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December 01, 2023

"Joe Biden is finished" as massacre in Gaza continues

It will be remembered, I hope, as the hug that sank a craven president. It was mid-October. US President Joe Biden made the requisite pilgrimage to Tel Aviv to show that his staunch support for...

'Mourn Paris but don't ignore terror in Nigeria'

From a bombed NAACP office in Colorado to the decimated town of Baga, Nigeria, acts of terrorism against Black people and institutions have failed to generate much attention in the United States this past week.Most of the Western world and its political l ...

'We must fight to defend journalists' right to report

With journalists around the world being killed, kidnapped, and murdered in record numbers why is the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) launching a campaign targeting US government policies?The answer is simple. Because we must fight to preserve a glo ...

EU: 'It's time to impose sanctions on Israel'

With the European Union (EU) as its largest trading partner and the United States as its largest military backer, Israel has no reason to reconsider its denial of Palestinian self-determination.  In fact, the latest carnage in Gaza, did not move the ...

Payment Protection Insurance mis-selling is 'UK's biggest financial crime'

This week’s news has been understandably dominated by coverage of the awful events emerging from Gaza. But back in the UK, another story reared its head receiving less exposure than it should have got.I’ve previously written about how the mis- ...

Three cheers for Britain's wonderful multiracial health care

"Get out of my room. Your mother's in the kitchen," yelled a delusional patient to Mariama, the long suffering Sierra Leonean woman nurse with a 'fro.My namesake Mark in the neighbouring bed had every kind of medical wire and tube attache ...

Nigerian terrorists 'dragging the Islamic faith through the mud'

Boko Haram must be a dream come true for the sharks waiting to devour up Muslims.  Seriously, you can’t ask for a better pantomime villain than its leader Abu Bakar Shekau. The guy has an air of insanity about him. The way he speaks, you can te ...

US right-wing's '12 Years a Slave' backlash

Within American society, there is a segment that avoids viewing the society through a lens that does not provide a comforting and disconnected view of American history and how it came into existence. This reality is no more evident than when one listens to ...

How UK government plans to sell your medical records

Just how safe are your medical records? Pretty safe, surely – this is sensitive stuff and it’s private, right? Well, yes – but for how long?If the government gets its way, from May this year your family's patient-identifiable data wi ...

Beware Hollywood stars and their misguided causes

What a right cock-up superstar actors and global pop artists have found themselves in chasing charitable good causes. Not content with multi-million dollar lifestyles and world-wide domination of screen and stage, the likes of Madonna, George Clooney ...

Progressive alternative journalism is answer to 'bloodthirsty corporate media'

On April 4th 1967, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. referred to the United States’ government as “…the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” In 2013, not a damn thing has changed, writes Solomon Comissiong.And as a mat ...

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