14 January 2014 — Open Security
Allegations of police spying on anti-racism groups shed new light on the meaning and operation of ‘institutional racism’. Here, Adam Elliott-Cooper reflects on the Stephen Lawrence Campaign and the MacPherson Report. Continue reading
14 January 2014 — Our Kingdom
14 January 2014 — Housmans
HOUSMANS NEWS UPDATE
1. Housmans New Year Clearance Sale now on!
2. Peace News WW1 event and campaign
3. Two event additions and a date change
14 January 2014 — PRWatch
Despite a full-court press defending the supposed benefits of genetically engineered “golden rice,” it has never entered production. According to Jonathan Latham of Independent Science News, the science media has utterly failed to report accurately on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) — on their failures and criticisms rather than just their potential successes. Continue reading
14 January 2014 — FAIR Blog
Reading the pieces in the Sunday editions of the New York Times and the Washington Post (3/12/14) about the death of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, one gets the sense that reporters were aware of some of Sharon’s bloodiest history–but mostly kept that out of their accounts of his life.
14 January 2014 — Alan Hart
Until recently I thought Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu had no rivals in the business of talking propaganda nonsense (Israel’s Jews in danger of annihilation etcetera, etcetera, etcetera). But if there was a Nobel Prize for talking nonsense it does now seem that there would be a number of contenders.
14 January 2014 — State of Nature
The Grisly Underside of Fossil Fuels
“As recently as the 19th century, the grizzly race discovered fossil fuels and everything changed almost overnight. What followed was an explosion of the grizzly population, leaving little ecological room for the survival of other species – to say nothing of the environmental requirements for a complex organism like H. s. sapiens.” Continue reading
14 January 2014 — RT
A report has found contaminated drinking water in parts of Texas, infuriating residents who had pressured the EPA to test for methane only to see the agency back off when the company allegedly responsible claimed that its own tests proved otherwise.
The New Dark Age 