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Posts by Lee Gowing

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Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil Good Law Project has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK

“Good Law Project can reveal that the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation (RSLF) has received…more than 90% of its funding – from Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) since 2023. This private college based in Budapest has close ties to Hungary’s [former] …prime minister, Viktor Orbán.”
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An Iranian girl playing on the swings on Khajeh Atta Beach near the Strait of Hormuz, as smoke from recent drone strikes plumes in the background.

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The golden age of corporate profits

(see also: corruption)

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Israel is blowing up entire civilian homes in Naqoura, South Lebanon right now.

Civilian homes.

No military target.

No justification.

Just pure terror and destruction.

This is a war crime in broad daylight.

And the world watches in silence.

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱♾️

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🇺🇸🇮🇷👀

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Thames Water CEO Squirms
Thames Water CEO Squirms YouTube video by Trades Union Congress (TUC)

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Data is from Wikipedia cited as from being from 2022. There's a page for the Cons and Lib Dems but less evident how recent the data is, although in 2014, CFI stated that 80%(! ) of Conservative MPs were members.

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Basically, Trump is saying other countries must help him open the Strait of Hormuz or he'll keep sabotaging their economies.

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A list of Labour MP's and members of the House of Lords who are members of the Labour Friends of Israel lobby group

A list of Labour MP's and members of the House of Lords who are members of the Labour Friends of Israel lobby group

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WAR DON'T BRING PEACE
WAR DON'T BRING PEACE YouTube video by le bienheureux Joyeux Heureux

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Legendary Patti LuPone CAN’T STAND Trump #pattilupone #trump #democrats
Legendary Patti LuPone CAN’T STAND Trump #pattilupone #trump #democrats YouTube video by Celebs AgainstTrump

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War-climate
War-climate YouTube video by 350 Aotearoa

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Why the USA Will Not Win the Iran War: The Professor Who Saw It Coming
Why the USA Will Not Win the Iran War: The Professor Who Saw It Coming YouTube video by Hawk's Podcasts / mdg650hawk

Why the USA Will Not Win the Iran War: The Professor Who Saw It Coming
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”

-Dwight Eisenhower 1953

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Lemmy τα εξηγεί ωραία
Lemmy τα εξηγεί ωραία YouTube video by Geronimo Effect

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The surge of the hard right has now made it Europe’s largest political bloc, averaging 24% of the vote across democracies.

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George Orwell, 1984: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute."

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Sarah Paine: What Putin's War in Ukraine Has Really Done to Russia
Sarah Paine: What Putin's War in Ukraine Has Really Done to Russia YouTube video by Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics

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Anyone surprised by this story has been living in a fantasy world. Since Jan 2025, the Trump administration has been using lots of different tactics to force Ukraine to commit strategic suicide. This is just the latest.
The real story is that people have not grasped this reality.

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Workers Create Wealth,  Not the Super Rich
Workers Create Wealth, Not the Super Rich YouTube video by Novara Media

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Thousands protest in Paris over death of immigrant worker in police custody Thousands of people marched in Paris on Sunday in protest at the death in police custody of 35-year-old El Hacen Diarra, whose violent arrest on January 14 was caught on camera. Paris police have laun...

Finally, some articles:

Thousands protest in Paris over death of immigrant worker - 35-year-old El Hacen Diarra - in police custody a week ago

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Renewables and energy savings, with the right investment and political backing, *can* replace fossil fuels

This lowers pollution, cuts people's bills and ends Europe's dependency on imports from authoritarians who would extort the EU

Replacing Russian fuels with fuels from the US is a disaster

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a white cat is eating food on a wooden floor ALT: a white cat is eating food on a wooden floor
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Said the 5x draft dodger

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Well worth listening to this.

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Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland.

There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.

And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
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'Europe is at a total loss': Russia gloats over Greenland tensions The BBC's Russia editor Steve Rosenberg analyses why pro-Russian government papers are full of praise for Donald Trump's desire to buy Greenland.

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