June 2016
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Another Tamriel is Possible: Brexit Proposals vs Solutions by Elliot Murphy
The mainstream Vote Leave and Britain Stronger in Europe campaigns effectively reduce to a battle internal to the Tory party, and not much else can be gleaned from them with respect to the shortcomings and benefits of the EU, and so a broader perspective is needed at a time when recent Guardian/ICM polls are suggesting… Continue reading
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Lobbyists trying, for the second time to have ban on bee killing pesticides lifted!
BREAKING: last night powerful lobbyists put in yet another application to bring back bee-killing pesticides to our fields. [1] And government advisers will be approving or blocking the application this Tuesday. Continue reading
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Media Lens: How The Press Hides The Global Crimes Of The West: Corporate Media Coverage Of Chad
One of the essential functions of the corporate media is to marginalise or silence acknowledgement of the history – and continuation – of Western imperial aggression. The coverage of the recent sentencing in Senegal of Hissène Habré, the former dictator of Chad, for crimes against humanity, provides a useful case study. Continue reading
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Democracy inaction: How California is being stolen from Sanders right now By Greg Palast
It’s not some grand conspiracy, but it’s grand theft nonetheless. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ voters will lose their ballots, their rights, by the tens of thousands. The steal is baked into the way California handles No Party Preference –”NPP” voters –what we know as “independents.” There are a mind-blowing 4.2million voters in California registered NPP –… Continue reading
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NHS medicines costs ripoff: Email your MP!
Greedy companies are exploiting a loophole that lets them buy the rights to everyday medicines, hike up the price and rip-off our NHS. They’re pocketing millions every year that should be going on patient care. Our people-powered petition hit front page news at the weekend and health minister, Jeremy Hunt, has already been forced to… Continue reading
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Video: Millions Around the World Fleeing from Neoliberal Policy
Economist Michael Hudson says neoliberal policy will pressure U.S. citizens to emigrate, just as it caused millions to leave Russia, the Baltic States, and now Greece in search of a better life (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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We delayed the bee killers but the gangsters never give up!
The powerful lobbyists who want the ban on bee-killing pesticides lifted aren’t giving up. Together, we made sure their first application this year was rejected by the government (hooray!). But they’ve said they’re “committed” to getting a yes from the government. And any new application they make will be kept behind closed doors. Continue reading
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‘GMO Crops Are Tools of a Chemical Agriculture System’
Janine Jackson: Anti-Monsanto rallies in 400 cities in 48 countries around the world failed to draw much US media attention, despite hundreds of thousands of people, from Dhaka to Paris to Cape Town, literally yelling out their opposition to the biotech giant’s products and practices, and the disturbing impact of their increasing control over the… Continue reading
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EXPOSED: A small number of rogue drugs companies are fleecing the NHS out of millions of pounds a year
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… Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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Wall Street Behind Brazil Coup d’Etat By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
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… Continue reading
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Statewatch: 3 June 2016 : STATEWATCHING EUROPE
3 June 2016 — Statewatch • E-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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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Little Ado About Something By S. Artesian
The big worry, apparently, for some socialists in the United Kingdom is that a majority of people in Great Britain might actually vote to leave this confederation of capitalists; this union of exploiters; this common market designed to flatten every particular impediment to the accumulation of capital. Continue reading
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COLDTYPE Issue 119 Mid-May 2016 – is now on line
1 June 2016 — Coldtype Download and read it – free of charge at www.coldtype.net The CHINA SYNDROME: What’s the US playing at with its naval forays into the South China Sea – is a new world war on its agenda? ask John Pilger and Brian Cloughley in this issues cover stories. In other features, Vashti Continue reading
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