7 September 2017 — Global Research
British Air and Drone Strikes in Iraq and Syria. UK Reaper Drone OpsBy Chris Cole, September 07, 2017
According to the figures, UK armed air missions in Syria rose by 480% in the first half of 2017 compared with the previous six months. Continue reading
8 September 2017 — The Canary
A group of Conservative MPs is using the opening of parliament to try and push through a law to make everyone pay for NHS treatment. The proposed bill, which is already at its second stage in the House of Commons, is part of a handful of draft regulations that right-wing backbenchers would like to see as law.
7 September 2017 — Institute of Race Relations
Written by Colin Prescod and Daniel Renwick
The Grenfell Tower inferno throws up all the contradictions between community self-help and resistance and an uncaring state.
Memorial to the Grenfell victims (Credit: Colin Prescod)
These walls bear witness. ‘Justice’, ‘pity the poor’, ‘fuck the local authority’s Tenants Management Organisation’s, gentrification serving, class-cleansing deception’, they shout. And poignantly, still faintly echoing down the years, from half a century ago, they say, disturbingly, ‘Keep Britain White’.
7 September 2017 — 38 Degrees
Theresa May wants new powers, so she can change UK laws behind closed doors after Brexit. [1] It’d mean swapping murky backroom deals in Brussels for more of the same in Westminster.
Tomorrow her plan will be debated by our MPs for the first time. [2] Some of Theresa May’s own MPs are already speaking out. [3] They’re saying what 38 Degrees-ers have been saying for some time: law changes that effect all of us have to be made the proper way, with debates and votes in Parliament.
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The New Dark Age 