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Aftermath of the riots
In this week’s Calendar of Racism and Resistance, we note the aftermath of August’s riots and the arrests and sentencing of the far-right agitators. The Commons Library report ‘Policing responses to the Summer 2024 riots’, which terms them ‘anti-immigration’, but fails to call them out as racist, shows that since 30 August, 1,280 people have… Continue reading
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Know Your Rights for Palestine Protesters
As we near the one-year anniversary of the genocide in Gaza, protests are being planned around the country. Many people are joining protests at the Labour Conference in Liverpool this weekend, and demonstrations are planned in towns and cities across the UK. Continue reading
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This ain’t no WWIII: this is a War OF Terror
First we had action: President Putin – cool, calm, collected – warns that any attack on Russia with long-range NATO missiles will be an act of war. Continue reading
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There Is Only One Night Left to Build Fortifications: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter (2024)
Thursday, 19 September 2024 — The Tricontinental Niniko Morbedadze (Georgia), The Orange Clouds on the Boundary, 2018. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 13 September, at a conclave in Washington, DC, US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer indicated that it would be acceptable for… Continue reading
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Ancient settlements show that commoning is ‘natural’ for humans, not selfishness and competition
When I’ve had conversations about the commons with right-leaning people (and sometimes cynical people on the left too), a typical response might be something along the lines of: ‘don’t waste your time trying to build a more democratic, sustainable or peaceful society. It won’t work, because humans are inherently selfish, greedy and competitive’. This Darwinian… Continue reading
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IT Independence is National Security
The NSA’s “Equation Group” is apparently behind the infection with malware of hard drive firmware on computers used by nations considered “enemies” by the United State. The installation of the malware is believed to have required access to trade secrets of IT manufacturers as well as physical access to the soon-to-be infected computers. Popular Science… Continue reading
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India’s military support to Israel is a hideous mistake
Doesn’t the government realise that this is adding to the growing perception internationally that the current government is ‘Islamophobic’ and ‘anti-Muslim’? Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report September 18, 2024
Wednesday, 18 September 2024 — Black Agenda Report Haiti and Springfield, Ohio Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Haitians are unforgiven for waging a successful Black revolution. Racism follows wherever they go, even in a state like Ohio, which is in need of a labor force and a larger population. Of course, Ohio is… Continue reading
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Zion nuked Western Electronics & Made China Supreme
Israel explodes pagers all over Lebanon, wounding thousands and killing at least 10. How did they do it? Why? Why now? What benefits did it bring, and at what cost? Also: fighting continues in West Bank and Gaza; Sinwar sends a message to al-Houthi. Continue reading
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GMWatch Daily Digest – 18 September 2024
Wednesday, 18 September 2024 — GMWatch Cutting the crap on gene technology Three articles published over recent weeks and months demolish the EU Commission’s and New Zealand government’s proposals for deregulating new GMOs made with techniques such as gene editing. They show why the proposals, which would remove safety checks and labelling from a new… Continue reading
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Israel triggered rigged pagers fearing discovery
According to Al-Monitor, two Hezbollah Resistance fighters suspected that the pagers had been tampered with and planned to inform their superiors. One found out days ago and was killed, and the other found out days after the first and planned to alert his superiors as well. It was then that Israeli security apparatuses weighed their… Continue reading
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It’s Barbarism
“It’s barbarism. I see it coming masqueraded under lawless alliances and predetermined enslavements. It may not be about Hitler’s furnaces, but about the methodical and quasi-scientific subjugation of Man. His absolute humiliation. His disgrace” Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, in a press conference on the occasion of receiving the Nobel Prize (1979) Continue reading
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Wolfgang Streeck: “Sahra Wagenknecht is the only one asking the right questions — and offering the right answers”
The famous German sociologist discusses the recent elections in eastern Germany, the need to return to the nation-state, left-wing communitarianism, and the shortfalls of right-populism Continue reading
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London Assembly inquiry to consider how protesters have ‘inconvenienced’ the Met
Members of the London Assembly, the elected body that scrutinises the activities of London Mayor Sadiq Khan, are planning to hold hearings on public order policing in October. Continue reading
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A Major Spectacle
Israel was most probably responsible for creating a spectacular attack on Hezbollah, by technologically getting their individual pagers or communication devices to explode. It does not look like a software hack. It looks like a small explosive device or material that reacts to heating up, was included in those pagers. Nobody doubts the responsible actor. Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest – 17 September 2024
Tuesday, 17 September 2024 — GM Watch Successful detection methods for new genomic techniques It’s becoming increasingly clear that detection and identification of new GMO (new genomic techniques, NGT) plants will be possible, as long as such research continues to be supported. In a study commissioned by the German Federal Office for Agriculture and Food,… Continue reading
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Massive Israeli Cyberattack in Lebanon kills 8, injures 1000s
Tuesday, 17 September 2024 — Al Mayadeen A massive attack targeting pagers left hundreds of Lebanese citizens injured. The attack is reportedly an Israeli cyberattack, though investigations are still ongoing. Dr. Firas al-Abiad, Lebanon’s Caretaker Minister of Public Health, reported that the cyber attack targeting pagers, has so far killed 8 people, and approximately 2,750… Continue reading
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The West’s military mistake: Germany and NATO face the undeniable superiority of Russia and the BRICS alliance
In the shadow of Russian power, Europe is faltering. Germany and NATO’s military backwardness in the face of Russia is a wake-up call, revealing the flaws in a security that seemed unshakeable. The consequences of such vulnerability are abysmal, threatening to plunge the region into the darkness of instability and war. Continue reading
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Lunacy in London, or Starmer’s Washington disaster
On Friday 13 September, I had a most peculiar experience. I was so astonished at what I was witnessing (and also what I was not witnessing) that I felt like uttering the celebrated words of Alice in Wonderland. Continue reading
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Watch: Israel rattled by ICC Warrants
South Africa’s case against Israel ignites Hasbara attacks w/ special guest human rights lawyer Kristen Zornada The ongoing ICC and ICJ trials against the State of Israel and its ministers, Yoav Galant and Prime Minister Netanyahu, have ignited Hasbara attacks. Continue reading