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The Claim That CCTV Shows the Salisbury Poisoning Suspects in the Vicinity of Mr Skripal’s House is Deeply Misleading
The images and timeline released by the Metropolitan Police on September 5th, when they formally accused two men of the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal, contain a number of problems and oddities. Continue reading
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After 70 Years of Abuse, a Definition of Anti-Palestinian Racism by Stuart Littlewood
What is the matter with the Palestine solidarity movement? Since 1948 (and before that, even) the Palestinians have been viciously abused and dispossessed while the perpetrators and their supporters have continually played the anti-Semitism card. Continue reading
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Britain is More of a Fake State than Anything Else By Grete Mautner
Blatant lies have been a feature of the British political system for a long while. Whitehall’s tried and tested ways of manipulating the general public are used to distract attention from crucial topics. But what’s even more curious is that inside the Whitehall bunkers where they come up with their own definitions for such manipulations,… Continue reading
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A US-inspired reorganisation is about to hit the NHS – help fund the legal challenge By Jenny Shepherd
NHS plans due to take effect next spring could make general healthcare as difficult to access as mental healthcare already is – and lock future governments into long contracts with private firms, warn campaigners. Continue reading
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Direct Action and the British State By Craig MURRAY
The draconian sentencing to jail of anti-fracking activists for non-violent direct action has received insufficient attention. It is a confident state that can undertake to bring back a level of repression not seen for decades – eight decades, in fact, since environmental activists received this kind of lengthy jail sentence, despite generations of tree climbing… Continue reading
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Labour Party-run councils escalate austerity in UK By Alice Summers
The decades-long onslaught on the public provision of services by the British ruling elite, exacerbated since the 2008 global financial crash, has led to a crisis within local councils across the country. Reports appear on a daily basis detailing the savage effects of budget cuts on local communities, with virtually every municipality witnessing an increase… Continue reading
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Fake News and False Flags: Pentagon Paid Millions to Create Fake Terrorist Videos By Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith
terrorist videos. The Pentagon gave a controversial UK PR firm over half a billion dollars to run a top secret propaganda program in Iraq, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can reveal. Continue reading
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US, UK and NATO allies ramp up anti-Russia offensive over “cyber spying” and Skripals By Robert Stevens
The US Department of Justice is seeking the arrest of seven Russian nationals it claims worked for the GRU, the main Russian military intelligence agency. They are accused of hacking, with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) as the most important target, as well as wire fraud, identity theft and money laundering. Continue reading
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BBC Newsnight report into disinformation bares hallmarks of information warfare
“In the world of information warfare, the Russians are on the offensive,” says a new BBC Newsnight report on disinformation, which bares all the hallmarks of a corporation waging an information war of its own. In fact, the report comes mere days after a BBC presenter suggested live on air that the British state broadcaster… Continue reading
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Theresa May Tells American Investors – Brexit Britain Is Up for Grabs By Graham Vanbergen
Britain will be “unequivocally pro-business” after it leaves the European Union, Theresa May has promised American investors. To neoliberal politicians, this was always the endgame. The prime minister told the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York that the UK will be the low tax, high-skilled place to invest after Brexit. Continue reading
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UK and US Now Overtly Honor Al Qaeda By Eric Zuesse
The United Kingdom is resettling Al Qaeda’s Syrian medical unit, called the “White Helmets,” as “refugees” in UK. The White Helmets organization is funded by UK’s MI6 and America’s CIA, and is headed by Raed Saleh, who was prohibited from visiting the US because he’s a terrorist. These jihadists won’t just have UK honors (and… Continue reading
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New MRC research finds inaccuracies and distortions in media coverage of antisemitism and the Labour Party
The Media Reform Coalition has conducted in-depth research on the controversy surrounding antisemitism in the Labour Party, focusing on media coverage of the crisis during the summer of 2018. Following extensive case study research, we identified myriad inaccuracies and distortions in online and television news including marked skews in sourcing, omission of essential context or… Continue reading
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British Intelligence Throws More Novi-Fog™ To Hide The Holes In Its Skripal File
The British government asserts that the two visiting men are agents of the Russian military intelligence service GRU. It says that they applied ‘Novichok’ to the doorknob of Sergej Skripal’s house with the intent to kill the former British spy. The ‘highly deadly’ poison is said to have affected Sergej Skripal, his daughter Yulia and… Continue reading
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IRR News (13 – 26 September)
27 September 2018 — IRR Institute of Race Relations weekly digest – Against Racism, for Social Justice This week, Anya Edmond-Pettitt digs deep into the IRR’s Black History Collection, a unique archive of posters, newspaper cuttings, pamphlets and campaign materials from black community and grassroots groups from 1950s to 1980s. Read her article, ‘Empire Windrush, Notting… Continue reading
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Skripal, the Russkies and Bellingcat
27 September 2018 — William Bowles I smell a rat! A quick comment about the two Russian alleged assassins, exposed, we are told by the ‘investigative’ Website, Bellingcat. Not mentioned by any of the major news media is the fact that Bellingcat is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (sic), renowned for its interference… Continue reading
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The undemocratic tide in Britain is real – how Labour reacts is crucial By Nancy Platts
For the first time, lack of faith in politics, politicians and government has become one of the top ten issues for Britain, polls show. How should politicians respond? Continue reading
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Defying Israel lobby, Labour votes for arms freeze By Asa Winstanley
In a historic move, the Labour Party’s annual conference on Tuesday voted to end UK arms sales to Israel. But The Electronic Intifada has learned that Emily Thornberry, the woman who would become foreign minister were a Labour government elected tomorrow, had privately tried to scupper the motion. Continue reading
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“Not on the NHS” – from grommets to hysterectomies – unless you act now
The government plans to exclude 17 important medical treatments from the NHS across the whole of England, with more restrictions in the pipeline. A consultation on the proposals is open til this Friday. Continue reading
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The Novichok Affair: The Incredible Case of Boshirov and Petrov’s Visas By Craig MURRAY
The Metropolitan Police made one statement in the Skripal case which is plainly untrue; they claimed not to know on what kind of visa Boshirov and Petrov were travelling. As they knew the passports they used, and had footage of them coming through the airport, that is impossible. The Border Force could tell them in… Continue reading
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