5% — October 2015

The Record U.S. Military Budget
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nicolas-j-s-davies/the-record-us-military-bu_b_8227820.html

Ministers ‘are hiding details of £2bn NHS cash crisis’
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/03/ministers-hiding-details-nhs-cash-crisis

Thanks to Corbyn the country can now, at last, properly debate issues like Trident
http://tomdlondon.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/thanks-to-corbyn-country-can-now-at.html

Revealed: how AstraZeneca avoids paying UK corporation tax
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/04/how-astrazeneca-avoids-paying-uk-corporation-tax

Is the Devil in the Details? Estimating Global Poverty
http://ineteconomics.org/ideas-papers/blog/is-the-devil-in-the-details-estimating-global-poverty

Isis or Russia? Labour needs to decide which is the bigger threat
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/04/isis-russia-labour-defence-barbaric-policy

The Pentagon’s Brain
http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/10/02/the-pentagons-brain/

You can print money, so long as it’s not for the people
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/04/printing-money-jeremy-corbyn-quantitative-easing-peoples-qe

Israeli exports hit hard by Palestinian boycott, World Bank says
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israeli-exports-hit-hard-palestinian-boycott-world-bank-says

How does Israel get away with it?
https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-does-israel-get-away-it/14882

Japan’s Security Bills: Overpromising and Under-Delivering
http://thediplomat.com/2015/10/japans-security-bills-overpromising-and-under-delivering/

AFGHAN TROOP DEADLINE EXTENDED AGAIN: GUESS WHY?
http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/10/05/afghan-troop-deadline-extended-again-guess-why/

October 2017, after the crash: George Osborne wonders what went wrong
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/05/october-2017-crash-george-osborne-uk-global-economy

Basic income in another Dutch town: each person receives up to $1,450/m unconditionally
http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/basic-income-holland-0423523/

Is Theresa May right about immigration?
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/06/reality-check-is-theresa-may-right-about-immigration

This is not the third intifada
http://www.thenational.ae/world/middle-east/this-is-not-the-third-intifada

The remarkable thing that happens to poor kids when you give their parents a little money
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2015/10/08/the-remarkable-ways-a-little-money-can-change-a-childs-personality-for-life/

An 18th century monolith that’s ripe for reform
http://englisheconomic.com/2015/08/18th-century-monolith/

Don’t let the Nobel prize fool you. Economics is not a science
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/11/nobel-prize-economics-not-science-hubris-disaster

From Iraq to Kunduz, US civilian killings are no accident – they’re policy
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/iraq-kunduz-americas-civilian-killings-are-no-accident-theyre-policy-862175657

Now the Tories are allowing big business to design their own tax loopholes
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/13/tories-big-business-tax-loopholes

COLUMBUS DAY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY OF EVERY YEAR
https://theintercept.com/2015/10/12/columbus-day-is-the-most-important-day-of-every-year/

THE DRONE PAPERS
https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/

‘Call a halt to austerity’: Danny Blanchflower says the UK economy is slowing, so we need to take off the brakes
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/call-a-halt-to-austerity-danny-blanchflower-says-the-uk-economy-is-slowing-so-we-need-to-take-off-a3090746.html

‘Living within our means’ makes no economic sense. Labour is right to oppose it
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/13/living-within-means-economic-labour-john-mcdonnell

John Lewis: trouble in store
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/92c95704-6c6d-11e5-8171-ba1968cf791a.html

EXCLUSIVE: F-35 Ejection Seats Could Endanger Many Pilots
http://www.rollcall.com/news/exclusive_f_35_ejection_seats_could_endanger_many_pilots-244224-1.html

U.S. HITS 3-YEAR HIGH OF $46B IN FY15 ARMS SALES, AGENCY SAYS
http://about.bgov.com/2015-10-14/u-s-hits-3-year-high-of-46b-in-fy15-arms-sales-agency-says/

The next VW scandal
https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/christine-berry/next-vw-scandal

Tory opposition to tax credit cuts: arithmetically challenged
https://flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2015/10/17/tory-opposition-to-tax-credit-cuts-arithmetically-challenged/

The shabby economy
http://www.coppolacomment.com/2015/10/the-shabby-economy.html

Global defense perspectives
http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/industries/government-public-services/public-sector-research-centre/publications/global-defense-perspectives.html

Why are makeup companies able to give breast cancer patients toxic products?
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/17/why-are-makeup-companies-able-to-give-breast-cancer-patients-toxic-products

Trotsky, Blair and the new politics
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/devolution/2015/10/heart-left-head-right-contradictions-inside-snp

OSBORNE: THE KATIE HOPKINS CHANCELLOR
http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2015/10/osborne-the-katie-hopkins-chancellor.html

Flying Blind
http://harpers.org/blog/2015/10/flying-blind-2/

The F-35’s latest problem? The ejection seat.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/10/23/the-f-35s-latest-problem-the-ejection-seat/

UK nuclear deterrent to cost $256 billion, far more than expected
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/25/us-britain-defence-trident-exclusive-idUSKCN0SJ0EP20151025

Working tax credits: two-thirds will be worse off in 2020, research says
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/oct/26/working-tax-credits-two-thirds-will-be-worse-off-in-2020-research-finds

Care about poverty and inequality? Then you must give credit to tax credits
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/care-about-poverty-and-inequality-then-you-must-give-credit-to-tax-credits-a6708556.html

Ministers urged to introduce sugar tax in childhood obesity report
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/22/sugar-report-delayed-jeremy-hunt-tax-radical-action-obesity

U.S. Arms Transfers to the Middle East: Promoting Stability or Fueling Conflict?
http://securityassistance.org/blog/us-arms-transfers-middle-east-promoting-stability-or-fueling-conflict

Why don’t we save our steelworkers, when we’ve spent billions on bankers?
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/28/steelworkers-bankers-eu-heavy-industry-cameron

What If They Gave a War and Everyone Came?
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176059/tomgram%3A_peter_van_buren%2C_the_great_war_in_the_middle_east

Poverty goals? No, it’s extreme wealth we should be targeting
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/19/un-poor-wealth-sustainable-development-goals

Britain is heading for another 2008 crash: here’s why
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/28/2008-crash-government-economic-growth-budgetary-surplus

How the banks ignored the lessons of the crash
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/sep/30/how-the-banks-ignored-lessons-of-crash