25 May 2021 — Voltaire Network
US President Joe Biden and the EU heads of state and government strongly condemned the arrest of journalist Raman Pratassevich in Belarus.
The Ryanair aircraft, passing through Belarusian airspace while transporting him from Greece to Lithuania on 23 May 2021, was grounded in Minsk after a false bomb threat. The journalist was then arrested for inciting anti-government protests last year.
24 May 2021 — Craig Murray
The USA, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Austria combined to force down President Evo Morales’ jet in Vienna in 2013 after the CIA falsely reported whistleblower Edward Snowden was on board. The monumental cynicism of these nations in sanctioning Belarus for a directly comparable action is sickening, even by the standards of western hypocrisy. Indeed, to force down a Presidential jet covered by diplomatic immunity is a greater offence to international law than Belarus forcing down the Ryanair flight.
25 May 2021 — Big Brother Watch
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights today ruled that the UK’s mass interception programmes, disclosed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, unlawfully breached citizens’ rights to privacy and free expression.
25 May 2021 — Origin: Media Lens
Recent media coverage of Israel and Palestine, not least by BBC News, has been full of the usual deceptive propaganda tropes: Israel is ‘responding’ or ‘reacting’ to Palestinian ‘provocation’ and ‘escalation’; Palestinian rockets ‘killed’ Israelis, but Palestinians ‘have died’ from unnamed causes; Israel has ‘armed forces’ and ‘security forces’, but Hamas has ‘militants’. And, as ever, Palestinians were killed in far greater numbers than Israelis. At least 248 Palestinians were killed by Israeli bombardment in Gaza, including 66 children. Palestinian rocket fire killed 12 in Israel, including one child.
25 May 2021 — The New Dark Age
Israel’s Pyrrhic victory in Gaza, Netanyahu is real winner
https://countercurrents.org/2021/05/israels-pyrrhic-victory-in-gaza-netanyahu-is-real-winner/
Hezbollah: Powerless Against Gaza, Israel is Doomed to Disappear
https://southfront.org/hezbollah-powerless-against-gaza-israel-is-doomed-to-disappear/
24 May 2021 — Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Community Control of Police Advoc Corporate Philanthropy Erodes Black Lives Matter Movement Advocates Poised to Win in Chicago / Racial Capitalism is the Kind We’ve Got, and Must Defeat / Black Rebellions Less Frequent, But Police Response More Violent.
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24 May 2021 — Good Law Project
Today in the High Court, Government’s lawyers set out their defence to our legal challenge over PPE contracts handed to “VIP” companies. Government claims that companies in the VIP Lane did not materially benefit from their special treatment, and that it was simply a different route by which they could win contracts.
The evidence tells a different story.
19 May 2021 — Dandelion Salad
goingunderground RT on May 19, 2021 with John Pilger
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to legendary journalist and filmmaker John Pilger. He discusses why Palestine is still the issue in 2021, the Israeli aerial bombardment of Gaza which has claimed hundreds of lives, displaced over 50,000 and claimed the lives of over 63 children, the EU, US and UK role in the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, Palestine’s legal right to resist and Hamas as a part of a resistance provoked by Israeli occupation, the ‘media boycott’ of Gaza and why the mainstream media’s ‘both sides’ assertions are false, the entrenching Israeli illegal occupation of Palestine, the US-led campaign against China and the likelihood of war breaking out, China’s rise and memory of its ‘century of humiliation’ of dominance by imperialist powers, the persecution of Julian Assange and much more!
24 May 2021 — Big Brother Watch
Big Brother Watch Team
Millions of people were ‘unwittingly tracked’ via their phone after receiving a vaccination, to identify patterns of travel post-jab.
The data was used by researchers at Oxford University to carry out studies for the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B). The published SPI-B committee report clearly shows that one in ten peoples’ phones were used for the research without the users’ knowledge.
24 May 2021 — Dr. Malcolm Kendrick
[This essay makes very sad reading but it reinforces my view that I was correct in renaming my site, ‘The New Dark Age’ a few years ago, as the witch hunt being conducted against Dr Kendrick illustrates the fact that we’ve entered a New Dark Age. WB]
I haven’t written a blog for a while. Instead, I have been sorting out two complaints about my blog made to the General Medical Council. Also, a complaint from NHS England, and two irate phone calls from other doctors, informing me I shouldn’t make any negative comments about vaccines.
23 May 2021 — Mercola
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola Fact Checked
2 April 2021 — Big Brother Watch
Big Brother Watch Team
Further to Sir Keir’s comments about vaccine passports being un-British and against the “British instinct”, over 70 MPs have launched a cross-party campaign opposing their “divisive and discriminatory use”.
MPs and peers from Labour, the Liberal Democrats and Conservative parties have signed a pledge to oppose the move.
23 May 2021 — Caitlin Johnson
Nearly 200,000 protesters attended a pro-Palestine demonstration in Central London on Saturday afternoon, another clear sign that support for Palestinian rights is becoming increasingly mainstream and the imperialists are losing control of the Israel narrative.
23 May 2021 • 20:00 — The New Dark Age
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Israel’s Model For Genocide Is At Play Wherever Else Washington Seeks To Destroy Nations
https://seeyouin2020.blogspot.com/2021/05/israels-model-for-genocide-is-at-play.html
Dear President Biden: End Your Co-Belligerent Backing of Israeli War Crimes, by Ralph Nader
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2021/05/23/dear-president-biden-end-your-co-belligerent-backing-of-israeli-war-crimes-by-ralph-nader/
19 May 2021 — Vice News
Israel’s bombing of Gaza has killed 213 people and Hamas rockets into Israel have killed 13. The latest violence between Israel and Palestine came after weeks of police aggression towards Palestinians in East Jerusalem. We embed with protesters in Sheikh Jarrah who face losing their homes as they wait to hear their fate in a case that’s gone all the way to the Supreme Court.
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22 May 2021 — The New Dark Age
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Ceasefire puts no end to Israeli repression
By Maureen Clare Murphy on May 22, 2021 02:37 am
Police attack Palestinians in Jerusalem after weeks of mass arrests.
How a Gaza mother went through 11 days of hell
By Ola Mousa on May 21, 2021 12:52 pm
Israel’s air strikes made the ground shake.
22 May 2021 — Jonathan Cook
Attacks on synagogues and archeological sites inside Israel are rooted in Palestinian citizens’ experience of weaponized ‘development’ for Jews only
Mondoweiss – May 21 2021
Last weekend Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as “terrorists” those Palestinian citizens who have been protesting decades of state-sponsored discrimination. Vowing that “anyone who acts like a terrorist will be handled like one”, he said: “Arab law-breakers are attacking Jews, burning synagogues and Jewish homes.”
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