NHS privatisation linked to 557 ‘treatable’ deaths in five years
Oxford University researchers found relative spend on outsourcing was associated with deaths from certain illnesses
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jeudi 30 juin
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NHS privatisation linked to 557 ‘treatable’ deaths in five years
mercredi 29 juin
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The Abortion Rights Movement Must Now Turn to Grassroots Organizing and Direct Action
We all knew that Roe v. Wade would fall, but the pain and rage when the decision was officially announced on June 24 still felt like an overwhelming body blow. In a six-three ruling along ideological lines, the conservative justices decided that the constitutional right to privacy, which Roe (...) -
Russia’s Kremenchuk Claims Versus the Evidence
On June 27, reports that the Amstor shopping mall in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk had been hit in a Russian missile attack began to appear online. Dramatic images of the facility ablaze soon followed, as did reports of high casualty numbers. President Volodomyr Zelenskiy of Ukraine stated (...)
lundi 27 juin
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Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira’s Last Journey
A suspect has admitted to killing the journalist and Indigenous expert while they were reporting in the Amazon. Agência Pública retraces the steps of their final trip.
vendredi 24 juin
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Corporations Are Profiting From Inflation
The surge in global inflation following the relaxation of pandemic restrictions is a tectonic development that will alter economic and political outcomes for years to come. It is already clear that the conventional neoliberal medicine for this problem — monetary tightening being pursued (...) -
The battle over pesticides in Europe
On one side, the "agro-industrial complex". On the other, millions of citizens fighting the deadly threats to biodiversity and human health. Now, as the final battle moves to Brussels, Investigate Europe explores Europe’s toxic relationship with (...)
mercredi 22 juin
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One family, three generations of cancer, and the largest concentration of oil refineries in California
A new community survey exposes widespread cancer, asthma, anxiety, and depression in Wilmington, California.
lundi 20 juin
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Facebook Enables Anti-Abortion Clinics to Collect Data on Would-Be Patients
Personal data may someday be used as evidence against abortion seekers in states where the procedure is outlawed.
vendredi 17 juin
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Meet the Irregular Troops Backing up Russia’s Army in the Donbas
Following Russia’s unsuccessful assault on Kyiv and northern Ukraine, the Russian military has intensified its efforts in Ukraine’s east, particularly in the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts. But Russia’s military has not been alone as its soldiers have edged slowly forward in recent weeks. Groups of (...)
mardi 14 juin
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How Kazakhstan’s mothers formed a protest movement – and what they want
The mothers claim they were first on the streets during the January protests, the largest and most violent in the country’s post-Soviet history
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The Slovak Trail of Russian Businessmen with Connections to Putin
Member of the Russian Duma Alexander Babakov, president of the CSKA Moscow football club Yevgeni Giner, and Russian businessman Mikhail Voyevodin are the most prominent members of what is referred to as the Luzhniki group. The Investigative Centre of Ján Kuciák has discovered that this group has (...)
samedi 11 juin
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Rwanda flight: Refugees tell of ‘devastation’ at being deported
The UK’s first deportation flight to Rwanda leaves on Tuesday. Refugees and activists are trying to stop it
mercredi 8 juin
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British Journalist and Indigenous Protector Are Missing in Brazilian Amazon After Reported Threats
Dom Phillips and Bruno Araújo Pereira were last seen traveling by boat on Sunday morning, returning from a reporting trip. The post British Journalist and Indigenous Protector Are Missing in Brazilian Amazon After Reported Threats appeared first on The (...) -
Clues to the Fate of Five Damaged Cultural Heritage Sites in Ukraine
Ever since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, the country’s curators and historians have busied themselves moving artefacts and works of art out of harm’s way. The stained glass windows of Lviv’s cathedral are now secured behind metal. Pyramids of sandbags protect statues in downtown Odesa. (...)
jeudi 2 juin
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Austin Is Trying to Protect Abortion Rights in Post-Roe Texas
As we brace for the imminent loss of the protections offered by Roe v. Wade and a future without the federal right to legal abortion, access to care is increasingly going to be determined by the state, and maybe even the city, that a person lives in. It remains to be seen how states hostile (...)
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The Fight for Student Debt Relief Started a Decade Ago—at Occupy Wall Street
As a 28-year-old art student, Thomas Gokey convinced the Federal Reserve to give him bags of shredded currency worth $49,983, the exact amount of his ballooning student loan debt. He had a plan to use the minced cash to make a work of art that would both symbolize his loans and help to pay them (...)
mercredi 1er juin
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From Buffalo to India, the Right’s Demographic Paranoia Fuels Deadly Violence
One day after the deadly supermarket shooting in Buffalo, New York, on May 14, it was reported — to absolutely no one’s surprise — that the shooter had published a 180-page document online detailing his plans for the massacre, which targeted a black community and left ten dead. In the document, (...)
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Homesick in Europe, Ukrainians are going home
Despite Russia still waging its brutal war, more people are now entering Ukraine than leaving it
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In Colombia's Presidential Election, Leftist Gustavo Petro Is Up Against a Right-Wing Populist
Left-wing presidential candidate Gustavo Petro has made it to the second round of Colombia’s elections. In a surprising twist, he will be joined in the runoff by populist businessman Rodolfo Hernández, who pulled off a strong second-place showing. Hernández’s success represents a major setback for (...)
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I’ve Covered Seven Mass Shootings. These Are the Memories That Haunt Me.
by Jenny Deam ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When a Texas law enforcement official last week laid out how police waited in the halls of Robb Elementary School while children trapped with (...)
mardi 31 mai
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Workers’ Pensions Are Funding Congress’s Far-Right Extremists
Immediately after the January 6 insurrection last year, billionaire Donald Trump adviser Stephen Schwarzman tried to distance himself from the mayhem, declaring that the violence was “appalling and an affront to the democratic values we hold dear as Americans.” Yet Schwarzman, CEO of the private (...)
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In Australia's Election, Rupert Murdoch Was a Surprise Loser
The Labor Party's victory offers a blueprint for diminishing the global influence of the Fox News founder. The post In Australia’s Election, Rupert Murdoch Was a Surprise Loser appeared first on The Intercept.
lundi 30 mai
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Kharkiv’s patchwork resistance | New Internationalist
Body: Without networks of civic activism, the war might be going very differently for Ukraine, writes Jen Stout. UkraineUkraineContributor: Jen StoutDoesn't appear on front pageThumbnail image: 538Deck/standfirst: Without networks of civic activism, the war might be going very differently for (...) -
Lukashenka regime expands death penalty to target opposition
Opponents of the Lukashenka regime can now be threatened with the death penalty, including for ‘attempted terrorism’
dimanche 29 mai
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Gun Lobby Intervened Against a Republican's Gun Law. Then He Lost His Seat.
Former Colorado state Rep. Cole Wist faced intense backlash from the gun lobby for sponsoring a "red flag law."
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Want to Win a Union at Work? Here's What the Amazon Labor Union Can Teach Us.
The ALU shows that it's still possible to win historic union elections, even under current federal labor rules.
vendredi 27 mai
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Why 18-Year-Olds in Texas Can Buy AR-15s but Not Handguns
by Kiah Collier and Jeremy Schwartz, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan local (...)
jeudi 26 mai
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How a Brazilian Town Took a Bet on Basic Income
The seaside town of Maricá, Brazil, was struggling, but it had oil revenue. So the local government started a basic income program based on a local alternative currency. -
Life in America’s Culture of Ultraviolence
“I hated having the power to kill someone,” my father once told me about carrying a gun. But many, many Americans seem to love it. The post Life in America’s Culture of Ultraviolence appeared first on The Intercept.
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War in Ukraine may ramp up pollution in US oil and gas towns
People who live near fracking wells and liquified natural gas terminals are pushing back.
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Cops Didn't Stop the Uvalde School Shooting
And they won’t stop the next. The post Cops Didn’t Stop the Uvalde School Shooting appeared first on The Intercept.
mercredi 25 mai
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In Response to Texas Massacre, Right-Wingers Want More Guns and Cops in Schools
The right continues to echo the baseless idea that "good guys" with guns will stop gun violence.
mardi 24 mai
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Pregnant People May Be Under Intensified Tech Surveillance in Post-“Roe” US
A new report forecasts a possible future where "antiquated abortion laws are enforced with cutting-edge technology."
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Fascist Fashion: How Mainstream Businesses Enable the Sale of Far-Right Merchandise
Fascist fashion items can help promote and provide funds for extremist groups. In some instances, it appears, their sale relies upon key services provided by prominent businesses that have policies against promoting racist organisations and hateful content. An investigation by Bellingcat has (...)
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Far-right conspiracy theories are now embedded in the UK mainstream
And no wonder, when British journalists promote conspiracy theories and government politicians embrace extremist rhetoric
lundi 23 mai
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Oklahoma’s Total Abortion Ban Will Mean Surveillance, Criminalization, and Chaos
The state’s new ban is the most extreme in the country, going further than Texas’s notorious S.B. 8 by banning abortion after fertilization. The post Oklahoma’s Total Abortion Ban Will Mean Surveillance, Criminalization, and Chaos appeared first on The (...)
vendredi 20 mai
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Vulture Capitalists Want to Flood the Health Care System With Cheap Medical Labor
A private equity–owned emergency room staffing firm cofounded by a wealthy Republican congressman has been openly hailing a coming “oversupply” of doctors, promising prospective investors that a surplus of emergency physicians — soon projected to reach nearly ten thousand — will drive doctors’ (...) -
Oklahoma Just Took Abortion Bans to a New Extreme
On Thursday, the Oklahoma House passed a bill banning nearly all abortions in the state. Like a recent ban passed in Texas, which barred abortion after six weeks, the law will be enforced through private civil action. And Oklahoma’s bill takes things even further by banning abortion beginning at (...)
jeudi 19 mai
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After Buffalo, Great Replacement Theory Isn’t Going Anywhere
On Saturday, a gunman opened fire in a supermarket in a black neighborhood in Buffalo, killing ten people. The eighteen-year-old alleged gunman, Payton S. Gendron, is said to have scrawled racial slurs onto the barrel of his gun and to have published a racist manifesto that runs into the (...)
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How Do We Stop White Supremacists From Killing People of Color?
In the wake of the Buffalo massacre, scholar-activist Rosa Clemente worries that communities of color will be more heavily policed while White supremacists will continue to access guns freely.
mardi 17 mai
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The Right’s Creeping Pro-Natalist Rhetoric on Abortion and Trans Health Care
From the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade draft to bills targeting trans youth, fear of sterilization has emerged as a troubling talking point. The post The Right’s Creeping Pro-Natalist Rhetoric on Abortion and Trans Health Care appeared first on The (...)
lundi 16 mai
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Racist Attack in Buffalo Was Crafted to Terrorize Us. Here’s How We Fight Back.
We must counter racist attacks with a diversity of tactics from community protection to deradicalizing white Americans.
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British Police Have Disturbingly Deceived Many Activists Into Romantic Relationships
“As far as I was concerned, I’d met someone, and they were going to be my partner for life. I was going to marry them and have children with them.” In her new memoir Small Town Girl: Love, Lies, and the Undercover Police, activist Donna McLean writes of her boyfriend, known to her then as (...)
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Unravelling the Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
Shireen Abu Akleh, a prominent Palestinian-American journalist working with Al Jazeera, was killed by a gunshot to the head on the morning of May 11, 2022 while reporting from Jenin, a Palestinian city in the West Bank. Abu Akleh was covering a raid that was being conducted by the Israeli (...)
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Israel Killed Al Jazeera Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. It Must Be Held Accountable.
The world, including the United States, has rightfully been in an uproar over the callous killing of the Palestinian American fifty-one-year-old veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by the Israeli military. The Al Jazeera journalist was shot while covering an Israeli military raid in the Jenin (...)
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The Buffalo Shooter’s Manifesto Relied on the Same White Supremacist Conspiracy Pushed by Tucker Carlson
The mass shooting inside a crowded, Buffalo, New York, supermarket on Saturday, which killed 10 people and injured three more, is renewing fierce condemnation of the racist conspiracy known as the “great replacement theory,” after a racist manifesto believed to have been written by the gunman was (...)
dimanche 15 mai
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Northern Ireland’s new political terrain
Tommy Greene maps the wider context of the momentous recent Stormont election results -
White Supremacist Massacre in Buffalo Shows Alt-Right Ideology Leads to Murder
The horrific shooting in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo stems from a long history of anti-Black violence in the U.S.
jeudi 12 mai
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To Solve Its Economic Crisis, Sri Lanka Must Demilitarize
Sri Lanka is in crisis. This week, the houses of government-aligned MPs have been set on fire and vehicles across the island left overturned. Several people have been killed, hundreds injured. Anti-government protesters are continuing to clash with supporters of the Rajapaksa clan, and the (...)
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Colombia’s Left-Wing Presidential Candidate Is Facing Vicious Right-Wing Opposition
Normality has seemingly returned to Colombia. Streets are buzzing, restaurants and salsa clubs are open, masks are rarely seen — the pandemic appears to have receded into the past, becoming one topic among others. But the economic effects of COVID-19 linger on. The hardship experienced as people (...)
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