28 February 2017 — The Real News Network
Trump’s infrastructure plan will privatize all the benefits for the financiers and make sure that the population at large gets zero benefit from it while paying the costs, says economist Michael Hudson (inc. Transcript)
28 February 2017 — The Real News Network
Michael Hudson, author of the newly released ‘J is for Junk Economics,’ says the media and academia use well-crafted euphemisms to conceal how the economy really works (inc. transcript)
27 February 2017 — Statewatch
ANALYSIS & BRIEFING
http://www.statewatch.org/analyses.htm
1. Analysis: Opaque and unaccountable: Frontex Operation Hera
2. EU: Briefing: EU-wide biometric databases, “soft targets”, cybersecurity and data protection: Commission’s 4th report on building the ‘Security Union
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28 February 2017 — Housmans
NEWS
1. Confronting Rape Culture workshops at Housmans
2. Poet In Residence: Siana Bangura
3. Spark! 1917-2017 Russian Revolution Centenary event in Brixton
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28 February 2017 — FAIR
For almost two years, the United States has backed—with weapons, logistics and political support—a Saudi-led war in Yemen that has left over 10,000 dead, 40,000 wounded, 2.5 million internally displaced, 2.2 million children suffering from malnutrition and over 90 percent of civilians in need of humanitarian aid.
27 February 2017 — Information Clearing House
Military Industrial Complex Wins
White House Calls for $54B Bump in “Defense” Spending, Sharp Domestic Cuts
By Alex Guillén, Sarah Ferris and Jeremy Herb
Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney called it one of the “largest increases in history.”
27 February 2017 — Moon Of Alabama
Hollywood is all about fake. That is what movies are – fake depictions of a fake reality that only exist in the mind of scriptwriters, directors and a usually gullible audience. (Disclosure: I do like some movies.)
Hollywood has never been shy of plagiarizing. Every idea, tale of cinematographic trick that made a splash somewhere – and is thereby a potential money generator – will get copied again and again. Every successful make gets a remake. And another one. Continue reading
27 February 2017 — Global Research
And the Oscar for Best Documentary Short goes to…”ISIS – Al Qaeda”
By Alex Christoforou, Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett, and Patrick Henningsen, February 27 2017
It should come as no surprise that a film celebrating the White Helmets scooped up an Oscar for best short documentary. Might as well hand the Oscar to ISIS leader Ab? Bakr al-Baghdadi. Far from a humanitarian organisation, the White Helmets are an Al Qaeda staffed propaganda group that is embedded with brutal jihadists looking to overthrow the sovereign government of Syria.
The New Dark Age 