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A life costs £10,000: how G4S’ Brook House detention contract works
In 2017, security company G4S was in the headlines again after the Panorama TV programme exposed new revelations of brutality in Brook House, one of two immigration detention centres the company runs for the Home Office. Two years later, the National Audit Office has published a report on G4S’ contract to run the centre. Continue reading
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Video Report: Military Doctors Designed, Enabled U.S. Torture of Prisoners at Guantánamo, Secret Prisons
A new report says medical professionals working under U.S. military orders have been complicit in the abuse of terrorism suspects. The Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism concluded that medical staff who worked with the CIA and Pentagon “designed and participated in cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment and torture of detainees” at Guantánamo Bay and… Continue reading
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Illegal Invasions, “Rogue States”, Forgotten Victims and a Shaming Plea By Felicity Arbuthnot
The usual suspects have embarked on another mass butchery – sorry “training exercise” – in mega-resource-rich Mali, and are meddling, with lethality, in Algeria. The UK, ever keen to kill, has gone from the Prime Minister’s “no boots on the ground” assurances, to “Operation Creep” in barely over a week. Continue reading
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Books: Transitional Demands from 1695 By Carl Rowlands
In the work of John Bellers, dating from the 1690s to the 1720s, we can see the earliest calls for nothing less than a National Health Service, a peaceful European state-of-states, vocationally-based alleviation of unemployment and poverty and—bravely in such a period—a plea for the richest to be held responsible for the condition of the… Continue reading
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GR Week in Review: Police States, Failures of Capitalism and Global Warfare
9 May 2012 — Global Research URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30775 Police States:“After reporting this week on a Pentagon-created plan for interning activists at re-education camps, questions were asked about the US Army manual that allegedly outlines the resettling of US citizens. Can Americans be sent to propaganda prisons?” (POLICE STATE: Army manual for re-education Continue reading
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Palestine: Bound, Blindfolded and Convicted: Children held in military detention
The report is the culmination of four year’s work by DCI-Palestine, with the support of the European Union, focusing on verifying reports of ill-treatment and torture of children held in military detention. The findings of the report are based on 311 sworn affidavits taken from children between January 2008 and January 2012. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 8 February 2012: US Will Continue to Arm Anti-government Rebels in Syria
8 February, 2012 — Information Clearing House Intervention in Syria will Escalate Not Stop the KillingBy Seumas MilneFor the US, Britain and their allies to indulge in moral posturing over Syria or pose as friends of its people is preposterous. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30472.htm Continue reading
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ColdType June-July 2011 Issue
14 June 2011 — Coldtype Download in pdf format at http://www.coldtype.net 1. Back to the, er, past . . . This month we’ve changed our name from The ColdType Reader back to the original, and simpler, title of ColdType. It’s the third time we’ve changed our name: the first incarnation of ColdType was in tabloidprinted Continue reading
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Leonard Weinglass: Aug. 27, 1933 – Mar. 23, 2011
Leonard Weinglass, was a restless fighter for the cause of five Cubans who have been in US prisons since 1998, internationally known as the Cuban Five. Continue reading
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SERCO – The Corporate Dictatorship
8 January, 2011 The biggest company you’ve never heard of… For more on Serco see Corporate Watch 1st collector for SERCO – The Corporate Dictatorship Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
The New Dark Age 