THE CASE FOR A SECOND REFERENDUM

Posted on June 27, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #GE2017, Brexit, DUP, economics, EU, Farage, FBI, Grenfell, Leave, Lexit, Michel Barnier, putin, referendum, Russia, second referendum, theresa may, Union Jack.

By Zoe Harding

I know you’re sick of elections. I know you’re sick of polling. I know you’re deeply, deeply sick of campaigns, and I’m sorry about that.

But in my opinion? We need a second referendum, as a minimum. Brexit is looking more and more like a disaster with every passing minute, and someone, somewhere needs to find the political will to halt it. If the British people have to vote again so be it, because nothing I’ve seen in the past 12 months has done anything to demonstrate Brexit as anything other than a heaping pile of bollocks with a Union Jack in it, especially now Theresa May’s government has hobbled itself with a poorly-planned election.Continue Reading

THEPEWPEWLIFE AND WHY I’M HOPELESSLY ANGRY

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #thePewPewLife, America, Boston Marathon, Colion Noir, daesh, FBI, firearms, Florida, G4S, gay bar, gun, gun law, gun sales, gunners, guns, homophobia, islamophobia, Julia Hartley-Brewer, Latinx, LGBT+, lgbtQ+, Mark Longhurst, mass shooting, massacre, Mateen, non-binary, NRA, Orlando, Orlando shooting, Owen Jones, POC, police, Rick Scott, Sky News, Smith and Wesson and Ruger, US.

by Zoe Harding

Content warning: mentions mass shooting, homophobia, Islamophobia.

As you know, on Sunday a homophobic mass-murderer killed 49 people and seriously wounded 53 others in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. He used a handgun and a semi-automatic rifle, took hostages and was only finally killed when the Orlando police rammed the wall of the club with an armoured vehicle and forced him to come out, before gunning him down.

News media and political statements have been full of Islamophobic vitriol and scaremongering. Owen Jones walked off Sky News after deciding he was sick of listening to Mark Longhurst and Julia Hartley-Brewer trying to downplay the homophobic aspects of shooting up a gay club in favour of a more anti-Daesh approach — despite the attack not yet being confirmed either way if in any way connected to Daesh. As Julian Canlas commented for The Norwich Radical, ‘It is not just an ‘Orlando nightclub massacre’. It is an Orlando lgbtQ+ Latinx nightclub massacre.’ Florida governor Rick Scott suggested that the best thing one could do to aid victims of the shooting was pray, and dodged questions about what could be done to stop further shootings— the NRA logo practically glistening behind his eyes. Continue Reading

THE SMART CRUNCH

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Apple, CIA, economy, Edward Snowden, FBI, finance, internet, Julian Assange, phone, police, police state, privacy, San Bernardino, security, smart crunch, smart phone, Snoopers Charter, Syed Farook, technology, theresa may, WikiLeaks.

by Andrew McArthur

The world looks on with bated breath as the FBI and Apple discuss the access rights to the iPhone belonging to the San Bernardino killer Syed Farook. But the world isn’t interested in the injustice of another American killer being granted his rights to privacy, despite the lives he ruined.

If the FBI is granted access rights to Farook’s device, the integrity of smart technology would suddenly be thrown into question. If you follow the work of Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, then it becomes clear that the security of most electronic communications has been compromised for a long time.Continue Reading

SURVEILLANCE & TOLERANCE: HOW YOUR GOVERNMENT IS CONTROLLING YOUR MIND

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged academics, Andrzej Duda, Brazil, Chris Grayling, Closed Materials Procedures, CMP, Counter Terrorism, data gathering, david cameron, Dilma Rousseff, ECHR, Edward Snowden, European Court of Human Rights, FBI, FISA, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Fresno, Hong Kong, Hong Kong bookshop, human rights, Justice and Security Act, NSA, oil fields, Petrobras, police, Raif Badawi, right to protest, Samar Badawi, Saudi Arabia, Secretary of State, surveillance, terrorism, Terrorism Act, turkey, twitter, UNICEF, US Patriot Act, US police, Waleed Abu al-Khair, WikiLeaks, writer.

by Gunnar Eigener

“For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens,
as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone.” – David Cameron

Ever since Edward Snowden, WikiLeaks and The Guardian’s revelations about state surveillance and data gathering were largely greeted with indifference by the public, governments across the globe have continued to find ways to watch and obtain information about their citizens. Yet increasingly it is the actions taken by these governments in response to healthy criticism and protest and the sinister erosion of human rights that should strike a worrying chord in each and every person.Continue Reading

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THE CASE FOR A SECOND REFERENDUM

THEPEWPEWLIFE AND WHY I’M HOPELESSLY ANGRY

THE SMART CRUNCH

SURVEILLANCE & TOLERANCE: HOW YOUR GOVERNMENT IS CONTROLLING YOUR MIND

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