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UK and Israel: Has the fightback against weaponised antisemitism begun?
Jews in the Labour party and academics are finally exposing the UK establishment's smear campaign to silence criticism of Israel and destroy the left
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A few thoughts on the Russell Brand furore
Almost no one seems willing to hold their tongue on the latest claims. Here are my observations: not on the allegations, but on all the noise
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Why the media aren't telling the whole story of Libya's floods
There are reasons for Libya’s 'chaotic', 'dysfunctional' response to the disaster. And to identify them, we need to look closer to home
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A few thoughts on the Russell Brand furore
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I once admired George Monbiot. But his grim trajectory shows us where politics is heading
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Across the West, people are dying in greater numbers. Nobody wants to learn why
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Tucker Carlson’s firing reveals how afraid the media is of independent journalists
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Once again, the FDA admits it lied to us. And once more, we yawn
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We're rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Don't ask me to help out
Highlighting the climate crisis is not 'alarmism', as critics say. Big Business wants an exclusive focus on climate because it downplays the true…
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The West’s blueprint for goading China was laid out in Ukraine
Europe fears losing access to Chinese markets, plunging it deeper into a cost-of-living crisis. But it fears Washington’s wrath more
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Once again, the FDA admits it lied to us. And once more, we yawn
On critical matters, our medical authorities have no interest in settling the science. Instead, battles are won in the arena of smear and insinuation
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Why action on the climate crisis is all hot air
Capitalism's endless growth paradigm can't be squared with sustainability. But no one – from politicians to the protest movement – is willing to admit…
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Starmer is selling Labour to big business. In power he will do the same
Labour policy is shifting ever further rightwards. That won’t and can't change as long as only tainted City money is filling the party’s empty coffers
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Across the West, people are dying in greater numbers. Nobody wants to learn why
There's only one plausible explanation for continuing silence on excess deaths: governments, media and regulators are frightened of what research may…
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Nato isn't defending Ukraine. It's stabbing it in the back
The US and its allies are sustaining the very war they now cite as grounds for disqualifying Kyiv from Nato membership
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Weaponised antisemitism crushed the political left. Now it’s the cultural left’s turn
Having dispatched Corbyn, the smear industry is targeting icons like Ken Loach and Roger Waters over their support for Palestinian rights and opposition…
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Daniel Ellsberg is lauded in death by the same media that lets Assange rot in jail
The stark difference in treatment of the two truth-tellers is a measure of how state criminality is now completely unchecked
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