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A small victory for free speech on Israel
When we first began organizing a launch event for a Noam Chomsky book, we suspected it might be targeted by pro-Israel activists. After all the book, The Responsibility Of Intellectuals: Reflections by Noam Chomsky and Others after 50 Years, was based on a 2017 conference at University College London (UCL) that had been targeted by… Continue reading
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Corbyn refuses to fight ramped-up bogus “anti-Semitism” witch-hunt
Ever since Corbyn’s election in 2015, Labour’s right-wing Blairite faction have worked with Zionist groups, the Conservative Party and the media to portray every criticism of Israel and its brutal war on the Palestinians as anti-Semitism. What is made clear by Pompeo’s remarks is that this witch-hunt is a PSYOPS campaign involving the security services… Continue reading
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Boris Johnson’s 19 new powers will kill democracy
By TruePublica: Boris Johnson’s amazing Brexit deal, which has turned out to be a worse deal than the bad deal rejected three times via Theresa May has not just been discredited – it has been blown completely out of the water. Continue reading
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The Guardians of the Jewish ‘Mainstream’ Have Their Own Questions to Answer Over Jews’ Corbyn Fears
On day one of this general election campaign, the Jewish Chronicle ran an editorial imploring non-Jewish British citizens not to vote Labour. Citing a poll commissioned by the paper which suggested that 87% of British Jews consider Jeremy Corbyn to be an antisemite, the Chronicle warned: “If this man is chosen as our next prime… Continue reading
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Home Office-funded counter-extremism group promoting anti-Corbyn messages
An initiative receiving counter-extremism funding from the Home Office has reportedly been posting consistently anti-Corbyn messages. Faith Matters is funded by the Home Office’s Building a Stronger Britain Together programme (BSBT). It has regularly shared views against Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn. According to a report published by the Home Office in October, it has… Continue reading
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GE2019 Reveals True Purpose of “Antisemitism” Smear Campaign
The centrists really didn’t want this election. The reasons were never made especially clear. I know some people said it was a trick to force through No Deal Brexit, and apparently it means some (as yet unidentified) school had to cancel its Christmas fete. Continue reading
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Peter Oborne’s file of Boris Johnson’s lies is published
Peter Oborne deserves credit. He is the former chief political commentator of The Daily Telegraph, author of The Rise of Political Lying and The Triumph of the Political Class. He used to write a political column for the Daily Mail until two weeks ago when he turned on them and the Boris Johnson government to reveal them… Continue reading
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Assange ‘MAY DIE in jail for revealing war crimes,’ his father warns after seeing him behind bars
The father of WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange said his son is on course for a bitter end in prison for shedding light on American war crimes, as he faces looming extradition to the US. Continue reading
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JOHN PILGER’S NEW FILM IN CINEMAS AND ON TV THIS DECEMBER
The new John Pilger film, The Dirty War on the NHS, will be released in cinemas in the UK on 1 December and broadcast on the ITV Network on 17 December. Continue reading
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How to Help Julian Assange by Writing to Him in Prison
Not reported by ANY corporate media was the October 2 London protest to protect Julian Assange, led by Pink Floyd’s world famous co-founder, Roger Waters and award-winning journalist John Pilger, in front of Britain’s Home Office. About 1,000 people attended. Continue reading
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Assange lawyers’ links to US govt & Bill Browder raises questions
A US government lawyer in the Assange extradition case just wrote a London Times oped promoting the Browder Magnitsky hoax. Ben Brandon is one of five lawyers in a London network whose spokes link to convicted tax fraudster William Browder, the U.S. government, and to both sides of the extradition case against whistleblower publisher Julian… Continue reading
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Former British Ambassador to Syria: UK complicit in Trump’s Syria Oil Grab
The cat is out of the bag. The UK is potentially complicit in a war crime. With typical insouciance the U.S. military dropped this bombshell by tweet and apparently without realizing the implications for U.S. partners: Continue reading
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UK General Election News Links 5-7 November 2019
7 November 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so please check back [I’ve included all the BBC ‘news’ coverage of the general election. Mostly it’s trivial but you be the judge. WB] Lewes Bonfire Night effigies include a urinating Boris Johnson… Continue reading
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REPORT: NHS privatisation – real expenditure 26 per cent, not 7 per cent
Political parties are making all sorts of claims to save the NHS from its current financial strangulation and the privatisation drive, mainly because a general election is due and the NHS is inevitably used a political football. This report really is quite explosive, not least because the general public has been ‘hoodwinked’ into believing that… Continue reading
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How the media, including the BBC is manipulated by government propaganda
By Simon Wren-Lewis: While Dominic Cummings is no genius, he does have a good understanding of how the UK media works, and therefore how to manipulate it. There are many ways to do this, but one of the most obvious is to use privileged access in return for uncritical coverage. This is how it works. Continue reading
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Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg speaks for British ruling elite in his attack on Grenfell fire victims
The derogatory comments of Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg about the 72 people who died in the Grenfell fire on June 14, 2017, have provoked widespread popular outrage. Continue reading
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Mainstream Media Pro-Johnson Propaganda Gets Into Full Swing
Ian Austin left the Labour Party nine months ago. He was then appointed by the Tories as Prime Ministerial Trade Envoy to Israel. As of yesterday, he is neither a MP nor a candidate for election. He is a minor politician who achieved only the most junior ministerial rank, PUSS, and for only seven months.… Continue reading
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Green Tories? Don’t Believe the Hype
A leaked briefing note has revealed Tory HQ’s attack lines on climate policy for this winter’s General Election. In it, HQ cites two key figures to argue the case that the Conservative Party is the party of climate action. First, they claim that during their decade in government there has been a 25% reduction in emissions, and… Continue reading
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The Incredible Disappearing Farage, and Other Electoral Oddities
For a decade Nigel Farage has been flung into our living rooms continually by the BBC. Even when UKIP barely registered a blip in the opinion polls, he was a regular on Question Time and the other news, current affairs and politics programme. Farage’s celebrity was a BBC creation. He served an important purpose. At… Continue reading
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The Media Is Biased Against Jeremy Corbyn – but Does That Even Matter in This Election?
On 11 April 1992, Murdoch-owned redtop newspaper The Sun ran with the headline ‘It’s the Sun Wot Won It’, proudly proclaiming to have handed a general election victory to Conservative John Major, to the detriment of ‘evil’ left-winger Neil Kinnock. However, a few years later, scientific research found ‘no support’ for this bullish claim. Continue reading
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