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20Jul

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Politics, USA

Fear of Falling: Can Making Black Lives Matter Rescue a Failing State?

by REBECCA GORDON You know that feeling when you trip on the street and instantly sense that you’re about to crash hard and there’s no way to prevent it? As gravity has its way with you, all you can do is watch yourself going down. Yeah, that feeling. I had it the other day on my way to a Black Lives Matter demonstration when I caught my toe on a curb and pitched forward. As time slowed down, I saw not my past, but my future, pass before my eyes — a future that would at worst include months of rehabbing a broken hip and at best a few weeks hobbling around on crutches. I was lucky. Nothing was broken and I’ll probably be off the crutches by the time you read this. But that feeling of falling and knowing it’s too late to stop it has stayed with me. I suspect it reflects a...

19Jul

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Media, Politics

A Trendy Rage: Boycotting Facebook and the Stop Hate for Profit Campaign

by BINOY KAMPMARK Rage can be that most trendy of things, and social media rage has become modish. If you dislike something, scream it in a certain number of characters and post it on every network you subscribe to. You might even feel good about it. When the pot is taken off the boil, the matter goes away. Things cool till other ingredients are added. The moralist can keep silent till the next rage breaks. Few realise that social media campaigns do not necessarily work against the platforms that facilitate them. To wage such a battle against, say, Facebook, is comical in the extreme: such a body is, after all, in the business of mass publicity, algorithmically tailored for its cause. And in this scheme, the only cause (or causes) that ever matter are those of Mark Zuckerberg and h...

The oligarch behind the world holocaust forum attended by presidents and kings

19Jul

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Health, Politics, USA, ZIO-NAZI

The oligarch behind the world holocaust forum attended by presidents and kings

As imperialists shed fake tears over the jewish holocaust, they continue to weaponise alleged ‘antisemitism’ to silence all criticism. Proletarian writers A Palestinian family carries their belongings towards the remains of their destroyed home, hit by Israeli shelling and air strikes on Gaza, 5 August 2014. Gaza is often called the largest open air prison in the world. It is sometimes called a ghetto. The following article is reproduced from the If Americans Knew website, with thanks. ***** At least 45 world leaders responded to a summons to attend the World Holocaust Forum in Israel to ‘fight antisemitism’. The event was organised by a Russian-Israeli oligarch who considers support for Palestinian human rights ‘antisemitic‘. He is promoting an Orwellian programme tha...

18Jul

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, Politics, ZIO-NAZI

Nazi tightens the screws on Palestine

Under cover of Covid-19: Israel tightens the screws on Palestine Israel’s violent suppression and annexation of Palestine continues unabated, but with it so grows the just resistance of the Palestinian people. Proletarian writers With water more essential than ever in limiting the spread of Covid-19, the IDF sociopaths have taken up the inhuman sport of shooting at the water tanks on Palestinian roofs. Kafr Qadum in the West Bank has seen weekly protests since 2011, denouncing the closure of the eastern exit of the village that connected it to the city of Nablus. This was blocked by the Israeli military in 2003 following the expansion of the nearby illegal settlement of Kedumim. The village, like all of occupied Palestine, has been the scene of many disgusting war crimes co...

18Jul

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Health, Politics, United Kingdom

Boris’s chapter of accidents

As the covid emergency progresses, the prime minister is jumping from one fiasco to another, exposing his many inadequacies to full public view. Proletarian writers Footballer Marcus Rashford’s Twitter campaign amplified widespread public anger, forcing the government to scrap its proposal to stop providing free school meals over the summer break. With his own backbenchers starting to panic at his government’s failure to get a grip on the social crisis, the past few weeks have seen prime minister Boris Johnson becoming increasingly prone to PR gaffes and U-turns. In particular, Tory MPs who recently won traditionally Labour seats in working-class constituencies (on the back of public anger about Labour’s renegacy over Brexit) will now be feeling the heat from their ...

15Jul

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Politics, UN

World Entering New Military ‘Drone Age’

The world is entering a military “second drone age” with uncontrolled proliferation and no standards governing their use, a United Nations expert told the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday. Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said the global community needed to take stock of how armed drones have evolved, and examine the challenges they posed to compliance with international law. “There are no robust standards governing drones’ development, proliferation, export, or capability for use of force. No transparency. No effective oversight. No accountability,” she said. “Drone strikes, it seems, are favoured by decision-makers and military alike for their relative efficiency, effectiveness, adaptability, acceptability, deniabi...

The Hatchet Man’s Tale: Why Bolton Matters

14Jul

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Politics, USA

The Hatchet Man’s Tale: Why Bolton Matters

by JOHN FEFFER Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Unreliable narrators are a staple of literature. Consider the delusional, self-serving narrator of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl or the way Humbert Humbert used his cultured references and gorgeous prose to dress up his crimes in Nabokov’s Lolita. Now along comes John Bolton and his account of time served in the Trump administration as national security advisor. Bolton’s latest book has been attacked as fiction by the president, members of his administration, and even members of the administrations of other countries (like South Korea). Bolton is a thoroughly unpleasant hatchet man who has opposed arms control treaties, diplomacy in most forms, and international institutions of all varieties. He is reliably paleocons...

13Jul

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Afghanistan, C.I.A, Politics, USA

The War That Time Forgot

by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR Drone targeting footage, Afghanistan. Photo: USAF. I hear it all the time. The most crucial decision of this century was the vote to go to war against Iraq. It’s meant to serve as a political line of demarcation, a sure-fire way to determine which politicians, celebrities and news personalities you can trust. But there’s little question, to my mind at least, that the impulsive decision to invade Afghanistan was the more consequential and enduring tragedy, a political bloodletting that nearly every political leader, left and right, fell for, even putative peaceniks like Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul. This was the true moral test of our time and almost everyone failed, except Barbara Lee. She was the lone voice of conscience in the fall of 2001, a vote of dissent...

The New “Water Barons”: Wall Street Mega-Banks are Buying up the World’s Water

13Jul

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Health, Politics

The New “Water Barons”: Wall Street Mega-Banks are Buying up the World’s Water

By Jo-Shing Yang Global Research, This article was first published on December 21, 2012 by Market Oracle and Global Research A disturbing trend in the water sector is accelerating worldwide. The new “water barons” — the Wall Street banks and elitist multibillionaires — are buying up water all over the world at unprecedented pace. Familiar mega-banks and investing powerhouses such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Macquarie Bank, Barclays Bank, the Blackstone Group, Allianz, and HSBC Bank, among others, are consolidating their control over water. Wealthy tycoons such as T. Boone Pickens, former President George H.W. Bush and his family, Hong Kong’s Li Ka-shing, Philippines’ Manuel V. Pangilinan and other Filipino billionaires...

“Thank You for Calling” Documentary: Unspoken Health Impacts of the Worldwide Mobile Phone Industry

13Jul

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Health, Politics

“Thank You for Calling” Documentary: Unspoken Health Impacts of the Worldwide Mobile Phone Industry

By Electromagnetic Sense Ireland Mobile telephony has quickly established itself worldwide as an irreplaceable communication technology. Similar to smoking, however, possible fatal consequences can only become apparent after decades of constantly increased exposure to radiation. The documentary THANK YOU FOR CALLING by Klaus Scheidsteger takes the viewer behind the scenes of international research, industrial lobbying and current lawsuits for damages in the USA, which are largely ignored by the media. The film traces obfuscation tactics of the mobile phone industry and accompanies the struggle of some scientists who have been researching in this field for years but have only recently begun to be heard. The aim of this documentary thriller is to enable the more than five...