28 February 2015 — 38 Degrees
Today, 38 Degrees members went out on the streets in Streatham. They added name after name to a petition telling all your local politicians to save the NHS. And it’s not just here – 38 Degrees members were out in hundreds of locations across the country. [1]
28 February 2015 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor
Richard Seymour, VIB, wrote on SIP Louis Proyect’s chat-list:
No formal count was taken at this meeting, but according to Stathis Kouvelakis, 30 MPs were out of the room when the vote was taken and 40 abstained or voted against. If this is right, then a third of those present voted against. He recounts that most speakers – some 80 MPs – criticised the deal, in an emotional and turbulent meeting that went on for 12 hours.
27 February 2015 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor
I know a cat named Doctor Yani…
On Tuesday, February 24, 2015, the Syriza government of Greece presented its “first comprehensive list of reform measures” to the president of the Eurogroup. The Eurogroup is what the committee made up of the finance ministers of countries using the euro as currency is called when it actually meets.
28 February 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation
28.02.2015 | 00:00 | Pyotr ISKENDEROV
The appointment of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair as advisor to the head of the Serbian government, Aleksandar Vu?i?, has rocked the media. The Russian television channel RT referred to the decision as an attempt at the «political suicide» of the Serbian prime minister… The principle of running with the hare and hunting with the hounds is a bad principle. Attempts to have a foot in both camps have little in common with the art of diplomacy and rarely end well…
25 February 2015 — PSC
‘Taste of Israel’ is a glossy, colour 32-page booklet which is being offered to shoppers at the supermarket chain, Waitrose, this month.
The booklet passes off Palestinian/Arab dishes and ingredients such as za’atar, tahini and falafel as Israeli. And it contains tourist features on towns within Israel which, while mentioning their Ottoman past, ignore their Palestinian heritage and the ethnic cleansing of their Palestinian inhabitants during the creation of Israel.
The New Dark Age 