IRR: What is happening to equalities in the UK?

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23 September 2021 — Institute of Race Relations

What is happening to equalities in the UK? After a former employee of the statutory body, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, accused the EHRC of ‘colluding in the denial of institutional racism’, IRR News reminds readers of a series of its pieces which over the past year have warned how this government appears set on disappearing the matter of structural racism whilst reversing hard-won civil rights in the name of ‘freedom of speech’ and ‘viewpoint diversity’.

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UK: Why is Owen Jones defending a Nazi collaborator?

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22 September 2021 — The Electronic Intifada

Asa Winstanley

Owen Jones talking to the press. Pete Maclaine ZUMA Press

Guardian columnist Owen Jones markets himself as a leading leftist voice.

His profile on Twitter, where he has more than one million followers, emphasizes his “anti-fascist” credentials.

Why, then, did he just publish a defense of a Nazi collaborator? An Israeli judge once ruled that Zionist leader Rezső Kasztner was Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann’s “catspaw,” but Jones seems to disagree.

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Where Flowers Find No Peace Enough to Grow: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter (2021)

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23 September 2021 — Tricontinental

Milwa Mnyaluza ‘George’ Pemba (South Africa), New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, 1977.

Dear friends,

Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute of Social Research.

On 13 July 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopteda landmark resolution on the prevalence of racism and for the creation of an independent mechanism made up of three experts to investigate the root cause of deeply embedded racism and intolerance. The Group of African States pushed for this resolution, which had emerged out of global anger over the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police on 25 May 2020. The discussions in the UNHRC considered the problems of police brutality and went back to the formation of our modern system in the crucible of slavery and colonialism. A number of Western countries – such as the United States and the United Kingdom – hesitated over both the assessment of the past and the question of reparations; these governments were able to remove the requirement to investigate systematic racism in US law enforcement.

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Clear Away the AUKUS Hype: The US and Australia Signed a Nuclear Arms Deal

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22 September 2021 — Internationalist 360°

Vijay Prashad

US President Joe Biden, UK PM Boris Johnson, and Australia’s high commissioner to the UK George Brandis, had met during the G7 meeting in Cornwall in June. The AUKUS which was announced on September 15, was deemed “a forever partnership” by Brandis. Photo: George Brandis/ Twitter

The AUKUS despite being coined a security partnership, is a nuclear arms deal aimed at increasing pressure against China and should be cause for concern

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Indian state with 240 million people completely eradicated Covid with Ivermectin

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23 September 2021 — Dr Eddy Betterman M.D.

How did an Indian state with more than 240 million residents beat the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19)? Simple. Its people took ivermectin.

Uttar Pradesh, located in northern India, has officially declared that all 33 of its districts are now “covid-free” thanks to a benevolent effort by the leaders there to provide everyone with “horse dewormer.”

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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-21

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23 September 2021 — Indian Punchline

by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR

Acting Prime Minister of Taliban Interim Government Mohammad Hasan Akhund and senior ministers met the special envoys of Russia, China and Pakistan in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 21, 2021

21. Pakistani diplomacy is on a roll

An Indian news website that is wired into Panjshir Valley reported this morning that Amrullah Saleh, former Afghan vice president and security tsar in the Ghani government has relocated to Tajikistan and that that he was given a safe passage by the Tajikistan government.

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A reflection on covid mania

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23 September 2021 — Dr Sebastian Rushworth M.D.

by Sebastian Rushworth, M.D.

At the beginning of this year I wrote about how the governments of the world had created a collective state of hysteria so intense that the only way they could dig themselves out of the hole they had made was with a magic bullet. That magic bullet was, of course, the vaccines. I wrote that it didn’t really matter how effective the vaccines were in the real world, or whether they prevented transmission. All that mattered was getting every single person on the planet to take the vaccine, after which the politicians would be able to declare victory.

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Afghanistan News Links 22-23 September 2021

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23 September 2021 • 15:30 — The New Dark Age

There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back

Taliban Says Three ISIS-K Terrorists Were Killed In Jalalabad Operation, Photos Show Signs Of Execution (18+)
https://southfront.org/taliban-says-three-isis-k-terrorists-were-killed-in-jalalabad-operation-photos-show-signs-of-execution-18/

ISIS Claimed Responsibility For Series Of Attacks Against Taliban In Afghanistan (Video)
https://southfront.org/isis-claimed-responsibility-for-series-of-attacks-against-taliban-in-afghanistan-video/

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Eric Schmidt Cashes in on Artificial Intelligence Arms Race

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21 September 2021 — MintPress News

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA — The United States is leading a new artificial intelligence arms race that could spell the end of humanity.

Back in 2014, a few years before he died, Stephen Hawking warned us about artificial intelligence:

The primitive forms of artificial intelligence we already have, have proved very useful. But I think the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. Once humans develop artificial intelligence, it would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete and would be superseded.”

Today, artificial intelligence, or AI, is the centerpiece of the U.S. empire’s plan to maintain global dominance.

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Draconian new legislation set to shut down protest at Scottish Parliament ahead of COP26

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22 September 2021 — NetPol

Campaigners have condemned controversial new legislation designed to shut down protests outside the Scottish parliament building in Edinburgh, warning new police powers will have a “chilling effect” on the right to protest. The timing of this new legislation – just months before COP26 arrives in Scotland – is significant.

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The New Dark Age

'It's Socialism or Barbarism'

Day: September 23, 2021

IRR: What is happening to equalities in the UK?

23 September 2021 — Institute of Race Relations

UK: Why is Owen Jones defending a Nazi collaborator?

22 September 2021 — The Electronic Intifada

Owen Jones talking to the press. Pete Maclaine ZUMA Press