Philip Roddis I won’t beat about the bush. The West is inhabited by two groups: those who know that we are ruled by sociopaths, by the criminally insane[1]; and that much larger group which, taking at face value the surface forms of democracy informed by independent media, either cannot or will not accept this admittedly …
The coronavirus crisis: where is the British left?
by Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
16 June 2020
From mid-April onwards the government came under intense pressure to start lifting the lockdown it had imposed on 23 March.
The public deserves answers about the UK’s new opposition leader and his relationship with the British national security establishment, including…
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Every week (or, rather, most weeks, since the coronavirus torpedoed our schedule), we like to highlight three or four stories that go full-Guardian, but don’t require an entire article of refutation. We encourage reader-participation here, so if you come across something you feel should be included in the next edition either post a link below, …
John Pilger
21st Century Wire
On Saturday, there will be a march from Australia House in London to Parliament Square, the centre of British democracy. People will carry pictures of the Australian publisher and journalist Julian Assange who, on 24 February, faces a court that will decide whether or not he is to be extradited to the United States and a living death.
The truth is that Australia could have rescued Julian Assange and can still rescue him. Leaders of his homeland who have…
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