ACTA = the new SOPA

Just when you thought it was safe to share your files again:

By Shaun Galbraith.

Class War

Yes. Yes you are.

More Class War covers right here.

Fuck Rupert Murdoch

From 38 Degrees:

"Jeremy Hunt has just announced he wants to give Murdoch's BSkyB takeover the go-ahead. It's bad news, but it's not over yet. We need to make sure that today, the day of the announcement, our MPs are feeling the heat.

We now have three weeks to challenge the deal and stand up for our democracy. We need to get MPs speaking out right now, and telling Jeremy Hunt that it's obvious that this deal is whitewash. So please email your MP today and ask them to speak out publicly and write to Jeremy Hunt.

Click here to send your MP a quick email:
http://www.38degrees.org.uk/bskyb-murdoch-whitewash

Jeremy Hunt and Murdoch now want us to believe this is a done deal. But there's still an outside chance we can stop the takeover. We need MPs to speak out - telling the media, and Jeremy Hunt, that the public don't buy this deal. That means MPs need to hear from all of us, and fast.

The Murdoch empire has been forced, partly thanks to our campaign, to give a little ground. They’ve said Sky News won’t be totally controlled by Murdoch. But he’ll still have directors on the board and control the cashflow. Sky News will have to stay in Murdoch’s good books if it wants to keep going.

Murdoch made similar promises when he took over the Times. But these promises turned out to just be spin. This latest deal is just a whitewash. It still means Murdoch gets more control over our media. And that's bad news for our democracy.

Click here to send your MP a quick email:
http://www.38degrees.org.uk/bskyb-murdoch-whitewash"

John Pilger "The War You Don't See"

Originally broadcast on ITV1 last Tuesday, here's a brilliant documentary by the veteran journalist John Pilger about pro-war bias in the mainstream media. Watch the heads of BBC and ITV news squirm as they are confronted with the facts of their own unbalanced coverage - these people come off just as bad (if not worse) than the politicians they love to skewer. I don't have a TV anymore, so I don't have the pernicious influence of mainstream news reportage in my life (thank God) but if you still swallow the myth that our TV news outlets are un-biased, read this interview with Mark Thompson, director general of the BBC, where he calls for impartiality regulations to be dropped, and for TV news to become "more biased".

The F-Word Needs Your Help

Fuck Gordon Ramsay, in case you were confused. He doesn't need our support, and can fend for himself just fine. It's the other F-Word who need a hand; the one that doesn't collect huge fees for every appearance.

Personally I value them as a resource and reckon anything that can help spread their work a bit further is probably a good thing.

They can tell you more themselves.