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Chaos Computer Club files charges against German government

The acknowledged Chaos Computer Club (CCC) together with the International League for Human Rights has launched persecution against Angela Merkel, and the presidents of Federal Intelligence Service (BND), Military Protection Service (MAD) and the Federal Office of Protection of the…

THe [UK] Government just passed a ‘Gagging Law’ to outlaw critics ahead of 2015 Elections

By Scriptonite Daily Last night, the UK government passed the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill.  A bill gagging charities, NGO’s, bloggers, community groups and most attempts at organised opposition to the government in the year prior…

The Transatlantic Colossus

[Now available online] ‘The Transatlantic Colossus: Global Contributions to Broaden the Debate on the EU-US Free Trade Agreement’ (2014), a publication from the Berlin Forum on Global Politics in collaboration with the Internet & Society Collaboratory and FutureChallenges.org of the Bertelsmann Stiftung. The free…

Gezi Park and Workers

by Kıvanç Eliaçık(*) The ‘occupation’ of Taksim Gezi Park in response to the clear-cutting of trees was transformed into a country-wide, anti-government ‘movement’ due to disproportionate police violence. The ‘happening’ went into the annals of republican history as the largest-ever…

Blair fans the flames of intolerance

By Corinna Lotz for A World to Win Still smarting from an attempt at a citizen’s arrest earlier this month for war crimes over the illegal invasion of Iraq, Tony Blair is now recycling noxious neo-con, pseudo-theories in telling us…

Privatisation will be irreversible unless the NHS is exempted from the EU-US Trade deal

Published by the National Health Action Party (UK) One of the main planks of our Euro election campaign is calling for the NHS to be exempted from the EU-US Trade deal, or the TTIP as it’s officially called. Most people…

Exposed: How the UK government has colluded with the UK finance sector against legislation to curb food speculation

In cahoots Link to the World Development Movement research published by Critical Thinking Published on Sunday, 26 January 2014 12:48 Defined as: colluding or conspiring together secretly, “in cahoots” exactly describes the unholy alliance between the UK government and the City…

Andruchowycz: Think of us. And so we will win, although they will be mad

By Ilya Varlamov.- In recent days, I get many requests from you to describe the current situation in Kiev and in Ukraine in general, to assess what is taking place, and to provide any vision of the near future. Because…

Appeal of the people of Ukraine to the International Community: please act now!

This is our last plea for help. Tomorrow they might disconnect our phones and internet, announce a state of emergency and kill us while the international community remains silent, upholding European values on paper only. People are dying for them…

Inequality at Davos

Published on Thursday, 23 January 2014 00:39 by Critical Thinking The World Economic Forum at Davos this week is discussing inequality. NBC News declared: “With the global economy slowly getting back on its feet, 2,500 delegates gathered in Davos, Switzerland…

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