Corporate media’s handling of the US-supported Israeli assault on Lebanon has, like all war propaganda, entailed a campaign to demonize the purported bad guys—Hezbollah, in this case. The coverage of the US/Israeli assault on Lebanon has also evinced a casual disregard for Lebanese lives, and often an outright zest for killing the country’s people.
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Thomas Frank: What Harvey Weinstein tells us about the liberal world
While the media has concentrated on the salacious episodes of Harvey Weinstein’s crimes against women. Thomas Frank has taken a political prespective – and as always in the case with his analyses, thought provoking. Read here
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The Observer: The Observer view on the shambolic way universities are run
In Britain academics are striking to defend their pensions. Pensions are just one of the many targets of neo-liberal policy. Executives at British Universities, whose financing seems to increasingly concentrate on business than education, have […]
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Simon Wren-Lewis: Uber and the anti-regulations bandwagon
The tide seems to be turning concerning the Gig Economy in Britain. Workers, supported by the unions, are winning one court case after the other to be recgonised for what they are: employees. Wren-Lewis looks […]
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