May 2021
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Statewatch News 7 May 2021
7 May 2021 — Statewatch News (Issue 09/21, also available as a PDF) Support our work —————————————- EU: Detention at the borders to increase “voluntary” removals As part of its ongoing drive to increase the removal of migrants from EU territory, the European Commission unveiled a new strategy on “voluntary” return and reintegration at the end of Continue reading
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In Wake of HRW Apartheid Report, Israeli Propagandists Launch Global PR Offensive
Much of the online anger at the Human Rights Watch report was actually manufactured by an Israeli government-sponsored app, Act.IL, which organized supporters of the Jewish state to act in sync to create an artificial groundswell of opposition to it. Continue reading
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Dan Ellsberg Blows the Whistle Again at UMASS-Amherst Conference to Commemorate His Legacy
The 90-year-old Pentagon Papers leaker details top secret plans in 1958 to destroy Taiwan and warns that similar discussions are going on in the Pentagon today. Continue reading
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Halt Vaccine Passports! It’s illegal, medical apartheid
It is very important that people understand what is happening here. The intention is to introduce vaccine passports everywhere. But this is a disguise. It’s a world’s first digital common-format, globally-interoperable ID system with an editable health flag (vaccinated Y or N). Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides
7 May 2021 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Soil Biodiversity Under Grave Threat from Pesticides – Most Comprehensive Review Ever A new study published Tuesday by the academic journal Frontiers in Environmental Science finds that pesticides widely used in American agriculture pose a grave threat to organisms that are critical to healthy soil, biodiversity and soil carbon Continue reading
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India will be front-line state in Myanmar civil war
Conceivably, therefore, the decision by the Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd to abandon their highly lucrative Myanmar container terminal project and write down the investment falls in the same league. For, corporate houses are also known to possess animal instincts — they pick up subtle sounds or vibrations in the earth and anticipate impending disasters. Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: Misleading Parliament
On 22 February, in the aftermath of the High Court finding that Matt Hancock had broken the law by failing to publish PPE contracts, Boris Johnson told Parliament this: “the contracts are there on the record for everybody to see” and “all the details are on the record” But what he told Parliament was just not true. A large… Continue reading
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Aiming At China U.S., UK Launch Ethnic Guerilla War On Myanmar
The pipe, road and rail lines through Myanmar are not only in China’s best interest but also a great chance for Myanmar to further develop. They are in its national interest. The U.S. and its allies are hostile to China. Threatening to cut its oil supplies is probably the most powerful tool in their box.… Continue reading
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Space Colonization Is A Capitalist Perception Management Op
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are in a dispute with NASA over whose private space exploration corporation will get the $2.9 billion US government contract to return to the moon. I gleaned this annoying piece of information by way of an obnoxiously sycophantic Atlantic puff piece titled “Elon Musk Is Maybe, Actually, Strangely, Going to Do This Mars Thing”, subtitled… Continue reading
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UK threatens to charge Palestine Action with terrorism
Human rights activists in the UK are facing the suggestion by police that their actions against an Israeli weapons manufacturer could be considered as “terrorism.” Continue reading
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Covid Vaccines: The Tip of the Iceberg
SPR carefully distinguishes between short-term and long-term safety, short-term and long-term effectiveness, age- and sex-specific aspects, and medical and political questions. Some people might prefer a simpler, more black-and-white assessment, but this would not reflect complex reality. Continue reading
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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
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The new Collateral Global website is live!
The underlying mission of Collateral Global is to openly evaluate COVID-19 related public health measures, including their second- and third-order effects. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 