September 2024
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GM Watch Daily Digest 20 September 2024
Friday, 20 September 2024 — GMWatch The appearance in the EU of illegal GM-contaminated organic basmati rice reminds us that GMOs, once released, cannot be contained (GMO CONTAMINATION). Also in the EU, GMO advisory body EFSA continues to appoint industry-linked experts to its GMO Panel (LOBBYWATCH). Continue reading
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Failed Machismo: Israel’s Pager Killings in Lebanon
With each ludicrously diabolical move, Israel’s security and military services are proving that they will broaden the conflict ignited when Hamas breached the country’s vaunted security defences on October 7. Notions such as ceasefire and peace are terms of nonsense and babble before the next grand push towards apocalyptic recognition Continue reading
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Jewish Chronicle scandal: Why was there no uproar over its long record of pro-Israel fake news?
Britain’s best-known Jewish newspaper has found itself thrust into the centre of an embarrassing and long-overdue storm over its involvement with the shadowy manoeuvrings of the pro-Israel lobby. Continue reading
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Free speech threatened as journalists treated like terrorists
The rising use of Britain’s anti-terrorism laws against pro-Palestinian voices should worry us all. Continue reading
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Creating Confusion – Were the Exploding Pagers in Lebanon Part of a Larger Israeli Blunder?
Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet has approved a plan to wage a war on Lebanon under the pretext of returning Israeli settlers to their colonies in the northern part of historical Palestine. Continue reading
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Israel’s Plan to Liquidate Northern Gaza
The date is October, November, or December 2024, or maybe early 2025. The Israeli military has just launched a new operation throughout northern Gaza — “Operation Order and Clean-up,” we’ll call it. The army orders the temporary evacuation of all Palestinian residents north of the Netzarim Corridor “for their personal safety,” explaining that “the IDF… Continue reading
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Aftermath of the riots
In this week’s Calendar of Racism and Resistance, we note the aftermath of August’s riots and the arrests and sentencing of the far-right agitators. The Commons Library report ‘Policing responses to the Summer 2024 riots’, which terms them ‘anti-immigration’, but fails to call them out as racist, shows that since 30 August, 1,280 people have… Continue reading
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Know Your Rights for Palestine Protesters
As we near the one-year anniversary of the genocide in Gaza, protests are being planned around the country. Many people are joining protests at the Labour Conference in Liverpool this weekend, and demonstrations are planned in towns and cities across the UK. Continue reading
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This ain’t no WWIII: this is a War OF Terror
First we had action: President Putin – cool, calm, collected – warns that any attack on Russia with long-range NATO missiles will be an act of war. Continue reading
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There Is Only One Night Left to Build Fortifications: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter (2024)
Thursday, 19 September 2024 — The Tricontinental Niniko Morbedadze (Georgia), The Orange Clouds on the Boundary, 2018. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 13 September, at a conclave in Washington, DC, US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer indicated that it would be acceptable for Continue reading
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Ancient settlements show that commoning is ‘natural’ for humans, not selfishness and competition
When I’ve had conversations about the commons with right-leaning people (and sometimes cynical people on the left too), a typical response might be something along the lines of: ‘don’t waste your time trying to build a more democratic, sustainable or peaceful society. It won’t work, because humans are inherently selfish, greedy and competitive’. This Darwinian… Continue reading
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IT Independence is National Security
The NSA’s “Equation Group” is apparently behind the infection with malware of hard drive firmware on computers used by nations considered “enemies” by the United State. The installation of the malware is believed to have required access to trade secrets of IT manufacturers as well as physical access to the soon-to-be infected computers. Popular Science… Continue reading
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India’s military support to Israel is a hideous mistake
Doesn’t the government realise that this is adding to the growing perception internationally that the current government is ‘Islamophobic’ and ‘anti-Muslim’? Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report September 18, 2024
Wednesday, 18 September 2024 — Black Agenda Report Haiti and Springfield, Ohio Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Haitians are unforgiven for waging a successful Black revolution. Racism follows wherever they go, even in a state like Ohio, which is in need of a labor force and a larger population. Of course, Ohio is Continue reading
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Zion nuked Western Electronics & Made China Supreme
Israel explodes pagers all over Lebanon, wounding thousands and killing at least 10. How did they do it? Why? Why now? What benefits did it bring, and at what cost? Also: fighting continues in West Bank and Gaza; Sinwar sends a message to al-Houthi. Continue reading
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GMWatch Daily Digest – 18 September 2024
Wednesday, 18 September 2024 — GMWatch Cutting the crap on gene technology Three articles published over recent weeks and months demolish the EU Commission’s and New Zealand government’s proposals for deregulating new GMOs made with techniques such as gene editing. They show why the proposals, which would remove safety checks and labelling from a new Continue reading
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Israel triggered rigged pagers fearing discovery
According to Al-Monitor, two Hezbollah Resistance fighters suspected that the pagers had been tampered with and planned to inform their superiors. One found out days ago and was killed, and the other found out days after the first and planned to alert his superiors as well. It was then that Israeli security apparatuses weighed their… Continue reading
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It’s Barbarism
“It’s barbarism. I see it coming masqueraded under lawless alliances and predetermined enslavements. It may not be about Hitler’s furnaces, but about the methodical and quasi-scientific subjugation of Man. His absolute humiliation. His disgrace” Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, in a press conference on the occasion of receiving the Nobel Prize (1979) Continue reading
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Wolfgang Streeck: “Sahra Wagenknecht is the only one asking the right questions — and offering the right answers”
The famous German sociologist discusses the recent elections in eastern Germany, the need to return to the nation-state, left-wing communitarianism, and the shortfalls of right-populism Continue reading
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London Assembly inquiry to consider how protesters have ‘inconvenienced’ the Met
Members of the London Assembly, the elected body that scrutinises the activities of London Mayor Sadiq Khan, are planning to hold hearings on public order policing in October. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 