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• Dolack: Private sector is “efficient” only at extracting money from public

  There is nothing that capitalists won’t grab if they see a possibility to score a profit. Not even the most basic needs for human life, such as water, are exempt
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  Chomsky: Why Neoliberal Leaders Who Failed to Protect Their Countries From COVID-19 Must Be Investigated

  It is time to impanel a citizens’ tribunal to investigate the utter failure of the governments of Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi, and others
• Hackbarth: Among World Leaders, Only Mexico’s AMLO Has Offered Julian Assange Asylum

  While world leaders remain quiet, AMLO stands alone in speaking for freedom of speech — and has offered Assange asylum in Mexico
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  Monbiot: Clueless

  It is hard to imagine how the government’s handling of the pandemic could have been more catastrophic
• Driver: Toxic Sludge is Good for You – Corporate Propaganda and Public Relations

  Most people are simply unaware of the scale of the manipulation, and the extent to which businesses influence governments and their citizens
• Driver: The Main Form of Media Deception: Censorship-by-Omission

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  Cockburn: What Assange’s Victory Really Means

  This is one of the most worrying aspect of the case – the willingness of the media to stand to one side during one of the greatest attacks on press freedom in modern history
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  Cook: How the left is being manipulated into colluding in its own character assassination

  We need to find ways to turn the tables on the war criminals who have been gaslighting us in demanding that Assange, who exposed their crimes, is the one who needs to be locked up
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  Cook: The US and UK may not will Assange’s death, but everything they are doing makes it more likely

  Washington has wanted Assange permanently silenced and made an example of – by demonstrating to other journalists its terrifying reach and powers of retaliation
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  Seymour: No future: the English Left in retrospect

  What is next for the English Left after Corbyn-led Labour’s crushing electoral defeat in last year’s election?
• Driver: Brutal Human Rights Abuses – Torture, Sanctions and Our Failure to Discuss Economic Rights

  People in advanced nations assume that their governments do not torture prisoners, but it is practized by the US, and was used by Britain in its colonies and in Northern Ireland
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  Cockburn: The UK is Out of the EU

  But the Balance of Power in Europe has Tipped Permanently Against It
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  Cohn: Assange Extradition Denial Indicts US Prison System But Imperils Journalism

  In a stunning decision, British judge Vanessa Baraitser denied Donald Trump’s request for extradition of Assange to the United States, ruling that he was at high risk of suicide if he were extradited because the U.S. prison system could not protect him
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  Rios-Jara: Lessons from a decade of student activism in the UK

  The pandemic has exposed the disgraceful failures of market reforms in the British higher education sector. But the resistance of students continues
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  Cook: Assange wins

  The cost: The crushing of press freedom, and the labelling of dissent as mental illness
• Driver: The Irrelevance of Human Rights in US and British Foreign Policy

  Historical human rights abuses are not explained well in most school textbooks or by the mainstream media
• Robinson: “Victory for Julian”

  U.K. Blocks WikiLeaks Founder Assange Extradition to U.S. on Espionage Charges
• Finn: Jeremy Corbyn’s Opponents Burned the House Down to Stop Him

  Keir Starmer has set the seal on a drastic shift to the right for the British Labour Party
• Corbyn: Jeremy Corbyn: Why I’m Launching a Project for Peace and Justice

  Interview on his hopes for the initiative — and why he refuses to be cowed by the attacks he has endured
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  Cockburn: COVID-19 Learns From Experience, Unlike Boris Johnson and His Crew

  Traditional English deference towards the powers-that-be is wearing thin but, even so, many people resist facing up to the comic opera inadequacy of British leadership at a time of such extreme national peril –  understandably so since it is a truly frightening sight