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BREXIT THE TRAGICOMEDY starring Johnson, the Emperor with no Mandate
In times of great disappointment and crisis, it is important to keep a level head, to analyse the situation coolly and calmly, and most importantly to extend one’s intellectual vision beyond the immediate. Johnson, the Tories and the media are all rejoicing in what they consider to be a resounding victory. Clearly, the capitalist class… Continue reading
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NHS News Links 15 December 2019
15 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 Misleading voters should be alarming, but for the Tories it’s simply ‘career progression’ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/aGJT4QBwrzY/ General election 2019: Viral videos about the NHS dominate the digital campaign https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50744503 Continue reading
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UK: Making sense of a shattering defeat
As soon as the scale of Labour’s shattering defeat began to emerge last night, pundits began to push the line that this was not just about Brexit but about Jeremy Corbyn, and more broadly the Labour Party’s significant shift towards socialism under his leadership. Continue reading
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Corbyn’s defeat has slain the left’s last illusion
This was an election of two illusions. The first helped persuade much of the British public to vote for the very epitome of an Eton toff, a man who not only has shown utter contempt for most of those who voted for him but has spent a lifetime barely bothering to conceal that contempt. For… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Headlines 12-13 December 2019
12 December 2019 — Information Clearing House The FBI – Pushed By John Brennan – Lied To The Court Seven Times To Spy On The Trump Campaign By Moon Of Alabama The FBI agents and lawyers intentionally lied to the court. –Continue ====== Continue reading
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Get Brexit done!
That was the campaign slogan of the incumbent Conservative government under PM Boris Johnson. And it was the message that won over a sufficient number of those Labour voters who had voted to the leave the EU in 2016 to back the Conservatives. One-third of Labour voters in the 2017 election wanted to leave the… Continue reading
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Someone Interfered In The UK Election, And It Wasn’t Russia
Ladies and gentlemen I have here at my fingertips indisputable proof that egregious election meddling took place in the United Kingdom on Thursday. Continue reading
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Why vote Labour today?
Following my Jesus or Barabbas post yesterday and – replicated on OffGuardian – Dirty War on the NHS post the day before, I’ve seen fit to respond to commenters who share my view of parliamentary democracy as a sham, but draw a conclusion I do not share; namely, that in no circumstances can any party,… Continue reading
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Jeremy Corbyn faces Russiagate smear campaign before UK vote
Jeremy Corbyn, a real progressive, could win UK’s elections. Max Blumenthal joins Pushback to discuss how powerful forces are trying to stop Corbyn with a Russiagate-fueled smear campaign — and why Bernie Sanders could be their next target. Continue reading
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Is Johnson really going to ‘rein in’ NHS privatisation? Don’t you believe it!
The end of NHS privatisation would appear – once again – to have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, things could be about to get considerably worse… Continue reading
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The Art of Doublespeak: Bellingcat and Mind Control
In the 1920s, the influential American intellectual Walter Lippman argued that the average person was incapable of seeing or understanding the world clearly and needed to be guided by experts behind the social curtain. In a number of books he laid out the theoretical foundations for the practical work of Edward Bernays, who developed “public relations”… Continue reading
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Jeremy Corbyn News Links 12 December 2019
12 December 2019 — The New Dark Age The British establishment is very afraid of a Corbyn victory The negative media barrage on Corbyn and Labour in the UK has been incessant but if Corbyn were to succeed it would be a major boost to the Sanders campaign in the U.S. The vilification of Jeremy… Continue reading
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The Largest Vote Swings in British General Election History Censored Out By the BBC and Mainstream Media
This election is seeing the largest vote swings in British political history. But that truth has been hidden by the largest media distortion in British political history. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 11 December 2019
11 December 2019 — The New Dark Age For the sake of press freedom, Julian Assange must be defended We wrote President Barack Obama and his attorney general, Eric Holder, urging them not to prosecute Julian Assange. The Australian hacker and … Julian Assange: A Court of Star Chamber — cruelty beyond belief Publisher, whistleblower, journalist Julian Assange has been… Continue reading
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US & UK Military-Intelligence Apparatus Deploy Media Smears Against Corbyn
The popular socialist leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, could be on the verge of becoming prime minister of the United Kingdom. And the mere possibility is terrifying British intelligence services and the U.S. government. Continue reading
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The Dirty War on the NHS
I saw this film last night at a one-off screening in Derby. It’s all you’d expect of a John Pilger documentary. Polished and professional? Well of course, but more importantly: Hard hitting, its straight-from-the shoulder interrogations of power a far cry from the posturing of mainstream interviewers who, doubtless in all sincerity – albeit of… Continue reading
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10 Reasons to be Cheerful on Election Eve
11 December 2019 — Off Guardian W Stephen Gilbert In what they keep calling “the most unpredictable election of recent times”, the pundits report a continuing Tory lead in the opinion polls, indicating that Boris Johnson will have a majority in the House. Let’s just remember that, throughout this century, the polls have almost always… Continue reading
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UK: Fake News and the “Punch” that never happened What one media lie tells us about the way our “news” works
Yesterday the Health Secretary Matt Hancock went to Leeds to visit a struggling NHS hospital. It was a PR stunt designed to make the Tories look pro-active in the face of a late-campaign PR disaster. Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 6-9 December 2019
10 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 Newsweek Journo Quits After Editors Kills Report On Syria Chemical Attack Scandal https://www.mintpressnews.com/newsweek-tareq-haddad-quits-syria-douma-opcw/263292/ Question for Kirbymoorside UK Hustings Meeting: Would you stand up for Julian Assange? https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/question-for-kirbymoorside-uk-hustings-meeting-would-you-stand-up-for-julian-assange99425/ Continue reading
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Workshop on Northern Ireland: The legacy of collusion
THE LEGACY OF COLLUSION On 20 November 2019 the Presiding Coroner for Northern Ireland, the Honourable Mrs Justice Keegan, set a timetable to hear the 71 outstanding Legacy Inquests into killings that date back as far as the 1970s over the next five years. At the same time, there are a number of related on-going… Continue reading
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