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The bid to convert more scholarly titles to open access continues, as Knowledge Unlatched seeks cooperation from a widening array of libraries. A federal health ministry public service announcement on a tower of the Berlin Cathedral on April 25 reads “#Armelhoch für die Corona-Schutzimpfung,” essentially, “Roll up your sleeve for the coronavirus vaccination.” Image – iStockphoto: Lichtwolke Climate Change Leads the ‘Focus Collection’ Berlin’s Knowledge Unlatched has today (May ...

  April 29,2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Media Lens — Long before ‘the propaganda model’ flew off Edward Herman’s keyboard and into ‘Manufacturing Consent’, the book he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, Leo Tolstoy had captured the essence of non-conspiratorial conformity: ‘One man does not assert the truth which he knows, because he feels himself bound to the people with whom he is engaged; another, because the truth might deprive hi...

Senior transport planners and climate experts have urged transport secretary Grant Shapps and London Mayor Sadiq Khan to put an immediate stop to work on the Silvertown Tunnel to re-evaluate the scheme’s environmental impact. In a letter to Shapps and Khan, the group of 52 academics and campaigners have called for an “emergency review” to be carried out to determine if the East London project is in line with the UK’s climate change objectives. (See below for full list of signatories.) T...

by Media Lens / April 19th, 2021 Long before ‘the propaganda model’ flew off Edward Herman’s keyboard and into Manufacturing Consent, the book he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, Leo Tolstoy had captured the essence of non-conspiratorial conformity: One man does not assert the truth which he knows, because he feels himself bound to the people with whom he is engaged; another, because the truth might deprive him of the profitable position by which he maintains his family; a third, because h...

The Lost Hegemon: Whom the Gods Would Destroy Opium Wars, bin Laden, and Mujahideen “When the operation started in 1979, this region grew opium only for regional markets and produced no heroin. Within two years, however, the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands became the world’s top heroin producer. . . . CIA assets again controlled this heroin trade. As the Mujahideen guerrillas seized territory inside Afghanistan, they ordered peasants to plant opium as a revolutionary tax.” —Alfred M...

Pluto Press is partnering with the Pluto Educational Trust (PET) and the Walter Rodney Foundation (WRF) to launch the annual non-fiction Walter Rodney Writing Prize for African and Caribbean women and non-binary debut authors. The prize intends to celebrate the life and work of Guyanese writer and political activist Walter Rodney, while reflecting and advancing the…

Language, Resistance and Revival tells the untold story of the truly groundbreaking linguistic and educational developments that took place among Republican prisoners in Long Kesh prison from 1972-2000. During a period of bitter struggle between Republican prisoners and the British state, the Irish language was taught and spoken as a form of resistance during incarceration. The book unearths this story for the first time and analyses the rejuvenating impact it had on the cultural revival in the...

School of Law When: Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Where: Online, The International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) is delighted to welcome Professor Kristian Lasslett (University of Ulster) for the talk Looting the North, Looting the South: Investigating Transnational Corruption. The online event will be chaired by Dr. Thomas MacManus (Queen Mary School of Law). The world of global elites and wealth management is largely hidden from public inspection. The forces which undermine ...

Author Protesters at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. waving the Syrian rebel flag. November 25, 2019. Photo by Miki Jourdan / Flickr The cycle of protests that collectively became known as the “Arab Spring” were triggered by a desperate event outside a government building in the small Tunisian city of Sidi Bouzid in late December 2010, when Mohamad Bouazizi set fire to himself in an act of protest. Mass demonstrations followed across Tunisia and quickly ricocheted across the Mid...

Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/36911 "Modern slavery": grandstanding vs helping workers organise Submitted by AWL on 2 March, 2021 - 7:04 Emily Kenway is a former adviser to the UK’s first Anti-Slavery Commissioner and the author of Solidarity. (The book is reviewed here.) Can you explain a little of what the book is about, and why you wrote it? The book is about how modern slavery is a particular narrative about exploitation, constructed largely by philanthr...