January 18, 2021 — Global Research
At a virtual press conference held by the World Health Organization officials warned there is no clear evidence COVID-19 vaccines are effective at preventing asymptomatic infection and transmission.
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WHO: No Guarantee COVID Vaccines Will Prevent People from Being Infected
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Hacked emails allegedly detail how EU drug regulator was pressured to approve Pfizer jab despite ‘problems’ with the vaccine
18 January, 2021 — RT
A health worker prepares an injection with a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 © REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez An alleged cache of email exchanges between EU officials and the European Medicines Agency show that the drug regulator was uncomfortable about fast-tracking approval for the Pfizer and Moderna Covid jabs, Le Monde has reported.
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of January 18, 2021
18 January 2021 — Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
US Imperialism Was in Disarray in 2020 / US Genocide Against Blacks, Now and in 1951 / Lumumba Assassination Changed Black American Politics.US Imperialism Was in Disarray in 2020
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Black Alliance for Peace national organizer Ajamu Baraka told a year-end conference of the Black Is Back Coalition that “the US settler state is facing the most serious crisis of legitimacy since the collapse of the capitalist economy” in the Great Depression. Betty Davis, of the Coalition’s Community Control of Schools Working Group, said: “The federal budget that comes down to New York City is the 23rd biggest budget in the world, but you don’t control that money and that’s why you are not having the same services as your white counterparts.”
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How Much Did “The Culture of Narcissism” Get Right?
17 January 2021 — TK News
Forty years ago, Christopher Lasch described a soulless society headed toward a “war of all against all.” Are we there? A look back at the book TK readers chose for review
It is symptomatic of the underlying tenor of American life that vulgar terms for sexual intercourse also convey the sense of getting the better of someone, working him over, taking him in, imposing your will through guile, deception, or superior force. — Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism
Back in 1979, social critic Christopher Lasch wasn’t buying the idea that Americans in the sex-drugs-and-disco era were actually having fun.
“This hedonism is a fraud,” he wrote. “The pursuit of pleasure disguises a struggle for power. Americans have not really become more sociable and cooperative… they have merely become more adept at exploiting the conventions of interpersonal relations for their own benefit.”
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China Calls to Suspend Pfizer mRNA Vaccine
16 January 2021 — 21st Century Wire
Chinese health experts have now called on Norway & other countries to suspend the use of the controversial mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine produced by companies such as Pfizer – due to safety uncertainties following the deaths of 23 elderly Norwegian people.
Watch and help us share this important video report from Friday’s edition of UK Column News…
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Watch UKC News: New Vaccine Death Claims, Trump Declassifies Russiagate
15 January 2021 — NEWS WIRE
As the Government’s bold vaccine roll-out continues, more problems emerge regarding injury and death of people who’ve taken Pfizer’s experimental mRNA genetic COVID ‘vaccine’ – prompting [] China t[o] ban the jab. Meanwhile, the Government makes a power-play to censor media reporting – with the State agency now playing the role editor with major newspapers reporting COVID and lockdown, supposedly in the public interest.’ But what if the press regulator has their facts wrong? The NHS “clap” campaign seems to be bust after UKC sent its team across the country to look for any Thursday night clamour. Also, President Trump’s parting shot [at] the Democratic machine b[y] declassifying all of the FBI Russia probe document. All this and more.
Co-hosts Mike Robinson and Patrick Henningsen take a look at the end of week news round-up. Watch:
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Guardian Smears Syria’s President With Implausible Link To Beirut’s Port Blast
15 January 2021 — Moon of Alabama
On August 4 2020 2.750 tons of ammonium nitrate, stored in a warehouse of Beirut’s harbour, exploded. The blast destroyed large parts of the city.
The dangerous load had come on a defect[ive] ship which was impounded by the Lebanese authorities. It had been stored since 2013. Despite urgent warnings, the complicate[d] Lebanese bureaucracy had never found a way to get rid of the dangerous load.
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Statewatch News 15 January 2021 (Issue 01/21)
15 January 2021 — Statewatch
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Agroecology and Post-COVID Plunder
13 January 2021 — Global Research
Contingent on World Bank aid to be given to poorer countries in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns, agrifood conglomerates will aim to further expand their influence. These firms have been integral to the consolidation of a global food regime that has emerged in recent decades based on chemical- and proprietary-input-dependent agriculture which incurs massive externalised social, environmental and health costs.
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COVID-19: Rethinking the Lockdown Groupthink
3 November 2020 — Preprints
Version 1 : Received: 14 October 2020 / Approved: 15 October 2020 / Online: 15 October 2020 (16:02:58 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 3 November 2020 / Approved: 4 November 2020 / Online: 4 November 2020 (10:14:33 CET)How to cite: Joffe, A. COVID-19: Rethinking the Lockdown Groupthink. Preprints 2020, 2020100330 (doi: 10.20944/preprints202010.0330.v2). Joffe, A. COVID-19: Rethinking the Lockdown Groupthink. Preprints 2020, 2020100330 (doi: 10.20944/preprints202010.0330.v2).
Abstract
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide pandemic in 2020. In response, most countries in the world implemented lockdowns, restricting their population’s movements, work, education, gatherings, and general activities in attempt to ‘flatten the curve’ of COVID-19 cases. The public health goal of lockdowns was to save the population from COVID-19 cases and deaths, and to prevent overwhelming health care systems with COVID-19 patients. In this narrative review I explain why I changed my mind about supporting lockdowns.
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IRR News 14 January 2021: Policing the Covid Crisis
14 January 2021 — Institute of Race Relations
At a time when the Metropolitan police has had to concede more oversight of pre-arrest handcuffing, we publish the first ever investigation of the new Violence Suppression Units (VSUs), introduced without fanfare at the start of the pandemic in London. In the past, criticism has been levelled at the use of similar specialist squads like the SPG and the TSG in multicultural working-class neighbourhoods. Now, Jessica Pandian questions whether the introduction of VSUs heralds the Americanisation of gang policing, pointing out that suspicion of gang affiliation could be used more systematically, as it is in the US, to justify deportation decisions.
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Ken Livingstone to challenge EHRC in court
14 January 2021 — The Electronic Intifada
Ken Livingstone – Left Legal Fighting Fund Ken Livingstone is going to court in the UK to challenge anti-Semitism allegations.
The former mayor of London is contesting the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s controversial report that in October claimed he was guilty of “unlawful harassment” against Jews.
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Raskolnikov’s Dream Come True
12 January 2021 — Edward Curtin
by Edward Curtin
Something is happening here,
But you don’t know what it is,
Do you, Mr. Jones?
— Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man, 1965It’s hard.
Life today seems like a dream, doesn’t it? Surreal to the point where everything seems haunted and betwixt and between, or this against that, or that and this against us.
Something.
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Don’t forget who is coming to pillage post-Brexit Britain
14 January 2021 — True Publica
By TruePublica: No country has willingly left a postwar trading bloc, especially one of the three global super-powers of today. And because there is no precedent, it is true to say that not only does Brexit represent a very large threat to Britain’s economic future prospects – it does so because it’s just a gamble. And the so-called trade deal Boris Johnson has signed with the EU is very weak. Much of that weakness will develop over the coming months, especially as 80 per cent of Britain’s economy has yet to be negotiated within that agreement.
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9/11 Was the Prelude. 1/6 Is the Holy Grail
13 January, 2021 — Strategic Culture Foundation – Asia TimesPepe EscobarWhether civil war is coming will depend on the degree of stoicism prevalent among the Deplorable multitudes.I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed
Get down, get undressed
Get pretty but you and me
We got the kingdom, we got the key
We got the empire, now as then
We don’t doubt, we don’t take direction
Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with meSisters of Mercy, Lucretia my Reflection
9/11 was the prelude. 1/6 is the Holy Grail.
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Peter Doshi: Pfizer and Moderna’s ‘95% Effective’ Vaccines — Let’s Be Cautious and First See the Full Data
13 January 2021 — The Defender
Only full transparency and rigorous scrutiny of the data will allow for informed decision making.
By Peter Doshi
In the United States, all eyes are on Pfizer and Moderna. The topline efficacy results from their experimental covid-19 vaccine trials are astounding at first glance. Pfizer says it recorded 170 covid-19 cases (in 44,000 volunteers), with a remarkable split: 162 in the placebo group versus 8 in the vaccine group. Meanwhile Moderna says 95 of 30,000 volunteers in its ongoing trial got covid-19: 90 on placebo versus 5 receiving the vaccine, leading both companies to claim around 95% efficacy.
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Black Agenda Report 13 January 2021
13 January 2021 — Black Agenda Report
White Settler Uprising at the Capitol
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Last week’s assault on the Capitol was essentially a race riot, the product of white racial grievance.
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War of the (Financial) Worlds
10 January, 2021 — TomDispatch
Or Let the Markets Go Wild While the People Go Down
By Nomi PrinsSometimes things only make sense when seen through a magnifying lens. As it happens, I’m thinking about reality, the very American and global reality clearly repeating itself as 2021 begins.
We all know, of course, that we’re living through a once-in-a-century-style pandemic; that millions of people have lost their jobs, a portion of which will never return; that the poorest among us, who can withstand such acute economic hardship the least, have been slammed the hardest; and that the global economy has been kneecapped, thanks to a battery of lockdowns, shutdowns, restrictions of various sorts, and health-related concerns. More sobering than all of this: more than 360,000 Americans (and counting) have already lost their lives as a result of Covid-19 with, according to public health experts, far more to come.
Ari Joffe
