Human rights

Israel’s killing of Palestinian man at checkpoint was ‘extrajudicial execution’, concludes report

Ahmed Erekat, a 27 year old Palestinian man was killed by Israeli soldiers near a checkpoint in Abu Dis on 23 June 2020 MEMO | February 24, 2021 Further doubts have been raised over Israel’s killing of Ahmad Erekat. The 27-year-old was shot dead in June at an Israeli military checkpoint near the town of Abu […]

African governments are crushing opposition using Israeli spyware

By Suraya Dadoo | MEMO | February 24, 2021 As internet penetration and smartphone usage increases across Africa, digital spaces have become increasingly important for organising political uprisings and opposition movements. In response, several of the continent’s regimes have shut down the internet or blocked social media apps. To sidestep the economic costs and global criticism that these online shutdowns […]

Teacher: I Won’t Force Kids To Wear Masks & I Won’t Wear One Either

By Richie Allen | February 24, 2021 The Telegraph newspaper, to its credit, has published an opinion piece by a secondary school teacher who is based in Essex. The teacher believes that forcing kids to wear masks in the classroom is “Dystopian and abhorrent.” The teacher has been reading “The Handmaid’s Tale with Year 11’s […]

Hazardous Mask Wearing

By Stephen Lendman | February 24, 2021 Masks don’t protect and risk harm to health from long term use. They’re porous to permit breathing. If not, masks would hermetically seal wearers and suffocate them. Peer-reviewed studies of mask-wearing showed no relationship between their use in public and protection from seasonal flu-renamed covid. Earlier I quoted […]

A People’s History of Struggle: Liberty or Lockdown

UK health minister Matt Hancock has warned the government’s timeline for unlocking coronavirus restrictions could be slowed as ministers remain “vigilant” against infection rates. What began in March 2020 as a three-week lockdown to ‘save the NHS’ has turned into a year-long clampdown on fundamental liberties with the spectre of freedom through vaccination (‘COVID status […]

North Dakota House Votes To Make Mask Mandates Illegal

By Steve Watson | Summit News | February 23, 2021 The House of Representatives in North Dakota has voted to make mandates on wearing face masks illegal. The bill was sponsored by Rep. Jeff Hoverson who labelled the mask mandate instituted by the State governor last year as “diabolical silliness,” adding that “Our state is not a prison […]

Signs of life: Are the masses awakening from COVID psychosis?

By Jordan Schachtel | February 23, 2021 Over the course of the past year, a coalition including the corporate media, international “health” institutions, a maniacal mega billionaire, Big Pharma oligarchs, and power drunk governments consumed massive amounts of power left and right, with little to no observed resistance in sight. With COVID mania in full […]

Picnic Video Exposes Both Faces of Israeli Apartheid

A short video taken by a family as they picnicked in the West Bank this month may be the best field guide yet to Israel’s complex apartheid system of state-sponsored Jewish supremacy. In the clip posted to Facebook, armed Jewish settlers arrive unexpectedly to break up the picnic of a Palestinian family – including grandparents […]
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