April 2024
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The May 2024 issue of ColdType is now online
Tuesday, 30 April 2024 — ColdType Read Issue 257 at https://issuu.com/coldtype/docs/coldtype257may2024?fr=sYWExMTYzMTA4NzM and at https://www.coldtype.net/Assets23/PDFs/ColdType257May2024.pdf —————————- BACK COPIES – All issues of ColdType (plus the original 6 tabloid versions) are available to read and download at https://issuu.com/coldtype and at www.coldtype.net/reader.html Continue reading
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Naomi Klein: We need an exodus from zionism
Increasing numbers of jewish citizens in the west are standing up and declaring that ‘Anti-zionism is not antisemitism!’ and that imperialism’s fascistic proxies do not speak for them. Continue reading
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AI chatbots: Hype meets reality
Artificial Intelligence seems to be everywhere. Companies use powerful AI chatbots on their web pages or phone systems to handle customer questions. Newsrooms and magazines use them to write stories. Film studios use them to produce films. Tech companies use them to program. Students use them to write papers. It seems like magic. And with… Continue reading
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Five Blockbuster Movies Secretly Co-Written By the Pentagon
It is called the military-entertainment-complex. The Pentagon is deeply involved in the production of pop culture, from spy shows and war movies, to light entertainment like “The Price is Right” and “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” the military has had a hand in shaping them all. Continue reading
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Zionism as a Fascist Ideology and Movement
Monday, 29 April 2024 — Vanessa Beeley Zionist Relations with Nazi Germany by Faris Yahya Glubb Vanessa Beeley Cartoon by Carlos Latuff Continue reading
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Sermon for Gaza
In the conflicts I covered as a reporter in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, I encountered singular individuals of varying creeds, religions, races and nationalities who majestically rose up to defy the oppressor on behalf of the oppressed. Some of them are dead. Some of them are forgotten. Most of them… Continue reading
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Gen Z Just Might Save The World
Kids are taking over university campuses around the world for the noblest possible reason anyone could do such a thing in 2024. There are so many reasons to feel pessimistic, but Gen Z’s fierce opposition to the Gaza genocide is a massive reason to have hope for the future. Continue reading
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Gaza’s new and terrifying reality
There’s a common joke in Gaza these days. It suggests that the most humane Israeli is the minister who effectively called for a nuclear bomb to be dropped on us during the early stages of the current war. Continue reading
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Let’s demand the impossible
The Rwanda Deportation sham continues to dominate British politics causing relentless trauma. Continue reading
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How Africa’s National Liberation Struggles Brought Democracy to Europe: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2024)
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Fifty years ago, on 25 April 1974, the people of Portugal took to the streets of their cities and towns in enormous numbers to overthrow the fascist dictatorship of the Estado Novo (‘New State’), formally established in 1926. Fascist Portugal – led first by António… Continue reading
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Europol data grab; “Operationalising” the Migration Pact; Italy: Press freedom under attack; EU-Israel data agreement
Thursday, 25 April 2024 — Statewatch Issue 24/08, 25 April Also available as a PDF. In this issue: New powers for Europol: cart before horse EU: Council eyes role in “operationalising” Migration Pact Italy: Press freedom under attack as journalists face prison EU-Israel data agreement rings alarm bells —————————————- Continue reading
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LIVE TODAY: 200 days of genocide and resistance
Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza has now passed 200 days, with no end in sight. Despite suffering and horror beyond description, the resistance on the ground remains determined and strong – denying Israel any strategic achievement. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report April 24, 2024
Wednesday, 24 April 2024 — Black Agenda Report Watching US Fascism in Action from China Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist The contradictions and embarrassing antics of the fascist war-mongering United States appear with stark clarity when viewed from an outside perspective. Especially within nations like China, where peace is international policy. Continue reading
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The ‘Isfahan Incident’: A Nail in Israel’s Coffin
Iran’s Operation True Promise strikes on 13 April have reopened the deep wounds Israel incurred during Hamas’ 7 October attack. While Operation Al-Aqsa Flood shook the occupation state’s security bubble at its core, a single night of Iranian rockets and drones left Israelis str[u]ggling to hold on to even a sliver of their famed deterrence posture. Continue reading
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Israel’s Architect of Ethnic Cleansing
Since 1948, Israel has invoked the Holocaust to justify the forced expulsion of Arabs from Palestine to create a Jewish state, but the systematic blueprint for ethnic cleansing was being drawn up years earlier by a Zionist zealot named Yosef Weitz. Continue reading
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Cancer concerns
The covid vaccines skipped safety testing for cancer risk. Pfizer said genotoxicity, carcinogenicity and biodistribution studies were “not considered necessary.” Even while their trial info sheet said “Due to the urgent need for a vaccine against Covid-19, with agreement from the MHRA, some of the tests usually required for a newly manufactured vaccine have been… Continue reading
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Today marks the 200th day of Israel’s genocide in Gaza
Tuesday, 23 April 2024 — MintPress News Here are the latest figures… Continue reading
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What authority would scare and shame an already frightened population?
In the knowledge that people are already in a state of heightened anxiety, what government would choose to further frighten and shame them? When citizens have amended their lifestyles in order to function under difficult circumstances, what government would seek to actively disrupt these necessary and understandable adaptations? And what government believes that a fearful… Continue reading
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The Premises of the Diplomatic Mission Shall Be Inviolable: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2024)
We live in dishonest times, where certainties have crumbled, and malevolence stalks the landscape. There is Gaza, of course. Gaza above all else is on our minds. Over 33,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since 7 October, with more than 7,000 people missing (5,000 of them children). The Israeli government has brutally disregarded the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 