24 June 2015 — Black Agenda Report
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. DixonUS law defines a terrorist as someone willing to break the law to change government or corporate policy, like the #BlackLivesMatter protestors, or Chelsea Manning or Martin Luther King. So can we really call Charleston shooter Dylan Roof a terrorist? Killing black people has always been the official policy of governments and corporations.
24 June 2015 — Statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org
Accessible also as a pdf file at: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/jun/sw-med-crisis-23-jun-15.pdf
Statewatch coverage of the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean
Key Analysis and Documents
24 June 2015 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org
You can also access as a pdf file here:
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/jun/sw-news-online-24-june-15.pdf
24 June 2015 — 38 Degrees
The government knows their plans to cut child tax credits will push more kids into poverty. So today they’re trying to cover it up – changing the definition of child poverty to hide the effects of their cuts. They’re panicking about official evidence showing that the number of children living in poverty in the UK has risen for the first time in a decade. [1]
24 June 2015 — Media Lens
George Orwell once wrote:
‘I really don’t know which is more stinking, the Sunday Times or The Observer. I go from one to the other like an invalid turning from side to side in bed and getting no comfort which ever way he turns.’ (George Orwell, quoted, Bernard Crick, George Orwell: A Life, p. 233, Penguin Books, 1992)
The competition remains fierce, but the Sunday Times edged marginally ahead with a recent front-page exclusive that stank to truly celestial heights. As we noted in our previous alert, the Sunday Times dramatically claimed that Russia and China had ‘cracked the top-secret cache of files stolen by the fugitive US whistleblower Edward Snowden’. The ‘exclusive story’ contained precisely no evidence for its anonymous claims, no challenges to the assertions made and no journalistic balance. In a CNN interview the same day, lead reporter Tom Harper trashed his own credibility, and that of his paper, when he blurted:
‘We just publish what we believe to be the position of the British government.’
The New Dark Age 