August 2021
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Spectre of Syria haunts Afghanistan
The Moscow daily Vedomosti with links to the establishment has reported that Russia will give “limited military support” to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the event of attacks from Afghanistan, including weapons supplies, air support and deployment of special forces, but there are “no plans to deploy major ground forces” to the region. Continue reading
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Facing Prison for Fighting Chevron
It was back in 2007, when I found him in his thatched stilt home in the rainforest. Criollo told me his 5-year-old son had jumped into a swimming hole, covered with an enticing shine. The shine was oil sludge, illegally dumped. His son came up vomiting blood, then dropped dead in the Chief’s arms. Continue reading
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Live in 5: Lebanon in Crisis with Rania Khalek
5 August 2021 — MintPressNews Hosted by Mnar Muhawesh, Behind The Headline is a citizen led watchdog video series created in partnership with Free Speech TV airing on Dish, DirecTV and Roku. Continue reading
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Watch: Top New York Times, WaPo Experts Affiliated With Pentagon-Funded CNAS Think Tank
Imagine a country where there’s no separation between the government, the military, and the media. A lot of Americans would think of China, Russia or North Korea, but it’s a perfect description of the United States today. And here in Washington, the think tank inside this nondescript building – Center For A New American Security… Continue reading
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Watch SpyCops: How the UK Police Infiltrated Over 1,000 Political Groups
As part of their false personas, many officers entered romantic relationships with political activists, leading to the births of a number of children whose mothers were completely unaware of their partners’ double lives. Continue reading
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Hiroshima-Nagasaki: The story they want us to forget
The world’s first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, when a plutonium implosion device was tested at a site located 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the barren plains of the Alamogordo Bombing Range, known as the Jornada del Muerto (day of the dead). Continue reading
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China Eradicates Absolute Poverty While Billionaires Go for a Joyride to Space: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2021)
Confounding news comes from the flagship World Economic Outlook report of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The report highlights many of the pressing issues facing our planet: disruptions in the global supply chain, rising shipping costs, shortages of intermediate goods, rising commodity prices, and inflationary pressures in many economies. Global growth rates are expected to touch 6% in… Continue reading
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Direct progenitor of SARS-CoV-2 pinpointed as originating from Mojiang, China
While a south-central Yunnan source does not rule out either a lab or a zoonotic origin in principle, the result compels all candidate hypotheses to incorporate a plausible link with that locality. Continue reading
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Missing the mark: 22 years on from Macpherson
5 August 2021 — Institute of Race Relations Since indicating its support for the Sewell report, a number of things have become clear about this government’s attitude to racial justice. The first is that it doesn’t accept that structural racism is an issue in the UK today, and the second is that, where evidence of Continue reading
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A new dawn breaks in Tehran
On Thursday, Iran’s new president Ebrahim Raisi takes the oath of office in a ceremony in the Majlis in Tehran. This will be a defining moment in the Islamic Republic’s political history, since in many ways, the country is at the crossroads. Continue reading
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Jeff Bezos says everything will be ok
The climate crisis may be dire, with ever more frequent and increasingly devastating floods and wildfires, with killer droughts and heatwaves across the globe, with oceans warming 40% faster and arctic ice sheets melting 70% faster than had been predicted a mere five years ago, with arctic permafrost melting and belching super-greenhouse methane into the… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 5 August 2021: Glen Ford Tribute Issue
5 August 2021 — Black Agenda Report Glen Ford’s Journalism Fought for Black Liberation and Against Imperialism | Black Agenda Report Margaret Kimberley, BAR Senior Columnist Glen Ford: A Remarkable Revolutionary | Black Agenda Report Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor Continue reading
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Outsiders Impose Leader in Haiti Yet Again
U.S., Canada, France, Spain, Germany and Brazil Disregard Wishes of the Haitian People and Select Ariel Henry—who sold out to the Western powers following the country’s 2004 coup—As Successor to Slain Haitian President Jovenel Moïse Continue reading
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20,595 Dead 1.9 Million Injured (50% Serious) Reported in European Union’s Database of Adverse Drug Reactions for COVID-19 Shots
2 August, 2021 — Global Research By Brian Shilhavy Health Impact News The European Union database of suspected drug reaction reports is EudraVigilance, and they are now reporting 20,595 fatalities, and 1,960,607 injuries, following COVID-19 injections. A Health Impact News subscriber from Europe reminded us that this database maintained at EudraVigilance is only for countries in Europe who Continue reading
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CoJiT: The “Anti-Extremism” Think Tank Started by Sons of Israeli Superspy Robert Maxwell
CoJiT’s profound and manifold connections to the Israeli security state call into question the Maxwell brothers’ motives for founding the think tank, considering how an anti-Muslim extremism agenda could dovetail so easily with a pro-Israeli state one. Continue reading
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Cuba’s US-Backed Pop-Culture Dissidents
Over the past decade, Washington has spent millions to cultivate anti-government rappers, rock musicians, artists, and journalists in Cuba, Max Blumenthal reports. Continue reading
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Foreign Agents #1: Exposing the San Isidro Movement & US culture war on Cuba
In new Rokfin livestream, Max Blumenthal details his investigation into Cuba’s San Isidro Movement and the US sponsorship of the right-wing cultural dissident group Continue reading
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Discriminatory vaccine passports pose an even greater threat than ID cards
I have not forgotten that fifteen years ago, the Prime Minister wrote in this paper that if someone in authority demanded he show an ID card he would “physically eat it in the presence of whatever emanation of the state has demanded that I produce it.” Continue reading
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The Apocalypse That The Imperialists Are Engineering
As the U.S. empire slowly crumbles, it’s cutting its losses. This means waging ever-growing campaigns to destabilize the places that are slipping out of its control. Obama’s 2011 destruction of Libya, where the richest democracy in Africa was bombed into nonexistence and NATO left the country a slave trade-ridden failed state, was a major step towards this… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 