Day: October 1, 2021

Canadian Court Strikes Down Trudeau’s Appeal against Compensation to Indigenous Children

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30 September 2021 — Internationalist 360°

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Memorial held in Vancouver, shortly after the discovery of the 215 unmarked graves of Indigenous children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in May 2020. Photo: GoToVan/Flickr

The Justin Trudeau government has been stalling efforts by Indigenous groups to secure compensation to survivors of Canada’s discriminatory child services that has pushed Indigenous children disproportionately into foster care

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Watch: War is a Racket with Lowkey: Ex-State Dept. Official Matthew Hoh Speaks Out

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28 September 2021 — Youtube

The U.S. was and is effectively taking part in the established drug trade by backing drug lords in Afghanistan. Watchdog host Lowkey is joined by a man who knows the war from both inside and out. Matthew Hoh was at the forefront of the American empire’s campaign in the Middle East, first serving as a captain in the U.S. Marines, then moving to the Department of Defense and the State Department. In 2009, he publicly resigned from his position in the State Department in Zabul Province, Afghanistan, over U.S. policy in the country, which he saw as both illogical and immoral.

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Blairism, first the tragedy now the farce

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30 September 2021 — theplanningmotivedotcom

The Labour Party Conference is notable for two things. The failed rear-guard action by the left, followed by the takeover of the party by the Blairites. What a bunch of political clowns. Blair gained office at the height of neo-liberalism, but now neo-liberalism is at its end, reduced to rubble. And they want to resurrect the past. We are now in the white water of history, not the swamp of the 1990s.

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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 1 October 2021

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1 October 2021 — Sustainable Pulse

Editors’ picks

Don’t Call Mother Nature a Sink!

Guilty! Many of us in the regenerative agriculture movement describe the world’s soils as a “sink” into which excess atmospheric carbon can be stored, and we’ve been wrong. That mistake has diminished the appeal of our concepts and, in some circles, made us seem irrelevant. We need new terminology before our movement suffers death by […]

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Afghanistan News Links 30 September – 1 October 2021

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1 October 2021 • 21:00 — The New Dark Age

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

Afghanistan Highlights Link Between Religious Soft Power And Gulf Security
https://southfront.org/afghanistan-highlights-link-between-religious-soft-power-and-gulf-security/

Lt. Col. Scheller Jailed for Demanding Accountability from Biden and Milley’s Machiavellian Afghanistan Withdrawal
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-22

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29 September 2021 — Indian Punchline

Chinese ambassador Wang Yu met Acting Foreign Minister of Taliban Mawlavi Amir Khan Muttaqi, Kabul, September 26, 2021

22. US, UK prepare to re-engage Taliban

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has written yet another opinion piece in the Washington Post, sensing a turning point lies ahead with the Biden Administration assembling a sustainable, durable policy toward Afghanistan taking into account the new reality of the Taliban government.

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Professor David Miller fired after Israel lobby smear campaign

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1 October 2021 — The Electronic Intifada

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Professor David Miller (CAGE/YouTube)

The University of Bristol has fired Professor David Miller, a leading UK critic of Israel and its lobby.

After a years-long campaign of smears by that same lobby, the university said on Friday that, “Professor David Miller is no longer employed by the University of Bristol.”

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Guidance for responding (in 2 minutes!) to the Government’s new consultation on Covid passports

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1 October 2021 — Big Brother Watch

Big Brother Watch Team

This week, the Government released another consultation into Covid passports – this time, on how a mandatory Covid passport scheme should work.

This comes despite the Government’s claims that they are not going to impose Covid IDs and they are merely a ‘Plan B’ reserve policy.

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