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Africa’s Uprising is Frozen, Its Cry Swollen with Hope: The Thirty-Fifth Newsletter (2021)
2 September 2021 — Tricontinental Bertina Lopes (Mozambique), Dimensão (‘Dimension’), 1972. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 26 August, two deadly attacks on the perimeter of Kabul’s international airport killed over a hundred people, including a dozen US soldiers. The bombings struck people desperate to enter the airport and… Continue reading
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The Incantational Bewitchment of Propaganda
All propaganda succeeds because it satisfies needs that it has first created. If you follow the daily rat-a-tat mainstream news reports and react to them, you will be caught in a labyrinth that has been set to entrap you. You will keep finding that your mind will be like a bed that is already made… Continue reading
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Experimental GM wheat trial goes ahead in UK
The UK Government has given Rothamsted Research consent to plant highly experimental GM wheat in an open field near St Albans. Continue reading
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To Counter U.S. Hostility China Moves Towards People Centered Policies
In December 2001 China became a member of the World Trade Organization. That opened new markets for China’s industry and attracted a lot of foreign investment. The growth in GDP that China has achieved since is breathtaking. Continue reading
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We Can No Longer Avoid Raising the Contradiction of the Western Imperial Left’s Collaboration with the Western Bourgeoisie
As the Western left has become more aligned with their imperialist bourgeoisie in the destabilization of the Global South, the radical Black tradition provides a clear approach to “turn imperialist wars into wars against imperialism.” Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 2 September 2021
2 September 2021 — Black Agenda Report Why the U.S. Still Suffers from COVID Margaret Kimberley, BAR Editor and Senior Columnist The Covid-19 crisis cannot be separated from the failed state. Continue reading
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Reflections on Events in Afghanistan-11
The back-to-back press briefings on August 30 by General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr, commander, US Central Command and Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, on Afghanistan conveys the picture of a superpower badly bruised and embittered but remaining vengeful. This is bad news. Continue reading
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The Science and Ethics Regarding Risk Posed by Non-vaccinated Individuals: Position Paper
The “Israeli Public Emergency Council for the COVID Crisis” has released a position paper detailing what they call flawed assumptions and ethical problems inherent in blaming the unvaccinated for the latest wave of COVID. Continue reading
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China News Links 30 August – 1 September 2021
1 September 2021 — The New Dark Age Michael Hudson: Global Financial Empire, Parts 1-3 https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2021/09/01/michael-hudson-global-financial-empire-parts-1-3/ The ANZUS Security Treaty At 70 https://orientalreview.org/2021/09/01/the-anzus-security-treaty-at-70/ Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 30 August – 1 September 2021
1 September 2021 • 18:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back WATCH: Abandoned US-made hardware, empty service dog crates filmed CLOSE-UP in RT tour of Afghanistan’s Kabul airport https://www.rt.com/news/533667-kabul-airport-tour-taliban-afghanistan/ Dozens of vehicles & Black Hawk flyover: Taliban… Continue reading
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Why Is the Gates Foundation Funding the UK’s Medicines Regulator?
On August 13, the UK government published a response to a freedom of information request in relation to the Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) — the UK’s equivalent of the FDA. The question it was in response to enquired as to whether or not the agency had received funding from the Bill and… Continue reading
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Xinjiang Uyghur propaganda mirrors NATO’s Yugoslavia narratives
“The aim of propaganda was to split up Yugoslavia,” confessed former CIA agent Robert Baer in 2015. “I arrived in Sarajevo for the first time on the 12th of January 1991. I came by helicopter with three other agents. Our task was to observe Serbian terrorists who were supposed to attack the city. We got… Continue reading
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Back to the future: Talibanistan, Year 2000
Welcome to Taliban Afghanistan – Talibanistan – in the Year 2000. This is when photographer Jason Florio and myself slowly crossed it overland from east to west, from the Pakistani border at Torkham to the Iranian border at Islam qillah. As Afghan ONG workers acknowledged, we were the first Westerners to pull this off in… Continue reading
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XR: Oppressive policing = costly challenges
As we enter week 2 of the Impossible Rebellion the police continue to act as private security for the government, protecting the interests of wealthy industry over the safety of its citizens. The Met have done their best to shut down each and every demonstration during the Impossible Rebellion, sometimes before rebels have had any opportunity… Continue reading
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Saving the climate with agriculture
Many of us are worried that industrial agriculture is fueling the climate crisis. We are losing fertile soil, and pesticides are killing bees, butterflies and birds. I’ve received many questions asking what a better agriculture system could look like. Continue reading
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Scandal Behind the FDA Fake Approval of Pfizer Jab
On August 23 as the FDA announced full approval for the Pfizer mRNA gene-edited substance. Or not quite, when the full papers of FDA are studied. Fauci, whose NIAID has financial interest in the vaccine, referred to the FDA decision as the “final stamp of approval.” It is however anything but final or an impartial,… Continue reading
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Robbing the Soil, 2: ‘Systematic theft of communal property’
In 1549, tens of thousands of English peasants fought — and thousands died — to halt and reverse the spread of capitalist farming that was destroying their way of life. The largest action, known as Kett’s Rebellion, has been called “the greatest practical utopian project of Tudor England and the greatest anticapitalist rising in English… Continue reading
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Afghanistan News Links 30-31 August 2021
31 August 2021 • 16:45 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Let’s Take The Profit Out Of Wars https://popularresistance.org/lets-take-the-profit-out-of-wars/ The Shadow of Afghanistan Affects the Taiwan Problem https://journal-neo.org/2021/08/31/the-shadow-of-afghanistan-affects-the-taiwan-problem/ Continue reading
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A Message to the EU: Address the Real Public Health Crisis by Banning Glyphosate (Part One)
The herbicide glyphosate – the most widely used herbicide on the planet – is authorised for use in the EU until December 2022. The EU is currently assessing whether its licence should be renewed. Environmentalist and campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason has just written an open letter to the head of the Pesticides Unit at the… Continue reading
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China News Links 27-30 August 2021
30 August 2021 — The New Dark Age Is The Defeat In Afghanistan Aimed At Embarrassing Russia And China? https://orientalreview.org/2021/08/30/is-the-defeat-in-afghanistan-aimed-at-embarrassing-russia-and-china/ China cuts children’s online gaming to one hour https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58384457 Continue reading
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