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Workers in Britain suffer the greatest fall in wages since the 1930s By Robert Stevens
The UK is experiencing the deepest and most protracted economic downturn in a century. The decline in wages is even greater than that resulting from the Great Depression of the 1930s. Continue reading
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British authorities arrest terrorists who fought in Syria
Amid a state of media blackout, British authorities arrested a group of terrorists who participated in the fighting in Syria. Continue reading
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Cameron insults our intelligence over Syria… and gets a slap from Putin By Finian CUNNINGHAM
They say a picture paints a thousand words. The photograph of British Prime Minister David Cameron and Russian President Vladimir Putin in London recently certainly does. When the two leaders gave a press conference at the weekend in Downing Street ahead to the G8 summit, Cameron had the excruciating look of a desperate man. Putin,… Continue reading
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Book Review: Our NHS on the brink By Bernadette Hyland
Edited by Raymond Tallis and Dr Jacky Davis, ‘NHS SOS: How the NHS was betrayed – and how we can save it’ it is a difficult book to read. In chapter after chapter we see the way in which determined neoliberals have hacked away at a cherished British institution. Davis and her co-writers do not… Continue reading
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Video: Former French Minister of Foreign Affairs: “…Britain had been preparing gunmen to invade Syria two years before the crisis there flared up in 2011…”
“…Britain had been preparing gunmen to invade Syria two years before the crisis there flared up in 2011…” Continue reading
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Pre-emptive Policing By Craig Murray
I am deeply concerned about pre-emptive policing, or arresting people who might be going to do something wrong. I frankly don’t believe the BBC’s claim that intelligence indicated that anti-G8 protestors in Soho had weapons, or at any rate I do not believe it was honest intelligence. Continue reading
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Worst cuts in wages for UK workers in ‘deepest recession since WWII’, IFS shows
Between 2010 and 2011, 70 per cent of employees who stayed in the same job fronted real wage cuts, while a third of those workers faced nominal wage freezes or cuts (12 per cent experienced freezes and 21 per cent experienced cuts). Continue reading
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Rewriting History – Iraq and the BBC Glove Puppets By Matt Carr
I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a shallow and essentially reverential piece of telehistory. Within ten minutes I was ready to scream with frustration at the tv set, which is really a very futile activity. Continue reading
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RAF drone attacks ‘break rights law’ By Paddy McGuffin
Top lawyers concluded today that British drone attacks on Afghanistan are almost certainly illegal. Continue reading
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The Chilcot Inquiry. The British Government’s Role in the War on Iraq. Margaret Aldred and the Judicial Coverup By Dr. C. Stephen Frost
There have been five inquiries in the United Kingdom into the Iraq War: the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC), the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC), the Hutton Inquiry, the Butler Inquiry and the Chilcot Inquiry (the Iraq Inquiry). Not a single word of evidence at any of those inquiries has been heard under oath. Sir John… Continue reading
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NO2ID Newsletter (2nd Series) No. 9 – 6th June 2013
7 June 2013 — NO2ID Edited by Daryl Worthington ++ NEW THREAT TO MEDICAL PRIVACY by James Baker Continue reading
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American Power and the Making of British Capitalism By Jeremy Green
On the opening page of their superb work on the political economy of the American Empire, Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin outline the fundamental premise of their study: that the American state has played ‘an exceptional role in the creation of a fully global capitalism and in coordinating its management, as well as restructuring other… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 