The MintPress podcast, “The Watchdog,” hosted by British-Iraqi hip hop artist Lowkey, closely examines organizations about which it is in the public interest to know – including intelligence, lobby and special interest groups influencing policies that infringe on free speech and target dissent. The Watchdog goes against the grain by casting a light on stories largely ignored by the mainstream, corporate media.
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By John Pilger
Image: Flickr / COMSEVENTHFLTOne of John Pilger’s most remarkable documentaries, bringing a little-known story to a wide audience, is Stealing a Nation, about how British governments ruthlessly expelled the population of the Chagos Islands, a crown colony in the Indian Ocean, in the late 1960s and early 70s to make way for an American military base on Diego Garcia, the largest island.
Streamed live on Aug 4, 2022
Because the US ignored Russia’s offer to trade Bout for Griner weeks ago, her trial in Russia proceeded needlessly. So now, Russia is playing for Bout, and it’s a damned shame that Griner is caught up in it because the US didn’t act sooner.
It seemed all but a done deal: Israel is finally managing to bend the Arabs to its will, and Palestine is becoming a marginal issue that no longer defines Israel’s relations with Arab countries. Indeed, normalization with Israel is afoot, and the Arabs, so it seems, have been finally tamed.
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The Provocations Behind The ‘Unprovoked’ War
https://popularresistance.org/the-provocations-behind-the-unprovoked-war/
G7 issues demand to Moscow
https://www.rt.com/news/560604-g7-demand-russia-zaporozhye-power-plant/
Iran Deal Gets Stuck Once Again. Can the EU Rescue It From the Jaws of Procrastination?
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/08/10/iran-deal-gets-stuck-once-again-can-eu-rescue-it-from-the-jaws-of-procrastination/
Assata Shakur exposes the conditions faced by incarcerated Black women in a powerful 1978 essay.
Nancy Pelosi, White Supremacy, and China
Margaret Kimberley
White supremacist arrogance was the order of the day when Nancy Pelosi ignored a red line set by the Chinese government and visited Taiwan. The Speaker of the House showed stereotypical and racist attitudes towards that country.
ESSAY: Women in Prison: How We Are, Assata Shakur, 1978
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
Assata Shakur exposes the conditions faced by incarcerated Black women in a powerful 1978 essay.
On February 24, the day Russian troops crossed the borders to Ukraine, I wrote about the potential end state of the operation:
Looking at this map I believe that the most advantageous end state for Russia would be the creation of a new independent country, call it Novorussiya, on the land east of the Dnieper and south along the coast that holds a majority ethnic Russian population and that, in 1922, had been attached to the Ukraine by Lenin. That state would be politically, culturally and militarily aligned with Russia.
Caitlin Johnstone
Listen to a reading of this article:
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Following objections from the Ukrainian government, CBS News has removed a short documentary which had reported concerns from numerous sources that a large amount of the supplies being sent to Ukraine aren’t making it to the front lines.
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The Names and Faces of the 16 Children Killed in Gaza
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-names-and-faces-of-the-16-children-killed-in-gaza/5789531
There Must be Consequences for Israel’s War of Aggression in Gaza: Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME)
https://www.globalresearch.ca/there-must-consequences-israel-war-aggression-gaza/5789312
“Under a Virtual Siege” – Activists Demand PayPal Offer its Services to Palestinians
https://www.mintpressnews.com/under-virtual-siege-activists-demand-paypal-offer-services-palestinians/281689/
Ukrainian forces have “had the American military at their side” from the start of the conflict with Russia, the magazine Causeur cited a “well-placed analyst” in French intelligence as saying. Pentagon-hired contractors are allegedly “everywhere on the battlefield.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s recent tour in Africa was meant to be a game changer, not only in terms of Russia’s relations with the continent, but in the global power struggle involving the US, Europe, China, India, Turkey and others.
Following Israel’s recent savage attack on Gaza, the last two Tory candidates for PM are outcompeting each other to offer Israel support
Middle East Eye – 9 August 2022
As Israel unleashed a surprise wave of air strikes on Gaza last Friday, the two remaining Conservative politicians vying to replace disgraced Prime Minister Boris Johnson publicised letters vowing fealty to Israel.
Craig Murray
The imposition of sanctions against British citizen and journalist Graham Phillips is an appalling violation of freedom of speech – which to have meaning must mean freedom to say things which disagree with the government, the media and/or majority public opinion.
Alastair Crooke
What happens when people awake to the deceit of Totalitarian-Lite posing as liberty and individualism (let alone democracy)?
Well, this piece is from the leading Establishment journal from the Deep-State-linked, Anglosphere, the Daily Telegraph:
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By Batko Milacic for the Saker Blog
Ukrainian forces have threatened civilians by setting up bases and operating weapons systems in populated areas, including schools and hospitals, as they battled the Russian intervention that began in February, Amnesty International said in a statement.
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The crypto-fascist group that’s infiltrating the online communist community
https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-crypto-fascist-group-thats.html
Anti-Russian Hysteria Used By FBI To Target Black Organizers
https://popularresistance.org/fbi-raids-uhuru-movement/
Liberal World Order Dies of Logic Deficiency
https://journal-neo.org/2022/08/08/liberal-world-order-dies-of-logic-deficiency/
A Very British Problem: The Evolution of Britain’s Militarised Policing Industrial Complex exposes the increasingly blurry line between the police and the military. It further shows that a war mentality has infiltrated policing – from counter-terrorism to anti-protest policing to border control to the policing of gangs.
Dear friends,
After seeing and then posting this video by Graham Phillips I got so disgusted by what was being done to him by the British authorities that I decided to contact him and ask him a few very basic question about his situation in the hope to introduce him to a larger audience, give visibility to his case and to try to offer him as much support as possible. So I emailed Graham who very kindly took the time to answer my questions. Here is our full exchange below.
The New Dark Age 