Collapse of UK National Health Service threatened as Johnson government readies further onslaught

31 December 2019 — WSWS

By Robert Stevens

The National Health Service (NHS) faces collapse after decades of underfunding, staffing cuts and privatisation.

Even before the onset of the NHS’s now-annual “winter crisis,” a heightened expression of a year-round crisis, senior doctors’ representatives warned that the health service was “on its knees.”

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Iran News Links 26-31 December 2019

31 December 2019 — The New Dark Age

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Washington escalates Mideast war threat with strikes on Iraq, Syria
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/31/iraq-d31.html

The Syrian War: America’s “War on Terror” Exposed
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-syrian-war-americas-war-on-terror.html

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Bolivia News Links 30-31 December 2019

31 December 2019 • 10:30  — The New Dark Age

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Exterminating Angels

Left-wing MAS Leads Voting Intentions In Bolivia
https://popularresistance.org/left-wing-mas-leads-voting-intentions-in-bolivia/

The Coup in Bolivia: Lessons for our Movement
https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/the-coup-in-bolivia-lessons-for-our-movement/

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An Improvisation 2004 – The Andrew Hill Trio

31 December 2019 — Jazz on the Tube

[One of my favourite artists. I actually met him in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1975. WB.]

A dynamic performance by pianist Andrew Hill and his trio

Andrew Hill (1931-2007) was a masterful pianist and a very original composer whose music fell into the avant-garde but was really in its own category.

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