January 4, 2019
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HOUSMANS NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2019
4 January 2019 — Housmans Books NEWS /ACTIONS 1. A series of new year book sales at Housmans, first one starts Thursday 10th January 2. Self-care as an Act of Warfare: A Black Women’s Reading Group – new monthly group Continue reading
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AI Should Improve Quality of Life, Not Make Capitalists Rich – Lester Earnest on RAI (1-5)
Artificial Intelligence can make the world better or be a tool for war – says Lester Earnest, founder of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at Stanford, on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay Continue reading
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How the US Spent Billions to Change the Outcome of Elections Around the World: A Review By Danny Haiphong
The U.S. military state overthrows democratically-elected governments that it deems to be a threat to corporate interests. Continue reading
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The global slowdown: US trade war comes home By Andre Damon
The term “decoupling,” referring to the severing of trade ties between the United States and China, has, to quote one commentator, become the “talk of Washington.” The two countries are embroiled in what has been widely described as a “new cold war,” in which, in the words of former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, an “iron… Continue reading
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The Not So Special US-UK Relationship By Matthew Jamison
The Anglo-American ‘Special Relationship’ has been known to exist as a close alliance between the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since the days of FDR and Churchill forged during the Second World War. It is called special because of the unique historical and cultural bonds of kinship… Continue reading
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Trump to Europe: You’re Vassals and I Don’t Care
“I don’t care about Europe,” declared US President Donald Trump this week during his White House cabinet’s first meeting of the new year. Continue reading
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Nato is preparing a wave of attacks in Europe
Several sources, situated in different countries are signalling to us that Nato is preparing a wave of attacks in several EU member states. Continue reading
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NHS: Hackers paradise as gov’t centralised health database announced
Here is another public disaster in the making. A disaster because a new NHS patient record system won’t work after billions of desperately needed taxpayer cash is poured down the drain again. A disaster because patient records will be stolen in the same quantities as they are in the USA even if it does work.… Continue reading
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Brexit: London assumes its new colonial policy
The British Government has chosen its post Brexit strategy. On 30 December 2018, the Defence Minister, Gavin Williamson gave an interview to the Sunday Telegraph, in which he denounced what has been the policy since 1956. Continue reading