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Return the common to the goose

Return the common to the goose

November 24th: Farmers’ protests over a velvety soft reduction of inheritance tax privileges may seem overblown, but there’s a kernel of something interesting there ~ Rob Ray ~ With tractors besieging Downing Street, the new and shiny (well new, anyway) protest scene of the month has been farmers, tromping about in their wellies telling off Labour for
Freedom News Review – November 19

Freedom News Review – November 19

November 19th: Items discussed in this program: UK farming protests • Trump’s domestic and world politics • Indigenous peoples’ Anti-COP

Trump’s world politics: Bad or worse for Palestine and Ukraine?

Trump’s world politics: Bad or worse for Palestine and Ukraine?

November 18th: Trump’s second term could escalate support for Israel’s far-right agenda while cutting American backing for Ukraine, with uncertain outcomes driven by his personal and political gain ~ Blade Runner ~ The result of the United States elections might seem inevitable in hindsight, thanks to the ultra-centrist Democrats doing everything they can to hand the White

Notes from the US: Power unchecked

Notes from the US: Power unchecked

November 14th: What a resurgent MAGA presidency means for policy and resistance ~ Louis Further ~ It is a week since the elections, and our preliminary assessment of how and why Donald Trump – a twice impeached convicted felon, and an incompetent, largely economically ignorant white supremacist, misogynist and serial rapist – was legitimately elected to the

Freedom News Review – November 12

Freedom News Review – November 12

November 13th: Items discussed in this program: Valencia anger after flooding • First contact with Ocalan in almost 4 years • Trump victory and the ‘far right international’ • UK at Climate summit • AI job losses

“You can actually see this ‘far right international’ taking shape”

“You can actually see this ‘far right international’ taking shape”

November 10th: Grzegorz Piotrowski discusses far right power and its international networking and funding ~ Uri Gordon ~ The far right agenda has never been so powerful since the end of the second World War.

Politics at all levels, by all means

Politics at all levels, by all means

November 7th: A fascist in the White House, and the ‘traffic lights’ go out in Germany ~ Jonathan Eibisch, Paradox-A ~ The promised turning point is clearly coming much louder than many would have expected.

Trump’s victory: “Manipulable, Aggrieved, Gullible, Ahistorical”

Trump’s victory: “Manipulable, Aggrieved, Gullible, Ahistorical”

November 6th: On the day after the election half — but only half — of Americans woke up sombre, stunned, sickened, and rightly very scared ~ Louis Further ~ On Tuesday Rudy Giuliani, disgraced and debarred lawyer and felonious election denier, arrived to cast his vote in Florida in a car which he had been ordered by

Freedom News Review 5.11.2024

Freedom News Review 5.11.2024

November 5th: Items discussed in this program: US elections and vote-shaming • Valencia flooding — climate change, neoliberal neglect and mutual aid • Palestine Action nonviolent tactics push Barclays to divest from Elbit • Kemi Badenoch elected Tory leader: culture wars and “reverse identity politics”

A black woman Tory leader? Sure, as long as she’s batshit right-wing

A black woman Tory leader? Sure, as long as she’s batshit right-wing

November 4th: Kemi Badenoch exemplifies the decades-long tradition in the UK of ‘pulling up the ladder’, practiced by class-ascendant immigrants on the right of the political spectrum ~ Daniel Adediran ~ Kemi Badenoch is the death’s head of the Tory Party.