November 10, 2017
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UK to ban bee-killing pesticides
Environment Secretary Michael Gove has announced that the UK will back a permanent ban on bee-killing pesticides. Incredibly, more than a million of us have taken part in the campaign to ban bee-killing pesticides from British fields. Here’s just a snapshot of what we, as 38 Degrees-ers, have done together: Continue reading
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US Justice Department Forces RT America To register As “Foreign Agent” — by Trévon Austin
RT, the Russia-based oppositional TV and Internet broadcaster, announced Thursday that the US Department of Justice has forced it to register as a “foreign agent” under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Washington has given the outlet until Monday to register as a foreign agent or its director could be arrested and its assets frozen. Continue reading
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John Pilger – The Power of Documentary – Selected life works at the British Library
John Pilger’s films have been credited with drawing public attention to human rights crises, the impacts of wars and abuses of power by governments and corporations. John will be speaking on both days. Due to demand, tickets are now bookable for single or half days or for the whole weekend Continue reading
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The Link Tax: Last week we said…
Last week we said we only had a few days left to call MEPs responsible for civil liberties before they voted on whether or not to approve content censorship rules, in the name of copyright. Then we found out, with only a few hours notice, that the vote has been postponed to November 20th. At… Continue reading
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‘Inappropriate Behaviour’ – Michael Fallon, Yemen, And The ‘Mainstream’ That Is Anything But
The truth of corporate journalism, and the great irony of its obsession with ‘fake news’, is that it is itself utterly fake. What could be more obviously fake than the idea that Truth can be sold by billionaire-owned media dependent on billionaire-owned advertisers for maximised profit? Continue reading
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NBC News' Breezy Whitewash of White Supremacist Group By Adam Johnson
As FAIR noted last year, the rise of Trump has lead to a corollary rise in softball profiles of the most vulgar, racist extremes of the American far right. For some reason, news managers feel the need to highlight, with little if any criticism or context, pro-Trump extremists who’ve been emboldened by his campaign and… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 9 November 2017
9 November 2017 — Black Agenda Report Those Magical, Fantastical Russians vs. U.S. Empire by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The only people that can make Russiagate fade away are the ones that invented it in the first place: the spooks, Wall Street Democrats and institutional servants of capital that gathered in Hillary Clinton’s overstuffed Continue reading
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MILLIONS AGAINST MONSANTO JUST SAID NO!
On Thursday, November 9, the EU Parliament again failed to agree on whether to allow European farmers to spray glyphosate, the key active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, for another five years. The chemical’s license expires on December 15 (though there’s an additional 18-month grace period). Continue reading
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