15 March 2021 — Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Community Control is Best Route to Abolishing Policing As We Know It / Black Is Back Coalition Partners Praise 19-Point Self-Determination Agenda / Europe and US Now Policing Black Migrants in Africa
15 March 2021 — Moon of Alabama
The U.S. and some of its allies are engaged in efforts to malign the Russian Sputink V vaccine and to promote the more expensive mRNA vaccines produced by ‘western’ companies.
Back in November we warned that the vaccine competition would be ruthless:
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13 March 2021 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism
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14 March 2021 — Mint Press News
The U.S. and its allies have declared China is guilty of genocide against Uighur Muslims. Behind The Headlines’ Dan Cohen examines the claim and the extremist figures behind the propaganda blitz.
8 March 2021 — True Publica
The story below tells of alarming backroom deals being done without public or parliamentary scrutiny into the highly sensitive (and extremely valuable) NHS patient data system. The company involved is Palantir, a highly controversial American company that TruePublica has reported on several times in the last few years – that was at the centre of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica Brexit scandal.
9 March, 2021 — Netpol
Protester at a Black Lives Matter protest in London in 2020. Photo: Shutterstock
Please sign the petition rejecting the government’s new crackdown on freedom to protest.
The coronavirus pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on our ability to take to the streets. Now the Home Office is busy preparing, in readiness for when public health restrictions start to ease, to make sweeping changes to public order legislation that will give the police extra powers to restrict future protests.
14 March 2021 — Off Guardian
Edward Curtin
In his new, six-part, seven hours plus documentary – “Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World” – the celebrated English documentary filmmaker, Adam Curtis, who has worked for the BBC for decades, tells us that nothing makes sense anymore and it is…
pointless to try to understand the meaning of why things happen.
12 March 2021 — 21st Century Wire
This week, a group of scientists and doctors have issued an open letter calling on the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to answer urgent safety questions regarding COVID-19 vaccines, or withdraw the vaccines’ authorisation.
11 March 2021 — Off Guardian
In 1998, the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG), at the behest of Congress, launched what became the largest congressionally mandated, single-subject declassification effort in history. As a result, more than 8.5 million pages of records have been opened to the public under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act (P.L. 105-246) and the Japanese Imperial Government Disclosure Act (P.L. 106-567). These records include operational files of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the CIA, the FBI and Army intelligence. IWG issued three reports to Congress between 1999 and 2007.
10 March 2021 — FAIR
UN investigator Alena Douhan (2/12/21) “urges the US government to end the national emergency regarding Venezuela.”
Alena Douhan, the UN special rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, published her preliminary report on February 12 on the impact of US and European sanctions on Venezuela.
9 March 2021 — Asia Times
By Pepe Escobar
By any historical measure, it was a game-changer: the first meeting since the 7th century between a Roman Catholic Pope and a Shiite spiritual leader regarded as a “source of emulation.”
10 March 2021 — Good Law Project
Other than at a General Election – an event occurring at five-yearly intervals that hands unconstrained power to a Party that wins a majority – a citizen has but one way of registering dissent at what is done in their name: the right to protest. Yesterday the Government announced its intention to legislate that right out of meaningful existence.
9 March 2021 — Mint Press News
From the Skripal affair to Navalny’s rise to the Russian Olympic doping scandal, these damning revelations should be enough to dispel any notions of truth in what the UK and allies tell their citizens through mainstream media outlets and the social media landscape they control.
10 March 2021 — Counter Currents
by Bharat Dogra
Keeping in view the increasing concerns worldwide to check increasing corporate control over farming and food systems, there is a need to look more carefully at various forms of this increasing corporatization and consider carefully various ways and means of resisting this.
9 March 2021 — Moon of Alabama
U.S. President Joe Biden continues Donald Trump’s regime change policy towards Venezuela. From yesterday’s press briefing by the State Department:
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10 March 2021 — Black Agenda Report
Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
Biden rules like Trump regarding Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Haiti, because the two imperial parties serve the same masters.
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9 March 2021 — Indian Punchline
M.K. Bhadrakumar
With the world’s largest oil export terminal coming under missile and drone attack — a giant Saudi Aramco complex capable of exporting roughly 6.5m barrels a day, nearly 7% of global oil demand — the war in Yemen surges in the global media. During the night on Saturday, the Houthis fired eight missiles and 14 drones towards Ras Tanura on Saudi Arabia’s east coast. And Brent crude oil price shot up to highs not seen since before coronavirus was declared a pandemic.
9 March 2021 — USRTK
Planning documents for the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 shed new light on the agenda behind the controversial food summit that hundreds of farmers’ and human rights groups are boycotting over its dominance by agribusiness interests.
You can read the documents here: The next neocolonial gold rush? African food systems are the ‘new oil,’ UN documents say
9 March 2021 — CJ Hopkins
So, we’re almost a year into the “New Normal” (a/k/a “pathologized totalitarianism”) and things are still looking … well, pretty totalitarian.
Most of Western Europe is still in “lockdown,” or “under curfew,” or in some other state of “health emergency.” Police are fining and arresting people for “being outdoors without a valid reason.” Protest is still banned. Dissent is still censored. The official propaganda is relentless. Governments are ruling by edict, subjecting people to an ever-changing series of increasingly absurd restrictions of the most fundamental aspects of everyday life.
8 March 2021 — FAIR
The New Dark Age 