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  • Britain a Big Version of Iceland? Bankrupt Britain Trending Towards Hyper-Inflation?
    30 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Britain a Big Version of Iceland? Bankrupt Britain Trending Towards Hyper-Inflation?
    by Nadeem Walayat
    Global Research, November 30, 2008 Market Oracle - 2008-11-28
    The mainstream media is increasingly full of stories of either Britain going bankrupt or the coming deflation associated with the recession. Whilst both are now obvious given the economic data and government actions however what is missing from the headlines is that under the weight of the exploding public sector debt (…)

  • The lot of witnesses that "La Repubblica" is missing
    27 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    There are many people who have been forced out of their jobs and academic careers, from postgraduate researchers to professors, because of bullying in universities in Britain.
    We know that these same problems exist elsewhere around the world and seems to worsen the more neoliberal policies and ideologies are forced upon Higher Education systems. Sometime the problem of bullying and mobbing in the universities around the world is obscured and difficult to translate as behaviours and (…)

  • Western Murdochracy Denial & Google Censorship of British Indian Holocaust & Churchill’s Crimes
    23 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Many people are aware that Google censors the Internet access of the people of China. However I suspect that many people are unaware of a more general Google censorship and how Google censors the Internet for everyone in the world.
    Thus, as detailed below, Google censors Churchill’s Crimes (notably his murder of 6-7 million Indians in the man-made 1943-1945 Bengal Famine) and the British Indian Holocaust (1.8 billion avoidable Indians deaths under the racist, genocidal British Occupation, (…)

  • EU warns of heroin crisis in Britain
    8 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source : "The Dawn"
    By Our Special Correspondent
    LONDON, Nov 7: A glut of opium on the world market, fuelled by a record Afghan harvest, threatens a new heroin crisis in Britain, the European Union’s drug agency has warned.
    According to a report in The Guardian on Friday (Record opium harvest in Afghanistan threatens new heroin crisis in Britain) the agency’s annual report also confirms that the UK remains at the top of the European league table of 27 countries for cocaine abuse for (…)

  • UK commander in Afghanistan resigns
    2 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source : "Pakistan Observer"
    London—The commander of British special forces in Afghanistan, who has in the past expressed concerns about military equipment failures, has resigned, the Ministry of Defense said Saturday.
    A ministry spokesman said Major Sebastian Morley, head of the Britain’s SAS forces in Afghanistan, cited only personal reasons when he resigned Friday.
    The British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, however, reported Saturday that Morley “resigned in disgust” because (…)

  • Guatanamo Bay : Probe into MI5’s role in “torture”
    1 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Hasan Suroor
    Source : "The Hindu"
    LONDON: The British government has ordered an investigation into MI5’s role in the alleged torture of a British resident being held at Guantanamo Bay to extract confession from him.
    Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is reported to have asked Attorney-General Baroness Scotland to investigate allegations that an MI5 officer took part in unlawful interrogation of Binyam Mohamed (30), when he was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 on terror charges.
    This follows (…)

  • An education system not to trust
    26 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    The THE has published a survey in which 77% of lecturers denounce that they are pressurised to award higher grades to students than deserved. There are some important perversions of interest underlying the publication of such data by the THE.
    If the THE, the universities, the QAA, the government, the pseudo-unions, or anyone else in the elite caste architecting the direction of British HE, wanted to really ensure meritocracy and student-centred learning in academia, they would first (…)

  • Stop elite research now!
    11 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Research in universities across the globe is becoming more and more privatised.
    This must be stopped because it will centre power in the hands of a few who will inevitably ask for the payment of very high university fees and will not give access to research which does not support their speculative interests.
    Berlusconi in Italy is trying to privatise most of the public university research. This should be stopped!
    Italian students and universtity professors are united in a "line of (…)

  • Royal Bank of Scotland down 39%
    7 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    European Stocks Fall, Led by RBS, Barclays; U.S. Futures Drop By Michael Patterson
    Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) — European stocks fell for a second day as concern that financial firms may need more capital overshadowed speculation central banks around the world will reduce borrowing costs. U.S. index futures and Asian shares declined.
    Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc tumbled 39 percent after the bank had its credit rating cut for the first time in 10 years on a weak ``financial profile.’’ Asian (…)

  • Michael Parenti: Myth of UnderDevelopment! (video)
    19 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-22718881.html