RECYCLING LIES: TRUMP, MIGRANT FAMILIES AND THE MEDIA

Posted on July 3, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged 24 hour news cycle, activists, Adam Curtis, alternative media, campaigning, detention centres, executive order, fake news, featured, hypernormalisation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, mainstream media, media, media reform, migrant families, migration, politics, putin, reporting, Russia, social media, Trump, US government, USA, Vladislav Surkov.

By Robyn Banks

Two weeks ago, Donald Trump signed an executive order bringing an end to the separation of undocumented migrant children from their parents. This was widely reported in the mainstream press as a win for those had publicly campaigned against this policy. But just saying that doesn’t make it so. The executive order did bring an end to the separation of children from their parents, but there has been no commitment to reuniting the families already separated. Children previously taken from their parents are being kept in camps in the Texan desert, while families crossing the border since the executive order are being transferred to ICE ‘Family Detention Centres’, which have extremely limited capacity. Whilst this was picked up by smaller media outlets and on social media, many in the mainstream press didn’t acknowledge these complications, focusing only on the initial ‘win’.

POLITICS & CULTURE – THE AMIEL & MELBURN SEMINAR 2017

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Inter|national and tagged 7 Days, academia, access, activism, alpha male, alt-right, alternative media, Annie Kelly, anti-feminism, art, Athina Karatzogianni, Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust, Chardine Taylor-Stone, class, corruption, critique, culture, culture war, curricula, digital culture, direct action, disillusionment, economics, education, fake news, far right, fascism, feminism, feminist allies, future generations, GE17, higher education, history, holding power to account, ideology, inequality, inheritance, Jo Littler, Judies, knowledge, language, mainstream media, male psyche, marxism, media representation, meritocracy, Michael Rustin, Milo Yiannopolous, Mod, Mod women, modernity, music, neo nazi, neoliberalism, peer-pressure, politics, Politics & Culture Seminar, politics of difference, progress, progress narrative, progressive media, public education, punk, Punk women, representation, Rhian E Jones, right wing, Rosalind Delmar, Roshi Naidoo, Skinhead, Skinhead women, social exclusion, social media, social mobility, socialism, society, strike action, subcultures, talent, Teddy Girls, tenant strike, trust, universities, working class movement, young people, Zahra Dalilah.

by Gunnar Eigener and Rowan Gavin

CW: mentions misogyny, anti-feminism, neo-nazism

Earlier this month, a writer and an editor from the Radical took part in the Amiel & Melburn Trust’s annual residential seminar. The Trust’s aims are “to advance public education, learning and knowledge in all aspects of the philosophy of Marxism, the history of socialism, and the working-class movement’. This year, the topic of the seminar was ‘Politics & Culture’, and the various intertwinings and intersections thereof. What follows are thoughts and reactions about the seminar from our contributors.

HAPPY TO BE ANGRY: THE ANTI-GOVERNMENT ROMANIAN PROTESTS

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #Colectiv, alternative media, Andrei Mosloc, angry, anti-government, Bucharest, change, children, classism, corruption, creative culture, creative protest, democracy, demonstration, education, Goodbye to Gravity, hope, march, Marius Tudor, media, Mihaela Precup, nationalism, nightclub, people, positive action, protest, rally, regulation, Roșia Montana, Romania, tabloids, technocracy, The Day we Die.

by Mihaela Precup

“Romania is not sexy,” a fellow academic once told me. “Nobody cares what happens there, nobody wants to study it. There’s so little going on there that’s really exciting or new. ” I thought she was right at the time. After all, I was also always going on about the political apathy of much of my fellow Romanians, the very slow pace of change after the fall of communism in December 1989, as well as the indifference of post-revolutionary governments towards preserving the memory of the totalitarian regime and its survivors. Apathy and amnesia were, I thought, the two main curses of my people.

But four years ago, something finally started happening.Continue Reading

STATE MEDIA AND THE DETERIORATION OF FREE SPEECH

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged alternative, alternative media, china, Colombia, corruption, facebook, free press, free speech, freedom of press, freedom of speech, government, Gulf War, International Federation of Journalists, John Whittingdale, journalism, journalist, Lauren Kuenssberg, media, monitoring, Norwich Radical, press, Reporters Without Borders, RSF, Russia, social media, surveillance, Syria, turkey, uk, US, World Press Freedom Index.

by Gunnar Eigener

Out of the May 5th elections the biggest story was the criticism of the coverage by the BBC and other mainstream media outlets. Particular focus of this was on BBC Question Time and the BBC Political Editor, Laura Kuenssberg. This isn’t the first time that Kuenssberg has come under fire and it probably won’t be the last. A petition was doing the rounds demanding an independent review of how biased her actions may have been but has now been taken down. Additionally, the lack of coverage over the alleged Tory fraud in the last General Election has generated a sense of distrust in the BBC, an organisation that states: ‘impartiality lies at the heart of the public service and is the core of the BBC’s commitment to its audiences’.

THE PANAMA PAPERS: NOT THE BEGINNING AND NOWHERE NEAR THE END

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged alternative media, BCCI, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, david cameron, Denis Healey, Gerard Ryle, Gibraltar, Henry Morgenthau, ICIJ, Isle of Man, Jersey, media, Mossack Fonseca, Napoleon Bonaparte, Nicholas Shaxon, Panama Papers, tax, tax avoidance, tax havens, Tax Justice Network, transparency, Western media.

by Gunnar Eigener

“The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.”

Denis Healey, UK Chancellor 1974-79

The leak of over eleven million documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca only really scratches the surface. Like all tax havens, there is a long history of corruption and exploitation to which the tale of Panama is no exception.

In 1937, then US Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, wrote a letter to President Franklin D Roosevelt, singling out the Bahamas, Panama and Newfoundland as places where:

‘stock-holders have resorted to all manners of devices to prevent the acquisition of information regarding their companies. The companies are frequently organised through foreign lawyers with dummy incorporators and dummy directors, so that the names of the real parties in interest do not appear.’

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HAPPY TO BE ANGRY: THE ANTI-GOVERNMENT ROMANIAN PROTESTS

THE PANAMA PAPERS: NOT THE BEGINNING AND NOWHERE NEAR THE END

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