@declassifiedUK has revealed that since the beginning of Israel’s genocide campaign in Gaza in October, the Israeli military has conducted a minimum of six landings within the United Kingdom, spanning across at least four distinct locations.
HART has increasingly questioned the actual existence of any genuine pandemic in 2020. We have come to the conclusion that based on any sane definition of the word, there simply wasn’t one. However, we currently live in a world where this is a minority view. The eye-watering profitability of the ‘pandemic preparedness’ industry means we will likely remain in a minority for the foreseeable, due to the much discussed media-regulatory-institutional capture we now know to exist. With this caveat in mind, we can still discuss the UK public health response of 2020. Why did we throw out the entire rule book and implement the most disruptive and harmful replacement policies?
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Wang Yi, Member of Politbureau of Chinese Communist Party Central Committee and director of Central Foreign Affairs Office (3rd from left) met with Jake Sullivan, assistant to US President for National Security (3rd from Right), Bangkok, Jan. 26-27, 2024
There is an old proverb that when misfortunes come, they come in battalions. Coming on top of reports of American soldiers going down like nine-pins on a drone strike against the super secret CIA station for intelligence and covert operations on the Syrian-Jordanian border, ’nyet’ is the word from Beijing to the Biden administration’s entreaties seeking intervention with Tehran to rein in the Houthis of Yemen, against the foreboding backdrop of the Axis of Resistance expanding its operations against American and Israeli interests.
The diet of factory-farmed animals is linked to environmental destruction around the globe.
By Vicky Bond
This article was produced by Earth| Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
In some parts of the continental United States, you might drive through a nearly unchanging landscape for hours. Stretching for miles and miles, vast swaths of soil are dedicated to growing crops—corn, grains, fruits, and vegetables that make up the foundation of our food system.
Netpol is preparing a report on the policing of Palestine protests in England and Wales – and we need you to send us your experiences.
Palestine protests have faced increasingly severe police restrictions, been vilified as “hate marches”, and there have been calls for the outright banning of demonstrations. Hundreds have been arrested and protesters have been accused of antisemitism and “glorifying terrorism”.
Netpol and the legal support groups we work with continue to gather extensive evidence of the way British police tactics have been used to disrupt and deter Palestinian solidarity activities.
Now Netpol plans to gather these stories, interviews and statistics, with context and analysis, into a comprehensive report that can support campaigners to defend their fundamental right to protest in defence of the Palestinian people.
We are keen to hear about any notable police incidents, and especially if you have experienced:
Police violence, intimidation or surveillance
Police racism, including the targeting of campaigners from Muslim backgrounds and other racialised communities
Police action following referrals to the government’s ‘Prevent’ programme over concerns about “radicalisation”
Police officers challenging the wording of placards, banners, chants and leaflets at demonstrations (including officers insisting protesters wait for ‘specialist officers’)
Arrests and charges for alleged racially aggravated offences, ‘hate crimes’, or arrests under counter-terrorism legislation
You can share your evidence and testimony by writing a statement or sharing video securely to palestinereport@protonmail.com.
The creation of closed technological state and corporate clubs, the development and implementation of new measures to limit access to digital technologies, as well as restraining competing cultural and civilizational communities and states in the development of their own digital technologies has in fact already become a reality of international interaction.
In this guest comment, former judge Dr. Manfred Kölsch analyzes the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), which will soon come into full force. He concludes that the regulation uses undefined termes and the threat of large fines to entice social media platforms to censor inconvenient opionions and informatio
The fundamental right to freedom of expression – an obsolete model?
Dr. Manfred Kölsch
The Digital Services Act (DSA) will come into full force in Germany on 17 February 2024 as EU Regulation 2022/2065. Before this date, the Digital Services Act (DDG), which concretises the DSA, is to be passed by the Bundestag without fanfare.
Palestinians are taking US President Joe Biden to court for supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza
A collective of Palestinians and civil rights groups has taken legal action against the president for his complicity in the genocide in Gaza.
The lawsuit cites violations of international and federal law, seeking a court order to cease any further US military aid or diplomatic support to Israel.
On the 75th anniversary of the battle that lifted the Siege of Leningrad in World War 2, people walk in snowfall to the Motherland monument to place flowers at the Piskaryovskoye Cemetery where the victims were buried, St. Petersburg, Russia, January 26, 2019
An epochal anniversary from the annals of modern history is coming up in another ten days that remains a living memory for the Russian people. The Siege of Leningrad, arguably the most gruesome episode of the Second World War, which lasted for 900 days, was finally broken by the Soviet Red Army on 27th January 1944, eighty years ago to be exact.
The Arabic word Asabiyya, or ‘social solidarity,’ is a soundbite in the west, but taken very seriously by the globe’s new contenders China, Russia, and Iran. It is Yemen, however, that is mainstreaming the idea, by sacrificing everything for the world’s collective morality in a bid to end the genocide in Gaza.
The Electronic Intifada livestream is starting soon.
On Friday, the International Court of Justice will deliver a key ruling in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over its ongoing extermination of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The judges in The Hague will deliver their much-anticipated decision on South Africa’s request for urgent provisional measures to stop the killing and other genocidal crimes by Israel, at a public hearing at 1200 GMT.
We will be joined on our livestream later in the day, at our usual time, by Susan Akram to help us understand what the judges have decided and how it may impact the dire situation.
Susan is director of Boston University Law’s International Human Rights Clinic. She has taught at the American University in Cairo and at Al-Quds University and Birzeit University in Palestine.
Among her dozens of books and scholarly articles, Susan Akram is co-editor,
with Michael Dumper, Michael Lynk and Iain Scobbie, of the volume International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Rights-Based Approach to Middle East Peace.
1900 Palestine time / 1700 GMT / 1700 UK / 1800 CET / 11 am CT / 12 pm ET / 9 am PT
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Military analyst and geopolitical commentator Andrei Martyanov joins the program to discuss the latest in Russia’s SMO plus the latest in geopolitical developments from Ukraine to the Middle East.
The head of the British Army, General Patrick Sanders, is due to give a speech asserting that compulsory military service for all citizens will be necessary in the event of World War III with Russia.
The defence secretary, Grant Shapps, recently stated that Britain could be five years away from war with Russia, China, or Iran.
The building described as ‘Mossad Headquarters’ in Iraqi Kurdistan with underground facilities for conducting covert operations hit by Iranian missile attack, Erbil, Northern Iraq, January 15, 2024
The stunning missile and drone strikes on three countries — Syria, Iraq and Pakistan — over a period of 24 hours and Tehran taking the extraordinary step of announcing its responsibility for the attacks conveyed a very big message to Washington that its stratagem to create a coalition of terror groups in the region surrounding Iran will be resolutely countered.