September 15, 2017
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Murdoch-Owned Media’s Radical Climate Denial in the Face of Disaster
Outlets owned by Murdoch’s umbrella corporations, News Corp and 21st Century Fox, clearly led the denialist camp. These firms constitute the core propaganda machine of the right in the English-speaking world, with the highest-rated cable news network (Fox News) and the first and sixth biggest-circulation newspapers (Wall Street Journal, New York Post) in the United… Continue reading
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Murdoch-Owned Media's Radical Climate Denial in the Face of Disaster
Outlets owned by Murdoch’s umbrella corporations, News Corp and 21st Century Fox, clearly led the denialist camp. These firms constitute the core propaganda machine of the right in the English-speaking world, with the highest-rated cable news network (Fox News) and the first and sixth biggest-circulation newspapers (Wall Street Journal, New York Post) in the United… Continue reading
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Video: UK Parliament 'Beheads Democracy' With EU Exit Bill
Public interest organisations and opposition leaders slammed the EU Withdrawal Bill as the biggest threat to parliamentary democracy in decades, explains journalist Steve Topple (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Video: UK Parliament ‘Beheads Democracy’ With EU Exit Bill
Public interest organisations and opposition leaders slammed the EU Withdrawal Bill as the biggest threat to parliamentary democracy in decades, explains journalist Steve Topple (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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NSA: Trump Hides Mar-a-Lago Records
Washington, D.C., September 15, 2017 – The Department of Homeland Security today released exactly two pages of Mar-a-Lago presidential visitor records in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit brought by the National Security Archive, together with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in… Continue reading
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Video: 15th London African Music Festival presents: LEKAN BABALOLA’S SACRED FUNK
15 September 2017 — Vortex Jazz Club 28 September 2017 – Book Online Twice Grammy award winning Nigerian percussionist Lekan Babalola is well known for his innovative musical style, using his native Yoruba tongue infused with traditional music, Afrobeat and funky dance overtones. Awarded his first Grammy in 2006 for performances on the late Ali Continue reading
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Video: Public Sector Pay: Theresa May doesn’t want you to see this…
Will Theresa May pay our nurses, firefighters and police properly? The public sector pay cap has been all over the news this week: there’s been announcements, votes, and talks of strikes. [1] But what’s actually been decided? Watch this video to find out, then share with your friends so everyone knows! Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 14 September 2017
14 September 2017 — Black Agenda Report Neil deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye on GMOs. It’s About Class Rule Not the Shiny Tool Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor Science educators Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye think that trusting our genetic futures to the profiteering manipulators of corporate GMO technology is a good Continue reading
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Syria Summary – A New Clash Looms in Syria’s East By Moon of Alabama
14 September 2017 — Moon of Alabama When the Islamic State siege on Deir Ezzor was broken by the Syrian Arab Army we asked: Will the SAA cross the Euphrates at Deir Ezzor to retake the valuable oilfields east of it? Or will it stay south of the river and leave those oil fields to Continue reading