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Global watchdog says social media giants ‘directly aided’ fascist insurrection in Brazil
By Jake Johnson and Common Dreams January 09, 2023
The fascist attack on Brazil's main government complex was "directly aided" by major social media platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, and Telegram, the global watchdog group SumOfUs said Monday as the country's authorities continued their cleanup efforts, investigation, and arrests of suspects involved in the anti-democratic assault.
The insurrection, carried out by...
Biden Killed Senate Resolution to End Yemen War
By Caitlin Johnstone
It’s hard to think of a word to describe all this besides “evil.” If intervening to ensure the continued mass starvation of children and mass military slaughter of civilians is not evil, then nothing is evil, says Caitlin Johnstone.
Sen. Bernie Sanders has withdrawn his bill to end U.S. support for the Saudi war on Yemen following reports that the Biden administration...
The Guardian Could Help Assange By Retracting All The Lies It Published About Him
By Caitlin Johnstone
The Guardian has joined The New York Times, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País in signing a letter from the five papers which collaborated with WikiLeaks twelve years ago in the publication of the Chelsea Manning leaks to call for the Biden administration to drop all charges against Julian Assange. This sudden jolt of mainstream support comes as news breaks that Australian Prime Minister...
MPs raked in £9.6m from second jobs in a year
While millions struggle to make ends meet during the cost of living crisis, MPs raked in nearly £10 million from second jobs in a year.
The former health secretary is tipped to receive £400,000 for ‘I’m A Celebrity’. But other MPs are also on the make...
MPs are using their position as a springboard to promote themselves not their causes and...
How Western civilisation could collapse
Some possible precipitating factors are already in place. How the West reacts to them will determine the world’s future, says Rachel Nuwer.
This article By Rachel Nuwer was first published in 2017. Since then the world has turned upside down, the very ground we stand on has shifted several times from Covid to the US moving its sphere of influence...
Strike Wave Rocks Britain
While the Labour Party offers milquetoast solutions to the cost-of-living crisis and displays outright confusion over whether it backs striking workers, the unions are setting the opposition agenda, writes Marcus Barnett.
In Britain today, anyone asking a worker about the direction the country is headed will be unlikely to receive a printable answer.
Stumbling from crisis to crisis, the country is on...
Myths About Socialism: Redistribution of Wealth?
Probably one of the most common right-wing arguments against social welfare spending is that it constitutes “redistribution of wealth” or “sharing the wealth,” and is thus a road to socialism. Indeed, “socialism” is often defined by these reactionaries as the redistribution of wealth, which is seen as the ultimate evil because it leads to socialism, which is evil, and...
I have never been as worried or angry as I am now about what is about to hit the UK
Professor Richard Murphy writes that Jeremy Hunt's Autumn Budget will fail to huge swathes of the UK whilst being yet another Tory gift to the wealthy
This was a terrible budget for most people in the UK. For sure, it protected pensioners and those on benefits and the minimum wage. It was also great for those with wealth - who...
HOW SHELL AND BP FINANCED BRITAIN’S COLD WAR PROPAGANDA MACHINE
Formerly top secret files show how the two oil corporations bankrolled UK covert propaganda operations during the 1950s and 60s. The goal was to secure British access to key oil supplies across the developing world.
This article was first published as a Declassified UK article by JOHN MCEVOY.
“Handsome” sums were provided by BP and Shell to the Information Research...
For Queen and Country: Mourn you Black B*stards, MOURN!
At the end of Black history month, Gavin Lewis explores British colonialism and the uneasy relationship after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.Read more…
By Gavin Lewis
After the death of Queen Elizabeth II, media sports pundit and retired footballer Trevor Sinclair, posted the following tweet:
"Racism was outlawed in England in the 60’s & its been allowed to thrive so why should black...