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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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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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