UK
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The Salisbury Poisonings: Skripal drama framed as anti-Russian propaganda
In 2018, Britain published its National Security Capability Review, outlining a new “Fusion Doctrine.” This called for the “use of all our capabilities; from economic levers, through cutting-edge military resources to our wider diplomatic and cultural influence on the world’s stage” to “project our global influence.” The BBC, especially its World Service, was named as… Continue reading
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Deadly Exchange: Israel trains US Police forces
26 June 2020 — The New Dark Age [In the light of spurious charges of anti-semitism levelled against Rebecca Long-Bailey and her subsequent firing from the Labour front bench by the leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer, after endorsing the actress’s Maxine Peake comments about US police learning violent tactics from Israeli secret… Continue reading
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Get ready for ‘Shock and Awe’ Brexit propaganda campaign
By TruePublica Editor: The governments’ overuse of militaristic, Churchillian and war-time cliches over Brexit and the pandemic is wearing thin and getting tiresome. But as Brexit day approaches, this is the mentality of a government obsessed with public relations. A mass propaganda invasion is to be aimed at every adult to overcome the Remainer enemy. Continue reading
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NHS: Decisions with a cost
Here are three issues from this week’s Lowdown: A&Es are being closed as a temporary measure, but often in areas where NHS leaders have been trying to permanently close them in the face of strong public objections. (2) How residents in care homes and their carers were left unprotected. (3) Private hospitals are being set… Continue reading
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Tory MP: Student nurses ‘not deemed to be providing a service’
TruePublica Editor: This government is a constant source of amazement nowadays. They are now being sued by doctors for not providing PPE, families for the deaths of elderly parents, sons and daughters who have seen front line key workers in mortuaries and for handing out multiple £muti-million contracts to dodgy outfits who have failed to… Continue reading
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Britain’s Last Gasp – Realising Life After Brexit
This week marks four years of political acrimony in the guise of Brexit – the most divisive and toxic ideology to hit Britain since the Second World War. Having reached nothing more than a negotiated stalemate with the EU, the likelihood is that Britain will inextricably tie itself to a form of Atlantasism that will… Continue reading
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Labour Suspensions Over Leaked Antisemitism Report Include Former Senior Official Emilie Oldknow
The Labour party has suspended former senior staffer Emilie Oldknow along with several others, amid an ongoing investigation into a leaked report into antisemitism in the party, Novara Media has learned. Continue reading
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Why Do the Police Exist?
As we witness uniformed police officers pepper spray a seven-year-old in the United States or arrest a black ambulance driver in the UK, we have to ask: why does the police exist? Continue reading
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Britain to join despised TTP: Wikileaks – “a huge transfer of power from people to big business”
TruePublica Editor: I have always maintained from the soon after the EU referendum that Brexit was a con. The team here at TruePublica have relentlessly warned that far from taking back control, Brexit was a trojan horse for big business, to gain control and dominate our lives. Half of our modest lobbying budget went to… Continue reading
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Palestinians win damages over “Labour anti-Semitism” libel
The UK’s Palestinian Return Centre revealed to The Electronic Intifada on Friday that it won more than $43,000 in libel damages against The Mail on Sunday. Continue reading
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Fresh concerns over privacy and profit in NHS Covid data deals
Documents obtained by openDemocracy suggest the UK government has misled the public about how it is protecting the privacy of millions of NHS users in its major Covid-19 data deals – and about how the controversial tech firms involved stand to profit in the long term. Continue reading
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From Dodgy Dossiers to the Sacking of Whitlam: The British Empire Stands Exposed
I used to believe as many do, in a story called “the American Empire”. Over the last decade of research, that belief has changed a bit. The more I looked at the top down levers of world influence shaping past and present events that altered history, the hand of British Intelligence just kept slapping me… Continue reading
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Welfare Weekly 19 June 2020
19 June 2020 — Welfare Weekly Disabled women over 11 times more likely to die of Coronavirus, analysis shows Government accused of failing to protect disabled people from the Coronavirus pandemic. Read the post Continue reading
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UK: Elites will use this crisis to reshape the state. We have to push back
The coronavirus lockdown is easing and more businesses are reopening. But what kind of a society will the UK be? Continue reading
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IRR: It Happens Here Too
As the world wakes up to police racism following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, activists and campaigners are working tirelessly to draw attention to the long histories and present day realities of the violence of police racism in the UK – it happens here, too. Continue reading
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Novichok: Cynicism and Warmongering
The BBC plumbed the depths of hypocrisy in dressing up the final episode of the Salisbury Poisonings as a homage to Dawn Sturgess while systematically lying about the facts of her death, yet again to cover up the implausibility of the official narrative. Continue reading
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The Miracle of Salisbury
It turns out that the BBC really does believe that God is an Englishman. When the simple impossibility of the official story on the Skripals finally overwhelmed the dramatists, they resorted to Divine Intervention for an explanation – as propagandists have done for millennia. Continue reading
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UK counter-terror programme targeted BAME women using Instagram influencers
‘Stoosh’ campaign aimed at young Asian and Black women was created by media company contracted by Home Office Continue reading
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“Putin’s Gonna Get Me”
Shakespeare’s heirs at the BBC produced this deathless and entirely convincing line as the climax of the first episode of “The Salisbury Poisonings”, a three part piece of state propaganda on the Skripal saga, of which I watched Part 1 as it was broadcast last night. The other two parts are to be broadcast today… Continue reading
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