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Video: UK Cuts to Public Sector Not Leading to Private Sector Growth
Ch4: Government austerity in UK leading to higher unemployment not growth Continue reading
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Independence for England? By Craig Murray
The Osborne theory – that public sector employment ‘crowds out’ private sector employment, and cutting public sector jobs will somehow automatically increase the production of private sector jobs – appears, in this large scale example in the actual UK economy – the opposite of the truth. Cutting public sector jobs cuts private sector jobs too.… Continue reading
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Britain: The Health and Social Care Bill and the Negation of Democracy By Colin Leys
In voting, in the British House of Commons, for the third reading of Andrew Lansley’s Health and Social Care Bill last week MPs voted to replace the National Health Service (NHS) as a public service with a system of competing businesses – foundation trusts, social enterprises and for-profit corporations. Continue reading
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The imperialist rape of Libya By John Pilger
The Observer, which has yet to apologise for its catastrophic promotion of Iraq’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction, is in thrall to the ‘honourable intervention’ of Sarkozy and Cameron and their ‘humanitarian and emotional’ motives. Continue reading
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BP Profit From Torture By Craig Murray
7 September 2011 — Craig Murray These are the ‘democrats’?! Just when you thought that nothing could be more sickening than the revelation that the mad Mahdi Blair was godfather to the baptism of Murdoch’s daughter in the River Jordan… Kudos to the Daily Mail for outing BP’s Mark Allen as the MI6 man who… Continue reading
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The British left spreads misinformation about Libya By Cailean Bochanan
NATO doesn’t look for love letters since the fact that they are psychopaths is fairly well known. The Milne article is addressing a readership which is only too aware of NATO criminal tendencies. But NATO would be delighted that the opposition had concede two fundamental pillars of its propaganda on Libya. Continue reading
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Video: British WWII veteran jailed for recording court hearing
British prisons are full to bursting. Courts are working overtime sending young people to jail for their role in the recent riots in England. If they are sent to Leeds prison, they will be languishing alongside 85-year-old Norman Scarth. Continue reading
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RAF ‘nazi’ weapons to fly from Britain By Paddy McGuffin
Peace campaigners vowed today to oppose RAF plans to operate deadly unmanned Reaper drones from a Lincolnshire airbase. The Ministry of Defence has confirmed it intends to station a ‘Reaper squadron’ at RAF Waddington from next year. Continue reading
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Riotgate : Dispatch from East London By Felicity Arbuthnot
From afar we have heard the politicians, the social scientists, the psychologists. It is ‘feral youth’, ‘black youth’, ‘low life scum living off the State’ (say the millionaire politicians in charge of the State, living off it courtesy the tax payer.) The ‘lazy’, the ‘feckless’, ‘people from sink estates’, are responsible – and so it… Continue reading
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Obama’s Responsibility to Protect is a License to Kill By Glen Ford
Believing the Libya assault to have been a shining success, the United States will feel confident in launching new aggressions under the insidious rubric of R2P – Responsibility to Protect. The 2004 invasion and of Haiti was the precedent, ‘when the United Nations Secretary General lent his seal of approval to the occupation and endorsed… Continue reading
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We Are The Core Of The Problem By Frank Scott
The USA is at the center of this flailing monster and its people need to take control from the minority only concerned about acquiring more and more wealth at the cost of less and less hope for the majority’s future. Continue reading
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UK Riots: The violence of the violated By A. Sivanandan
Everyone is clutching at explanations for the riots – gangs, greed, family breakdown, lack of respect. But I would like to go into their deeper causes. Continue reading
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Damn it or fear it, the forbidden truth is an insurrection in Britain By John Pilger
On a warm spring day, strolling in south London, I heard demanding voices behind me. A police van disgorged a posse of six or more, who waved me aside. They surrounded a young black man who, like me, was ambling along. They appropriated him; they rifled his pockets, looked in his shoes, inspected his teeth.… Continue reading
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British Jealous of America’s Savage Police By Glen Ford
Given the extreme violence of American life, when compared to other rich nations, why would the Brits consider for even an instant emulating the U.S. criminal justice system? What could American cops teach them? Continue reading
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Broken Britain: Broken record By Ann Czernik
The interpretation and response to mass expressions of anger, frustration and despair from the media, politicians or the public is like a broken record. Over and over again, we hear the same phrases and the same message. Continue reading
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Video: The Real Source of the British Riots
So in the UK, only one in five homes is occupied by couples with children. Nine out of ten couples face a tax and benefit penalty worth more than 100 pounds a week if they live together – so in other words, they are 100 pounds a week better off if they live apart! Continue reading
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NATO, ICC Criminalise Stone Throwing, Legitimise Street Shooting By Bernard Anbataayela Mornah
As we are all witnessing the most aggressive form of neo-colonialism in the north of our continent? Overnight, the Brits and the French have become so concerned about Africa as to have to appointed themselves as the overseers of the mixed reactions in the north of our continent. Continue reading
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UK: Turkish and Kurdish Labourers and Traders Must Refuse to Be Pitted Against the Black People
Surely the traders have the right to protect their shops. But such events should not be use to pit the Turkish and Kurdish community against the Black community. Such event should not be used to strengthen the prejudices that the oppressed and migrant communities have against each other. Continue reading
