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Marx on British politics … and cab drivers
If you get nauseated by the perverse state of contemporary world politics and the slavish way in which mainstream media help to sustain the spectacle that is Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Rodrigo Duterte or their local variants, here is the perfect antidote: read Marx’s journalistic articles for the New York Daily Tribune. Continue reading
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BBC an instrument of government foreign policy
In January 2015, the BBC warned the government that its global news presence will end up marginalised by overseas rivals such as Russia Today and al-Jazeera unless multimillion-pound cuts were reversed. The global news division included the BBC World Service, which had suffered big cuts. It was a stark warning that Britain’s global ‘soft-power’ was declining.… Continue reading
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Julian Assange News Links 12-17 January 2020
17 January 2020 — 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 At The Westminster Magistrates Court https://orientalreview.org/2020/01/17/julian-assange-at-the-westminster-magistrates-court/ Now twenty years later, how did Putin do it? https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/01/16/now-twenty-years-later-how-did-putin-do-it/ Continue reading
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UK: Lead Us Not Into Oblivion
The simple response of course is to blame it all on Corbyn. Let’s face it, no more comprehensive bogeyman has ever been offered to the British electorate. Continue reading
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Short of Time: Julian Assange at the Westminster Magistrates Court
Another slot of judicial history, another notch to be added to the woeful record of legal proceedings being undertaken against Julian Assange. The ailing WikiLeaks founder was coping as well as he could, showing the resourcefulness of the desperate at his Monday hearing. Continue reading
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Body Bag Britain
In November 2017, landmark research found that approximately 120,000 people had died as a direct result of the Conservative party policy of driving austerity in what has since become an era now associated with what some have branded ‘economic murder.’ And even today the number of deaths is calculated to reach 200,000 by the end… Continue reading
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Democracy in Focus: A post-austerity state
Lowering the voting age. Restoring and entrenching the powers of local government, including the power to build public housing. Ensuring that people are able to fulfil their potential (including outlawing many of the practices of the gig economy that drive its workers to suicide). Establishing a proportional election system, so that voters have a real… Continue reading
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UK: Welfare Weekly 11 January 2020
11 January 2020 — Welfare Weekly Up to 2,000 terminally ill people have died awaiting DWP benefit decisions Read more Continue reading
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Knight of Darkness – Iain Duncan Smith’s Directory Of Death
Part of this headline is taken from an article that features in Welfare Weekly. That article is a roll-call of death caused by an ideology that, in part, ended up looking like a policy to deliberately kill the weakest and most vulnerable in our society. The headline is borderline when it comes to being libellous… Continue reading
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DWP: The case for the prosecution
This time last year, The Independent published a story where Ministers were accused of ‘failing people at the most vulnerable point in their lives’ after it emerged that nine disability claimants die each day (270 per month) while waiting for decisions on disability support. The story also stated that figures at the time revealed that… Continue reading
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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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