April 9, 2020
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Cosmic Gangster Capitalism: Elon Musk Crowds the Heavens
Astronomers tend to have their eyes, and minds, not merely in the clouds but beyond them. The dream of unimpaired vision tends to come with the territory; the better the uninterrupted line, the better the data. But the increasing incidence of clutter above the earth’s surface is becoming more than a point of minor interest. … Continue reading
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IRR News (25 March – 8 April 2020)
9 April 2020 — Institute of Race Relations weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice The consequences of Covid-19 are not indiscriminate. In addition to doctors and nurses, low paid members of the workforce – bus drivers, care-home workers, hospital staff, retail and delivery workers– are on the frontlines and are more likely to catch the disease Continue reading
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Spycops campaign update, April 2020
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC – the successor to the Independent Police Complaints Commission) has found that the Met has been destroying spycops files. Continue reading
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Femicide Does Not Respect the Quarantine: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2020)
Days, weeks, months, an indeterminate amount of time as the world seems paralysed by the journey of SARS-CoV-2. The lack of certainty increases the anxiety. This virus, as Arundhati Roy writes, ‘seeks proliferation, not profit, and has, therefore, inadvertently, to some extent, reversed the direction of the flow [of capital]. It has mocked immigration controls,… Continue reading
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THE DIRTY WAR ON THE NHS RELEASED BY UK CINEMAS FOR STREAMING FROM 13 APRIL
Next week Curzon Home Cinema will be streaming John Pilger’s film The Dirty War on the NHS, which was first released last December. This re-release could not be more timely. The government is telling us to stay at home and “protect the NHS”. John’s film spells out the reason why the NHS might be overwhelmed… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 