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GRAPHICS Issues 401-450 (with some omissions)

2nd April 2004 | Issue 448 - GACK ATTACK - Children in Britain are eating gack, and it's not helped by fast-food corporations getting involved in school sponsorship and the sheer scale and persuasiveness of fast-food advertising...

19th March 2004 | Issue 446 - TOTAL PAZ TAKE - After the Madrid train bombing - just days before the Spanish election where the pro-war Aznar government was ousted and a contributing factor in the defeat - Blair wonders if the same will happen in Britain...

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5th March 2004 | Issue 444 - MINER SURGERY - On March 1st, 1984, Margaret Thatcher announced the closure of Cortonwood colliery in Yorkshire - signaling her government’s determination to ram through a massive programme of pit closures and destroy the power of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). Miners had no choice but to fight, or see their lives and communities devastated. The longest major industrial battle in British history had begun - a battle that still defines the political landscape of today.

20th February 2004 | Issue 442 - SHOP ‘TIL THEY DROP - It's a race to the bottom as supermarkets control food distribution in Britain...

30th Jan 2004 | Issue 439 - PRIMATE CHANGE - This week, Cambridge University abandoned plans for a primate vivisection lab in Cambridge, with the University saying that it could not “take financial risks of this magnitude”.

5th December 2003 | Issue 433 - FUEL'S GOLD - Ex-Soviet country Georgia is in a strategic location as pressure intensifies between Russia and the US to secure the oil resources in the region. Now the hands of the CIA are all over the recent electoral victory which installs a US-trained lawyer as president...

14th Nov 2003 | Issue 431 - As GW Bush visits Britain

7th November 2003 | Issue 430 - POSTIE MORTEM - With the posties on wildcat strikes, and the firemen out on strike, SchNEWS was wondering if the 'Green Goddesses' - the old army fire engines - would be employed to do the mail deliveries as well as the fire fighting service.

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31st October 2003 | Issue 429 - SIAM OLD STORY - SchNEWS reckons that before he was president, the furthest George W had ever been from his ranch was Disneyland. Recently several countries including Thailand and the Philippines played host to his imperial convoy, and did their best to show him some good clean neo-liberal fun.

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10th October 2003 | Issue 426 - MUSICAL SHARES - The worldwide music industry is now controlled by five major corporations who took the grip in the 1990's. Hence the vacuous, market-driven pop on the radio since...

3rd October 2003 | Issue 425 - GM CONTAMI-NATION - Bio-tech companies and Neo Labour have waged a PR campaign to promote GM crops - but a study shows that around 85% of the British population don't want to eat GM foods and believe they harm the environment...

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12th September 2003 | Issue 422 - ARMLESS FUN - “It is like any other trade exhibition. It is like the motor show in Birmingham or exhibitions at Earls Court. This happens to be for the defence industry.”
- Paul Beaver, spokesperson for DSEi organisers Spearhead.

Now - while SchNEWS knows that cars can kill and aren’t too good for the environment we reckon that Apache fighter jets, landmines and cluster bombs are just a tad more harmful to civilians. This is the sort of euphemistic blather coming from the suits this week at Europe’s biggest arms fair - Defence Systems and Equipment International (DSEi).

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29th August 2003 | Issue 420 - AGRI-VULTURES - Battle lines being drawn, accusations flying, corporations spewing propaganda, humanity threatened – it seems all’s going according to plan for the WTO Ministerial Meeting that begins in less than two weeks in Cancun, Mexico.

8th August 2003 | Issue 417 - MAI EYE! - It was hailed by the economists as the organisation that would bring about global prosperity - where the weakest nations of the world would be put on the same footing as the most powerful. But the WTO’s rulings have produced a ‘race to the bottom’ with every environmental, health or safety policy it has had to rule on deemed an illegal barrier to trade. Now with its fifth Ministerial meeting approaching next month in Cancun, Mexico, the World Trade Organization is in crisis and heading for deadlock.

25th July 2003 | Issue 416 - I'M AN AMERICAN
GET ME OUT OF HERE! - As the death toll mounts up after the invasion, the true goal of the operation is obvious...

18th July 2003 | Issue 415 - VISION CHIPS - RFIDs are tiny chips which can be embedded into almost anything. When a reading device is placed within five metres of them, they transmit their unique number to the device. Shops will use them instead of barcodes, conveniently allowing you to just push your trolley through the checkout - but there are other applications for the technology...

11th July 2003 | Issue 414 - DSEi

13th June 2003 | Issue 410 - MENWITH BALLS - It’s the largest electronic monitoring station in the world. The Big Brother of all global spy installations, it’s gigantic golf balls listening in on our every word. The Menwith Hill spy base near Harrogate in North Yorkshire, is run by America’s National Security Agency (NSA), part of their global network of spy bases, which monitors the world’s communications and relays information back to NSA HQ at Fort Meade in Maryland, USA.

6th June 2003 | Issue 408/409 - G8 MY HAMSTER - Evian famous for its bottled water was instead busy last week bottling bullshit, as the leaders of the G8 summit meet to squabble over the spoils of war. Yet another conference for the new rulers of the world to be wined and dined, protected by thousands of armed police from the bottled-up emotions of the people they supposedly represent.

30th May 2003 | Issue 407 - GET YER ROCKS OFF! - “In Iraq, there was a government holding valuable resources the U.S. could not control. So the U.S. took action. In the Congo, the U.S. controls the government and the resources, so it doesn’t really matter that millions of Congolese are dying.” - Prof. Didier Gondola, author of “The History of Congo” (Greenwood Press 2002).

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9th May 2003 | Issue 404 - SHAKY FOUNDATIONS - After bombing Iraq it’s back to bread and butter issues for Neo Labour – flogging off our public services to the lowest bidder...

When Blair talks about modernisation read privatisation - which has already been the fate of 50 NHS hospitals handed over to companies like Jarvis, Tarmac, Siemens and Rentokil thanks to the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) In a study of the first 15 hospitals put under the PFI operating table a third of hospital beds have so far been amputated.

2nd May 2003 | Issue 402/3 - BOMBS 'R' US - A target of this year's Mayday protests were the London offices of Lockheed Martin - the world’s largest weapons manufacturer. The company’s share prices rocketed after September 11th and with their fighter jets very busy during the invasion of Iraq, they’ve reported a doubling of profits in the first few months of this year.

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225th April 2003 | Issue 401 - Liberate This - the US wheels out the beginnings of its puppet regime for Iraq...