October 2015
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Video: The Censored Reality Of The Refugee Crisis
Today, 60 million human beings are displaced from war and extreme poverty. Many European countries are responding to the crisis with racist hysteria, policing and police state measures. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 25-31 October 2015: Germany/Refugees / Vietnam / Turkey / Syria / MSM / Russia/Syria / NATO
31 October 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Germany Under Migration: Victims of Wars and Free Trade Challenge the Continent (II) 31.10.2015 | 08:01 | Hannes HOFBAUER more Vietnam Surrenders Sovereign Future to Trans-Pacific Partnership 31.10.2015 | 00:08 | Sergei SOLODOVNIK The news about the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, signed by 12 countries in October 2015, was largely Continue reading
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South Africa: Exploding with Rage, Imploding with Self-Doubt—but Exuding Socialist Potential by Patrick Bond
29 October 2015 — Monthly Review South Africa: Exploding with Rage, Imploding with Self-Doubt—but Exuding Socialist Potential by Patrick Bond Patrick Bond is director of the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society and is an advisory board member of Numsa’s Research and Policy Institute. The opinions expressed in this article are his own. The Continue reading
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South African student protesters win first big victory By Patrick Bond
What started with rejection of the statue of a Dutch colonialist in Cape Town fast expanded to nationwide student protests against a racist, colonialist and classist education system that denies many South Africans the right to study. President Zuma finally respondend and turned an intended increase in tution into a 6 per cent cut for… Continue reading
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Media Lens: I would have refused such an order’ – Former RAF Pilot Gives His View Of US Bombing Of MSF Hospital In Kunduz
On October 24, MSF announced that 30 people had now tragically died, up from the initial toll of 22. The humanitarian organisation, also known as Doctors Without Borders, continued to call for an independent international investigation into what it has called a ‘war crime’. Associated Press has just reported new evidence ‘that U.S. forces destroyed… Continue reading
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Kill the Bill!
In just a few hours, the House of Lords could kill off George Osborne’s cuts to tax credits. [1] If he isn’t stopped, the Chancellor’s plans will make life harder for millions of British families with low-paid jobs. Continue reading
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Video: Shutting Down the Rainbow Nation: #FeesMustFall
Students shook the South African nation to its very core this week as protests swept across campuses with the so-called born frees at the helm. “Shutting Down the Rainbow Nation” is a ten minute documentary that captures the energy and heart of the student-led movement, which shut down higher education institutions around the country. It… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 18-24 October 2015
24 October 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation Presstitutes at Their Work 24.10.2015 | 13:52 | Paul Craig ROBERTS The Western media has only two tools. One is the outrageous lie. This overused tool no longer works, except on dumbshit Americans… Continue reading
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The NHS sells you and your soul
This week saw the UK’s largest online pharmacy, Pharmacy2U, fined £130,000 for concealing its sale of names and addresses of NHS patients to quacks and charlatans. Quite literally – the companies who bought patients details were selling “alternative” treatments and lottery scams. Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 21 October 2015: No Change at the 2016 Ballot Box, TFA/BlackLivesMatter's Brittney Packnett's Hollow "Defense"
21 October 2015 — Black Agenda Report Blacks Will Transform America, and Free Themselves, But Not at the Ballot Box in 2016 by BAR executive editor Glen Ford It is paradoxical that African Americans, who politically most resemble the Scandinavian social democrats Bernie Sanders claims to admire, are not supporting Sanders for president. Based on Continue reading
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Media Lens: Sick Sophistry – BBC News On The Afghan Hospital ‘Mistakenly’ Bombed By The United States
One of the defining features of the corporate media is that Western crimes are ignored or downplayed. The US bombing of a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on the night of October 3, is an archetypal example. At least twenty-two people were killed when a United States Air Force AC-130 repeatedly attacked the… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 21, 2015
21 October 2015 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 21, 2015 Why Not Hundreds of Rise Up October Campaigns? When the Rise Up October campaign against police violence arrives in New York City for three days of demonstrations, this weekend, the People’s Organization for Progress (POP), based in Newark, Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 21 October 2015 (23/15): NSA & Europe / Mass Surveillance…
21 October 2015— http://www.statewatch.org/ • e-mail: office@statewatch.org You can also access as a pdf file here: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/oct/e-mail-21-10-15.pdf Continue reading
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Statement by English PEN and Index on Censorship on the government’s counter-extremism strategy
In its new strategy, the government is proposing measures that may criminalise legitimate speech and shrink the space for open debate throughout society. The UK already has legislation dealing with criminal offences in this category, including the Terrorism Act and the Public Order Act, and there is no need for new laws that may seriously… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 11-17 October 2015: Syria / TPP / NATO / Turkey / China / Peru-US / NSA
17 October 2015 — Strategic Culture Foundation European Security at Lowest Ebb: Time to Reverse Trend 17.10.2015 | 00:00 | Andrei AKULOV On October 6, Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Xavier Bettel met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi. Talking about the common enemy of «terrorism and the Islamic State» in Syria, Bettel stressed that the actions Continue reading
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Housmans Expansion Appeal
This November, we’ll be celebrating Housmans Bookshop’s 70th Birthday, and we’d like to say a huge thank you to everybody that has supported us over the years. Housmans is now embarking on an ambitious project to expand the shop into the basement of our building – an area known as The Vaults. Continue reading
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New at Black Agenda Report 14 October 2015: #BlackLivesMatter & Hillary Chat, How to Fight, MMM & Millenials, TFA & Disaster Capitalism
14 October 2015 — Black Agenda Report #BlackLivesMatter: Chat Partners with Hilllary by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The #BlackLivesMatter organization is now part of the 2016 Democratic Party election machinery, assuming its role as a power broker on behalf of Black people. It’s a familiar historical pattern, except for the speed with which the Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 105: MidOctober 2015 – is now on line
13 October 2015 — Coldtype COLDTYPE Issue 105: Mid-October 2015 – is now on line Download and read it – free of charge at www.coldtype.net 64 PAGES of great writing and photography. We’e got two outstanding photo essays for you this month. The first features Syd Shelton’s images from the days of Rock Against Racism, the music industry’s fight Continue reading
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Video: Ayanda Mabulu: The Pornography of Power
13 October 2015 — Youtube Artist Ayanda Mabulu talks about the controversy surrounding his painting after it was removed and then reinstated at the Jo’burg Art Fair. It is an arresting artwork. The artist, Ayanda Mabulu, is sick and tired. In fact at this juncture, he describes his work as having transcended the artistic sphere Continue reading
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The NHS Needs Emergency Funding Now!
It’s official: unless £2bn is urgently given to struggling hospitals, A&E waiting times will go up, cancer treatment will be delayed, and it’ll be impossible for hospitals to provide beds for people in need this winter. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 