EXPOSED: A small number of rogue drugs companies are fleecing the NHS out of millions of pounds a year

3 June 2016 — 38 Degrees

EXPOSED: A small number of rogue drugs companies are fleecing the NHS out of millions of pounds a year. [1]

They’re exploiting a loophole that allows them to buy up the rights to everyday medicines, hike up the price, and hold our NHS to ransom. It means our cash-strapped health service is forced to spend millions on overpriced drugs rather than spending it on nurses to care for our families or cancer services to help our friends in need.

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Video: A Moving Image: A Film About Gentrification

3 June 2016 — amovingimagefilm.com

A Multimedia Feature Film about Gentrification in Brixton, South London and beyond.
World Premiere at The LA Film Festival 2016 (World Fiction competition) 5th June 2pm j.mp/ami-la-tickets
Written/Directed by Shola Amoo and Produced by Rienkje Attoh.
Starring Tanya Fear

See also: Gentrification and complicity in South London: an interview with Shola Amoo

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Wall Street Behind Brazil Coup d’Etat By Prof Michel Chossudovsky

3 June 2016 — Global Research

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Wall Street Mastermind Henrique de Campos Meirelles, Interim Minister of Finance

Control over monetary policy and macro-economic reform was the ultimate objective of the Coup d’Etat. The key appointments from Wall Street’s standpoint are the Central Bank, which dominates monetary policy as well as foreign exchange transactions,  the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Brazil (Banco do Brasil). 

On behalf of Wall Street and the “Washington consensus”, the interim post coup “government” of Michel Temer has appointed a former Wall Street CEO (with U.S citizenship) to head the Ministry of Finance. 

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Statewatch: 3 June 2016 : STATEWATCHING EUROPE

3 June 2016 — StatewatchE-mail: office@statewatch.org

European conference marking Statewatch’s anniversary

STATEWATCHING EUROPE
Civil liberties, the state and the European Union
09.45 – 17:00, Saturday 25 June 2016
Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 ( map)

For 25 years Statewatch has been working to publish and promote investigative journalism and critical research in Europe in the fields of the state, justice and home affairs, civil liberties, accountability and openness. We invite you to join us in London on 25 June 2016 at our Conference where there will be:

Workshops and discussions on the refugee crisis in the Med and in the EU; mass surveillance; the EU’s crisis of legitimacy and accountability; the policing of protest and criminalisation of communities; racism, xenophobia and the far right; strategies of resistance and the defence of civil liberties.

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Black Agenda Report for June 3, 2016: Phony War Against ISIS, Who's A Fascist, South African Revolution Continues

3 June 2016 — Black Agenda Report

There is No U.S. War Against ISIS; Instead, Obama is Protecting His “Assets”

by BAR executive editor Glen Ford

Two years ago, President Obama said he had no strategy to combat the Islamic State. The U.S. is still not waging war against ISIS or “jihadists of any brand in Syria.” The international iihadist network is a U.S. imperial asset. “The general aim of the Obama administration’s jihadist policy, now deeply in crisis, is to preserve the Islamic State as a fighting force for deployment under another brand name, under new top leadership.”

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