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PSL Statement: Trump Incites Fascist Insurrection Against Congress — What Comes Next?
Today, a fascist mob — called to action by Donald Trump and acting in obvious collusion with elements of the Capitol Police, the Department of Defense, and possibly other armed forces — stormed the U.S. Capitol building and dispersed Congress. Trump himself spoke at today’s main protest rally outside the White House as part of… Continue reading
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Both Tortuous and Torturous
Magistrate Vanessa Bararitser walked into Westminster Magistrates Court No.1 at 10.12am this morning with the sunniest smile and most carefree disposition I have ever seen her adopt. Her shoulders appeared visibly lifted. She positively beamed at Clair Dobbin, counsel for the US government, as she invited her to put the case for the prosecution as… Continue reading
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US govt-sponsored website Bellingcat disrupts MH17 trial in Netherlands
For six years the British website Bellingcat has promoted Ukraine’s narrative that Russia shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17). With the start of the MH17 trial in March 2020, the self-proclaimed “collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists” assumed a new role: The US government-funded website began ridiculing the defense attorneys and attempting to… Continue reading
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British Judge Keeps Julian Assange In Prison, Despite Denying Extradition Two Days Ago
A British district judge denied bail for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after a hearing in which the prosecution argued he had helped NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden “flee justice” and would abscond if released from the Belmarsh high-security prison. Continue reading
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German Government Uses Lockdown to Sneak Deadly Pesticide
Using the conditions of the most recent coronavirus lockdown, the German government’s agriculture minister has made a stealth decision, without open debate, to re-instate a banned class of systemic insecticides known as neonicotinoids. The German move follows a similar move by the French Macron government and puts the entire food security of the EU in… Continue reading
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UK: Will they misuse these powers?
Under cover of Christmas, with less than a day for scrutiny, and with No Deal as the only alternative, Parliament passed the European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020. The process was described by the venerable Hansard Society as “an abdication of Parliament’s constitutional responsibilities to deliver proper scrutiny of the executive and the law” and a “farce”. Continue reading
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Power Grab: COVID-19 reinfection risk is virtually nonexistent, but ‘experts’ pretend otherwise
You’re not supposed to know that the chances of being infected with COVID-19 twice are so astronomically low that it’s only worth discussing if you also believe it’s important to warn the world about the dangers of falling into a sinkhole the moment you step outside your front door. Continue reading
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The Assange Verdict: What Happens Now
I fully expect that Julian will be released on bail this week, pending a possible US appeal against the blocking of his extradition. Continue reading
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Chris Hedges: The Empire is Not Done with Julian Assange
Shortly after WikiLeaks released the Iraq War Logs in October 2010, which documented numerous US war crimes — including video images of the gunning down of two Reuters journalists and 10 other unarmed civilians in the Collateral Murder video, the routine torture of Iraqi prisoners, the covering up of thousands of civilian deaths and the killing… Continue reading
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UK: New Bill Threatens Future of Free Expression and Civil Liberty
Big Brother Watch has warned that the recently proposed Online Harms Bill is yet another piece of legislation designed to deceive us into thinking the government is protecting us all when something more sinister is likely. Free expression and civil liberty are at stake. The result is a piece of proposed legislation which is as… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 4, 2021
5 January 2021 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford Pandemic Reveals Crisis of US Imperialism / Only a “Transformational” Electoral Politics is Useful / AFRICOM Causes Humanitarian Crises on Two Continents Pandemic Reveals Crisis of US Imperialism Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford “I think… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 4-5 January 2021
5 January 2021 — The New Dark Age Chris Hedges: The Empire Is Not Done With Julian Assange https://popularresistance.org/chris-hedges-the-empire-is-not-done-with-julian-assange/ Assange Wins. The Cost: Press Freedom Is Crushed https://popularresistance.org/assange-wins-the-cost-press-freedom-is-crushed/ Continue reading
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Julian Assange: Imminent Freedom
It has been a long and tiring day, with the startlingly unexpected decision to block Julian’s extradition. The judgement is in fact very concerning, in that it accepted all of the prosecution’s case on the right of the US Government to prosecute publishers worldwide of US official secrets under the Espionage Act. The judge also… Continue reading
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The Assange Extradition Ruling Is A Relief, But It Isn’t Justice
British Judge Vanessa Baraitser has ruled against US extradition for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but not for the reasons she should have. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 4 January 2021
4 January 2021 — The New Dark Age Julian Assange: Wikileaks founder extradition to US blocked by UK judge https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55528241 In Assange Case, British Judge Rejects US Government’s Extradition Request https://williambowles.info/2021/01/04/in-assange-case-british-judge-rejects-us-governments-extradition-request/ Continue reading
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In Assange Case, British Judge Rejects US Government’s Extradition Request
Citing harsh federal prison conditions in the United States, a British district court judge rejected the United States government’s extradition request against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Continue reading
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Why did the world react so hysterically to covid?
Over the last few months, I’ve sought to demonstrate that covid is nowhere near as bad as it is portrayed by the mainstream media. I’ve written about how the mortality rate is below 0,2%, meaning that for most people the risk of dying if you get infected is less than one in 500 (and less than… Continue reading
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US risks confrontation with Russia
The Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov remarked last week that Moscow expects nothing good in relations with a “deeply hostile” US under the incoming administration of Joe Biden. He further said in an interview with the Interfax published Wednesday, “We are heading from bad to worse. The next US president has been left with… Continue reading
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The Future Will Only Contain What We Put into It Now: The Fifty-Third Newsletter (2020)
31 December 2020 — Tricontinental Image in homage of Bolivian people’s resistance by Tings Chak (China) Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Towards the end of November, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres addressed the German Bundestag to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the United Nations (UN). At the… Continue reading
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What is left to say?
If I were to recommend actions. I would recommend that we stop testing – unless someone is admitted to hospital and is seriously ill. Mass testing is simply causing mass panic and achieves absolutely nothing. At great cost. We should also just get on with our lives as before. We should just vaccinate those at… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 