I have only ever known Julian Assange in detention. For nine years now, I have visited him in England bearing Australian news and solidarity. To Ellingham Hall I brought music and chocolate, to the Ecuadorian embassy I brought flannel shirts, Rake, Wizz Fizz and eucalyptus leaves, but to Belmarsh prison you can bring nothing—not a gift, not a book, not a piece of paper.
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Branko Marcetic: US Sanctions Are Brutal and Inhumane. And They Don’t Work.
Sanctions are a form of collective punishment. Their costs are overwhelmingly borne by innocent people rather than governments. And they are just another form of war, not an alternative to it. The US’s many sanctions […]
Energy
Almuth Ernsting: Drax Wants to Capture State Subsidies, Not Carbon
The firm’s proposal to bury emissions from burning wood under the North Sea is still a pipe dream, says campaigner Almuth Ernsting of Biofuelwatch. Read HERE Drax Power Station Dave Pickersgill/Creative Commons
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: European-wide unemployment insurance proposals – more bunk!
As European neo-liberal enforcers go into meltdown (political zombies like Renzi and Rajoy are gone, Merkel and May will follow) the European political class has a new strategy: ever bigger lies. In this blog Bill Mitchell […]
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