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11Feb

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Health, Politics, United Kingdom

The PPE can’t be used by the NHS

Hi JohnYou may remember the tale of the jeweller from Florida and the Spanish intermediary who profited to the tune of tens of millions of pounds from vast PPE contracts, paid for with taxpayers’ money. Well, there have been developments. Government continues to fail to publish details of contracts within the legally required timeframe, but we have learned of another contract it entered into with the jeweller Saiger, worth £36 million, for face masks. The contract was for FFP2 masks – which protect the wearer, unlike the ones we all wear to the supermarket. But to protect the wearer they need to be adjustable - which means headstraps - and all of these masks have ‘earloops’. Earloop masks, Government has admitted in other cases, can’t be used in the NHS because they don’t give a prop...

US Barely Kept Track of the Nearly 3,000 Health Care Workers That Died in 2020

11Feb

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Health, Politics, USA

US Barely Kept Track of the Nearly 3,000 Health Care Workers That Died in 2020

Registered nurse Katelyn Musslewhite cares for a COVID-19 patient in the Intensive Care Unit at Providence St. Mary Medical Center amid a surge in COVID-19 patients in Southern California on December 23, 2020, in Apple Valley, California. BYChristina Jewett, Robert Lewis & Melissa Bailey, Kaiser Health News More than 2,900 U.S. health care workers have died in the COVID-19 pandemic since March, a far higher number than that reported by the government, according to a new analysis by KHN and The Guardian. Fatalities from the coronavirus have skewed young, with the majority of victims under age 60 in the cases for which there is age data. People of color have been disproportionately affected, accounting for about 65% of deaths in cases in which there is race and e...

2020 Was a Record Year for Far Right Violence in the US

11Feb

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Politics, USA

2020 Was a Record Year for Far Right Violence in the US

Members of the Proud Boys yell in front of a hotel during a protest on December 12, 2020, in Washington, D.C. BY: Spencer Sunshine, Truthout This year was quite active for the far right in the United States, especially after its relative downturn in 2019 as a violent street movement compared to the recent past. Although the far right may not have committed as many high-profile massacres as previous years, 2020 saw more murders and car attacks at demonstrations than any year in recent memory. While the openly fascist wing of the “alt-right” continued to implode over the past year, some on the far right picked up steam: the Boogaloo movement — a new grouping of younger activists with militia-style politics, but the look and feel of the alt-right; Gropyers — white nationalists and thei...

2020 Turned Our Worlds Inside Out. Here’s What We Learned

11Feb

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Politics, USA

2020 Turned Our Worlds Inside Out. Here’s What We Learned

https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=TRUO3391476836 BY: Kelly Hayes, Truthout 2020 offered us some lessons worth keeping. PART OF THE SERIES Movement Memos 2020 was a year of catastrophe and collective struggle. Now, we have a new era of organizing and action to gear up for. In this special New Year’s episode of Movement Memos, Kelly Hayes revisits some of the lessons we learned this year from guests like Mariame Kaba, Shane Burley, Brant Rosen and L.A. Kauffman. TRANSCRIPT Note: This a rush transcript and has been lightly edited for clarity. Copy may not be in its final form. Kelly Hayes: Welcome to “Movement Memos,” a Truthout podcast about things you should know, if you want to change the world. Well friends, we’ve made it. 2020 was a marathon of suffering...

10Feb

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Health, Human Rights, Politics

Masking the COVID-19 Virus in this ‘Pandemic’

By Dr. David Halpin, There is no logic, nor reason based in medical science, for the wearing of paper or cloth masks in the context of the epidemic of this virus – Covid-19 (C19). The virus, though likely altered in laboratories, is part of a family of viruses/virions first identified in the 1960’s – the corona viruses. Turkey Pivots to the Center of the New Great GameBy Pepe EscobarUnder the delightfully named Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), the Trump administration duly slapped sanctions on Ankara for daring to buy Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile defence systems. A Nasty Shot in the Arm – RT-PCR Kits and Vaccines Unlicensed by Britain’s MHRABy John GossAware of the forthcoming vaccine roll-out aimed, it is said, to protect against a disease (COV...

10Feb

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Politics

This Week's Most Popular Articles

Coronavirus Scandal Breaking in Merkel’s Germany. False Positives and the Drosten PCR TestF. William Engdahl The 2020 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d'État and the "Great Reset"Prof Michel Chossudovsky Six Dead from Pfizer Trials: Shares Down, Pfizer CEO Makes a KillingJohn Goss What’s Not Being Said About the Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine. "Human Guinea Pigs"?F. William Engdahl The COVID-19 RT-PCR Test: How to Mislead All Humanity. Using a "Test" To Lock Down SocietyDr. Pascal Sacré Medical Doctor Warns that “Bacterial Pneumonias Are on the Rise” from Mask WearingJohn C. A. Manley The Post Covid World, The WEF's Diabolical Project: “Resetting the Future of Work Agenda” – After "The Great Reset". A Horrifying FutureP...

10Feb

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Politics, USA

We Have a Fascism Problem

BY PAUL STREET Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair To admit the truth about Trump and authoritarianism then means they have to do something about it. Many people do not want to take that leap. * Ruth Ben-Ghiat, July 23, 2020 We have a Nazi problem in this country…They don’t, for the most part, wave swastikas and salute Hitler, but we have a Nazi problem in this country …They carry the torch of slavery, genocide, and Jim Crow terror. Gunned up and mask-less, they exalt above all the right to kill * Coco Das, November 23, 2020 I’ve received the expected post-election lecture about how there’s no real fascist threat in the United States from an older affluent and white male friend who is a veteran of the New Left and tells me that’s he’s read a lot of Italian and German history....

10Feb

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Politics, USA

Obama and the Search for Audacity

BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: Marco Verch – CC BY 2.0 The graceful and elegant writing of “The Promised Land” reflects the grace and elegance of its author: President Barack Obama. Unlike the current occupant of the White House, Obama, in his memoir, reveals his democratic principles, his willingness to give opponents the benefit of the doubt, and his pursuit of truth. Unlike so many presidential memoirs, there is a relative absence of self-promotion and an unusual admission of biases. Nevertheless, there are references that point to the mistakes of the Obama presidency that the man himself never explicitly acknowledges. Less than one year into his presidency, Obama came to the conclusion that his key national security advisors, including Secretary of State Hill...

10Feb

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Politics, USA

Biden’s Cabinet: a Return to Ruling Class Politics

BY JEFF MACKLER Insane people who study playing Russian roulette with a well-lubricated and seasoned six-shooter understand that the odds on survival are far greater than the expected 83.3 percent, that is, five out of six. That’s because the single loaded bullet chamber is heavier than the empty chambers and is more likely, after a firm spin, to settle at the bottom, away from the striking pin at the top of the firing mechanism. In essence, you can cheat your fate a bit if you choose to engage. Not so with engaging in the periodic electoral games orchestrated by the twin parties of U.S. capitalism. There the result is always 100 percent fatal. All chambers are fully loaded in advance by the ruling rich. Without exception, human needs are subordinated to capitalist profits. Capit...

10Feb

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Politics, USA

A brief but portentous insurrection by Trump’s thugs

By Lawrence Davidson Protest versus insurrection There is a difference between attempts to change policy through public pressure and seeking to change the very nature of government through an insurrection. The civil rights protests of the late 1950s and 1960s; the anti-war protests of the latter half of the 1960s and early 1970s; more civil rights protests (these have occurred repeatedly) in the latter half of the 1970s and the 1980s; the recent climate protests and those of the Black Lives Matter movement all sought changes in government behaviour and policy through pressure. They could at times get disruptive – by stopping traffic in Washington DC or being met with unwarranted police brutality, but no one characterised them as attempts to overthrow the country’s ...