29 April 2021 — Corporate Watch
In this newsletter:
Vaccine capitalism – Penally military refugee camp closes – profiles of Deliveroo and deportation profiteer Evelop/Barceló Group
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21 April 2021: Vaccine capitalism and more
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How Climate Collapse Will Overwhelm The U.S. Military & Jeopardize The State’s Existence
28 April 2021 — See you in 2020
The story of the climate’s deterioration is intertwined with the story of class conflict, with the battle between the revolutionaries and the counterrevolutionaries. Much to the chagrin of U.S. national security technocrats, factors show that the instability and destruction from the climate collapse is most likely going to harm the strategic interests of the counterrevolutionaries far more than those of the revolutionaries.
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Can sabotage stop climate change?
28 April 2021 — Origin: Climate & CapitalismBook ReviewAndreas Malm’s call for minority violence is eloquent and sincere, but self-defeating
Andreas Malm
HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE
Learning to Fight in a World on Fire
Verso, 2021reviewed by Simon Butler
Despite the climate movement’s growth, epitomized by Extinction Rebellion and Student Strike for Climate, fossil fuel extraction continues to grow, and a safe climate can seem dismayingly distant. Given a choice between forgoing capital accumulation and tipping the whole world into a furnace, our rulers prefer the furnace.
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The CIA’s Chinese Walls
27 April 2021 — Craig Murray
It is not in dispute that the CIA is in possession of Julian Assange’s legal and medical files seized from the Ecuadorean Embassy, including correspondence and drafting by his lawyers on his defence against extradition to the USA on Espionage charges. The defence submitted evidence of this in court. After Julian was arrested in the Ecuadorean Embassy and removed, all of his personal possessions were illegally seized by the Ecuadorean authorities, including his files and his IT equipment. These were then shipped back to Ecuador by diplomatic bag. There, they were handed over to the CIA.
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Watch: “The Present” — A Painful Short Film Tells the Whole Story of What It Means to be Palestinian
28 April, 2021 — Mint Press NewsIn “The Present,” as throughout all of Palestine, soldiers, police officers, secret police, or Shabak agents, have the power — indeed they are instructed — to harass, humiliate, and take the lives of Palestinians in the most arbitrary fashion.
By Miko Peled
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Revealed: UK Campaign to Force Assange From Ecuadorian Embassy
28 April 2021 — Consortium News – Declassified UK
A wide-ranging UK government campaign was brought to bear on Ecuador to press it to hand over WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, new information by Declassified UK reveals.
- Prime minister Theresa May was told in March 2018 to ‘butter up’ Ecuador’s president in order to get Assange out of Ecuadorian embassy in London
- Later in the year, May’s government spent £20,000 to bring Ecuadorian officials and defence minister to UK
- British foreign minister arranged Daily Mail hit piece on WikiLeaks publisher days after his eviction from the embassy
- Same minister gave Ecuador’s president a plate from Buckingham Palace gift shop to ‘say thank you’ for handing over Assange
- National security adviser Richard Moore, now head of MI6, was in Ecuador two weeks before Assange was expelled from embassy
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When Did the “Cold War” End? Part III
28 April 2021 — Internationalist 360°
Convoy of U.S. armored vehicles near Al-Qahtaniyah, SyriaIn 1989, before the end of the Cold War, Bush I, Reagan’s successor, invaded Panama, and in August 1990 attacked Iraq, starting the First Gulf War.
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The MH17 Trial: The Dangers of Presuming the Fairness of a Geopolitically-Driven Enterprise
28 April 2021 — Mint Press News
Inspection of the MH17 saga teaches us, in the first instance, never simply to presume that an enterprise that appears to have the status of an officially supported and endorsed international legal proceeding must on that account be above reproach.
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How the IHRA antisemitism definition became a pro-Israel cudgel
27 April 2021 — Jonathan Cook
At the height of the attacks on Corbyn, IHRA officials joined UK Jewish groups in falsely claiming its antisemitism definition included examples that protected Israel, when delegates had specifically excluded the examples
Mondoweiss – 27 April 2021
New research charts a five-year campaign by highly partisan, pro-Israel lobby groups to mislead the international community about the nature of what has been widely described as the “gold standard” definition of antisemitism.
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The Best Intentions of Sir Ronald Cohen: Building the Crypto-Corrals of Social Investment
28 April 2021 — Mint Press News
2E6FCW5 Ronald Cohen, chair of a global steering group on social impact investing, attends a news conference in Tel Aviv March 14, 2016. REUTERS/Baz Ratner The Great Reset
It’s a tangled web but the bottom line is that social-impact investing, given a big boost by the pandemic and the “Great Reset” planned in its wake, can be made to sound so good that it’s hard to conceive what a dangerous threat it poses: it only “works” by herding and caging.
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Pollution Report: Oceans are ‘at the precipice of disaster’
28 April 2021 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism
Killing the Global Sea
The aquatic food web has been seriously compromised by chemical pollution and climate change
Herbicides can alter the sex and reproductive processes in animals
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UK Crony Capitalism: This is Trumpian stuff
28 April 2021 — Good Law Project
This month brought us the alarming sight of Boris Johnson hijacking a taxpayer-funded Downing Street press conference – intended to provide the public with a vital COVID-19 update – to attack one of his political opponents.
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Putin recites the distribution of power in central Europe
26 April2021 — Indian Punchline
Russian military’s armoured vehicles roll into landing vessels after drill in Crimea, Black Sea, April 23, 2021The Colossus in modern European history with whom Russian President Vladimir Putin would draw comparison might be Otto von Bismarck, the first Chancellor of the German Empire who unified his country out of the scattered pieces. Putin is very familiar with German history, culture, society.
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UK: Take Action This Weekend to Kill The Bill!
27 April 2021 — Medact
Last night over 130 people joined our urgent briefing exploring why we all have a duty to take action and Kill The Bill.
As a movement we must demand nothing less than a complete rejection of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. Our fantastic panel gave us crucial insights into the public health dangers of the Bill, outlining how the legislation:
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NYT Investigates U.S. Jewish Billionaire Funding For Anti-Islamists – Then Distracts With Loads Of Anti-Russian Slander
25 April 2021 — Moon of Alabama
A current New York Times report finds that the British anti-Islam agitator and grifter Tommy Robinson was financed by American Jewish billionaires who promote Zionist colonialism in Palestine.
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Spycops Campaign Update, 27 April 2021
27 April 2021 — SpyCops
It’s an epic week in the spycops campaign, we’re flat out trying to keep up with it. You wait years for a court hearing and then two come along at once.
PUBLIC INQUIRY
The Undercover Policing Inquiry is having another round of hearings, covering Special Demonstration Squad undercover officers 1973-82. We’ve already seen some shocking details in the vintage police documents that have been released, and there’s surely more to come as the witnesses get questioned over the next three weeks.
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Southern Command Goes to War
25 April 2021 — Internationalist 360°
Last week, the head of the Pentagon’s Southern Command, Admiral Craig Faller, concluded his farewell tour in the Dominican Republic, participating in the Caribbean Nations Security Conference (CANSEC) together with military leaders from countries committed to Washington’s objectives of isolating Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, and at the same time hindering and/or restricting the cooperation links of China and Russia with the region.
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Trial lawyers accuse Monsanto, Bayer of “pay-to-appeal scheme”
26 April2021 — US Right to Know
The lawyers who led the nationwide U.S. Roundup litigation through three trial victories and forced Monsanto owner Bayer AG into an $11 billion settlement have notified a federal court that they have uncovered evidence of fraud in a secret deal between Monsanto and a lone plaintiff’s lawyer who has not been active in the litigation until recently.
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UK Crony Capitalism: Cummings’ pals
26 April 2021 — Good Law Project
We are pleased to say that the Court has granted a Cost Capping Order in our judicial review of Government’s decision to hand a contract to Cummings’ pals at Hanbury without any competition. We will now be able to fight this case to its conclusion.
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Economic woes? Pandemic? Climate change? Let’s deploy UK naval and aerial firepower
26 April 2021 — Political Concern
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“Global Britain in Action”, rejoices the Secretary of State for Defence
Despite the problems facing this country, a government bulletin announces that its ‘Carrier Strike Group’ is to carry out visits to India, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. Its website proudly reminds all and sundry of the diversion of taxpayers’ money to the UK’s defence budget – fifth largest in the world, highest in Europe and second highest in NATO – and of its position as the second largest defence exporter in the world. And, for further information, asks readers to contact Delhi: BHCMediaDelhi@fco.gov.uk
