Hilary Benn’s ‘Internationalism’
http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2015/12/03/michael-chessum/hilary-benns-internationalism/

Defense Contractors Cite “Benefits” of Escalating Conflicts in the Middle East
https://theintercept.com/2015/12/04/defense-contractors-cite-benefits-of-escalating-conflicts-in-the-middle-east/

Osborne reliant on rising immigration levels to achieve budget surplus
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/dec/01/osborne-reliant-on-rising-immigration-levels-to-achieve-budget-surplus

Finland plans to give every citizen 800 euros a month and scrap benefits
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/finland-plans-to-give-every-citizen-800-euros-a-month-and-scrap-benefits-a6762226.html

The ISIS Fight Is Reshaping US Arms Exports to Its Partners
http://www.defenseone.com/management/2015/12/isis-fight-reshaping-us-arms-exports-its-partners/124161/

Why Russia needs China to buy its weapons
http://www.dw.com/en/why-russia-needs-china-to-buy-its-weapons/a-18870472

UK flooding, austerity and the media
http://mainlymacro.blogspot.be/2015/12/uk-flooding-austerity-and-media.html

NHS trust urges staff to ration stationery and stamps as cash crisis plumbs new depths
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/nhs-trust-urges-staff-to-ration-stationery-and-stamps-as-cash-crisis-plumbs-new-depths-a6762741.html

None Of The Seven Foiled UK Terror Plots Was Directed From Syria, Senior MPs Claim
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34962228/army-chief-were-still-failing-to-attract-enough-young-recruits

UK To Boost Investment in Technology Innovation
http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/policy-budget/2015/12/07/uk-boost-investment-technology-innovation/76927888/

Do little, hide the evidence: the official neglect that caused these deadly floods
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/07/hide-evidence-storm-desmond-floods-paris-talks

The Isis papers: leaked documents show how Isis is building its state
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/07/leaked-isis-document-reveals-plan-building-state-syria

The fall of Jersey: how a tax haven goes bust
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/dec/08/fall-of-jersey-how-tax-haven-goes-bust

NHS rationing ‘is denying patients care’ as cash crisis deepens
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/dec/08/nhs-rationing-denying-patients-care-cash-crisis-survery-doctors

Osborne will miss target of doubling exports
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/osborne-will-miss-target-of-doubling-exports-9907273.html

Blair’s frail legacy shows why Labour must win arguments as well as votes
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/11/blair-frail-legacy-labour-corbynistas

The Unbearable Lightness of America’s War Against the Islamic State
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/12/11/the-unbearable-lightness-of-americas-war-against-the-islamic-state-obama-san-bernardino-us/

James Hansen, father of climate change awareness, calls Paris talks ‘a fraud’
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/12/james-hansen-climate-change-paris-talks-fraud

Defense Contractors Cite “Benefits” of Escalating Conflicts in the Middle East
https://theintercept.com/2015/12/04/defense-contractors-cite-benefits-of-escalating-conflicts-in-the-middle-east/

Paris climate negotiations won’t stop the planet burning
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/paris-climate-negotiations-won-t-stop-planet-burning-1543258788

UK looks at nuclear option over Rolls-Royce crisis
https://next.ft.com/content/41a4756a-a1a2-11e5-bc70-7ff6d4fd203a

British parties are suffering a slow death. What’s left are elites and cults
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/14/british-party-democracy-long-slow-death-elites-cults

The new nuclear arms race
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-new-nuclear-arms-race/2015/12/11/83445bc0-a021-11e5-bce4-708fe33e3288_story.html

Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp: Finland’s basic income: a test case for our global economic future?
http://www.thenational.scot/comment/gordon-macintyre-kemp-finlands-basic-income-a-test-case-for-our-global-economic-future.11067

GO SEE “THE BIG SHORT” RIGHT NOW — AND THEN READ THIS
https://theintercept.com/2015/12/14/go-see-the-big-short-right-now-and-then-read-this/

Britain’s Nuclear Arsenal Is a Hazardous Mess
http://warisboring.com/articles/britains-nuclear-arsenal-is-a-hazardous-mess/

NHS faces unprecedented funding black hole, warns National Audit Office
http://home.bt.com/news/uk-news/nhs-faces-unprecedented-funding-black-hole-warns-national-audit-office-11364029103635

US Defense Spending: Amid Tight Military Budget, Air Force F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Military Purchases May Need To Be Reduced
http://www.ibtimes.com/us-defense-spending-amid-tight-military-budget-air-force-f-35-joint-strike-fighter-2226281

Revealed: Cuadrilla and leading fracking firms’ tax haven ownership
https://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/12/16/revealed-cuadrilla-and-leading-fracking-firms-tax-haven-ownership/

NHS Hospitals Forced To Take Out Emergency Loans To Pay Doctors And Nurses, HuffPost UK Reveals
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/12/15/nhs-hospitals-loans-salaries-staff-doctors-nurses_n_8811780.html

The Corporate Takeover of the Red Cross
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-corporate-takeover-of-the-red-cross

By Funding Foreign Militaries, the U.S. Is Spreading Terrorism
http://fpif.org/funding-foreign-militaries-u-s-spreading-terrorism/

The Big Short, the Housing Bubble and the Financial Crisis
http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/the-big-short-the-housing-bubble-and-the-financial-crisis

A Brief History of ISIS
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/12/isis-syria-iraq-war-al-qaeda-arab-spring/

Dutch city plans to pay citizens a ‘basic income’, and Greens say it could work in the UK
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/26/dutch-city-utrecht-basic-income-uk-greens

U.S. Foreign Arms Deals Increased Nearly $10 Billion in 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/26/world/middleeast/us-foreign-arms-deals-increased-nearly-10-billion-in-2014.html