30 October 2020 — DeSmog UK
Five years ago this month, the UK took a step to cut back plastic use, slapping a 5p charge on plastic carrier bags. Two years later, Kenya did the same.
The East African country has since gone one further, celebrating this year’s World Environment Day in June by banning single-use plastic in all beaches, forests and conservation areas. Continue reading
27 October 2020 — Voltaire Network
by Thierry Meyssan
The French were stunned to learn that their government considers a public order measure, a curfew, to be effective in preventing an epidemic. Everyone, having understood that no virus breaks according to schedules set by decree, and given the many previous mistakes, asks the angry question: A curfew for what?
President Emmanuel Macron had chosen the star journalists of France2 and TF1, Anne-Sophie Lapix and Gilles Bouleau, to interview him on the Covid-19 epidemic. He announced a curfew to them as a health measure.
30 October 2020 — Middle East Eye
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and current leader Keir Starmer during a general election campaign meeting in Harlow, UK on 5 November 2019 (Reuters)
It’s 35 years since Neil Kinnock established his reputation as Labour opposition leader with his blistering attack on Derek Hatton and the Militant
30 October 2020 — World Beyond War
“You say you’re against war, but what’s the alternative?”
The Fifth Edition of A Global Security System: An Alternative to War (AGSS) is now available!
AGSS is World BEYOND War’s blueprint for an alternative security system – one in which peace is pursued by peaceful means.
30 October 2020 — Daily Maverick
‘Zombie’ by Fela Kuti – Cover by Lemi Ghariokwu (Composite image design by Marushka Stipinovich for Maverick Life)
By Lusanda Luthuli
They worked together, weaving powerful art and music on 26 album covers, all of which explode with colours and striking imagery. Continue reading
30 October 2020 — Drone Wars
Here’s a recording of the webinar to mark our 10th anniversary ‘Drone Warfare: Today, Tomorrow, Forever?’
The event featured:
29 October 2020 — Craig Murray
Today, nothing is more important than to say that we will not be silent on the dreadful oppression of the Palestinian people; the daily beatings, killings, humiliations, demolitions, expropriations and destruction of groves that are the concomitant of Israeli illegal occupation.
The New Dark Age 