July 2021
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Statewatch: Call for expressions of interest
STATE DATABASES, BIOMETRICS, POLICING AND MIGRATION CONTROL As part of our ongoing work on the development and deployment of biometric technologies for policing and migration control, we are organising two workshops in October this year. Continue reading
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Trying to Put All America Behind
NSO Group, a private Israeli firm that sells surveillance technology to governments worldwide, insists that its Pegasus spyware is used only to “investigate terrorism and crime.” Leaked data, however, reveals that the company’s hacking tool “has been used to facilitate human rights violations around the world on a massive scale.” Continue reading
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Politicians, Journalists, HR Activists And Others Spied Upon Using Pegasus Spyware
NSO Group, a private Israeli firm that sells surveillance technology to governments worldwide, insists that its Pegasus spyware is used only to “investigate terrorism and crime.” Leaked data, however, reveals that the company’s hacking tool “has been used to facilitate human rights violations around the world on a massive scale.” Continue reading
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Cuba News links 17-19 July 2021
19 July 2021 • 14:45 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back What do you really know about U.S.-Cuba relations? https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/07/what-do-you-really-know-about-u-s-cuba-relations/ What They Don’t Say About Cuba https://popularresistance.org/what-they-dont-say-about-cuba/ Continue reading
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Do drug trials underestimate side effects?
One commonly used trick in drug trials is to exclude any group that might make the drug look worse, such as those that are more likely to experience side effects. A good recent example of this is the covid vaccine trials, which largely excluded people with auto-immune diseases (more likely to develop an auto-immune disease… Continue reading
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Legalized Apartheid: The Israeli Supreme Court Just Cemented Jewish Supremacy into Law
JERUSALEM — In November of last year, an Israeli judge invoked the controversial Jewish Nation-State Basic Law when striking down a lawsuit against the city of Karmiel over funding transportation for two Palestinian students. Continue reading
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Cuba News Links 15-17 July 2021
17 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 Gaza: A Vision Of What Capital & Empire Intend For The Rest Of The Globe https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2021/07/gaza-vision-of-what-capital-empire.html Cuba Proves US Involvement In Destabilization Actions https://popularresistance.org/cuba-proves-u-s-involvement-in-destabilization-actions-against-the-cuban-people/ Continue reading
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A Senseless Cathedral of Doom: The Twenty-Eighth Newsletter (2021)
15 July 2021 — Tricontinental Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In early June 2021, the United States military led a major military exercise on the African continent: the African Lion 21. Major General Andrew Rohling of the US Army’s Southern European Task Force said it was the ‘largest US military Continue reading
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China explains its Afghan motivations
The ministerial meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the meeting of the SCO-Afghanistan working group at Dushanbe on July 13-14 have thrown light on the templates of China’s approach to the evolving situation in Afghanistan. Continue reading
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Biotech: EU Commission spreading misinformation
The EU Commission has rejected criticism of its report on plants and New GE (New Genetic Engineering, genome editing). In a letter to Testbiotech, the Commission stated that there were no new risks associated with plants derived from genetically engineered plants compared to conventionally bred plants, as long as no transgenes were inserted. The Commission… Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: Government is appealing
The statement issued by Downing Street when Michael Gove lost the Public First case (“We welcome the judgment”) might almost have made you think he had won. He didn’t of course – and the finding he had broken the law by awarding a contract to friends of Dominic Cummings was a powerful vindication of Good… Continue reading
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The Approaching Storm
So, it looks like GloboCap isn’t going to be happy until they have fomented the widespread social unrest — or de facto global civil war — that they need as a pretext to lock in the new pathologized totalitarianism and remake whatever remains of society into a global pseudo-medicalized police state … or that appears… Continue reading
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US-Russia ties warming up. Is it for real?
A “thaw” has appeared in the US-Russian relations. The unanimous vote by the United Nations Security Council last Friday extending a cross-border aid operation into Syria from Turkey must be regarded as an important moment. Continue reading
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The ‘Vaccine Passport’ Agenda
Overall, medical aspects are only the operational level of the coronavirus pandemic: in countries where the median age of covid deaths is above 80 years, the public health impact of the pandemic will be quite limited and primarily related to serious cases of ‘long covid’. Indeed, even the WHO recently acknowledged that the coronavirus pandemic… Continue reading
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Resisting new police powers – what next for #KillTheBill campaigners?
In the end, every member of the governing party in the House of Commons voted for the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in its entirety. Continue reading
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A Secret British ‘Strategic Communication’ Campaign Aims To Fracture The Balkans
In late 2018 we learned about the secret British government campaign to smear Russia. The campaign was run by the ‘Integrity Initiative’ – A Military Intelligence Operation, Disguised As Charity, To Create The “Russian Threat”. Continue reading
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Cuba: The Blockade and the Crisis
Washington believes that the time has come to intensify its attacks on any government in the region that does not obey its orders. In the last few days we have seen the suspicious assassination of the president of Haiti, with a modus operandi that bears the imprint of the CIA. Also the brutal attack by… Continue reading
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Our Rulers Have All The Power And None Of The Responsibility
As the world burns, as ecosystems die off, as the insects vanish, as the forests disappear, as soil becomes rapidly less fertile, as extinction takes over, as the oceans gasp for air and become lifeless deserts while continents of plastic form in their waters, it is interesting how often you hear the sentiment that this is the result of some flaw in humanity for which we all share… Continue reading
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Sicko UK
On the 73rd birthday of the National Health Service, the queen awarded the beloved NHS the George Cross for the valor of its staff during the Covid-19 pandemic. No one doubts the dedication of NHS staff, and its worthiness for the highest honor, but this medal now serves to cover the insidious dismantlement of the… Continue reading
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China opens the SCO pathway to Kabul, India should go along
The untimely remarks by External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on the situation in Afghanistan during a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov at Moscow on Friday does no good for his reputation as a scholar-diplomat with integrity or for India’s standing on the global stage as a responsible regional power. Continue reading
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