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The US Isn’t An Israel Puppet, Israel Isn’t A US Puppet: It’s One Empire
Nearly 200,000 protesters attended a pro-Palestine demonstration in Central London on Saturday afternoon, another clear sign that support for Palestinian rights is becoming increasingly mainstream and the imperialists are losing control of the Israel narrative. Continue reading
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Gaza Palestine News Links 22-23 May 2021
23 May 2021 • 20:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Israel’s Model For Genocide Is At Play Wherever Else Washington Seeks To Destroy Nations https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2021/05/israels-model-for-genocide-is-at-play.html Dear President Biden: End Your Co-Belligerent Backing of Israeli War Crimes,… Continue reading
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Watch: Inside the Battle for Jerusalem
Israel’s bombing of Gaza has killed 213 people and Hamas rockets into Israel have killed 13. The latest violence between Israel and Palestine came after weeks of police aggression towards Palestinians in East Jerusalem. We embed with protesters in Sheikh Jarrah who face losing their homes as they wait to hear their fate in a… Continue reading
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Gaza/Palestine News Links 21-22 May 2021
22 May 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 Ceasefire puts no end to Israeli repression By Maureen Clare Murphy on May 22, 2021 02:37 am Police attack Palestinians in Jerusalem after weeks of mass arrests. How a… Continue reading
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Coexistence in Israel’s ‘mixed cities’ was always an illusion
Last weekend Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as “terrorists” those Palestinian citizens who have been protesting decades of state-sponsored discrimination. Vowing that “anyone who acts like a terrorist will be handled like one”, he said: “Arab law-breakers are attacking Jews, burning synagogues and Jewish homes.” Continue reading
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Vaccines: truth, lies, and controversy
Peter Gotzsche is no crank. Rather the opposite, in fact. In the world of evidence based medicine, he is one of the great heavyweights. He was a founding member of the Cochrane collaboration, is a professor of clinical research methodology at the university of Copenhagen, and has had his work repeatedly published in all the… Continue reading
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We should all be worried about the United Nations Food Systems Summit
Since Ms. Kalibata [Agnes Kalibata, president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution for Africa (AGRA)] was named special envoy [to the UN Food Systems Summit], there has been a public outcry over this clear conflict of interest. 176 civil society organizations from 83 countries sent a letter to the UN Secretary General António Guterres… Continue reading
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The UK risks becoming a world leader in online censorship
The emergence of a free and open internet was one of the greatest achievements of liberal democracies. The creation of a decentralised web allowed ordinary citizens in countries all over the world to share and receive information. Now, fears about crime and moral panics about disinformation mean that many liberal democracies are making the web… Continue reading
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View: Big Brother Watch on the ‘Vaccine Passport’
Our Director Silkie Carlo to Julia Hartley-Brewer after a closer look at the Covid vaccine status feature on the NHS app reveals plans for more than just international travel… Continue reading
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Gaza/Palestine Newslinks 21 May 2021
21 May 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 “The Palestinian Sharpeville” – Dr Haidar Eid on the Global Implications of the Gaza Massacre https://www.mintpressnews.com/haidar-eid-global-apartheid-implications-gaza-massacre/277290/ Pakistan bomb blast targeting Islamist party leader kills 6 at… Continue reading
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Statewatch News 21 May 2021 Issue 10/21
21 May 2021 — Statewatch News (Issue 10/21, also available as a PDF) Vacancy: Finance and Administration Worker We are looking for a Finance and Administration Worker to play an active role in our small team, in a committed but relaxed working environment. You will be responsible for maintaining our financial and administrative procedures, ensuring compliance… Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 21 May 2021
21 May 2021 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Glyphosate Herbicides Significantly Associated with Preterm Births – University of Michigan Study Exposure to a chemical found in the weed killer Roundup and other glyphosate-based herbicides is significantly associated with preterm births, according to a new University of Michigan study published Wednesday. The study, published in Environmental… Continue reading
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21 May 2021: Costing the earth
21 May 2021 — DeSmogUK Honestly, we’d really rather not be writing about the UK’s most prominent climate science denial group on a windswept Friday afternoon (or, indeed, any afternoon, tbh). But in what feels like an alarming pattern of recent weeks, yet another high profile figure has joined the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a thinktank… Continue reading
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Watch: World stands with Palestine
Huge numbers of people all over the globe have been protesting in solidarity with Palestinians this month as Israel intensifiedits killing campaign in the Gaza Strip, and a massive uprising swept cities and villages all over historic Palestine. Continue reading
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David & Goliath
Credit: Rakesh Kumar For more on the settler state’s fascist assault on Gaza see: https://www.artforum.com/slant/activestills-collective-documents-the-assault-on-palestinian-life-85746 Continue reading
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Chilling – Not In a Good Way
Dave Llewellyn sat next to me in the public gallery of the Salmond trial as we witnessed the defence witnesses – largely female – who shredded the prosecution case. A few weeks ago, seven detectives of the Serious Crime Squad raided Dave’s home at 5am, handcuffed him and questioned him over conspiracy to murder –… Continue reading
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Watch: The Real Mission to Mars
Apparently — and entirely predictably — low-Earth-orbit is now firmly within the widening tides of corporate capitalism’s great waste ocean. The communications satellites our overclass uses to maintain its web of ever-expending commercialism is now creating a real crisis of off-planet clutter: Continue reading
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Palestine is Winning the Legitimacy War
[Prefatory Note: This opinion piece was published in Middle East Eye on May 18, 2021, and republished in Il Manifesto and The Wire under different titles. It attempts to contextualize the current violence directed against Gaza in earlier Israeli provocations. It also takes note of Israel’s reliance on excessive force in its attack upon an essentially helpless Gazan… Continue reading
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Microsoft vs Indian Farmers: Agri-Stacking the System
In April, the Indian government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft, allowing its local partner CropData to leverage a master database of farmers. The MoU seems to be part of the AgriStack policy initiative, which involves the roll out of ‘disruptive’ technologies and digital databases in the agricultural sector. Continue reading
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