Keir Starmer boasting at #PMQs to score a point over Kemi Badenoch: "These were [RAF] pilots who within two hours of this conflict were up risking their lives taking missiles out of the sky"
But remember folks, we're not involved
👉 EXPOSED: Israeli operation to help Brits move to West Bank
by Martin Williams
UNDERCOVER investigation reveals charity touted "awesome" illegal settlements and claimed it could benefit from UK tax subsidies
www.declassifieduk.org/exposed-isra...
Our latest media alert, in case you missed it. Clearly, very few of us are willing to tolerate the threat of nuclear genocide: medialens.substack.com/p/nuclear-ge...
Matthew Alford has very kindly and rapidly produced an audio version of today's media alert:
'Nuclear Genocide - The Threat And The Ceasefire'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeok...
medialens.substack.com/p/nuclear-ge...
'What Blair wants is for the left to be utterly silenced so that its protests do not rouse uncomfortable twinges of guilt forcibly reminding him that long ago he became a soulless creature of the West’s war machine.'
Jonathan Cook explains:
We visited ‘RAF’ Fairford with a ladder and some ingenuity and saw pallets of 2,000lb bombs being loaded onto US warplanes bound for Iran.
Watch 👇
youtu.be/LO9J4cqN7L0?...
UN News on Easter weekend:
😱 Israeli attacks on the UN and healthcare sites in Lebanon
😱 UN warning to US on illegal strikes on Iran civilian infrastructure
😱 Update on Israeli attack on Gaza water plant
Just another weekend for UK allies Israel & US
news.un.org/en/story/202...
Excellent piece by Barry Malone. 👏
'When it comes to covering western adversaries, international media continue to do the bidding of Israel, the US and anyone else who wants to illegally attack Middle Eastern nations'.
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/what...
Argentina invaded the Falklands 44 years ago today.
Declassified files reveal how Israel deceived Britain while it supplied Argentina’s antisemitic dictatorship with weapons during the 1980s.
www.declassifieduk.org/how-israel-s...
Granny holding a cardboard sign = terrorist.
Former al-Qaeda leader wearing a suit = honoured guest of the British government.
Another reminder that, contrary to expectations, Bluesky is by far the most hostile social media platform for genuinely progressive writers like me.
I grow my reach by a follower or two a day. Better to follow me on a site where algorithms aren't a factor, like Substack:
jonathancook.substack.com
The end of US empire.
That's looming over the catastrophic illegal war on Iran.
Brilliant as ever from @krystalball.bsky.social
Israel has passed the death penalty solely for Palestinians, enforced through military courts with a 96% conviction rate.
Israeli Minister Ben Gvir popped champagne.
The Israeli government is raising a toast to genocidal apartheid. The UK government is arming and funding it.
Marco Rubio: "Imagine an Iranian regime who instead of spending billions.. building up all these weapons had invested that money into Iran for the people of Iran"
The US defence budget is currently around $900 billion/year and the US doesn't have universal healthcare
Paul Holden on BBC interview with Josh Simons, former director of Labour Together:
“At no time was it acknowledged in this discussion that this allegation – that I might have received hacked materials – is entirely false, and I have repeatedly proven it to be false.”
archive.ph/SGPwM
On this day in 1964 a US-backed coup overthrew president João Goulart and ushered in a brutal 21-year military dictatorship.
The UK played a covert role in the coup, declassified files show.
www.declassifieduk.org/britains-hid...
‘Defensive missions’
BBC News and ‘defence’ stenographer Jonathan Beale performing their usual establishment role of promoting state-approved narratives.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Metropolitan Police arrested pro-Palestine activists against its own internal guidance, documents seen by Declassified suggest.
www.declassifieduk.org/met-police-f...
Keir Starmer: "It only happened because of a Lab govt"
You personally suspended 7 Labour MP's from the Parliamentary Labour Party for voting to scrap the two child benefit cap. It only happened because you were forced, kicking & screaming, to do it.
251 stories in UK media referred to Russia’s “illegal invasion” of Ukraine in its first week.
Only 82 stories described the US/Israeli bombing of Iran as an “illegal attack” in its first week, and many of those were just reporting comments by others.
www.declassifieduk.org/they-attack-...
Look at this propaganda headline. 👇
It’s important for BBC News to emphasise the ‘total repression’ of Iranians even as the US and Israel are relentlessly bombing their country.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yvette Cooper demands Iran stop its attacks in the region but makes no call on the US or Israel to cease their bombarding Iran in their illegal war of aggression.
She "condemns" Hezbollah's rocket attacks on Israel but is only "worried" about Israel's attacks on Lebanon.
Over 150 London councillors and Assembly members are calling in an open letter for divestment of pensions from Israeli abuses against Palestinians.
palestinecampaign.org/sign-the-cou...
The BBC's Anthony Zurcher calls it 'a war of choice'.
Yes, but above all, it is a war of aggression.
Also, no mention of the words 'illegal', 'crime', 'unprovoked', or 'full-scale'. 🤔
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Recall that BBC insiders have repeatedly identified Raffi Berg ‘as the figure who most keenly shapes BBC coverage in ways that have soft-soaped Israel’s crimes in Gaza.’
As one former BBC journalist said:
‘This guy’s entire job is to water down everything that’s too critical of Israel’. 👇
Two interviews by the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg – one of an Iranian leader, the other of an Israeli leader – reveal the starkly different standards the two states are held to by the British media.
As Media Lens show, this isn't journalism, it's propaganda: medialens.substack.com/p/how-on-ear...
This Guardian story amplifies anger at Russia's return to the Venice Biennale.
You'd never know from reading it that Israel and the US are currently engaged in an illegal war of aggression on Iran.
Isn't that "whitewashing war crimes" too, Guardian?
