15 September 2020 — British Medical Journal
BMJ 2020; 369 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1931 (Published 13 May 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;369:m1931
Only a third of the excess deaths seen in the community in England and Wales can be explained by covid-19, new data have shown.
14 September 2020 — Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Only Community Control Can Stop Police Atrocities / Capitalism and Racism Entwined / First and Foremost, Malcolm X Was “Black Minded”
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15 September 2020 — Craig Murray
Things became not merely dramatic in the Assange courtroom today, but spiteful and nasty. There were two real issues, the evidence and the procedure. On the evidence, there were stark details of the dreadful regime Assange will face in US jails if extradited. On the procedure, we saw behaviour from the prosecution QC that went well beyond normal cross examination and was a real attempt to denigrate and even humiliate the witness. I hope to prove that to you by a straightforward exposition of what happened today in court, after which I shall add further comment.
14 September 2020 — The Meaning of Life Type Stuff
No person is an island. It takes a village. Circle of Life. We are stardust. Seven generations. These truisms reference connections between people and what we owe each other. Appealing to chaos theory, an action, no matter how small, dominoes around the world. You accidentally wave at someone who looks like your friend Nevraj in Toronto, and a union goes on strike in Australia. In the same way, ecosystems interdigitate. Food webs explode beyond neat textbook boundaries, nutrients cycle between the atmosphere and the ocean, and capitalist extractive activities threaten everything. Everything. By appealing to these interconnections, we illuminate neon contradictions and build an eco-socialist theoretical base.
14 September 2020 – GMWatch
“First they cloned Dolly the sheep. Now they’re targeting grey squirrels”.
Report: Jonathan Matthews
This summer 78 environmental, agricultural, animal welfare and development organisations from all over Europe called on the European Union to outlaw the release of Gene Drive Organisms in the EU and internationally, warning that reprogramming or eradicating entire animal populations posed grave risks. They’re hoping that the European Union will respect the precautionary principle and reject the release into the wild of this application of ecosystem-level genetic engineering, given its many unexplored risks.
15 September 2020 — The Dissenter
The legal team for Julian Assange strongly believes if the WikiLeaks founder is extradited to the United States he will be detained in harsh and abusive conditions, and if convicted, he will be incarcerated in a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, in conditions that amount to solitary confinement.
14 September 2020 — RT
14 September 2020 — See you in 2020
If the capitalist ruling class get their way, the revolts that the U.S. and the other parts of the neoliberal world have been experiencing this last year will be only a blip in the march towards corporate domination. Their goal is to use militarism-both within the imperial core’s borders and abroad-to indefinitely keep the power structure reinforced.
14 September 2020 — Assange Defence
Julian’s extradition hearing resumed today after proceedings were interrupted last week due to a COVID false alarm.
Today’s session was plagued by technical difficulties, so the witness’ testimony was cut short and will have to conclude tomorrow morning. For a full recap of the day’s hearing, visit our live blog.
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14 September 2020 — Off Guardian
* WATCH: Justice Rising – 9/11 Truth Conference Day 3
https://off-guardian.org/2020/09/14/watch-justice-rising-9-11-truth-conference-day-3/
* WATCH: Justice Rising – 9/11 Truth Conference Day 2
https://off-guardian.org/2020/09/13/watch-justice-rising-9-11-truth-conference-day-2/
* WATCH: Justice Rising – 9/11 Truth Conference Day 1
https://off-guardian.org/2020/09/12/watch-justice-rising-9-11-truth-conference-day-1/
* WATCH: COVID-911 – From Homeland Security to Biosecurity
https://off-guardian.org/2020/09/13/watch-covid-911-from-homeland-security-to-biosecurity/
14 September 2020 — Jonathan Cook
Apology over portrayal of Bedouin citizen as a terrorist in 2017 incident does not just expose police crimes, it deepens the deception
Middle East Eye – 14 September 2020
It is unprecedented. Three years after the Israeli government first began vilifying a Palestinian teacher to retrospectively justify his murder by Israel’s security forces, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a public apology to his family last week. Yacoub Abu al-Qiyan was not a “terrorist” after all, the Israeli prime minister conceded.
12 September 2020 — Global Justice in the 21st Century
[Prefatory Note: I am posting below a long interview with Konrad Stachnio on wide-ranging questions, which stretched by knowledge past its breaking point, especially in assessing where the technological innovations on the horizons will lead us. It is one of 17 conversations published by Clarity Press under the title, Civilization in Overdrive: Conversations at the edge of the Human Future. Preface by Stachnio after interview.
I recommend the book strongly. It can be ordered using the following url:
https://www.claritypress.com/product/civilization-in-overdrive-conversations-at-the-edge-of-the-human-future/ ]
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13 September 2020 — Indian Punchline
M.K. Bhadrakumar
The joint statements between two countries are usually riveted on a particular event but in extraordinary circumstances involving great powers, it could assume an epochal character and can be viewed as diplomatic communication that reflects what the Germans call the zeitgeist — the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history — and frame geopolitical power relations. This is more so in the case of great powers that have long traditions in diplomacy and have left deep imprints in the march of history.
7 September 2020 — — Origin: New Eastern Outlook
The same Gates Foundation which is behind every aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic from financing much of the WHO budget, to investing in favored vaccine-makers like Moderna, is engaged in a major project in Africa which is destroying traditional small farmer production of essential food crops in favor of monoculture crops and introduction of expensive chemical fertilizers and GMO seeds that are bankrupting small farmers. The project, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), is directly connected with key global institutions behind the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset.
14 September 2020 — Assange Defence
A lot has happened during Julian’s court hearings, so we wanted to catch you up on the week’s events! We’re also providing a brief look ahead as to what we expect as Julian’s fight against extradition continues.
13 September 2020 — Off Guardian
9/11, as we were told repeatedly in the days, weeks, and months after the attack, was the day that changed everything. And now a new event has come along to once again throw the world into chaos. But whereas the post-9/11 era introduced America to the concept of homeland security, the COVID-19 era is introducing the world to an altogether more abstract concept: biosecurity. This is the story of the COVID-911 security state.
13 September 2020 — 21st Century Wire
This week, Australia took its burgeoning fascist police state to a new level, with officials in Western Australia now issuing electronic ankle bracelets and forced isolation in specially designated hotels to anyone it believes has violated the new raft of controversial new ‘COVID laws.’
12 September 2020 — Indian Punchline
The meeting between the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Moscow on September 11 took place at a particularly delicate juncture in regional politics. Russia is carefully ploughing a neutral line in the India-China standoff while also drawing closer to China to push back at US pressure.
