July 2021
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The Three Tribes of Political Ecology
The decade that ended in 2020 was the decade of global climate inaction. Without a doubt, our inability to transform our economic systems into models compatible with planetary boundaries will define the beginning of the 21st century. Continue reading
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Coronavirus, Vaccines and the Gates Foundation
Arguably, no one has been more active in promoting and funding research on vaccines aimed at dealing with coronavirus than Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. From sponsoring a simulation of a coronavirus global pandemic, just weeks before the Wuhan outbreak was announced, to funding numerous corporate efforts to come up with… Continue reading
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Cuba News Links 23-26 July 2021
26 July 2021 — The New Dark Age Standing with the Cuban People Mexico Readies Navy Ships To Bring Food, Supplies To Cuba https://popularresistance.org/mexico-readies-navy-ships-to-bring-food-supplies-to-cuba/ Continue reading
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Blinken comes riding the Pegasus
Pegasus, the winged divine horse from Greek mythology, symbolises a range of things. The mythological salad can include many symbolic narratives — ranging from soul’s immortality to poetic inspiration — even the Marxist eschatological myth of the withering away of the state. Continue reading
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Biden approves algorithm war in Afghanistan
This is the second time that a US president uses Afghanistan as punch bag. Thirteen years ago, Bill Clinton, chaffing under the steamy Monica Lewinsky affair, ordered the firing of some 100 cruise missiles right into Kandahar where late fugitive Taliban amir Mullah Omar was reportedly quartered. Clinton displayed that he could still put the… Continue reading
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medConfidential Bulletin, 23rd July 2021
If you asked NHS Digital for opt-out forms and the forms didn’t show up, or took ages to arrive, people tell us that happened a lot. You can get forms from us here. We’d like to be able to tell you that you will have more information on the ‘GPDPR’ data scheme in the future than… Continue reading
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Cuba News Links 19-23 July 2021
23 July 2021 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Operation Condor II: “The Right-Wing Coalitions in the Region Have Washington’s Backing” https://libya360.wordpress.com/2021/07/23/operation-condor-ii-the-right-wing-coalitions-in-the-region-have-washingtons-backing/ Washington Beats the Drum of Regime Change, but Cuba Responds to Its Own Revolutionary Rhythm: The Continue reading
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Covid Vaccines: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
The hundreds of millions of people who were told that vaccination will protect them against a coronavirus infection will soon have to realize (once again) that this is not the case: instead, most of them will get infected anyway. On the positive side, this may actually provide additional mucosal immunity to large parts of the… Continue reading
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UK scripts new Afghan plot for US
The ministerial meeting at Dushanbe last week of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and the SCO contact group with Afghanistan left a trail of disappointment. The SCO statement on Afghanistan was a baby step — significant, nonetheless, considering the group’s growing inner contradictions. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 22 July 2021
22 July 2021 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: Standing with the Cuban People – Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist The current Black-centered Cuban protest operation is very well orchestrated and if Black people in this country are not careful, they will end up amplifying the dictates of U.S. imperialism. DOCUMENT: The Rise of Black Power Continue reading
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Global warming: planning not pricing
Carbon pricing and carbon taxes are now proposed by international institutions and mainstream economics as the main solutions to ending global warming and destructive climate change. For some time, the IMF has been pushing for carbon pricing as ‘a necessary if not sufficient’ part of a climate policy package that also includes investment in ‘green… Continue reading
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Washington Beats the Drum of Regime Change, but Cuba Responds to Its Own Revolutionary Rhythm: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2021)
22 July 2021 — Tricontinental Préfète Duffaut (Haiti), Le Générale Canson, 1950. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In 1963, the Trinidadian writer CLR James released a second edition of his classic 1938 study of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. For the Continue reading
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The US Is The Absolute Worst: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
America has the single worst government in the world. Shut the fuck up about Cuba. Hands off Cuba and regime change America. Continue reading
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Climate Change: Why we can’t trust mainstream media
MANUFACTURING CATASTROPHE How and why mainstream media minimizes climate change Continue reading
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Not Forgetting Palestine
Once you have been active in politics for a few decades, you get used to the popular convulsions of support for Palestine every few years when Israel military action against Gaza becomes particularly intense. Then follows a ceasefire, the media move on and Israel resumes the daily routine of low level evictions, destruction of tree… Continue reading
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Councils’ “hidden algorithms” profile millions on benefits, Big Brother Watch investigation finds
Big Brother Watch’s new report “Poverty Panopticon: the hidden algorithms shaping Britain’s welfare state”, published today, reveals that 540,000 benefits applicants are secretly assigned fraud risk scores by councils’ algorithms before they can access housing benefit or council tax support…250,000+ people’s data is processed by a range of secretive automated tools to predict the likelihood… Continue reading
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Breaking through the Western Media Propaganda Coverage of Cuba Protests
While there are plenty of reasons for ordinary Cubans to currently feel disenchanted about life on the island, there are also strong suspicions that these protests were not quite the grassroots uprising they were made out to be in the U.S. press. Continue reading
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BREAKING: Vaccine passes to be mandatory!
The Prime Minister has just announced that vaccine passports are to be mandatory from September for nightclubs and large events. This means that not only will the NHS Covid Pass be mandatory – but tests will no longer be an option on them. Only the vaccinated will be admitted entry to events. Continue reading
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