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Two-third in USA and 76% in UK say mainstream publishes fake news
This article was originally published on The Herland Report, 12/04/2018. Two-thirds of Americans say that the mainstream media pushes fake news, 24 % among the British believe what they read in the press. The numbers reflect what the Norwegian…
Why a post-racial British society remains a myth – even in universities
Kalwant Bhopal, University of Birmingham for The Conversation Racism is truly alive and kicking in British society, not least in liberal, progressive universities. This was evident in early March when a black female student released a video of people shouting…
Puigdemont: The denial of dialogue is not an option in democracy
Carles Puigdemont, former president of the Generalitat [Goverment] of Catalonia, has appeared this afternoon to the press in Berlin for the first time since his release. The overnight and apparently improvised press conference took place in Berlin-Kreuzberg, in a cultural…
Piero Giorgi: Empathy, solidarity, cooperation, nonviolence, spirituality and respect for nature could unite us
As the European Humanist Forum approaches, we’re taking the opportunity to interview our speakers about the ideas behind the Forum. Piero P. Giorgi is an Italian neuroscientist whose education took him from Bologna, to the UK, Switzerland and then to…
British Government caught lying re nerve agent attack. Weapons of Mass Deception all over again
Craig Murray’s blog continues to inform as the Government, and in particular Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson gets deeper and deeper into his own web of lies and unconfirmed claims. Knobs and Knockers What is left of the government’s definitive identification…
Baltasar Garzón to appear in the opening session of the European Humanist Forum 2018
Judge Baltasar Garzón will be in the opening session of the European Humanist Forum 2018 taking place on the 11th, 12th and 13th of May in Madrid. He will talk about issues concerning Universal Jurisdiction in the defence of Human…
Scotland must defend Clara Ponsati [1]; Sturgeon cannot play Pontius Pilate
By Craig Murray [2] It is sickening that Spanish courts continue to jail, and remove from political life, Catalan politicians who are the victors in democratic elections. That the European political class and media is almost entirely complicit and supportive…
Cambridge Analytica is what happens when you privatise military propaganda
ADAM RAMSAY 28 March 2018 for openDemocracy You can’t understand the Cambridge Analytica scandal until you understand what its parent company does The Gulf War Did Not Take Place”. This audacious claim was made by the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard…
The Geopolitics of Targeting Russia
By Chandra Muzaffar, The escalation of tensions between the United States, Britain and France, on the one hand, and Russia, on the other, should not surprise anyone. In the last few years, the US leadership and mainstream British media have…
Italy, Germany and the EU’s Future
The once powerful center-left went down to defeat. As it accommodated to capital, it eroded its trade union base. It bailed out banks and financial speculators, while inflicting ruinous austerity measures on their own populations to pay for it. When center-left…
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