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The contest to replace Boris Johnson is a choice between austerity and bigotry

By IBW21Commentaries/Opinions

Such a brutal choice portends a bleak immediate future for government in the U.K. By David Renton, Truthout — Boris Johnson’s government will go down in history as a record-breaker…

August 16, 2022

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So long, Boris Johnson, these were your best worst bits

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Pouring one out for the clown of Westminster. By Simon Childs and Ruby Lott-Lavigna, Vice — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has finally announced he will resign. His departure comes after…

July 12, 2022

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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson walks back into 10 Downing Street in central London after making a statement on July 7, 2022

Johnson’s downfall presents rare opportunity for massive political reset in the United Kingdom

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Like Trump, Boris Johnson bulldozed institutions and opposition deemed to stand in the way of his vision. By Sasha Abramsky, Truthout — As I began writing this column from London…

July 7, 2022

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A statue of former British prime minister Winston Churchill in London.

U.S. protests push Europe to face its own histories of injustice

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By Ishan Tharoor with Ruby Mellen, Washington Post — Edward Colston was a 17th-century English merchant who rose to the position of deputy governor of the Royal African Co. His family became fabulously wealthy as a result, profiting from the company’s role in the British trade of African slaves to the New World. Under Colston’s watch, about 84,000 Africans were shipped to lives of bondage and misery. An estimated 19,000 of them perished during the…

June 12, 2020

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From Brexit to El Paso: The Geopolitics of White Hate

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By Sikivu Hutchinson, The Humanist — On the bustling streets of Kensington in London last week, one of the Black women I asked to comment on the recent election of…

August 19, 2019

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‘The neo-Nazi terror group National Action has called for a ‘white jihad’.’ A National Action march in Darlington, County Durham.

White supremacy feeds on mainstream encouragement. That has to stop

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Rather than making concessions to bigots, politicians must confront them. It’s the only way to end the violence. By Gary Younge, The Guardian — On 19 April 1995, Timothy McVeigh blew up the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring another 684, in the deadliest act of domestic US terrorism to date. A white supremacist, among other things, he was radicalised by what he…

April 10, 2019

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