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Show up for racial justice for Palestinians – oppose the Anti-Boycott Bill
Over the last weeks, campaigners in the UK have targeted arms manufacturers, companies, banks and universities that are complicit in the violation of rights of Palestinians living under occupation. They have also protested against the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill (otherwise known as the anti-boycott bill) that had its third Commons reading… Continue reading
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Tony Blair’s love affair with Israel is not new
Here is the little-known story of how the Israel lobby in Britain helped him get elected as Prime Minister in 1997. Continue reading
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Funnelling fighters for Genocide
Tuesday, 26 December 2023 — MintPress News The producers of Stephen Fry’s controversial Christmas message were members of a Zionist youth group that funnels members into the Israeli military. Fulwell73 was founded by Leo Pearlman, Benjamin Turner, Gabe Turner, and Ben Winston. All of whom were members of the Zionist youth group B’nei Akiva, which Continue reading
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Big pharma greed is costing lives
Under our current healthcare system, every day the greed of big pharmaceutical companies puts patients’ lives at risk. Big pharma’s monopolies allow them to limit supply so they can keep prices high, and that stops patients being able to access the drugs they need. Continue reading
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The Bibby barge must be stopped!
Friday, 15 December 2023 — Crowd Justice “This tragedy underlines the importance of why we’re doing this. The barge must be stopped. The Bibby Stockholm is wholly unsuitable as housing for asylum-seekers,” says Carralyn Parkes, a local resident of Portland, Dorset.Her words come after the tragic news that a man died on board the barge Continue reading
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Almost half of UK’s young people suffering mental distress
It’s shocking but true: mental distress among young people has never been higher. Almost half of all young people now report that they face mental health problems. Continue reading
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VIP Lane Contracts inflated by £925 Million
The Tories spent £3.8bn on PPE through the so-called VIP lane – but now we can reveal they overpaid by at least £925m. Continue reading
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Artists for Palestine
Will you stand with arts workers in Bristol who are refusing to engage with Arnolfini International Centre for Contemporary Arts until its leadership commits to uphold freedom of expression on Palestine? Continue reading
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FOI request reveals Bellingcat collusion with Western intelligence
An extraordinary email uncovered by a Dutch researcher under freedom of information laws confirms what many have long charged: Bellingcat, the “open source” collective widely cited by mainstream journalists and loved by the CIA, collaborates directly with Western intelligence agencies. Continue reading
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Cabinet Minister says UK drones flying surveillance missions over Gaza
Late on Saturday 2 December, the Minister of Defence (MoD) issued a short online statement saying that the UK “will conduct surveillance flights over the eastern Mediterranean, including operating in air space over Israel and Gaza.” Continue reading
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UK complicit in genocide!
In the past month, amid Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, there have been 33 military transport flights from the UK to Tel Aviv. Continue reading
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The normalisation of anti-Palestinian racism
Racism, in essence, involves dehumanisation, the attaching of less value to certain lives. And it can also involve criminalisation, for example by turning one group into a suspect community needing control and harsher punishment. What we have witnessed here since 7 October is a transformation of a knee-jerk anti-Palestinianism into a fully-fledged anti-Palestinian racism permeating… Continue reading
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NHS data grab – we are demanding urgent answers!
Friday, 18 August 2023 — Crowd Justice “We are demanding urgent answers”, say a coalition from the Doctors’ Association UK, Just Treatment and the National Pensioners Convention. Last month they sent a legal letter to the government about the plans to centralise all UK health data into a new database, the “Federated Data Platform” (FDP). Continue reading
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Cruel Britannia – One of the most aggressive nations on Earth
The United Kingdom has deployed its armed forces 83 times in 47 countries since the end of the Second World War, according to research from investigative journalism outlet Declassified UK. This has included coups, such as in Guyana in 1953, Egypt in 1956, or Libya in 2011. It also includes full-scale invasions of nations, like… Continue reading
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A Trump-supporting billionaire wants access to your NHS records
But NHS England claims we have nothing to worry about. It says the information it will share under this new contract is “pseudonymous,” meaning that identifying details will be removed. Continue reading
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Refugee Week: celebration and resistance
Thursday, 22 June 2023 — Institute of Race Relations As we mark Refugee Week, we applaud all those who have taken to the streets to ensure that criticisms of the EU and Greece for creating the conditions for the worst shipwreck in recent Mediterranean history are not staved off by authorities in Greece who have Continue reading
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We are all potential ‘terrorists’ according to British anti-terrorism legislation
On 30th November 2021 I was apprehended and detained at Heathrow Terminal 3 under Schedule 3 Counter Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019 by two plain clothed police officers. I was interrogated for six hours (the maximum time you can be detained). My bags were searched by a team of uniformed police officers. All material… Continue reading
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EU moves against search and rescue?; Frontex takes the lead on deportations; Europol looks across the Atlantic
Thursday, 25 May 2023 — Statewatch News Also available as a PDF. Featuring: European moves against search and rescue missions? Frontex takes the lead on deportations Europol extends its reach across the Atlantic And: European Commission argues for legality of anti-encryption plans; latest documents on new EU migration and asylum laws; border police watchlist “progressing well”; open Continue reading
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NatCon and the British war on woke
The American hard Right are coming to the UK – and Europe. But, unlike in Hungary, where the gathering of Europe’s extreme-right figures (including the prime ministers of Hungary and Georgia) was an offshoot of the Trump and Bolsonaro supporting US Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the National Conservatism conference in the UK is a project backed by the Washington-based Edmund Burke Foundation.… Continue reading
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British warmongering is driving Europe towards catastrophe in Ukraine
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky made an unexpected trip to Britain last week on a whistle-stop tour of European capitals, pleading for more powerful and longer-range weapons to use in his war against Russia. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 