October 2013
-
How to abolish a free health service, step one By David Cullen
The Tory plan to charge migrants for NHS treatment has rightly come under fire for being policy directed at an invented non-issue; because it will therefore probably cost more money than it will save; and because it will change the doctor-patient relation in an insidious way – asking doctors to police their patients. Continue reading
-
Police State UK: The witch-hunt of Britain’s Guardian newspaper By Julie Hyland
Raids on newspaper offices, the forced destruction of computer drives and threats to arrest journalists are actions more commonly associated with military dictatorships. But this is exactly what has been meted out against the Guardian, with threats of worse to come. Continue reading
-
NHS: Your right to know By Grahame Morris MP
What has often gone unnoticed [in the privatisation of the NHS] is the democratic deficit. The erosion of our rights to question those who run public services and spend our money. This is what prompted me to introduce a Ten Minute Rule Bill calling for Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation to be extended to private… Continue reading
-
VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 21 October 2013: High Court Rules: It is Impossible to Be Israeli
21 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterThirty Detainees To Be released October 29IMEMC – Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated Monday [October 21, 2013] that Israel will be releasing the second phase of Palestinian detainees on the agreed upon time, October 29. The release is part of an agreement to release all Continue reading
-
Information Clearing House 21 October 2013: Chris Hedges: Are We Living in a Police State?
21 October 2013 — Information Clearing House Engineering Consent For More Wars U.S. Military Investing Heavily in Africa By Shashank Bengali The Pentagon has begun a burst of spending in Africa, investing in air facilities, flight services, telecommunications and electrical upgrades as the U.S. military deepens its footprint in a region with a rising threat of “Islamist Continue reading
-
What Comes Next: A secular democratic state in historic Palestine – a promising land Omar Barghouti
The ongoing, tumultuous popular upheavals in the Arab world are ushering in a new phase that may break the rusty but still formidable imperial and neoliberal fetters that have consciously, systemically, and structurally inhibited human development in the entire Arab region. In addition to its anticipated emancipatory impact on peoples across this region, this process… Continue reading
-
VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 20 October 2013: Israel heightens campaign to demolish Al-Aqsa Mosque and build alleged Temple
20 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsrael Refuses Entry Of 120 Trucks Into GazaIMEMC – Sunday October 20, 2013, the Israeli Authorities refused to allow 120 trucks, loaded with construction material, into the Gaza Strip as they tried to cross through the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) terminal between Gaza and Israel. … Continue reading
-
Information Clearing House 20 October 2013: Food Stamp Corporate Welfare
20 October 2013 — Information Clearing House It Took Decades for Truth to be Revealed in Algeria. How Long Will it Take Syria? By Robert Fisk The real story of the much more recent Algerian war – between the Islamists and the government in the 1990s (total deaths 250,000, a hundred thousand more than in Syria today) Continue reading
-
NHS on the brink of extinction By Kailash Chand
In his speech to this year’s Labour conference, Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham confirmed that if the party wins the 2015 general election, he will introduce legislation to repeal the Health and Social Care Act 2012 in the following Queen’s Speech. Continue reading
-
Are we being served? By William Bowles
Central to us on the left is the dilemma of a seemingly indifferent working class to the changes that impact directly not only on our material well-being but on the corporatisation of our cultural lives. Some argue that it’s down to the prevailing sense of powerlessness as the gulf between those who govern and the… Continue reading
-
VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 19 October 2013: The Israeli government’s official ’lawfare’ contractor
19 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSettlers Uproot 100 Olive Trees Near NablusIMEMC – Saturday morning [October 19, 2013] A number of extremist Israeli settlers invaded Palestinian olive orchards in Qaryout village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and uprooted more than 100 olive trees. … Continue reading
-
Information Clearing House 19 October 2013: 4 Out Of 5 in USA Face Near-poverty, No Work
19 October 2013 — Information Clearing House Assassination Pushes Libya Towards Civil War Two Years after Gaddafi Murder By Chris Stephen in Tripoli Fighting rages in Benghazi as Tripoli braces for fallout from the kidnapping of prime minister Ali Zaidan. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36579.htm Continue reading
-
VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 18 October 2013: Report: EU to bypass its own anti-settlements guidelines
18 October 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterBody Of Slain Palestinian Still Held By IsraelIMEMC – The Israeli Authorities are still holding the body of Younis Radayda, who was shot and killed on Thursday allegedly after he drove into a military base, and said that his body will be handed to the Palestinians Sunday, Continue reading
-
“Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East By Israel Shahak
The following document pertaining to the formation of “Greater Israel” constitutes the cornerstone of powerful Zionist factions within the current Netanyahu government, the Likud party, as well as within the Israeli military and intelligence establishment. Continue reading
-
“Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East By Israel Shahak
The following document pertaining to the formation of “Greater Israel” constitutes the cornerstone of powerful Zionist factions within the current Netanyahu government, the Likud party, as well as within the Israeli military and intelligence establishment. Continue reading
-
Police State UK: Guardian faces parliamentary investigation over Snowden revelations By Chris Marsden
Britain’s Guardian newspaper is facing an investigation by at least one parliamentary committee, in line with demands made by Prime Minister David Cameron, concerning the exposures of Edward Snowden, the whistleblower from America’s National Security Agency (NSA). Continue reading
-
Waiting times at five-year high in British National Health Service By Mark Blackwood and Ajanta Silva
Waiting times for National Health Service (NHS) treatment now stand at a five-year high. NHS England, the public body charged with overseeing delivery and implementation of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, has revealed that 240,000 patients in England within the last 12 months have been added to the ever growing waiting list—2.9 million… Continue reading
-
Information Clearing House 18 October 2013: Exposed: Bin Laden Killing Hoax By Pakistan TV
18 October 2013 — Information Clearing House Pakistan TV Exposes bin Laden Killing Hoax By Paul Craig Roberts This interview of an eyewitness to the entire event is powerful evidence that the Obama regime’s story of the killing of Osama bin Laden and his burial at sea is a hoax and a lie. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36573.htm Continue reading
-
How to Protect Ourselves on Social Networks and from Data Collection Systems of Governments and Corporations
orporations are taking advantage of these times by changing their privacy policies so that they can track us, use us, and sell us whatever their algorithms decide that we need or want based on data they have acquired about our movements, contacts, desires, fantasies, or kinks. Governments on the other hand are using our data… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 