war’ formally ends. The US exit strategy in Afghanistan assumes the look of that random arbitrariness of a lottery that was the case with its… Continue reading
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A Bit of Hope That Doesn’t Come from Miami: The Sixteenth Newsletter (2021)
22 April 2021 — Tricontinental Mohsen Taasha Wahidi (Afghanistan), Rebirth of the Red, 2017. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. After twenty years, the United States government – and the forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) – will depart from Afghanistan. They said that they came to do Continue reading
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When Did the “Cold War” End? Part II
Back in October of 2020, I wrote an essay called The Covidian Cult, in which I described the so-called “New Normal” as a global totalitarian ideological movement. Developments over the last six months have borne out the accuracy of that analogy. Continue reading
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The Covidian Cult (Part II)
Back in October of 2020, I wrote an essay called The Covidian Cult, in which I described the so-called “New Normal” as a global totalitarian ideological movement. Developments over the last six months have borne out the accuracy of that analogy. Continue reading
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Football: a people’s sport?
The collapse of the attempt to form a ‘super league’ of top European soccer teams by the billionaire owners of the big clubs is only an interrupted chapter in the story of the commodification of sport into profitable capitalist enterprises, owned and controlled by capital. It is no accident that JP Morgan was the fund manager for… Continue reading
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Vaccine Makers Destroy COVID Vaccine Safety Studies
Makers of COVID-19 vaccines are now destroying long-term safety studies by unblinding their trials and giving the control groups the active vaccine, claiming it is “unethical” to withhold an effective vaccine. Continue reading
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Vladimir Putin On Petty Tabaquis And International Issues
Today Russia’s President Vladimir Putin made his annual Address to the Federal Assembly (English transcript). Most of his talk was about domestic and economic issues. At the end he made some remarks towards international developments and other governments. Continue reading
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WATCH: Perspectives on the Pandemic #13 “The pharmaceutical industry is manufacturing all these medical journal articles, behind the scenes, for marketing purposes.”
As much of the world rushes to receive a lightly-tested pharmaceutical product, we thought it was high time to look again at the (very) big business of medicine. Leemon McHenry, PhD, guides us to the fraudulent core of ghostwritten studies, captured legislators, revolving-door regulatory agencies, pay-to-play medical journals, and the “key opinion leaders” who lend… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 19, 2021
20 April 2021 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 19, 2021 Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford Blacks and the US: a History of Resistance / Maroons Sought Freedom on Ocean Currents / Criminal Neglect of Mumia’s Health Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: Contracts handed to Conservatives
We already knew that Boris Johnson had misled Parliament when he insisted in February 2021 that all COVID contracts were now “on the record”. Now we’ve uncovered a new contract that makes further nonsense of that claim. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 