October 5, 2019
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Britain’s Unconvicted Prisoner: Keeping Assange on Lockdown for Neocons in Washington
This article is a second piece focusing on Belmarsh prison, where the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, continues to be arbitrarily detained by the British government. The first part showed how Belmarsh prison has been systematically denying Assange access to justice by restricting all the means through which he could prepare his defence; access to… Continue reading
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The truth about Brexit medicine shortages
Last week, TruePublica published an article entitled – The list of Medicines affected by no-deal Brexit, which was read by over 40,000 readers in 24 hours. We decided not to make an issue of the story and simply published the most comprehensive list of medicines either in short supply, expected to be in short supply… Continue reading
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“Julian has reached a point where he may die”—Assange’s father John Shipton speaks with the WSWS
On Thursday the WSWS met John Shipton, Julian Assange’s father, in Berlin to talk about the condition of his son’s jailing in the maximum security Belmarsh Prison in London. The day before Shipton had given a press conference and addressed the weekly “Candles 4 Assange” rally in Berlin, to inform the public about his son’s… Continue reading
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How Britain keeps people homeless
Almost all two-bedroom homes available for rent across England, Scotland and Wales are too expensive for families on housing benefit, extensive research by the Bureau has found. Our reporters collected the details of more than 62,000 rental listings and found that less than 6% were affordable when mapped against the local housing benefit rates, which have been… Continue reading
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Millions of years of low CO2 … until now By Ian Angus
In Facing the Anthropocene, I showed that CO2 levels are higher than they have been for 800,000 years. New research extends that to 2.6 million years Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Headlines 4-5 October 2019
5 October 2019 — Information Clearing House A father’s grief and the Made in USA cluster bomb dropped in Yemen By Bethan McKernan in Saada US-made bombs rain down on north Yemen with almost total impunity. – Continue ====== Continue reading
The New Dark Age 