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Statewatch News 29 October (Issue 17/21
29 October 2021 — Statewatch Also available as a PDF) Support our work If you appreciate what we do, you can become a Friend of Statewatch with a regular donation to help us to keep you informed, and to stand up for civil liberties and individual rights in Europe. UK: Public-private data processing for “national security”… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 29 October 2021
30 October 2021 • 22:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Julian Assange: The Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time https://www.globalresearch.ca/most-important-battle-press-freedom-our-time/5760123 USA Vs. Assange Day Two: ‘CIA Tried To Kill Assange’ https://popularresistance.org/usa-vs-assange-day-two-cia-tried-to-kill-assange/ Continue reading
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‘Cloak and dagger’ military-intelligence outfit at center of US digital vaccine passport push
While vaccine passports have been marketed as a boon to public health, promising safety, privacy, and convenience for those who have been vaccinated against Covid-19, the pivotal role a shadowy military-intelligence organization is playing in the push to implement the system in digital form has raised serious civil liberties concerns. Continue reading
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UK Action Alert: Ask your MP to ensure your voice is heard
14 October 2021 — GMWatch The vast majority of 6,440 submissions to the consultation on gene editing deregulation said NO to the proposals – but Defra is going ahead regardless Environment Secretary George Eustice plans to ignore the results of his own public consultation and push on with proposals to dismantle GM safeguards, warns GM… Continue reading
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‘If they destroy the free press, they destroy the world,’ Roger Waters says after UK court adjourns to rule on Assange extradition
Julian Assange’s extradition case could deal a fatal blow to free press worldwide, Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters told RT as a British court weighed final arguments on whether to transfer the WikiLeaks co-founder to US custody. Continue reading
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Churchill & British Imperialism
Even patriotic Brits know that their hero Winston Churchill did not win World War 2 or fly a Spitfire. What they, and others, may not know is how his statements often shed a clear light on British imperialism. From Britain’s reliance on colonies, to the political rationale for giving the working class some welfare services,… Continue reading
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DAY TWO — ‘CIA Tried to Kill Assange;’ US: ‘He’s Only Moderately Depressed & Won’t Go to Isolation’
The United States vowed that only a “moderately depressed” Julian Assange would serve time in a humane U.S. prison if he is extradited, while lawyers for Assange told the High Court that the Central Intelligence Agency plotted to assassinate him, as a two-day U.S. appeal hearing came to a close on Thursday in London. Continue reading
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The November 2021 issue of ColdType (Issue 228) is now online
28 October 2021 — Coldtype Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 16-28 October 2021
28 October 2021 — The New Dark Age Reflections On Events In Afghanistan (XXX) https://orientalreview.org/2021/10/27/reflections-on-events-in-afghanistan-xxx/ Becoming Estonians. https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2021/10/becoming-estonians.html Continue reading
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COVID-19: Moderna Gets Its Miracle
COVID-19 erased the regulatory and trial-related hurdles that Moderna could never surmount before. Yet, how did Moderna know that COVID-19 would create those conditions months before anyone else, and why did they later claim that their vaccine being tested in NIH trials was different than their commercial candidate? Continue reading
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‘Left problem’ is not cozying up to bad guys but supporting imperialism
Left media should explore a wide range of critical ideas. But it should try to avoid ‘punching down’ too often. Recently new left outlet The Breach published a long interview with Columbia University PhD student Barnaby Raine “on the resurgence of ‘tankie’ and ‘campist’ politics” titled “Is the enemy of my enemy my friend?” Continue reading
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Being a Child in Yemen Is the Stuff of Nightmares: The Forty-Third Newsletter (2021)
28 October 2021 — Tricontinental Murad Subay (Yemen), Fuck War, 2018. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In March 2015, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – along with other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – began to bomb Yemen. These countries entered a conflict that had… Continue reading
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COP-out 26
This weekend, COP26 meets in Glasgow, Scotland. Every country in the world is supposed to be represented in meetings designed to achieve agreement on limiting and reducing greenhouse gas emissions so that the planet does not overheat and cause widespread damage to the environment, species and human livelihoods across the planet. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 28 October 2021
28 October 2021 • 22:00 — The New Dark Age Defense chronology surrounding Assange’s family and Dr Kopelman https://defend.wikileaks.org/2021/10/28/defense-chronology-surrounding-assanges-family-and-dr-kopelman/ Declaration of Assange attorney Gareth Peirce on Prof Kopelman https://defend.wikileaks.org/2021/10/28/declaration-of-assange-attorney-gareth-peirce-on-prof-kopelman/ Continue reading
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Anti-War Pro-Peace Resources Database Free to All
World BEYOND War’s Technology Director Marc Eliot Stein, working with the rest of our staff, has created an online database, easy to use and available to all at https://worldbeyondwar.org/resources Continue reading
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Watch: Our Broken Media and What To Do About It
27 October 2021 — MintPress News MintCast Higdon, Huff and MacLeod talk about censorship, fake news, disinformation and the prevalence of conspiracy theories in this free-flowing discussion. Continue reading
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DAY ONE: Assange Lawyer in Fiery Rebuttal at Day’s Conclusion
A lawyer for Julian Assange responded forcefully to the U.S. presentation at the High Court in London on Wednesday, sweeping aside arguments that the lower court judge had followed the lead of a biased expert witness and that Assange was faking his suicidal urges. Continue reading
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UnHerd – Why is Tony Blair obsessed with vaccine passports?
He’s at it again. For the third time, Tony Blair and his Institute are calling on the Government to introduce Covid passes as “a matter of priority”, asserting that they will reduce cases to a “fraction” of their current rate. With so many things he might be turning his attention to at this time, the… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 27 October 2021
27 October 2021 — Black Agenda Report Russell “Maroon” Shoatz is Free, But Other Political Prisoners Languish Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist The demand for freedom of political prisoners must be consistently made for their sakes and for all at risk of joining them in the future. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 27 October 2021
27 October 2021 — The New Dark Age CIA And DoD-Connected Organizations Mapping WikiLeaks Supporters https://popularresistance.org/cia-and-dod-connected-organizations-mapping-wikileaks-supporters/ UK High Court Should Deny Extradition Because CIA Planned To Assassinate Assange https://popularresistance.org/uk-high-court-should-deny-extradition-because-cia-planned-to-assassinate-assange/ Continue reading
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