June 2017
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Media: To Defeat Transparency, NYPD Turns to Journalist-Turned-Cop-Turned-Journalist-Turned-Cop
Last week, the New York City Council held hearings on proposed legislation calling on the New York Police Department to be more transparent with how they surveil and spy on the public. Police officials, as they often do, proceeded to tell local lawmakers to get lost. Requests for more information and possibly a public comment… Continue reading
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One Brit MEP is trying to stop the ban on dangerous pesticides! Mail your MEP Now!
A single British politician is trying to stop plans to ban bee-killing pesticides from our fields for good. In just 24 hours, some British MEPs – politicians on a powerful European committee – will be asked to reverse plans to permanently ban these dangerous pesticides. But there are hundreds of thousands of us reading this… Continue reading
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Russia Halts Cooperation with US in Syrian Airspace By Stephen Lendman
In response to the US-led coalition downing of a Syrian Su-22 warplane in its own airspace, a lawless aggressive act, Russia’s Defense Ministry issued the following statement Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 20 June 2017
20 June 2017 — Information Clearing House United States Signals Intent to Occupy and Divide Syria By Alex Christoforou The US is supporting Al Qaeda terrorists as a foot soldier proxy army. Continue reading
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Grenfell Tower: A Fireman’s Story
A heartbreaking account of one fireman’s experience inside the inferno that was Grenfell Tower. A must read Continue reading
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Speak up for your Privacy Now!
Theresa May and her Ministers want to bypass encryption and gain real-time access to your text messages and online communications. They even want to force companies like WhatsApp to break the security on its own software, making us all more vulnerable to attacks like the recent ransomware assault against the NHS. Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 19 June 2017
19 June 2017 — Information Clearing House US Shoots Down Syrian Government Aircraft By Peter Symonds The Syrian army said the US is “coordinating” with ISIS. Continue reading
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Media Use Attack on Mosque to Smear Mosque
A 48-year-old white man rammed his van into a crowd of people outside an Islamic welfare center associated with the Finsbury Park Mosque, killing one and injuring up to ten. Immediately, the “context” trolls at major corporate media decided to jump in and began digging up dirt on the victims’ place of worship. Continue reading
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Selected Articles: US International Relations. Washington Is in High Gear
19 June 2017 — Global Research Do not underestimate the capacity of the US to maintain its “superpower” status. It is committed to exhaust whatever means to achieve its ends. From its unsolicited military intervention in Syria to economic sanctions imposed in Russia and Cuba, Global Research brings to your attention the following articles on US international relations. Continue reading
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Education for Tomorrow Summer 2017
19 June 2017 — Education for Tomorrow Summer 2017 – Issue 130 EDUCATION for TOMORROW is produced by people involved with education of like mind most of the time and certainly on all vital matters of education and politics. It does not claim to represent the views of any one political party of the working Continue reading
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Secret Plans to Cut NHS Services! Sign the Petition
The plans – called a “capped expenditure process” – are being finished right now and Vauxhall is in the shortlist of areas which could get the first round of cuts. Because the plans are secret, it’s hard to say exactly which services near you could be at risk. But the scale of the threat is… Continue reading
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Support the Ban on Bee-Killing Pesticides
A historic ban on bee-killing neonics is being proposed in Europe — but the pesticide lobby and its political friends are desperately trying to stop it. Continue reading
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Grenfell Tower: This is what Austerity looks like By William Bowles
If there’s anything that illustrates the murderous endgame of neoliberalism and what it means and does people, this is it! But this is also Baghdad and it’s Damascus and a dozen other places around the globe getting a dose of democracy. Here it’s simple neglect powered by greed but it’s committed by the same governments,… Continue reading
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Video: Syria – US White Phosphorus Bombs Won’t Eradicate Terrorism in Syria
US-backed forces are using tactics that cause a ‘staggering’ number of civilian deaths, but military action won’t defeat ISIS, says Phyllis Bennis, director the New Internationalism Project at IPS Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 16 June 2017
16 June 2017 — Information Clearing House Washington’s War Crimes in Syria By Bill Van Auken War crimes being carried out by Washington threaten to coalesce into a global conflict. Continue reading
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To the Barricades Comrades? By William Bowles
Millions of people put their faith in Jeremy Corbyn. But whether you want it or not, when you get Jeremy Corbyn, you get the Labour Party, the two are joined at the hip. So the question all Labour supporters need to ask is; will a Labour government deliver anything close to Corbyn’s Manifesto, even the… Continue reading
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‘Without Putin, Syria Would Have Ceased to Exist’
16 June 2017 — Global Research UN Last Hurdle Before Israel Can Rid Itself of the Palestinians By Jonathan Cook, June 15, 2017 Israeli and US officials are in the process of jointly pre-empting Donald Trump’s supposed “ultimate deal” to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They hope to demote the Palestinian issue to a footnote in international diplomacy. Continue reading