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New leaked documents show Reuters’ and the BBC’s involvement in covert UK FCO programs to effect “attitudinal change” and “weaken the Russian state’s influence,” alongside intel contractors and Bellingcat. by Max Blumenthal Part 6 - Bellingcat joins the Zinc Network, allegedly meddles in North Macedonia’s elections After Alexei Navalny’s poisoning, he collaborated with the UK-based “open source” journalism outfit Bellingcat to pin the crime on Russia’s FSB intelligence services. Though it is well established that Bellingcat is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy, a US government entity that supports regime-change operations around the globe, the fact has never appeared in the reams of fawning profiles that corporate media outlets, including Reuters , have published about the organization. Bellingcat’s role as a partner in the Zinc Network’s UK FCO-funded EXPOSE Consortium may add an additional layer of suspicion about the outlet’s claim to independence. Indeed, Bellingcat wa

An investigative analysis takes apart a hackneyed piece of propaganda authored by an international alt-right clique with links to the Pentagon.   by Raul Diego   Part 7 - Symptoms of a tall tale Cherry-picking WHO literature to make the claim that the notion of asymptomatic spread came from China, the authors rely on a quote from a July 2020 scientific brief: “ Early data from China suggested that people without symptoms could infect others. ” The data in question came from a WHO-China joint mission that “ consisted of 25 national and international experts from China, Germany, Japan, Korea, Nigeria, Russia, Singapore, the United States of America and the World Health Organization (WHO). The Joint Mission was headed by Dr. Bruce Aylward of WHO and Dr. Wannian Liang of the People’s Republic of China, ” according to the mission’s report cited in the paper quoted in the letter. Further, in the same July brief, multiple reports from Western sources were cited as evidence of asymptomatic spr

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) issued a report alleging Russian interference in the 2020 election, contradicting November statements that there was no meddling, while ignoring documented interference from top US ally Colombia.   by Dan Cohen   Part 1   Russiagate is back! That’s right. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) says Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei meddled in the 2020 U.S. election. But not only they: Lebanese Hezbollah, Cuba and Venezuela did it too.  I know what you’re thinking: Where is the evidence? Well, the ODNI report doesn’t show any. But phrases like “ we judge, ”“ we assess, ” “ probably, ” and “ likely ” are used dozens of times. Apparently for corporate media, that’s good enough. Never mind that, way down on the last page, the report says “ Judgments are not intended to imply that we have proof that shows something to be a fact. ” So it’s the opinion, the estimation of the intelligenc

The debt burden crushing poor countries will not be alleviated until creditors in rich countries are made to give up some of their wealth   by John Smith  Part 1 In 2020, rich nations spent nearly $12trn , more than 31% of their combined GDP, to avert economic meltdown and cushion the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on their citizens. This ‘fiscal stimulus’ does not include monetary stimulus in the form of lower interest rates and central bank purchase of financial assets. In stark contrast, their response to the catastrophic economic effects of COVID on so-called developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America – described by World Bank president David Malpass as “ worse than the financial crisis of 2008 and for Latin America worse than the debt crisis of the 1980s ” – has been a kick in the teeth. In November, Ken Ofori-Atta, Ghana’s finance minister, commented that “ The ability of central banks in the West to respond [to the pandemic] to an unimaginable extent, and the limit

by Kevin Tillman   Part 1   Just about everyone was shocked by what happened at the Capitol building on January 6th. But as a former soldier in America’s forever wars, horrifying as the scenes were, I also found what happened strangely familiar, almost inevitable. I thought that, if only we had taken our country’s imperial history seriously, none of us would have found that day either shocking or unprecedented.   Honestly, it could only seem that way if you imagined our domestic politics as completely separate from our foreign policy. But if we’re to learn anything from that maladroit attempt at a government-toppling coup, it should be that they are anything but separate.    The question isn’t whether then-President Donald Trump incited the assault on the Capitol — of course he did. It is rather: Since when have we cared if an American president lies to incite an illegal insurrection? In all honesty, our commanders-in-chief have been doing so abroad for generations with complete impuni

How did EU governments decide to oppose a global measure that could boost production of COVID vaccines and medicines for the global south? You won’t get the slightest hint from official EU sources. But leaked documents reveal that the Commission and member states see the real problem as a mere PR issue of how to deflect criticism. Given the pandemic, their position seems indefensible.   Corporate Europe Observatory   Part 2 - Secretive working groups   The Council is where the 27 member states have their say on the direction and detail of EU policy is ludicrously secretive on many matters, including those of utmost public interest. Corporate Europe Observatory checked the available agendas of five specific EU Council working parties Sidenote to try to understand member state positions on global access to COVID vaccines and the wider debate on patents. A few relevant discussions were identified. At the 16 December 2020 meeting of the Council Working Party on Intellectual Property there

The cops and the district attorneys want people to see what we are going through — the conditions of our arrests, our experiences in jail, and our legal battle — and to think that this is what you risk when you stand up against them. – Lillian House, Aurora Activist and Defendant   by Alan Macleod   Part 4 - Radio silence While the national media are happy to cover the persecution of political actors, such as Russia’s Alexey Navalny or the leaders of the Hong Kong protest movement, in enemy nations halfway around the world, there has been near silence on this case far closer to home. A search for “Lillian House” elicits zero relevant results on the websites of The New York Times , CBS News, CNN, MSNBC, or USA Today. There is also no mention of House’s case from Fox News, although one article from last summer described her as part of an “ anti-cop mob, ” full of “ tyrannical, left-wing anarchists [who] hate free speech, ” according to the then-Acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary.

As it conducted its analysis of the vaccine in December, the European Medicines Agency’s systems were targeted by unknown hackers.   Following this, more than 40 megabytes of classified information from the agency’s review were published on the dark web and several journalists, including those from the British Medical Journal, were sent copies of the leaks.   In a review of the documents, the BMJ said they showed concerns over unexpectedly low quantities of intact mRNA in batches of the vaccine developed for commercial production. Early commercial batches of Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine had lower than expected levels of intact mRNA. According to the BMJ EMA scientists ensuring the manufacturing quality of the product found “ truncated and modified mRNA species present in the finished product ”. The information was in an email sent in late November by a high ranking EMA official, which outlined a raft of issues. As a result the EMA filed two “major objections” with Pfizer about th

From the new documentary Can 't Get You Out of My Head by Adam Curtis   globinfo freexchange   The first settlers had come from Europe to America to flee from the corruption of power in the Old World. But although they had got away from the old power, they hadn't got away from their suspicious minds, and alone, out in the vast wilderness of the new America, that led them to imagining dark, hidden conspiracies in their own government, far away in Washington.    One of the first of these, in the early 19th century, said that a secret group from Europe, called the Bavarian Illuminati, were running a giant conspiracy in America to destroy the new democracy. In reality, the Illuminati had been a utopian movement who wanted to replace religion with reason. But instead, they now became the first of a series of frightening suspicions that fed off the isolation of the settlers in the New World.    One night (in 1958, somewhere in the vicinity of Whittier, California), Kerry Thornley

Moderate Rebels   Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak with Daniel Dumbrill, a Canadian immigrant and YouTuber who has lived in China for over a decade. They discuss Western corporate media propaganda and the US-led new cold war on Beijing.