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
Day: January 4, 2019
AI Should Improve Quality of Life, Not Make Capitalists Rich – Lester Earnest on RAI (1-5)
4 December 2019 — TRNN
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
How the US Spent Billions to Change the Outcome of Elections Around the World: A Review By Danny Haiphong
3 January 2019 — Black Agenda Report
The U.S. military state overthrows democratically-elected governments that it deems to be a threat to corporate interests.
“There is plenty of evidence that the United States is the most depraved and dangerous “meddler” in the affairs of other nations that history has ever known.”
The global slowdown: US trade war comes home By Andre Damon
4 January 2019 — WSWS
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 curtain” has descended over the Pacific.
The Not So Special US-UK Relationship By Matthew Jamison
4 January 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
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 that unite the American and British peoples through a perceived shared heritage, common political/social/economic values and language. Together over the course of 72 years it has been the White House with the support of 10 Downing Street as its principal strategic leading ally in Europe.
Trump to Europe: You’re Vassals and I Don’t Care
4 January 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
“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.
The American president probably revealed more about the true nature of US-European relations than he intended.
Nato is preparing a wave of attacks in Europe
4 January 2019 — Voltaire Network
Several sources, situated in different countries are signalling to us that Nato is preparing a wave of attacks in several EU member states.
NHS: Hackers paradise as gov’t centralised health database announced
4 January 2019 — True Publica
By TruePublica: 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. A disaster because cyber-criminals will blackmail individuals with stolen health data. A disaster because the expected rise of private healthcare insurance will determine who gets cover and at what price. A disaster because the government will add patient data to its new centralised biometric database without anyone’s consent.
Brexit: London assumes its new colonial policy
4 January 2019 — Voltaire Network
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.
The New Dark Age 