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  • December 6, 2020
    No comments on Friedrich Engels at 200: A Revolutionary Historian

    Friedrich Engels at 200: A Revolutionary Historian

    23 November 2020 — History Workshop

    By Christian Hogsbjerg

    28 November 2020 marks the bicentenary of the birth of Friedrich Engels. The German revolutionary philosopher made pathbreaking and profound contributions to modern social and political theory, playing a critical role in the forging and development of classical Marxism.  The renewed relevance of many of his ideas in our crisis-ridden world of late capitalism, where profits come before people and the planet, are rightly foregrounded by those marking the #Engels200 commemoration.

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    Books, History, Socialism

  • December 6, 2020
    No comments on Frontline Health Workers: From Heroes to Vaccine Hesitant Public Health Threats

    Frontline Health Workers: From Heroes to Vaccine Hesitant Public Health Threats

    1 December 2020 — The Highwire

    By Jefferey Jaxen

    UPDATE (12/1): The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has voted 13 to 1 in an emergency meeting to make the recommendation that residents and employees of nursing homes health care workers be the first to receive coronavirus vaccines.

    It’s the final countdown! Moderna, Pfizer and AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine candidates are on their way to emergency use authorization (EUA) consideration. Experimental messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine technology, rushed through trials, with public-facing scientific transparency and disclosures coming via public relations press releases. What’s to fear?

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    Covid-19, Health

  • December 6, 2020
    1 comment on The top 1% of households own 43% of global wealth, 10% owns 81%, while the bottom 50% have just 1%

    The top 1% of households own 43% of global wealth, 10% owns 81%, while the bottom 50% have just 1%

    5 December 2020 — Michael Roberts

    by michael roberts

    The top 1% of households globally own 43% of all personal wealth while the bottom 50% have only 1%.  The 1% are all millionaires in net wealth (after debt) and there are 52m of them.  Within this 1%, there are 175,000 ultra-wealthy people with over $50m in net wealth – that’s a miniscule number of people (less than 0.1%) owning 25% of the world’s wealth!

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    Capitalism

  • December 6, 2020
    No comments on ColdType December 2020 (Issue 217) is now online

    ColdType December 2020 (Issue 217) is now online

    5 December 2020 — ColdType

    Coldtype 217

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    Coldtype

  • December 5, 2020
    No comments on How Israel deployed an intelligence deception to justify killing scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

    How Israel deployed an intelligence deception to justify killing scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

    5 December 2020 — Grayzone

    Gareth Porter·December 2, 2020

    Israel’s Mossad has spent years on a propaganda campaign aimed at convincing the world Iran possessed a nuclear weapons program – and legitimizing its assassinations of Iranian academics.

    The Israeli assassination of Iranian defense official Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is being treated as a triumph of Israeli intelligence, with ubiquitous references in the New York Times and other major media outlets to the killing of “Iran’s top nuclear scientist”. In fact, Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency eliminated Fakhrizadeh, a defense official, despite the knowledge that its public depiction of him as the key architect of an Iranian nuclear weapons program was a deception.

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    Iran

  • December 5, 2020
    No comments on The Curious Case Of USS Ross: U.S. Warship Appears In Russian Territorial Waters, And Then Vanishes

    The Curious Case Of USS Ross: U.S. Warship Appears In Russian Territorial Waters, And Then Vanishes

    5 December 2020 — South Front

    [Interesting and very alarming story, which if true, means that the US has the means and the ability to interfere with, and crucially, alter, electronic communications pretty much anywhere in the world. WB]

    The Curious Case Of USS Ross: U.S. Warship Appears In Russian Territorial Waters, And Then Vanishes

    The cyber command of the US Navy intervened in the work of the international automatic vessel identification system (AIS), creating a dangerous precedent, according to reports on December 4th.

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    Russia, USA

  • December 5, 2020
    1 comment on Mercola, Children’s Health Defense Among Top 5 Sites Targeted as National Security Risk

    Mercola, Children’s Health Defense Among Top 5 Sites Targeted as National Security Risk

    2 December 2020 — Children’s Health Defense

    British and American intelligence agencies are collaborating to eliminate “anti-vaccine propaganda” from public discussion using sophisticated cyberwarfare tools.

    By Dr. Joseph Mercola

    Story at-a-glance 

    • British and American intelligence agencies are collaborating to eliminate “anti-vaccine propaganda” from public discussion using sophisticated cyberwarfare tools.
    • According to Imran Ahmed, chief executive of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, anti-vaxxers are “an extremist group that pose a national security risk,” because “once someone has been exposed to one type of conspiracy it’s easy to lead them down a path where they embrace more radical world views that can lead to violent extremism.”
    • In September, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) seized 92 online domains suspected of belonging to Iraqi government-backed militia. Seizures were done in collaboration with the FBI, Google, Facebook and Twitter.
    • In November, the DOJ seized 27 online domains — including the American Herald Tribune — suspected of being founded by Iranian interests.
    • Among the websites cited by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate as promoting extremism that poses a national security risk to the U.K. are Mercola.com, Children’s Health Defense, the Informed Consent Action Network, the Organic Consumers Association and the National Vaccine Information Center.

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    USA

  • December 5, 2020
    No comments on Watch: Feeding a Crisis: Africa’s Manufactured Hunger Pandemic

    Watch: Feeding a Crisis: Africa’s Manufactured Hunger Pandemic

    4 December 2020 — Internationalist 360°

    Hunger is still the biggest killer in Africa and it has a lot to do with colonialism. Redfish worked with filmmakers in Senegal, Nigeria, Kenya and Zimbabwe to tell local stories of food and hunger, but also the growing resistance to the continued influence of former colonial powers, their corporations and institutions. Economic sanctions from the Global North, debt and loans from the IMF, aid dependency, and enforced capitalism have all played a central role in Africa’s manufactured food crisis.

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    Africa, Capitalism, Videos

  • December 4, 2020
    1 comment on Shell Games at the Treasury Department and a Financial System on Life Support

    Shell Games at the Treasury Department and a Financial System on Life Support

    4 December 2020 — Mint Press

    As millions of Americans stand on the brink of economic annihilation, the money keeps flowing to Wall Street thanks to carefully contrived mechanisms to maintain a dying financial system afloat.

    by Raul Diego

    Many prophetic scenes depicted in a series of Mayan codices written in the early days of the Spanish colony, and translated and compiled in El Libro de los Libros del Chilam Balam, describe a world foreign to its original authors. But, one which was barreling down on them and their civilization even as the Mayan high priests recorded their visions for each stop on their cyclical calendar system.

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    Capitalism, USA

  • December 4, 2020
    No comments on Stealing Mineral Wealth for Corporate Interests: U.S. Bankrolled Mass Murder of Millions in Central Africa

    Stealing Mineral Wealth for Corporate Interests: U.S. Bankrolled Mass Murder of Millions in Central Africa

    3 December 2020 — Internationalist 360°

    Jeremy Kuzmarov

    William J. Perry, the U.S. Defense Secretary from 1994 to 1997, speaks with Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame. Perry helped secure the delivery of weapons to Kagame that were used to attack Congo and exterminate Hutu refugees in eastern Congo. [Source: therwandan.com]

    A new book reveals how U.S. Presidents of both parties unleashed the CIA in the Congo to do the dirty work of greedy corporations, causing misery, mutilations and massacres of such magnitude they dwarfed even the wildest accounts depicted in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

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    Africa, Capitalism, USA

  • December 4, 2020
    No comments on Stuck In A Lift With John Pilger – ‘News And How To Use It’ by Alan Rusbridger

    Stuck In A Lift With John Pilger – ‘News And How To Use It’ by Alan Rusbridger

    4 December 2020 — Media Lens

    Noticing the way journalists seemed unable to resist commenting on our work, even if it was just to slag us off, Glenn Greenwald tweeted us in 2012:

    ‘You are really deeper in the heads of the British establishment-serving commentariat than anyone else – congrats.’ (Greenwald, Twitter, 12 September 2012)

    If that was true then, our relationship with the commentariat now feels more like a case of out of sight, out of mind. We have been blocked en masse on Twitter, even by loveable liberals like Jeremy Bowen, Jon Snow, Mark Steel (yes, ‘radical’ Mark Steel!), Steve Bell, Frankie Boyle (the less said about that the better) and, of course, Owen Jones and George Monbiot.

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    Books, Propaganda

  • December 4, 2020
    1 comment on Jab Me If You Can: How Political Endorsements Defeat Vaccinations

    Jab Me If You Can: How Political Endorsements Defeat Vaccinations

    4 December 2020 — South Front

    By Dr. Binoy Kampmark

    Will they ever learn?  When former US Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton announced that they would publicly take a vaccine against COVID-19, National Public Radio seemed impressed.  “Who better to promote a product than a former president?  How about three?”

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    Covid-19, Health

  • December 4, 2020
    1 comment on Are “net-zero” emissions a smoke screen?

    Are “net-zero” emissions a smoke screen?

    30 November, 2020 — The Analysis

    Paul Jay

    Peter Carter of the Climate Emergency Institute says “net zero” carbon emissions by 2050 and targeting 2 degrees warming are a recipe for runaway climate catastrophe. On the Analysis.news podcast with Paul Jay (Inc. transcript)

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    Videos

  • December 4, 2020
    No comments on Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science

    Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science

    13 November 2020 — BMJ

    BMJ 2020; 371 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m4425 (Published 13 November 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;371:m4425

    Kamran Abbasi, executive editor

    Author affiliations

    When good science is suppressed by the medical-political complex, people die

    Politicians and governments are suppressing science. They do so in the public interest, they say, to accelerate availability of diagnostics and treatments. They do so to support innovation, to bring products to market at unprecedented speed. Both of these reasons are partly plausible; the greatest deceptions are founded in a grain of truth. But the underlying behaviour is troubling.

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    Capitalism, Health, UK

  • December 3, 2020
    No comments on Coke’s sickening secrets

    Coke’s sickening secrets

    3 December 2020 — US Right to Know

    The Coca-Cola Company used its sponsorship of international public health conferences to deflect blame for the obesity epidemic away from its products, according to a new study based on documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know.

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    Propaganda, USA

  • December 3, 2020
    No comments on What way forward for equality in the UK and France?

    What way forward for equality in the UK and France?

    3 December 2020 — Institute of Race Relations

    Order our festive bundle for just £20

    Following the IRR’s concern about the appointment of controversial ‘race iconoclast’ David Goodhart as commissioner at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and amid revelations about the views of other commissioners, Jenny Bourne sets the debate about the EHRC in historical context by examining the statutory bodies from 1962 till today. CIAC, NICCI, CRC, CRE, EHRC – whatever the initials, the organisations have long held an ambiguous position and struggled to gain community trust. Today, the EHRC, with its tiny budget, reluctance to hit hard, and a set of right-leaning dissentient commissioners, seems dominated by the very interests it is supposedly regulating. Even when the Commission deems the government’s hostile environment policies unlawful, as our recent twitter thread explains, it appears reluctant to mete out any substantial forms of redress. In a week that has seen another deportation flight to Jamaica, the futility of such bodies is laid bare.

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    UK

  • December 3, 2020
    1 comment on We Are Grass. We Grow on Everything: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2020)

    We Are Grass. We Grow on Everything: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2020)

    3 December 2020 — Tricontinental

    Aswath Lenin met India 2020 1Aswath (India), Lenin met India, 2020

    Dear friends,

    Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

    Farmers and agricultural workers from northern India marched along various national highways toward India’s capital of New Delhi as part of the general strike on 26 November. They carried placards with slogans against the anti-farmer, pro-corporate laws that were passed by India’s Lok Sabha (lower house of parliament) in September, and then pushed through the Rajya Sabha (upper house) with only a voice vote. The striking agricultural workers and farmers carried flags that indicated their affiliation with a range of organisations, from the communist movement to a broad front of farmers’ organisations. They marched against the privatisation of agriculture, which they argue undermines India’s food sovereignty and erodes their ability to remain agriculturalists.

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    Tricontinental

  • December 3, 2020
    No comments on COVID vaccines: calling the shots

    COVID vaccines: calling the shots

    25 November 2020 — Michael Roberts

    Before the COVID-19 pandemic engulfed the world, the big pharmaceutical companies did little investment in vaccines for global diseases and viruses.  It was just not profitable. Of the 18 largest US pharmaceutical companies, 15 had totally abandoned the field.  Heart medicines, addictive tranquilizers and treatments for male impotence were profit leaders, not defences against hospital infections, emergent diseases and traditional tropical killers.  A universal vaccine for influenza—that is to say, a vaccine that targets the immutable parts of the virus’s surface proteins—has been a possibility for decades, but never deemed profitable enough to be a priority.  So, every year, we get vaccines that are only 50% efficient.

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    Covid-19, Health

  • December 3, 2020
    No comments on Black Agenda Report 3 December 2020

    Black Agenda Report 3 December 2020

    3 December 2020 — Black Agenda Report

    BLM Chapters Demand “Accountability” from Trio that Cashed in on the Movement 

    Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor 
    Ten chapters of the national Black Lives Matter organization are in open revolt against the individuals that have treated the mass movement as their personal vehicle for upward political, professional and financial advancement.

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  • December 2, 2020
    No comments on Messengers of Gates’ agenda

    Messengers of Gates’ agenda

    1 December 2020 — Independent Science News

    How the Cornell Alliance for Science spreads disinformation on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

    by Heather Day/AGRA Watch

    In October of this year, the Cornell Alliance for Science (CAS) hosted a webinar on “agroecology,” a concept that has attracted growing attention in recent years. Agroecology is a transdisciplinary science, practice, and social movement that offers a pathway for food system transformation. Yet, as soon as the webinar began, the moderator contrasted “scientific” definitions of agroecology as legitimate whereas social movement type definitions were labeled “ideological.” From what we have learned about the Cornell Alliance for Science, this was not surprising; the webinar was just their latest tactic in what is a well-funded disinformation campaign to co-opt and neuter the transformative concept of agroecology, while promoting agribusiness-driven solutions to agriculture through proprietary science and technological innovation. In fact, it was for this very reason that just three days before, two agroecologists that had been invited to participate stepped down from the panel, citing bias.

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    Agriculture, Capitalism, Environment

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