UK
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Britain to join despised TTP: Wikileaks – “a huge transfer of power from people to big business”
TruePublica Editor: I have always maintained from the soon after the EU referendum that Brexit was a con. The team here at TruePublica have relentlessly warned that far from taking back control, Brexit was a trojan horse for big business, to gain control and dominate our lives. Half of our modest lobbying budget went to… Continue reading
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Palestinians win damages over “Labour anti-Semitism” libel
The UK’s Palestinian Return Centre revealed to The Electronic Intifada on Friday that it won more than $43,000 in libel damages against The Mail on Sunday. Continue reading
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Fresh concerns over privacy and profit in NHS Covid data deals
Documents obtained by openDemocracy suggest the UK government has misled the public about how it is protecting the privacy of millions of NHS users in its major Covid-19 data deals – and about how the controversial tech firms involved stand to profit in the long term. Continue reading
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From Dodgy Dossiers to the Sacking of Whitlam: The British Empire Stands Exposed
I used to believe as many do, in a story called “the American Empire”. Over the last decade of research, that belief has changed a bit. The more I looked at the top down levers of world influence shaping past and present events that altered history, the hand of British Intelligence just kept slapping me… Continue reading
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Welfare Weekly 19 June 2020
19 June 2020 — Welfare Weekly Disabled women over 11 times more likely to die of Coronavirus, analysis shows Government accused of failing to protect disabled people from the Coronavirus pandemic. Read the post Continue reading
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UK: Elites will use this crisis to reshape the state. We have to push back
The coronavirus lockdown is easing and more businesses are reopening. But what kind of a society will the UK be? Continue reading
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IRR: It Happens Here Too
As the world wakes up to police racism following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, activists and campaigners are working tirelessly to draw attention to the long histories and present day realities of the violence of police racism in the UK – it happens here, too. Continue reading
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Novichok: Cynicism and Warmongering
The BBC plumbed the depths of hypocrisy in dressing up the final episode of the Salisbury Poisonings as a homage to Dawn Sturgess while systematically lying about the facts of her death, yet again to cover up the implausibility of the official narrative. Continue reading
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The Miracle of Salisbury
It turns out that the BBC really does believe that God is an Englishman. When the simple impossibility of the official story on the Skripals finally overwhelmed the dramatists, they resorted to Divine Intervention for an explanation – as propagandists have done for millennia. Continue reading
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UK counter-terror programme targeted BAME women using Instagram influencers
‘Stoosh’ campaign aimed at young Asian and Black women was created by media company contracted by Home Office Continue reading
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“Putin’s Gonna Get Me”
Shakespeare’s heirs at the BBC produced this deathless and entirely convincing line as the climax of the first episode of “The Salisbury Poisonings”, a three part piece of state propaganda on the Skripal saga, of which I watched Part 1 as it was broadcast last night. The other two parts are to be broadcast today… Continue reading
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The People Will Rise!
There is only one solution for the insane mess that goes under the name of ‘democracy’ to day, and that is to return to human scale largely self governing communities. Continue reading
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June 27 – Join the #CantPayWontPay Day of Action
This extension (to a ban on evictions) is the first victory of the Can’t Pay Won’t Pay campaign, but we have so much more to win. We still need the government to cancel rent debt and make the evictions ban permanent, so that all renters are safe. The government should end the benefits ban on migrants,… Continue reading
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Would ‘Defund the Police’ Work in the UK?
‘Defund the police’ has emerged as a central demand amid a spectacular eruption of collective action against lethal police violence in the United States. As UK Black Lives Matter activists take inspiration, questions are being asked about how this demand – forged in the long history of the US prison abolition movement – can gain purchase in Britain. Continue reading
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The deportation machine in 2020 / Rough-sleeper raids rebranded
12 June 2020 — Corporate Watch UK deportations 2020: how BA, Easyjet and other airlines collaborate with the border regime On 30 April, with UK airports largely deserted during the Covid-19 lockdown, a Titan Airways charter plane took off from Stansted airport deporting 35 people to Poland. This was just a few days after reports… Continue reading
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COVID – will lockdown lead to a major health disaster?
Having seen the health impact of economic crashes, I hope you can now see why I was deeply concerned about lockdown. It was clear to me that this could mean massive financial hardship, and I feared that the deaths that followed could be catastrophic. Continue reading
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NHS and Racism: Deeds not words
10 June 2020 — The Lowdown Evidence-based journalism and research on the NHS to create change. Report after report has told us about systemic racism in the NHS and in national policy, the government must address it. Continue reading
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Tearing down statues isn’t vandalism. It’s at the heart of the democratic tradition
It is easy to forget how explicitly racist British society was within living memory. I’m not talking about unconscious prejudice, or social media tropes. I’m talking about openly celebrating racism in the public space, about major companies making racism integral to their brand, a selling-point. Continue reading
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MI6 Might Become The CIA’s Proxy For Stopping Europe From Moving Towards Russia
MI6’s shadowy role in four separate Russia-related fake news scandals in recent years strongly suggests that it’s being groomed to be the CIA’s proxy for stopping Europe from moving towards Russia once Nord Stream II is completed. Continue reading
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Britain’s government – entangled in its own corruption
TruePublica: Thatcherism, as it is known, was made of up of principles comprising economic, social and political ideals that described the Conservative Party that undoubtedly shaped Britain for nearly fifty years. The economic policies that came with Thatcherism really amounted to little more than deregulation. It was and still is a total rejection of the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 