Friday, 05 November 2010 08:07 'There is no economic rationale for the assault described cravenly by the BBC as a "public spending review". The debt is exclusively the responsibility of those who incurred it, the super-rich and the gamblers. However, that’s beside the point. What is happening in Britain is the seizure of an opportunity to destroy the tenuous humanity of the modern state. It is a coup, a "shock doctrine" as applied to Pinochet’s Chile and Yeltsin’s Russia. In Britain, there is no need for tanks in the streets. In its managerial indifference to the freedoms it is said to hold dear, bourgeois Britain has allowed parliament to create a surveillance state with 3,000 new criminal offences and laws: more than for the whole of the previous century. Powers of arrest and detention have never been greater. The police have the impunity to kill; asylum seekers can be "restrained" to death on commercial flights and should fellow passengers object, anti-terrorism laws will deal with them. Abroad, British militarism colludes with torturers and death squads.' Read more: The Party Game Is Over. Stand And Fight by John Pilger Friday, 05 November 2010 07:57 "The truth is there is no al-Qaeda." Such a comment rarely finds currency in a nation’s popular consciousness but in Yemen, home to what the CIA calls the most dangerous of al-Qaeda’s many affiliates (al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP), it is all too common. For some AQAP is just a cynical excuse for the Saleh government to get increased foreign military aid from the US and others. Other Yemenis, particularly in the south, see it as an excuse to attack separatist groups that have nothing to do with international terrorism.' Read more: Most Yemenis See al-Qaeda Presence as ‘Myth’ Friday, 05 November 2010 07:44 'The Irish government has announced plans to make 15 billion Euros in budget cuts to reduce the country's deficit and outlined the effective date of the cuts.In what has been described as "a significant frontloading," the government said it would cut 6 billion Euros in 2011 aimed at reducing the deficit to 9.25%-9.5% of the GDP (Gross Domestic Product), reported the state-run BBC on Thursday. By 2014, the Emerald Isle's government plans to bring down the deficit to as far down as 3% of the GDP.The government says savings would be made through spending cuts and higher taxes, thus improving the living standards of all its citizens.' Read more: Ireland Announces Record Budget Cuts
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