(2019-12-11). Guess What Happened After ICE, Which Has Torn Thousands of Families Apart, Tried to Honor Human Rights Day on Twitter. commondreams.org In 2019, a record-breaking 70,000 children were held in ICE custody. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/abolishice.jpeg …
(2019-12-11). Profit problem: If they can't kill it, capitalists will co-opt Green New Deal. peoplesworld.org 
This is Part 1 of a two-part series. Sen. Bernie Sanders recently tweeted, "A Green New Deal is not radical or extreme. What's radical and extreme is allowing fossil fuel companies to cause the displacement and deaths of millions of people in order to turn a profit." The Vermont senator's tweet encapsulates the urgency of …
(2019-12-11). The Great NHS Heist: a forensic account of four decades of NHS privatisation. thecanary.co Powerful, new documentary The Great NHS Heist reveals how the NHS has already been outsourced, privatised, and undermined, by stealth, over the last four decades. | Directed and produced by GP and activist Dr Bob Gill and videographer Drew McFadyen, this independent film takes aim at the complicity of successive governments since the 1980s in undermining what was once the crown jewel of British social dem…
(2019-12-11). Devin Nunes' Cow Has a First Amendment Right to Call Rep. Nunes a 'Treasonous Cowpoke'. aclu.org You might think that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the | Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee, would be too busy to file baseless | defamation lawsuits against anonymous Twitter accounts. But you'd be wrong. | Last year, Rep. Nunes sued a number of people who were | mean to him online, including the Twitter parody accounts Devin Nunes' Mom and | Devin Nunes' Cow. Now, he's trying to unmask the Cow by subpoenaing the | author's identity from a local law firm. The ACLU and Public Citizen have filed
(2019-12-11). There's something extremely dodgy about the claim Laura Kuenssberg made on live TV. thecanary.co With just hours to go before polling stations open, the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg made an extraordinary and extremely dodgy claim on live TV. In fact, what Kuenssberg said is so dodgy that some people are saying the BBC might have broken electoral law. | Kuenssberg claimed that:…
(2019-12-11). With one photo, Jeremy Corbyn sums up 'nine years of Boris Johnson's Conservatives'. thecanary.co Just hours before we go to the polls, Jeremy Corbyn summed up nine years of Tory rule in one picture. | "Boris Johnson's Conservatives": | The Labour leader shared a heartbreaking image of Boris Johnson and a gaggle of Tory aides walking past a homeless man: | Nine years of Boris Johnson's Conservatives, summed up in one picture. pic.twitter.com/CXWCih0pkC | — Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) December 11, 2019 | And he's spot on. This really does sum it all up. Not least b…
(2019-12-11). Here's what the Tories did with nine years in power. thecanary.co Tomorrow we vote for a new government. Here are some achingly simple, yet vitally important guides to help everyone before casting their vote. Because they show with brutal simplicity what the Tories have done over nine years.The Conservatives on health: Ahmad Barclay 'spent a day making charts to remind people of the Conservatives' awful record in government since 2010′. The results speak for themselves. | Barclay showed that, as the NHS staffing crisis continues, A&E waiting times have soared.
(2019-12-10). Aung San Suu Kyi appears at ICJ as UN rights expert urges greater protection for Myanmar activists. news.un.org Authorities in Myanmar and social media companies are being urged to take greater action to protect activists in the south-east Asian country who are fighting for justice and accountability for crimes committed against the minority Rohingya population in 2016 and 2017.
(2019-12-10). Duterte to Lift Martial Law in Southern Philippines: Spokesman. telesurenglish.net Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has decided to lift martial law in Mindanao in the southern Philippines by 2019, his spokesman said on Tuesday, after three times of extension since 2017 terrorist attacks on Marawi City. | RELATED: | Philippines' Duterte Offers 'Dialogue' to Banned Communists | "(Duterte) made the decision following the assessment of his security and defense advisers of the weakening of the terrorist and extremist rebel…
(2019-12-10). Jeremy Corbyn reading out mean tweets about himself is f*cking hilarious. thecanary.co 
A very unmerry christmas election has been cheered up a bit by Jeremy Corbyn. A fireside video shows the Labour leader reading out and responding to mean tweets about himself. And with almost 2 million views in 24 hours, it looks like Corbyn is onto a winner.Mean Tweets: Normally we see celebrities doing YouTube stints on their mean tweets. But none of them have faced the abuse that Jeremy Corbyn handles on the daily. And it's hard to imagine having such a sense of humour about it. But Corbyn manages to somehow. | This was surprisingly fun. pic.twitter.com/Tjl60l70bl
(2019-12-10). Journalist drops truthbomb about Corbyn's popularity, right in the BBC's face. thecanary.co 
Britain's " longest serving political editor" has revealed just how popular Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is among voters, right in the BBC's face. And this came just as the public broadcaster faces accusations of consistent pro-Tory bias. | 'A prime minister in waiting…
(2019-12-09). Newsweek Journo Quits After Editors Kill Report On Syria Chemical Attack Scandal. mintpressnews.com 
"I have collected evidence of how they [Newsweek] suppressed the story in addition to evidence from another case where info inconvenient to US government was removed, though it was factually correct."
(2019-12-07). Dear Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Is an Engine of Anti-Muslim Hate the World Over. Don't You Care? theintercept.com 
What happened to the guy who told his Muslim employees in 2015 that he would "fight to protect your rights and create a peaceful and safe environment"?
(2019-12-01). The Usual Incoherence on Student Benefits Is Back. peoplespolicyproject.org 
Of all the welfare state topics, student benefits manages to consistently attract the most incoherent and weird arguments, and the recent spate of arguments on this front are no exception. In the last week, a student benefit dustup has been instigated by Pete Buttigieg ostensibly being against free public college for millionaires and billionaires while Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are ostensibly for it. | This has set off the usual round of commentary about how Buttigieg is arguing for means-testing while Warren and Sanders are arguing f…
(2019-11-17). CAP's Topher Spiro Is Trying to Deceive Journalists By Lying. peoplespolicyproject.org 
It's been fun to see how the Center for American Progress (CAP) navigates this year's presidential election. For insider political reasons, they can't support Biden or Sanders. But for a long time, it was unclear who the alternative candidate they could support would be. | When Kamala Harris was rising, CAP's staff was doing overtime boosting her on Twitter and in the press, including boosting Harris's absurd health care proposal. But Harris's collapse put an end to that strategy. Recently Warren has risen as the alternative and so CAP has been working to promote her campaign, which puts CAP in the comical positi…