October 2021
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Listen: Uncovering the CIA: Whistleblower Philip Agee interviewed with John Marks (1976)
Philip Agee was a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who turned into one of the agency’s most vocal critics, and who exposed the inner workings of Unites States regime change and destablizations operations all over the world. During his nearly four decades in the intelligence game, Agee became disillusioned with his work for the agency,… Continue reading
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Housmans Books October 2021: B&R Winner / Events / Bestsellers / New Titles
31 October 2021 — Housmans Books Bread & Roses Award Winner Big congratulations to Ellen Clifford for winning this year’s Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing for her book The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe [Zed Books]. Continue reading
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Examining the Methods and Means of COVID Propaganda Dissemination
It is useful to identify and examine the many facets and the all encompassing nature of American/Western propaganda systems in our efforts to better understand why so many people have great difficulty in sorting truth from fiction regarding the “covid pandemic” narratives. The following outline and commentary are an effort to more clearly identify the… Continue reading
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Pressure Mounts on the UKHSA to Stop Publishing Data Showing Infection Rates Higher in the Vaccinated
The Prime Minister may have acknowledged reality and stated that being double vaccinated “doesn’t protect you against catching the disease, and it doesn’t protect you against passing it on” but others appear to remain in denial. Continue reading
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The Global Climate Wall
The biggest emitters of greenhouse gases spend an average of 2.3 times as much on arming their borders as on climate finance. Some spend 15 times as much. They aim to keep migrants away, rather than addressing the causes of displacement. Continue reading
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Bill Gates and the Uncertain Future of Food Security
As we approach a winter of discontent and Global food systems go from bad to worse, there’s trouble in paradise. At the root of these problems, Government responses to COVID-19 have contributed to a six-fold increase in famine-like conditions as global supply chains collapse, and field trials for gene-edited crops and farm animals begin in… Continue reading
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Watch: CIA Plans To Kill Julian Assange ‘UNFATHOMABLE’
Going Underground’s Social Media Producer Farhaan Ahmed speaks to Jeremy Corbyn MP, Wikileaks Editor-in-Chief Kristinn Hrafnsson and Richard Burgon MP at the Belmarsh Tribunal, which featured some of the biggest names in international politics and journalism speaking in solidarity with Julian Assange, who faces 175 years in a super-max prison in the United States should… Continue reading
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South Africa: All of them must go!
It seems likely that the elections on Monday will bring significant change to how many of our cities are ruled. All the surveys show that millions of South Africans hold local government in contempt, that a significant number of former ANC supporters will not be able to bring themselves to vote for a party that… Continue reading
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Statewatch News 29 October (Issue 17/21
29 October 2021 — Statewatch Also available as a PDF) Support our work If you appreciate what we do, you can become a Friend of Statewatch with a regular donation to help us to keep you informed, and to stand up for civil liberties and individual rights in Europe. UK: Public-private data processing for “national security” Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 29 October 2021
30 October 2021 • 22:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Julian Assange: The Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time https://www.globalresearch.ca/most-important-battle-press-freedom-our-time/5760123 USA Vs. Assange Day Two: ‘CIA Tried To Kill Assange’ https://popularresistance.org/usa-vs-assange-day-two-cia-tried-to-kill-assange/ Continue reading
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‘Cloak and dagger’ military-intelligence outfit at center of US digital vaccine passport push
While vaccine passports have been marketed as a boon to public health, promising safety, privacy, and convenience for those who have been vaccinated against Covid-19, the pivotal role a shadowy military-intelligence organization is playing in the push to implement the system in digital form has raised serious civil liberties concerns. Continue reading
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UK Action Alert: Ask your MP to ensure your voice is heard
14 October 2021 — GMWatch The vast majority of 6,440 submissions to the consultation on gene editing deregulation said NO to the proposals – but Defra is going ahead regardless Environment Secretary George Eustice plans to ignore the results of his own public consultation and push on with proposals to dismantle GM safeguards, warns GM Continue reading
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‘If they destroy the free press, they destroy the world,’ Roger Waters says after UK court adjourns to rule on Assange extradition
Julian Assange’s extradition case could deal a fatal blow to free press worldwide, Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters told RT as a British court weighed final arguments on whether to transfer the WikiLeaks co-founder to US custody. Continue reading
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Churchill & British Imperialism
Even patriotic Brits know that their hero Winston Churchill did not win World War 2 or fly a Spitfire. What they, and others, may not know is how his statements often shed a clear light on British imperialism. From Britain’s reliance on colonies, to the political rationale for giving the working class some welfare services,… Continue reading
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DAY TWO — ‘CIA Tried to Kill Assange;’ US: ‘He’s Only Moderately Depressed & Won’t Go to Isolation’
The United States vowed that only a “moderately depressed” Julian Assange would serve time in a humane U.S. prison if he is extradited, while lawyers for Assange told the High Court that the Central Intelligence Agency plotted to assassinate him, as a two-day U.S. appeal hearing came to a close on Thursday in London. Continue reading
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The November 2021 issue of ColdType (Issue 228) is now online
28 October 2021 — Coldtype Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 16-28 October 2021
28 October 2021 — The New Dark Age Reflections On Events In Afghanistan (XXX) https://orientalreview.org/2021/10/27/reflections-on-events-in-afghanistan-xxx/ Becoming Estonians. https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2021/10/becoming-estonians.html Continue reading
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COVID-19: Moderna Gets Its Miracle
COVID-19 erased the regulatory and trial-related hurdles that Moderna could never surmount before. Yet, how did Moderna know that COVID-19 would create those conditions months before anyone else, and why did they later claim that their vaccine being tested in NIH trials was different than their commercial candidate? Continue reading
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‘Left problem’ is not cozying up to bad guys but supporting imperialism
Left media should explore a wide range of critical ideas. But it should try to avoid ‘punching down’ too often. Recently new left outlet The Breach published a long interview with Columbia University PhD student Barnaby Raine “on the resurgence of ‘tankie’ and ‘campist’ politics” titled “Is the enemy of my enemy my friend?” Continue reading
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Being a Child in Yemen Is the Stuff of Nightmares: The Forty-Third Newsletter (2021)
28 October 2021 — Tricontinental Murad Subay (Yemen), Fuck War, 2018. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In March 2015, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – along with other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – began to bomb Yemen. These countries entered a conflict that had Continue reading