April 2016
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‘A Global Industry Is Raiding Treasuries All Over the Planet’
Janine Jackson interviewed James Henry about the Panama Papers for the April 15, 2016, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. “We estimate at least $21 to $32 trillion of offshore financial wealth, most of which is untaxed, and that’s as of 2010, and it’s grown since then. And there’s another $5 trillion,… Continue reading
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A further update
22 April 2016 My previous note was a little premature. Yes, I have added and gone through all the essays but I’ve not checked everyone for links and so forth and searching through each essay and checking links and typos (not that they’re bad necessarily but they may send you to the wrong Website!) is Continue reading
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NHS: Your opt-out finally honoured
On Wednesday, the HSCIC announced that they had received permission from the Secretary of State to finally honour his promise to you. You can opt out of data leaving the HSCIC for purposes beyond your direct care, and that is what happens. When he created the opt out that you took up, NHS England, who… Continue reading
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Best Reasons Ever For Brexit! By S. Artesian
19 April 2016 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor The Financial Times April 18, 2016 Fears over British EU referendum hold back hiring and investment -Uncertainty chills business -Top London Property hit -European groups delay plans Continue reading
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Media Lens: Corbyn’s Millions – Blair’s Millions
While ‘social media’ like Facebook and Twitter are forms of corporate media, it is unarguable that they and other web-based outlets have helped empower a serious challenge to traditional print and broadcast journalism. For the first time in history, uncompromised non-corporate voices are able to instantly challenge the filtered ‘mainstream’ version of events. This certainly… Continue reading
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In the Panama Capers we Trust By Clive Hambidge
Make no mistake it has been a U.S Political chess move, which has led to the leak of the Panama Papers. “11.5 million Documents-or 2.6 terabytes of data” are in the teeth chattering public domain. As we know, relatively few Americans have been named. This is unsurprising as according to a recent article by Liam… Continue reading
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FAIR: An ‘Unqualified’ Success at Media Manipulation
After the Wisconsin loss, the Hillary Clinton campaign went into high gear, sending emails out announcing a new strategy of going negative. The next day, CNN (4/6/16) ran a piece by senior Washington correspondent Jeff Zeleny that began, “Hillary Clinton’s campaign is taking new steps to try and disqualify Bernie Sanders in the eyes of… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Last Chance President – Bernie Sanders And The Corporate Media
The comedian Billy Connolly once observed that politicians aren’t like the rest of us. They don’t look like us, don’t sound like us, and they rarely talk about issues that matter deeply to mere voters. Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 115 April 2016 – is now on line
2 April 2016 — Coldtype Download and read it – free of charge at www.coldtype.net REFUGEES, NOT TERRORISTS – Ben Ehrenreich ventures into the Jungle refugee camp in Calais, France, and finds . . . not terrorists, but troubled people who have fled their homes due to Western-backed aggression. In other, related, essays, Chris Hedges shows how Continue reading
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FAIR: Anonymity in the New York Times: By the Numbers
31 March 2016 — FAIR A new report from FAIR looks at a year’s worth of anonymity in the New York Times, with media critic Reed Richardson taking an in-depth look at how unnamed sources were used in the paper in 2015. His research substantiates that the observation Times public editor Margaret Sullivan made in Continue reading
The New Dark Age 