September 2019
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UK pensioners suffer massive increase in poverty By Thomas Scripps
The proportion of pensioners living in severe poverty, receiving less than 40 percent of median household income, has climbed to five times the level of 1986. This is an increase from 0.9 percent to 5 percent. It is the largest increase among western European countries, taking the UK from one of the lowest rates to… Continue reading
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China News Links 5-6 September 2019
6 September 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Russia, China to discuss foreign media interference in domestic affairs — foreign ministry https://tass.com/world/1076864 The West Oppressed the Third World for so Long That It Became Third World Itself https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/09/06/the-west-oppressed-the-third-world-for-so-long-that-it-became-third-world-itself/ Continue reading
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Brexit/Bojo News Links 6 September 2019
6 September 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back The Sun scores a massive own goal by openly treating its English readers like mugs http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/vliWl4Ggcjc/ As his government falls apart, Johnson chooses to meet an alleged war criminal http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/uwDWuhAOksg/ Continue reading
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What’s Next In Arms Race? Or, The Forms Must Be Obeyed
Daniel Larison arrived three days ago to a conclusion that Donald Trump Doesn’t Know How to Negotiate. Well, we have known that for quite some time now. As Larison notes: Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Headlines 5 September 2019
5 September 2019 — Information Clearing House [Due to some weirdness with ICH’s mailing list, I haven’t been able to get it delivered since 2017, until now! The archives here start in March 2003. WB] Op-Ed Empire USA: Why Washington Won’t Reduce Its Military Footprint By Ted Galen Carpenter U.S. imperialism consists of creating patron-client Continue reading
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Together we can end NHS charging
NHS Charging, data sharing and the broader Hostile Environment are undermining the principles at the heart of our NHS, prioritising immigration enforcement above people’s health and destroying the idea that care should be available to all who need it. Continue reading
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World Systems and Capitalism: Immanuel Wallerstein’s Legacy by Dr Binoy Kampmark
“The dead albatross that hangs around our neck is our legacy of arrogance, racism. And we must struggle to atone, to reconstruct, to create a different historical system.” So wrote the late sociologist and thinker Immanuel Wallerstein in unequivocal tones of repentance on Europe’s legacy, its “oldest disgrace.” Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 5 September 2019: Trump Bombs New Silk Road with Tariffs / Kamala Harris vs Sanders / Foreign Aid for Rwanda, Suffering for Rwandans and Congolese / How Race Made the Opioid Crisis
5 September 2019 — Black Agenda Report Trump Bombs New Silk Road with Tariffs Glen Ford, BAR executive editor The real target of Trump’s trade war is not, primarily, the Chinese, but the U.S.-based corporations that spent the last generation outsourcing manufacturing capacity (jobs) to China. Kamala Harris is the Face of the Democratic Party’s Continue reading
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Last Night in the House… By Philip Roddis
I enjoy schadenfreude as much as the next guy and for the millions of us who detest Boris, last night brought the stuff in spades. I was quite taken by Jeremy Corbyn’s comment. Too much the gentleman to refer to BoJo in person, Jezza’s was as neat a slice of alliteration as you’re likely to… Continue reading
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Cummings and goings – The danger that lies ahead
By TruePublica: Professor Tim Bale, the author of a modern history of the Conservative party said of Dominic Cummings – “This is someone who really believes in what he believes in,” he said. “He believes that what he wants to do will actually improve society. He’s in it for that, rather than any glory or… Continue reading
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Selected Stories: Political Outrage in Britain over No-deal Brexit
5 September 2019 — Global Research UK Parliamentarians Voted to Take Control of the Agenda. Majority UK MPs Oppose Johnson’s No-Deal Brexit By Stephen Lendman They want a measure debated to prevent Britain from leaving the EU without a deal with Brussels — either by the current October 31 deadline or later if it’s extended again. Read more… Continue reading
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Media blacks out Roger Waters’ performance in defence of Assange By Oscar Grenfell
On Monday evening, Roger Waters and John Pilger staged a powerful event in defence of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange outside the British Home Office in central London. Continue reading
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Brexit/Bojo News Links 5 September 2019
5 September 2019 • 14:20 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back UK government papers on suspending parliament could be made public http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/4XX1fBkpjkI/ Boris Johnson’s advice to the Queen over suspension of parliament was ‘unlawful’, judges told http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/0KVUBVJZz7I/ Continue reading
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Brexit/Bojo News Links 3-4 September 2019
4 September 2019 • 22:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Dude, Where’s My Majority? Brexit: MPs back bill to block no deal on first vote https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49580185 ‘Boris knows how to win’: Trump sure of his ‘friend’ Johnson, Continue reading
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DWP Urged To Publish ‘Secret’ Brexit Impact Analysis
By Steven Preece: The SNP has called on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to publish secret analysis that reveals the impact of different Brexit outcomes on poverty levels, wages and low-income households in Scotland and the UK. Continue reading
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What just happened? The death throes of Conservatism
By TruePublica Editor: The United Kingdom, a country once touted as a confident pillar of Western economic and political stability is committing an act of self-immolation in front of an international audience. These are the death throes of Conservatism. Continue reading
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China News Links 4 September 2019
4 September 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Hong Kong leader withdraws extradition bill that sparked protests http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/sVEems0sbSU/ Tensions in Korean-Japanese Relations: the Latest “Reports from the Front” https://journal-neo.org/2019/09/04/tension-in-korean-japanese-relations-the-latest-reports-from-the-front/ Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 3-4 September 2019
4 September 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Imprisoned activist Jeremy Hammond called to testify before US grand jury, most likely against Julian Assange https://williambowles.info/2019/09/04/imprisoned-activist-jeremy-hammond-called-to-testify-before-us-grand-jury-most-likely-against-julian-assange/ ‘Nothing!’ Media refuse to cover Roger Waters concert in support of Julian Assange Continue reading
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Did Trump Tacitly Threaten to Use Biological Weapons to Exterminate 10 Million? By Terje Maloy
“We could win that war so fast if I wanted to kill 10 million people … which I don’t. I’m not looking to kill a big portion of that country [Afghanistan],” — Donald Trump Continue reading
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Confessions of a Digital Gun for Hire
Join us in London to hear a former media strategist versed in the dark arts of media manipulation blow the whistle on trade secrets used in the private sector to engineer fake news and influence the media. Continue reading
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