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Statewatch News 10 June (Issue 09/22)
Friday, 10 June 2022 — Statewatch Available as a PDF) After a short break due to public holidays we’re back with our latest edition, featuring: New law that will break encryption must be withdrawn Relocate refugees, or externalise borders? Keeping an eye on Frontex In this issue you will also find articles on: the latest steps… Continue reading
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When racism has lethal consequences
Later this month, a ground-breaking documentary film sharing the stories of nurses, midwives and healthcare workers and their experiences of racism before, during and after the pandemic, will premiere in London and Sheffield. Part of a research project from Nursing Narratives, Sheffield Hallam University and Migrant Media, EXPOSED lays bare the ‘systemic lack of support’… Continue reading
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Priti Patel’s sweeping new threat to free expression
Journalists and staff of civil society groups in the UK could be sentenced to life imprisonment for offences committed under the government’s proposed new National Security Bill. Continue reading
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SouthFront
BBC World’s Disinformation Team latest piece of disinformation from NATO’s Ukrainian front is that a group of young Crimeans operate a “company, whose name translates as Southern Front, [which] makes and distributes pro-Vladimir Putin propaganda across YouTube, social media app Telegram, and through a website that targets areas newly under Russian control”. Continue reading
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Paul Mason’s covert intelligence-linked plot to destroy The Grayzone exposed
Leaked emails reveal British journalist Paul Mason plotting with an intel contractor to destroy The Grayzone through “relentless deplatforming” and a “full nuclear legal” attack. The scheme is part of a wider planned assault on the UK left. Continue reading
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Ukraine: The Disinformation War
Radio 4’s hit piece was a personalized attack on a number of British-based academics, who had been recently named and shamed in the British House of Commons for not being sufficiently Russophobic Continue reading
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UK: Is dissent now illegal? How worried should we be?
The Government has changed the law to make it easier for the police to restrict where and how we protest, and it’s set to do so again in the coming months. For many, freedom of assembly is essential to a healthy democracy. Just how worried should we be about the new powers the Government has… Continue reading
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Major UK Political Parties Back ‘State Threats’ Bill That Would Restrict Press Freedom
All main political parties in the United Kingdom have called for immediate passage in Parliament of new measures to fight “state threats,” which would restrict press freedom and threaten civil liberties. Continue reading
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Serious Disruption Prevention Orders are the start of a new chapter of repressive police surveillance
Like previous government restrictions on an individual’s liberty to ‘protect the public’, Serious Disruption Prevention Orders are the end-point of increasing state repression Continue reading
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The Power of Lies
The comments on Peter Oborne’s excellent article on Julian Assange in the Guardian last week are a damning indictment of the media’s ability to instil near universal acceptance of “facts” which are easily proven lies. The Guardian chose as its “Guardian pick” to head the section a comment full of these entirely untrue assertions. Continue reading
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Stella Assange BBC Interview: “I will keep fighting until Julian is free.”
We just wanted to share Stella’s amazing appearance on BBC HARDtalk. In a wide-ranging interview that touched on Stella and Julian’s relationship, the U.S. allegations, and other topics, Stella spoke powerfully about what’s at stake and how she plans to keep fighting. Continue reading
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UK: Why can’t police acknowledge institutional racism?
How can an organisation become ‘actively anti-racist’ without acknowledging the existence of institutional racism? The National Police Chiefs’ Council and College of Policing this week launched its Police Race Action Plan, tasked with ‘Improving policing for Black people’. Like so many plans and strategies before it, it is laden with commitments to ‘overhaul systems, processes… Continue reading
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Big Brother Watch responds to £7.5m Clearview AI fine by the ICO
“This important enforcement action by the ICO should be another nail in the coffin for facial recognition in the UK.” Continue reading
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New draconian bill to increase police protest powers
Netpol has released an explainer on the new draconian Public Order Bill. It basically revives the amendments that were defeated in the Police, Crime and Sentencing Act in the Lords and puts them in new bill. Continue reading
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Ukraine’s Nazi Connection, And The British National Cover-Up
Britain’s parliamentary warlords have to date gladly provided £2.1 Billion to fund the Ukrainian war effort rather than budgeting to fix the UK’s gutted NHS, declining educational system, historic poverty or ever-increasing homeless population. With the deplorable state of the UK in mind, why does the British public continue to ignore this national decline in… Continue reading
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Operation Surprise: leaked emails expose secret intelligence coup to install Boris Johnson
Leaked emails reviewed by The Grayzone reveal possibly criminal plot by pro-Leave elites to sabotage Theresa May’s Brexit deal, infiltrate government, spy on campaign groups, and replace May with Boris Johnson. Continue reading
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Leaked emails expose UK Home Secretary Priti Patel’s connection to MI6-style ‘research and influence operation’
A deeply anti-democratic MI6-linked cabal’s apparent influence on Priti Patel raises serious questions about her fitness to rule on Julian Assange’s extradition to the US. Continue reading
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EXPLAINER: The Public Order Bill 2022
Having successfully passed one piece of vague, draconian public order legislation, the government is already embarking on the introduction of another. Continue reading
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British Info-Warriors Kill Abroad And Sabotage Politics At Home
The British Guardian reports that ‘black propaganda’, issued by the British government, has helped to kill millions of people Continue reading
The New Dark Age 