September 2015
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New Labour Party shadow chancellor seeks to reassure big business at party conference By Chris Marsden
Newly appointed shadow chancellor John McDonnell outlined his and Jeremy Corbyn’s new economic prescriptions at the Labour Party’s conference yesterday. It was an exercise in appearing as “sensible” and “safe” as possible to Britain’s ruling class, while still making verbal feints towards the anti-austerity sentiment in the working class that catapulted Corbyn to the leadership… Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books October 2015 Newsletter
28 September 2015 — Housmans HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2015 NEWS 1. Housmans Peace Diary 2. Left Book Club IN-STORE EVENTS 3. ‘Industrial Workers of the World: the union for all workers’ with Dave Pike Continue reading
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Corbyn’s jobs for the boys By William Bowles
So socialist Jeremy Corbyn, after pressure from the trade union boys who bankroll him, agreed not to make Trident an issue. After all, making nuclear missiles and the submarines that carry them, are jobs for the boys. Continue reading
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RISE: Scotland’s Left Alliance By Ken Ferguson
The long dominant Labour Party, which opted to campaign against independence — alongside the Conservatives, loathed by the big majority of Scots voters, and the now virtually demolished Liberal Democrats in the Better Together alliance — reaped the whirlwind at the UK general election in May. Continue reading
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“The Bride of death?” By William Bowles
Purporting to be an explanation of why a young Palestinian woman (sister to the two young men murdered by the Israelis) should become a ‘martyr’ – itself a word loaded with significance for the Western ear, as opposed even to your common or garden ‘terrorist’, or God forbid, soldier or guerrilla – the piece presents… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 20-26 September 2015
26 September 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation US Upgrades Nuclear Munitions Deployed in Germany 26.09.2015 | 08:00 | Andrei AKULOV In 1991, U.S. President George H. W. Bush decided to retire almost all the tactical nuclear weapons operated by the US military. He found the short-range weapons militarily useless and burdensome. Twenty-three years have passed since Continue reading
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Reversing The Tide: Cities And Countries Are Rebelling Against Water Privatization, And Winning By Tom Lawson
Problems with water privatization often begin to occur soon after the initial wave of enthusiasm – from lack of infrastructure investment to environmental neglect. A 2005 study by the World Bank said that overall evidence suggests “there is no statistically significant difference between the efficiency performance of public and private operators in this sector.” The… Continue reading
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Coldtype October 2015 – is now on line
25 September 2015 — Coldtype October 2015 – is now on line Download and read it – free of charge at www.coldtype.net 64 PAGES of great writing and photography. Emphasis this issue is on Jeremy Corbyn, newly-elected leader of Britain’s Labour Party, who is taking his party back to its left wing roots in face of indignant and Continue reading
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Mosaic of Facts by Miguel Francis-Santiago
In his documentary about information wars Miguel goes for real facts and evidences, trying to find out who stands behind the walls of disinformation and benefits from double standard propaganda, what is the role of government and other politicians in managing world’s leading MSM, why some serious events are being completely misrepresented and why so… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 24 September 2015 (22/15): Council challenges EU Ombudsman secret trilogues Inquiry (22/15)
“Over 80% of all new EU laws are agreed in these secret trilogues – they should have no place in a democracy worthy of the name – they should be held in the open with full public access to documents so that we can see what is being decided in our name.” Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report for 23 September 2015: Terri Swell rated "Worst Black Congressperson", CBC Report Card for 2015
23 September 2015 — Black Agenda Report CBC Monitor Report Card Ranks Terri Sewell Worst Black Member of Congress by BAR executive editor Glen Ford, with Patrice Johnson Black Agenda Report is once again publishing the annual CBC Monitor Report Card. The former all-time worst Black Congressman, David Scott of Georgia, has passed the torch Continue reading
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Israeli leaders delight in Europe’s cruelty toward refugees By Rania Khalek
As most of the world looks on in horror at Europe’s atrocious response to refugees escaping war and persecution in the Middle East and Africa, some Israeli officials are quietly reveling in the chaos. Continue reading
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Syriza voted back into office amid mass abstention in Greek election By Bill Van Auken
Tsipras returns to office based on a political program that is, at least on the surface, diametrically opposed to the platform upon which Syriza first swept into office in January of this year. Then, the party won the election based on promises to overturn the austerity measures imposed by the European Union and international finance… Continue reading
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Labour values, the NHS and me By Marcus Chown
Last week I received an e-mail from the Labour Party telling me it had reason to believe I did not support its aims and beliefs and it was excluding me from voting in the leadership election. I have voted Labour in every election since I was 18. I have been a full member of the… Continue reading
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Army plots against British PMs are not new By Jonathan Cook
Jeremy Corbyn,Photo by AP Photo There has been some debate about the significance of a warning issued this weekend through Rupert Murdoch’s Sunday Times by a British general that the army would “mutiny” and use “whatever means possible, fair or foul” should the new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn ever get near 10 Downing Street. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 13-19 September 2015
19 September 2015 — — Strategic Culture Foundation US Plans to Partition Iraq and Syria into “Pipeline States” 19.09.2015 | 08:00 | Alexei BALIEV The Middle East is going through radical reshaping as a result of “Arab Spring” followed by the operation against the Islamic State. It would not be an exaggeration to say that its Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 742 17 September 2015: : #PUNCHBACK: RESISTING EMPIRE’S WAR MACHINE
17 September 2015 — Pambazuka News PAMBAZUKA NEWS 742: #PUNCHBACK: RESISTING EMPIRE’S WAR MACHINE 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. Continue reading
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National Security Archive 16 September 2015: President’s Daily Briefs from Kennedy and Johnson Finally Released
The CIA and the LBJ Library are releasing online a collection of 2,500 declassified President’s Daily Briefs (PDBs) from the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. The PDBs are Top Secret documents containing the most current and significant intelligence information that the CIA believes that the President needs to know, and are records that CIA Director George… Continue reading
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