Tag: UK

UK Labour Party’s Historic Party Platform Developments

28 September 2019|Sputnik International|Mohamed Elmaazi with Eugene Puryear and Bob Schlehuber

Mohamed Elmaazi joined Eugene Puryar and Bob Schlehuber to discuss some of the more significant developments to come out of the Labour Party Conference, just completed in the coastal city of Brighton, England. This includes the historic pledges to adopt humane polices towards immigrants, reversing – in many ways – decades long hostility and racism directed by segments of the UK labour movement towards immigrants and people of colour.

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Prime Minister defeated in late night Parliamentary vote

3 September 2019|The Interregnum|Mohamed Elmaazi

In a 328 vote to 302 the a coalition of SNP, Labour Party, Liberal Democrat, and Conservative Party MPs striped the executive of its normal power to dictate what is to be debated tomorrow and granting to parliament the ability to debate Hillary Ben MP’s proposed Brexit bill.

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It’s all going pear-shaped

24 August 2019|The Interregnum|Michael Roberts

Long time City economist Michael Roberts writes that the decline in the rate of profitability in the US economy (as well as others) is leading to a recession. Roberts, using a Marxist critique, argues that Keynesian, Post-Keynesian, and Modern Monetary Theorists – while well meaning – are incorrect in their belief that a government-backed stimulus will either prevent a recession, or result in recovery from one.

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Conviction of John Letts and Sally Lane exposes “absurdity” of UK terror laws and complicity of the Active Change Foundation

03 July 2019|The Interregnum|Mohamed Elmaazi

The British state has secured a ‘terror’ conviction against two parents for sending £223 to their son in Syria, intended to help bring him home to the UK. Human rights group CAGE lashed out at the ‘absurdity’ of terror laws which require no evidence of actual terrorism, as well as the role that the government-funded Active Change Foundation appears to have played in the conviction.

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Demasking the Torture of Julian Assange

28 June 2019|The Interregnum|Nils Melzer

Nils Melzer, the UN expert on torture, explains how the prejudices and smears he confronted when investigating the case of political prisoner Julian Assange. The longtime legal adviser to the International Committee of the Red Cross (known as the ‘Guardian of international law’) offered this OpEd to a wide array of establishment outlets. None responded positively.

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UK Court of Appeal: Weapons Sales to Saudi Arabia Are Illegal (For Now)

20 June 2019|The Interregnum|Mohamed Elmaazi

UK Court of Appeal in a historic decision has determined that UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia are illegal and must be reexamined given the war crimes being committed in Yemen. Though campaigners warn that despite their victory their struggle is far from over.

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Death toll of Western-backed war on Yemen exceeds 90,000, says new data

19 June 219|The Canary|Mohamed Elmaazi

New data analysis by conflict monitoring group ACLED has led them to conclude that at least 91,600 Yemeni men, women and children have been killed by the US/UK backed war on Yemen. But even that figure may ultimately prove to be very much an underestimate.

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Royal Family’s official Twitter account deletes controversial D-Day tweet that exposes disturbing historical revisionism of WWII

9 June 2019|The Interregnum|Mohamed Elmaazi

The Royal Family’s Twitter account published a controversial tweet during the 75th D-Day commemorations. The ahistorical statement – which seemed to imply that the Germans were “allies” during the invasion – was deleted only hours later.

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