October 2, 2017
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Video: Real Media: The UK Obsession with Property Rights (1/2)
Open Democracy’s Laurie Macfarlane on the recent history of UK property ownership, the obscene rise in property values that is mirrored in rent increases and personal debt, and some possible solutions to consider Continue reading
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Housmans Books October 2017 Newsletter
2 October 2017 — Housmans Books NEWS 1. Housmans Peace Diary is now available 2. Special late night openings with 20% discount 3. Anarchist Bookfair + FiLiA (previously Feminism in London) Continue reading
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Audio: Ed Morales on Puerto Rico’s Natural and Unnatural Crises
29 September 2017 — FAIR MP3 Link This week on CounterSpin: As Puerto Rico suffers extraordinary devastation in the wake of Hurricane Maria (and Hurricane Irma), some in the media are asking, “Is Puerto Rico Trump’s Katrina?” Besides viewing the staggering disaster through the lens of Trump’s political fortunes, the question usually turns out to Continue reading
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The future of the EU at stake in Catalonia By Pepe Escobar
Fascist Franco may have been dead for more than four decades, but Spain is still encumbered with his dictatorial corpse. A new paradigm has been coined right inside the lofty European Union, self-described home/patronizing dispenser of human rights to lesser regions across the planet: “In the name of democracy, refrain from voting, or else.” Call… Continue reading
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Video: Puerto Rico's Recovery is a Battle Against Austerity
As the Trump administration touts its relief effort in Puerto Rico as a ‘good news story’ and threatens more austerity, writer Ed Morales argues the island’s devastation is a wake-up call against neoliberal excess Continue reading
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Lest we forget: yesterday alone, 44 airstrikes were conducted by US-led coalition military forces
29 September 2017 — Drone Wars Airwars is a collaborative, not-for-personal-profit project tracking and archiving the international air war against so-called Islamic State and other groups in Iraq, Syria and Libya. As nine Coalition nations are bombing in Syria alone – along with the air forces of Russia, Iran, Israel and the Assad regime – Continue reading
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US Dominated Security Council Tightens Savage Sanctions on North Korea, Intentional Provocations to War By Carla Stea
2 October 2017 — Global Research Rogue States US, UK and France Flaunt Violations of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Introduction On September 24, 2017, The New York Times published the following letter written by Donald P. Gregg, C.I.A. officer in Vietnam, 1970-1973; C.I.A. station chief in Seoul from 1973 to 1975; and U.S. Ambassador to South Korea from Continue reading
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