May 2021
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View: Big Brother Watch on the ‘Vaccine Passport’
Our Director Silkie Carlo to Julia Hartley-Brewer after a closer look at the Covid vaccine status feature on the NHS app reveals plans for more than just international travel… Continue reading
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Gaza/Palestine Newslinks 21 May 2021
21 May 2021 • 18:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back “The Palestinian Sharpeville” – Dr Haidar Eid on the Global Implications of the Gaza Massacre https://www.mintpressnews.com/haidar-eid-global-apartheid-implications-gaza-massacre/277290/ Pakistan bomb blast targeting Islamist party leader kills 6 at Continue reading
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Statewatch News 21 May 2021 Issue 10/21
21 May 2021 — Statewatch News (Issue 10/21, also available as a PDF) Vacancy: Finance and Administration Worker We are looking for a Finance and Administration Worker to play an active role in our small team, in a committed but relaxed working environment. You will be responsible for maintaining our financial and administrative procedures, ensuring compliance Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 21 May 2021
21 May 2021 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Glyphosate Herbicides Significantly Associated with Preterm Births – University of Michigan Study Exposure to a chemical found in the weed killer Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides is significantly associated with preterm births, according to a new University of Michigan study published Wednesday. The study, published in Environmental Continue reading
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21 May 2021: Costing the earth
21 May 2021 — DeSmogUK Honestly, we’d really rather not be writing about the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group on a windswept Friday afternoon (or, indeed, any afternoon, tbh). But in what feels like an alarming pattern of recent weeks, yet another high profile figure has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a thinktank Continue reading
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Watch: World stands with Palestine
Huge numbers of people all over the globe have been protesting in solidarity with Palestinians this month as Israel intensifiedits killing campaign in the Gaza Strip, and a massive uprising swept cities and villages all over historic Palestine. Continue reading
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David & Goliath
Credit: Rakesh Kumar For more on the settler state’s fascist assault on Gaza see: https://www.artforum.com/slant/activestills-collective-documents-the-assault-on-palestinian-life-85746 Continue reading
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Chilling – Not In a Good Way
Dave Llewellyn sat next to me in the public gallery of the Salmond trial as we witnessed the defence witnesses – largely female – who shredded the prosecution case. A few weeks ago, seven detectives of the Serious Crime Squad raided Dave’s home at 5am, handcuffed him and questioned him over conspiracy to murder –… Continue reading
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Watch: The Real Mission to Mars
Apparently — and entirely predictably — low-Earth-orbit is now firmly within the widening tides of corporate capitalism’s great waste ocean. The communications satellites our overclass uses to maintain its web of ever-expending commercialism is now creating a real crisis of off-planet clutter: Continue reading
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Palestine is Winning the Legitimacy War
[Prefatory Note: This opinion piece was published in Middle East Eye on May 18, 2021, and republished in Il Manifesto and The Wire under different titles. It attempts to contextualize the current violence directed against Gaza in earlier Israeli provocations. It also takes note of Israel’s reliance on excessive force in its attack upon an essentially helpless Gazan… Continue reading
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Microsoft vs Indian Farmers: Agri-Stacking the System
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. Continue reading
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Gaza/Palestine News Links 19-20 May 2021
20 May 2021 • 21:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back 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/ Continue reading
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IRR News 20 May 2021: Stop and search – more concerns about PCSC Bill
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. Continue reading
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Sleep Now in the Fire: The Twentieth Newsletter (2021)
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 Continue reading
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Ignore Starmer’s moral posturing. He’s the one we should blame for stoking antisemitism
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. Continue reading
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The mask of “liberal democracy” falls with a bang
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. Continue reading
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Covid: The Big Picture (May 2021)
The…chart shows that after more than one year into the pandemic, cumulative confirmed covid mortality in Sweden – without lockdown, mask mandate, and primary school closures – is significantly lower than the average in both the EU and the US. Within the US, the same applies to Florida, especially if adjusted for the mean age… Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: High Court update
Today the High Court heard our lawyers detail waste, mismanagement – and yet more special treatment for politically connected companies placed in the “VIP” Lane. Continue reading
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How India lost its way in Persian Gulf
There have been two successive setbacks in the past one-year period to the India-Iran relationship. India has been literally eased out of two strategically important projects in Iran that were full of promise to uplift the ties in a medium and long term perspective. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 19 May 2021
19 May 2021 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: The Palestine Litmus Test Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist President Joe Biden continues to proclaim endless support of apartheid Israel, but millions have decided that defense of Palestinian rights and lives is the only civilized response to barbaric aggression. Poem: June Jordan, Moving towards Home, Editors, Continue reading
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