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From Dodgy Dossiers to the Sacking of Whitlam: The British Empire Stands Exposed
I used to believe as many do, in a story called “the American Empire”. Over the last decade of research, that belief has changed a bit. The more I looked at the top down levers of world influence shaping past and present events that altered history, the hand of British Intelligence just kept slapping me… Continue reading
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Nixon-Trump vs. the Strategy of Tension
Trump’s MAGA woes have been compounded by a shoddy geopolitical move in tandem with Law and Order: his re-election campaign will be under the sign of “China, China, China.” When in trouble, blame a foreign enemy. That comes from serially failed opportunist Steve Bannon and his Chinese billionaire sidekick Guo Wengui, or Miles Guo. Here… Continue reading
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From Occupation to ‘Occupy’: The Israelification of American domestic security
100 members of the 800-strong Minneapolis police department were trained at a conference in Israel in 2012. That means at least one of every eight members the city’s force has been influenced by the methods of an occupying apartheid entity. Continue reading
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The Corona Pandemic and Trump’s Trade War against China: America’s Dependence on “Made in China”
The US has been threatening China with trade sanctions for several years. At the outset of the Trump administration in January 2017, Washington not only envisaged punitive trade measures, it also called for “an investigation into China’s trade practices” focussing on alleged violations of U.S. intellectual property rights. Continue reading
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EU, China draw closer in post-pandemic setting
The 10th annual Strategic Dialogue between the European Union and China on June 9 can be regarded as marking the resumption of structured big-power diplomacy in the post-Covid-19 setting. It was both a symbolic and substantive event, preparing the ground for the forthcoming EU-Summit. Continue reading
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“There Is a Transformation In The Content, Character, and Operation of the Capitalist State in the United States”
The mobilizations and protests have changed their nature. The protests began against the repression of victims of racism, but now there are some social, political, and legal demands, among others, which could have an impact on the structure of power. Continue reading
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Syria in Seattle: Commune Defies the U.S. Regime
The marriage of post-Lockdown and George Floyd protests has nurtured a rough beast that is still immune to any form of civilized debate in the U.S.: the Seattle Commune. Continue reading
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Community control Vs. defunding the police: A critical analysis
The intensity and scope of the mass rebellion that has gripped the U.S. and expanded internationally has shaken global white supremacist capitalist patriarchy to its knees. The people have tasted a real sense of their own power and as a result some very unexpected developments have emerged. Continue reading
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Parallels between Minneapolis and Jerusalem are more than skin deep
It is hard to ignore the striking parallels between the recent scenes of police brutality in cities across the United States and decades of violence from Israel’s security forces against Palestinians. Continue reading
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WATCH: Perspectives on the Pandemic #9
Erin Marie Olszewski is a Nurse-turned-investigative journalist, who has spent the last few months on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, on the inside in two radically different settings. Two hospitals. One private, the other public. One in Florida, the other in New York. Continue reading
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US: Media Are Slowly Starting to Be Serious About Police Violence
As the George Floyd protests against police violence erupted around the nation, a massive amount of evidence of police brutality was widely captured through social media. Unfortunately, very little of it made it to mainstream outlets until much later. Continue reading
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Dr. Wolfgang Streeck: “We Are Being Governed by An Oligarchy”
8 June 2020 — American Herald Tribune Mohsen Abdelmoumen: Can Europe survive the Covid-19 crisis? Continue reading
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Israel lobby sees Black Lives Matter as major strategic threat
Israel lobby groups have long seen the Black Lives Matter movement as a threat and have tried both to disrupt and co-opt it. Continue reading
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Police Use Contact Tracing And Big Tech To Identify Protesters (UPDATED)
Countless warnings about how law enforcement could use contact-tracing apps to monitor people have gone unheeded. As BGR.com revealed police are using contact tracing to identify protester’s affiliations. Continue reading
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The Moral Authority of the Lockdown Fetishists Is Gone. Thank the Protestors and Rioters
This past April, in the midst of the surging pandemic and collapsing US economy, I was interviewed by three sources in Europe for a US perspective on the events. The following is the first part of an interview with Polish social commentator, Konrad Stachnio, that will appear in a collection of interviews later this summer.… Continue reading
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The Most Revealing Footage On Police Brutality Is These Cops Applauding Its Perpetrators
Among the constant deluge of police brutality footage flooding the internet as America’s armed goon patrol responds to the Black Lives Matter protests across the nation, there is one video which stands out above all the others in illustrating just how pervasively violent police culture is. Curiously enough, this video itself contains no police brutality. Continue reading
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Capitalism: As for the markets, covid-19 never happened
6 June 2020 — theplanningmotivedotcom Let us be clear. We are in the biggest bubble in history. Investors underestimated the fall in March, now they are overestimating the recovery. Therefore, they are vulnerable to bad news. And there is a lot of bad news to come. When that happens, the placard raised will read FIRE,… Continue reading
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A Joint Enterprise: How the UK and the US co-operate on drone warfare
A new report published today by Drone Wars UK investigates the co-operation between the UK and the US in relation to armed drone operations. While the UK insist its armed drone programme is separate and independent to that of the US, our report, ‘Joint Enterprise: An overview of US-UK co-operation on armed drone operations’, argues… Continue reading
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I…Can’t…Breathe
6 June 2020 — Daily Maverick Zapiro (South Africa) Continue reading
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USA: Returning to normal?
The recent release of the US jobs data for May, which apparently showed a reduction in the unemployment rate from April, sparked a sharp rally in the US stock market. And if you were to follow the stock markets of the major economies, you would think that the world economy was racing back to normal… Continue reading
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