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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…
Not 50 million, not 87 million… Facebook admits data from ‘most’ of its 2 billion users compromised by ‘Malicious Actors’
Buried in a company announcement was acknowledgement that nearly all of its users have been targeted to some degree by Jessica Corbett, staff writer for Common Dreams “Buried in Facebook’s announcement that Cambridge Analytica had improperly gathered data from up to…
Decolonise science – time to end another imperial era
Rohan Deb Roy, University of Reading for The Conversation Sir Ronald Ross had just returned from an expedition to Sierra Leone. The British doctor had been leading efforts to tackle the malaria that so often killed English colonists in the…
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…
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…
Change Is coming… and not through the barrel of our guns
The uncontained force behind the national murder rate is dehumanization, and as this movement grows, it must — it will — look institutional dehumanization straight in the eye. by Robert C. Koehler for Common Dreams The cries of loss and anguish…
The March for Our Lives in Pictures: demonstrators mourn those lost to gun violence and condemn complicit politicians
“Who here is going to vote in the 2018 election? If you listen real close, you can hear the people in power shaking.” by Julia Conley, staff writer for Common Dreams (watch the videos here) Taking the stage on the…
Reparations at the World Social Forum 2018
By Colonialism Reparation Press Release The theme of reparations at the 2018 World Social Forum in Salvador de Bahia was treated in the workshop Repairs to Colonialism (page 113), in the World Assembly of Resistance Peoples, Movements and Territories and in…
Deportation and direct action in Britain: the ‘terrorist trial’ of the Stansted 15
By GRAEME HAYES, STEVEN CAMMISS, and BRIAN DOHERTY 16 March 2018 for openDemocracy The severity of the charge faced by the Stansted 15 should be seen as an important moment in defining the scope for non-violent protest in the UK…
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