August 2021
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Creative Associates International (CAI): It’s Not Exactly the CIA, But Close Enough
CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND — You have likely not heard of them, but Creative Associates International (CAI) is one of the largest and most powerful non-governmental organizations operating anywhere in the world. A pillar of soft U.S. power, the group has been an architect in privatizing the Iraqi education system, designed messenger apps meant to overthrow the… Continue reading
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Afghanistan – Is this the end?
13 August 2021 — Moon of Alabama This was fast. The Taliban have as of now 18 of 34 provinc[ial] capitals under the[ir] control. August 6 – Zaranji (Nimruz) August 7 – Sheberghan (Jowzjan) August 8 – Kunduz (Kunduz) August 8 – Sar-e Pol (Sar-e Pol) August 8 – Talquan (Takhar) August 9 – Aybak Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 12-13 August 2021
13 August 2021 • 23:40 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Selected Articles: What Is the Future of Afghanistan? https://www.globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-future-afghanistan/5752947 “It’s Not So Bad In Afghanistan”: Hypocritical Europe Not To Allow New Refugees https://southfront.org/its-not-so-bad-in-afghanistan-hypocritical-europe-not-to-allow-new-refugees/ Continue reading
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Israeli cities impose beach apartheid on Palestinians
Three Israeli coastal cities are being slammed by a civil rights group for effectively banning Palestinians from their beaches. Continue reading
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Environmental Demonstrators vs Militarized Police
These disasters give a new sense of urgency to transition away from the fossil fuels that are causing this climate chaos. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the movement fighting for this transition is running up against intense police repression — funded by private corporations as well as the federal government. Continue reading
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Delta Variants, PCR Tests and Cognitive Dissonance
To paraphrase a famous quip from then Presidential candidate Bill Clinton in a debate with his Republican opponent in 1992, “It’s the vaccine, stupid!” The daily mainstream media and government narrative we are being inundated all over the world with is confusing to most, to put it mildly. So-called Delta or “Indian” variant is spreading… Continue reading
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‘Flowers’ for founder of the ‘theatre of resistance’
Inspired by a specific play in the 1970s, Maishe Maponya decided to write and stage works of his own. He would later go on to collaborate with, and inspire, many others, even beyond South Africa’s borders. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 12-13 August 2021
13 August 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 Targeting the Medical Evidence: The US Challenge on Assange’s Health A Day in the Death of British Justice https://williambowles.info/2021/08/13/a-day-in-the-death-of-british-justice/ Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf, August 2021
12 August 2021 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism A bumper crop! Ten new books for red-greens and green-reds Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C agrees with everything (or even anything!) Continue reading
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A Day in the Death of British Justice
I sat in Court 4 in the Royal Courts of Justice in London yesterday with Stella Moris, Julian Assange’s partner. I have known Stella for as long as I have known Julian. She, too, is a voice of freedom, coming from a family that fought the fascism of Apartheid. Today, her name was uttered in… Continue reading
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Show the Children the Green Fields and Let the Sunshine into Their Minds: The Thirty-Second Newsletter (2021)
12 August 2021 — Tricontinental Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Exactly two years ago, I walked with my colleagues from Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research through the Camp Marielle Vive (‘Marielle Lives’) outside of Valinhos in the state of São Paulo, Brazil with a great sense of déjà Continue reading
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Climate change: the fault of humanity?
The sixth report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) runs to nearly 4,000 pages. The IPCC has tried to summarise its report as the ‘final opportunity’ to avoid climate catastrophe. Its conclusions are not much changed since the previous publication in 2013, only more decisive this time. The evidence is clear: we know… Continue reading
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Planned Euthanasia Does Not Constitute Healthcare – No Matter How Hard You Clap For It
In April and June of 2020 I wrote about something I referred to as LOKIN 20. In a series of articles I was among those in the so called “alternative media” who tried to highlight that lockdowns and other response measures, created by the Coronavirus Act, increased the risks to the most vulnerable. Continue reading
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British High Court Expands US Government’s Appeal In Assange Extradition Case
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was astounded by Britain’s High Court after it reversed a prior decision and permitted the United States government’s appeal on grounds related to his health. Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: A secret back-channel
This is a story that everyone in the country should hear. We’ve joined up with Led By Donkeys to expose the truth about the Government’s secret back-channel which allowed friends of the Conservative Party and other politically connected suppliers to secure billions of pounds of PPE contracts. Continue reading
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Climate Collapse Will Create The Next Wave Of Genocide Against Colonized Peoples
At the end of this century, people will conclude that the warming of the climate precipitated a rise in white nationalism like we’ve never seen before. This climate-related fascist upswell, which is already at play, will be unprecedented in that the crisis preceding it is unprecedented. The rise of fascism in the early-to-mid 20th century… Continue reading
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The Uncontrollability of Globalizing Capital
We live in an age of unprecedented historical crisis. Its severity can be gauged by the fact that we are not facing a more or less extensive cyclic crisis of capitalism as experienced in the past, but the deepening structural crisis of the capital system itself. As such this crisis affects—for the first time ever… Continue reading
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Monthly Review July-August 2021
9 August 2021 — Monthly Review July-August 2021 (Volume 73, Number 3) The Editors (July 4, 2021) buy this issue This special issue of Monthly Review is devoted to the New Cold War on China. What has been the view of the Chinese Revolution presented in Monthly Review in the past seven decades? How has it changed over time? As Continue reading
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“We Are Telling People, Vote for Yourselves!”: Rehoboth Kafwabulula of Socialist Party of Zambia
The spokesperson of the Socialist Party of Zambia, Rehoboth Kafwabulula spoke to Peoples Dispatch about the upcoming elections in Zambia and the key messages they are taking to the masses Continue reading
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Don’t waste the opportunity at UN SC
India’s thirty-day tenure through August as the president of the UN Security Council has got mired in needless controversy. The issue is about the “emergency meeting” regarding Afghanistan that India convened on Friday. According to Pakistan, it had made a “a formal request” for participation in the meeting but India turned it down. Continue reading
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