UK
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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
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Regulatory chicanery – Biotech lobby quietly hijacks the UK’s Agriculture Bill to change the definition of ‘GMOs’
MPs, peers and the research establishment are urging the government to introduce genome editing into UK food and farming by sidestepping parliamentary and public scrutiny. Continue reading
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“Unprecedented” transfer of personal NHS information to shady tech Co’s
Hours before facing court proceedings from openDemocracy over its massive NHS COVID-19 data deal with private tech firms, the UK government has caved to pressure and released all the contracts governing its deals with Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and controversial AI firms Faculty and Palantir. Continue reading
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Government urged to scrap Serco’s contract after leaked email
THE government was urged to scrap Serco’s contract for the test-and-trace system today after the outsourcing giant bragged it was using it to “cement” privatisation into the NHS supply chain. Continue reading
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Speak out against systemic racism
George Floyd’s murder must prompt deep interrogation of the structural racisms that pervade our society. The disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on BAME communities are increasingly clear, compounding pre-existing truths about how minority groups are more likely to suffer from impoverishment, low pay, poor housing and ill health. Continue reading
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Is the Coronavirus Scare a Psychological Operation?
Governments have used psychological warfare throughout history to manipulate public opinion, gain political advantage, and generate profits. Western governments have engaged in such tactics in the war on terrorism as well as in its predecessor, the war on communism. Continue reading
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A Joint Enterprise: How the UK and the US co-operate on drone warfare
A new report published today by Drone Wars UK investigates the co-operation between the UK and the US in relation to armed drone operations. While the UK insist its armed drone programme is separate and independent to that of the US, our report, ‘Joint Enterprise: An overview of US-UK co-operation on armed drone operations’, argues… Continue reading
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Five questions for new Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer about his UK and US national security establishment links
The public deserves answers about the UK’s new opposition leader and his relationship with the British national security establishment, including the MI5 and the Times newspaper, his former role in the Julian Assange case and his membership in the intelligence-linked Trilateral Commission. Continue reading
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DeSmog UK Weekly: Leading from the back
That’s the latest language coming from Alok Sharma, the UK’s Business Secretary and COP26 chief (get well soon!), as the government urges countries, companies, and everyone else to “build back better” in the wake of COVID-19. Continue reading
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UK government wants your credit details and more, with some help from Cummings’s pals
The artificial intelligence (AI) firm employed by Dominic Cummings on the Vote Leave project is now working directly with the government on a highly sensitive data-matching project. Continue reading
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UK Information Wars: Ministry Of Defence Creates New Cyber Regiment
The Ministry of Defence has launched 13th Signal Regiment, a dedicated Cyber Regiment, whose stated purpose is to protect vital defence networks at home and on operations overseas. Continue reading
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Drone Wars at Ten #3: What’s next? A peek at the future
In this final post to mark our 10th birthday, I want to peer a little into the future, looking at what we are facing in relation to drone warfare in the coming years. Of course predicting the future is always a little foolish – perhaps especially so in the middle of a global pandemic –… Continue reading
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