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Information tribunal dismisses Drone Wars appeal over British drone secrecy By Chris Cole
An information tribunal has upheld the MoD’s decision to refuse to release the number of British armed drones deployed against ISIS and their location, despite such information being released by the UK about its ‘manned’ aircraft. Continue reading
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1953 Iran Coup: New U.S. Documents Confirm British Approached U.S. in Late 1952 About Ousting Mosaddeq
Washington, D.C., August 8, 2017 – The British Foreign Office approached the Truman administration on more than one occasion in late 1952 to propose a coup to overthrow Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, according to freshly declassified State Department documents. Posted today for the first time, two previously Top-Secret memoranda from senior officials at State… Continue reading
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Video: Real Media: The Special Relationship Between UK and Saudi Arabia
6 July 2017 — TRNN Adam Smith of Campaign Against the Arms Trade calls for a judicial review of the UK government’s continued approval of arms sales to Saudi Arabia. (Inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Video: Grenfell Tower and the Violence of Austerity
TRNN’s Mohamed Elmaazi speaks with attendees of the University of London’s panel discussion on the “Grenfell Tower Fire: The Avoidable Tragedy,” examining the political, social and economic environments in which the the fire occurred Continue reading
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New research shows irreversible changes in England in the Anthropocene
Scientists find irreversible changes that have no precedent in the 4.54 billion years of Earth history, caused by new human-made materials. Concrete structures forming a new, human-made rock type; ash particles in the landscape; and plastic debris are just a few of the new materials irreversibly changing England’s landscape and providing evidence of the effects… Continue reading
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Video: A Chilling effect on the right to protest
27 July 2017 — The Canary Watch the shocking film that shows how low the police will go to protect the interests of big business A new film released by the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) reveals the lengths to which the police are prepared to go in preventing protest; and how far they are… Continue reading
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medConfidential Summer Roundup, 21st July 2017
21 July 2017 — medConfidential A longer version of this newsletter is available on our website. Before everyone starts their summer, here are a few ‘tied-up loose ends’ that had previously been left dangling. Continue reading
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Video: Local Community ‘Put Their Bodies On the Line’ to Protest UK Fracking Site
Anti-fracking activists have joined the local community in Lancashire for a ‘rolling resistance’ month of direct action protests, after the UK government overruled the local government’s ban on fracking (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Video: Local Community 'Put Their Bodies On the Line' to Protest UK Fracking Site
Anti-fracking activists have joined the local community in Lancashire for a ‘rolling resistance’ month of direct action protests, after the UK government overruled the local government’s ban on fracking (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Yemen – Court Battle Exposes UK – Saudi Arms Trade. A Marriage Made in Hell. By Felicity Arbuthnot
Anyone following the cataclysmic devastation of Yemen would think it was a million to one that the £3.3Billion worth of arms sold by the UK to Saudi in just two years, had not been used to kill civilians, bomb hospitals, schools, markets, mosques, decimate vital and economic infrastructure and all necessary to sustain life. Continue reading
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UK armed drone deployment: brief report from Information Tribunal By Chris Cole
Despite such details being regularly released for ‘manned’ aircraft engaged in such operations – and as we demonstrated in court – many other operations including Operation Herrick (Afghanistan), Operation Ellamy (Libya) and even Operation Desert Fox (Iraq), the MoD insisted in court there were “appropriate reasons”, which could not be revealed in open court, why… Continue reading
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Video: Haringey Council Vote Through £2BN Public Asset Deal with Lendlease
London’s Haringey Council voted to approve a £2 billion sell-off of public assets to the notorious private developer Lendlease despite overwhelming opposition from the community Continue reading
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Where are Britain’s armed drones? Why Drone Wars is going to court to seek answers By Chris Cole
Drone Wars UK will be in court next week seeking to overturn the refusal of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to release how many of the UK’s fleet of ten armed Reaper drones are deployed and where they are located. The MoD currently releases such deployment details about its other armed aircraft, but has insisted… Continue reading
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Video: London Grenfell Inferno: Who's to Blame?
The Grenfell Tower Block fire in London is a predictable consequence of policies that can be traced to Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, as well as those of David Cameron and Theresa May, says former financial regulator Bill Black Continue reading
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Video: London Grenfell Inferno: Who’s to Blame?
The Grenfell Tower Block fire in London is a predictable consequence of policies that can be traced to Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, as well as those of David Cameron and Theresa May, says former financial regulator Bill Black Continue reading
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medConfidential Bulletin 30 June 2017
30 June 2017 — medConfidential So, we have a new Government (after a fashion). And, whatever else, there’s some continuity at the Department of Health… Given this continuity, the completely unambiguous Conservative Manifesto commitment, and cross-party support for the National Data Guardian, it was a bit disappointing that a statutory footing for NDG was absent… Continue reading
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NOT ONE DAY MORE – #ToriesOut National Demonstration, London 1 July 2017
29 June 2017 — People’s Assembly Only two more days till we take our protest and party to the streets of central London. Major artists will perform along side leading campaigners and politicians. NOT ONE DAY MORE – #ToriesOut National Demonstration Sat 1 July – Assemble 12pm, BBC Broadcasting House, London, W1A 1AA March to… Continue reading
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The flaw in the Labour Party’s manifesto
The personal attack on Corbyn by the media was premeditated. If they could not destroy the message, then one of the cardinal rules of propaganda, is to then discredit the messenger. The capitalist class was aware that Corbyn’s message of hope and of an alternative to austerity, would be popular. The capitalists fear raising of… Continue reading
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