Shocking if true. 'Unison care officer Mark Turner (Mark Turner) told the Star that children's care services in Wales makes, on average, a 22% profit for private companies' morningstaronline.co.uk/article/care-w… David Nicholson Joanna Papageorgiou Bernadette Meaden Steve Howell

Beyond satire. 'The land of milk and honey' - Jimmy Carr on the United States youtube.com/watch?v=voXqQY…

Worth considering what the response of the US would be if China carried out naval drills close to the US apnews.com/article/us-phi… Media Lens

'Getting America more involved and engaged in the world would be a fantastic thing' - Jimmy Carr's politics are... interesting youtube.com/watch?v=voXqQY…

The real benefits scandal - £23bn in welfare benefits went unclaimed last year (19.4.24 Morning Star report by Lizzy Short) Number10 Joanna Papageorgiou Bernadette Meaden

Perceptive article from John Harris - there is a radical politics rooted in the British countryside that has been bubbling away for decades theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Worth remembering Channel 4/Channel 4 News is generally understood to be an alternative to the mainstream of the BBC and ITV channel4.com/press/news/cha…

.Mark Urban is leaving BBC Newsnight. Here is something I wrote in 2017: 'Did the BBC’s Mark Urban act as an advisor to the US military in Afghanistan?' ianjsinclair.wordpress.com/2017/09/28/did… Media Lens Joanna Papageorgiou Mark Ames

'UNICEF estimates that a thousand children in Gaza have become amputees since the conflict began in October' newyorker.com/news/dispatch/… Media Lens CP MacLochlainn

”About one in every 20 children, women and men in #Gaza are now dead or wounded.
𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚 .”

- Volker Türk speaks at #HRC55 on the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

The global economic system is no longer fit for purpose – Sir David King

'We need a philosophical and cultural transition towards an ecological civilisation.'

Watch CCAG's latest broadcast here: youtube.com/watch?v=b4-7xI…

(1)Former UK National Security adviser Lord Ricketts says stopping UK -Israel arms sales will put pressure on Israel's armourer, the US . James Ball says it will make no difference. Mmmm who to believe. (Ricketts was also a Lockheed advisor, so maybe knows these onions ?)

“This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,” a reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma said, of the record number of children who have been injured in the war in Gaza. nyer.cm/oHpyFZz

Joe Emersberger The Anti-Genocide Project Particularly appreciate this image, which sums up how we’re indoctrinated in the imperialist west:
china-underground.com/2021/09/04/bar…

It's very obvious what is happening.

Apologists for Israel's genocidal onslaught know they've lost public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic.

They know pressure on arms sales and diplomatic support is growing.

The answer?

Whip up a moral panic about protesters instead.

'Of more than 200 climate scientists surveyed by Behrens and Hayek for a recent paper, 78% said it was important for livestock herd sizes to peak by 2025 if the world was to stand a chance of preventing dangerous global heating' theguardian.com/environment/20… Joanna Papageorgiou David Traynier Ⓥ🍉

If you are interested in creating a better world, social movements, activism or nonviolent struggle, I highly recommend this book by George Lakey Melville House peace_news Joanna Papageorgiou

A brilliant, epic graphic novel about the end of the Weimer Republic Drawn & Quarterly

Hamas abducted 240 or so hostages on October 7th. Since then, Israel has kidnapped over 8000 Palestinians and sent them, without charges, to a concentration prison in the Negev desert. Even Israeli doctors are describing the horrors and the tortures in that remote place. Aren’t…

UK travelling in the wrong direction - again.

theguardian.com/business/2024/…