Sky News’ defence correspondent Deborah Haynes onboard a US aircraft carrier. (Photo: Alamy)
An analysis of broadcasters’ online coverage of defence spending and strategy since Keir Starmer won the election shows that reporting is virtually 100% in line with the government’s own priorities.
Critical voices, where they are included, are entirely from the right.
Yemen is playing a pivotal role in reshaping the regional and international power balance. As tensions and conflicts escalate, Yemen has demonstrated its capacity to influence maritime policy and global trade, signaling a shift away from American dominance. The United States once considered a key player in the region, now faces new challenges requiring a reassessment of its strategies and the need to strengthen international partnerships amidst the current situation. Recent events highlight Yemen as a force capable of contributing to reconfiguring the regional and global order. This transformation suggests that the era of unparalleled American influence may be fading, elevating Yemen’s status as a sovereign state with the ability to impact the region’s future.
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The detention of Pavel Durov is being portrayed as a result of the EU Digital Services Act. But having spent my day reading the EU Services Act (a task I would not wish upon my worst enemy), it does not appear to me to say what it is being portrayed as saying.
What seems clear now is that UK counter-terrorism police have a list of every pro-Palestinian journalist, blogger and prominent social media user, and they’re trawling through their posts to find an excuse to arrest them. If you wonder why France is so keen on capturing Telegram, it’s because it’s an intelligence goldmine with vast activist networks hidden behind end-to-end encryption. They’re not going after child traffickers, they’re going after dissidents. It’s the same pattern across the empire.
Keir Starmer
In a Labour Party Election Broadcast on April 16th, 2024, Sir Keir Starmer highlighted how his working-class background influences his approach to politics. In a BBC interview on May 27th, 2024, Sir Starmer reinforced his working-class roots and promised to serve the interests of the working people in Britain. He even described himself as a progressive and a socialist. However, the mass hope following the Conservative Party’s defeat is fading as Starmer’s politics and policies as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom are revealed. As he unveils himself as PM, he not only betrays his working-class voters but also his own working-class heritage. Starmer’s ideology, political positions, principles and policies changes more often than British weather. There is nothing called political pledge to principles for him.
“Democracies” Attack Journalism as They Attack Democracy Itself
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
What does democracy mean if elections are ignored and journalists are charged as criminals? That is the case today, as western countries descend into crises of their own making and are more blatant in their disregard for the norms they claim to adhere to. They are only devoted to aggression and to silencing dissent.
The Guardian columnist has to twist the story of the first Jew to escape Auschwitz because a true biography of Rudolf Vrba would expose the Zionist movement’s collusion with the Nazis
Known US bioweapons labs in Africa
On Wednesday, August 14, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on behalf of WHO, declared an “international public health emergency” due to monkeypox.
He cited the existence in several African countries of 40,000 cases and 1,456 deaths from this cause since 2022. He called for the governments of different countries around the world to equip themselves with large doses of vaccine to be produced against this new plague.
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The United States often claims to promote democracy and human rights, but its actions reveal a deeper agenda of spreading global hegemony, exposing the hypocrisy in its foreign policy. A glaring example is the Biden- Harris administration’s simultaneous rhetoric of humanitarian concern and unwavering support for Israel, despite the latter’s ongoing military actions in Gaza. This contradiction exposes the inauthenticity of the U.S.’s commitment to democratic principles and human rights, especially when these principles conflict with its strategic alliances.
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Pablo Kalaka (Chile), Untitled, 2022, sourced from Lendemains solidaires no. 2.
Unwilling to accept election results in Venezuela, the OAS, led by the US, passed a resolution essentially asking the country to violate its own election laws. Many countries with supposedly centre-left or left governments have joined the US in proposals that seek to undermine Venezuelan democratic processes, a reflection of the contradictions confronting the current progressive cycle of governments and weakness of the left in Latin America today.
Cybersecurity control center belonging to the US army. Photo: Ted S. Warren/AP/File photo.The renowned cybercriminal known as ASTRA has confessed to having participated in the hacking of the National Electoral Council (CNE) and in multiple cyber attacks against Venezuela, in order to destabilize the government of President Nicolás Maduro.
Screenshot from November 18, 2023, CNN report by Jake Tapper that disseminated now debunked sources and testimonies of sexual violence on October 7. These false testimonies were used to justify the Israeli genocide in Gaza.The ruthlessness of the Israeli genocide machine in Palestine, and the direct complicity of the U.S., UK, and other Western governments are two key pillars in the horrors being perpetrated against the Palestinian people (and in the attacks on human rights defenders around the globe).
The problem with satellite states and subject powers is that their representatives are rarely to be trusted, especially on matters regarding security. Their idea of safety and assurance is tied up in the interests of some other power, one who supposedly guarantees it through a promised force of arms come the place and come the time. The guarantee is often a sham one, variable in accordance with the self-interest of the guardian. In the case of the United States, the island continent of Australia is only useful as an annexure of Washington’s goal: maintaining less the illusion of a Pax Americana than a state of threatened military aggression against any upstart daring to vex an empire.
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Hezbollah Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech on Sunday, August 25, 2024, addressing the latest developments in Lebanon and the region.
His Eminence began his speech by praising the immense turnout for the Arbaeen of Imam Hussein [AS] in Karbala, highlighting the significance of this million-strong commemoration.
[Owen Hatherley’s book deals with issues close to my heart, as I moved to New York City in 1975 and experienced first-hand the themes this book deals with. WB]
In the 1960s, a new ideology held that cities were best developed organically and free from central planning. In his latest book, Owen Hatherley explores how these ideas shaped New York — and what they can teach a new generation of socialists.
The Amalgamated Housing Cooperative in the Bronx, New York, New York. (CEANYC / Twitter)
There is a Zen proverb — ‘If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.’ All the show of contrived enthusiasm by the US President Joe Biden and CIA Director William Burns over a Israel-Hamas deal on Gaza war cannot obfuscate the grim reality that unless and until Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu greenlights it, this is a road to nowhere.
The New Dark Age 