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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Nicaragua using ′Sandinista mobs′ to quash protests: report | News | DW | 29.05.2018

Source: Nicaragua using ′Sandinista mobs′ to quash protests: report | News | DW | 29.05.2018

T-Mobile Hires Corey Lewandowski to Help Sell Merger to Trump – Everything is for sale – including competition, jobs, democracy…

T-Mobile has hired former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to help the company gain regulatory approval for its $23 billion merger with Sprint. The looming merger has been blocked several times by regulators already because it would not only eliminate anywhere from 10 to 30,000 jobs but would dramatically reduce incentive for the remaning three large wireless carriers to seriously compete on price. As with most megamergers, the CEOs for Sprint and T-Mobile have spent the last few weeks trying to claim the exact opposite.

Source: Inoreader – T-Mobile Hires Corey Lewandowski to Help Sell Merger to Trump –

Britain doesn’t just glorify its violent past: it gets high on it | Afua Hirsch

British racism, is still racism even if a tiny bit less brutal than the Belgians, Germans, Japanese. Most of the people transported into slavery from what is now thought of as Africa, were transported to North, Central and South America in British and French ships. That is not something to be candied over with “we were not as brutal as the Belgian king.” Tearing apart families and enslaving people is brutal enough and needs to be healed not by candy but by admitting the wrong!

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The defensive, patriotic narrative of empire has become a drug. Like all addicts, those hooked on it cannot stomach critique

It feels like I live in the middle of a culture war. On one side is a kind of state-sponsored amnesia. It’s pervasive. It’s an Oscar-winning movie perpetuating the idea that Winston Churchill stood alone, at the Darkest Hour, as Nazi fascism encroached, with Britain a small and vulnerable nation isolated in the north Atlantic. In reality the United Kingdom was at that moment an imperial power with the collective might of Indian, African, Canadian and Australian manpower, resources and wealth at its disposal.

It’s also Poland passing a law so that errant historians, survivors or Auschwitz guides who raise the inconvenient fact of Polish complicity in atrocities now risk up to three years’ imprisonment. It’s Tennessee in the US legislating against the removal of Confederate statues when, as the former New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu puts it, they “purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitised Confederacy; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, and the terror that it actually stood for”.

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Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko shot dead in Kiev

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Police suspect murder related to prominent journalist’s professional activities

Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko has been shot in Kiev and has died of his wounds in an ambulance, according to Ukrainian police.

Babchenko’s wife found him bleeding at the apartment on Tuesday and called an ambulance, but he died on the way to a hospital, a spokesman said.

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