The United States has used its veto power in the United Nations Security Council three times in less than two months to kill resolutions calling for peace in Gaza.
The Tories spent £3.8bn on PPE through the so-called VIP lane – but now we can reveal they overpaid by at least £925m.
We’ve run the numbers on an internal health department document, and the contracts signed with VIP lane companies cost an average of 80% more.
Some of them were paid at even higher rates than that. The average price for medical gowns was £5.87. But the gowns bought from Meller Designs Ltd – a fashion company run by a Tory donor – cost more than twice that: £12.64.
And more than a quarter of this VIP lane stuff was just no good. One deal brokered by an adviser under Liz Truss wasted more than £145m on unusable masks.
We’re uncovering more and more of these dodgy deals. But we couldn’t do it without your backing.
Live! from the National Press Club in Washington D.C. on Saturday Dec 9 at 2pm EST – 7pm GMT, the Belmarsh Tribunal for imprisoned journalist Julian Assange.
Will you stand with arts workers in Bristol who are refusing to engage with Arnolfini International Centre for Contemporary Arts until its leadership commits to uphold freedom of expression on Palestine?
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Left-progressive websites don’t always get it right. Take Media Lens, for example. In October, we discussed the corporate media invention of so-called ‘disinformation experts’. We lampooned the claim that although journalists are ‘working within profit-maximising, billionaire-owned, advertiser-dependent, government-subsidised media, they are nevertheless exposing “disinformation” without the slightest trace of bias’.
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An Israeli air force colonel has said that Israeli airstrikes may have intentionally killed Israeli captives rather than let them be taken to Gaza. On the livestream today, Asa Winstanley will report on these latest revelations about what really happened on 7 October.
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With people in Gaza extremely difficult to reach, Ahmed will update us on what he is hearing about the situation back home as Israel’s genocide enters its third month.
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🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:
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The city of Khan Younis faces a zionist holocaust with an American green light and direct planning.
What the city of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, experienced last night and early this morning is a zionist Holocaust in every sense of the word, with an American green light and direct planning, coinciding with zionist shelling that targeted all areas of the Strip.
The intensive, brutal bombing and the belts of fire targeting the city from all sides—which led to a large number of martyrs and injured, most of whom are children, women, and elderly, and the destruction of infrastructure and citizens’ homes—are attempts by this cowardly and defeated enemy to commit more massacres, and kill as many of our people as possible, deluding itself that it can achieve any accomplishment in light of its miserable failure to achieve any in the north.
The resistance in the southern Gaza Strip is heroically confronting the enemy’s attempts to advance on several fronts in the south, engaging in fierce clashes with it, and is ready to destroy its armored vehicles and finish off its soldiers, as is happening in the north and Gaza. Khan Younis of steadfastness and every place in the Strip will be a hell burning the zionist soldiers, thwarting the illusions of all the traitors, conspirators, and collaborators.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
5-12-2023
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Gaza’s Al-Azhar University before Zion’s bombs… And Gaza’s Al-Azhar University after Zion’s bombs.This is a rare example of a very direct message delivered by one government to another at the United Nations.
Approximately 1,000 international boats will gather in Turkiye on Wednesday before heading toward Gaza to break the Israeli blockade, Turkish media reports.
According to the report, in an interview with Turkish news website, Haber7, Volkan Okcu, one of the organisers of the protest, indicated the boats will carry 4,500 people from 40 countries, “including anti-Zionist Jews”.
Among the 1,000 vessels would be 313 boats filled with Russian activists, and 104 filled with Spanish activists, he said. Only 12 Turkish vessels will join the flotilla, he told Haber7.
The maritime convoy is set to make a first stop in Cyprus before continuing toward the Israeli port of Ashdod. Some participants in the flotilla will also reportedly take their spouses and children on board.
The New Dark Age 