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Lithium, Batteries and Climate Change
I have spent the last year working on a book called Fight the Fire: Green New Deals and Global Climate Jobs. Most of it is about both the politics and the engineering of any possible transition that can avert catastrophic climate breakdown. One thing I had to think about long and hard was lithium and… Continue reading
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Facebook hires ex-NATO press officer and social media censor Ben Nimmo as intel strategist
Ben Nimmo, a former NATO press officer and current senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, has announced Facebook has hired him to “lead global threat intelligence strategy against influence operations” and “emerging threats.” Nimmo specifically named Russia, Iran and China as potential dangers to the platform. Continue reading
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‘Progressive extremism’ – casting doubt on the racial justice cause
If a Telegraph interview with the government’s ‘independent adviser on political violence and disruption’ is anything to go by (see our calendar on racism and resistance), a review of the activities of the ‘extreme fringes at both ends of the political spectrum’ will focus extensively on the threat posed by so-called ‘progressive extremism’ – ie, environmental and racial… Continue reading
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The Invincible Green Stick of Happiness
6 February 2021 — Edward Curtin Tolstoy’s grave on the edge of the ravine at his estate Yasnaya Polyana “Ясная поляна, могила Л.Н. Толстого 2” by Alexxx1979 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 After a night of haunting dreams that flowed as if they were written like running water, written on air, as the Roman… Continue reading
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‘Our Indifference To Ourselves’ – Beyond The ‘Virtue’ Of Self-Sacrifice – Part 2
As we saw in Part 1, in 1914 and again in 1939, millions of men and women welcomed war. Arnold Ridley and his pals did make this choice, but in reality the choice had been made for them by decades and centuries of the relentless ‘patriotic’ propaganda described by Tolstoy, which most people were powerless to resist. Continue reading
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The Three Apartheids of Our Times (Money, Medicine, Food): The Sixth Newsletter
11 February 2021 — Tricontinental Willie Bester (South Africa), Cross Roads, 1991. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In the early months after the World Health Organisation announced the coronavirus pandemic, the Indian novelist Arundhati Roy wrote of her hope that the pandemic would be a ‘portal, a… Continue reading
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UK: Public money for political advantage
Correspondence from Government shows it plans to claim a staggering £500k-600k in costs for a one day hearing of a judicial review challenge to a contract awarded by Dominic Cummings to his friends at Public First. The higher figure is more than the total value of the Public First contract of £564k. Continue reading
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Ecuador News Links 7-11 February 2021
11 February 2021 — The New Dark Age Ecuador’s US-Backed ‘Ecosocialist’ Candidate Yaku Pérez Aids The Right-Wing https://popularresistance.org/ecuadors-us-backed-ecosocialist-candidate-yaku-perez-aids-the-right-wing/ Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 10 February 2021
10 February 2021 — Black Agenda Report Freedom Rider: Forced Labor in the U.S. Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist Forced labor of Uyghurs in China is questionable, but there is absolute proof that incarcerated people in this country are forced to work for little or no pay. Continue reading
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India: Raid On NewsClick: An Attempt To Muzzle The Voices of Dissent
NewsClick, a progressive website based out of Delhi has been raided by the Enforcement Directorate. The raid comes at a time when NewsClick has been bravely covering the farmers’ agitation and other issues of the marginalised when most of the mainstream media are keeping silent or toeing the line of the government. The raid on… Continue reading
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Is it True that the New Variants are Very Dangerous?
According to what we hear from officials and the mainstream media, the new variants are the most dangerous and unpredictable beings since Osama bin Laden. Everyone needs to stay safe from these invisible but murderously mighty microbes by shunning contact with the unwashed, unmasked and unvaccinated. But is that drastic approach — which is accompanied… Continue reading
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Immunologist: Pfizer, Moderna Vaccines Could Cause Long-Term Chronic Illness
In new research published in Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, immunologist J. Bart Classen warns the mRNA technology used in the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines could create “new potential mechanisms” of adverse events that may take years to come to light. Continue reading
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Is There a Correlation Between the Vaccine Rollout and Increased COVID–19 Mortality?
A number of unusual death events have been reported in care homes across the country since the beginning of the vaccine rollout. Officially, any connection to the vaccines has been denied and they have all been taken as evidence of the spread of new variant COVID–19. Continue reading
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NHS: Leaked this week
Documents passed to the Lowdown reveal how US company, Centene is expanding its interests in the NHS by buying up a network of GP practices. Continue reading
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Spain, Germany, France, Italy and other countries ban use of COVID-19 vaccine for those over 55 – YouTube
Spain, Germany, France, Italy and ‘others’ have said that these new vaccines should not be given to anyone over the age of 55. Huh? Wasn’t that the reason for keeping everyone locked up for a year? Continue reading
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‘Our Indifference To Ourselves’ – Beyond The ‘Virtue’ Of Self-Sacrifice – Part 1
The name Arnold Ridley will be familiar to many viewers of ‘Dad’s Army’, one of Britain’s best-loved TV comedies, which ran a long time ago (1968-1977) but is still shown on prime time BBC TV. Unbeknownst to most viewers, although Godfrey seemed the unlikeliest of warriors, the actor who played him had been involved in… Continue reading
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OPINION: Don’t Stop at Big Tech—We Need to Bust Big Agriculture, Too
A wave of consolidation has given a few large companies control of proprietary, multi-level systems of traits, seeds, agrochemicals and digital technology. Continue reading
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The PPE that can’t be used by the NHS
You may remember the tale of the jeweller from Florida and the Spanish intermediary who profited to the tune of tens of millions of pounds from vast PPE contracts, paid for with taxpayers’ money. Well, there have been developments. Continue reading
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Breaking the glass screen – framing monopoly capitalism in global commodity chains
The term global commodity chain referred to the material and logistical aspects of organizing production involving numerous components brought together over spatially dispersed global production platforms and or assembly sites. Continue reading
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Ecuador: reversing the pandemic slump?
The leftist candidate Andrés Arauz took the lead in the first round of the presidential elections in Ecuador. Arauz won 31.5 per cent of the vote, putting him about 11 percentage points clear of his nearest rivals. It was unclear who Arauz would face in the run-off. Indigenous leader Yaku Pérez and Guillermo Lasso, a… Continue reading
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