Liberties
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A Warning Note From BigBrotherWatch
Big Brother Watch exposes and challenges threats to our privacy, our freedoms and our civil liberties at a time of enormous technological change in the UK. Here is a seriously stark warning about the current trajectory of government policy and power being used against us all. Continue reading
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Free speech on campus is under threat – and the Government’s Prevent scheme poses one of the greatest risks
The ‘Prevent’ duty, introduced in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015, puts a legal obligation on schools and universities to show ‘due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism’.(1) All staff are trained; campus internet activity is monitored; and anything from reading lists to event plans are carefully screened for… Continue reading
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UK: “Stansted 15” anti-deportation protesters found guilty of terrorism charges By Margot Miller
Following a nine-week trial at Chelmsford Crown Court, the jury found the “Stansted 15” in contravention of the rarely used 1990 Aviation and Maritime Security Act, by endangering safety at an airport. The defendants, who are preparing to appeal the verdict, face potential life prison sentences and await sentencing in February. Continue reading
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Julian Assange: No Surrender By Ann Garrison
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange appears to be one step closer to forcible removal from Ecuador’s London Embassy, most likely to be extradited to the US to face charges in the Eastern District Court of Virginia, which is commonly known as “the espionage court.” If UK police have to go in and remove him by force… Continue reading
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IRR News (22 November – 5 December 2018)
6 December 2018 — Institute of Race Relations Weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice As we wait for the jury at Chelmsford Crown Court to deliver a verdict in the Stansted 15 trial, IRR News reports on the worrying escalation in ‘crimes of solidarity’ this year. Liz Fekete and Anya Edmond-Pettitt cover investigations and prosecutions… Continue reading
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A World First In Citizen Surveillance By The State
By TruePublica: Last month TruePublica reported that the British government were going full Orwellian and was now aiming to create a biometric database on top of its mass data bulk collection through surveillance systems that have been deemed illegal by the highest courts in the UK and EU. However, in Australia – a member of… Continue reading
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The Guardian attack on Assange exposed as politically-motivated fabrication By James Cogan
Last week’s sensationalist allegation by the Guardian newspaper, that WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange met with Paul Manafort, American political lobbyist and one-time campaign manager for Donald Trump, has been exposed as a politically-motivated tissue of lies. Continue reading
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Top Ecuadorian Diplomat Destroys Guardian’s Claim that Manafort Visited Assange
A former consul and first secretary at the Ecuadorian embassy in London has put the final nail in the coffin of credibility for The Guardian, refuting the paper’s fantastical and wholly unsupported claim that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2013, 2015 and the spring of 2016 – a… Continue reading
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Is China Really More “Dystopian” Than The UK? By Andrew KORYBKO
RT reported that the UK’s so-called “National Data Analytics Solution” will see an algorithm process whichever of 30 separate data points have been recorded about a person in local and national police databases in order to predict which members of the population are most likely to commit a crime or be victimized by one, after… Continue reading
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MSM Is Getting Weirder, More Frantic, And More Desperate By The Day By Caitlin Johnstone
When even the Washington Post is saying your Russiagate article is bad journalism, your Russiagate article is really, really bad journalism. Continue reading
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Guardian newspaper spearheads new accusations against Assange and WikiLeaks By James Cogan
The Guardian has stepped up its contemptible role as one of the main media conduits for the persecution of Julian Assange, publishing unsubstantiated and sensationalist allegations that the WikiLeaks publisher met with American political lobbyist, Paul Manafort. Continue reading
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What the Stansted 15 Tells Us About Law and Order in Britain
By TruePublica: Back in September, three environmental activists were the first people in Britain since 1932 to receive jail sentences for non-violent anti-fracking protest in the UK. An appeal was lodged and public outrage caused a new judge to declare that the original ruling was ‘excessive”. This excessive use of the law is being used… Continue reading
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A secret court reverses the British government’s decision to make two men stateless
Citizenship-stripping is a practice that should have died with Nazi Germany. Instead, we find that the modern day British government is destroying the lives of British citizens at the stroke of a pen. We must abolish this power and pay compensation to its victims if we ever want to live in a truly free society… Continue reading
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Trump Claims He Knows “Nothing” About the Julian Assange He Cited Hundreds of Times During in His Campaign By Whitney Webb
Footage of Trump mentioning WikiLeaks and its releases over 140 times in October 2016 alone has since resurfaced, suggesting that Trump’s recent claims of ignorance in regard to Assange and WikiLeaks are insincere at best Continue reading
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Assange’s Persecution Highlights Dangers to the Freedom of Speech and Free Media By Philip M. Giraldi
If you are a journalist and you discover something that is clearly unethical, and possibly even illegal, and you choose to report it what happens next? Well, you could win a Pulitzer Prize or, on the other hand, you might wind up hiding in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for six years. Continue reading
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State control and repression of dissent in Britain through legislation and policing methods By Sarah Pickard
There has been a move towards tougher legislation, ambiguous terminology, lower thresholds and legislation allowing police greater rights, together with an escalation of militaristic forms of policing in recent years. Continue reading
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Britain: Reading University flags article on “ethics of revolution” under anti-terror policy By Tom Scripps
The University of Reading’s flagging as dangerous an article by the late Norman Geras, “Our Morals: the ethics of revolution,” is a major attack on academic freedom and a threat to democratic rights. The move opens the door to widespread censorship of the political perspective of revolutionary Marxism. Continue reading
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United States Will Bring Assange to US in Chains By Ann Garrison
It appears increasingly likely Wikileaks founder and publisher Julian Assange will wind up in the clutches of the U.S. government. Continue reading
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Macron and Facebook announce joint social media censorship plan in France By Alex Lantier
On Monday, less than a week after he provoked disgust among working people in France and beyond, by praising France’s Nazi-collaborationist dictator, Philippe Pétain, French President Emmanuel Macron held meetings with Facebook to plan the censoring of social media in France. Continue reading
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UK Government Goes Full Orwellian: DNA, Fingerprint, Face, Voice: Biometric Data for Every Single Citizen in the UK
We’ve been warning about this moment since the first day TruePublica went online. We said that the government would eventually take the biometric data of every single citizen living in Britain and use it for nefarious reasons. DNA, fingerprint, face, and even voice data will be included. But that’s not all. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 