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Not so much oven-ready as ready made curtains for Mr. Johnson
Something interesting is happening in capitalist governance. The capitalist class is closing ranks, regularising and professionalising its rule by squeezing out the populist fools. Instinctively they recognise the class battles which lie ahead and they can no longer tolerate those who flippantly raise the aspirations of the masses and then misgovern. Continue reading
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Politics in Britain is entering a new phase
The successful vaccine roll out by the NHS and Starmer’s right wing gallop has given Johnson a shot in the arm. Polls put the Tories 7% ahead of Labour, and on the 6 March at 13% ahead. But the Brexit fall-out, the Covid “social murder”, the dis-United Kingdom, and the economic crisis all point towards… Continue reading
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21 April 2021: Vaccine capitalism and more
Vaccine capitalism – Penally military refugee camp closes – profiles of Deliveroo and deportation profiteer Evelop/Barceló Group Continue reading
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How Climate Collapse Will Overwhelm The U.S. Military & Jeopardize The State’s Existence
The story of the climate’s deterioration is intertwined with the story of class conflict, with the battle between the revolutionaries and the counterrevolutionaries. Much to the chagrin of U.S. national security technocrats, factors show that the instability and destruction from the climate collapse is most likely going to harm the strategic interests of the counterrevolutionaries… Continue reading
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Can sabotage stop climate change?
Despite the climate movement’s growth, epitomized by Extinction Rebellion and Student Strike for Climate, fossil fuel extraction continues to grow, and a safe climate can seem dismayingly distant. Given a choice between forgoing capital accumulation and tipping the whole world into a furnace, our rulers prefer the furnace. Continue reading
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The CIA’s Chinese Walls
It is not in dispute that the CIA is in possession of Julian Assange’s legal and medical files seized from the Ecuadorean Embassy, including correspondence and drafting by his lawyers on his defence against extradition to the USA on Espionage charges. The defence submitted evidence of this in court. After Julian was arrested in the… Continue reading
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Watch: “The Present” — A Painful Short Film Tells the Whole Story of What It Means to be Palestinian
In “The Present,” as throughout all of Palestine, soldiers, police officers, secret police, or Shabak agents, have the power — indeed they are instructed — to harass, humiliate, and take the lives of Palestinians in the most arbitrary fashion. Continue reading
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Revealed: UK Campaign to Force Assange From Ecuadorian Embassy
A wide-ranging UK government campaign was brought to bear on Ecuador to press it to hand over WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, new information by Declassified UK reveals. Continue reading
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When Did the “Cold War” End? Part III
In 1989, before the end of the Cold War, Bush I, Reagan’s successor, invaded Panama, and in August 1990 attacked Iraq, starting the First Gulf War. Continue reading
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The MH17 Trial: The Dangers of Presuming the Fairness of a Geopolitically-Driven Enterprise
Inspection of the MH17 saga teaches us, in the first instance, never simply to presume that an enterprise that appears to have the status of an officially supported and endorsed international legal proceeding must on that account be above reproach. Continue reading
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How the IHRA antisemitism definition became a pro-Israel cudgel
New research charts a five-year campaign by highly partisan, pro-Israel lobby groups to mislead the international community about the nature of what has been widely described as the “gold standard” definition of antisemitism. Continue reading
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The Best Intentions of Sir Ronald Cohen: Building the Crypto-Corrals of Social Investment
It’s a tangled web but the bottom line is that social-impact investing, given a big boost by the pandemic and the “Great Reset” planned in its wake, can be made to sound so good that it’s hard to conceive what a dangerous threat it poses: it only “works” by herding and caging. Continue reading
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Pollution Report: Oceans are ‘at the precipice of disaster’
A report released today by the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) and the National Toxics Network (NTN) says that rising levels of chemical and plastic pollution are major contributors to declines in the world’s fish populations and other aquatic organisms. Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: This is Trumpian stuff
This month brought us the alarming sight of Boris Johnson hijacking a taxpayer-funded Downing Street press conference – intended to provide the public with a vital COVID-19 update – to attack one of his political opponents. Continue reading
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Putin recites the distribution of power in central Europe
The Colossus in modern European history with whom Russian President Vladimir Putin would draw comparison might be Otto von Bismarck, the first Chancellor of the German Empire who unified his country out of the scattered pieces. Putin is very familiar with German history, culture, society. Continue reading
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UK: Take Action This Weekend to Kill The Bill!
Last night over 130 people joined our urgent briefing exploring why we all have a duty to take action and Kill The Bill. As a movement we must demand nothing less than a complete rejection of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. Our fantastic panel gave us crucial insights into the public health dangers of… Continue reading
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NYT Investigates U.S. Jewish Billionaire Funding For Anti-Islamists – Then Distracts With Loads Of Anti-Russian Slander
A current New York Times report finds that the British anti-Islam agitator and grifter Tommy Robinson was financed by American Jewish billionaires who promote Zionist colonialism in Palestine. Continue reading
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Spycops Campaign Update, 27 April 2021
The Undercover Policing Inquiry is having another round of hearings, covering Special Demonstration Squad undercover officers 1973-82. We’ve already seen some shocking details in the vintage police documents that have been released, and there’s surely more to come as the witnesses get questioned over the next three weeks. Continue reading
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Southern Command Goes to War
Last week, the head of the Pentagon’s Southern Command, Admiral Craig Faller, concluded his farewell tour in the Dominican Republic, participating in the Caribbean Nations Security Conference (CANSEC) together with military leaders from countries committed to Washington’s objectives of isolating Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, and at the same time hindering and/or restricting the cooperation links… Continue reading
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Trial lawyers accuse Monsanto, Bayer of “pay-to-appeal scheme”
26 April2021 — US Right to Know The lawyers who led the nationwide U.S. Roundup litigation through three trial victories and forced Monsanto owner Bayer AG into an $11 billion settlement have notified a federal court that they have uncovered evidence of fraud in a secret deal between Monsanto and a lone plaintiff’s lawyer who… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 