November 2021
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-36
As the Taliban completes its first hundred days in power, the Western powers are groping for a face-saving formula to engage with the authorities in Kabul with some modicum of dignity. Continue reading
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“The Common Sense of Humanity Is On Our Side”: Meet the Plan to Save the Planet
In the face of a series of global crises, research organizations and political organizations across the world launched the Plan to Save the Planet on Thursday, November 25. Among the over 20 organizations that collaborated on the draft document were the International Peoples’ Assembly, the executive secretariat of ALBA-TCP, Instituto Simon Bolivar for Peace and… Continue reading
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Fauci as Darth Vader of the Covid Wars
Robert F Kennedy Jr’s The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health should be front-page news in all the news media in the US. Instead, it has been met with the proverbial thundering silence. Continue reading
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Cuban Government Spokeswoman Joins BT on Failed Regime Change Plot
The Biden administration, CIA, and associated cut-outs and think tanks were promoting what were supposed to be massive protests in Cuba this week, but turned out to be nearly non-existent. Deputy Director of US Affairs at the Cuban Foreign Ministry Johana Tablada de la Torre explains what happened to the CIA-fomented plans for protest and why the… Continue reading
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Watch: Exclusive Interview with Jorge Arreaza on Venezuela’s Recovery Plan
UN Special Rapporteurs estimate that 100,000 people have died in Venezuela in the last decade because of the lack of medicine brought on by U.S. sanctions. Nearly 60% of those deaths took place under the Trump administration after Washington escalated its economic warfare on the Bolivarian state. During the Trump era, Jorge Arreaza served as… Continue reading
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A frightening new potential explanation for vaccine-driven myocarditis and other problems
Downstream effects of the antibodies that people produce against the coronavirus spike protein may lead to myocarditis and even neurological concerns, two veteran medical researchers have written in the top medical journal in the United States. Continue reading
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Invisible Dictatorship: One Dimensional Man vs the Emerging Multidimensional Individual
Hermann Hesse in his book “Steppenwolf” (Der Steppenwolf, 1927), captures the feeling of anguish, despair and bewilderment that gripped European society in the interwar period and is a lucid analysis of the madness of an era in which the old is dying without the new having been born. In this work he scathingly criticizes bourgeois… Continue reading
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How the Pandemic Is Changing the Norms of Science
In the past I had often fervently wished that one day everyone would be passionate and excited about scientific research. I should have been more careful about what I had wished for. The crisis caused by the lethal COVID-19 pandemic and by the responses to the crisis have made billions of people worldwide acutely interested… Continue reading
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Authoritarianism is on the rise
Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and large parts of the US are sliding into a dark period of authoritarianism. We’ve seen a sudden imposition of vaccine mandates (which are soon to require boosters), domestic vaccine passports, and Austria even put millions of unvaccinated citizens under lockdown. As I told the BBC, this is a stain on… Continue reading
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Hold Fast Earthlings! The Elites Have Reissued the “Great Narrative”
The “Great Narrative” is at hand! The author of the “Great Reset”, Klaus Schwab just launched another initiative at his World Economic Forum (WEF) in the UAE. And the world should be dully impressed, I am sure, but most people of earth will not be. WEF and most other institutions are walking a credibility tightrope… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 24 November 2021
24 November, 2021 — — Black Agenda Report Rittenhouse and Verdict Mania Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Black people give great attention to certain court cases in hopes of receiving justice when the system is designed to be unjust. That recognition and the commitment to fighting back will be of greater use Continue reading
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ColdType December 2022 (Issue 229) is now online
26 November 2021 — Coldtype Continue reading
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Go to hell, Shell
Shell is responsible for more of the human-generated emissions that are accelerating the climate crisis than most countries. However, until recently, it was not, like states, required to abide by the Paris Accord. In May this year, a Dutch court changed that and compelled Shell to cut its emissions by 45% from 2019 levels by… Continue reading
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Safe Passage Breaking News: UK dis-invited to EU meeting
You may have seen that Priti Patel has been dis-invited to an upcoming summit of European Ministers this weekend to discuss the tragedy in the Channel. As the Home Secretary won’t be meeting with European Ministers to discuss policy, it’s more important than ever that the Government hears our calls for safe routes now loud… Continue reading
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Climate Warriors and Flagships from Hell
There should be encampments and occupations in and near Middlesborough and Hull. There should be. If the spirit of Earth First and actual environmentalism was with us, perhaps there would be. Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: They’re undermining Parliament
No 10 reportedly made these threats to force MPs to spare Tory MP Owen Paterson from suspension, after he broke parliamentary rules by lobbying for a private firm that paid him £100,000 a year. One backbencher said MPs were told “they would lose funding for their constituency” if they failed to vote with the Prime Minister. Continue reading
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UK: Priti must resign
Yesterday 24 November 2021, at least 27 men, women and children died attempting to reach safety in the UK. Our hearts go out to the families and loved ones of all those who have lost their lives. Continue reading
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This Victory Gives Confidence for Future Struggles: The Forty-Seventh Newsletter (2021)
On 19 November 2021, a week before the first anniversary of the farmers’ revolt, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi surrendered. He accepted that the three laws on agricultural markets that had been pushed through the parliament in 2020 would be repealed. The farmers of India had won. The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), one of… Continue reading
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The Left’s Covid Failure
Throughout the various phases of the global pandemic, people’s preferences in terms of epidemiological strategies have tended to overlap closely with their political orientation. Ever since Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro expressed doubts as to the wisdom of a lockdown strategy in March 2020, liberals and those on the Left of the Western political spectrum,… Continue reading
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The Return of the Flu
The flu has returned to some countries with high rates of natural immunity against SARS-CoV-2. In contrast, countries with high vaccination rates but low natural immunity rates are seeing record new covid waves, although at lower hospitalization and death rates than previously. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 