October 2024
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Declassified UK: Reviewing October with Mark Curtis
Hi everyone, Mark Curtis here. I hope you are all bearing up. It’s been a terrible month for Palestinians, to whom my heart continues to go out. It’s increasingly difficult to find words to describe what is happening in Gaza, and now Lebanon. This month we turned to Shahd Abusalama,who was brought up in Jabalia… Continue reading
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Israel kills more journalists than WWII & Vietnam wars combined
Israel’s actions against journalists raise alarm as media casualties reach unprecedented numbers, surpassing WWII and Vietnam combined, with Western media still backing the alarming attacks on press freedom. Continue reading
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Chris Kaba – the struggle for police accountability continues
Following firearms officer Martyn Blake’s acquittal just over a week ago of the murder of Chris Kaba, it did not take long for the home secretary to cave in to demands from the National Police Chiefs Council to rewrite the framework for the investigation and prosecution of police officers. Yvette Cooper’s proposed reforms follow the… Continue reading
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What drives Israel?
Prefatory Note This post is a much modified, updated version of my responses to questions posed Murat Sofuoglu, a Turkish journalist associated with TRT World. The dehistoricizing and decontextualization of the Hamas attack of October 7 was spread around the world by the most influential global media platforms and political leaders of the liberal democracies,… Continue reading
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A World Where Our Grandchildren Have to Go to a Museum to See What a Gun Looked Like: The Forty-Fourth Newsletter (2024)
In 1919, Winston Churchill wrote, ‘I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes’. Churchill, grappling at the time with the Kurdish rebellion in northern Iraq as Britain’s secretary of state for war and air, argued that such use of gas ‘would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report October 30, 2024
Wednesday, 30 October 2024 — Black Agenda Report Trump Rally, Washington Post and Michelle Obama Generate Fake Outrage Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Liberals love to indulge in performative virtue signaling rather than serious political conviction. Recent events proved that their highest priority is maintaining alliances with the Democratic Party, while dismissing Continue reading
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The November 2024 issue of ColdType is now online
Wednesday, 30 October 2024 — ColdType Read Issue 263 at https://www.coldtype.net/Assets23/PDFs/ColdType263November2024.pdf And at https://issuu.com/coldtype/docs/coldtype263november2024?fr=sMTBlYjYzMTA4NzM —————————- BACK COPIES – All issues of ColdType (plus the original 6 tabloid versions) are available to read and download at https://issuu.com/coldtype and at www.coldtype.net/reader.html Continue reading
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Europe’s Anti-China Politics: One Step Forward, Two Backwards
On the 4th of October, when members of the European Union voted in favour of imposing tariffs of up to 45 per cent on Chinese Electric Vehicles (EVs) for at least the next five years, they did not just simply take a step to “de-risk” from China and/or put their policies in line with Washington’s. Continue reading
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Collapsing Empire: China and Russia Checkmate US Military
On July 29th, Pentagon-funded “think tank” RAND Corporation published a landmark appraisal of the state of the Pentagon’s 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS), and current US military readiness, produced by a Congress-created Commission of “non-governmental experts in national security.” Its findings are stark, an unrelentingly bleak analysis of every aspect of the Empire’s bloated, decaying… Continue reading
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A response to the racist remarks made by Tony Hinchcliffe
The Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) at Hunter College condemns the racist, demeaning, ignorant, and grossly offensive remarks made by Tony Hinchcliffe during the campaign rally for Trump at Madison Square Garden yesterday afternoon. Continue reading
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Killing Gaza | A documentary film about life under siege | Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal
In the award-winning feature-length documentary film “Killing Gaza,” journalists Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal documented Israel’s 2014 war on Gaza. Dan Cohen continued to return to Gaza again and again over the next 3 years, as Palestinians struggled to survive in the rubble and under a suffocating siege. This film is much more than a… Continue reading
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Zelenski cashing in on War
Sunday, 27 October 2024 🚨🇺🇦🇺🇸 BREAKING: $1.2 MILLION in CASH has been found today at the office of Ukrainian President ZELENSKY’S officer… Continue reading
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Genocidals attempt to cancel civilized humanity: Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen & Iran – Sticky
BREAKING—A very significant development: A new resistance group has emerged: The Islamic Resistance in the Land of the Two Holy Mosques “the Arabian Peninsula” Continue reading
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UK Snubs Council of Europe Over Assange Inquiry
Britain’s Home Office is making a “grave mistake” by ignoring a call from the Council of Europe to review its treatment of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder’s wife has warned. The council’s parliamentary assembly, of which the U.K. is a member, passed a resolution earlier this month designating Assange as a “political prisoner”. Continue reading
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Is Harris About to Blow the Election Over Israel? Greg Stoker Breaks it Down
With two weeks to go, the polls for the presidential election are essentially tied, with neither candidate ahead by even a single percentage point, according to a New York Times poll that examined the averages of the five key battleground states: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin and North Carolina. Partisan organizations like the conservative Fabrizio, Lee… Continue reading
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‘The Platoons Are Empty’: Israeli Army Battles Low Morale, Soldier Defections
The Israeli Hebrew media outlet Ha-Makom has reported that Israeli soldiers are experiencing a significant lack of motivation, with some refusing to report for service. Many within the ranks reportedly see the ongoing war in Gaza as futile, while the army attempts to keep this crisis under wraps. Continue reading
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The US MK-84 2000Ib bomb for use on residential neighbourhoods
The Mark 84 or BLU-117is a 2,000-pound (900 kg) American general purpose aircraft bomb. It is the largest of the Mark 80 series of weapons. Entering service during the Vietnam War, it became a commonly used US heavy unguided bomb. At the time, it was the third largest bomb by weight in the US inventory Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 25 October 2025
Friday, 25 October 2025 — GM Watch Landmark Supreme Court of Appeal judgment on the precautionary principle in GMO decision making The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) on 22 October reported on a groundbreaking ruling against Bayer-Monsanto and five state respondents in South Africa, which set aside several layers of decision-making regarding the approval of Continue reading
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What Has Israel Achieved In The Last Year? – by Arch Bungle
What has Israel achieved in the last year? Let’s take a stone cold sober recap, I’ve compiled a list of the top 29 accomplishments of Israel in 2024: Continue reading
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How the Israel lobby fueled the rise of Britain’s top anti-Muslim chaos agent
The riots that gripped the UK this August were heavily inspired by anti-Muslim agitator Tommy Robinson. His rise to prominence is largely the product of the North American Zionist lobby, representing a clear break with traditional far-right British activism. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 