May 6, 2021
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The Censorship Pandemic
During the coronavirus pandemic, the well-known manipulation and censorship on major US internet platforms Google/YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia has reached unprecedented levels. The platforms generally claim to enforce WHO and ‘local health authority’ guidelines, not because they are correct – they were mostly wrong – but because they are deemed “authoritative”. Continue reading
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IRR News 6 May 2021: A different election – far Right breakthrough in Madrid
6 May 2021 — Institute of Race Relations On Tuesday, 4 May, 100 people attended a meeting co-hosted by Migrants Organise, Asylum Matters, Leeds Anti-Raids Action and the Institute of Race Relations, on responding to the government’s public consultation on its ‘New Plan for Immigration’. The week before, on Friday, 30 April, a public statement from 193 human rights groups, Continue reading
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Afghanistan – Taliban Capture Baghlan
The Taliban spring offensive in Afghanistan is more successful than expected. Today they took the center of Baghlan, a city north of Kabul with some 150,000 inhabitants. Continue reading
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US Ambassador Kelly Degnan Imposes External Control on Georgia
As part of the competitive struggle throughout the history of mankind, individual countries have already fallen under the external control of others, losing their sovereignty. This has been expressed since the controlling power unilaterally exerted a direct influence on the vassal state, prescribing certain managerial decisions to it, equivalent to the transfer of power in… Continue reading
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In Kerala, the Present Is Dominated by the Future: The Eighteenth Newsletter (2021)
6 May 2021 — Tricontinental E. Meera (Kerala), Red Dawn, 2021. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Kerala, a state in the Indian union with a population of 35 million, has re-elected the Left Democratic Front (LDF) to lead the government for another five years. Since 1980, the people Continue reading
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Biden uses first major address to lay out his program for the working class
In his first speech to a joint session of Congress on April 28, Joe Biden made the calculation that he needed to directly address the needs of the working class. “20 million Americans lost their jobs in the pandemic – working- and middle-class Americans. At the same time, the roughly 650 billionaires in America saw… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 6 May 2021
6 May 2021 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: Progressives Capitulate to Biden Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist Freedom Rider: Progressives Capitulate to Biden Continue reading
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This Biden Proposal Could Make the US a “Digital Dictatorship”
A “new” proposal by the Biden administration to create a health-focused federal agency modeled after DARPA is not what it appears to be. Promoted as a way to “end cancer,” this resuscitated “health DARPA” conceals a dangerous agenda. Continue reading