26 March 2021 — Statewatch
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26 March 2021 — Indian Punchline
Unidentified militia group shot down helicopter with laser weapons in Wardak March 18 killing Afghan military personnel.The “hidden agenda” of the war on terror in Afghanistan has been an open secret. The first inkling of its geopolitical character came when it transpired that even after installing a pro-US regime in Kabul in 2002-2003, Pentagon was in no mood to vacate its Central Asian bases. Finally, the bloody Islamist uprising in Andijan in Fergana Valley in May 2005 prompted Russia and China to orchestrate an SCO consensus seeking the expulsion of the US from those bases.
23 March 2021 — Global Research
Generation Z is the newest generation, born between 1997 and 2012/15. They are currently 6 to 24 years old. In the US alone, they number 68 million.Gen Z is in the crosshairs of the coming climate catastrophe. They have the most to lose – and the most to win if we can allay their climate grief:
“Although Gen Zs comprise 25 percent of the human population (a little more than two billion inhabitants) this ‘climate generation’ claims, and rightfully so, that they own 100 percent of the future. They are tired and angry from being lied to. They intend on forcing societal change because it is their birthright to breathe unpolluted air, to drink nontoxic fresh water and to eat fruits, nuts and vegetables not slathered in nerve poisons and cancer-causing glyphosate.”
26 March, 2021 — Monthly Review Press
by István Mészáros and John Bellamy Foster
On February 16, 2015, István Mészáros sent me a letter addressing the history of the Latin American Spanish edition of Beyond Capital and its reception by President Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, along with a narrative of the origins of his close friendship with Chávez. In that letter, he explained that Vadell Hermanos, the publisher of the Spanish edition, had “asked me to write a special Introduction for the Latin American edition in Spanish, and I completed this special introduction—nearly 10,000 words, not published in English—in January 2000.” The entire book incorporating this special introduction was published by Vadell Hermanos in 2001, followed by the Brazilian Portuguese translation in 2002.
26 March 2021 — Institute of Race Relations
The race and class implications of the Police, Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill are massive and go beyond the right to protest, says Liz Fekete in the lead piece this week on IRR News. Back in the 1980s, Liz Fekete was a researcher on the IRR’s seminal report Policing Against Black People and she draws on her long involvement supporting campaigns for police accountability not only to dissect the Bill, but to bring historical context. She draws parallels between Margaret Thatcher’s use of the police to enforce industrial relations policies in the 1980s and the present government’s apparent need to keep a lid on disaffection and revolt in austerity-impoverished, multicultural inner-city neighbourhoods. But historical parallels reveal differences too, particularly in terms of police accountability. The imposition, under the Bill, of a new public duty on statutory agencies to support a multi-agency approach to preventing and tackling serious violence, further blurs the borders of policing as such agencies will inevitably become more integrated into policing.
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26 March 2021 — Black Agenda Report
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Joe Biden is no better than Trump in advocating de facto white supremacy with his foreign policy, and corporate media fan the flames of anti-Chinese racism.
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March 25, 2021 — Tricontinental
(Still from Peoples Dispatch video, “Kerala Polls, Left triumph”)
26 March 2021 — NetPol
Activists have occupied a former police station in South London, close to where Sarah Everard was last seen, to demand the withdrawal of Police, Crime and Sentencing Bill. The group have already been served eviction papers, and are calling for people to support them. You can find them on Instagram @not.a.cop.shop.
25 March 2021 — Mint Press News
WASHINGTON — In his last months in office, former President Donald Trump gave American defense contractors like Lockheed Martin and Reaper drone manufacturer General Atomics Aeronautical Systems billions in projected earnings through a controversial $23 billion arms deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a deal now “under review” by the Biden administration.
25 March, 2021 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism
Climate & Capitalism can’t review every book we receive, but this monthly column briefly describes some that seem relevant to our mission. Any of these books may be reviewed at length in future.
by Ian Angus
24 March 2021 — Mint Press News
Led by Israel and the United States, the narrative of a nuclear-armed Iran wreaking havoc on the Middle East and the world has been unrelenting and co-signed by the broader Western media establishment, which has been complicit in a long-running campaign that goes back to the early 2000s.
24 March 2021 — Health Impact News
[These figures are almost 2 weeks old, so the current toll has to be a lot higher. WB]
25 March 2021 — Good Law Project
“All citizens are likely to have an interest in whether or not the procurement on the part of the Government is done using good governance procedures and integrity. And therefore there is a real wider public interest that has been represented by the claimant group”.
These are not our words. They are those of the Judge in our Cost Capping Hearing in the challenge against PPE contracts awarded without competition to Ayanda, Pestfix and Clandeboye.
25 March 2021 — The Grayzone
25 March 2021 — Tricontinental
Ailén Possamay, Domestic disobedience / What they call love is unpaid labour, Concepción, Chile, 2019
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Women around the world spend an average of four hours and twenty-five minutes per day on unpaid care work, while men spend an average of one hour and twenty-three minutes per day on the same kind of work. This was the finding of an International Labour Organisation (ILO) study from 2018. What is care work? The ILO study defines care work as ‘consisting of activities and relations involved in meeting the physical, psychological, and emotional needs of adults and children, old and young, frail and able-bodied’.
17 March 2021 — The Grayzone
21 March 2021 — The COVID Blog
A frightening video of a lawyer interviewing an anonymous whistleblower tells stories of horror at a Berlin nursing home for dementia patients.
Dr. Reiner Fuellmich is one of the most important voices for truth about COVID-19 and so-called vaccines in the world. He is an attorney admitted to the Bar of Germany and the State Bar of California. His organization helps business owners in Germany recover damages resulting from COVID-19 lockdowns and other measures. Dr. Fuellmich is also one of four members of the German Corona Investigative Committee. The committee, after nine months of investigation, has already concluded that COVID-19 and experimental shots are “probably the greatest crime against humanity ever committed.”
24 March 2021 — Indian Punchline
M.K. Bhadrakumar
State Councilor & Foreign Minister Wang Yi (second from right) and Russian FM Sergey Lavrov (L) held talks in Guilin, March 23, 2021The US President Joe Biden’s “killer” remark about his “soulless” Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin was outrageous by any yardstick — even by his own long history of diplomatic gaffes. But Moscow won’t accept it as a sign of dementia.
24 March 2021 — Off Guardian
And so we come to March 23rd, and lockdown’s first birthday. Or, as we call it here, the longest two weeks in history.
The New Dark Age 