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April 5, 2024

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The European Union’s fires where freedom burns
Thuursday, 4 April 2024 — Strategic Culture Foundation

By Hugo Dionisio

Faced with the more-than-announced collapse of the Kiev regime and everything it stands for; the EU is facing a challenge to survive.

The European Union shows all the symptoms of a structure in deep crisis. Like other organizations in the past, the more it tries to convey an image of internal cohesion, the greater the fissures it creates, based on the increasingly rigid demand for compliance with the rules that this appearance of cohesion requires.

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April 4, 2024

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4 April 2024 — The Tricontinental
4 April 2024 — The Tricontinental

Diego Rivera (Mexico), El Agua, Origen de la Vida (‘Water, Origin of Life’), 1951.

Dear friends,

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

By November 2023, it was already clear that the Israeli government had begun to deny Palestinians in Gaza access to water. ‘Every hour that passes with Israel preventing the provision of safe drinking water in the Gaza strip, in brazen breach of international law, puts Gazans at risk of dying of thirst and diseases related to the lack of safe drinking water’, said Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, UN special rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation. ‘Israel’, he noted, ‘must stop using water as a weapon of war’. Before Israel’s most recent attack on Gaza, 97 percent of the water in Gaza’s only coastal aquifer was already unsafe for human consumption based on World Health Organisation standards. Over the course of its many attacks, Israel has all but destroyed Gaza’s water purification system and prevented the entry of materials and chemicals needed for repair.

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William Bowles – Essays
April 4, 2024

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Thousands Have Lived without Love, but Not One without Water: The Fourteenth Newsletter (2024)
Thursday, 4 April 2024 — The Tricontinental

Diego Rivera (Mexico), El Agua, Origen de la Vida (‘Water, Origin of Life’), 1951.

Dear friends,

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

By November 2023, it was already clear that the Israeli government had begun to deny Palestinians in Gaza access to water. ‘Every hour that passes with Israel preventing the provision of safe drinking water in the Gaza strip, in brazen breach of international law, puts Gazans at risk of dying of thirst and diseases related to the lack of safe drinking water’, said Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, UN special rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation. ‘Israel’, he noted, ‘must stop using water as a weapon of war’. Before Israel’s most recent attack on Gaza, 97 percent of the water in Gaza’s only coastal aquifer was already unsafe for human consumption based on World Health Organisation standards. Over the course of its many attacks, Israel has all but destroyed Gaza’s water purification system and prevented the entry of materials and chemicals needed for repair.

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Tricontinental
April 4, 2024

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Black Agenda Report for 3 April 2024
Wednesday, 3 April 2024 — Black Agenda Report

Israel and the U.S. are Gangster States
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Any sign of even tiny opposition is enough to send Israel into a frenzy of bloodletting. Hospital attacks, murders of aid workers, violations of the sovereignty of embassies, are all par for the Zionist course. Friends in Washington talk out of both sides of their mouths with condemnation but always end on the side of their partner in crime.

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Black Agenda Report
April 2, 2024

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Fixing the broken mental health system
Tuesday, 2 April 2024 — Just Treatment

Did you know that the number of children referred to emergency mental healthcare has soared by more than 50% in three years?

Behind this troubling statistic, there are tens of thousands of stories of young people battling to get the care they need, and a broken system which is failing them every single day.

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April 2, 2024

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What’s really behind Germany’s unshakeable support of Israel?
27 March 2024 — Peoples Dispatch

To understand Germany’s unconditional support for the Israeli genocide, one must understand the origins of the German state

by Matthew Read

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: Chancellor’s office

The extent of the German government’s support for Israel during its ongoing offensive in Gaza has taken many by surprise. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been even more restrained in his criticisms of Tel Aviv than US President Joe Biden. A central point of reference for German politicians is the notion of Staatsräson (“state reason”). This was a term first coined in an essay by Germany’s former ambassador to Israel, Rudolf Dreßler, in the early 2000s and repeated by Angela Merkel in a speech before the Knesset in 2008. It has since become a centerpiece of German public statements and an ideological tool to legitimize Israel’s “right to self-defense”. As Scholz said on 12 October 2023: “At this moment there is only one place for Germany. We stand with Israel. …This is what we mean when we say, Israel’s security is Germany’s Staatsräson.”

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March 30, 2024

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Craig Murray: UK Legal Shambles in Case of Assange
Saturday, 30 March 2024 — Consortium News

The British establishment continues to move inexorably towards ordering the WikiLeaks’ publisher’s extradition at the time of its choosing.

Free Assange protest outside the Royal courts of Justice in London on March 26. (Steve Eason, Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0)

By Craig Murray
CraigMurray.org.uk

The latest judgment by the High Court in the Julian Assange case achieved completely the objectives of the U.K. and U.S. states.

Above all, Julian remains in the hell which is Belmarsh maximum security prison. He is now safely there alone and incommunicado, from the authorities’ point of view, for at least several more months.

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March 28, 2024

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At The UN It Is A Rogue U.S. Against The Rest Of The World
Wednesday, 28 March 2024 — Moon of Alabama

Ted Snider asks:

Is America a Rogue Superpower?

“Unipolar” used to mean that the United States was, at least in theory, alone in leading the world. Now “unipolar” means that the United States is alone and isolated in opposition to the world.

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March 28, 2024

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Palestinians Will Remain on Palestinian Land: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2024)
Thursday, 29 March 2024 — The Tricontinental

Nabil Anani (Palestine), In Pursuit of Utopia #1, 2020.

Dear friends,

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

On 15 February 2024, Jared Kushner (Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former senior advisor during his presidency) sat down for a long conversation with Professor Tarek Masoud at Harvard University. During this discussion, Kushner talked about ‘Gaza’s waterfront property’, which, he said, could be ‘very valuable’. ‘If I was Israel’, he continued, ‘I would just bulldoze something in the Negev [desert], I would try to move people [from Gaza] in there… [G]oing in and finishing the job would be the right move’.

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Tricontinental
March 28, 2024

No comments on The April 2024 issue of ColdType is now online

The April 2024 issue of ColdType is now online
Thursday, 29 March 2024 — ColdType

Read Issue 256 at

https://issuu.com/coldtype/docs/coldtype256april2024?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ

and at

https://www.coldtype.net/Assets23/PDFs/ColdType256April2024.pdf

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NEW FEATURE: If you’d rather read the pdf as page spreads, here’s another link (please let us know which you prefer – spreads or single pages)

https://www.coldtype.net/Assets23/PDFs/ColdType256April2024SPREADS.pdf

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BACK COPIES – All issues of ColdType (plus the original
6 tabloid versions) are available to read and download at https://issuu.com/coldtype

and at

www.coldtype.net/reader.html

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March 26, 2024

1 comment on The Struggle for Women’s Emancipation Will Always Be Worth It: The Twelfth Newsletter (2024)

The Struggle for Women’s Emancipation Will Always Be Worth It: The Twelfth Newsletter (2024)
Thursday, 21 March 2024 — The Tricontinental

Dear friends,

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

8 March was not always International Women’s Day, nor has there always
been any such day at all. The idea emerged from the Socialist International (also known as the Second International), where Clara Zetkin of the German Social Democratic Party and others fought from 1889 to hold a day to celebrate working women’s lives and struggles. Zetkin, alongside Alexandra Kollontai of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, sustained a struggle with their comrades to recognise the role of working women and the role of domestic labour in the creation of social wealth. In a context in which women across the North Atlantic states did not have the right to vote, these women intervened in a debate that was taking place among delegates of the Socialist International over whether men and women workers must be united under the banner of socialism to fight against their shared experience of exploitation or
whether women should stay home.

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March 26, 2024

2 comments on Colin Powell and “The Sloppy Dossier”: Plagiarism and “Fake Intelligence” Used to Justify the 2003 War on Iraq

Colin Powell and “The Sloppy Dossier”: Plagiarism and “Fake Intelligence” Used to Justify the 2003 War on Iraq
Saturday, 23 March 2024 — Michel Chossudovsky

Copied and Pasted from the Internet into an “Official” British Intel Report

Michel Chossudovsky

This week we are commemorating the 2003 War against Iraq.

Our thoughts today are with the people of Iraq, whose country was invaded twenty-one years ago on March 20, 2003.

This article first published in June 2005 focusses on the fake intelligence used to justify the invasion.

Colin Powell’s “intelligence report” presented to the UN Security Council on February 5, 2003 was fabricated. It confirmed the criminal nature of the 2003 war.
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March 26, 2024

1 comment on BIT Coining it – The private profiteering of state-sponsored propaganda

BIT Coining it – The private profiteering of state-sponsored propaganda
Sunday, 24 March 2024 — HART

Bitte ein BIT less

Once upon a time (2010 to be precise), somewhat unexpectedly in a Rose Garden in Westminster, a bromance blossomed. The honeymoon couple – call them Cameron and Clegg – fell out of love in short order, but the unhappy union limped on for a fixed term of five years and a day, during which time many a policy decision was made that was neither fish nor fowl, neither blue nor yellow.

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March 26, 2024

1 comment on A Wave of Criminal Rebellions in Latin America: Is It Just a Coincidence?

A Wave of Criminal Rebellions in Latin America: Is It Just a Coincidence?
21 March 2024 — Strategic Culture Foundation

By Eduardo Vasco

The ongoing imperialist coup works to facilitate western domination and hinder the path to independence for Latin America.

Crime, violence and drug trafficking are nothing new to any Latin American – with the honorable exception of Cubans. But in recent months there has been a very strange sequence of events, not so much because of the events themselves, but because of the national and international political situation in which they are inserted.

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March 26, 2024

1 comment on Cuba: Watch Carnival ’62

Cuba: Watch Carnival ’62
Sunday, 24 March 2024 — Jazz on the Tube

Like New Orleans and Brazil and other places with Catholic cultural roots, Cuba has a vibrant Carnival culture.

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Cuba, Music Videos
March 26, 2024

No comments on Kosovo War at 25: Blair’s secret invasion plot to ‘topple Milosevic’ revealed

Kosovo War at 25: Blair’s secret invasion plot to ‘topple Milosevic’ revealed
Sunday, 24 March 2024 — The Grayzone

Tony Blair with KLA leader and now-indicted war criminal Hashim Thaci

Kit Klarenberg

Top secret papers reviewed by The Grayzone reveal Tony Blair demanded strikes on civilian targets in Yugoslavia days before NATO attacked them. While the UK military acknowledged a NATO strike on Hotel Jugoslavia would mean inflicting “some civilian casualties,” it insisted the deaths were “worth the cost.”

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March 26, 2024

1 comment on Starmer emails about Israel have been been censored

Starmer emails about Israel have been been censored
Monday, 25 March 2024 — MintPress News

In 2011, Keir Starmer, then serving as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), decided to block the application for Tzipi Livni’s arrest for war crimes in Gaza.

Emails that could expose discussions that led to Livni’s escape from prosecution were redacted by the CPS on the basis that their release could potentially undermine the effective conduct of public affairs.

Credit: Declassified UK
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March 26, 2024

4 comments on Assange extradition decision to be made on 26 March

Assange extradition decision to be made on 26 March
Monday, 25 March 2024 — MintPress News

At 10:30 AM, 26 March, the High Court will issue its ruling

Will Assange be extradited to the United States?

The final decision regarding Assange’s extradition will be made tomorrow in London, England, at the Royal Courts of Justice.
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March 22, 2024

5 comments on So who is George Galloway?

So who is George Galloway?
12 March, 2024 — Craig Murray

[I’m not too impressed with George Galloway but I suppose beggars can’t be choosers? But maybe he’ll shake up the place a bit. We’ll see. WB]

The Panic Of the Ruling Class

I have known George Galloway my entire adult life, although we largely lost touch in the middle bit while I was off diplomating. I know George too well to mistake him for Jesus Christ, but he has been on the right side against appalling wars which the entire political class has cheer-led. His natural gifts of mellifluence and loquacity are unsurpassed, with an added talent for punchy phrase making.

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March 22, 2024

1 comment on Anti-immigration election campaigning, extremism and the need to fight back

Anti-immigration election campaigning, extremism and the need to fight back
Thursday, 21 March 2024 — Institute of Race Relations

Over the last weeks, we have witnessed stronger and extreme anti-immigrati policies mooted across Europe. In Portugal the far-right Chega party distributed leaflets campaigning against ‘uncontrolled Islamic Immigration’ in the lead up to its general election; Finland passed temporary legislation to allow border guards to block asylum seekers crossing from Russia; and both Germany and the European Commission are pushing for more ‘offshoring’ of asylum seekers. All this as the UK sees significant actions against the government’s controversial flagship Rwanda scheme.

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