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Britain Draws Up A Plan For War With North Korea
Britain Draws Up A Plan For War With North Korea While the United States remains distracted and divided, Great Britain draws up plans for an upcoming war with North Korea. Tossing major issues aside, Americans have all but forgotten that the world stands on the precipice of World War 3. While the left is focusing […]
Britain to Criminalize Reading Online Extremist Content
Britain to Criminalize Reading Online Extremist Content Like America, Britain is unfit and unsafe to live in – both countries police states, serving privileged interests exclusively, allied in waging wars OF terror in multiple theaters, along with abolishing fundamental homeland freedoms. The latest civil rights abuse came from hardline home secretary Amber Rudd. She’s spearheading […]
Social Destruction by the Abuse of Money
SOCIAL DESTRUCTION BY THE ABUSE OF MONEY In Britain, the top 1% of earners pay over a quarter of all income tax collected, and while super-rich British residents perhaps don’t have the tax breaks the Macklowes enjoy, the bulk of the burden falls on lawyers, bankers, company executives and owners of successful private enterprises. And […]
Britain bans gasoline and diesel cars starting in 2040
Britain bans gasoline and diesel cars starting in 2040 When will hybrids and electric cars really take over? Britain will ban sales of new gasoline and diesel cars starting in 2040 as part of a bid to clean up the country’s air. The decision to phase out the internal combustion engine heralds a new era […]
Images Of British Troops Deployed In London
Images Of British Troops Deployed In London As Prime Minister Theresa May promised, troops have been deployed to guard “key locations,” including the Palace of Westminster, several embassies and “other sensitive sites,” in London and other British cities, the Evening Standard reported. The mass deployment follows Monday’s attack at Manchester Arena, which killed 22 kids […]
Facebook Deletes Tens Of Thousands Of Accounts Ahead Of UK General Election
Facebook Deletes Tens Of Thousands Of Accounts Ahead Of UK General Election Ahead of the British general election on June 8, Facebook has deleted tens of thousands of accounts in Britain in its ongoing battle with “fake news” the AP reports. The campaign is part of Facebook’s evolving response to accusations the group was responsible […]
Meet Britain’s Nuclear Nutcase: Defense Secretary Micheal Fallon
Meet Britain’s Nuclear Nutcase: Defense Secretary Micheal Fallon Michael Fallon’s recent claim that Britain under Theresa May’s leadership would be willing to launch a preemptive nuclear strike confirms what many suspected – namely that the British people are being ruled by a clutch of certifiable fanatics who will get us all destroyed unless they can be reined […]
Blowout Week 172
Blowout Week 172 In this week’s Blowout we return to Brexit and its impacts. It is now reported that following Brexit the UK will “scale down its concern over climate change” and scrap the EU’s 15%-of-total-energy-from-renewables-by-2020 target. Can outright repeal of the 2008 Climate Change Act be far behind? Telegraph: Britain preparing to scrap EU […]
Fake and False and Just Plain Nonsense
Fake and False and Just Plain Nonsense Paul Cézanne Les (Grandes) Baigneuses 1905 Two and a half weeks after the inauguration, and yes it’s only been that long, the media still don’t seem to have learned a single thing. They help the Trump campaign on an almost hourly basis by parroting whatever things, invariably judged as crazy, he […]
The Floodgates Begin To Open
The Floodgates Begin To Open It’s now clear that what governments did to counter the Great Recession may have delayed systemic collapse, but did not resurrect the old normal. Growth around the world is anemic – which is to say debt continues to increase faster than the productive capacity to service it – and inflation […]
10 Years (Or Less): Orwell’s Vision Coming True
10 Years (Or Less): Orwell’s Vision Coming True In the wake of all of the Brexit vote, a chilling blurb made headlines and it went largely unnoticed and uncommented upon. The line was couched within comments made by Boris Titov, an economic policy maker for Russia’s Kremlin. Actually all of the following merits attention, but […]
Desperately Trying to Salvage Canada-EU Trade Pact after Brexit, EU Escalates Assault on Democracy
Desperately Trying to Salvage Canada-EU Trade Pact after Brexit, EU Escalates Assault on Democracy The European Commission, it seems, will never learn. Despite the existential crisis caused by Britain’s decision to leave the EU and the serious questions being raised about the EU’s gaping lack of democratic legitimacy, the European Commission just escalated its assault […]
US imperialism the BREXIT culprit
US imperialism the BREXIT culprit How Western Military Interventions Shaped the Brexit Vote, TRNN, June 25, 2016. Michael Hudson argues that military interventions in the Middle East created refugee streams to Europe that were in turn used by the anti-immigrant right to stir up xenophobia GREGORY WILPERT, TRNN: Welcome to the Real News Network. I’m […]
The consequences of leaving the party
The consequences of leaving the party The collective decision of the British electorate is to reject the recommendation of its government, excepting those of its few dissenting ministers, that Britain should remain in Europe. It is a signal failure of government policy. Above all, it is a failure that undermines the state’s control over ordinary […]
Not So Fast: Scotland And Northern Ireland May Have Brexit Veto Rights
Not So Fast: Scotland And Northern Ireland May Have Brexit Veto Rights Two days after the shocking Brexit result, the nightmares for the Remain camp – which refuses to accept a democratic reality – will not go away. As a result, it has gotten to the farcical point where disgruntled Remain voters have launched a petition […]
