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‘Unsafe’: Snowden’s advisor from WikiLeaks fears returning to UK
The statement published by WikiLeaks on Wednesday explains how Sarah Harrison helped Snowden successfully get Russian temporary asylum, which he received on August 1, despite “substantial pressure from the United States.” Continue reading
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Corpwatch: Six Telecom Companies Face Formal Complaint for Collusion With UK Spy Agency
Six global telecommunications companies – British Telecom, Interoute, Level Three, Verizon Enterprise, Viatel and Vodafone Cable – are the subject of a formal complaint by Privacy International for potential violation of human rights such as the right to privacy and freedom of expression. Continue reading
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Close smaller hospitals in haste, repent at leisure By Shibley Rahman
The UK government has quietly launched an inquiry into whether the smaller half of our hospitals are ‘sustainable’. Should we be worried? Continue reading
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Privatisation, a very British disease? By Joe Guinan and Thomas M. Hanna
Britain is an extreme oddity regarding privatisation: nowhere else in the advanced world is there such a willingness to sell everything that isn’t nailed down. Time and again the British public is ripped off and sold out by its leaders. Continue reading
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Police State Britain By Stephen Lendman
The vanishing of real democracy in Britain and the US, their close partnership in global lawlessness, and the mounting roster of crimes and trespasses against all forms of established law protecting citizens and institutions, shows conclusively that ruling class interest always trumps formal protections for the population at large. Democracy’s values and norms are respected… Continue reading
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Legal Expert: “Under [the Government’s] Definition, The Pentagon Papers Could Be Treated As The Same Act As The 9-11 Bombings”
As we’ve documented ad nauseum, the American and British governments are treating whistleblowers and reporters as terrorists. Continue reading
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Video: UK's Royal Mail Privatized and Sold to Investors
John Weeks: The privatization of the Royal Mail will enrich investors but leave workers worse off Continue reading
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Video: UK’s Royal Mail Privatized and Sold to Investors
John Weeks: The privatization of the Royal Mail will enrich investors but leave workers worse off Continue reading
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#BurnAusterity: Join a ‘Bonfire of Austerity’ action near you
Tomorrow’s [Nov 5] ‘Bonfire of Austerity’ looks set to be one of the biggest days of action for many years. Actions are taking place up and down the country as people are forced into poverty, forced to choose whether to heat the home or put food on the table and forced into the hands of… Continue reading
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Police State UK: British response to surveillance leaks ‘eroding’ freedom – human rights groups
Seventy human rights organizations from 40 different countries came together to write the letter to Cameron, stating their concern with the British reaction to revelations of mass surveillance – including increased pressure on media outlets reporting on the leaks and the closure of public interest debates dealing with the subject. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 4 November 2013 (19/13): Metropolitan police detained David Miranda for promoting ‘political’ causes
4 November 2013 — Statewatch e-mail: office@statewatch.org Continue reading
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Police State UK: Britain’s GCHQ shepherding mass surveillance operations throughout Europe
British intelligence agency GCHQ has helped counterpart entities in France, Germany, Spain, and Sweden develop methods of mass surveillance of internet and phone traffic in the last five years, a new report reveals. Continue reading
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G4S guard bludgeoned woman to death By Clare Sambrook
Last November a 42 year-old pharmaceutical worker from Thailand took part in a conference about HIV treatment at Glasgow’s Clyde Auditorium. Her name was Khanokporn Satjawat. A G4S guard checked Satjawat’s ID. He didn’t like her manner. Later he followed her into the toilets and bludgeoned her to death with a fire extinguisher. Continue reading
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Mythbuster: Health warning By Jacky Davis
By repackaging privatisation as ‘reform’, the government has tried to sell voters the idea of dismantling the health service. Jacky Davis exposes the main marketing myths behind the NHS giveaway Continue reading
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Police State UK: ‘Press handling with talking heads’: Snowden files reveal enormous GCHQ efforts to escape legal challenge
The UK’s spy agency GCHQ was doing whatever it could to avoid igniting a “damaging public debate” and a subsequent possibility of a legal threat over its surveillance practices and cooperation with telecoms, new Snowden papers reveal. Continue reading
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