August 2025
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Revisiting my August 2021 letter to Government about the “Handling of The Covid Pandemic”
Dr Jonathan Engler wrote an open letter in August 2021 to the leaders of the four nations, signed by 140 health professionals, including a number of HART members and many other citizens. Four years on, he has reviewed and annotated what he wrote. Continue reading
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West Asia is lurching toward war
There is extremely alarming news about the situation around Iran. In consultations with the Trump administration — rather, in deference to the command from Washington — the E3 countries (Britain, France and Germany) who are the remaining western signatories of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal known as JCPOA, have initiated the process of triggering the… Continue reading
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Israeli occupation forces carry out horrific massacre at a bakery in Gaza
Exploiting their impunity, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have once again carried out a deliberate and ruthless massacre against Palestinians, this time targeting a bakery in Gaza’s Al-Nasr neighborhood. Continue reading
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The Salisbury “Novichok” False Flag
Here are Tim Norman, Patrick Henningsen and myself discussing the Skripal charade, at the Beautiful Days Festival near Exeter. At the start 90% of the audience said they believed the official narrative. At the end 80% had changed their mind. Continue reading
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Even the media’s Gaza ‘investigations’ hide the real story of Israel’s atrocities
The atrocity news treadmill makes sure western media are so busy chasing after Israel’s latest crime in Gaza they never pause long enough to piece together the bigger story of genocide Continue reading
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Don’t Look Away
It’s 2025. There’s an Internet. Who can now pretend they have no idea what Israel has done, is doing, aims to do? Continue reading
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Solar Sovereignty and the Silent Rebellion of the Global South
Africa’s rooftop revolution is not a side effect of climate policy—it’s a crack in empire’s circuitry. Fueled by Chinese supply chains and working-class necessity, solar panels are becoming tools of delinking. No loans, no permission, no Western oversight—just light, autonomy, and insurgent infrastructure. This isn’t a transition. It’s a threat. And the sun can’t be… Continue reading
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What Do You Fear the Far Right Will Do That You Have Not Already Done?: The Thirty-Fifth Newsletter (2025)
On 12 August, Samar Abu Elouf, who won the 2025 World Press Photo of the Year for the picture above, posted on her Instagram account that her son’s close friend Sami Shukour had been killed while he ‘went to look for flour to feed himself and his family’. Samar had taken Sami’s graduation photographs just… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 28 August 2025
Thursday, 28 August 2025 — GM Watch New Zealand: GM not needed to reduce methane emissions from cows Why risk contaminating New Zealand with GMOs when nature already has the answers? In a video clip, dairy farmer Paul Bosher explains why Crown Research Institute (publicly funded) scientists are pushing GMOs, even though there are other Continue reading
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A Black Hole in Collective Memory: China and WW II
As China prepares to commemorate the 80th anniversary of victory over fascism on September 3, 2025, global attention turns to Beijing’s military parade. Speculation swirls about which world leaders will join President Xi Jinping—Putin’s presence is all but certain, though whispers of Trump attending seem far-fetched. Some peace advocates argue this moment offers a chance… Continue reading
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Terrorism chief exposed for links to Israel
Jonathan Hall, the UK’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation—whose role includes assessing whether groups like Palestine Action qualify as terrorist organisations—has personal ties to Israel: his father-in-law, Lord Dyson, is a patron of UK Lawyers for Israel, and Hall himself has vacationed in Israel and visited its counter-terrorism units. This was revealed by independent journalist… Continue reading
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Cleared: The Language of Genocide
This is the very architecture of genocidal language, laid bare. Here is a verbatim translation of the announcement in the leaflet, without interpretation or reframing: Continue reading
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Behind Closed Doors
The shocking evidence heard in the Scottish Covid Inquiry about how people in care homes were denied dignity, love and ultimately life through withdrawal of healthcare during covid has now been echoed in England. Together held a panel discussion including the voices of whistleblowers who have not been heard and addressing fears that the inquiry… Continue reading
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How western media helped turn Israel’s genocide into ‘fake news’
Israel’s intent to annihilate Gaza would have been clear much sooner had we listened to Palestinian journalists, rather than the evasions and equivocations of the BBC Continue reading
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Israel kills MEE journalists in double-tap strike on Gaza’s Nasser hospital
Israeli forces killed Middle East Eye journalists Mohamed Salama and Ahmed Abu Aziz on Monday, in a double-tap strike on the Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip. Continue reading
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How ‘Human Rights’ Became a Western Weapon
August 1st marked the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Accords’ inking. The event’s golden jubilee passed without much in the way of mainstream comment, or recognition. Yet, the date was absolutely seismic, its destructive consequences reverberating today throughout Europe and beyond. The Accords not only signed the death warrants of the Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact,… Continue reading
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Paper Tiger in the Strait: How London Is Trying to Establish Itself in the Asia-Pacific
Since the early 2020s, Britain has been dreaming of a place on the Asia-Pacific stage again. Britain creates the illusion that its navy is still capable of something, but this is not the case. Continue reading
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“The World Race, Red-Baiting, and the Wilsonian Century” Anievas
This is a review of a chapter in the edited volume “A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War” that Alexander Anievas has made available online here. The introductory paragraph: Continue reading
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Open Letter to the Macedonian President
Politics conducted with eyes wide shut will not justify delayed tears or regrets Continue reading
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Children of War: How Gaza Became a Graveyard for Human Rights
More than 1.5 years have passed since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal operations in Gaza, under the veneer of eliminating Hamas. Israel has been unable to inflict any major blow to Hamas but has devastated the civilian population of the Gaza Strip. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 