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Six months since the brutal arrest of WikiLeaks’ publisher Julian Assange
Yesterday marked six months since WikiLeaks’ publisher Julian Assange was expelled from Ecuador’s London embassy and arrested by the British police. The sight of a persecuted journalist being manhandled by five burly police in the capital of a supposedly democratic country shocked millions of people around the world. Continue reading
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Devonshire, UK Halts The Installation of 5G Over Serious Health Concerns
The Facts: Volumes of credible scientific data warn us about the dangers of 5G frequencies, and in pockets here and there people are starting to respond to these threats to our health and safety. Continue reading
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US protects NSA spy’s wife wanted in UK over teenager’s death By Laura Tiernan
The Trump administration is refusing to waive immunity for the wife of a senior US spy, who fled the UK after she was involved in a head-on collision more than a month ago that killed 19-year-old Harry Dunn. Continue reading
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Hundreds of Extinction Rebellion protesters arrested in central London By Steve James
The number of arrests of Extinction Rebellion (XR) climate protestors in London topped 500 yesterday, in a naked display of state repression designed to intimidate and silence political and social opposition among much broader layers. Continue reading
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Brexit: Boris Johnson moves to scrap environment safeguards to get deal with Trump
When Boris Johnson used his first three speeches as UK Prime Minister to flag up his desire to “liberate” GMOs as part of Brexit, we warned that this meant his priority was doing a trade deal with Donald Trump at any cost. Johnson, we said, was “simply dancing, puppet-like, to Trump’s tune”. Continue reading
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Brexit News Links 8 October 2019
8 October 2019 • 18:20 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Brexit: Boris Johnson Moves to Scrap Environment and GMO Safeguards to Get Deal with Trump https://www.globalresearch.ca/brexit-boris-johnson-moves-to-scrap-environment-and-gmo-safeguards-to-get-deal-with-trump/5691400 Johnson’s Government Now Resorts to Threatening EU27 – Diplomatic Fallout Next?… Continue reading
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Jonathan Sacoolas Is Not, and Has Never Been, a Diplomat
There is no Jonathan Sacoolas on the official Diplomatic list. Neither Sacoolas nor his wife has any right to claim diplomatic immunity under the Vienna Convention. Continue reading
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Boris Johnson’s Arcuri scandal deepens
On the 3rd October, a media bidding war was underway for the exclusive rights to a tell-all interview with the US businesswoman at the centre of a conflict of interest row involving Boris Johnson. Continue reading
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Britain’s Unconvicted Prisoner: Keeping Assange on Lockdown for Neocons in Washington
This article is a second piece focusing on Belmarsh prison, where the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, continues to be arbitrarily detained by the British government. The first part showed how Belmarsh prison has been systematically denying Assange access to justice by restricting all the means through which he could prepare his defence; access to… Continue reading
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The truth about Brexit medicine shortages
Last week, TruePublica published an article entitled – The list of Medicines affected by no-deal Brexit, which was read by over 40,000 readers in 24 hours. We decided not to make an issue of the story and simply published the most comprehensive list of medicines either in short supply, expected to be in short supply… Continue reading
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“Julian has reached a point where he may die”—Assange’s father John Shipton speaks with the WSWS
On Thursday the WSWS met John Shipton, Julian Assange’s father, in Berlin to talk about the condition of his son’s jailing in the maximum security Belmarsh Prison in London. The day before Shipton had given a press conference and addressed the weekly “Candles 4 Assange” rally in Berlin, to inform the public about his son’s… Continue reading
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How Britain keeps people homeless
Almost all two-bedroom homes available for rent across England, Scotland and Wales are too expensive for families on housing benefit, extensive research by the Bureau has found. Our reporters collected the details of more than 62,000 rental listings and found that less than 6% were affordable when mapped against the local housing benefit rates, which have been… Continue reading
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Brexit/Bojo News Links 4 October 2019
4 October 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Brexit: Boris Johnson will send extension letter – court document https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49936352 Trumpenstein Must Be Destroyed! https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/10/trumpenstein-must-be-destroyed/ Continue reading
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Elite UK military unit secretly trained by leftist regime-change advocate Gilbert Achcar and other academics
Government documents show scholar Gilbert Achcar and other pro-regime change academics have given training sessions to UK Ministry of Defense soldiers, helping the British military enhance its counter-insurgency tactics. Continue reading
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Brexit/Bojo News Links 3 October 2019
3 October 2019 • 21:20 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Boris Johnson’s Brexit plan: EU ‘open but unconvinced’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49927186 An extraordinary court case in Scotland could make Boris Johnson behind bars a reality http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/wYF-gd0iDds/ Continue reading
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Brexit/Bojo News Links 2 October 2019
2 October 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Boris Johnson: No-deal only alternative to Brexit plan https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49906702 Campaign group beautifully takes the Tories down, with the words of a Conservative icon http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheCanary/~3/cQyTI-6lNNQ/ Continue reading
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Dangerous Detentions: Julian Assange And Remaining In Bel-marsh By Binoy Kampmark
Much ink has been spilt in textbooks describing situations where autocratic states can behave badly. They abuse rights; they ignore international law and they ride roughshod over conventions. Liberal democracies may boast that they follow matters to the letter of the law, and make sure that citizens are given their fair and just cause in… Continue reading
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Corbyn holds pro-Remain party discussions over leading “caretaker” administration or stepping aside to allow “government of national unity”
Labour’s Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell yesterday publicly opposed plans for a “government of national unity” and insisted on Jeremy Corbyn’s right to head a “caretaker government” to prevent a no-deal Brexit. Continue reading
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Tory Conference: Priti Patel demonstrates Tory ‘law and order’ priorities
Home Secretary Priti Patel has claimed that the Conservatives are “the party of law and order once again”, as she unveiled a number of measures designed to present the Tories as tough on crime. The home secretary continued: “As we renew our place as the party of law and order in Britain, let the message… Continue reading
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Brexit/Bojo News Links 1 October 2019
1 October 2019 18:30 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Will Boris Johnson become a ‘Brexit martyr’? http://infobrics.org/post/29423/ Boris Johnson: UK offering EU ‘very constructive’ Brexit proposals https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49893963 Continue reading
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