What the disclosures of former CIA contractor Edward Snowden show perhaps above all else is just how petrified the leaders of the United States have become – of ordinary citizens both in the US and around the world. When we say “leaders” we mean the ruling elite – the top one percent of the financial-corporate-military-industrial complex and its bought- and paid-for politicians.
A golden staircase greets guests to De Warande, an exclusive club in central Brussels. Built in the late eighteenth century, this mansion was acquired in 1907 by François Empain, a banker who helped his royal chum Leopold II loot the Congo. With its historical association to imperial conquest, it is surely an apt venue for furtive talks on how to […]
By John Lister (Morning Star) Why are all the worst horror stories from England? The NHS in England has been run separately from those in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland since devolution. And since 2000 successive Westminster governments have used it as a test-bed for experiments with untried “reforms” aimed to transform it from a public health care system into […]
For more than a week Brazilian workers have taken to the streets. Yesterday, the country witnessed its biggest demonstrations since the fall of the dictatorship. But the situation on the ground has confounded many international commentators.
Interviewing for Jacobin, Mark Bergfeld sheds light on new developments with Miguel Borba de Sa — a university lecturer at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He is the author of Bolívia – Passos das revoluções and has written extensively on indigenous struggles in Latin America.
Australian activist, whose wife is expecting a child this week, will appeal against Home Office ruling that he must leave country by Hugh Muir (The Guardian) The Australian activist who disrupted the 2012 Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race in protest at government cuts has been ordered to leave the country, after receiving a six-month jail term that many thought was […]
Brazil Uprising 2013 – Police Officers Sit Down With Protesters Second Week Of Protests Against Corruption In Brazil. Police Officers in São Paulo, sit down with protesters in respect and support to the manifestation.
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In this edition of Spanish Face of the Week, meet Ada Colau, the anti-evictions activist who decided not to throw her shoes at her political enemies by Alex Dunham (The Local) • Action group shuts door on home evictions (26 Feb 13) • Firemen help hose down eviction plans (22 Feb 13) So who is Ada Colau? She’s a 38-year-old […]
The Associated Press dropped a bombshell report yesterday that claims the NSA’s secret Internet spy program Prism is just a small part of a much more “expansive and intrusive” digital spying effort by J.P. Hicks According to the AP, the NSA copies ALL INTERNET traffic in and out of the United States for analysis by hoovering all data that passes […]
Every day, all over England & Wales the international bankers are unlawfully evicting. We the People from our homes, in what has to be one of the biggest scandals currently facing this country. In 2011 alone at least 36,000 repossessions were executed by the banks. However, as you will see, they do this based on a gigantic criminal scam. On the 31st May […]
An update to yesterday’s article by Simon Wood (The 99.99998271%) The NSA whistleblower has now been identified as Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former CIA technical assistant who, until the leak, worked in Hawaii for defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. His identity was made public at his own request. There can be no doubt that Mr. Snowden is a classic example […]
By William Blum In this season of college graduations, let us pause to remember the stirring words of America’s beloved scholar, George W. Bush, speaking in Florida in 2007 at the commencement exercises of Miami Dade College: “In Havana and other Cuban cities, there are people just like you who are attending school, and dreaming of a better life. Unfortunately […]
