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Campaign to stop Pearson (Mis)Education

vendredi 29 avril 2016 à 02:00

London Next in International Campaign to Stop Pearson (Mis)Education.

Freedom of Information Act requests

vendredi 29 avril 2016 à 02:00

Investigative journalist Nick Turse reports on how he filed 300 Freedom of Information Act requests in a year, all for his investigative work. The Pentagon calls him a troll, and wants the law changed to block such investigations.

UK immigration

vendredi 29 avril 2016 à 02:00

UK immigration has a habit of denying asylum with careless snap judgments, deporting people who are likely to be tortured and so on.

It will now make that carelessness harder to resist by charging so much for an appeal that most refugees won't be able to afford it.

The "need" to charge more only exists because the government is giving that money to rich people by letting them pay little tax.

Single-payer medical system

vendredi 29 avril 2016 à 02:00

Medical businesses are spending heavily to defeat a proposed single-payer medical system in Colorado.

The single-payer system is good, but the way it will be paid for is badly designed. It should come from income tax instead so as to make the rich pay a bigger share.

Egyptian tyranny

vendredi 29 avril 2016 à 02:00

Egyptian Ministry of Interior Accuses Reuters of 'Spreading False News'. Journalists could be sentenced to 3 years in prison for this.

For the Egyptian tyranny, any critical news is "false" by definition.