June 2014
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US in Iraq: Geopolitical Arsonists Seek to Burn Region By Tony Cartalucci
When a fire is raging, firefighters are called – not the arsonist who started it, especially if they return to the scene of the crime dragging a barrel of gasoline behind them. Yet, this is precisely what the US proposes – that they – the geopolitical arsonists – be allowed to return to Iraq to… Continue reading
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Course: Youth- Demand the Impossible 2014!
Time for a plug: As well as co-editing NLP I’ve helped to found and run Demand the Impossible, a summer school on radical politics and activism for London youth. Applications for this year’s course, which will be at City University from August 4-8, are now open. Here’s the trailer for the course: Continue reading
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The Labour government was to blame for the NHS’s biggest disgrace – why should we listen to them now? By Caroline Molloy
The latest ex-Blair advisor to lambast the NHS for being ‘slow’ to adopt privatisation is Paul Corrigan. But his past hastiness had a little-noted role in the NHS’s darkest episode. If you were going to release a report arguing for the UK’s health system to become more like that of the United States, you probably… Continue reading
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TOR is ’90 per cent of the net’ claims City of London Police Commish – and he’s dead wrong By Richard Chirgwin
I can’t tell you whether Leppard said “BitTorrent” and was mis-transcribed, or whether he slipped, but I’d like to address the assertion that TOR – The Onion Router – is “90 per cent of the Internet”. It’s a piece of silly scare-mongering, and would be laughable except that numbers like this are being used to… Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 17 June 2014: Gaza – a hellhole created by Israel
17 June 2014 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterAhrar: “197 Palestinians Kidnapped In The West Bank”IMEMC – [Tuesday, June 17, 2014] Israeli soldiers have kidnapped 197 Palestinians, and invaded more than 791 homes, in different parts of the West Bank, since three settlers went missing last Thursday at night, the Ahrar Center for Detainees Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 17 June 2014: Is Open-Ended Chaos the Desired US-Israeli Aim in the Middle East?
17 June 2014 — Information Clearing House Barack Obama Orders US Troops Back To Iraq By Paul Lewis, Spencer Ackerman and Saeed Kamali Dehghan While Obama has vowed to keep US troops out of combat in Iraq, he said in his notification to Congress that the personnel moving into the region were equipped for direct Continue reading
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Personal Health Budgets lead to individualism and isolation By Richard Blogger
A Thatcherite ‘voucher’ system is being imposed on the NHS is the worst way to deliver ‘personalisation’. From April 2015 all Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) must be able to offer Personal Health Budgets (PHBs) to all patients who have a long term condition (LTC). Personal Budgets were mentioned in the Conservative 2010 manifesto, but the… Continue reading
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How to commercialise and cut health and social care without anyone noticing By Jenny Shepherd
Plans to ‘create a local market’ in health and social care, including personal budgets, threaten to undermine our collective rights and our systems based on social solidarity. The final part in our View from the Grassroots series. Over the last week our ‘View from the Grassroots’ series has been looking at an interlocking set of… Continue reading
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What might a trip to your GP look like in future By Jonathan Tomlinson
The government’s plans for the future of primary care are long on gimmicks, but short on cash. Jonathan Tomlinson sees a more interesting vision of the future – if sufficient funding is there. Continue reading
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Will volunteers become the sticking plaster holding the NHS together? By Jenny Shepherd
Not a week goes by now without some part of the establishment warning us that the NHS is ‘unaffordable’ in its current form. This austerity mood music struck up in 2008 when New Labour asked the American management consultants McKinsey for advice on how to run the NHS more cheaply, after the government had spent… Continue reading
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Saving NHS money – or a bonanza for Big Pharma and Big Tech? By Jenny Shepherd
Are big NHS changes in England including local closures and more ‘care at home’ driven by the need to save money – or something else? The second of our View from the Grassroots series. Continue reading
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Are plans to move the NHS ‘into the community’, a wolf in sheep’s clothing? By Jenny Shepherd
Plans to close swathes of Yorkshire hospital services will ‘improve care’, say local NHS bosses. Campaigners are unconvinced. In the first of a four-part series Jenny Shepherd asks who – and what – is really behind similar claims being made across the country. Continue reading
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The Truth About US Troops “Sent to Iraq” By Tony Cartalucci
Indeed, nearly 300 troops are being prepared to deploy to Iraq, as they would be to any nation on Earth where a US embassy is located, and may possibly require evacuation. It is in no way an “intervention” or a gesture of “assistance” to the government of a destabilized country. However, in Iraq, Western headlines… Continue reading
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Portugese Communist Party Central Committee Statement – May 27, 2014
The Central Committee of the PCP met on May 27, 2014, and assessed the results of the elections for the European Parliament as well as their political consequences; assessed the most relevant aspects of the country’s economic and social situation and the consequences of the Troika’s policies, the campaign of mystification surrounding the so-called “clean… Continue reading
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Iraq’s civil war provokes UK political crisis By Julie Hyland
The catastrophe engulfing Iraq—with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) controlling much of its northern and central regions—is as much a crisis for British imperialism as it is for its US ally. Heaping lie upon lie, Blair denounced as “bizarre” the notion “that ‘we’ have caused this”. Calling for renewed intervention against Iraq… Continue reading
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Iraq Witnessing a Popular Revolution, Association of Muslim Scholars
Dr. Sheikh Mohammed Bashar al-Faidhi, spokesman of the Association of Muslim Scholars, said that what is happening in Iraq today is a popular revolution against the policy of oppression, marginalization and exclusion pursued by successive governments under the brutal occupation, including the current Maliki government. Continue reading
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The crisis in Iraq is an uprising, not a sectarian war – expert
Iraq is plunged into a new war – the third one since the US invasion of 2003. Why has the war broken out this time, and what could be its impact on the region? Voice of Russia is discussing these issues with Dr. Meena Singh Roy is Research Fellow at Institute for Defence Studies and… Continue reading
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Iraq News Links 16-17 June 2014
17 June 2014 20:00:47 — williambowles.info Iraq needs a new team at the top: Column USA TODAY Over the past few days, the rebel onslaught in Iraq has slowed. It was predictable that Baghdad and surrounding cities, populated by a majority of … Iraq Forces Fight Militants as Maliki Says Army Gains Ground June 16 (Bloomberg) — Ian Bremmer, president and Continue reading
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Ukraine News Links 16-17 June 2014
17 June 2014 20:03:51 — williambowles.info US Backs Kiev Regime and «Final Solution» Mindset (SCF) Kiev explains acting FM’s remark on Putin by attempt to calm down protesters near Russian embassy (Voice of Russia) Donetsk, Luhansk leaders say contacts with presidential settlement envoy are impossible (ITAR-TASS) Continue reading
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Greece: The Dilemmas of Democratic Socialism By James Petras
Greece is experiencing a triple crisis which has a profound impact on the economy, society and political system. The economy has experienced a deep, prolonged depression lasting six years and continuing. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 