… wealth is increasingly concentrated among a privileged few while millions are barely subsisting. Women are dying for lack of decent maternity care and children are denied an education that could be their route out of poverty. It doesn’t have … Read More »
With Italy in lock down there’s music on the balconies of Rome’s apartment blocks, but it’s not Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Five days ago the The European Court of Justice fined Italy €7.5 million for ‘illegal’ state-aid to Sardinia’s struggling … Read More »
(See also: Kevin Ovenden on Covid-19 … Varoufakis on Covid-19) Anne, a good friend from down under, posted this an hour ago on FB: In spite of everything, there seem to be some potentially significant and positive things arising from … Read More »
I’m a big admirer of blogger Caitlin Johnstone. Along with John Pilger and Julian Assange she’s one of the best things to have come out of Australia. She doesn’t always wow me – unlike me she posts daily so that … Read More »
On Monday, February 25, day one of Julian Assange’s extradition hearing was held at Belmarsh Magistrates Court. Read about the days that followed in Craig Murray’s excellent court reports. Two days earlier, on Saturday, February 22, a rally was held … Read More »
This is one of the biggest crises of our lifetimes – at least for those in the richest countries in the world. Society is going to change in all sorts of ways that we never predicted or expected even a … Read More »
Today’s Guardian quotes Anthony Costello, former director of the World Health Organization: The key principles from WHO are intensive surveillance. You test the population like crazy, find out where the cases are, immediately quarantine them and do contact tracing and … Read More »
After seven years in prison for exposing US war crimes, Chelsea was re-imprisoned a year ago in an attempt to coerce her to testify against Julian Assange before a grand jury. Judge Anthony Trenga also hit her with fines of … Read More »
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