November 30, 2017
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HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2017
30 November 2017 — Housmans Bookshop NEWS 1. Late night openings 2. Housmans Peace Diary 3. 1 Day Without Us – National Day of Action – 7th February 2018 Continue reading
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Monsanto: Out of Control
“Corporate-Spun Science Should Not Be Guiding Policy,” Gillam lays out all ways corporate-spun science is spinning out of control—and threatening public health. (News update: This week the EU voted to allow the use of Roundup for another five years—not the 15 years Monsanto wanted, but more than the three years some countries favored. France just… Continue reading
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Video Preview: #stopmurdoch Sky Takeover
30 November 2017 — CPBF The #stopmurdoch video is being crowdfunded and this is a preview and an opportunity to fund it. The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom One of CPBF’s aims is to: ‘To challenge the myth that press freedom is best served by current forms of ownership and control, and by ‘self-regulation’ Continue reading
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Backlash Against Russian ‘Fake News’ Is Shutting Down Debate for Real By Robin Andersen
A few days before the Halloween hearings held by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, where powerful tech companies would provide testimony about their roles disseminating “fake news” during the 2016 election, Twitter announced it would no longer accept advertising from the Russian government-sponsored broadcast channel Russia Today (RT), or the state-owned Sputnik. Continue reading