26 April 2018 — National Security Archive
CIA nominee supervised detainee torture at Thailand black site,
Drafted cable to destroy videotape evidence,
Helped feed repeated lies about effectiveness of torture to CIA superiors, Congress, two Presidents
26 April 2018 — Organic Consumers Association
[First, a whinge about the the UK environmental movement: It sucks! Organisations like Friends of the Earth (FOE) and Greenpeace with millions in resources can’t even manage a weekly newsletter like this one from OCA, a US-based organisation or another I carry here, Sustainable Pulse. Greenpeace do have RSS feeds but you have hunt around the website to find them and my subscription to FOE has yet to deliver anything. What does it tell us about the state of political involvement here in the UK? WB]
Monsanto is working frantically with its cronies at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to get another 15-year approval for its Roundup weedkiller—before EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt gets fired or Trump is impeached.
26 April 2018 — Media Lens
Jonathan Freedland’s ‘committed denialists and conspiracists’, and Paul Mason’s victims of Putin’s ‘global strategy’ clutching at ‘false flag theories’, presumably include Lord West, former First Sea Lord and Chief of Defence Intelligence. In an interview with the BBC, West commented:
25 April 2018 — Black Agenda Report
– Bruce A. Dixon , BAR managing editor
Democrats allow their left activists out of the hole every 2 or 4 years to campaign for justice at home and peace abroad. Democrats are a party of capital and empire. The Democrat left will be stuffed down a hole afterward till needed next election cycle. Continue reading
25 April 2018 — Media Lens
UK corporate media are under a curious kind of military occupation. Almost all print and broadcast media now employ a number of reporters and commentators who are relentless and determined warmongers. Despite the long, unarguable history of US-UK lying on war, and the catastrophic results, these journalists instantly confirm the veracity of atrocity claims made against Official Enemies, while having little or nothing to say about the proven crimes of the US, UK, Israel and their allies. They shriek with a level of moral outrage from which their own government is forever spared. They laud even the most obviously biased, tinpot sources blaming the ‘Enemy’, while dismissing out of hand the best scientific researchers, investigative journalists and academic sceptics who disagree.
25 April 2018 — Global Research
South Korea Government: “…We Got a Call from Our Next-door Neighbor”By Massoud Nayeri, April 25, 2018
In the last ten days, people around the world have witnessed two different approaches by the different leaders. They saw the uselessness of the forces of war in Syria versus the constructive power of peaceful plans in Koreas – one to increase endless hostilities by military strikes and the other to reduce tensions by compromising and embracing diplomacy. Continue reading
25 April 2018 — Global Research
South Korea Government: “…We Got a Call from Our Next-door Neighbor”By Massoud Nayeri, April 25, 2018
In the last ten days, people around the world have witnessed two different approaches by the different leaders. They saw the uselessness of the forces of war in Syria versus the constructive power of peaceful plans in Koreas – one to increase endless hostilities by military strikes and the other to reduce tensions by compromising and embracing diplomacy. Continue reading
25 April 2018 — Housmans
NEWS
1. Housmans Writer in Residence 2018: Eleanor Penny
2. Marx’s 200th Birthday: conference / shop event / 2nd hand books / tote bag give away
3. Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing Shortlist 2018 + London Radical Bookfair 2018
4. Bank Holiday Closures
The New Dark Age 