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News publishers and COVID-19 coverage
By TruePublica: As COVID-19 immerses Britain in crisis after crisis, the public go in search of facts not salacious celebrity stories and fake news peddled by right-wing rags. The Sun and Daily Mail lose ground as The Guardian and Financial Times reach new records. Continue reading
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Johnson to ‘seize NHS’ in bid to further privatisation ready for Brexit
By TruePublica Editor: There is a point when you read something and realise that all is lost. One Nation Conservatism is dead – they are no longer a centre-right political party but little more than a death cult. Their policies since arriving back into power after the Blair years has taken them back to a… Continue reading
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The Anti-lockdown Strategy
If you wanted to create a system most perfectly designed to spread COVID amongst the vulnerable elderly population, you may well have come up with the current one. Infect people with COVID in hospital, and then scatter them into care homes and the rest of the community. Making sure that you infect all the carers… Continue reading
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Spanish firm spying on Assange stole his son’s dirty diaper and BLACKMAILED Ecuadorian diplomat with NUDE PHOTOS – court papers
Spanish security firm UC Global secretly obtained Julian Assange’s son’s dirty diapers and used “intimate photos” to blackmail a diplomat into continuing its surveillance contract on the Ecuadorian embassy, court documents show. Continue reading
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WATCH: Kit Knightly on the Corbett Report; Covid19 & speaking truth to power
Kit Knightly joins James Corbett to discuss the site’s ongoing coverage of the corona crisis. From experts questioning the panic to death figure over-estimates to pushback against the new normal, today we highlight the work of those who are speaking truth to power on the defining event of our age . . . and point… Continue reading
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Labour report reveals how Jeremy Corbyn was sabotaged from within
An internal investigation has found that top Labour Party officials sabotaged Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, including by trying to lose the 2017 UK election. The report also suggests that the same people who tried to undermine Corbyn were themselves the ones who were slow to respond to allegations of anti-Semitism — another weapon that was used… Continue reading
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REVEALED: UK Ministers Knew Crisis Had Peaked Before Lockdown, But Panicked Anyway
Since March, 21WIRE has consistently said draconian lockdown measures being pushed by countries like the UK, France, US and Canada – were ill-informed and not at all necessary in order to ‘contain’ the coronavirus. Moreover, we have consistently stated across many media platforms that these were not science-based decisions either, but rather political decisions taken… Continue reading
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The inevitable erosion of our civil liberty after the COVID-19 crisis
It was only one month ago that Big Brother Watch, the Civil liberties group warned that the Coronavirus Bill contained the “most draconian powers in peacetime Britain” and urged close scrutiny from Parliamentarians. It was ushered through and became an Act of Parliament without scrutiny or protest. Continue reading
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The disturbing developments in UK policing
From the tannoy declarations of “you in the blue, go home”, to the haranguing tone, to the declarations the journalist is “killing people”, it’s all pretty disturbing. Continue reading
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The Lancet: “When this is all over the NHS England board should resign in their entirety”
The Editor in Chief of The Lancet, Richard Horton, is incandescent with fury over the way the government has failed to correctly and properly manage the COVID-19 crisis. The following paragraphs clearly demonstrate that frustration and anger and that the world’s oldest, and best known general medical journal has every intention of keeping up the… Continue reading
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‘The People Have Spoken. Bastards’: Leaked Labour Report Shows Party’s Own Senior Staff Acted To Keep Corbyn Out Of Power
In the June 2017 UK general election, Labour under Jeremy Corbyn came within a whisker of power. If just 2,227 votes had gone the other way, seven Tory knife-edge constituencies would have been won by Labour, putting Corbyn in a strong position to lead a coalition government. Continue reading
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How top Labour officials plotted to bring down Jeremy Corbyn
For the first time, extensive internal correspondence between senior party officials has been revealed, proving a years-long plot to destroy Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader who recently stepped down. Continue reading
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15 April 2020: The Dirty War on the NHS — Live Q&A TONIGHT 8:30pm (UK time)
Tonight, there will be a live Q&A with two of the film’s main contributors — Professor Allyson Pollock and Dr John Lister, hosted by Simran Hans (film critic at the Observer) at 8.30pm (UK time), which will be beamed live to your homes via Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and Curzon Home Cinema. Continue reading
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The politics of Covid-19: ‘Busy’ parks and public blame
Despite its vague, ever-changing messaging about how the UK population might shield itself against the global coronavirus pandemic, the government has been consistent in building one key narrative: ‘selfish’ people are responsible for its rapid spread. In the midst of ongoing testing and protective clothing scandals, and as ministers needlessly delay announcement of an imminent… Continue reading
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Worshiping and Defiling Britain’s NHS
Tories worshipping Britain’s National Health System are akin to fanatical carnivores who suddenly extol the virtues of vegans. Has the grave response to COVID-19 signalled a change of heart? In the case of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it was all heart, quite literally. It might have stopped beating and that scruffy, buffoonish essence of… Continue reading
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The lockdown is NOT a way of beating this virus
Several politicians, including Keir Starmer, the opposition Labour Party leader, have been demanding to know the exit strategy for the lockdown. “We should know what that exit strategy is, when the restrictions might be lifted and what the plan is for economic recovery to protect those who have been hardest hit,” he said last week.… Continue reading
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Wikipedia: Information Wars
Long term readers will recall the Philip Cross Affair. A Wikipedia Editor named “Philip Cross” was relentlessly conducting a propaganda operation. It had two prongs; the first was continually to denigrate the Wikipedia entry of all public figures who opposed military intervention in the Middle East, removing positive information and adding mainstream media slurs in… Continue reading
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Welfare Weekly 10 April 2020
10 April 2020 — Welfare Weekly Scotland is facing a ‘cost of living crisis’, charity warns UK Government is under mounting pressure to introduce an emergency ‘universal basic income’. Read the post Continue reading
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John Pilger: Can We Trust Our Governments In What They Say To Us About Coronavirus? No, We Can’t, Absolutely Not!
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to legendary journalist and film-maker John Pilger about the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Continue reading
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IRR News (25 March – 8 April 2020)
9 April 2020 — Institute of Race Relations weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice The consequences of Covid-19 are not indiscriminate. In addition to doctors and nurses, low paid members of the workforce – bus drivers, care-home workers, hospital staff, retail and delivery workers– are on the frontlines and are more likely to catch the disease… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 