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Speak up for your Privacy Now!
Theresa May and her Ministers want to bypass encryption and gain real-time access to your text messages and online communications. They even want to force companies like WhatsApp to break the security on its own software, making us all more vulnerable to attacks like the recent ransomware assault against the NHS. Continue reading
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Media Use Attack on Mosque to Smear Mosque
A 48-year-old white man rammed his van into a crowd of people outside an Islamic welfare center associated with the Finsbury Park Mosque, killing one and injuring up to ten. Immediately, the “context” trolls at major corporate media decided to jump in and began digging up dirt on the victims’ place of worship. Continue reading
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Education for Tomorrow Summer 2017
19 June 2017 — Education for Tomorrow Summer 2017 – Issue 130 EDUCATION for TOMORROW is produced by people involved with education of like mind most of the time and certainly on all vital matters of education and politics. It does not claim to represent the views of any one political party of the working… Continue reading
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Secret Plans to Cut NHS Services! Sign the Petition
The plans – called a “capped expenditure process” – are being finished right now and Vauxhall is in the shortlist of areas which could get the first round of cuts. Because the plans are secret, it’s hard to say exactly which services near you could be at risk. But the scale of the threat is… Continue reading
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Video: What can the Left Learn from Corbyn’s Stunning Election Performance?
14 June 2017 — TRNN Former Sanders Campaign digital organizer Claire Sandberg speaks to the Real News after spending the past month working in the UK to defeat Theresa May (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Video: What can the Left Learn from Corbyn's Stunning Election Performance?
14 June 2017 — TRNN Former Sanders Campaign digital organizer Claire Sandberg speaks to the Real News after spending the past month working in the UK to defeat Theresa May (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 14 June 2017 (07/17)
14 June 2017 — Statewatch.org/ Also available as a pdf file: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2017/jun/email-jun-17.pdf ANALYSIS & VIEWPOINT http://www.statewatch.org/analyses.htm 1. Counter-terrorism and the inflation of EU databases 2. Who drives EU counter-terrorism? 3. Germany: Almost suspicious: the unbearable lightness of legislation 4. Viewpoint: Egypt: Europe’s other north African border Continue reading
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MAYfly, Brexit, the Economy and the SWP
Theresa May claimed that she called the election having been inspired to do so while on a walk. This fairy tale, like the election, lies in ruins. As the Tory hierarchy fall out and individuals try to duck blame, the ugly truth is dribbling out of fiery arguments between those who saw the advantages of… Continue reading
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Video: Corbyn Lost Labour Party Elites, But Won Over Voters
“Corbyn has proven that there is a way forward for the Labour Party,” says Leo Panitch, a professor at York University–but it isn’t the future the Blairites envisioned (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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UK: Labour’s manifesto amended to stress commitment to militarism and war By Robert Stevens
19 May 2017 — WSWS Tuesday saw the official launch of the Labour Party’s manifesto for the June 8 snap General Election. The manifesto contained a number of highly significant amendments from the draft version leaked just days earlier. The draft, produced by the team around Labour’s nominally left leader Jeremy Corbyn, was subject to… Continue reading
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‘A matter of life or death’
8 June 2017 — notsoloonyleft I said that this election was a matter of life and death to someone the other day. I was accused of being over dramatic. I thought for a moment am I? Am I making everything more important that it really is? Continue reading
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Democratize This By Michal Rozworski
4 June 2017 — Jacobin Labour’s plans to pursue democratic models of ownership are the most radical aspect of Corbyn’s program. So much about the 2017 Labour election campaign has been heartening: the energy, the conviction, the full-throated embrace of remaking government in the service of the many. Continue reading
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Video: UK Election Polls: Can Corbyn Win?
Opinion polls for the June 8 UK General Election indicate an increasingly tight race between Labour and Conservatives, but most still give Conservative Theresa May an advantage, despite May’s weaknesses as Prime Minister, says Real Media’s Thomas Barlow Continue reading
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Video: Theresa May Blames ‘Tolerance of Extremism,’ But UK Gov’t Policies Help Extremists
In the aftermath of recent terror attacks, British Prime Minister Theresa May says the British people have “far too much tolerance of extremism.” But award-winning investigative journalist Nafeez Ahmed says British government policies benefit extremists and endanger civilians Continue reading
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UK Elections: Corbyn or May? Selected Articles
5 June 2017 — Global Research The general election in the UK is due on Thursday, June 8. Apparently, a series of “terrorist” attacks garnered attention not just domestically but more so internationally. Are these purported “terrorist” attacks part of a bigger political agenda? Read the insightful articles below to gain perspective. “We are now days away from one… Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘The BBC Has Betrayed Its Own Rules Of Impartiality’: Yemen, Saudi Arabia And The General Election
Theresa May’s support for the Saudi regime, have gone essentially unexamined by the BBC. And yet, when BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg responded to Corbyn’s manifesto launch, her subtle use of insidious language betrayed an inherent bias against Corbyn and his policies on foreign affairs. She wrote: ‘rather than scramble to cover up his past… Continue reading
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Video: Theresa May in Election Jitters Caught Lying About Tory Plans to Cut The National Health Service
2 June 2017 — TRNN Kam Sandhu of Real Media says there is evidence that Tories plan to sell off assets to service NHS; this is the first sign of distress and it will lead to privatization Kam Sandhu is a journalist and the co-founder of the UK-based Real Media. (inc. transcript.) Continue reading
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Video: UK Election Polls Tighten to Three Points Between May and Corbyn
Tom Barlow, co-founder of Real Media, talks about how Britain’s June 8 general election race is tightening between Labour and Tories and how the mainstream British media is losing credibility in the process (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Terror in Britain: What Did the Prime Minister Know? By John Pilger
The unsayable in Britain’s general election campaign is this. The causes of the Manchester atrocity, in which 22 mostly young people were murdered by a jihadist, are being suppressed to protect the secrets of British foreign policy. Critical questions – such as why the security service MI5 maintained terrorist “assets” in Manchester and why the… Continue reading
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The Manchester Saga: Cui Bono? Selected Articles
31 May 2017 — Global Research In the quest for truth and the zest of bringing it out, Global Research introduces to you a number of incisive articles on the Manchester terror attack. Unspoken questions should now be answered. According to John Pilger, information is being “suppressed to protect the secrets of British foreign policy”. In the words of… Continue reading
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