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Israel: Racist, violent policing is at the heart of apartheid
Police made sweeping arrests of Israel’s large minority of Palestinian citizens after protests rocked the country in May during Israel’s 11-day attack on Gaza. Officers were documented beating demonstrators, and in some cases torturing them while in detention. Police also failed to protect the Palestinian minority from planned, vigilante-style attacks by far-right Jewish extremists. Continue reading
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Vaccine Billionaires and Human Guinea Pigs
How do you make a potentially dangerous and ineffective drug appear like a miracle of modern science? You could, for instance, enrol only certain people in clinical trials and exclude others or bring the study to a close as soon as you see a spike in the data that implies evidence of effectiveness. Continue reading
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UK: Freedom’s coming home – we’re winning…
3 July 2021 — Big Brother Watch We have a lot to catch up on… Let’s start with some good news. Covid Passes could be on the way out! Multiple reports suggest that venues will be able to reopen from July 19 aka ‘Freedom Day’ without you having to produce unnecessary and deeply unfair Covid Passes. Continue reading
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Burkina Faso: How to Destroy a Nation in 10 Years
If the U.S. government was trying to destroy Burkina Faso, it could hardly have done it any better. This already impoverished, landlocked West African country is simply symptomatic of Franco-America’s Sahel-wide exercise in absurdity. Continue reading
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Horn of Africa — Washington’s Next Arab Spring?
The Biden State Department has just named career diplomat Jeffrey Feltman to be Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa. Given the geopolitical powder keg in the region and given the dark history of Feltman, especially in Lebanon and during the infamous CIA Arab Spring interventions after 2009, the relevant question is whether Washington has… Continue reading
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Inside Biden’s new “domestic terrorism” strategy
Following the (completely contrived) Capitol Hill “riot” on January 6th, Joe Biden made it clear – or rather, the people that control Joe Biden made it clear – “domestic terrorism” was going to be a defining issue of his presidency. Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: What else are they not telling us?
On Monday we published a short post, pointing out that the so-called “transparency” data – which is supposed to list all of the external meetings Ministers have – failed to mention a meeting on 1 April 2020 that Lord Bethell had with Abingdon shortly before his department awarded it the first of two contracts worth up… Continue reading
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UK: Sowing division through dog-whistle politics
1 July 2021 — Institute of Race Relations As we go to press, polls are open in Batley and Spen, where the scars left by the far-right murder of Jo Cox in the days leading up to the Brexit vote are far from healing. In a special section of our regular calendar on racism and… Continue reading
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Can the power of information be controlled?
“Knowledge is power”, or so the old adage goes. Perhaps what the proverb overlooks is that those who facilitate the spread of knowledge hold more power than anyone. In human rights terms, freedom of expression is the right to impart and to receive information; and while a greater emphasis is often placed on the abilities… Continue reading
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Cuba’s Vaccine Shield and the Five Monopolies that Structure the World: The Twenty-Sixth Newsletter (2021)
1July 2021 — Tricontinental Raúl Martínez (Cuba), Yo he visto (‘I Have Seen’), n.d. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In 1869, at the age of fifteen, José Martí and his young friends published a magazine in Cuba called La Patria Libre (‘The Free Homeland’), which adopted a strong position against Spanish imperialism.… Continue reading
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The July issue of ColdType (Issue 224) is now online
1 July 2021 — ColdType Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 1 July 2021
1 July 2021 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: The Terrible Origins of July 4th Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist The British crown and the colonists were both determined to seize lands from native peoples and to continue enslavement.” Continue reading
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CPC transforms China as a world class power
This is the season to reread Edgar Snow’s Red Star Over China, the classic work on the birth of the communist movement in China. Alongside John Reid’s Ten Days That Shook the World, the gripping eyewitness account of the Bolshevik Revolution, Snow’s book was compulsive reading in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm as college… Continue reading
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Proposal for ‘Code for the Policing of Protest’ is Netpol’s Charter in all but name
An Inquiry report published today by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Democracy and the Constitution has endorsed the demand – by local and national organisations and tens of thousands of members of the public who have supported Netpol’s Charter for Freedom of Assembly Rights – for clear guidelines on the way protests are policing. Continue reading
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Chinese Communist Party: a party of workers or capitalists?
It’s 100 years today since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was first formed by just 50 members, mostly intellectuals, but including railway and mine workers. 100 years later to the day, the official membership figure is 95m and there are 4.8m party branches. This is surely the largest political party the world has ever seen. A… Continue reading
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CDC Is Causing A US National Security Threat By “Guiding” COVID-Recovered Americans To Get Vaccinated?
A Recent Poll By The CDC, On Twitter, Showed that over 70% of Respondents Believe COVID-Recovered Persons Do Not Need To Be Vaccinated. Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: Breaking: VIP lane for Test and Trace
Good Law Project can reveal the existence of a VIP lane for Test and Trace spend – and that ‘VIP stakeholder engagement’ was run from a private gmail address. Continue reading
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A ‘duty of candour’ must extend to the policing of protests
Last week’s condemnation of proposed government restrictions on protests in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill as “oppressive and wrong” by the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has somewhat overshadowed its call for greater openness and transparency over the way the police impose restrictions on protests. Continue reading
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Biden’s Iran Policy Is Already At A Dead End
On Sunday the U.S.bombed three positions of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Force at the Syrian-Iraqi border. The U.S. had no right to do such. The legal reasoning the Biden administration provided for the attack is nonsense. As is the claimed rational of establishing ‘deterrence’ against further attacks on U.S. troops by this or that Iraqi militia group.… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 