Mark Charan Newton

News Sniffer is a fascinating little tool. Check out the site to monitor how online news sources, such as the BBC, alters their articles.
The News Sniffer project aims to monitor corporate news organisations to uncover bias.
Enough said really.
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In political terms, as reported in the Independent.
Europe exists, it appears. If Greek students sneeze, or catch a whiff of tear-gas, young people take to the streets in France and now Sweden. Yesterday, masked youths threw two firebombs at the French Institute in Athens. Windows were smashed but the building was not seriously damaged. Then [...]

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…is that no government is really held to account for appalling crimes against civilians, because responsibility is in the hands of private individuals. The blame is shifted, so leaders don’t have to own up for people of their own nation slaughtering the innocent of the one they’re trying to occupy.
Blackwater should be dropped as the [...]

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This is a very interesting article covering the fall of the post-WWII British Empire, and how the UK became a military familiar to the USA.
British subordination to the United States, the so-called special relationship as it is optimistically known in London, is so taken for granted that it is seldom subjected to critical scrutiny. Why [...]

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I received a very curious spam email from a chap called Bill Clandy, informing me (as a group email) of some communists likely to cause a spot of bother at a BNP rally. Might be intrigued to know if Bill Clandy is his real name by looking it up on that very handy list which [...]

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Turns out to be not so free, or free of government intervention, after all.
The U.S. government is prepared to provide more than $7.7 trillion on behalf of American taxpayers after guaranteeing $306 billion of Citigroup Inc. debt yesterday. The pledges, amounting to half the value of everything produced in the nation last year, are [...]

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Here’s a superb article on what has led to the current crisis in Somalia. It really is essential reading, and I’d urge everyone to get through to the end.
Somalia has long been of strategic interest to American policy makers. The country sits aside the strait of Bab al-Mandeb, a key oil transit waterway between [...]

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Listen carefully to the article. He is fearful of Obama creating “protectionism”, and that “free markets” lift people out of poverty around the world.
Don’t believe a word he says. There is no such thing as a truly free market, and the markets that exist are generally to keep people in poverty by stealing things [...]

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Some important and sobering reading on the crisis in the Congo from the Independent.

Congo is the richest country in the world for gold, diamonds, coltan, cassiterite, and more. Everybody wanted a slice – so six other countries invaded.
These resources were not being stolen to for use in Africa. They were seized so they could be [...]

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Forgive the huge dose of inaccurate and simplified journalism by the BBC, but this Social Libertarian community in Copenhagen, Freetown Christiania is under siege by the Danish government, and protests have kicked off in response. This is a community where people have chosen to control over as man aspects their own lives as possible—it’s a [...]

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