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The European Union’s fires where freedom burns
The European Union shows all the symptoms of a structure in deep crisis. Like other organizations in the past, the more it tries to convey an image of internal cohesion, the greater the fissures it creates, based on the increasingly rigid demand for compliance with the rules that this appearance of cohesion requires. Continue reading
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4 April 2024 — The Tricontinental
By November 2023, it was already clear that the Israeli government had begun to deny Palestinians in Gaza access to water. ‘Every hour that passes with Israel preventing the provision of safe drinking water in the Gaza strip, in brazen breach of international law, puts Gazans at risk of dying of thirst and diseases related… Continue reading
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Thousands Have Lived without Love, but Not One without Water: The Fourteenth Newsletter (2024)
By November 2023, it was already clear that the Israeli government had begun to deny Palestinians in Gaza access to water. ‘Every hour that passes with Israel preventing the provision of safe drinking water in the Gaza strip, in brazen breach of international law, puts Gazans at risk of dying of thirst and diseases related… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 3 April 2024
Wednesday, 3 April 2024 — Black Agenda Report Israel and the U.S. are Gangster States Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Any sign of even tiny opposition is enough to send Israel into a frenzy of bloodletting. Hospital attacks, murders of aid workers, violations of the sovereignty of embassies, are all par for… Continue reading
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Fixing the broken mental health system
Did you know that the number of children referred to emergency mental healthcare has soared by more than 50% in three years? Continue reading
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What’s really behind Germany’s unshakeable support of Israel?
The extent of the German government’s support for Israel during its ongoing offensive in Gaza has taken many by surprise. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been even more restrained in his criticisms of Tel Aviv than US President Joe Biden. A central point of reference for German politicians is the notion of Staatsräson (“state reason”).… Continue reading
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Craig Murray: UK Legal Shambles in Case of Assange
The latest judgment by the High Court in the Julian Assange case achieved completely the objectives of the U.K. and U.S. states. Above all, Julian remains in the hell which is Belmarsh maximum security prison. He is now safely there alone and incommunicado, from the authorities’ point of view, for at least several more months. Continue reading
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At The UN It Is A Rogue U.S. Against The Rest Of The World
“Unipolar” used to mean that the United States was, at least in theory, alone in leading the world. Now “unipolar” means that the United States is alone and isolated in opposition to the world. Continue reading
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Palestinians Will Remain on Palestinian Land: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2024)
On 15 February 2024, Jared Kushner (Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former senior advisor during his presidency) sat down for a long conversation with Professor Tarek Masoud at Harvard University. During this discussion, Kushner talked about ‘Gaza’s waterfront property’, which, he said, could be ‘very valuable’. ‘If I was Israel’, he continued, ‘I would just bulldoze… Continue reading
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The April 2024 issue of ColdType is now online
Thursday, 29 March 2024 — ColdType Read Issue 256 at https://issuu.com/coldtype/docs/coldtype256april2024?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ and at https://www.coldtype.net/Assets23/PDFs/ColdType256April2024.pdf —————————- NEW FEATURE: If you’d rather read the pdf as page spreads, here’s another link (please let us know which you prefer – spreads or single pages) https://www.coldtype.net/Assets23/PDFs/ColdType256April2024SPREADS.pdf —————————- BACK COPIES – All issues of ColdType (plus the original 6 tabloid versions) are… Continue reading
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Colin Powell and “The Sloppy Dossier”: Plagiarism and “Fake Intelligence” Used to Justify the 2003 War on Iraq
COLIN POWELL AND THE “THE SLOPPY DOSSIER”: PLAGIARISM AND “FAKE INTELLIGENCE” USED TO JUSTIFY THE 2003 WAR ON IRAQ: COPIED AND PASTED FROM THE INTERNET INTO AN “OFFICIAL” BRITISH INTEL REPORT Continue reading
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BIT Coining it – The private profiteering of state-sponsored propaganda
Once upon a time (2010 to be precise), somewhat unexpectedly in a Rose Garden in Westminster, a bromance blossomed. The honeymoon couple – call them Cameron and Clegg – fell out of love in short order, but the unhappy union limped on for a fixed term of five years and a day, during which time… Continue reading
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A Wave of Criminal Rebellions in Latin America: Is It Just a Coincidence?
Crime, violence and drug trafficking are nothing new to any Latin American – with the honorable exception of Cubans. But in recent months there has been a very strange sequence of events, not so much because of the events themselves, but because of the national and international political situation in which they are inserted. Continue reading
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Cuba: Watch Carnival ’62
Sunday, 24 March 2024 — Jazz on the Tube Like New Orleans and Brazil and other places with Catholic cultural roots, Cuba has a vibrant Carnival culture. Continue reading
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Kosovo War at 25: Blair’s secret invasion plot to ‘topple Milosevic’ revealed
Top secret papers reviewed by The Grayzone reveal Tony Blair demanded strikes on civilian targets in Yugoslavia days before NATO attacked them. While the UK military acknowledged a NATO strike on Hotel Jugoslavia would mean inflicting “some civilian casualties,” it insisted the deaths were “worth the cost.” Continue reading
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Starmer emails about Israel have been been censored
In 2011, Keir Starmer, then serving as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), decided to block the application for Tzipi Livni’s arrest for war crimes in Gaza. Continue reading
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Assange extradition decision to be made on 26 March
Monday, 25 March 2024 — MintPress News At 10:30 AM, 26 March, the High Court will issue its ruling Will Assange be extradited to the United States? The final decision regarding Assange’s extradition will be made tomorrow in London, England, at the Royal Courts of Justice. Continue reading
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So who is George Galloway?
I have known George Galloway my entire adult life, although we largely lost touch in the middle bit while I was off diplomating. I know George too well to mistake him for Jesus Christ, but he has been on the right side against appalling wars which the entire political class has cheer-led. His natural gifts… Continue reading
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Anti-immigration election campaigning, extremism and the need to fight back
Over the last weeks, we have witnessed stronger and extreme anti-immigrati policies mooted across Europe. In Portugal the far-right Chega party distributed leaflets campaigning against ‘uncontrolled Islamic Immigration’ in the lead up to its general election; Finland passed temporary legislation to allow border guards to block asylum seekers crossing from Russia; and both Germany and… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 