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The Terrifying Rise of the Zombie State Narrative
The ruling Establishment has learnt a profound lesson from the debacle over Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction. The lesson they have learnt is not that it is wrong to attack and destroy an entire country on the basis of lies. They have not learnt that lesson despite the fact the western powers are now busily… Continue reading
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Migrants Organise: Justice for Simba
7 January 2020 — Migrants Organise From all of us at Migrants Organise, we wish you a very Happy New Year. We are going to have a busy 2020, and wanted to update you about some of our campaigns… Justice for Simba – Sign the Petition & Donate! Last year, one of our members, Simba, suffered a stroke… Continue reading
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The Arrogance Of BBC News
When we started Media Lens in 2001, we had a rather naïve expectation that journalists might: a) want to respond rationally to reasoned criticism; and b) have privileged access to unparalleled journalistic resources, experts and arguments that would enable journalists to respond with serious points to our challenges. In particular, we imagined that BBC journalists and editors… Continue reading
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Antisemitism has been used to smear the left, while the right targets Jews
The year ended with two terrible setbacks for those seeking justice for the Palestinian people. One was the defeat in the British election of Jeremy Corbyn – a European leader with a unique record of solidarity with Palestinians. He had suffered four years of constant media abuse, recasting his activism as evidence of antisemitism. Continue reading
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Collapse of UK National Health Service threatened as Johnson government readies further onslaught
The National Health Service (NHS) faces collapse after decades of underfunding, staffing cuts and privatisation. Even before the onset of the NHS’s now-annual “winter crisis,” a heightened expression of a year-round crisis, senior doctors’ representatives warned that the health service was “on its knees.” Continue reading
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Wikileaks Still Holding Powerful to Account as Founder Julian Assange “Slowly Dies” in Prison
Julian Assange is dying inside Belmarsh Prison in London. Those are his own words, relayed through English journalist Vaughan Smith, who revealed that the Wikileaks founder called him on Christmas Eve to share his greetings. Smith also divulged that Assange told him he is kept in solitary confinement 23 hours per day and is often… Continue reading
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In the UK – Do Subjects Deserve their Rulers?
I constantly receive such letters; letters which repeat, again and again, year after year, basically the same thing: “If only we would have an opportunity to vote out our damn system!” Continue reading
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BBC Director-General Calls for Media Critics to Be Purged From Social Media
In the face of a mountain of condemnation over how it provided a key role in helping Boris Johnson win last week’s UK general elections, BBC Director-General Baron Hall of Birkenhead has called for the corporation’s critics to be purged from the internet. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 20-23 December 2019
23 December 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Medical Opinion, Torture and Julian Assange https://orientalreview.org/2019/12/23/medical-opinion-torture-and-julian-assange/ Taking Action For Assange: This Is What Real Activism Looks Like — Politicians Exposed! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/vZ5QO2RkE1k/taking-action-for-assange-this-is-what-real-activism-looks-like-politicians-exposed.html Continue reading
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Boris Johnson is planning radical changes to the UK constitution – here are the ones you need to know about
18 December, 2019 — The Conversation Author Stephen Clear Lecturer in Constitutional and Administrative Law, and Public Procurement, Bangor University Disclosure statement Stephen Clear does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 20 December 2019
20 December 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Connecting the Dots https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/connecting-the-dots/ Medical observers blocked from attending Assange hearing http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/20/doct-d20.html Continue reading
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Official Secrets, Lies and the Five Eyes
Is Putin losing his grip? Why did Russian disinformation operations fail so dramatically in the UK election? Not only did the “rabid socialist” Corbyn fail to seize power from the Russophobic cold-war warriors of Whitehall but Russia’s man in the White House is already planning to move in with them! Continue reading
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UK general election result confirms protracted death of the Labour Party
Analysts have pored over the results of Britain’s December 12 general election to account for the victory of Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party and the massive losses sustained by Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party. Continue reading
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Head of UK Israel Lobby Group Announces Gov’t Plan To Ban Boycotting Israel
Yesterday, December 17, whistleblower Chelsea Manning spent her 32nd birthday alone in a prison cell in Alexandria, Virginia, where she has been locked up for nine months for refusing to testify in a grand jury proceeding against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Continue reading
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“Anyone to my left is an antisemite”
Labour’s massive loss to the Tories has bummed out a lot of people. Everyone’s discussing it and arguing about what went wrong and who’s to blame. I don’t have any special insight into UK politics, but one thing that really shocked me about the election is the way that Jewish identity and fabricated charges of… Continue reading
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The Dirty War on the NHS – ITV
15 December 2019 — John Pilger Today, Tuesday 17 December, John Pilger’s film about the threat the NHS will be shown on ITV – full details below. Continue reading
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The revelations about Cambridge Analytica indicate clearly that western governments are subverting democracy
I wrote an article about Cambridge Analytica, the commodification of voter decision making and the marketisation of democracy, along with previous articles about western government strategies for subverting democracy. I have also extensively criticised governments’ use of ‘behavioural economics‘, and the authoritarian neuroliberal turn more generally. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 17 December 2019
17 December 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back Julian Assange’s extradition fight could turn on reports he was spied on for CIA Julian Assange’s fight against extradition to the US could last years, and his argument could hinge on… Continue reading
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Manifesto Club Christmas newsletter – The ‘Silencing of Public Space’
Here’s a Christmas round-up of our work over the past few months. Wishing you a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year – may freedom flourish in 2020…. Continue reading
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