competition
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More competition medicine – now it’s your GP’s turn By Deborah Colvin
Health regulator Monitor – whose primary duty is to investigate anti-competitive behaviour – is currently consulting on the “competitiveness” of General Practice and primary care in general. In particular, Monitor is calling for any evidence that lack of competition acts against the interest of patients. Alongside this, NHS England is consulting on improving primary care… Continue reading
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German publisher advocates “less democracy
A recently published book, by one of the most influential German newspaper publishers, is pleading for a transition toward “less democracy.” The “voice of the people” and the “emancipatory Zeitgeist, putting everything into question,” has a too “paralyzing influence” on current governance, writes the publishing house in its blurb for the book. The author therefore… Continue reading
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Australian Immigration – the Snowden Link? By Murray Hunter
With the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship already under siege over the treatment of refugees in detention camps, deaths in custody, and the abandonment of the principals of the UN Convention on refugees in regards to boat people, another disturbing aspect of the department’s handling of its portfolio is emerging with the recent appointment… Continue reading
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Student Science Experiment Finds Plants won’t Grow near Wi-Fi Router
Ninth-graders design science experiment to test the effect of cellphone radiation on plants. The results may surprise you. Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘The Special One’ – Part 2: Looking Under The Lamppost By David Edwards
There is an emptiness at the core of our being. The ego’s great task is to fill that emptiness with evidence that we are ‘someone’ rather than ‘nobody’, that we are ‘special’. But no matter how hard we try, our achievements continue to fall and vanish into the void. Continue reading
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The health hurricane: a year of destruction in the NHS By Alex Nunn
It is almost a year since the controversial Health and Social Care Act was passed in March 2012. At the time, campaigners issued apocalyptic warnings that it would break up the health service, allowing the NHS to be offered up for privatisation bit by bit. A year on that fear is being realised at breathtaking… Continue reading
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Zbigniew Brzezinski as a mirror of American devolution (II) By Dmitry MININ
We are halfway through the time allotted by Zbigniew Brzezinski in his landmark book «The Grand Chessboard», when he predicted that U.S. dominance in the world would remain unchallenged for a period of thirty years. Now just 15 years on and in his new book «Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power», he… Continue reading
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South Africa: The road from 1996 to Mangaung By Terry Bell
The tortuous road to the governing ANC’s centennial conference at Mangaung ends next week. And, not to put too fine a point on it, much of the country is gatvol with the route it has taken and where it has arrived. Continue reading
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European Parliament votes to protect Wikileaks against financial blockade
In a landmark decision today the European Parliament initiated the drafting of legislation that would stop the arbitrary banking blockades against WikiLeaks and other organizations facing economic censorship. Continue reading
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Global Competition and Deterioration of U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1977-1980
The U.S.-Soviet rivalry in the Third World created splits within the Carter administration and fundamental confusion in the Kremlin over the nature of U.S. motives to such a degree that they helped bring about the collapse of superpower detente, according to documents and transcripts from a conference of former high-level American-Russian policy-makers published today by… Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books, London Newsletter July 2012
26 June 2012 — Housmans Books NEWS 1. London’s Burning / Radical London walks COMPETITION 2. One day sale: 30% off all books on June 30th! 3. British Library ‘Writing Britain’ ticket giveaway Continue reading
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Strong Russia Of Strategic Importance To China
Putin’s victory is a positive factor for the stability of China’s northern border and its global strategic environment. As China’s competition with the US intensifies, this becomes a valuable asset. China’s growing influence will also in turn provide support for Russia’s path ahead. Continue reading
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…and Gaddafi was what? Bad, yes. Now open your Citizenship Readers to page 45….
I suppose because the average Libyan is now doomed to years of social chaos, misery and poverty, western consensus media have redoubled their efforts to remind us just how heinous Gaddafi was. I know it’s near to useless to try to hold them responsible or awaken any vestigial conscience lurking in a journalist’s tiny head,… Continue reading
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Media: The Spreading of False Ideologies into our Culture By Steven J. M. Jones
By its own definition it is media’s job to tell us about ourselves and the world around us, to enable us to make informed decisions in a democratic society. That’s the theory. Continue reading
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The NHS Debate by Dan Hind
The Week in Westminster this morning ran a feature on the Coalition’s plans for the National Health Service. The presenter Peter Riddell interviewed the Lords Fowler and Warner, Conservative and Labour respectively. These ‘veteran peers’ shared a good deal of ground in their discussion with Peter Riddell. Indeed an incautious listener might have come away… Continue reading
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Lowering Workers’ Wages is the Objective
14 December, 2010 — The Real News Network Leo Panitch: Big Business opposed to government jobs programs, as their objective is to drive wages down through fear and global competition Follow my videos on vodpod Bio Leo Panitch is the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, March 29, 2008
Anti-Empire Report, March 29, 2008, Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life William Blum www.killinghope.org Propaganda as an Olympic competition The latest protests in Tibet and crackdown by Chinese authorities have brought up the usual sermonizing in the West about Chinese government oppression and illegitimate control of the Continue reading
The New Dark Age 