November 22, 2013
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NHS funding changes will worsen inequality
The government is planning funding shifts that will reduce access to NHS services where they are needed most Continue reading
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Music Video: Darryl Reeves ‘Retrograde’
22 November 2013 — Darryl Reeves Great album. The track is off the album ‘Mercury’. Continue reading
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Northern Ireland 1972: A ‘model’ of sectarian ‘divide & rule’ By Tony Gosling
The secret Military Reaction Force (MRF) was tasked with conducting plainclothes ‘drive-by’ shootings of Republican IRA suspects. Revelations about the British Army’s collusion with Loyalist terrorists during the Northern Ireland ‘troubles’ went one step further this week with TV testimony from former soldiers that they had been part of a secret unit. Continue reading
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Syria, Egypt Reveal Erdogan’s Hidden “Neo-Ottoman Agenda” By Nicola Nasser
The eruption of the Syrian conflict early in 2011 heralded the demise of Turkey ’s officially pronounced strategy of “Zero Problems with Neighbors,” but more importantly, it revealed a “hidden agenda” in Turkish foreign policy under the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Continue reading
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WordPress.com Stands Up For Its Users, Goes to Court to Challenge DMCA Abuse
The abuse of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s notice-and-takedown process to silence lawful speech is well-documented and all too common. Far less common, though, is a service provider that is willing to team up with its users to challenge that abuse in court. Continue reading
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Neither working at a kebab shop, nor intending to blow up a plane By Gunes TAVMEN
When I first read Les Back and Shamser Sinha’s influential work on the texts that the UK Border Agency has been sending to ‘immigrants’ advising them it was time to leave the UK, and then their article on racist vans, I thought, “At last! The ways UKBA treats overseas people are finally made public!” I… Continue reading
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9/11 and the Collapse of WTC Building 7: The BBC’s Role in Distorting the Evidence and Misleading the Public By Peter Drew
In their documentary, the BBC went to great lengths to attempt to demonstrate through their own analysis that WTC Building 7 had not actually achieved free fall acceleration, as claimed by the professional experts, and that therefore this was not evidence that could be used to contradict the official version of events on 9/11. The… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 November 2013: In defiance of internationalism – Israel's manipulation of humanitarian aid
21 November 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPCHR Weekly Report: 15 Palestinians wounded in 56 incursions by Israeli troopsIMEMC – In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory for the week of 14- 20 November 2013, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) found that Israeli Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 21 November 2013: Iran Nuclear Negotiations 4 Dummies
21 November 2013 — Information Clearing House Undercover British Soldiers ‘Killed Unarmed Civilians in Belfast’ By BBC Speaking publicly for the first time, the ex-members of the Military Reaction Force (MRF), which was disbanded in 1973, said they had been tasked with “hunting down” IRA members in Belfast. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36929.htm Continue reading