October 2024
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What’s Britain doing in Lebanon?
In his first public speech as chief of MI6 in 2021, Sir Richard Moore said his intelligence agency was “actively focused on Iran”. This was part of what he described as a “dramatic change in the security landscape” in which there was “a growing threat from state actors”. Continue reading
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Resistance pact signs ‘Israel’s’ death warrant
On October 7, it was announced that Iran’s parliament is drafting a defense and security pact, which will formally bind the Resistance, “and their supporting countries,” together in a common, collaborative military structure to counter external threats, “particularly from the US and Israel.” Unremarked upon in the West, this is a seismic move, representing the… Continue reading
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Israel burning people alive Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital
Monday, 14 October 2024 — Al Mayadeen English “I swear to God, the man, the woman, and the little girl were burning right in front of me.” The Israeli occupation is burning people alive in Gaza, a little over one year after it launched its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the Strip. In the Al-Aqsa Continue reading
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Did British spy plane provide targetting information for another Israeli war crime?
🇬🇧✈🗣A British spy plane is believed to have been providing targeting information to the Israeli Air Force when 🇮🇱Israel bombed tents housing displaced persons at the Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir el-Balah. Continue reading
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🚨🇮🇱🇵🇸 BREAKING: NETANYAHU is considering to BLOCK all humanitarian aid to Northern Gaza
Monday, 14 October 2024 — The New Dark Age Continue reading
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Zigzags of fate—the life of a Russian national in Africa
120 years ago, on October 21, 1904, an unprecedented downpour hit the oasis of Aïn Séfra in the Algerian Sahara. Its torrents swept away the mud huts and claimed the lives of many villagers. Among them was a Russian national, 27-year-old Isabelle Eberhardt, who was buried in a Muslim cemetery. Continue reading
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Gaza – 42,227 murdered
By day 373 of “Israel’s” war on Gaza, the total number of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces’ (IOF) indiscriminate and deliberate, bombing has risen to 42,227, in addition to 98,464 injuries, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced in its daily report. Continue reading
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Leaked: How MI6 Exploits Palestinian Refugees
Leaked files expose the intensive interest taken in Palestinians by British intelligence operatives, and Foreign Office-funded and directed cutouts, over many years. Collectively, the material leaves little room for doubt that the British government has long sought to covertly surveil, infiltrate, and manipulate Palestinians within and without their homeland for malign ends, while exploiting their… Continue reading
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Israel kills 300+ people in 9 days
The Government Media Office in Gaza reported that more than 300 people have been killed in northern Gaza by Israeli forces over the past nine days. The office accused “Israel” of executing a large-scale forced displacement plan, describing it as “the largest and most dangerous American-Israeli plot of the 21st century.” Continue reading
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Israel: Simply No Red Lines At All
There is literally no act so vile that the UK, US and Germany will not support if perpetrated by the terrorist state of Israel. Continue reading
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NATO: No expansion east?
Sunday, 13 October 2024 — The New Dark Age Continue reading
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Imperialism’s Striving for Expansion
THE “inevitable striving of finance capital”, Lenin had written in Imperialism, (is) “to enlarge its spheres of influence and even its actual territory”. He was writing of course in a world marked by inter-imperialist rivalry, where this striving took the form of a competitive struggle between rival finance capitals that speedily completed the partitioning of… Continue reading
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The US is unprepared for the scale of war it is provoking around the globe
Saturday, 12 October 2024 — New Atlas Like many other US missile systems, production of THAAD missiles is low. Produced from 2008 to present, Lockheed Martin has produced 800 missiles, approximately 50 a year. It is likely not enough launchers exist to even launch the quantity of missiles required to defend against the type of Continue reading
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The Puppet Masters: How MI6 regularly mastermind state crises
David Burke’s book is relevant to all those interested in how MI6 have instigated terrorism in arenas as diverse as Russia, Armenia, Iraq and Syria. Continue reading
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An Israeli sniper shot a newborn baby in the head in northern Gaza
Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif released video evidence of a baby that was newly born in Gaza and was shot in the head the same day, during Israel’s ongoing massacres in the north of the territory, where Jabalia Refugee Camp’s remaining residents are surrounded and are unable to escape. Israeli forces have killed over 2,100 infants… Continue reading
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Jason Hickel: Why a Liberated Palestine Threatens Global Capitalism
Jason Hickel: Why is Palestine at the center of the climate and colonial struggle? How are capitalism and the ecological crisis linked? Who really benefits from the exploitation of resources in the Global South? At the Transnational Institute’s Ignite Festival in 2024, Jason Hickel argues that the Global North—the “Imperial Core”—is responsible for the excess… Continue reading
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The west was silent while journalist killers arrested an American journalist
We know what Israel thinks of journalists in Palestine because it’s killed something like 175 of them, and now we know what it would do to western journalists who report the facts because it caught one of them. I’m talking about Jeremy Loffredo here. Now before I go any further, I would like to point… Continue reading
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The Arabs are transparently displaying their crossover to multi-alignment in a US-led Middle Eastern war
Reuters reported on Friday quoting three sources in the Persian Gulf that the regional states are lobbying Washington to stop Israel from attacking Iran’s oil sites as “part of their attempts to avoid being caught in the crossfire.” The exclusive Reuters report singled out Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar as also refusing… Continue reading
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Social Media Beyond Corporate Control
Several weeks ago African Stream joined the growing list of content creators banned on social media platforms like YouTube, TikTok and Meta (Facebook, Instagram, and Threads), on crowdfunding platforms like GoFundMe, and even on payment- processing platforms like Stripe and Paypal. Stripe and all the major social media platforms except X have banned African Stream. Continue reading
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We’re submitting evidence to the Home Office
Boris Johnson appointed Lord Walney as an “independent” adviser on political violence and disruption. Walney’s 2024 report urged the government to focus on what he calls the “extreme left” – mostly people campaigning on the climate crisis and standing up for Palestine. But Walney may not have been so “independent” after all. While he… Continue reading