The U.K. government pledged on September 3 to phase out plastic microbeads in cosmetics by the end of 2017. We’re expected to know which products will be covered by the ban in the coming days. [1]
(ANTIMEDIA) Anyone who’s been alive for the last twenty-five years likely knows who Rage Against the Machine is. The politically fueled Los Angeles act popped up in 1991 and ever since, has made an influential impact when it comes to political awareness in popular music.
Jeremy Corbyn rushed to hospital with multiple stab wounds in backWe've been writing for some time now about how the Democratic Party establishment sees "party unity" as a one way street. When someone from the corrupt-conservative wing of the party wins a primary-- or steals a win-- progressives must jump on board and back her (or him).
Zadie Smith in 2014"Whether we still know, in Britain, what a better life is, what its necessary conditions are and how to achieve them, is what’s now in doubt."-- Zadie Smith, in "Fences: A Brexit Diary,"in the August 18 New York Review of Booksby KenThough Zadie Smith is probably better known as a fiction writer (and teacher of fiction writing; she's a tenured professor at N
-by NoahBritain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May has fired a canon shot across the bow of the rest of the world. In her first act since taking office, she has named Boris Johnson as her country’s brand, spanking new Foreign Secretary, aka Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. The Foreign Secretary’s job is to represent Britain’s interests abroad.
(ANTIMEDIA) United Kingdom — At this time last week, citizens of the U.K. turned out in record numbers to cast their votes on whether to remain under the control of the European Union or leave it. When the final votes were counted, a collective “Oh, shit” could be heard from both sides as it was revealed the Leave campaign had won — and there was only a moment of silence before all hell broke loose.
(ANTIMEDIA) United Kingdom — Since Thursday evening’s historic Brexit vote, things are changing as fast as mud is being slung. While victorious British ‘leavers’ feel they’ve been snatched from the jaws of the Brussels’ elite, the ‘remains’ believe they just swapped one set of faceless bureaucrats for another. The only thing certain is that the intense divisions in the U.K.
(ANTIMEDIA) United Kingdom — A new startup is selling details of the online activity log of your life, taking the screening of potential new housing tenants to a new level. Not dissimilar to China’s Sesame Credit — which incorporates online and offline data to generate people’s credit scores — a British company is selling dossiers on people’s social media profiles to everyone, from your landlord to potential employers.
The corporate media has been slammed for downplaying a monumental protest on Saturday.
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