31 July 2015 — 38 Degrees
Fresh batches of bee-killing pesticides are on their way to British farms right now. [1] Prime Minister David Cameron could stop these toxic chemicals before they are spread across our fields and wreak havoc on bees. But he’ll only do it if enough of us pile on the pressure.
31 July 2015 — National Security Archive
Los Quemados: Chile’s Pinochet Covered up Human Rights Atrocity
Chilean Dictator Rejected Police Report Identifying Army Units which Burned Alive Teenage Protesters in 1986
Declassified Documents Could Provide Evidence in long-awaited Prosecution for Murder of Washington D.C. Resident Rodrigo Rojas, Burning of Carmen Quintana
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29 July 2015 — The Real News Network
Dimitri Lascaris reports on the charges against Varoufakis and critiques the media for engaging in a smear campaign that accuses the former energy minister Lafazanis and the leaders of the Left Platform of being covert plotters (inc. transcript)
29 July 2015 — The Real News Network
Dimitri Lascaris reports on the charges against Varoufakis and critiques the media for engaging in a smear campaign that accuses the former energy minister Lafazanis and the leaders of the Left Platform of being covert plotters (inc. transcript)
30 July 2015 — Statewatch • e-mail: office@statewatch.org
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1. EU: Analysis: EU-USA Justice and Home Affairs cooperation: an honest and equal relationship?
2. EU: Briefing: Preparing the ground for “smart borders”: EU action on “overstayers”
3. EU: Smart borders: European Commission and MSs’at odds over digitising passport stamps
4. EU: European Parliament Study: The General Principles of EU Administrative Procedural Law
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30 July 2015 — Pambazuka News
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30 July 2015 — Statewatch — e-mail: office@statewatch.org
1. EU: Statewatch Analysis: EU-USA Justice and Home Affairs cooperation: an honest and equal relationship?
2. EU: Statewatch Briefing: Preparing the ground for “smart borders”: EU action on “overstayers”
3. EU: Smart borders: European Commission and Member States at odds over digitising passport stamps
29 July 2015 — Media Lens
In May, voters grasped Spanish political orthodoxy and shook it like a rag doll:
‘The anti-austerity party Podemos claimed its biggest victory in Barcelona, where activist Ada Colau seized control of the city hall. Podemos and Ciudadanos… made advances across the country that will give them a chance to shape policy for the first time.’
28 July 2015 — Housmans
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26 July 2015 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor
Short-Attention-Span-Radicalism has quickly recovered from its setback in Greece, finding solace in its own unique spin on Joe Hill’s supposed last words– “Don’t mourn, Don’t organize; Forget, Ignore, Repeat.” The SARs brigade made up of VIBs; SIPs; near, neo, quasi, democratic, semi, hemi, demi, erratic, mo, po, po-mo socialists is done sitting shiva for Greece and has moved on to its next challenge, its once and future failure, Britain.
25 July 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation
25.07.2015 | 00:00 | Peotr VOROBIEV
At the beginning of July, an interesting story appeared in the media: the head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis, Mustafa Dzhemilev, was awarded the Order of the Knight’s Cross «For services to Lithuania» by Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskait?. The nature of this Tatar’s knightly, which is to say military, services to the Lithuanian state could not but arouse curiosity. And I immediately called to mind that the first of this future knight’s seven previous convictions, at that time a Soviet citizen born in 1943 in German-occupied Crimea, was at the age of 22 for refusing compulsory military service in the army…
24 July 2015 — 38 Degrees
The truth about NHS privatisation has been exposed. An undercover investigation has found shocking care failures by private health business Care UK. It’s been caught leaving dangerously ill patients waiting for hours, and using work experience students instead of nurses. [1] This is what happens when private companies get their hands on our NHS.
23 July 2015 — Black Agenda Report
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. DixonNetRootsNation is a gathering for paid and wannabe paid Democratic party activists, including the ostensibly non-partisan ones. You go there to make connections, learn new stuff and get noticed by the people who hand out grants, jobs, fellowships and careers, cash for “voter education” and GOTV. Confronting minor white male candidates was a great way to get noticed without antagonizing Hillary, the inevitable Democratic nominee.
22 July 2015 — 38 Degrees
Breaking news: an hour ago, environment minister Liz Truss snuck out a last-minute decision to allow the use of bee-killing pesticides on UK fields. [1]
22 July 2015 — 38 Degrees
It’s a total mess. The government’s gagged their own experts – because they’ve said no to the pesticide companies that want bee-killing toxins back on UK fields this autumn. [1] Now the final decision’s being made behind closed doors – with Environment Minister Liz Truss at the helm.[2]
22 July 2015 — Andrew Gavin Marshall
From the outbreak of Europe’s debt crisis in 2010, Germany and the Troika institutions of the European Commission, European Central Bank and IMF have come to wield immense influence over the continent and the populations within it. This video examines the individuals and institutions of power in Europe.
21 July 2015 — 38 Degrees
Cover ups. Government scandals. Most have been exposed using Freedom of Information laws designed to keep democracy open. [1] But now ministers are plotting to stifle these laws. [2]
21 July 2015
I had the pleasure of hanging out with The Last Poets yesterday, who are visiting these shores to shoot a documentary about them, made by my companéros Vagabond Beaumont and Tonxti Vasquez, as well tour the country performing.
18 July 2015 — The Real News Network
Dimitri Lascaris of The Real News interviews Syriza MP Costas Lapavitsas – July 17, 2015 (inc. transcript)
In the case of Greece the Eurozone is an unmitigated disaster. Greece basically doesn’t belong in the Eurozone. If you weren’t Greek and you weren’t subject to the culture and so on, the everyday life here, it would be so obvious again looking at it from the outside. This is a country that’s been thrashed by the Eurozone. It’s clinging on to the union tooth and nail, I mean, whatever the cost for its population, because of the decisions of its political and economic elite. It’s a tragedy.” – Costas Lapavitsas MP
6 July 2015 — Youtube
What is happening in Europe in the name of the troika? A must-see for anyone who wants to understand the situation in Greece. The European Union and International Monetary Fund have lent more than 400 billion Euros to Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Cyprus to keep these countries solvent. The lenders granted enormous power to the three institutions of the so called troika: the IMF, the European Central Bank and the European Commission. Without any public accountability, the troika is forcing the crisis states to implement policies that are tearing the social fabric of their countries apart.
The New Dark Age 