5% — January 2016

‘Kill-Em-All With Airstrikes’ Is Not Working
http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2016/01/kill-em-all-airstrikes-not-working/124946/

Why Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Want Your Vote
http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-bernie-sanders-fundraising/

F-35 Ejection Seat Fix Delayed to 2018; Pilot Restrictions Continue
http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/2016/01/08/f-35-ejection-seat-fix-delayed-2018-pilot-restrictions-continue/78519892/

UK should prepare for use of drones in terrorist attacks, says thinktank
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jan/11/drones-terrorist-attacks-security-thinktank

Revealed: British government refusing to accept evidence of civilian fatalities in UK air strikes
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14193998.Revealed__British_government_refusing_to_accept_evidence_of_civilian_fatalities_in_UK_air_strikes/

Revealed: UK military doesn’t know the number of people it has killed in airstrikes
https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/3121/revealed-uk-military-doesn-t-know-the-number-of-people-it-has-killed-in-airstrikes

What Would a Realist World Have Looked Like?
https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/01/08/what-would-a-realist-world-have-looked-like-iraq-syria-iran-obama-bush-clinton/

The IMF Confirms That ‘Trickle-Down’ Economics Is, Indeed, a Joke
http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/trickle-down-economics-is-indeed-a-joke

Note To Joe Stiglitz: Banks Originate, Not Intermediate, And That’s Why Aggregate Demand Is Stuffed
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevekeen/2016/01/06/note-to-joe-stiglitz-banks-originate-not-intermediate-and-thats-why-aggregate-demand-is-stuffed/

Congress offers Christmas cheer to F-35 and F/A-18 programmes
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/congress-offers-christmas-cheer-to-f-35-and-fa-18-p-420170/

Is Britain a nation of debt bingers? History tells a different story
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/12/britain-nation-debt-bingers-history-household-credit

Will a Basic Income turn us all into entrepreneurs?
https://www.crunch.co.uk/blog/small-business-advice/2016/01/11/will-a-basic-income-turn-us-all-into-entrepreneurs/

The man who exposed the lie of the war on drugs
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/26/man-who-exposed-lie-war-on-drugs-roberto-saviano-ed-vulliamy

Britain Has Sold £5.6 Billion Of Arms To Saudi Arabia Since David Cameron Came To Power
http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/britain-has-sold-ps56-billion-of-arms-to-saudi-arabia-since#.aa70bBL3r

UK, US buying made-in-Pakistan weapons
http://nation.com.pk/islamabad/12-Jan-2016/uk-us-buying-made-in-pakistan-weapons

Airbnb lists properties in illegal Israeli settlements
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/12/airbnb-listings-illegal-settlements-israel-palestine-west-bank

UK government misses own green targets
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/11/uk-government-misses-own-green-targets

Hard Evidence: this is the Age of Dissent – and there’s much more to come
https://theconversation.com/hard-evidence-this-is-the-age-of-dissent-and-theres-much-more-to-come-52871

BoE official oversaw FCA retreat from inquiry into banking culture
https://next.ft.com/content/414f6e0c-b918-11e5-b151-8e15c9a029fb

Renew Trident? It’d make more sense to put Dad’s Army on the case
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/13/renew-trident-dads-army-jeremy-corbyn-labour

Made in Britain
http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2016/01/13/elliot-murphy/made-in-britain/

Davos and Its Threat to Democracy
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/17/davos-and-its-threat-democracy

Blimey: TfL to take over most of London’s rail network, says government
http://www.citymetric.com/transport/blimey-tfl-take-over-most-londons-rail-network-says-government-1765

Just Who Exactly Benefits Most from the Global Giving of Billionaires Like Bill Gates?
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/20/just-who-exactly-benefits-most-global-giving-billionaires-bill-gates

Ultra-Rich ‘Philanthrocapitalist’ Class Undermining Global Democracy: Report
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/01/15/ultra-rich-philanthrocapitalist-class-undermining-global-democracy-report

Philanthropy: Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/01/15/philanthropy-looking-gift-horse-mouth

Is Britain’s media biased against the left?
https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/greg-philo/is-britains-media-biased-against-left

Dark Money review: Nazi oil, the Koch brothers and a rightwing revolution
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/17/dark-money-review-nazi-oil-the-koch-brothers-and-a-rightwing-revolution

It is wrong to blame China for the global economy’s woes
http://www.primeeconomics.org/articles/3wytec2ja3q7ulxrgrlqeuam5tykbb

No, it’s not time for Britain to be intensely relaxed over household debt
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/no-it-s-not-time-for-britain-to-be-intensely-relaxed-over-household-debt-a6817926.html

Richest 62 people as wealthy as half of world’s population, says Oxfam
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/18/richest-62-billionaires-wealthy-half-world-population-combined

Meet Chengdu’s Ace Fighter Designer
http://thediplomat.com/2016/01/meet-chengdus-ace-fighter-designer/

UK most unequal country in the West
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk-most-unequal-country-in-the-west-1329614.html

We’ve been conned by the rich predators of Davos
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/19/davos-super-rich-wealth-inequality

The Return of Public Investment
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/public-infrastructure-investment-sustained-growth-by-dani-rodrik-2016-01

Big Pharma’s worst nightmare
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/26/big-pharmas-worst-nightmare

UN report into Saudi-led strikes in Yemen raises questions over UK role
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/27/un-report-into-saudi-led-strikes-in-yemen-raises-questions-over-uk-role

You Won’t Like It, But Here’s the Answer to ISIS
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176091/tomgram%3A_peter_van_buren%2C_how_to_resolve_the_isis_crisis

Type 45 destroyers: UK’s £1bn warships face engine refit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35432341

The Forgotten Benefits of Offshore Balancing
http://lobelog.com/the-forgotten-benefits-of-offshore-balancing/

Cameron desperate to stop scandal as secret plans to sell the NHS are discovered
http://www.thecanary.co/2016/01/27/conservatives-block-access-secret-nhs-privatisation-documents/

Brimstone missiles target the British public, not Islamic State
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/brimstone-missiles-target-british-public-not-islamic-state-1698303657

More Bad News for the Snakebit F-35
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/01/29/More-Bad-News-Snakebit-F-35

The U.S. May Build 500 Jets Before Finding Out If the F-35 Works
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-01-29/pentagon-risks-building-500-f-35s-before-completing-combat-tests

We came, we saw, he died
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n03/jackson-lears/we-came-we-saw-he-died

The World’s Favorite New Tax Haven Is the United States
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-27/the-world-s-favorite-new-tax-haven-is-the-united-states

Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrations Overlook His Critiques of Capitalism and Militarism
https://theintercept.com/2016/01/18/martin-luther-king-jr-celebrations-overlook-his-critiques-of-capitalism-and-militarism/

Dr. King’s Antiwar Legacy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-hartung/dr-kings-antiwar-legacy_b_9014048.html

Henry A. Giroux | Gun Culture and the American Nightmare of Violence
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34349-gun-culture-and-the-american-nightmare-of-violence#14549852864731&action=collapse_widget&id=0&data=

How does NHS spending compare with health spending internationally?
http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/blog/2016/01/how-does-nhs-spending-compare-health-spending-internationally

Behold: How the US blew $17 billion in Afghanistan
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-12-18/behold-american-taxpayer-what-happened-nearly-half-billion-your-dollars