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Ukraine’s Corporate Carve-Up Collapses?
On July 5th, Bloomberg reported that a BlackRock-administered multibillion-dollar fund for Kiev’s reconstruction, due to be unveiled at a dedicated Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome July 10th/11th, had been placed on hold at the start of 2025 “due to a lack of interest” among institutional, private, and state financiers. The summit is over, lack of… Continue reading
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⚠️ Privacy Alert: Protesters around the world are being watched — and tracked — like never before
No matter what cause you’re standing up for, joining a protest today can come with serious privacy risks. From facial recognition to phone tracking, surveillance tech is being used to monitor protests and intimidate participants. The risks are real, but there are ways to stay safer. Continue reading
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Burying Genocide – The BBC, Gaza And The Role Of The UK
One might naively think that a national public-service broadcaster would inform the public about matters of national interest. Surely no reasonable person would deny that the public has a right to know what the government is doing in our name. But, over and above this basic requirement, a responsible public-service broadcaster should also scrutinise the… Continue reading
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Lasha Kasradze: Azerbaijan as the Next Frontline Against Russia & Iran?
As Azerbaijan takes an increasingly hostile approach to both Russia and Iran, it risks becoming a proxy in a wider regional war. Azerbaijan’s Zangezur corridor connects Azerbaijan closer to Turkey, and thus NATO. Many uncertainties emerge in terms of what happens to Armenia, to what extent Turkey and NATO can project power that deep into… Continue reading
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Trump’s Wars FAIL: Yemen SINKS Israeli Ship, Putin China & BRICS Hit BACK w/ Ben Norton Unlisted
Friday, 11 July 2025 — Danny Haiphong Yemen just sunk multiple Israeli-connected ships in the Red Sea as Trump’s war threats toward all of BRICS, including its biggest leaders Russia and China, ramp up. Geopolitical analyst Ben Norton joins to discuss the major changes underway in the world as the US loses its grip on… Continue reading
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Francesca Albanese hits back at Trump sanctions over UN report | MEE LIVE
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Who Says a Chicken Feather Can’t Fly up to Heaven?: The Twenty-Eighth Newsletter (2025)
In 1957, Mao Zedong oversaw the publication of Socialist Upsurge in China’s Countryside, a three-volume collection of articles compiled by the Communist Party of China for the political education of the peasantry. The following year, selections from these volumes were republished in abridged and regional editions. One such edition included a report from the Anyang… Continue reading
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Trump in SHOCK: Putin, China & Iran DEVASTATE His War Plan w/ Brian Berletic, Carl Zha & KJ Noh
Donald Trump has unloaded in an unprecedented escalation against the rising multipolar world, but he wasn’t expecting Russia, China & Iran to respond like this. In this critical livestream, geopolitical experts Brian Berletic, Carl Zha and KJ Noh join to break down the march to WW3 under the so-called “peace president.” Continue reading
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Will the ban on Palestine Action terrify enough people into silence?
The repression of political dissent in Britain has been escalating for years: first against Black Lives Matter and environmental campaigners and now the Palestine solidarity movement. Throughout the last 20 months, campaigners have been demonised, accused of ‘radicalisation’, placed under increasing police surveillance and subjected to a toxic and invariably racist discourse in both Westminster… Continue reading
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LABOUR IN GOVERNMENT, IT WAS ALWAYS GOING TO END IN TEARS
It is one year since the last general election. It took only a year for the Labour Government to melt down. Labour not only sold its principles but its soul to manage a capitalist economy in crisis. Not so much power and prestige as a poisoned chalice. Instead, humiliation and ruin will be their due. Continue reading
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Pepe Escobar: Putin & Iran’s BOMBSHELL STUNS Israel, War on BRICS Begins
Trump & Israel fired the first shot in a major war on BRICS as Iran’s resilient defense shocks the world. Geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar joined the program directly after Iran’s attack on a US air base in Qatar to react to the significance of the 12-day war and what’s to come as the Collective West… Continue reading
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10 Year Plan for England’s NHS – Week One
The new “Ten Year Plan” shifts decision-making power from you and your family doctor to hospitals and technology companies. There are wordings from the political leadership about patients owning data, but the depths of the policy machine seems to suggest there be a day soon when you ask the NHS to opt your data out… Continue reading
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Just 1.6% of all world’s adults own 48.1% of all the world’s personal wealth
Every year, I do a post on the inequality of global wealth using the annual data compiled by economists working for the Swiss bank, Credit Suisse. But Credit Suisse is now no more, swept away by scandal and the banking crisis of 2023. The other major Swiss bank, UBS, took over the assets of CS… Continue reading
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Chile: A Major Victory for the People and the Left, with Strategic Impact
With the support received by the Communist candidate, the possibility now clearly opens to continue pursuing and working toward more rights for the majority of Chilean men and women—with stability and security. Now more than ever, we can dream with our feet on the ground, with hope and realism, with confidence and commitment. Continue reading
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Who Really Won The ’12-Day War’?
On June 13th, Tel Aviv launched a criminal, unprovoked military strike on Iran. Israeli jets bombed military and nuclear sites, while in-country Mossad-run sleeper cells carried out sabotage missions against air and missile defense systems, and drones smuggled into Tehran were launched against local missile launch bases. Scores – figures vary – of nuclear scientists… Continue reading
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What will happen now that Palestine Action is banned?
Absurdly, the direct action protest group has now been designated by the Israel-backed UK regime as a proscribed “terrorist” group (despite the fact that it does not use violence and has never harmed people, as opposed to property). Continue reading
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Genocide Convention: Liable of Arrest and Punishment. Heads of State, Heads of Government Supportive of Genocide against the People of Palestine
Liable of Arrest and Punishment: Heads of State, Heads of Government Supportive of Genocide against the People of Palestine, Genocide Convention. Articles I, II, III and IV Continue reading
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Palestine Action ban in place from midnight
Yvette Cooper’s decision to ban the group came after a protest at RAF Brize Norton, in which red paint was thrown on military jets. Four people have been remanded in custody after the action, to appear in court at the Old Bailey on 18 July. Continue reading
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Palestine Action head tells the UK high court to delay the British government’s terrorist proscription
Friday, 8 June 2025 — MintPress News UPDATE On Friday, Huda Ammori, co-founder of the pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action, lost her bid to halt the UK government’s move to ban the group under anti-terror laws while she challenges the decision in court. Ammori, who co-founded the group in 2020, had asked London’s High Court to… Continue reading
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