A South Wales activist who is facing charges including stalking, harassment and criminal damage has told Netpol she believes Pontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, now a junior minister in the Ministry of Justice, has weaponised the police and court system to intimidate her.
Thank God Mark Twain, who famously said truth travels slower than lies, never lived to see Twitter [photo credit: Getty Images]It began as do all the best broiguses: with a one-star review in the Telegraph. “This was the ugliest Edinburgh Fringe Festival moment I’ve ever witnessed,” lamented Dominic Cavendish.
By Declan Hayes
The death knell of NATO’s mercenaries in Kursk can be traced, via Hollywood’s Blood Diamond movie, all the way back to Rhodesia’s Bush War, where Rhodesia’s SAS, their Selous Scouts, and their Rhodesian Light Infantry, arguably history’s best and deadliest special forces ever, won all their battles, and, according to themselves at least, killed up to 15,000 insurgents, whilst suffering only 85 KIAs themselves.
The US openly declares that it seeks to maintain a monopoly over shaping the “international order” following the Cold War and America’s emergence from it as the sole superpower.
This policy is not new.
The New York Times in a 1992 article titled, “U.S. Strategy Plan Calls for Insuring No Rivals Develop,” would note that the Pentagon sought to create a world, “dominated by one superpower whose position can be perpetuated by constructive behavior and sufficient military might to deter any nation or group of nations from challenging American primacy.”
I’ve just watched an interview with Sarah Wilkinson on the Crispin Flintoff Show and it was disturbing to say the least. If you’ve read my recent newsletters, or been paying attention to social media, you will be aware Sarah Wilkinson is a pro-Palestinian journalist who was arrested in the UK under section 12 of the Terrorism Act. This is shocking enough, but Sarah has now broken down the treatment she received from police and the absurdity of her bail conditions.
Sarah Wilkinson, a British reporter and human rights activist, was taken into custody by UK police early on Thursday morning due to online posts she made about Palestine and denouncing the Israeli activities in Gaza, which she referred to as genocide.
Today, elections take place in two large provincial states (Lander) in eastern Germany All the opinion polls show that the Eurosceptic, anti-immigrant, Russia-friendly parties of both the extreme right and the new left are ahead. The parties of the current Federal coalition of the Social Democrats, Greens and the so-called Free Democrats are being decimated to the point of non-existence in these states of the former East Germany. The three eastern states combined are home to around 8.5 million people, making up 10 per cent of Germany’s population. But it is not just in these states that the ‘centre’ of German politics is collapsing. The three parties in Chancellor Scholz’s coalition government have seen their combined share of the vote fall from over 50 per cent at the end of 2021, to less than a third today.
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Dr. Munther Isaac delivering his remarks at Riverside Church. [Source: YouTube.com]
On April 4, 1967, from the pulpit of Manhattan’s storied Riverside Church, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered one of his most powerful sermons. Titled “Beyond Vietnam—A Time to Break Silence,” it was the first time King had publicly denounced the Vietnam War. He had long avoided doing so in the past, but finally concluded that his conscience left him “no other choice.” As he explained to the congregation, “a time comes when silence is betrayal.”
Dr. Khaled Alser, a highly respected Palestinian surgeon, is the lead author of The Lancet’s first medical paper to detail cases of trauma among Gazan patients and medical professionals. But he has had little opportunity to mark the occasion: On March 25, the Israel Defense Forces abducted him during a raid on his hospital and he remains in captivity, his whereabouts unconfirmed. Since his abduction, he has been held at Ofer Detention Center. He has also spent at least three months at Sde Teiman, a notorious IDF-run torture camp in the Negev Desert. A Physicians for Human Rights Israel report provided to his colleagues recently includes testimony detailing Dr. Alser’s torture and abuse at the camp, though Alser has been accused of no wrongdoing.
Richard Falk
[Prefatory Note: Modified responses to questions posed by Rodrigo Craveiro, a journalist with the Brazilian newspaper, CORREIO BRAZILIENSE, on 8/29/24, addressing the concerted Israeli military operation, extending the tactics and devastation of its attack on the Gaza Strip since last October, to the occupied West Bank. Again, Washington’s silence is almost as dismaying as Israel blatant disregard of law and standards of decency.]
From the outset of Israel’s response to the October 7 attack, I believed that it was being used as a pretext for ‘ethnic cleansing’ to induce massive departures of the resident Palestinian populations from the three Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), with a long undisclosed priority being systemic expulsion coupled with massive devastation of the West Bank. It should not be forgotten that when the Netanyahu coalition at the start of 2023, that is, months before the Hamas attack, took over occupation and administration of the OPT it was viewed even in Western circles as the ‘most extreme’ in Israel’s history. What made it extreme from Day One were two characteristics: the appointment of Itmar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, leaders of the far right religious Zionist parties in the Netanyahu coalition insistent on an ethnic cleansing agenda, as the chief administrators of Occupied Palestine, and the closely associated greenlighting of West Bank widespread settler violence in West Bank villages while the political leadership in Israel smiled obligingly.
By Hugo Dionísio
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 New Dark Age 