Capitalism
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The (not so) Secret Tory Plans to Gut the NHS Exposed
BREAKING: our people-powered investigation has uncovered Jeremy Hunt’s secret plans for our NHS. [1] So far, these plans – drawn up for every single area across England – have been kept under wraps. That changes today. Continue reading
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Link Tax: Old Wine now in New Bottle
This is unreal. Yesterday, we asked you to tell the EU Commission to abandon plans for the link tax by sharing hard-hitting social media images. Thanks to you, later the same day, the EU Commission responded to our campaign on Twitter, saying “The @EU_Commission does not have any plans to tax hyperlinks.” But here’s the… Continue reading
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Last Chance to Kill the Link Tax!
The EU Commission are wavering on whether or not to keep going with the link tax. They’ve heard you and thousands of Internet users speak out, and now they have the final decision to make as they write the law -– link tax law, yay or nay? We need you to stop it before it… Continue reading
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Climate justice and the prospect of power By John Riddell
Climate justice activists have not yet found a path to transformational change. That can only emerge from the experiences of all working people here and worldwide, present and past. Continue reading
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‘They Are Incentivized to Arrest People Because It Raises Money’
Donna Murch: “Nearly everyone who’s being arrested or incarcerated is incurring criminal justice debt. And in many states you can be stripped of your right to vote until you pay off all of your criminal justice debt. So I talk about that essentially as a modern day poll tax.” Continue reading
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Felicia Kornbluh on the Politics of Welfare
It was 20 years ago this month that Bill Clinton eliminated the federal guarantee of assistance to poor families. Corporate media played a key role in persuading the public that Aid to Families with Dependent Children—representing less than 1-and-a-half percent of federal outlay from 1964 to 1994—was somehow bleeding the country dry. Continue reading
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GMO: ‘If You’re So Proud of This Technology, Put It on the Label’
Janine Jackson: “Obama Signs Bill Requiring Labeling of GMO Foods” was the headline in the Washington Post. But then why are many of the activists who’ve been fighting for the labeling of genetically engineered foods calling the legislation the DARK Act, for Denying Americans the Right to Know? Continue reading
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Protect our Bees! Email your MP
Breaking: toxic pesticides are killing our bees. That’s the headline that pesticide company bosses have been dreading. And it’s splashed all over the news thanks to new research out today. Continue reading
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America’s “Humanitarian War” against the World: Selected Articles
15 August 2016 — Global Research America’s “Humanitarian War” against the World By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, August 14 2016 We are not dealing with piecemeal military and intelligence operations. Major military and covert intelligence operations are being undertaken simultaneously in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia and the Asia Pacific region. A US-NATO war… Continue reading
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NYT Reveals Think Tank It’s Cited for Years to Be Corrupt Arms Booster
A recent New York Times article (8/7/16) detailed, in often scathing terms, what many media critics already knew: that think tanks are frequently not objective, neutral arbiters of information, but corporate- and government-funded agenda-promoters with an academic veneer to give the appearance of impartiality. Continue reading
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Understanding Transversality: Spain’s Podemos By Juan Antonio Gil de los Santos
When the 15-M movement broke out onto the streets across Spain in 2011, it didn’t coalesce into a series of political parties on either end of the political spectrum. In fact, there was a common declaration that stood out among all of the indignados: “They don’t represent us”. This referred to the “Regime of ‘78”… Continue reading
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Scrap the sale of our medical records!
The government review into the care.data scheme was published earlier this month and it recommended the scheme we fought so hard against be scrapped. This sounds like a victory, but buried in the report is a new worrying scheme to sell our medical records to big corporations. One of the schemes to replace care.data is… Continue reading
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The Neo-Con “West” And Global Destruction. A “New World Order” of Globalized Despair: Selected Articles
29 July 2016 — Global Research The Neo-Con “West” And Global Destruction. A “New World Order” of Globalized Despair By Mark Taliano, July 29 2016 The neo-con “West” and its allies want to destroy the Middle East so that they can control the Middle East. Under the auspices of their imperial “New Middle East” project, the criminals (U.S–led… Continue reading
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Selected Articles: Cults of Security and Terror: Fear Ahead of the Rio Olympic Games By Global Research News
28 Jiuy 2016 — Global Research Cults of Security and Terror: Fear Ahead of the Rio Olympic Games By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 28 2016 The Olympics remains a black hole of needless expenditure, sucking services into it with impending and merciless doom. Unused stadia, tracks left to moulder, services supposedly linked to urban renewal turned into… Continue reading
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Britain’s Scramble For Africa: The New Colonialism By Colin Todhunter
Africa is facing a new and devastating colonial invasion driven by a determination to plunder the natural resources of the continent, especially its strategic energy and mineral resources. That’s the message from a damning new report from War On Want ‘The New Colonialism: Britain’sscramble for Africa’s energy and mineral resources’ that highlights the role of… Continue reading
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Unacceptable Capitalism: Bayer is suing ‘Europe’ for saving the bees
Bayer, BASF and Syngenta are suing the European Commission to overturn a ban on the pesticides that are killing millions of bees around the world. A huge public push won this landmark ban — and we can’t sit back and let Big Pesticide overturn it while the bees vanish. The UN sounded the alarm bells:… Continue reading
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Video: The European Revolt Against the Neoliberal EU (1/2)
Catarina Principe, co-editor of Europe in Revolt, says a left movement against austerity must pursue the restructuring of public debt, nationalization of key sectors, and public control of the banking system, but none of this can be done within the European Union (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Power and the Nuclear Bomb: Conducting Foreign Policy with the Threat of Mass Murder: Selected Articles
21 July 2016 — Global Research Power and the Nuclear Bomb: Conducting Foreign Policy with the Threat of Mass Murder By Colin Todhunter, July 21 2016 “Some fell to the ground and their stomachs already expanded full, burst and organs fell out. Others had skin falling off them and others still were carrying limbs. And one in particular… Continue reading
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Britain Faces the Biggest Crisis of Democracy in its History By Nafeez Ahmed
Britain is now being run by an unelected leader presiding over a draconian surveillance-state, hell-bent on accelerating war on the poor and vulnerable, at home and abroad. And if that wasn’t bad enough, the official opposition to this regime is falling apart. Continue reading
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NYT Lets $27 Million Man Brag About What He’s Doing for Income Inequality
Chase’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, was given prime space on the New York Times‘ op-ed page today (7/12/16) to declare that his bank was doing something about “wage stagnation” and “income inequality” by “giving thousands of employees a raise”. Chase is the largest bank in the United States, and in 2015 it made $23.9 billion in… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 