CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Which is why I was not surprised when this plucky nation knowingly took on the wrath of the western empire in granting Julian Assange political asylum in 2012. While my own sycophantic country Australia pathetically ignored the plight of its own citizen, Ecuador defiantly strode forward, locked eyes with the US-centralized power establishment, and did what no one else was willing to.
BRITISH/ EU/ NATO COMPLICITY
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Journalists and academics expose UK’s criminal actions in the Middle East. BBC also exposed.
16 minutes readThe group was formed by Frome Stop War, based in Somerset. Working with academics, investigative journalists and other interested parties and individuals, and drawing on the illegal 2003 invasion of Iraq, Media on Trial seeks to “cultivate public scepticism when faced with establishment and corporate media’s partisan reporting at times of conflict.” It held well-attended meetings in Frome and London last year. Its success in exposing the ongoing regime-change operations in Syria, and government/media propaganda to this end, has made its members the subject of an organised media smear campaign.
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Will the Russian-Iranian-Syrian alliance hold as the Syrian war draws close to an end?
17 minutes readThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License ALL CAPTIONS…
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Livingstone’s decision is an unpardonable retreat in the face of this witch hunt. But the moving force behind his resignation appears to have been Corbyn and his advisors. Corbyn never once came to Livingstone’s defence in the two years since his suspension and many of Corbyn’s allies, including Labour peer Shami Chakrabarti, the former director of Liberty, the civil and humanitarian rights advocacy group, backed the demand for his expulsion.
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Propornot 2 – Setting Up the Atlantic Council for Lawsuits
29 minutes readGH ELIASON—The long game behind all of this is to normalize extreme nationalism in the US. If they can get people on all sides of the political spectrum so divided through pure politics people demand a forced normalization, what’s offered will be the new US (ultra)nationalism.