What went wrong in Israel? A genocide scholar examines ‘what Zionism became’ In his new book, Omer Bartov tracks how a liberatory strand of Zionism transformed into an extremist ideology that he sees as responsible for genocide in Gaza

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Palantir in the NHS is linked to Mandelson

Mandelson is linked to Wes Streeting

Wes Streeting is defending Palantir’s involvement in the #NHS

Nothing to see or everything to see

Palantir must be removed from the NHS

Greed is a powerful master

Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages

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US spending on ‘reckless’ Iran war could have saved 87m lives, says UN Head of UN’s humanitarian agency frustrated that $2bn weekly cost of conflict comes amid big cuts to aid budgets

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Satellite images reveal scale of Israeli demolitions as Lebanese villages destroyed BBC Verify analysis found more than 1,400 buildings had been destroyed since 2 March.

It's easy to succumb to outrage fatigue. But this was four days ago. 2,000 killed. 1.2 million displaced. Entire villages demolished. A 40km 'buffer zone' (10% of Lebanon's territory) annexed. It's barely raised a resigned shrug, but it meets the criteria for war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Qiantang river's tidal bore is the world's largest and most powerful of its kind. Sometimes two tides meet together forming a shape like a cross, that can become even more captivating at sunset.

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Repression of Uyghurs persists as the world moves on - ABC Religion & Ethics It is nearly ten years since the start of the mass arbitrary detention and China has not been held accountable for crimes against Uyghurs — but accountability is possible if other governments act to c...

"As China promotes its own narrative and global attention fades, some may begin to believe that things in Xinjiang are returning to 'normal'. This is simply wrong."

@yalkun.bsky.social

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We have made a submission to UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese's enquiry into media coverage of Gaza.

Written by Prof Des Freedman, we highlight the ways in which UK mainstream media is complicit with genocide.

👉 www.declassifieduk.org/information-...

‘Funnily Enough, What Matters to People is Other People’ Contrary to what big organisations in the sector say, housing is not the answer. It’s useful, but it’s not the answer. The post ‘Funnily Enough, What Matters to People is Other People’ appeared first on Byline Times.

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Contrary to what big organisations in the sector say, housing is not the answer. It’s useful, but it’s not the answer.

Woman who won legal case over greenhouse emissions awarded top environmental prize Sarah Finch is among six recipients of the Goldman Environmental prize, awarded to honour grassroots activists around the world

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How Labour Became a Party of the Super-Rich The Telegraph journalist Charles Moore once remarked that whereas Margaret Thatcher believed in privatisation, Tony Blair just liked rich people. The post How Labour Became a Party of the Super-Rich appeared first on Byline Times.

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The Telegraph journalist Charles Moore once remarked that whereas Margaret Thatcher believed in privatisation, Tony Blair just liked rich people.

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

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Do you want to see the "big picture" on climate change?

Here it is.

Emissions are on the left, and include CO2, CH4, N2O, and f-gases. Natural CO2 sinks (from healthy forests & oceans) are on the right. And carbon removal, what little there is, is on the right, too. All expressed as GWP100.

The largest technology companies are contributing to a surge in data centre investment, as their capital expenditure exceeded USD 400 billion in 2025 – and is expected to jump by another 75% in 2026. Capital expenditure of just five technology companies is now larger than global investment in oil and natural gas production. Many jurisdictions are seeing project pipelines accelerate dramatically, although not all projects will come to fruition. Those that are moving forward are doing so at pace: the IEA’s unique satellite-based tracking shows that “artificial intelligence (AI) factories” – cutting-edge data centres specifically designed for AI – have more than tripled in capacity in the past 18 months. Meanwhile, the capabilities of AI are improving quickly, increasing the likelihood that it will reshape economic growth, innovation and competitiveness and disrupt established industries and jobs.

- Total data centre investment is now greater than total global oil and gas investment

- Nvidia's "AI factories" marketing phrase has infected.......everything

Laura doesn’t seem to realise that the word “pledge” is not simply there for a temporary brain fart during an election campaign.

A pledge is something you say to the electorate is a holy and immovable promise because the previous government was so terrible.

Keir Starmer lied. Pure and simple.

Mandelson ‘lobbied Israel for Tory government’ during Gaza genocide Disgraced Labour grandee appears to have kept ties with Conservatives long after his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein emerged

Peter Mandelson claimed he conducted unofficial diplomacy with Israel on behalf of the last Conservative government after fresh details of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein had emerged, we found.

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“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,

I must listen to the birds.

And in order to hear the birds,

the warplanes must be silent”

- Marwan Makhoul

Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired in controversy as academics allege obstruction

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‘A quiet, radical act’: Muslim neighbours support members of attacked London synagogue After attempted arson attack, communities are determined to remain resilient and open

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A young girl in a blue shirt gives a peace sign and smiles at the camera, standing in front of a cosmic, galaxy-themed background. Text highlights her achievements in science despite being diagnosed with autism and bullied.

The Future Is Female 🌌 Diagnosed with autism at 3. Bullied throughout school. IQ of 162 -- Graduated high school at 7. Earned a bachelor's degree. Now pursuing a master's in mathematics. Her name is Adhara Pérez Sánchez, and her dream is to work for NASA and colonize Mars. She's from Mexico City.

In #Gaza, UNRWA operates these lifelines:

➡️ 100+ generators provide electricity to shelters, healthcare and water systems. 
➡️ 150+ vehicles deliver aid and collect waste.

UNRWA teams continue working despite shortages.

More supplies need to be let in urgently.

#UNRWAworks

Minister misled parliament over arms exports to Israel Chris Bryant told a parliamentary committee that UK-made aircraft parts would not benefit Israeli fighter pilots. His briefing said otherwise.

👉 NEW -- Minister misled parliament over arms exports to Israel

by @john-mcevoy.bsky.social

Chris Bryant told a parliamentary committee that UK-made aircraft parts would not benefit Israeli fighter pilots. His briefing said otherwise.

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Strong pro-Israel bias among BBC bosses, new data indicates BBC executives met nine times with pro-Israel Jewish groups and just once with pro-Palestinians in 14 months of genocide, Freedom of Information shows

👉 NEW -- Strong pro-Israel bias among BBC bosses, new data indicates

by Dania Akkad

BBC executives met nine times with pro-Israel Jewish groups and just once with pro-Palestinians in 14 months of genocide, Freedom of Information shows

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This New Yorker article on Sam Altman is excellent, but extremely disturbing about both Altman and AI's race toward money and away from safety.

China’s energy dominance plan is built on the backs of forced labor China’s continued exploitation of Uyghur people is central to its ambition to dominate global critical mineral markets.

🏭 China’s latest Five-Year Plan embeds forced labor targeting Uyghurs into its industrial strategy, argue Samir Goswami and @nyrolaelima.bsky.social.

The authors, writing in @thehill.com, call for stronger accountability measures.

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“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech

Is this BBC story helping Reform’s election campaign? During an election campaign the BBC is expected to remain impartial. Its coverage of asylum fraud risks damaging that

The BBC leads with a story suggesting widespread asylum seeker fraud

At the same time Reform UK is using the issue as a campaign wedge in the May elections

And that combination shapes how the story lands