December 6, 2018
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Review of ‘The UK border regime’ – a goldmine for activists? By Francis Webber
In the overcrowded market of books on immigration control, Corporate Watch’s 331-page book, The UK border regime: a critical guide, is one which will not only be read, but will be an indispensible resource for activists. My initial doubts that yet another book on immigration could tell me anything new were quickly dispelled: it is… Continue reading
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Problems of Value Production (1) By S. Artesian
In Marx’s analysis the commodity embodies and binds together time and space. The commodity possesses both physical and social characteristics, even if the commodity is provided as a service. The social existence is of time. The commodity circulates on the back of a mule called socially necessary labor time. Continue reading
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IRR News (22 November – 5 December 2018)
6 December 2018 — Institute of Race Relations Weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice As we wait for the jury at Chelmsford Crown Court to deliver a verdict in the Stansted 15 trial, IRR News reports on the worrying escalation in ‘crimes of solidarity’ this year. Liz Fekete and Anya Edmond-Pettitt cover investigations and prosecutions Continue reading
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China’s Golem Babies: There is Another Agenda By F William Engdahl
The shocking news that a team of scientists working in China have managed to gene-edit the DNA of recently-born human twins to allegedly make them genetically immune to a HIV infection is more than bizarre and irresponsible. It suggests that certain researchers are making dangerous experiments to create ultimately the eugenics master dream—custom-designed humans. I… Continue reading
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All US Presidents, Living and Dead, Are War Criminals By Glen Ford
Especially at state funerals, media and politicians pretend that US presidents are honorable men, instead of the mass murderers that all of them become in office. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Limits Of Dissent – Glenn Greenwald And The Guardian
When we think of prisons, we tend to think of Alcatraz, Bang Kwang and Belmarsh with their guard towers, iron bars and concrete. But in his forthcoming book, ’33 Myths of the System’, Darren Allen invites us to imagine a prison with walls made entirely of vacuous guff: ‘Censorship is unnecessary in a system in… Continue reading
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NATO’s Aggression Reaches for Russian Waters By Tony Cartalucci
The intentional provocation executed by Kiev saw three Ukrainian naval vessels seized by Russia. The vessels were intentionally violating protocol for passing through the Strait – protocol previously agreed upon by Kiev and previously observed by Ukrainian naval vessels. Continue reading
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A World First In Citizen Surveillance By The State
By TruePublica: Last month TruePublica reported that the British government were going full Orwellian and was now aiming to create a biometric database on top of its mass data bulk collection through surveillance systems that have been deemed illegal by the highest courts in the UK and EU. However, in Australia – a member of… Continue reading
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The Guardian attack on Assange exposed as politically-motivated fabrication By James Cogan
Last week’s sensationalist allegation by the Guardian newspaper, that WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange met with Paul Manafort, American political lobbyist and one-time campaign manager for Donald Trump, has been exposed as a politically-motivated tissue of lies. Continue reading