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Lost in the Matrix – how police surveillance is mapping protest movements
How can British police, who have struggled for so long to justify its surveillance on alleged “extremists”, ever hope to adequately categorise something as subjective as people’s political opinions? As Netpol asked in March 2021, how do campaigners become “aggravated activists” – the new label applied to those taking action that challenges state and corporate interests? Continue reading
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In London: Free Assange Human Chain
The national Surround Parliament demonstration on Saturday 8 October is fast approaching. We need the largest possible turnout so we are asking for your help. We already have roughly one-half of the 5,000 links needed in the human chain that will surround the Houses of Parliament! Continue reading
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Labour sabotaged pro-Corbyn candidates in 2019 election
During the 2019 UK general election, Labour Party staff worked to undermine their party’s own candidates who were supportive of then leader Jeremy Corbyn. That’s the revelation contained in a confidential document newly obtained by The Electronic Intifada. Continue reading
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UK’s Truss ‘ready’ to use nukes
Liz Truss feels “ready” to launch Trident nuclear weapons, the frontrunner for Conservative leadership declared at Tuesday’s hustings in Birmingham, UK, saying that making decisions like this is an “important duty of the prime minister.” Continue reading
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State-sponsored behavioural science
The ubiquitous deployment of behavioural-science techniques – ‘nudges’ – to increase compliance with both covid-19 restrictions and the vaccine rollout has raised major ethical concerns. Particularly alarming has been the state’s strategic use of fear (or ‘affect’ in the language of behavioural science), shaming (‘ego’) and peer pressure (‘norms’). The tentacles of behavioural science have extended… Continue reading
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How One Spook-Run London College Department Is Training the World’s Social Media Managers
Alan Macleod’s latest investigation with MintPress delves into the relationship between Western intelligence agencies, the corporate social media giants, and the Department of War Studies at the King’s College of London Continue reading
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BBC assault on antiwar academics was apparent product of UK intel plot
Leaked emails expose the fingerprints of UK intelligence all over a factually challenged BBC special that aimed to deprive antiwar academics of their jobs and destroy their reputations. Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: Public Enemy Number One
Tory leadership candidate Rishi Sunak has launched a furious, misguided, attack on Good Law Project and its founder Jolyon Maugham QC for “wasting time and money” in the Courts. And he has threatened judges he calls “recidivist” – a word meaning the tendency of convicted criminals to continue to offend – with legislation to force… Continue reading
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Statewatch Issue 14/22: Migration policy against transparency; Frontex’s “expanding footprint”; Keep Campsfield closed
Friday, 19 August 2022 — Statewatch Statewatch News 19 August (Issue 14/22, also available as a PDF) Welcome to the latest edition of Statewatch News, featuring: Italy: Migration policy undermining freedom of information The “expanding footprint” of Frontex in non-EU states UK: New campaign to keep Campsfield immigration detention centre closed We will be taking a… Continue reading
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A Newsletter from Donbas by Graham Philips
For years now, I’ve been sending out a mailing, giving updates on my work, how to support, my reportage, etc. Recent times have seen an unprecedented level of contact, and interest, something I’m very grateful for, and which also puts it on me to up the game a bit in this sphere. Continue reading
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UK Crony Capitalism: What’s really going on here?
We won’t let the drive for Net Zero, one of the most important challenges facing the UK today, become another example of secretive closed-door procurement practices. That’s why we’ve filed judicial review proceedings against the East of England Broadband Network (E2BN) for their decision to, we believe, unlawfully award a £70 billion ‘Everything Net Zero’ Framework Agreement to the… Continue reading
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Liz Truss — Fule Britannia
Could there be a worse Prime Minister than the boisterous buffoon Johnson? Yes, the dull lampooned Truss. A party which is sacrificed to dumb down society by using the dream of Brexit to prevent a left-wing alternative, ends up paying a high price. First Johnson then Truss. With “no handouts” Truss, the Tory Party is… Continue reading
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Yemen: Four years later, parents of 40 school bus children killed in US-supplied bomb await accountability
Parents were angry at the Biden administration’s resumption of weapons sales to Saudi Arabia on August 2, one week ahead of the 4th anniversary of the Yemen school bus children attack on August 9. Continue reading
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How Britain Fueled Ukraine’s War Machine and Invited Direct Conflict with Russia
Britain has played a key role in NATO forward troop deployments and training exercises on Russia’s borders. With war underway, the UK sends billions in arms, special forces, and volunteers to ensure escalation. Continue reading
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Take Part in The Human Chain to Free Julian Assange – 8 October 2022
Thursday, 11 August 2022 — — Don’t Extradite Assange Plus two new video interviews with Stella Assange By Don’t Extradite Assange Below is the initiative of the Free Assange human chain. Sign up for the Human Chain here *** Dear Supporter, Because of your help over 1500 people have pledged to be part of the Free Assange… Continue reading
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As Boris resigned the UK govt published indisputable evidence that the Covid Vaccine kills!
While you were distracted by Boris resigning the UK Government published indisputable evidence that the Covid-19 Vaccines are deadly and are killing people in the Thousands: Mortality Rates are lowest among the Unvaccinated in all Age Groups Continue reading
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Intelligence Services Interference in British Democracy, with Kit Klarenberg
The MintPress podcast, “The Watchdog,” hosted by British-Iraqi hip hop artist Lowkey, closely examines organizations about which it is in the public interest to know – including intelligence, lobby and special interest groups influencing policies that infringe on free speech and target dissent. The Watchdog goes against the grain by casting a light on stories largely… Continue reading
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Diego Garcia: Stealing a nation and how ‘international rules’ don’t apply if it is the US or UK
One of John Pilger’s most remarkable documentaries, bringing a little-known story to a wide audience, is Stealing a Nation, about how British governments ruthlessly expelled the population of the Chagos Islands, a crown colony in the Indian Ocean, in the late 1960s and early 70s to make way for an American military base on Diego Garcia, the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 