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Black Agenda Report 13 January 2021
13 January 2021 — Black Agenda Report White Settler Uprising at the Capitol Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor Last week’s assault on the Capitol was essentially a race riot, the product of white racial grievance. Continue reading
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ColdType January 2021 (Issue 218) is now online
12 January 2021 — ColdType Continue reading
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War of the (Financial) Worlds
We all know, of course, that we’re living through a once-in-a-century-style pandemic; that millions of people have lost their jobs, a portion of which will never return; that the poorest among us, who can withstand such acute economic hardship the least, have been slammed the hardest; and that the global economy has been kneecapped, thanks… Continue reading
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Lockdown ‘INEFFECTIVE’ against spread of COVID-19, may even increase risk to vulnerable populations, research claims
A Stanford University study claims mandatory stay-at-home orders and business closures have “no clear, significant beneficial effect” on Covid-19 case growth and may even lead to more frequent infections in nursing homes. Continue reading
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On the Edge: Security, protracted conflicts and the role of drones in Eurasia
Our new report, ‘On the Edge: Security, protracted conflicts and the role of drones in Eurasia’ examines the proliferation of drones and loitering munitions (often descried as suicide drones) across Eurasia. It charts their increasing use along the borders of separatist areas, aims to shed some light on the acquisition of large Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance (MALE)… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 11, 2021
11 January 2021 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford Cops Colluded with Trump Mob at Capitol / Black Anarchists Prefer “Non-Hierarchical” Activism / Black Feminism Informed by “Sensuous Knowledge” Cops Colluded with Trump Mob at Capitol Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford “If this had… Continue reading
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Growing Protests Over Threat of US Bio Weapons
The spread of coronavirus infection in the world has inadvertently forced the leading powers and the UN to open their eyes to many issues and, above all, to comply with the provisions of the international Biological Weapons Convention. Continue reading
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Genetic Engineering, Agriculture and Brexit: Treachery in Our Midst
The type of ‘liberation’ Johnson advocates forms part of the usual neoliberal evangelism which this time revolves around the adoption of unassessed genetically engineered crops and food, while overseeing the gutting of food safety and environmental standards, especially in light of a potential post-Brexit trade deal with the US. Continue reading
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ASSA 2021: part two – the radical answers
8 January 2021 — Michael Roberts Blog by michael roberts At the annual conference of the American Economics Association (ASSA), there are sessions hosted by the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) for Marxist and other heterodox economists to present papers. At this year’s ASSA 2021, many of the URPE sessions were concerned with the economic impact of COVID-19 and… Continue reading
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“The Storming of the Capitol”: America’s Reichstag Fire?
The media are already spinning a narrative around the events in Washington DC. One that bears no resemblance to reality, does not hold up to any kind of scrutiny and will have massive, far-reaching consequences for all of us. Continue reading
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State Terrorism: Remembering General Soleimani
This first anniversary of the assassination of General Qassim Soleimani, provides an occasion to remember not only the man but the nature of the act, the precedent set, and degree to which Iran and the region have become the main hunting ground of post-colonial Western imperialism. It is also relevant to take note of Mossad’s… Continue reading
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Crisis, What Crisis? Hypocrisy and Public Health in the UK
The government is extremely worried about a substance that could be contributing to a spiralling public health crisis that has been decades in the making. It has been detected in food and in urine. The government has therefore decided to carry out mass urine testing. It has found millions of ‘cases’. The more it tests,… Continue reading
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ASSA 2021 – part one: the mainstream dilemma
The annual conference of the American Economic Association (ASSA 2021) was unusual this year, for obvious reasons. Instead of 13,000 academic and professional economists descending on an American city to present and discuss hundreds of submitted papers over a few days, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, ASSA 2021 was virtual. Despite that, there were a host of… Continue reading
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We Are Living in an Emergency That Requires Urgent Action (a note written with Noam Chomsky): The First Newsletter (2021)
7 January 2021 — Tricontinental Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. The first newsletter of the new year is written in collaboration with our friend, the great linguist and prophetic voice, Noam Chomsky. What follows is a statement by Noam and me. Xiang Wang (China), Extinction, 2020 Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 5-7 January 2021
7 January 2021 • 15:40 — 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 US and UK may not will Assange’s death, but everything they are doing makes it more likely https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/01/the-us-and-uk-may-not-will-assanges-death-but-everything-they-are-doing-makes-it-more-likely/ Assange saga: Real journalism is criminally insane… Continue reading
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Revealed: UK sets up media influencing project in Venezuela amid secretive £750,000 ‘democracy promotion’ programme
The UK government has established a journalism project to ‘influence’ Venezuela’s ‘media agenda’ while a Foreign Office-funded foundation is spending £750,000 on a secretive ‘democracy-promotion’ programme in the country, as Britain appears to deepen efforts to remove the Maduro government. Continue reading
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American right-wing funders back GB News ready for launch
By TruePublica: Benjamin Ward, the Deputy Director for Europe and Central Asia Division at Human Rights Watch recently and very publicly accused Boris Johnson of systematically dismantling the democratic fabric of Britain. The illegal suspension of parliament was cited of course, but so was the gaming of appointments to parliamentary committees that scrutinise government policies.… Continue reading
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It Wasn’t 2020, It Was The Ruling Class Trying to Kill You
The sick reality underlying the present situation of poor, working-class, African, and colonized people around the world is that the people who currently have the most power to address our circumstances also happen to be the least interested in our long term survival. A decision was made in the spring that the interests of capital… Continue reading
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