UK
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Brexit and Britain’s Media Landscape
For a country that prides itself on the acerbic publication, the punchy put down, and balloon piercing irony, the propaganda battles in a changed media scape must have come as a bit of a shock. No part of the country has been exempt from a tide that sees no signs of stopping. Continue reading
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BBC Panorama on anti-semitism: a catalogue of reporting failures
The BBC transmitted an edition of Panorama on 10 July called ‘Is Labour Anti-Semitic?’, presented by John Ware. It contained allegations that senior Labour figures close to Jeremy Corbyn had interfered with the internal investigations process and that the Party was insufficiently committed to tackling anti-semitism within its own ranks. In response, the Labour Party argued that… Continue reading
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A life costs £10,000: how G4S’ Brook House detention contract works
In 2017, security company G4S was in the headlines again after the Panorama TV programme exposed new revelations of brutality in Brook House, one of two immigration detention centres the company runs for the Home Office. Two years later, the National Audit Office has published a report on G4S’ contract to run the centre. Continue reading
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More British complicity exposed in latest ‘CIA Torture Unredacted’ report
The latest report about kidnappings, rendition, ‘black sites’ and torture is a remarkable piece of investigative work. It provides us with nothing less than a litany of shocking evidence and testimony and at 403 pages it makes for truly grim reading. This article is made up of a very brief set of extracts from the… Continue reading
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UK housing crisis: 630,000 young people face homelessness in retirement By Alice Summers
Hundreds of thousands of young people in the UK risk homelessness when they retire because they will be unable to afford skyrocketing private rental costs. Continue reading
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Boris Johnson’s Fake Radicalism
We hear much about Johnson coming to power as an iconoclastic figure willing to cut a swathe through the ranks of the Establishment and especially the Civil Service, aided by blue skies thinker Dominic Cummings. In fact nothing could be further from the truth. There has never been a Prime Minister more entrenched in and… Continue reading
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UK “Up To Its Neck” In RussiaGate Affair, Secret Texts Reveal British Role In Trump Coup Effort
While hysteria raged about possible Russian “interference” in the 2016 US election, British intelligence officials were secretly playing a “key role” in helping instigate investigations into Donald Trump, secret texts have shown. Continue reading
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UK: Over 1,300 homeless people penalised last year under the 1824 Vagrancy Act By Joe Mount
Thousands of people are being prosecuted every year in the UK under the draconian Georgian-era Vagrancy Act 1824. This outlaws begging and rough sleeping “in any deserted or unoccupied building, or in the open air, or under a tent, or in any cart or waggon, not having any visible means of subsistence.” Continue reading
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Bojo Bans the Media
By TruePublica: Blatant state censorship of the media is something we all understand to happen in non-democratic countries around the world. But one of the very last places on earth you would expect the state to fully manage the media, and by manage I mean – gagging, refusing questions and actually banning the filming of… Continue reading
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Blair’s number two, Alastair Campbell, reveals how Corbyn tried to keep him in the Labour Party By Robert Stevens
Alastair Campbell, one of the key figures in Tony Blair’s 1997 Labour government, announced this week he no longer wants to be a member of the party. The sentiment among most Labour Party members was “Good riddance to bad rubbish.” Continue reading
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Boris-Brexit News Links 30-31 July 2019
31 July 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back The Brexit Party got taken down for spreading vicious, racist lies http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/JQ97QpkPHTo/ Today’s Links 31 July 2019 http://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/2019/07/todays-links_31.html Continue reading
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Jeremy Corbyn and the coming to power of Boris Johnson
Johnson heads the most right-wing government in British history, dedicated to a “no deal” exit from the European Union that will have a devastating impact on jobs, wages and working conditions. An old Etonian who cannot conceal his contempt for the “lower orders,” he is despised by millions of British workers. Yet he has now… Continue reading
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Police Data Victims Report: Digital Strip Searches
Our digital footprints can reveal where we have been and when, who we have spoken to, the content of our private conversations and, via our internet history, even some of our innermost thoughts. More and more, such data is being sought in criminal investigations. Continue reading
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Boris Back to the Future – of Victorian Empire and Poverty By Finian Cunningham
The hardline Brexiteer-in-chief says he is going to pull Britain out of the European Union by October 31 – with or without a divorce deal with Brussels. Most likely that means a “hard Brexit” after which Britain is to become a separate nation reliant on trading with the rest of the globe under World Trade… Continue reading
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Mad King Boris News Links 29-30 July 2019
30 July 2019 • 16:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Brexit: Boris Johnson says farms will thrive as PM visits Wales https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-49151870 Johnson urges voters not to back Brexit Party ahead of crunch by-election http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/uFhqzFvhI2E/ Continue reading
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Mad King Boris News Links 28-29 July 2019
29 July 2019 — The New Dark Age One of Boris Johnson’s key donors is linked to an ongoing ‘war crime’ in occupied Palestine BoJo adviser lays down strict ‘no leaks’ policy — but the warning is instantly leaked to media Continue reading
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Life Expectancy Falters in the UK Slow Death but Fast Profits for the Agrochemical Sector By Colin Todhunter
A special report in the Observer newspaper in the UK on 23 June 2019 asked the question: Why is life expectancy faltering? The piece noted that for the first time in 100 years, Britons are dying earlier. The UK now has the worst health trends in Western Europe. Continue reading
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FIRST QUARTER 2019 REPORT ON THE RATES OF TURNOVER, EXPLOITATION AND SURPLUS FOR THE US ECONOMY
28 July 2019 — theplanningmotivedotcom USA first quarter 2019 report pdf (report) GRAPHS rate of exploitation & surplus value (spreadsheet) [I thought the following postscript to the USA first quarter report worth reproducing here. WB] A short note on the UK. “Levelling up” or an unguarded level crossing with a train approaching. As expected Boris Johnson… Continue reading
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Mad King Boris News Links 26-27 July 2019
27 July 2019 — The New Dark Age Boris Johnson plans high speed Northern line to ‘turbo charge’ Richard Branson http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/Pi21SSVIf1s/ Free speech advocate Jacob Rees-Mogg is literally banning his staff using certain words http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/q69Q6pHFz1s/ Continue reading
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Tanker Seizures and the Threat to the Global Economy from Resurgent Imperialism By Craig Murray
The British seizure of the Iranian tanker off Gibraltar was illegal. There is no doubt of that whatsoever. The Iranian response to the seizure of its tanker in the Strait of Gibraltar, by the seizure of a British Tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, was also illegal, though more understandable as a reaction. The implications… Continue reading
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