September 2021
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Charity work is the most unproductive of labours
This is not about occasional volunteering on a Sunday. This article describes the state orchestrated, regulated and systemic expenditure of labour time in the sphere of charity work in order to compensate for the withdrawal of public services carried out by waged labour. I was asked to write an article on this subject by my… Continue reading
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Chromothripsis: Bad news for gene editing
Discovery of “catastrophic” unintended effect of CRISPR gene editing may have caused slump in companies’ stock. Report: Claire Robinson CRISPR gene editing is often presented as a straightforward, precise, and safe procedure. But recent research findings on CRISPR gene editing for gene therapy applications show it can lead to massive damage to chromosomes. The phenomenon… Continue reading
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Lab-grown meat is vapourware, expert analysis shows
Cell-cultured meat is “a fable driven by hope, not science, and when the investors finally realise this the market will collapse” Continue reading
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‘The Demonization Was Meant to Pacify Readers to Accept the Brutality’
Listeners will be familiar with the imagery that corporate media have long used to talk about Africa and Africans. Not just tabloids that blare their racism in crude cartoons–elite media have been key in promoting the narrative in which Europeans represent civilization, which they feel moved to provide, on their own terms naturally, to Africans… Continue reading
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Australian Government Attempts to Shut Internet Down as Melbourne Protestors Stand Their Ground
24 September, 2021 — Investment Watch by Chris Black Australia is a full-throttle pedal-to-the-metal dictatorship. The government shut down internet service at ISP level in order to prevent Australians from showing the world what’s going on. Central Melbourne was declared a media no-fly zone. Continue Reading here Continue reading
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BBC submarine drama is the anti-Russian propaganda machine in action
The scene: a British nuclear submarine. A detective has been sent to investigate the death of a sailor. When she asks the Naval Commander why there needs to be so much secrecy, as Britain is not at war, he responds ‘That is an illusion. We have always been at war’. Continue reading
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The October 2021 issue of ColdType (Issue 227) is now online
26 September 2021 — ColdType Continue reading
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Gaslighting The Public: Serial Deceptions By The State-Corporate Media
22 September 2021 — Origin: Media Lens During last week’s Tory Cabinet reshuffle, ITV political editor Robert Peston inadvertently summed up the primary function of political journalists: ‘I simply pass on’ Continue reading
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Covid Vaccines and Cancer
Can covid vaccines cause cancer? In some cases, the answer appears to be yes. To be sure, there is no evidence that covid vaccines themselves are carcinogenic (i.e. cancer-causing). However, it has been shown that in up to 50% of vaccinees, covid vaccines can cause a temporary immune suppression or immune dysregulation (lymphocytopenia) that may… Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 24-25 September 2021
25 September 2021 — The New Dark Age In Video: New Trailer For ‘Friends’ Sitcom From Taliban https://southfront.org/in-video-new-trailer-for-friends-sitcom-from-taliban/ Afghanistan and Beyond: End U.S. War-Making Everywhere https://www.globalresearch.ca/afghanistan-beyond-end-us-war-making-everywhere/5756641 Military Situation In Afghanistan On September 25, 2021 (Map Update) https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-afghanistan-on-september-25-2021-map-update/ Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 25 September 2021
25 September 2021 — Black Agenda Report Glen Ford Memorial Gathering The memorial service for Glen Ford was held on September 18, 2021 at the Riverside Church in New York City. It can be seen on Youtube. Covid Funds Spent on Police and Prisons Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Systemic racism and weak Continue reading
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What a travesty! Iron Dome Subsidy
For the United States to pay the bill for replenishing missiles in the Israel’s Iron Dome defense system used during the Gaza attack in May is a travesty of law and justice. And for such an initiative to gain support for such a measure by a vote of 420-9 in an otherwise hopelessly divided U.S.… Continue reading
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Quad is turning & turning in widening gyre
By coincidence, perhaps, on the same day that President Biden hosted the first Quad summit, he also cleared the way for a senior executive of Huawei Technologies to return to Beijing — “removing one major irritant between the two superpowers,” as the New York Times put it. Continue reading
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Watch: Unity & Survival: Fighting Hunger on the Streets of Philadelphia
BreakThrough News recently released a new documentary about the Unity & Survival Program, a food distribution and organizing network in Philadelphia initiated by neighborhood leaders and the Philadelphia Liberation Center — a community center run by volunteers from the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Continue reading
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Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale In Carceral Limbo While US Generals Shirk Responsibility For Deadly Strikes
Around two months ago, drone whistleblower Daniel Hale was sentenced to 45 months in prison after he stood before a federal judge and delivered a statement that demonstrated he was a person of conscience. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 24 September 2021
24 September 2021 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Protests Around the World Target Global Corporate Food Empire Street and online people’s protests against the ‘global corporate food empire’ greeted the opening of the UN Food Systems Summit (UN FSS), as the Global People’s Summit (GPS) on Food Systems launched a Global Day of Action on Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 23-24 September 2021
24 September 2021 • 16:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back ISIS Claims Its Cells Killed Or Wounded 85 Taliban Fighters In Less Than A Week (18+ Photos) Five Crucial Reasons the US Began Its Decades-long Involvement Continue reading
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For a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
Stop exploration, phase-out all production, ensure a just transition for every worker, community and country Continue reading
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Big Brother Watch hosts Civil Liberties in a Crisis: the left case against Covid IDs event during Labour Party Conference
Covid passes are the nightmare that many on the left feared Blair’s ID cards would become – domestic permits loaded with sensitive personal data, throwing the door open to discrimination. That is the starting point for Johnson’s Covid IDs – not the dystopian destination. Continue reading
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America’s broadband crisis: the making of a twenty-first-century cartel
Invoking president Franklin Roosevelt’s Rural Electrification Plan of 1936 in scope and vision, the statement announced: “The President believes that we can bring affordable, reliable, high-speed broadband to every American through a historic investment of $100 billion.”2 In the months since Biden introduced his plan, it has been politically revised with the most recent broadband… Continue reading