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By Juan Cole
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By Morris. P. Fiorina and Samuel J. Abrams
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Nanagyei (CC BY 2.0)
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Neoliberalism and its brand of response to economic crisis, austerity—both legacies of the recently deceased former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher—are creating a U.K. where one in five mothers regularly goes without food in order to feed her children.
Posted on May 6, 2013
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Charlie Williams
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By Charlie Williams —
Thousands of protesters gathered at London’s Trafalgar Square on Saturday to celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher. The event marked the end of a bizarre and remarkable week in the U.K., characterized by a polarized response to the demise of the longest serving British prime minister in living memory. But the struggle to decide her legacy continues.
Posted on Apr 17, 2013
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Christo Komarnitski, Cagle Cartoons, Bulgaria —
Posted on Apr 11, 2013
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Apr 11, 2013
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Martin Sutovec, Cagle Cartoons, Slovakia —
Posted on Apr 9, 2013
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R_SH (CC BY 2.0)
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The deceased prime minister’s 11-year rule over the U.K. “was historic mainly by posing the conundrum that has shaped neoliberal politics since 1980: How can governments nurture and endow financial kleptocrats” with the consent of the people?
Posted on Apr 9, 2013
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ssoosay (CC BY 2.0)
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As austerity pushed by Britain’s Tory government whittles away jobs and benefits and increases poverty and despair, many Brits are asking where the resistance is. Journalist Laurie Penny knows: “There was resistance, and it was brutally and systematically put down.”
Posted on Apr 4, 2013
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h.koppdelaney (CC BY-ND 2.0)
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A broken economy means broken bodies—bodies that give way under stress, inadequate and unavailable health care, and in some places, fewer available supplies to treat the increased numbers of ill. Greece points the way.
Posted on Apr 3, 2013
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eflon (CC BY 2.0)
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By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt —
Confiscating customer deposits in Cyprus banks was not a one-off, desperate idea of a few eurozone “troika” officials scrambling to salvage their balance sheets. A joint paper by the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England, dated Dec. 10, 2012, shows these plans have been long in the making.
Posted on Mar 28, 2013
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Manny Francisco, Cagle Cartoons, Manila, The Phillippines —
Posted on Mar 20, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Feb 14, 2013
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Christopher Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill —
Posted on Feb 5, 2013
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Though President Obama is trying to find a place for gay binational couples in his immigration reform plan, Republicans such as Sen. Lindsey Graham just won’t have it; as a tribute to the late Aaron Swartz, MIT should make academic articles free to the public; meanwhile, new studies show that urbanites have developed neural responses that keep them constantly on the lookout for danger. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Feb 1, 2013
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Luojie, Cagle Cartoons, China Daily, China —
Posted on Jan 29, 2013
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Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, The International Herald Tribune —
Posted on Jan 28, 2013
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Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands —
Posted on Jan 27, 2013
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Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands —
Posted on Jan 18, 2013
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Bob Englehart, Cagle Cartoons, The Hartford Courant —
Posted on Jan 11, 2013
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It is estimated that each year developing countries lose to tax evasion one and a half times the amount they receive in international aid. In the U.K. alone, the practice costs more than $91 billion annually, more than is spent on defense, welfare or education.
Posted on Jan 10, 2013
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The government of the United Kingdom plans to allow copyrighted material to be copied for personal use; Julian Assange gives kudos to Bradley Manning from the balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London; meanwhile, South Africa’s ruling party has called for an official boycott of Israel. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Dec 24, 2012
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Paul Zanetti, Cagle Cartoons, Australia —
Posted on Dec 10, 2012
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on Dec 4, 2012
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on Nov 25, 2012
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Despite warnings from scientists and environmental groups that global warming will be unstoppable if carbon emissions do not peak within a few years, 59 countries, led by China and India, are planning to expand their coal-powered energy sources.
Posted on Nov 20, 2012
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Kevin Cortopassi (CC BY-ND 2.0)
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A new report by the Resolution Foundation shows that growth in disposable income for British families has tumbled to a meager 0.6 percent in the last decade after growing at an average rate of 2.7 percent during the previous half-century.
Posted on Oct 31, 2012
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Photo by Steve Hodgson (CC-BY-SA)
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Letting Scotland get away would go down as a pretty big blunder for David Cameron, who would lose about a third of the U.K.’s total landmass in the bargain.
Posted on Oct 15, 2012
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Pink Sherbet Photography (CC BY 2.0)
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Desperate to preserve business in the face of the British government’s order to bar most of their products from pharmaceutical shelves, homeopathic drug manufacturers have offered to rebrand their goods as candy.
Posted on Aug 3, 2012
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Angel Boligan, Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City —
Posted on Jul 31, 2012
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megoizzy (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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As public sector jobs, education, health insurance and social welfare programs crumble amid the specter of economic austerity, the British government has spent more than $14 billion on preparations for the 2012 Olympic Games—far more than the $4 billion that was estimated a few years ago.
Posted on Jul 26, 2012
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Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands —
Posted on Jul 25, 2012
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Ash Violette (CC-BY)
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British authorities have decided to try eight people in the case of gutter journalism gone terribly wrong (or wrong-er). They include the woman who ran Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper empire in the U.K. and Andy Coulson, who was editor of News of the World from 2003 until 2007 and then Prime Minister David Cameron’s communications director until 2011.
Posted on Jul 24, 2012
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heipei (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Amid a $31-billion budget crisis, thousands of British doctors and nurses will lose their jobs unless they agree to accept lower salaries, longer working hours and other conditions, according to a leaked document obtained by The Sunday Times.
Posted on Jul 18, 2012
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Boris SV (CC BY-ND 2.0)
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Newly released top-secret files reveal that Britain’s Ministry of Defense took seriously the possibility of alien contact and assigned “UFO desk officers” the task of monitoring potential threats from outer space.
Posted on Jul 12, 2012
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AP/Michel Spingler
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The austerity regime in Europe took a big hit Sunday, with French voters electing Socialist Francois Hollande, while the Greeks, also voting Sunday, handed out pink slips to the ruling centrist coalition that has slashed government spending on EU orders.
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In the wake of the 2008 crash and the widespread government-imposed austerity that followed, high levels of long-term and youth unemployment across the globe are in danger of becoming fixed, according to an annual report by the International Labor Organization.
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By David Sirota — Here’s a newspaper headline that might induce a disbelieving double take: “Christians ‘More Likely to Be Leftwing’ And Have Liberal Views on Immigration and Equality.”
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Silvio Tanaka (CC-BY)
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The British government’s plan to turn the Internet into a national intelligence cache that stores data on every U.K. Web surfer was frustrated Tuesday when Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, condemned such a move as a “destruction of human rights.”
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George Galloway, the British politician remanded to all but oblivion after being expelled from the Labour Party in 2003 and losing office in 2010, made an unexpected comeback Friday when he upset Britain’s major political party candidates to win a parliamentary by-election.
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office (CC-BY)
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British Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned that a nuclear-capable Iran could push countries in the Middle East into a cold war in which the world would see the greatest nuclear proliferation since the invention of the atom bomb. Iran has ignored economic sanctions that Western nations hoped would deter it from pursuing nuclear development.
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Hey, everyone, it’s Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee! Even if you’re not much of a royal-watcher, a rather puzzling pastime for some Americans and a royal snooze as far as we’re concerned, the woman has reigned in the U.K. during a significant swath of recent history. Let’s review.
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Christo Komarnitski, Cagle Cartoons, Bulgaria —
Posted on Dec 20, 2011
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Luojie, Cagle Cartoons, China Daily, China —
Posted on Dec 15, 2011
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Flickr / DFID - UK Department for International Development (CC-BY)
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If pushing away from the European Union was British Prime Minister David Cameron’s goal in making the U.K. the only nation in the region to veto a proposal to renegotiate the EU treaty, he got what he wanted Friday.
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AP / Lefteris Pitarakis
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As many as 2 million British public sector workers went on strike Wednesday to oppose the government’s plans to increase revenue by digging into their hard-earned pensions. Just over one-quarter of the civil service walked out, including members of Prime Minister David Cameron’s staff.
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The world’s largest arts festival, Edinburgh’s Fringe, is best known for comedy. British humor isn’t for everyone, but if it’s your cup of tea you’ll find this year’s best jokes, as selected by a UKTV channel and the public, after the jump.
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AP / Alexandre Meneghini
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By William Pfaff — If the U.S. had gone seriously into the war, and behaved characteristically, Libya’s revolution would not have succeeded this week.
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AP / Elizabeth Dalziel
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The Guardian put together a database of court cases of those detained during and after the unrest that swept London in early August after Metropolitan Police shot 29-year-old Mark Duggan in the city’s Tottenham neighborhood. (more)
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Flickr / Dana Spiegel
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Days after two British men were sentenced to four years in prison for using Facebook to incite disorder that never materialized, Glenn Greenwald writes fluently and concisely about the efforts of governments to maintain power and order by controlling the flow of information and communication online.
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