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Why BBC editors must one day stand trial for colluding in Israel's genocide
In a confrontation with BBC news chief Richard Burgess, journalist Peter Oborne sets out six ways the state broadcaster has wilfully misled audiences on…
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Barrister's powerful speech at Filton Trial reminds jury of its right to defy judge
Starmer and the media need convictions to justify Palestine Action's proscription as a terrorist group. Rajiv Menon KC spells out to the jury why it is…
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No one in power respects my grief. And no one is coming to console me
Politicians, the police and the media want millions of us to imagine we are alone in grieving the slaughter of Gaza's children – and that our grief is…
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Why is the 'liberal' media peddling the vilest genocide apologism?
A phalanx of the UK's most influential journalists brought this odious article to print, decrying as a 'blood libel' the reporting of Israel's killing…
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Trump's visit proved the utter corruption of our political and media class
Aside from the spectacle of our leaders openly prostrating before Trump, the truth of Britain’s “special relationship” with the US was mostly found in…
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Israeli torture chambers aren't new. They are what provoked the violence of Oct 7
If you can't see the causal link between the Israeli abuse of generations of Palestinians and Hamas' crimes, then you have no insight into human nature…
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Police escalate the British state's war on independent journalism
The raid on investigative journalist Asa Winstanley isn't about terrorism – except the UK government's. It is about scaring us into staying silent on…
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The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel - and about itself – is finally being burst
The genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon exhausted the West’s moral legitimacy. Now Iran is slowly exhausting the West’s military primacy
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The BBC pushes the case for an illegal war on Iran with even bigger lies than Trump's
The UK state broadcaster streams disinformation into our living rooms – deceptions that not only leave us clueless about important international events…
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Islam vs the West: The four biggest fallacies about Islam explained
Isn't Islam inherently violent? What stopped the Islamic world having an Enlightenment? Why are some Muslims so into head-chopping? And isn't Hamas the…
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'Acclaimed' public figures keep shilling for Israel's genocide. They must be outed
Nineteen months into Israel's slaughter of Gaza's children, moral ghouls like Simon Schama and Simon Sebag Montefiore are still being given a platform…
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Indeed, there is no comparison: Israel's crimes are far worse than Hamas'
Benjamin Netanyahu is right to dismiss as "absurd and false" the suggestion that there is any equivalence in the atrocities committed by the two sides…
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