May 25, 2021
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The double standards of the Pratassevich affair
The Ryanair aircraft, passing through Belarusian airspace while transporting him from Greece to Lithuania on 23 May 2021, was grounded in Minsk after a false bomb threat. The journalist was then arrested for inciting anti-government protests last year. Continue reading
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EU States Combined to Force Down Snowden Flight
The USA, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Austria combined to force down President Evo Morales’ jet in Vienna in 2013 after the CIA falsely reported whistleblower Edward Snowden was on board. The monumental cynicism of these nations in sanctioning Belarus for a directly comparable action is sickening, even by the standards of western hypocrisy. Indeed,… Continue reading
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UK mass surveillance found unlawful by Europe’s highest human rights court
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights today ruled that the UK’s mass interception programmes, disclosed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, unlawfully breached citizens’ rights to privacy and free expression. Continue reading
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‘The Savage Punishment Of Gaza’: Israel’s Latest Assault On Palestine’s Open Prison
Recent media coverage of Israel and Palestine, not least by BBC News, has been full of the usual deceptive propaganda tropes: Israel is ‘responding’ or ‘reacting’ to Palestinian ‘provocation’ and ‘escalation’; Palestinian rockets ‘killed’ Israelis, but Palestinians ‘have died’ from unnamed causes; Israel has ‘armed forces’ and ‘security forces’, but Hamas has ‘militants’. And, as… Continue reading
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Gaza/Palestine News Links 24-25 May 2021
25 May 2021 — The New Dark Age Israel’s Pyrrhic victory in Gaza, Netanyahu is real winner https://countercurrents.org/2021/05/israels-pyrrhic-victory-in-gaza-netanyahu-is-real-winner/ Hezbollah: Powerless Against Gaza, Israel is Doomed to Disappear https://southfront.org/hezbollah-powerless-against-gaza-israel-is-doomed-to-disappear/ Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 24, 2021
24 May 2021 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio for Week of May 24, 2021 Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford Community Control of Police Advoc Corporate Philanthropy Erodes Black Lives Matter Movement Advocates Poised to Win in Chicago / Racial Capitalism is the Kind We’ve Got, and Must Defeat / Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: High Court: Day 4
Today in the High Court, Government’s lawyers set out their defence to our legal challenge over PPE contracts handed to “VIP” companies. Government claims that companies in the VIP Lane did not materially benefit from their special treatment, and that it was simply a different route by which they could win contracts. Continue reading
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Watch John Pilger: Palestine Has The Right to Resist!
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to legendary journalist and filmmaker John Pilger. He discusses why Palestine is still the issue in 2021, the Israeli aerial bombardment of Gaza which has claimed hundreds of lives, displaced over 50,000 and claimed the lives of over 63 children, the EU, US and UK role in… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 