June 2015
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Reasons To Be Uncheerful By S. Artesian
The truth is that the debt represents the compressed whole of capitalism. More specifically, Greece’s public debt cannot be separated from its membership in the EU, from its adherence to the monetary union, from its condition of capitalism within the larger network of capitalism, all the PhDs, political economists, Marxist economists, in the world to… Continue reading
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Thelonious Monk Quartet – ‘Epistrophy’
19 June 2015 — Jazz on the Tube The “Thelonious Monk Quartet” performing in Japan during May of 1963. Personnel: Thelonious Monk, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor sax; Butch Warren, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums Continue reading
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Thousands barred from public spaces; latest council bans; checking the checks; outdoor smoking bans; and more…
18 June 2015 — Manifesto Club BRIEFING DOCUMENT – DISPERSAL POWERS USED AGAINST PROTESTERS AND HOMELESS Our Campaign Against the ASB Act briefing document exposes how police forces are using new powers to bar people from public spaces. Dispersal powers have been invoked at public events including bonfire night and Christmas lights switch-on, and used against Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 18 June 2015: Hillary Fake on Voting Rights, Tamir Rice, America Prosecutes the World
18 June 2015 — Black Agenda Report Way Too Little, But Not Too Late: Hillary & Dems Fake the Funk on Voting Rights by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Hillary is getting undeserved praise for her stand on voting rights, which is way too little, and factually less than some of her apologists want us Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘We Just Publish The Position Of The British Government’ – Edward Snowden, The Sunday Times And The Death Of Journalism
And so we find that major news organisations continue to act as mindless conduits for anonymous state propaganda, somehow unable to learn the blindingly obvious lessons of past deceptions. Given the scale of the Iraq and Libyan catastrophes, this is powerful testimony indeed to the sheer depth of the structural corruption of the corporate media… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 7-13 June 2015
13 June 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Printing Press: Kiev’s Last Hope 13.06.2015 | 08:00 | Valentin KATASONOV Yury Lutsenko, an MP and the leader of Bloc of Petro Poroshenko party, reported that the Ukraine’s National Bank started the printing press. Allegedly it went ahead after Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk gave his approval. Few people paid attention Continue reading
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care.data equals chaos.data
Absent explicit instruction from the Secretary of State, it is now clear that NHS England is just going to keep on making the chaos worse. 16 months after it was “paused”, care.data is resurfacing in a way that gives some insight into the shambolic mess it is still in. Continue reading
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Poll Finds Mass Opposition In Europe To War Drive vs. Russia Over Ukraine By Alex Lantier
The findings of a poll published yesterday by the Washington, DC-based Pew Research Center, showing broad opposition in Europe to a NATO war with Russia, underscore the anti-democratic character of the US-led war drive against Russia over Ukraine. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report, week of June 10, 2015: Dems Hope To Bury #BlackLivesMatter Under Election Blitz
10 June 2015 — Black Agenda Report Democrats Hope to Bury Black Lives Matter Under Election Blitz by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Democrats hope the Black Lives Matter movement, like the Occupy Wall Street movement, will disappear amid the hype of the coming election season. “The Democrats have mounted a systematic cooption-repression response Continue reading
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G7 Leaders Escalate War Threats Against Russia By Thomas Gaist
The hypocrisy and recklessness of Obama and his G7 counterparts is breathtaking. They are denouncing Russian “aggression” in Ukraine, which they plunged into civil war by backing a fascist-led putsch last year that toppled a pro-Russian government. Now, US and NATO armed forces are conducting air, sea and ground exercises all along Russia’s borders. In… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 31 May – 6 June 2015
6 June 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Afghanistan: Militants Posing Imminent Threat to Central Asia (I) 06.06.2015 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV The civil war in Yemen, the following intervention by Saudi Arabia to aggravate the stand-off with Iran, the capture of Iraqi Ramadi and Syrian Palmira by Islamic State (IS) – all these events hit radar Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 729: RITUAL DEMOCRACY AND A PEOPLE BETRAYED
4 June 2015 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. KEEP PAMBAZUKA FREE AND INDEPENDENT! BECOME A FRIEND OF PAMBAZUKA NOW! http://www.pambazuka.org/en/friends.php Continue reading
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Kissinger’s Plan: “Use Economics to Build a World Political Structure” By Andrew Gavin Marshall
It was on the 24th of May 1975 when President Gerald Ford was meeting with his Secretary of State and National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger, easily the two most powerful political officials in the world at the time. Kissinger told the President: “The trick in the world now is to use economics to build a… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Testing The Limits – Paul Krugman Of The New York Times and Gary Younge of the Guardian
Our criticism of leftish corporate journalists has always attracted a mixture of support and opposition. At worst, our criticism has been viewed as a kind of betrayal, as if sending awkward challenges has the power to undo the good work these writers are doing, perhaps demotivating them and even persuading them to stop working for… Continue reading
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COLDTYPE ISSUE 99 is now on line
1 June 2015 — Coldtype Download – free of charge – now at http://coldtype.net 64 PAGES of great writing and photography. We’ve got a wide range of essays and commentary this month, on subjects as far-ranging as Africa’s child soldiers, Osama bin Laden’s reading habits, migrant hating in England, apartheid in Israel, taxi driving in California, chicken Continue reading
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NHS: care.data’s big post-election question
NHS England kept the opt-out problem secret for over a year – even while it was sending out the junk-mail leaflets last January / February, saying the choice existed. Then it hid the problem for another 10 months, before passing the buck to HSCIC last November without even telling them the size of the problem.… Continue reading
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HOUSMANS BOOKS NEWSLETTER JUNE 2015
1 June 2015 — Housmans NEWS 1. Forthcoming stalls 2. London’s Burning: a celebration of radical London, past and present 3. Zine Zone at Housmans Continue reading
The New Dark Age 