No matter what your opinions of Trump or Clinton one thing is a fact. The one with the most votes lost and the one with the least votes won. Electoral college or not this is US democracy for you. The one that they spend hundreds of billions of dollars...
The American media can match our gutter press and then some when it suits. Reality has become a luxury as many people diet on lies. This is especially the case in social media world where clicking like and share reflects the engagement time before scrolling on. Many now openly...
RISING UP - PEACEFUL DIRECT ACTIONS ON NOVEMBER 19TH https://compassionate-revolution.net/…/rising-staygrounded-…(They are looking for 200 volunteers - please spread the word!) I am genuinely gutted at the almost total reporting black-out by the BBC on the massive CO2 consequences of Heathrow Expansion in most of their online coverage... Take Laura Kuennsberg,...
Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy when he was shot and I saw his assassin, preparing to kill him. It was a baptism in the American...
With the French government owned EDF Board having potentially signed one of the most expensive suicide notes ever in corporate history, giving the go-ahead to the Hinkley C Nuclear Plant, Britain right now is teetering on the brink of the biggest corporate/political corruption scandal in its history. “Imagine for...
The unambiguous nature of this case was pointed out weeks ago. However, the desire of rich people to put a portion of their stash in to the pockets of solicitors and barristers to flex their puny muscles and inflated egos again appears to know no ends. A backdrop for...
We are in a crucial moment for the campaign against #LOBOloans that were mis-sold to Councils. For a short period of time during the summer, local residents have the right to object to their Councils’ accounts. This is an incredible opportunity for us to challenge the rent seeking corporations within the...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighting to retake the northern Syrian city of Manbij from the Islamic State have apprehended militants fleeing the city disguised as civilians, some even in women’s clothing.
“As you see, today we caught 10 of them dressed as women,” said an SDF soldier in...
With such a disjoined reponse to why people made the choices on both sides of the Referendum debate this excellent short video focuses on those in northern English deprived communities and their rationales. Short documentary set in the former mining village of Stainforth, near Doncaster, in the wake of...
Conservative MEP Julie Girling has roundly rejected a suggestion by Spain that it could offer a joint-sovereignty arrangement to Gibraltar in the event of Britain leaving the European Union. https://www.euractiv.com/ section/uk-europe/news/spain- suggest-joint-sovereignty- over-gibraltar-in-case-of- brexit/ Mrs Girling said: "I returned from a visit to Gibraltar last week with one message ringing...
