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Nearly five million people in the UK live in “deep poverty” By Dennis Moore
A study by the Social Metrics Commission (SMC) finds that more than 4 million people in the UK are mired in “deep poverty,” with an income at least 50 percent below the official poverty line. Many families in this bracket struggle to pay for the most basic essentials. Continue reading
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Dominic Cummings and the Downing Street Plan of chaos
By TruePublica: The man behind shaping Boris Johnson’s premiership, the architect of Vote Leave, Brexit and the U.K.’s future in the world also wants radical change in the way Britain is run and to rebuild world politics. This vision includes seeing the destruction of the European Union, the biggest trading bloc in the world and… Continue reading
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UK: Record £9.2 billion of NHS budget handed to private firms By Ben Trent
The Department of Health and Social Care’s annual report reveals that last year saw a record £9.2 billion of the National Health Service (NHS) budget going to private investors, such as Virgin Care and Priory mental health group. Continue reading
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Corbyn makes his pitch to head a “caretaker government” to stop no-deal Brexit By Chris Marsden
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday submitted a letter to opposition party leaders and backbench pro-Remain rebels offering to lead the struggle to oppose a no-deal Brexit. Continue reading
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John Bolton visit – Forcing Britain’s hand over Huawei, Iran and China before Trade Deal
By TruePublica: There were many public protests with the arrival of Donald Trump to the shores of Britain and contrary to his own beliefs, Trump is not well-liked at all by ordinary British citizens. What was strange though was the fact that there were no protests at all in Britain for the arrival of one… Continue reading
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The truth about the UK’s special relationship with Israel
By TruePublica: Britain does not have a special relationship with the USA. It is, and has been since the end of the World War, a subservient inferior ‘partner’ doing what it is told. Britain stands next to the schoolyard thug and tries not to be a victim of it. Likewise, Britain acquiesces to Israel –… Continue reading
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UK: Bradford NHS workers vote to strike against privatisation By Richard Tyler
Hospital workers in Bradford, England, facing the backdoor privatisation of their jobs have voted to take indefinite strike action from August 26. Continue reading
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Brexit – do or die: Selected Articles
15 August 2019 — Global Research How English Nationalist Boris Johnson Is Turning the UK into a “US Colony” By Henry McLeish Boris Johnson and the right-wing Tories in Cabinet are English nationalists who hope to turn UK into a US ‘colony’, a country where EU regulations are replaced by limited welfare, minimum standards, low taxes and… Continue reading
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Zephyr and the development of high-altitude military surveillance drones
The Guardian reported recently that the Pentagon’s Southern Command are testing stratospheric balloons over the US, to combat drug trafficking and support homeland security. The news has caused concern among US civil liberties advocates angry that American citizens will be being monitored in these tests. However, these balloons are just one of a new type… Continue reading
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Assange Must Not Also Die in Jail By Craig Murray
The highly dubious death of Jeffrey Epstein in a US maximum security prison is another strong reason not to extradite Julian Assange into one – particularly as many of the same people who are relieved by Epstein’s death would like to see Assange dead too. Continue reading
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UK government is pushing ahead with extreme US trade deal
By TruePublica: Currently, Britain has a Prime Minister who was elected not by the public, but by around 90,000 Conservative party members. With a majority in the House of Commons of just one seat, without any real political mandate, Britain is being pushed towards a hard Brexit. In little more than 80 days – it… Continue reading
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UK: Johnson government considers post-Brexit snap election, while Labour’s Blairites plot “national unity” government By Chris Marsden
12 August 2019 — WSWS Plans by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government to force through a no-deal Brexit threaten to embroil the UK in a major constitutional crisis. Continue reading
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Disunited Kingdom? The Union Is Now All But Dead
TruePublica Editor: Boris Johnson declares himself a champion of the UK union, a prime minister who wants to strengthen “the ties that bind our United Kingdom”. This is just part of the propaganda game being played. But as the FT headline goes – “Brexit has become the enemy of the UK union” (paywall) and it… Continue reading
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Official Secrets: Priti Patel’s Early War on Whistleblowers By Nina Cross
As British ambassador to the US Kim Darroch tended his wounds of humiliation last month, following the leak of a cache of diplomatic cables and documents, including emails describing President Trump as ‘inept’ and ‘uniquely dysfunctional,’ an outraged UK government descended into panic over how to handle such an apparently sensitive and damaging betrayal of… Continue reading
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State Censorship: seizing journalists notes, restricting press freedom
By TruePublica: In our recent article entitled – Rise of the Techno Stasi-State we asked the question was that too strong a news headline after the High Court decided the government’s architecture of mass surveillance over the population was perfectly legal. The legal representative, Chamberlain QC, said on the High Court steps after Liberty-Human-Rights lost… Continue reading
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‘You have to prove Putin was involved’: Met Police push back against UK blame game in Skripal saga
A year and a half since the Salisbury poisoning, the UK appears to be left with egg on its face after Scotland Yard admitted it is impossible to build a criminal case due to a lack of evidence. The Metropolitan Police scrutinized claims that an order to target former double agent Sergey Skripal and his… Continue reading
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New Fears for Julian Assange
Legendary journalist John Pilger has been to see Assange in Belmarsh Prison in London and his report is not encouraging. Continue reading
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The Skripal Poisoning: Anonymous’ Revelations Point to UK Intelligence Motives By Karin Brothers
Initially, it appeared to former government whistleblowers that the motive might have been connected to Sergei Skripal’s relationship with his handler Pablo Miller, whose name had been protected by a government gag order soon after the poisoning. Miller was a colleague of Christopher Steele, author of the fabricated Russian dossier on Donald Trump: perhaps Skripal… Continue reading
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Norman Finkelstein on Corbyn and ‘anti-semitism’ in the Labour Party
Jewish academic and son of Holocaust survivors analyses the Labour Party anti-semitism scandal and its implications for the upcoming American elections Continue reading
The New Dark Age 