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‘Cast Your Whole Vote, Not A Strip of Paper Merely’.

Alison Banville — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 12:21:55 +0000

The title above is taken from Henry David Thoreau’s seminal 1849 essay , Civil Disobedience. One of the most influential ever written. Read by Gandhi and Martin Luther King who both declared its influence upon them, it’s as relevant today as it ever was. Particularly on this day! Election day 2024. Thoreau beseeches us to make voting a symbol of […]

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THE MORTAL GOD DROPS ITS MASK

WD James — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:00:56 +0000

I know many of us are still trying to make sense of the seemingly insane, and definitely disturbing, political developments of the past several years. Left and right, up and down, seem all jumbled up. Perhaps most disorienting has been the rapidity of the changes in how ‘Western Liberal Democracies’ behave as political actors. Personally, for most of my life, […]

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Russell Brand: What’s Really Going On?

Alison Banville — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 17:10:00 +0000

It’s fascinating to watch how easy it is for the corporate media’s institutional bias to successfully direct the dumb gaze of the sleepwalkers to its chosen angle so that the parameters of debate are squeezed and narrowed until they include only its own perspective. In this case it’s, ‘is Russell Brand a hypocrite?’

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BSNews at the Save Our Ticket Offices Rally

Alison Banville — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 17:56:59 +0000

The following article by BSN editor Alison Banville was published in The Morning Star. A few days ago I joined a large crowd gathered outside the Department of Transport in London. There were ornate union banners being held aloft proudly emblazoned with ‘Manchester RMT’, ‘Liverpool, Branch no 5 est. 1913’, ‘Wigan RMT’ and, most movingly for me as a girl […]

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Labour: Starmer is paving the way for the triumph of dark politics

Jonathan Cook — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 14:47:14 +0000

By waging an all-out war on the left and its ideas, the Labour leader is strangling hope of change in a time of crisis and risks driving voters towards right-wing authoritarians here is a reason – and not the one given – why Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has announced that he is banning his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, from standing as a candidate for the party at […]

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Western sanctions will mean that more Syrians die after the earthquakes

Eva Bartlett — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:36:19 +0000

The economic stranglehold and selective approach to aid will lead to more death and displacement Following the devastating earthquakes that rocked Turkey, Syria and their neighboring countries on February 6, leaving more than 20,000 dead, Damascus is struggling to deal with this unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe as it remains under brutal Western sanctions that have brought the country to its knees. […]

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The Somme: A Deeper Question

Alison Banville — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 08:48:00 +0000

I've just been reading, during the commemorations for the Battle of the Somme, Wilfred Owen's poem ‘Anthem For Doomed Youth’ about 'these who die as cattle'. A comment by a member of the fantastic group, Veterans For Peace UK, on Facebook about the ceremonies says, 'All the talk of fallen and sacrifice gets me. Those men did not fall they were ripped apart.' which is exactly right. Senseless mass slaughter……and I couldn't get Owen's poem out of my head.

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The Labour Files: Where is Democracy? Mainstream Media Blackout.

Alison Banville — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 10:35:02 +0000

Corporate media silence as biggest leak in British political history reveals it’s implicated with politicians in a scandal of epic proportions. All hell should have broken loose in the last three days as Al Jazeera published in succession three videos of their investigation into leaks from inside the UK Labour Party. What these files reveal should be front page and […]

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Letter From an NHS Clinical Scientist to Sajid Javid on Why She is Quitting Over the Covid Vaccines

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 02:43:44 +0000

There follows a letter from an NHS Clinical Scientist of some 25 years – currently employed at an NHS University Hospital Trust but who has just resigned – to Health Secretary Sajid Javid to tell him why she is quitting over the complicity of the health service in the national scandal that is the Covid vaccine rollout. The letter is […]

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Didn’t those enraged at Boris Johnson’s ‘smears’ of Starmer defame Corbyn at every turn?

Jonathan Cook — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 23:13:03 +0000

The media outrage at Johnson linking the Labour leader to Jimmy Savile is because his comments inadvertently exposed the dark underbelly of the British establishment

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