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COP26 News Links 11-12 November 2021
12 November 2021 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Indigenous Leaders Call for Landback Reforms and Climate Justice in “Required Reading” https://countercurrents.org/2021/11/indigenous-leaders-call-for-landback-reforms-and-climate-justice-in-required-reading/ COP26- Real Climate Change Candor or More Dissimulation https://countercurrents.org/2021/11/cop26-real-climate-change-candor-or-more-dissimulation/ Continue reading
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South Africa: Trouble in the promised land
The socialist commune Abahlali baseMjondolo built from the eKhenana land occupation in Durban has won international admiration and solidarity, but it now faces a new wave of repression. Continue reading
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US Media Cowers not Covers Chevron’s Prosecution of Human Rights Lawyer Donziger
Famed indigenous human rights lawyer Steven Donziger had already been under house arrest for over 800 days when he reported to prison on October 27 to begin a six-month sentence. His crime: winning the largest single pollution judgment in history, $9.5 billion, for the Cofan people of the Amazon rain-forest in Ecuador. Continue reading
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Paul Dacre: a rigged appointment
When it comes to the Prime Minister’s allies, there’s a pattern emerging in Downing Street. When Boris Johnson doesn’t like the outcome of an official process, he tries to rip up the rules and start again. Continue reading
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COP26 News Links 101-11 November 2021
11 November 2021 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Germany says nuclear energy will set back turning EU green https://www.rt.com/news/540009-eu-germany-france-nuclear-green/ Bill Gates Should Know Better: How the Israeli Occupation Ravages the Environment in Palestine https://countercurrents.org/2021/11/bill-gates-should-know-better-how-the-israeli-occupation-ravages-the-environment-in-palestine/ Continue reading
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Why Are You Asking Us to Compromise on Our Lives?: The Forty-Fifth Newsletter (2021)
Nothing useful seemed to emerge from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at COP26 this week. The leaders of developed countries made tired speeches about their commitment to reversing the climate catastrophe. Their words rang with the clichés of spin doctors, their sincerity zero, their actual commitments to lowering carbon emissions nil.… Continue reading
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TalkRadio – Big Brother Watch launches legal challenge to Covid passes in Wales
11 November, 2021 — Big Brother Watch Big Brother Watch Team / Further Coverage: TalkRadio (Julia Hartley-Brewer) – Big Brother Watch launches legal challenge to Covid passes in Wales Nation.Cymru – ‘Big Brother Watch’ campaign group launches legal action against Welsh Covid passes after raising £180,000 Continue reading
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Bloomberg CIA Apologia Accidentally Vindicates China’s Strict Domestic Policies
In a new article promoting the CIA’s new mission center focused on China and the need to pour more resources into countering Beijing, Bloomberg also accidentally makes the case that many of the Chinese government’s controversial domestic policies are entirely justified and completely necessary. Continue reading
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Why Joe Biden Will Soon Talk With Mohammed Bin Salman
An author for the HuffPost has written a way too long screed on Biden’s perceived lack of action against the Saudi clown prince Mohammed bin Salman. Continue reading
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The Facebook Team that Tried to Swing Nicaragua’s Election is Full of U.S. Spies
A tacit agreement between the government and Facebook appears to have been made: you can keep the profits, but we control the message. As such, a cynic might wonder what functional difference there is between Facebook and the national security state. Continue reading
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What Is France Hiding in the Sahel?
BAMAKO, MALI — On the 8th of October, Choguel Maïga, the prime minister of Mali, boldly informed the world that its former colonial power, France, was sponsoring terrorists in the country’s northern region. Standing before dozens of cameras and microphones, he provided details on how the French army had established an enclave in the northern town… Continue reading
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-33
The stunning disclosure late Tuesday in Brussels that the US is working on a “road map” for according recognition to the Taliban Government will take a lot of people by surprise but it could have been expected sooner rather than later. Continue reading
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America’s Eager European Provocateurs Visit Taiwan
In what at first glance looked like the European Union getting onboard with the US-led confrontation with China, a recent delegation led by Raphael Glucksmann sent to Taiwan supposedly representing the EU tells a story less of supposed mainland “interference” within the island territory, and instead, a story about US interference within the EU. Continue reading
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COP26 News Links 9-10 November 2021
10 November 2021 — The New Dark Age Iran links ‘economic terrorism’ to global warming https://www.rt.com/news/539858-iran-uk-cop26-sanctions/ The Most Basic of All Human Rights: Clean Water https://countercurrents.org/2021/11/the-most-basic-of-all-human-rights-clean-water/ Continue reading
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Books: Twilight capitalism
Twilight capitalism: Karl Marx and the decay of the profit system is the best book on Marxist political economy in 2021. Authored by Murray EG Smith, Jonah Butovsky and Josh Watterton, these Canadian-based Marxist economists have delivered a comprehensive and often original analysis of global capitalism in the 21st century. Continue reading
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Sandinistas Win By a Landslide! U.S. Dirty Tricks Fail in Derailing Nicaraguan Democracy
In the lead up to the February 25, 1990 elections, President George H.W. Bush told the Nicaraguan people that the U.S. would keep funding the Contras (counter-revolutionaries recruited, funded and directed by President Reagan, the State Department and the CIA in 1980s illegal war), block loans and maintain the brutal economic blockade where Nicaragua couldn’t… Continue reading
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COP26 News Links 8-9 November 2021
9 November 2021 — The New Dark Age The Sponsors of COP26 Are Behind the Corporate Greenwashing Agenda https://www.globalresearch.ca/sponsors-cop26-behind-corporate-greenwashing-agenda/5761079 Obama makes geographical blunder at COP26 in Glasgow https://www.rt.com/news/539766-obama-confuses-scotland-with-ireland/? Continue reading
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COP26 marchers resist unlawful kettling tactics
Police Scotland have come under heavy criticism after kettling a group of young people at the main COP26 climate march in Glasgow on Saturday, bringing tens of thousands of people marching behind them to a standstill. Continue reading
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Watch: Syria Rebuilds Relations with Regional Foes Despite Ongoing US Opposition
Welcome to MintCast, the official MintPress News podcast featuring dissenting voices the establishment would rather silence. Today MintCast host Mnar Adley is joined by Vanessa Beeley, an independent investigative journalist and war correspondent based in Damascus, Syria. Continue reading
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A Look Back At Russiagate
The Steele dossier about Trump and Russia has now been fully debunked as a collection of made up stories that it had obviously always been. That it took nearly five years to be officially acknowledged as such points to undue power of media who had pushed it. Continue reading
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