June 2021
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Gaza/Palestine News Links 1-5 June 2021
5 June 2021 — The New Dark Age The Wind of Change Reached Israel https://journal-neo.org/2021/06/04/the-wind-of-change-reached-israel/ Israel’s new government will deepen rifts, not heal them https://williambowles.info/2021/06/04/israels-new-government-will-deepen-rifts-not-heal-them/ Continue reading
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Tech giants help Israel muzzle Palestinians
Israel’s caretaker prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, sought to shut down all use of the popular video-sharing app TikTok in Israel last month. The attempt to censor TikTok, details of which emerged last weekend, is one of a number of reported attempts by Israel to control social media content during last month’s military assault on the… Continue reading
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The Notorious London Spy School Churning Out Many of the World’s Top Journalists
The fact that the very department that trains high state officials and agents of secretive three letter agencies is also the place that produces many of the journalists we rely on to stand up to those officials and keep them in check is seriously problematic. Continue reading
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Roman Protasevich, Casualty Of The Ryanair Incident In Belarus, Is Spilling The Beans
A TV documentary of the bomb threat against a Ryanair plan (vid) has confirmed our analysis of a false narrative which had been constructed by Belorussian regime change activists. Continue reading
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Israel’s new government will deepen rifts, not heal them
The symbolic moment of a Palestinian party sitting in government alongside settler leaders will turn sour all too soon Continue reading
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Heading toward summit: new NATO narrative depicts Russia as threat to world peace
Heading toward summit: new NATO narrative depicts Russia as threat to world peace Continue reading
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The Campaign against Ivermectin: WHO’s Chief Scientist Served with Legal Notice for Disinformation and Suppression of Evidence
On 25 May 2021, the Indian Bar Association (IBA) served a 51-page legal notice on Dr Soumya Swaminathan, the Chief Scientist at the World Health Organisation (WHO), for “her act of spreading disinformation and misguiding the people of India, in order to fulfil her agenda.” Continue reading
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IRR: Are some feminists inadvertently peddling a far-right agenda?
Last week, amidst widespread condemnation, Boris Johnson met Victor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary and leader ofFidesz, to ‘discuss the importance of the UK and Hungary working together’. As well as being accused of antisemitism, Islamophobia and dismantling human rights, Orbán’s increasingly authoritarian regime has attacked the LGBTQ community, passing a law last year that has… Continue reading
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Two Centuries Of ‘The Imperialist, Warmongering, Hate-Filled Guardian’
In contrast to Media Lens modestly marking a mere two decades in July, the Guardian has been deluging itself with praise on reaching two centuries this year. Not that we would expect otherwise. Continue reading
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UK: TRIGGERnometry – Your Government is Spying on You
2 June 2021 — Big Brother Watch Big Brother Watch Team Big Brother Watch Director Silkie Carlo joins Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster for the latest TRIGGERnometry podcast. Continue reading
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We Hug the Trees Because the Trees Have No Voice: The Twenty-Second Newsletter (2021)
3 June 2021 — Tricontinental Setu Legi (Indonesia), Take Care of this Land, 2010. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, At the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, the delegates decided to hold an annual World Environment Day. In 1974, the UN urged the world to celebrate that day Continue reading
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Timeline, Narrative Control And Consequences Of The Ryanair Incident In Belarus
The fallout from the bomb threat against the Ryanair flight 4978 from Greece to Lithuania continues to hit people who were not at all involved in the incident. That is sad as the ‘western’ perception of the case is based on a completely false narrative which was planted by foreign paid ‘activists’ who aim for… Continue reading
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Matt Hancock has quietly told your GP to hand over your health data. Why?
The government wants your GP data, and it hasn’t given GPs much of a choice From 1 July this year, if you’re registered with a GP in England, the government will be taking a copy of every medical event your GP recorded on their systems since you first registered with them. (Your children’s records, too,… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 2 June 2021
2 June 2021 — Black Agenda Report Norman Finkelstein: Truth and Justice Are the Ultimate Test, Not International NGOs Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor Even Human Rights Watch says Israel is committing crimes against humanity in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and in Gaza, and the idea of a Jewish state in the context of Continue reading
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Migrants Organise: Your solidarity is working!
Earlier this year we reached out to you, to support our legal challenge against the Home Office. We had significant concerns about the Home Office’s failure to provide EU citizens living in the UK with an accessible and humane process for settling here after Brexit. Continue reading
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⚠️ Biggest data grab in NHS history just weeks away
The Government has hatched a plan to copy the entire GP medical history from every patient in England to an NHS Digital database from July 1st 2021. Continue reading
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Four competing views on how to save the Earth
You could be forgiven for thinking that the only book on climate change published recently is Bill Gates’ self-serving How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. Gates’ book is a political intervention into the debates around climate change. He and his class get nervous when thousands of young people demand system change on mass protests. Instead,… Continue reading
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Anti-Anti-Imperialism: Gilbert Achcar’s Leftist Imperialism with Caveats
Behind Achcar’s leftish rhetoric is a flawed belief that somehow the imperialist actions of the U.S. and its allies may be truly humanitarian. Academic Gilbert Achcar, in an article appearing originally in The Nation and picked up by New Politics, proves by his own example that what he calls “progressive democratic anti-imperialists” are not progressive.… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 31, 2021
1 June 2021 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 31, 2021 Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford George Floyd Not a Martyr / The Politics of Performance / The CIA’s New “Woke” Façade Continue reading
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COVID Deaths Plunge after Major World City Introduces Ivermectin
A citywide initiative in Mexico City to prescribe ivermectin to COVID-19 patients resulted in a plunge in hospitalizations and deaths, two studies found. Hospitalizations were down by as much as 76%, according to research by the Mexican Digital Agency for Public Innovation, Mexico’s Ministry of Health and the Mexican Social Security Institute, according to a TrialSiteNews… Continue reading