20 May 2021 — Off Guardian
In April, the Indian government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft, allowing its local partner CropData to leverage a master database of farmers. The MoU seems to be part of the AgriStack policy initiative, which involves the roll out of ‘disruptive’ technologies and digital databases in the agricultural sector.
20 May 2021 • 21:30 — The New Dark Age
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Conservative Jewish Journalists Use False Claims of Censorship to Try to Silence Critics
“The Hamas” are Coming: A View of the Violence from Inside Israel
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-hamas-are-coming-view-violence-inside-israel/277210/
20 May 2021 — Institute of Race Relations
If anti-racism is about social justice, social justice is about rights, and this week on IRR News we focus on legislation and police practices that erode rights, as well as asking what should be done in complicated circumstances when the rights of different groups seemingly collide.
20 May 2021 — Tricontinental
Laila Shawa (Palestine), The Hands of Fatima, 1989.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Israel’s massive war machine attacks the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) with total disregard for international law. Since the OPT is an occupied territory, the United Nations does not permit the occupier – Israel – from altering the character of the land under occupation. However, this has not impeded Israel, whose attempt to evict families in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood resulted in the entry of Israeli border troops inside the al-Aqsa mosque, followed by waves of aerial bombardment that has resulted in daily death and injury toll that will be known only when the dust settles.
17 May 2021 — Jonathan Cook
No one should be surprised that Britain’s rightwing prime minister, Boris Johnson, has had barely anything to say about Israel’s pummelling of Gaza, with nearly 200 Palestinians reported to have been killed by airstrikes and many hundreds more seriously wounded.
17 May, 2021 — The Saker
Nakba, May 15, 2021. Future historians will mark the day when Western “liberal democracy” issued a graphic proclamation: We bomb media offices and destroy “freedom of the press” in an open air concentration camp while we forbid peaceful demonstrations under a state of siege in the heart of Europe.
And if you revolt, we cancel you.
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20 May 2021 — Swiss Policy Research
Cumulative covid deaths in Sweden, the EU, and the US (OWD)
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