February 2016
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24 February 2016 — HOUSMANS BOOKS NEWSLETTER MARCH 2016
24 February 2016 — Housmans NEWS 1. Housmans Fundraising for Refugees Quiz Night IN-STORE EVENTS 2. ‘Consequences’ with Elizabeth J. Lister and ‘Kissyface’ with Elsa Wallace 3. ‘Being Red: a Politics for the Future’ with Ken Livingstone 4. ‘Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming’ with Andreas Malm and Mika Continue reading
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Washington Asks Moscow: Please Do Not to Bomb American Troops Operating on the Ground in Northern Syria By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Washington’s objective is twofold. First, “officially” it wants to avoid direct military confrontation with Russia as well prevent US casualties. That’s the substance of the official advisory. It is not the main objective. Second: it is using the pretext of avoiding military confrontation with Russia (and US casualties) as a means to restraining Russia’s bombing… Continue reading
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Draft Investigatory Powers Bill: We need to kill it!
A couple of weeks ago we called for the Government to ‘pause, take stock and redraft’ their new surveillance plans following the mauling the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill received at the hands of campaigners, security experts, the tech industry and three cross-party parliamentary committees. We have now heard that the Government plans to publish the… Continue reading
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NYT Contributor Has Multiple Motives for Denying Drone Crimes
Hayden’s op-ed in the NYT is long on fictional accounts of ultra-scrupulous drone planners worrying about striking civilians and completely lacking the real-life incidents where the US has mistakenly targeted weddings and deliberately hit funerals. That’s to be expected when you ask someone who has carried out what the United Nations and other international law… Continue reading
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Statewatch: Greece: NGO/volunteers helping refugees to be placed under state control (05/16)
22 February 2016 — Statewatch Statewatch monitoring the state and civil liberties: 8 February 2016 (05/16) NGOs and volunteers helping refugees in Greece to be placed under state control: View as pdf: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/feb/greece-state-control-ngos.pdf – only in the Soviet Union and under the STASI in East Germany were NGOs expected to hand over lists and personal Continue reading
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The Syria Proxy War against the Islamic State (ISIS) Has Reached its Climax. Military Escalation, Towards a US-NATO Sponsored Ground Invasion? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Reports confirm that the US-NATO sponsored terrorists supported by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, et al have in large part been defeated. Are they be replaced by conventional Saudi, Turkish forces, coupled with more US-NATO special forces which are already on the ground inside Syria? Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 112 Mid-February 2016 – is now on line
10 February 2016 — Coldtype COLDTYPE Issue 112 Mid-February 2016 – is now on line Download and read it – free of charge at www.coldtype.net GO TO HELL! Does political correctness trump free speech? John W. Whitehead says not, and explains why society needs to be more tolerant of hateful words and bullying. Other top stories include Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 25 February 2016: Bogus Power of the Black Vote, Obama Forever, DeRay, Beyonce
25 February 2016 — Black Agenda Report The Bogus Power of the Black Vote Within the Confines of the Democratic Party By Glen Ford by BAR executive editor Glen Ford “Black Power” has been turned on its head on the electoral front, put at the service of corporatists like Hillary Clinton. “Paralyzed by fear of the White Continue reading
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Sanders a Bourgeois Deviationist, Washington Post Declares By Jim Naureckas
Last month, before Sanders nearly tied Hillary Clinton in Iowa and beat her by 22 percentage points in New Hampshire—which clearly has Milbank worried that maybe Democrats are insane enough to nominate a socialist, after all. So now Sanders’ problem isn’t that he’s too radical; it’s that he’s not radical enough. Continue reading
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Statewatch: Looking for a new home: 7,000 JHA documents (04/16)
Our archive of 7,000+ paper documents on EU justice and home affairs policy needs a new home. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Rebranding The Conquistadors As Social Justice Warriors – The Guardian, Corporate Sponsorship And ‘Branded Content’
From the moment Jeremy Corbyn stood as prospective Labour leader, the Guardian has waged a relentless campaign to destroy this rare shoot of progressive hope. The paper has backed away from the truth about state and corporate power fuelling yet more catastrophic climate change. It has failed to fully and consistently expose the corporate basis… Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #143 By William Blum: Is Bernie Sanders a socialist?
“Self-described socialist” … How many times have we all read that term in regard to Vermont senator Bernie Sanders? But is he really a socialist? Or is he a “social democrat”, which is what he’d be called in Europe? Or is he a “democratic socialist”, which is the American party he has been a member… Continue reading
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Video: UK Rejects UN Ruling that Assange Detention Is Illegal
After the UN finds Assange to be arbitrarily detained, Assange attorney Carey Shenkman explains how the UK is undermining the authority of the UN while simultaneously relying on it to release detained UK citizens Continue reading
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Pambazuka News 760 4 February 2016: Brutal invasions: War, trade and Orwellian terror (Pambazuka Editor)
4 February 2016 — Pambazuka News Pambazuka News 760: Brutal invasions: War, trade and Orwellian terror (Pambazuka Editor) AFRICAN UNION REFUSES TO INVADE BURUNDI *Ann Garrison* <http://www.pambazuka.net/en/category.php/features/96536/> How serious is the political crisis in Burundi to warrant international armed intervention? Despite pressure from the West, the African Union last week decided not to send troops Continue reading
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Fracked Up! Unless we stop them
The government’s plans on fracking have been exposed. It’s been leaked that they’re trying to change the law so dirty energy companies can drill for gas in our countryside – regardless of what local communities want. Continue reading
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HOUSMANS RADICAL BOOKS NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 2016
1 February 2016 — Housmans NEWS 1. Ongoing Sale! IN-STORE EVENTS 2. Anarchist Federation present: ‘Revolutionary Women’ with Nick Heath 3. ‘The Hammer Blow – how 10 women disarmed a warplane’ with Andrea Needham 4. ‘The Influencing Machine’ with Mike Jay 5. KEY CONCEPTS SERIES: ‘Postanarchism’ with Saul Newman 6. LGBT HISTORY MONTH BOOK LAUNCHES ‘Consequences’ Continue reading
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Mosquito Blowback? GM mosquito source of Zika Virus?
Here are eight stories on the Zika virus now ravaging Brazil. Four investigate a possible link between the outbreak and the introduction of genetically modified mosquitos to Brazil, and four, all from the mainstream/corporate press, take the complete opposite position, claiming that the introduction of yet more genetically modified mozzies can save the situation! Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 1 February 2016 (03/16): Refugees: EU plans to criminalise volunteers – in Greece NGOs and volunteers have to “register” with the police
1 February 2016 — Statewatch Statewatch News Online, 1 February 2016 (03/16) Web link to this story: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2016/jan/eu-med-crisis-criminalising-civil-society.htm Refugee crisis: Council proposals on migrant smuggling would criminalise humanitarian assistance by civil society, local people and volunteers and in Greece: NGOs and volunteers have to “register” with the police and be vetted Continue reading
The New Dark Age 