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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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By David James —
I couldn’t face the “state” funeral of Margaret Thatcher on Wednesday, not after such a short time since the death of my dad, who was for the first half of his long and hardworking life a South Wales coal miner deep “down the pit” in Cwmgrach, and one of the “enemies within,” as the former prime minister put it.
Posted on Apr 17, 2013
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Christo Komarnitski, Cagle Cartoons, Bulgaria —
Posted on Apr 11, 2013
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Martin Sutovec, Cagle Cartoons, Slovakia —
Posted on Apr 9, 2013
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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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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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Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands —
Posted on Jan 18, 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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The pregnancy was announced Monday after the Duchess of Cambridge was admitted to a London-area hospital for treatment of acute morning sickness.
Posted on Dec 3, 2012
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico —
Posted on Aug 20, 2012
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Michael Ratner, legal adviser to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, applauds Ecuador for standing up to two of the world’s most powerful countries, the United States and the United Kingdom, and says those countries will break international law under the U.N. Refugee Convention if they prevent Assange from accepting asylum in Ecuador.
Posted on Aug 16, 2012
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Sources within the Ecuadorean government report that President Rafael Correa has agreed to grant asylum to Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who is wanted by Sweden for alleged sexual misconduct, and by the United States for publishing state secrets.
Posted on Aug 15, 2012
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Jul 27, 2012
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By William Pfaff — Nearly every step in the federalist direction has produced unnecessary complication and strain in the EU. Portugal is not Iowa. Italy cannot become California.
Posted on Jul 11, 2012
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been ordered to surrender himself to British police by Friday morning. Assange violated his house arrest to seek political asylum inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London last week. He is hoping to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faces questioning for alleged sex crimes.
Posted on Jun 28, 2012
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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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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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Wikimedia Commons / Lynda Poulter (CC-BY-SA)
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British Prime Minister David Cameron made a good call Monday by declaring that no funds from U.K. taxpayers’ pockets should be funneled toward gifting Queen Elizabeth II with a shiny new $90 million yacht on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee.
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Luojie, Cagle Cartoons, China Daily, China —
Posted on Dec 15, 2011
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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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Luojie, Cagle Cartoons, China Daily, China —
Posted on Aug 22, 2011
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Yaakov Kirschen, Cagle Cartoons, Dry Bones —
Posted on Aug 15, 2011
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on Aug 14, 2011
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, The St. Louis Post Dispatch —
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, Politicalcartoons.com —
Posted on Jul 12, 2011
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
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Peter Broelman, Cagle Cartoons, Australia —
Posted on May 1, 2011
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Peter Broelman, Cagle Cartoons, Australia —
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Apr 29, 2011
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Frederick Deligne, Cagle Cartoons, Nice-Matin, France —
Posted on Apr 29, 2011
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Patrick Chappatte, Cagle Cartoons, Le Temps, Switzerland —
Posted on Apr 26, 2011
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Martin Sutovec, Cagle Cartoons, Slovakia —
Posted on Apr 24, 2011
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Thailand’s prime minister may be in some hot water. Abhisit Vejjajiva acknowledged that he holds British citizenship, an admission that may make him vulnerable to prosecution for the deaths of around 90 people in anti-government demonstrations back in 2008.
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bbc.co.uk
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WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is still resisting extradition from England to Sweden to face allegations of sexual assault and rape, and Thursday, a British judge made his fight a little tougher—but Assange was ready with a speech and a plan to appeal.
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AP / Jose Luis Magana
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The U.S. and the U.K. have maintained a diplomatically symbiotic relationship, to all appearances, for decades, but yet another WikiLeaks cable cropped up to harsh that friendly mellow late this week. Let the official backpedaling commence.
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bbc.co.uk
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On Tuesday, British Prime Minister David Cameron faced the daunting task of answering for one of the U.K.’s most volatile historical episodes: the so-called Bloody Sunday shootings in Northern Ireland in 1972.
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AP / Simon Dawson
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Who’ll rule Britannia? That remains to be seen, exactly, as several unsolved variables are still in play after last week’s election, but no matter how the power-sharing configuration takes shape, one thing’s for sure: Prime Minister Gordon Brown won’t be part of it.
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AP photo / Mohammed Zaatari
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The U.K. is moving toward getting rid of all cluster bombs in its armory in keeping with growing international efforts to ban the bombs, which spread miniature “bomblets” and have caused many civilian deaths around the world.
Posted on May 27, 2008
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