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US military enforces attacks on Haitian unions Pt2 By Didier Dominique
Didier Dominique: Deliberate US policy weakened Haitian farming to create pool of cheap textile labor Continue reading
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US military enforces attacks on Haitian unions By Didier Dominique
Didier Dominique: US military helping to repress organizing of textile worker’s unions in Haiti Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: THE SILENCE OF THE BBC 100 – BBC TRUST CHAIRMAN RESPONDS TO ‘NEWSPEAK’
One of our readers recently took us to task for a serious omission in our new book, ‘Newspeak in the 21st Century’ (Pluto Press, 2009). He asked how we could possibly have failed to include the BBC’s Newsnight presenter, Emily Maitlis. In August 2008, Maitlis opened Newsnight with these words about the conflict between Russia… Continue reading
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General Motors: When We Are Led to Believe a Lie By Gregg Shotwell
GM sold 4.4 million vehicles in the U.S. in 1992 and employed 265,000 UAW members. GM sold 4.5 million vehicles in the U.S. in 2007 and employed 73,000 UAW members. Continue reading
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High Culture — Low Values By William Bowles
The Britain I grew up in was saturated with class: your accent (acquired via your education), dress and address defined who you were, even how intelligent it was assumed you were, what paths in life were open to you, your ambitions, in fact the whole nine yards were laid out for you from the day… Continue reading
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Sink or Swim in the capitalist ocean? By William Bowles
When a group of so-called Aboriginals from I believe Borneo (or maybe it was Papua New Guinea) visited the UK recently they were gob-smacked to find homeless people on the streets of London. The concept ‘homelessness’ simply didn’t exist in their vocabulary and reinforced by the vast wealth that surrounded them (the ‘Aboriginal and the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 