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January Reading List

Posted on February 3, 2015 by TPNS • Posted in The 5% Campaign, What interests us • Tagged Economy, Fracking, Military spending, Reading List, UK, USA

1. Sir Peter to take on new role in the defence sector
2. Breaking Taboos, BDS Gains Ground Among Academics
3. No, Chancellor, 0.5% inflation is not “welcome news”
4. It is ‘impossible’ for today’s big oil companies to adapt to climate change
5. Leave fossil fuels buried to prevent climate change, study urges
6. The wealth that failed to trickle down: The rich do get richer while poor stay poor, report suggests
7. Rate of environmental degradation puts life on Earth at risk, say scientists 
8. Why we must reject the dangerous delusions of Davos
9. Is USAID Helping Haiti to Recover, or US Contractors to Make Millions? 
10. New Oxfam report says half of global wealth held by the 1% 
11. Revealed: how the wealth gap holds back economic growth
12. Old ice in Arctic vanishingly rare
13. Pentagon says air force’s ‘expanding drone fleet’ is unjustified and wasteful 
14. Tory and Labour seats face fracking and groundwater concerns
15. Fossil fuel firms accused of renewable lobby takeover to push gas 
16. As inequality soars, the nervous super rich are already planning their escapes
17. They Pretend to Think, We Pretend to Listen
18. George Osborne urges ministers to fast-track fracking measures in leaked letter
19. Social conscience is key to cutting household energy
20. In depth: Infrastructure bill amendments on fracking, fossil fuels, and zero carbon homes
21. MPs have given the thumbs up to fracking – but this one’s far from over
22. Winning an Election Does Not Mean Winning Power
23. How the CIA made Google
24. Why is terror Islamist?
25. The Myth of the Terrorist Safe Haven
26. Their mantra was ‘Hope begins today’: the inside story of Syriza’s rise to power
27. A State Licence to Rob the Public
28. Can Cool Pope Francis Change the Catholic Church?
29. Any Government Must Fund The NHS Properly
30. Claims that climate models overestimate warming are “unfounded”, study shows
31. 33 Latin American and Caribbean states endorse Austrian Pledge and call for negotiations on a ban treaty
32. Islamic State: the unknown war 
33. Why Is an Israeli Defense Contractor Building a ‘Virtual Wall’ in the Arizona Desert? 
34. Five Years After: Long Live Howard Zinn 
35. Pentagon Seeks 13% Weapons Increase as Obama Urges End to Cuts
36. How America Could Collapse
37. Fracking set to be banned from 40% of England’s shale areas
38. Put the Pentagon On a Real Budget
39. Don’t Blame Islam
40. Cameron’s five-year legacy: has he finished what Thatcher started?

 

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November Reading List

Posted on January 22, 2015 by TPNS • Posted in The 5% Campaign, What interests us • Tagged Africa, Arms trade, China, Climate change, Defence contractors, Economy, Military spending, Military-Industrial Complex, Nuclear weapons, Reading List, Solar power, the Pentagon, UK, USA

1. Fracking could carry unforeseen risks as thalidomide and asbestos did, says report 
2. This headline will subtly mislead you and science says that probably matters
3. 5 Key Takeaways From the Latest Climate Change Report
4. Why Ebola hit West Africa hard
5. Nuclear Arms Control in China Today
6. Texas oil town makes history as residents say no to fracking 
7. The secular stagnation hoax
8. The Pentagon’s Arguments for Runaway Arms Trading Are Indefensible
9. World’s first solar cycle lane opening in the Netherlands
10. Raytheon acquires cyber firm for $420 million
11. America’s New Mercenaries
12. What’s the environmental impact of modern war?
13. Petraeus joins pro-fracking choir at Harvard’s Belfer Center
14. Stakes are high as US plays the oil card against Iran and Russia
15. Foundation of US nuclear system showing cracks
16. Midterms 2014: The Red Wedding for Democrats
17. Can (green) energy policy create jobs?
18. Death Wears Bunny Slippers
19. It is the 0.01% who are really getting ahead in America
20. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and UK healthcare
21. Is neoliberalism at last unravelling in Britain?
22. For Whom the Wall Fell? A balance-sheet of transition to capitalism 
23. Ministers’ shale gas ‘hype’ attacked
24. Some Very Initial Thoughts on the US-China Deal
25. The social, political and ecological pathologies of the Ebola Crisis cannot be ignored
26. F’d: How the U.S. and Its Allies Got Stuck with the World’s Worst New Warplane
27. Spied on by BP
28. How did the first world war actually end?
29. Don’t Throw Billions at an Obsolete Nuclear Arsenal
30. Hard Evidence: are we facing another financial crisis? 
31. Growth: the destructive god that can never be appeased
32. Cameron is right to warn of another recession, but wrong to blame the world
33. The Top 5 Foreign Policy Lessons of the Past 20 Years
34. The .01 Percent Blow Their Fortunes on Yachts, Personal Jets and America’s Politicians
35. How much is owed to Gaza? Does anyone know? This is not a rhetorical question. I’m really asking!
36. International arms firm Lockheed Martin in the frame for £1bn NHS contract 
37. We Love the Pentagon’s ‘Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure’
38. Massive Rail Deal Gives China’s Push Into Africa a Major Win
39. Exaggeration Nation
40. Barclays boycotted over Israel arms trade shares
41. Firms invested £17bn in companies making cluster bombs, report says
42. There is Nothing Natural about Gentrification
43. 41 men targeted but 1,147 people killed: US drone strikes – the facts on the ground 
44. The ‘crass insensitivity’ of Tower’s luxury dinner for arms dealers, days after poppy display 
45. Fracking firm’s plans to look for gas in North Yorkshire criticised by environmental groups
46. House Republicans just passed a bill forbidding scientists from advising the EPA on their own research
47. Justifying War: “Just” Wars  

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October Reading List

Posted on November 5, 2014 by TPNS • Posted in From Pink to Prevention, The 5% Campaign, What interests us • Tagged Austerity, Breast Cancer, Defence contractors, Drones, Economy, Fracking, Japan, Military spending, Reading List, Shale Gas, UK, USA

1. A Trillion Ways To Build a New Military Industrial Complex
2. The Military Takes on Climate Change Deniers
3. Amazon Must Be Stopped
4. Japan’s Decision on Collective Self-Defense in Context
5. Far-Right Birther’s Secret Funders
6. Pinkwashing: Fracking Company Teams Up With Susan G. Komen to ‘End Breast Cancer Forever’
7. Cut benefits? Yes, let’s start with our £85bn corporate welfare handout
8. US firms could make billions from UK via secret tribunals
9. Germany Can’t Manage Its Weapons
10. Warmongering Hebrew University tries to muzzle Palestinian students
11. Richest 1% of people own nearly half of global wealth, says report
12. UK to allow fracking companies to use ‘any substance’ under homes 
13. This One $486 Million Blunder In Afghanistan Sums Up The Disaster Of Military Spending
14. The US and a Crumbling Levant
15. Only 12% of drone victims in Pakistan identified as militants: report
16. Does Rising Inequality Make a Democracy More Warlike?
17. European banks and the global banking glut
18. With US-led air strikes on Isis intensifying, it’s a good time to be an arms giant like Lockheed Martin
19. Organised Hypocrisy on a Monumental Scale
20. NASA Confirms A 2,500-Square-Mile Cloud Of Methane Floating Over US Southwest
21. Netanyahu’s Not Chickenshit, the White House Is

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September Reading List

Posted on October 3, 2014 by TPNS • Posted in The 5% Campaign, What interests us • Tagged China, Climate change, Defence contractors, Fracking, Inequality, Militarization, Military spending, Military-Industrial Complex, Nuclear weapons, Reading List, Surveillance, USA

1. How the west created the Islamic State
2. Who’s Paying the Pro-War Pundits?
3. The Pentagon’s $800-Billion Real Estate Problem
4. Lefties and liberals still don’t do enough to stop wars
5. How the super rich got richer: 10 shocking facts about inequality
6. ISIS’s Enemy List: 10 Reasons the Islamic State Is Doomed
7. Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault
8. Democracy in the Twenty-First Century
9. Israeli drone conference features weapons used to kill Gaza’s children
10. New Report on Water Impacts of Shale Gas Development
11. Behind the headlines: Fracking and water contamination
12. Story of a War Foretold: Why we’re fighting ISIS
13. Richard Brooks and Andrew Bousfield, 19th September 2014. Shady Arabia and the Desert Fix. Private Eye.
14. “My childhood was not an episode from Downton Abbey”
15. Russell Tribunal finds evidence of incitement to genocide, crimes against humanity in Gaza
16. ‘Blood on their hands’: Glasgow activists shut down drone manufacturer
17. Inequality is a choice: U.S. inequality in two shocking graphics
18. Europe Tries to Stop Flow of Citizens Joining Jihad
19. On the streets with the People’s Climate March
20. The Great Frack Forward
21. The Unaffordable Arsenal

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