May 26, 2022
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Tomorrow: Lowkey + Roxanne!
Activist rapper and host of the Watchdog Lowkey is joined by Native scholar and author Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz to talk about mass shootings, white supremacy and an indigenous people’s history of the United States. Continue reading
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UK: Why can’t police acknowledge institutional racism?
How can an organisation become ‘actively anti-racist’ without acknowledging the existence of institutional racism? The National Police Chiefs’ Council and College of Policing this week launched its Police Race Action Plan, tasked with ‘Improving policing for Black people’. Like so many plans and strategies before it, it is laden with commitments to ‘overhaul systems, processes… Continue reading
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And Then There Was No More Empire All of a Sudden: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2022)
Thursday, 26 May 2022 — The Tricontinental Bisa Butler (USA), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 2019. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Empire denies its own existence. It does not exist as an empire but only as benevolence, with its mission to spread human rights and sustainable development across Continue reading
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Ukraine after 90 days of war
The Western narrative that Russia is facing defeat at the hands of the Ukrainian military is falling apart. The contrived narrative that Ukraine was “winning” made Kiev delusional which in turn created conditions for Washington and London to extend the war and incrementally enter into it laterally and turn it into a war of attrition… Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 25-26 May 2022
Thursday, 26 May 2022 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back. If it gets updated, I usually insert the time on the line above. A lot of cross-posting usually indicates that the article is popular and some links Continue reading
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NATO vs Russia: what happens next
Three months after the start of Russia’s Operation Z in Ukraine, the battle of The West (12 percent) against The Rest (88 percent) keeps metastasizing. Yet the narrative – oddly – remains the same. Continue reading
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