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Video: Activists Acquitted in Effort to Prevent British Fighter Jet Delivery to Saudi Arabia
A UK court has acquitted two activists for breaking-in to a BAE Systems factory to disarm Typhoon fighter jets meant for the Saudi war on Yemen Continue reading
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Seni’s Law – please share the campaign
This should never have happened. 23-year-old Seni Lewis died in a mental health hospital after being held down by 11 police officers whilst seeking help for his mental health. His death was ruled the result of excessive force, and too often, too much force is used on vulnerable people who are struggling. Continue reading
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Video: Brexittania – Official Trailer
On/off. Yes/no. Leave or Remain? While referenda always divide people, Brexit did so in a manner unprecedented in modern British history: old pitted against young, nationalists against migrants, the countryside against the city, and “the people” against “the elite”. But underneath these binaries we find human beings whose individual stories influenced the outcome of this… Continue reading
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New research on Murdoch's agenda power
In our submission to the phase 2 Fox/Sky merger inquiry we have presented interim findings from new research. This suggests that the Murdoch’s influence over the news agenda may be more extensive than previously thought. The Sky take-over threatens to further consolidate this control over news agendas on every platform – print, television, radio and… Continue reading
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New research on Murdoch’s agenda power
In our submission to the phase 2 Fox/Sky merger inquiry we have presented interim findings from new research. This suggests that the Murdoch’s influence over the news agenda may be more extensive than previously thought. The Sky take-over threatens to further consolidate this control over news agendas on every platform – print, television, radio and… Continue reading
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UK: Privatising Police?
G4S and Serco could be about to get police powers of arrest. They’ve ripped off taxpayers and been accused of abusing people in their care – soon they could be carrying handcuffs and turning up on doorsteps to arrest people. The minister for Justice, David Lidington, is deciding right now whether to give powers of… Continue reading
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Urgent: Universal Credit – Tweet your MP now!
The government will only make big changes to Universal Credit if enough MPs show up to the debate. Please take thirty seconds now to tweet your MP and say that today’s debate needs to be their priority: Continue reading
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Re: The Sky takeover
Rupert Murdoch’s Sky TV takeover is being investigated by an important government watchdog. They’ve been tasked with recommending whether the deal should go ahead. If they come out against it, it throws a huge spanner in Murdoch’s plans. Continue reading
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US-DPRK Relations: The Calm Before the Storm? Selected Articles
14 October 2017 — Global Research North Korea and Trump’s “Reality Free Zone”: Tweeting About Armageddon By Felicity Arbuthnot, October 14, 2017 When US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, stated of North Korea (4th September 2017): “When a rogue regime has a nuclear weapon and an ICBM pointed at you, you do not take steps to lower your… Continue reading
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Liam Fox’s Secret Deals: Sign the Petition
Post-brexit trade deals promise to be even worse than TTIP threatened to be, with the government free to strike secret mega-deals that give corporations what they want. Under current rules, Theresa May’s government has almost unchecked powers to negotiate trade agreements. Incredibly, even MPs are not guaranteed to have a say, let alone you and… Continue reading
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The lawfulness of the drone strike against Sally Jones
As a researcher whose work for the last three and a bit years has been on the lawfulness of drone strikes, the question of whether this strike was lawful or not immediately came to mind. Jones was viewed as a member of ISIS and generally the media has uncritically reported her death, implying an assumption… Continue reading
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Video: Real Media: Rona Fairhead, HSBC and the BBC
Real Media interviews HSBC whistleblower Nicholas Wilson about the UK’s newly appointed International Trade Minister Rona Fairhead and her controversial past as BBC Trust chair and HSBC director (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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After ten years, time to ground Britain’s drones By Chris Cole
This month (October 2017) marks ten years of British Reaper drone operations. Acquired on a temporary basis as an ‘Urgent Operational Capability’, the UK began operating armed drones in Afghanistan in October 2007 after having three delivered directly to Kandahar airport. A decade later the Reapers have been in continuous use and are now deemed… Continue reading
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Britain to Criminalize Reading Online Extremist Content By Stephen Lendman
The latest civil rights abuse came from hardline home secretary Amber Rudd. She’s spearheading a Tory effort to criminalize readership of so-called extremist content online – punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Continue reading
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Video: Real Media: Challenging the Narrative with Grenfell MediaWatch
Toyin and Angie from Grenfell MediaWatch discuss the misleading stories and PR campaigns surrounding the Grenfell Tower disaster, and what justice would look like to them (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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The Rising of Britain’s ‘New Politics’ By John Pilger
Delegates to the recent Labour Party conference in the English seaside town of Brighton seemed not to notice a video playing in the main entrance. The world’s third biggest arms manufacturer, BAe Systems, supplier to Saudi Arabia, was promoting its guns, bombs, missiles, naval ships and fighter aircraft. It seemed a perfidious symbol of a… Continue reading
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Video: Real Media: Property Rights, Deregulation and Think Tanks (2/2)
Open Democracy’s Laurie Macfarlane talks about the UK government’s deregulation strategy and its effects on housing, as well as the influence of think tanks on national debate and an explanation of the ‘positive feedback loop’ Continue reading
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Video: Real Media: The UK Obsession with Property Rights (1/2)
Open Democracy’s Laurie Macfarlane on the recent history of UK property ownership, the obscene rise in property values that is mirrored in rent increases and personal debt, and some possible solutions to consider Continue reading
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Video: Real Media: New Warfare & Transparency
Chris Cole of Drone Wars UK talks about the current state of the technology, the march to lethal autonomous warfare, and the absolute secrecy and lack of democratic scrutiny around the developing drone program Continue reading
The New Dark Age 