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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 He accepted that the three laws on agricultural markets that had been pushed through the parliament in 2020 would be repealed.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
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Israel Slapped ‘Terrorist’ Label On Palestinian Human Rights Groups After They Uncovered Pegasus Spyware
8 November 2021 — The Dissenter BY KEVIN GOSZTOLA US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz (Photo: US Embassy Jerusalem and in the public domain) After the Israeli government designated six Palestinian human rights organizations as “terrorist” organizations, Jonathan Kuttab, the co-founder of Al Haq, one of the targeted organizations, suggested… Continue reading
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PSUV Sweeps Mega-Elections In Venezuela
The United Socialist Party (PSUV) landed a comprehensive victory in Venezuela’s regional and local elections, winning 83% of the governorships. According to initial results from the National Electoral Council (CNE) on Sunday night, PSUV, the ruling party, secured at least 19 of the 23 governorships, and the important Caracas mayoralty. Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: Government is appealing
Tomorrow, we’re in Court. The Government is appealing the High Court’s ruling that it acted unlawfully – that there was apparent bias – in its award of a contract to associates of Dominic Cummings and Michael Gove. Continue reading
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Russo-Uzbek ties a factor of regional stability
23 November 2021 — Indian Punchline by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev (L) met Russian President Vladimir Putin (R), Moscow, November 19, 2021 The visit of Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to Moscow on November 19 at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin resulted in a joint statement on information technology and a slew of… Continue reading
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Books: A chicken can’t lay a duck egg
How often are we told that the market must be part of the solution to the climate crisis? The efficiency, the focus, the discipline embedded in the pursuit of profit, the refinement of responding to consumer demands, each of us maximizing our individual utility, those are the values that will get us all pulling in… Continue reading
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Big Brother Watch calls for a vote on “draconian” Covid passes in Northern Ireland
Civil liberties group Big Brother Watch has called on Northern Irish Health Minister Robin Swann to ensure that Covid passes are voted on in Stormont, rather than imposed by a Minister. Continue reading
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The White House Needs An Off-ramp From War In Ukraine
Moscow sees a salami slicing tactic at work that would only end with NATO directly confronting it on all its borders Continue reading
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Sino-Russian collusion over Taiwan, Ukraine seems improbable but isn’t
US has whipped up war hysteria over satellite image of Russian military camp in Yelnya, over 500 kms from Ukraine border, to allege Moscow’s invasion plans and to justify NATO involvemenT Continue reading
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The Telegraph – Austria’s precedent-setting lockdown is an assault on human rights
Europe is in the midst not only of a public health crisis, but also of a dangerous shift towards authoritarianism. The Austrian government’s introduction of a lockdown only for unvaccinated people this week was a precedent-setting assault on human rights: liberty, privacy, freedom of movement, freedom of association and freedom from discrimination. And yet, if… Continue reading
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Pathologized Totalitarianism 101
We are not “vaccine hesitant” or “anti-vax” or “Covid-denying conspiracy theorists.” We are millions of regular working-class people, people with principles, who value freedom, who are not prepared to go gently into the globalized, pathologized-totalitarian night. We no longer give the slightest shit whether our former friends and family members who have gone New Normal… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 3-17 November 2021
22 November, 2021 – Black Agenda Report [3 editions; 3 November, 10 November and 17 November 2021] 17 November 2021 COP26: Black Agenda Report Special Issue BAR Editors Black Agenda Report is giving special attention to the recent COP26 climate summit. The editorial team and contributors will present more themed issues in the future and… Continue reading
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Deadly Poison Gas Attack—Blamed on the Syrian Government—Was Really a False-Flag Operation by U.S.-Funded Terrorists
Prestigious Weaponry Expert Censored After Demonstrating that a Deadly Poison Gas Attack Was Really a False-Flag Operation by U.S.-Funded Terrorists Continue reading
The New Dark Age 