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The Phoniest, Most PR-Intensive War Of All Time
The president and first lady of Ukraine have posed for a romantic photoshoot with Vogue magazine, wherein President Volodymyr Zelensky waxes poetical about his love for his darling wife.
Now, I know what you're thinking: how is Zelensky making time for a Vogue photoshoot amidst his busy schedule of PR appearances for other major western institutions?
I mean this is after all the same Volodymyr...
Thatcher’s Government Helped U.S. Cover Up shooting down of Iranian Airliner
BRITAIN ‘IMMEDIATELY’ SUPPORTED THE U.S. OVER THE SHOOTING DOWN OF AN IRANIAN AIRLINER
In 1988, a U.S. Navy warship shot down an Iranian airliner, killing all 290 civilians on board. Newly declassified files show how Margaret Thatcher’s government offered immediate support to the U.S. and assisted in the cover-up, John McEvoy reports.
By John McEvoyDeclassified UK
The attack occurred during the Iran-Iraq war, which...
The British Coup That Wasn’t Quite?
Allegations about efforts within the U.K. establishment to bring down Britain’s Labour government in the 1960s and 70s have resurfaced with a file released on Tuesday by the National Archives, Richard Norton-Taylor reports.
By Richard Norton-TaylorDeclassified UK
A file released on Tuesday by the U.K. National Archives, titled "Allegations concerning a possible coup in 1968," reveals how rattled MI5 and the Home Office were...
National Security Bill: Threatens Journalists With Life in Prison
Journalists and publishers could face life sentences if National Security Bill 2022, being debated in the U.K. Parliament, becomes law, reports Mohamed Elmaazi.
Mohamed Elmaaziin LondonConsortium News
The British Parliament is debating a national security bill which could undermine the basis of national security reporting and ultimately throw journalists in jail for life.
A person convicted under the new offence of “obtaining...
Media Disinformation and the Takedown of Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn has just given Declassified UK an interview recalling specific details of the establishment attacks against the Labour Party under his leadership.
Matt Kennard stated: “The month before the 2019 election, I decided to go through the newspaper clippings from Corbyn’s four years as Labour leader to try to locate all the hit pieces on him that emanated from...
We get our workers’ rights from hard-fought battles they are not given to us by a benevolent Government or the EU
The Chimera of Workers’ Rights in the EU
Mary Davis
One of Remainers’ great fears is that Brexit will undermine workers’ rights. This rests on a total misunderstanding of the EU. Far from gifting rights to British workers, the EU has systematically undermined the rights workers won for themselves in domestic struggles.
The defence of workers’ rights is the main pro-Remain argument...
Western Officials Admit Ukraine Is Crawling With CIA Personnel
By Caitlin Johnstone
The New York Times reports that Ukraine is crawling with special forces and spies from the US and its allies, which would seem to contradict earlier reports that the US intelligence cartel is having trouble getting intel about what's happening on the ground in Ukraine.
This would also, obviously, put the final nail in the coffin of the claim that this is...
Jewface and other David Baddiel Racisms
By Gavin Lewis
UK Channel 4 TV has announced it is turning David Baddiel’s highly contentious monograph Jews Don’t Count into a television programme. The premise - that in the modern era – white western Jews are uniquely oppressed – will no doubt be shocking to the families of Jermaine Baker, Sheku Bayoh, Leon Briggs, Rashan Charles, Kevin Clarke, Mark...
Ken Loach and other Victims of Owen Jones’ Guardian pro-Israel smears.
Heather Mendick, PhD is a Senior Research Consultant, who also happens to be a Jewish woman that has been attacked by the Labour Party, she has suffered bullying and alienation while being accused of antisemitism, Heather hoped to gain an opportunity to debate her position, however...
Last week, Heather Mendick and Owen Jones entered into a slight Twitter spat. Heather...
The European Union Was Designed to Stifle Democracy
BY DAVID JAMIESON
Review of Ever Closer Union? Europe in the West by Perry Anderson (Verso, 2021)
Perry Anderson’s critical analysis of the European Union is a devastating indictment of liberal complacency. The EU is undemocratic by design, and we will have to confront it in order to transform a Europe riddled with inequality and exploitation.
Today, the structures of European capitalism and the...