June 2016
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Brexit, Neoliberalism and the Eurozone: What Is at Stake in the British Referendum By Takis Fotopoulos
The reason the elites are fighting so hard against Brexit is because they know that a victory for Brexit could set in motion a domino effect that could demolish the EU. Continue reading
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Microanalysis of Venezuela (Designed to Fit on a Post-It) By S. Artesian
As in Greece with its “new socialists,” the Bolivarian “revolutonaries” in Venezuela have decided it’s better to starve the people than to repudiate the international debt. Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Fairy Tale Of The ‘Self-Questioning’ BBC
Coverage of Western policy by the BBC is, ‘driven by a crude, skewed “good guy versus bad guy” narrative formula.’ This BBC agenda is shaped by the compelling need of the state broadcaster to serve power. As a result, ‘it has aligned itself with deeply undemocratic, unrepresentative forces and values.’ Continue reading
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Video: Hollande Capitulates to EU Pressure on Labor Laws Risking His Own Presidency
Renaud Lambert of Le Monde Diplomatique says Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, came to France to endorse Hollande and his decree on restrictive labor reforms Continue reading
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Video: Christopher Wright on ‘Facing the Anthropocene’
“In the opening pages, I immediately recognized that here was an author who actually gets what the ‘Anthropocene’ entails both in terms of the physical science and the political economy of our times and conveys this in such a readable and accessible style.” Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for June 15, 2016: Setting Up For Another Regime Change in Africa, Nationwide Prison Strike in September
15 June 2016 — Black Agenda Report U.S. Sets Stage for Libya-Like Regime Change in Eritrea, “Africa’s Cuba” by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The U.S. is moving towards war against Eritrea, a fiercely independent African nation of only six million people. Washington has deployed its UN “human rights” proxies to justify another “humanitarian” military Continue reading
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Protecting Pollinators Around the World
Without pollinators, most plants could not produce fruits and seeds, and agricultural biodiversity would suffer–according to FAO, bees, bats, birds, and other pollinators, increase global food production by 87 percent. Unfortunately, the world is seeing a decline in pollinator populations. From land-use change and pesticide use to monoculture agriculture and climate change, there are numerous… Continue reading
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‘Pharmaceutical Companies Have Pressured Doctors, Suppressed Evidence’
Pharmaceutical companies say they lament the addiction and fatality problems tied to their products, but they also seem determined to resist efforts to address them, suggesting to do so would have to mean taking away relief from people in pain. It’s a medical story, certainly, but it’s also one that calls for following the money,… Continue reading
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Drug Companies are Still Ripping Off the NHS
The scale of the scandal’s only just come to light. An investigation by the Times found that the NHS is paying £85 for a basic skin-care treatment that used to cost just 70p. Price hikes like this one are costing our NHS the equivalent of 7,000 new doctors a year. Continue reading
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Video: Orlando Shooter Proclaimed Allegiance to Rival Terrorist Organizations
14 June 2016 — The Real News Network Vijay Prashad says that terms like “radical jihadist terrorism” explain nothing and only spread fear Continue reading
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When Media Learned Killer’s Ethnicity, Then They Knew to Call It ‘Terrorism’
News coverage over the past 48 hours of the Orlando nightclub attacks has shown how corporate media use specific vocabulary to manipulate public perceptions and perpetuate harmful stereotypes and xenophobia. Continue reading
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When Media Learned Killer's Ethnicity, Then They Knew to Call It 'Terrorism'
News coverage over the past 48 hours of the Orlando nightclub attacks has shown how corporate media use specific vocabulary to manipulate public perceptions and perpetuate harmful stereotypes and xenophobia. Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 120 Mid-June 2016 – is now on line
14 June 2016 — Coldtype Download and read it – free of charge at www.coldtype.net THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE: This issue we focus on some of the big issues that are plaguing American society: Pay inequality at Wal-Mart, inner-city poverty, the arms build-up by school boards, and the continuing executions fiasco. Articles by Chris Hedges, Sarah Lazare, Continue reading
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Historical Documents Withheld Under FOIA’s Sprawling B5 Exemption Could be Freed
Historical documents – like the CIA’s history of the Bay of Pigs invasion — will no longer be able to be hidden under FOIA’s B5 exemption if the President signs FOIA reform passed today by Congress. The bill (S. 337) was introduced by Senators John Cornyn, Chuck Grassley, and Patrick Leahy, in the Senate, and… Continue reading
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FOIA Commands Headlines as Law Approaches 50th Anniversary
Today the National Security Archive celebrates the Freedom of Information Act’s upcoming 50th birthday by highlighting 50 of the year’s biggest news stories made possible by FOIA. The diverse front-page news shows how FOIA can impact human rights, government accountability, and even what you eat. Continue reading
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Last Chance to Save the Link!
There’s only 48 hours left to tell the European Commission not to make link tax laws! These proposals suggest making copyright laws apply to hyperlinks – going as far as suggesting all publishers should have the ability to charge fees to website owners for all the links shared.This is is our best chance to make… Continue reading
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50,000 deaths a year: An “toxic air pollution crisis”: Sign the Petition
A public health emergency: that’s what MPs are calling Britain’s air pollution crisis. Thousands of lives are cut short every year from toxic air polluted with chemicals like nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide. There’s even evidence that it’s permanently damaging our childern’s lungs. Continue reading
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For NYT, Fair Use Depends on Who's Doing the Using
Critics do not generally need to seek permission nor pay royalties for quotations from the works they criticize—the “fair use” provision in copyright law authorizes such quotes for the purposes of commentary and criticism. But the Times, it seems, has a very restrictive view of fair use when it comes to its own material. Continue reading
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Statewatch 10 June 2016: Statewatching Europe Conference, 25 June: Final programme
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. Continue reading
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Exiting the EU By William Bowles
I haven’t written a single word about this non-event, precisely because it is a non event. It’s an artificially created argument, with the mainstream reasoning used on both sides, being equally fallacious. It’s a gigantic deception played out with all the pomp and circumstance of a Royal Wedding. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 