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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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“The World Cannot Breathe!” Squashed by the U.S. – A Country Built on Genocide and Slavery
More than two centuries of lies are now getting exposed. Bizarre tales about freedom and democracy are collapsing like houses of cards. Continue reading
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Legal complaint lodged with UK data watchdog over claims coronavirus Test and Trace programme flouts GDPR
Open Rights Group has instructed lawyers to lodge a complaint with the UK’s data watchdog over the rollout of the Test and Trace system because it says the system breaches the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Continue reading
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The Death of George Floyd News Links 27 May – 4 June 2020
4 June 2020 15:20 — The New Dark Age “A riot is the language of the unheard” https://mronline.org/2020/06/03/a-riot-is-the-language-of-the-unheard/ UPRISING: The Story of America Crashes Headlong Into the Reality of America https://consortiumnews.com/2020/06/04/uprising-the-story-of-america-crashes-headlong-into-the-reality-of-america/ Agent Provocateurs: Police at Protests All Over the Country Caught Destroying Property https://williambowles.info/2020/06/04/agent-provocateurs-police-at-protests-all-over-the-country-caught-destroying-property/ Continue reading
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The cia coup against ‘the most loyal ally’ is history’s warning in 2020
The Australian High Court has ruled that correspondence between the Queen and the Governor-General of Australia, her viceroy in the former British colony, is no longer “personal” and the property of Buckingham Palace. Why does this matter? Continue reading
