8 April 2014 — Electronic Intifada
The BBC’s reporting around the status of Jerusalem is “of such a low standard it fails to qualify as journalism,” say campaigners.
This argument is the basis of the challenge made last week by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and Friends of Al Aqsa (FoA) against the BBC’s insistence on referring to the whole of Jerusalem as an Israeli city, in contradiction to international law.
28 April 2014 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Over 150 Olive Trees Destroyed Near Nablus
IMEMC – Israeli settlers destroyed over 150 Palestinian-owned olive trees south of Nablus, on Monday, according to a Palestinian official. …
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29 April 2014 — Sustainable Pulse
UK environment secretary Owen Paterson’s has failed to represent Scotland after admitting breaching an agreement to make Scotland’s opposition to genetically modified (GM) crops clear to European ministers.
29 April 2014 — Counterpunch
“Washington wants to weaken Moscow economically by slashing its gas revenues and, thus, eroding its ability to defend itself or its interests. The US does not want an economically-integrated Europe and Asia. The de facto EU-Russian alliance is a direct threat to US global hegemony.”
29 April 2014 — Housmans
NEWS
1. London Radical Bookfair & Alternative Press Takeover 2014
2. Left Book Club run for sale
3. Zed Books Competition
4. Petition to stop recruitment of 16 year olds into the UK armed forces
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27 April 2014 — Daily Maverick
All these years later, I still sometimes go back to the intoxicating days of 1985. The workers of South Africa had a dream. They dreamt that one day we would walk out of the cold night of apartheid’s tyranny. They dreamt that the sun would shine down on the new democracy. We dreamt of a time when workers would never again be seen as commodities, but as valuable citizens of our rainbow nation. And yet, today we are our own worst enemies, our own worst nightmare.
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29 April 2014 — OurNHS
The new head of the NHS, Simon Stevens, appears before the Health Select Committee today. Here are fourteen questions OurNHS hopes MPs will ask him.
29 April 2014 — OurNHS
Mental health services are amongst the hardest hit by cuts and privatisation. A new Charter suggests how people can build alliances and fight back.
29 April 2014 — OurNHS
The hospital closure clause returns for its final stages in the Lords on 7 May. Lord Phil Hunt writes here about the safeguards he is trying to introduce by amendment.
29 April 2014 — Bishopsgate Institute
For those of you in London and surrounds, this might be of interest to you:
The New Dark Age 