June 1, 2017
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Video: UK Election Polls Tighten to Three Points Between May and Corbyn
Tom Barlow, co-founder of Real Media, talks about how Britain’s June 8 general election race is tightening between Labour and Tories and how the mainstream British media is losing credibility in the process (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Terror in Britain: What Did the Prime Minister Know? By John Pilger
The unsayable in Britain’s general election campaign is this. The causes of the Manchester atrocity, in which 22 mostly young people were murdered by a jihadist, are being suppressed to protect the secrets of British foreign policy. Critical questions – such as why the security service MI5 maintained terrorist “assets” in Manchester and why the… Continue reading
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Death of a nation: Biafra and the Nigerian question By Chido Onumah
Nigeria began to unravel 50 years ago, on 27 May 1967. Since then, successive governments have failed to forge a nation out of what was left behind by the British colonialists. Nigeria works for only a small part of the population. The rest are largely on their own. There have been calls – and attempts… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Blowback – Manchester and the Libya Connection
In the wake of yet another horrendous atrocity, this time in Manchester claiming 23 lives, ‘respectable’ media once again refused to seriously discuss the extent to which violent attacks against ‘us’ are linked to ‘our’ violent attacks against ‘them’. Instead, howls of disgust typically arise when anyone mentions terms like ‘blowback’ and ‘reaping the whirlwind’. Continue reading
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Barry Commoner: Radical father of modern environmentalism
Described in 1970 by Time magazine as the “Paul Revere of ecology,” Commoner followed Rachel Carson as America’s most prominent modern environmentalist. But unlike Carson, Commoner viewed the environmental crisis as a symptom of a fundamentally flawed economic and social system. Continue reading
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Last ditch effort to save the Link Tax!
MEP Pascal Arimont tabled a series of amendments with the worst copyright proposals this debate has yet seen — including suggestions that would double the negative impact of the link tax, and drastically expand the scope of the content filtering censorship machine. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 