March 2024
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Craig Murray: UK Legal Shambles in Case of Assange
The latest judgment by the High Court in the Julian Assange case achieved completely the objectives of the U.K. and U.S. states. Above all, Julian remains in the hell which is Belmarsh maximum security prison. He is now safely there alone and incommunicado, from the authorities’ point of view, for at least several more months. Continue reading
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At The UN It Is A Rogue U.S. Against The Rest Of The World
“Unipolar” used to mean that the United States was, at least in theory, alone in leading the world. Now “unipolar” means that the United States is alone and isolated in opposition to the world. Continue reading
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Palestinians Will Remain on Palestinian Land: The Thirteenth Newsletter (2024)
On 15 February 2024, Jared Kushner (Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former senior advisor during his presidency) sat down for a long conversation with Professor Tarek Masoud at Harvard University. During this discussion, Kushner talked about ‘Gaza’s waterfront property’, which, he said, could be ‘very valuable’. ‘If I was Israel’, he continued, ‘I would just bulldoze… Continue reading
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The April 2024 issue of ColdType is now online
Thursday, 29 March 2024 — ColdType Read Issue 256 at https://issuu.com/coldtype/docs/coldtype256april2024?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ and at https://www.coldtype.net/Assets23/PDFs/ColdType256April2024.pdf —————————- NEW FEATURE: If you’d rather read the pdf as page spreads, here’s another link (please let us know which you prefer – spreads or single pages) https://www.coldtype.net/Assets23/PDFs/ColdType256April2024SPREADS.pdf —————————- BACK COPIES – All issues of ColdType (plus the original 6 tabloid versions) are Continue reading
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Colin Powell and “The Sloppy Dossier”: Plagiarism and “Fake Intelligence” Used to Justify the 2003 War on Iraq
COLIN POWELL AND THE “THE SLOPPY DOSSIER”: PLAGIARISM AND “FAKE INTELLIGENCE” USED TO JUSTIFY THE 2003 WAR ON IRAQ: COPIED AND PASTED FROM THE INTERNET INTO AN “OFFICIAL” BRITISH INTEL REPORT Continue reading
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BIT Coining it – The private profiteering of state-sponsored propaganda
Once upon a time (2010 to be precise), somewhat unexpectedly in a Rose Garden in Westminster, a bromance blossomed. The honeymoon couple – call them Cameron and Clegg – fell out of love in short order, but the unhappy union limped on for a fixed term of five years and a day, during which time… Continue reading
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A Wave of Criminal Rebellions in Latin America: Is It Just a Coincidence?
Crime, violence and drug trafficking are nothing new to any Latin American – with the honorable exception of Cubans. But in recent months there has been a very strange sequence of events, not so much because of the events themselves, but because of the national and international political situation in which they are inserted. Continue reading
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Cuba: Watch Carnival ’62
Sunday, 24 March 2024 — Jazz on the Tube Like New Orleans and Brazil and other places with Catholic cultural roots, Cuba has a vibrant Carnival culture. Continue reading
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Kosovo War at 25: Blair’s secret invasion plot to ‘topple Milosevic’ revealed
Top secret papers reviewed by The Grayzone reveal Tony Blair demanded strikes on civilian targets in Yugoslavia days before NATO attacked them. While the UK military acknowledged a NATO strike on Hotel Jugoslavia would mean inflicting “some civilian casualties,” it insisted the deaths were “worth the cost.” Continue reading
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Starmer emails about Israel have been been censored
In 2011, Keir Starmer, then serving as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), decided to block the application for Tzipi Livni’s arrest for war crimes in Gaza. Continue reading
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Assange extradition decision to be made on 26 March
Monday, 25 March 2024 — MintPress News At 10:30 AM, 26 March, the High Court will issue its ruling Will Assange be extradited to the United States? The final decision regarding Assange’s extradition will be made tomorrow in London, England, at the Royal Courts of Justice. Continue reading
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So who is George Galloway?
I have known George Galloway my entire adult life, although we largely lost touch in the middle bit while I was off diplomating. I know George too well to mistake him for Jesus Christ, but he has been on the right side against appalling wars which the entire political class has cheer-led. His natural gifts… Continue reading
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Anti-immigration election campaigning, extremism and the need to fight back
Over the last weeks, we have witnessed stronger and extreme anti-immigrati policies mooted across Europe. In Portugal the far-right Chega party distributed leaflets campaigning against ‘uncontrolled Islamic Immigration’ in the lead up to its general election; Finland passed temporary legislation to allow border guards to block asylum seekers crossing from Russia; and both Germany and… Continue reading
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The West is Still Afraid of Black Haitians
At the beginning of March 2024, before the CELAC Heads of State meeting in Kingstown (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro denounced the new threats to the Haitian people: “We don’t agree with an invasion, whether open or camouflaged. The solution is for Latin America and the Caribbean to accompany, to help… Continue reading
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At least 4,000 French nationals are currently participating in the Israeli Gaza genocide
According to Thomas Portes, Deputy of the French National Assembly, it was announced that over 4,185 individuals of French origin are engaged in combat alongside Israeli forces in Gaza. This marks the largest contingent after that of the United States. Continue reading
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The Electronic Intifada livestream is starting soon!
After the news briefing from Nora Barrows-Friedman, we’ll be joined by Ilan Pappé, professor of history at the University of Exeter in the UK and director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies. Continue reading
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Children in Gaza no longer “have the energy to cry”
UNICEF reported a devastating toll of more than 13,000 children that have been killed. According to the agency, children are experiencing malnutrition to the extent that they do not “even have the energy to cry’. Continue reading
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The Cape Byron Lighthouse Declaration
In early 2023, three Australian health professionals who had all been ‘struck off’ for speaking out against their government’s pandemic response, decided they must speak up for medical ethics and freedom of debate. They met and set up the Cape Byron Lighthouse declaration. The declaration’s four aims would have been uncontroversial only a few years… Continue reading
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Palantir’s NHS Federated Data Platform
It’s been a while since our last newsletter, and if you signed up to find out if NHS England would provide more details to help you with your choices around its half-billion pound Palantir platform before it “goes live” at the end of March, the answer is now clear. They won’t. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 