October 31, 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
The New Dark Age 