29 November 2020 — South Front
Top Nuclear Scientist Was Killed By Remotely-Controlled Machine GunOn November 29,
The Fars News Agency shared new details on the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran’s top nuclear scientist.
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The Great Reset: The Final Assault on the Living Planet [It’s Not a Social Dilemma – It’s the Calculated Destruction of the Social Part III]
28 November 2020 — Wrong Kind of Green
By Cory Morningstar
Artificial intelligence, Automation – & Cyberwarfare
“Social license is being harvested to reset the capitalist system – under the guise of a climate emergency and saving the planet. This we know: the planet will not be saved by those that have destroyed it.”
Announced at the Global Inclusive Growth Summit on October 21, 2019, the Imperative 21 RESET campaign was launched to the public on September 13, 2020. A front campaign of The Business Roundtable, the six founding coalition partners are The B Team, JUST Capital, B Lab, Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose (CECP), Inclusive Capitalism and Conscious Capitalism. [Further reading: The Business Roundtable/CURT a Systematic Destruction of Labor]
“It’s an unprecedented coalition of business networks that have come together to raise our ambition. Not just to help our individual CEOs succeed, we’ll do that for sure. But to actually bring their voices together to help shift culture. So that the pushback on the BRT [Business Roundtable] from different business publications or other people within the business community lessens. So there’s less of a headwind culturally for this type of leadership.”
— Jay Coen Gilbert, co-founder of B Lab and B Corporations [Source]
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Podcast Ep 26: Why Labour won’t deliver socialism
27 November 2020 — The Electronic Intifada
Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada Podcast
On Episode 26 of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, we have an in-depth conversation with former UK Labour MP Chris Williamson.
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Watch: An interview with Dr Malcolm Kendrick on all things Covid
28 November 2020 — Dr Malcolm Kendrick
This YouTube interview is me, speaking to Ivor Cummins, and discussing many things COVID. Lockdown, the weird statistics, the absolute lack of any real science, the crushing of dissent, and suchlike.
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How Western Media (and others) are Still Failing Ethiopia
28 November 2020 — The Ghion Journal
Evelyn Waugh would have a field day with what’s happening in Ethiopia right now. The talented author of Brideshead Revisited and Scoop was a racist little creep sent out by a rightwing, pro-Fascist newspaper in 1935 to cover Mussolini’s invasion. Just to give you an idea of the man, he wrote home to a friend, “I have got to hate the ethiopians more each day goodness they are lousy & i hope the organmen gas them to buggery [sic].”
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Information Clearing House Headlines 27 November 2020
27 November 2020 — Information Clearing House
Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist Assassinated As Israel Tries To Provoke War
By Moon of Alabama
There is little doubt about who is responsible for this attack: – Continue =====
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EPA Finds Glyphosate Is Likely to Injure or Kill 93% of Endangered Species
25 November 2020 — Center for Biological Diversity
For Immediate Release, November 25, 2020
Lori Ann Burd, (971) 717-6405, laburd@biologicaldiversity.org
WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency released a draft biological evaluation today finding that glyphosate is likely to injure or kill 93% of the plants and animals protected under the Endangered Species Act.
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US Election: A Color Revolution ‘Comes Home to Roost’
26 November 2020 — Off Guardian
Max Parry
It has been more than three weeks since election day and the incumbent US president still has yet to concede defeat. Despite the media’s distraction over the perspiration of his personal attorney during a bizarre press conference, the legal team led by former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has actually done a decent job uncovering potential fraud in battleground states, where vote counting was delayed for several days before the former vice president was declared a “winner” by the news media and Silicon Valley.
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John Pilger: ‘I spoke to impoverished families in 1975 and little has changed since then’
26 November 2020 — John Pilger
John Pilger interviewed Irene Brunsden in Hackney, east London about only being able to feed her two-year-old a plate of cornflakes in 1975. Now he sees nervous women queueing at foodbanks with their children as it’s revealed 600,000 more kids are in poverty now than in 2012.
A British family from the film ‘Smashing Kids’, 1975. Photograph: John Garrett When I first reported on child poverty in Britain, I was struck by the faces of children I spoke to, especially the eyes. They were different: watchful, fearful.
In Hackney, in 1975, I filmed Irene Brunsden’s family. Irene told me she gave her two-year-old a plate of cornflakes. “She doesn’t tell me she’s hungry, she just moans. When she moans, I know something is wrong.”
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Russia, China reinvent their moorings in Central Asia
26 November 2020 — Indian Punchline
M.K. Bhadrakumar
Soldiers from US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division line up in a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III to parachute into a drop zone in Central Asia in a spectacular display of the longest distance airborne operation in military history, Chimkent, Kazakhstan, Sept. 15, 1997. The United States, which was de facto assuming the historical role of Great Britain in the 19th century Great Game in Central Asia, was inclined to take a relaxed view of China’s return to the region in the first decade of the post-Soviet period. China’s rise had not yet become a compelling geopolitical reality in the Central Asian region or in world politics and the US’ global strategies.
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Government plans major crackdown in 2021 on the right to protest
26 November 2020 — Netpol
PHOTO: Shutterstock The Conservative government is planning to introduce major changes to public order legislation to crack down on protests, under a new “Protection of the Police and Public Bill” planned for 2021.
In September, Home Secretary Priti Patel denounced environmental campaigners Extinction Rebellion as “so-called eco-crusaders turned criminals” at the Police Superintendents’ Association conference and, at the Conservative Party conference in early October, accused Black Lives Matter campaigners of “hooliganism and thuggery”.
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UK: Renters are bearing the cost of the pandemic
26 November 2020 — Generation Rent
Yesterday the Chancellor had the chance to give renters struggling with rent debt some comfort over Christmas – but he failed.
Our research has shown there are now 1.9 million private renter households getting benefits. That’s a 36% rise since February!
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We Suffer from an Incurable Disease Called Hope: The Forty-Eighth Newsletter (2020)
26 November 2020 — Tricontinental
Public Health Elimination Team for the Elimination of ‘Four Pests’, China, 1958. Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
The total level of global indebtedness now sits at an astronomical $277 trillion, an increase of $15 trillion since 2019. This amount is equivalent to 365% of the global gross domestic product. The debt burden is highest in the poorest countries, where coronavirus defaults have begun; Zambia’s default is the most recent. The various programmes to suspend debt servicing payments – such as the G20 Debt Service Suspension Initiative – and the various programmes of aid – such as through the International Monetary Fund’s COVID-19 Financial Assistance and Debt Relief initiative – are certain to fall short. The G20 package has only covered 1.66% of debt payments, since it has failed to corral many private and multilateral lenders into its agreements.
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The New Norm: Government Lawbreaking
26th November 2020 — True Publica
By TruePublica: Government lawbreaking in Boris Johnson’s adminstration has now reached an unprecedented scale for a British government – and we should all be concerned. (more…)
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Black Agenda Report 26 November 2020
26 November 2020 — Black Agenda Report
Biden, the Emcee at the Billionaires’ Ball
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
The Lords of Capital use periods of crisis to devour the less-rich and reshape the political economy to their further advantage, so that the Joe Bidens of the world jump higher and come quicker when summoned.
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Meet the Censored: Andre Damon
25 November 2020 — TK News
Increased content moderation has been sold as a tool to control the far right, but the World Socialist Web Site was among the first to sound the alarm
On November 15th, weeks after news that a New York Post article about Hunter Biden had been blocked by prominent social media platforms, Pink Floyd lead singer Roger Waters ripped Twitter for a less-publicized incident:
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What the Leading COVID Vaccine Contenders Still Need to Tell the Public
25 November 2020 — Children’s Health Defense
Given how much we don’t yet know, it’s unclear why those of us asking for more information about the leading COVID vaccines are being marginalised. We’re simply exercising our right to informed consent.
The race is on
When everyone’s trying to pick potential winners of the global race to produce COVID vaccines, spare a thought for those of us who are the guinea pigs. We, the public, as well as concerned doctors and other health professionals, need to be crystal clear about what information we need to give consent — assuming vaccine rollout is not made mandatory in your country or state.
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DIANA JOHNSTONE: The Great Pretext … for Dystopia
24 November 2020 — Consortium News
In their World Economic Forum treatise Covid-19: The Great Reset, economists Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret bring us the voice of would-be Global Governance.
Viewing the virtual-reality film “Collisions” at a session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 2016. (World Economic Forum, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) By Diana Johnstone
in ParisSpecial to Consortium News
By titling their recently published World Economic Forum treatise Covid-19: The Great Reset, the authors link the pandemic to their futuristic proposals in ways bound to be met with a chorus of “Aha!”s. In the current atmosphere of confusion and distrust, the glee with which economists Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret greet the pandemic as harbinger of their proposed socioeconomic upheaval suggests that if Covid-19 hadn’t come along by accident, they would have created it (had they been able).
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COVID vaccines: calling the shots
25 November 2020 — Michael Roberts
By 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.
The New Dark Age 