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Liz Edwards's avatar

Thank you for your work and constancy Jonathan. Knowing the truth is an enormous help.

Jo Waller's avatar

The Royal Marines just seized a Russian tanker legally carrying crude oil. They did this on behalf of US interests in oil. The UK has already upped military spending on behalf of US interests in arms.

This deliberate provocation means that the drums of proxy war with Russia are beating ever louder; but UK citizens to be fed into the meat grinder can't hear them for all the bleating over Israeli influence.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/17/uk-expect-russia-retaliate-seizure-shadow-fleet-oil-tanker-smyrtos

Paul Govan's avatar

So did Green Party Polanski ask l00+ Green Party members to join him in eg. Trafalgar Square chanting "We ALL support Palestine Action so please arrest and jail us all ! "

Tragically and very predictably he did not !

Anthony Baldwin's avatar

Sadly Mike Tapp is my MP and throughout the period of this Parliament he has assiduously evaded answering any questions concerning the appalling Genocidal State's actions throughout the Middle East and the Mediterranean.

One of his Office had the temerity to cancel my subscription to 'If Americans only Knew' but otherwise there is no evidence that they receive my e-mails except for the occasional standard response that they can only reply to Constituents when they know full well that I am a constituent.

They will reply to other e-mails concerning the NHS, Transport or Water Policy matters but to anything questioning his support for the breaches of International Law etc by his Government and there is silence. Total admittance, in effect, that they are fully aware of the complicity but also aware that replying would demand that they declare their complicity in the clearest manner possible.

I will of course send him a copy of the above so that he can see the breadth of the knowledge base aware of his role in the British Governments complicity.

Jacqueline Holden's avatar

The degree to which our government, civil service, police and the judiciary is infiltrated by Israeli bought facists is shocking. What we are seeing currently has taken Friends of Israel and the like many years to achieve through the sheer bribery, greed and corruption of supposedly trustworthy people in powerful positions. Every one of these is a traitor to the UK.

alcira's avatar

There has already been someone arrested for writing to their MP ( being annoying?????)

John Wright's avatar

We should all support Iran before they, too, are proscribed.

The world is changing, and Britain will be left behind, as usual.

S.P. Korolev's avatar

The IRGC is already proscribed as a terrorist organization in Britain and most of the Western bloc. These prescriptions are usually worded very vaguely: "might encourage a positive view of" ... "could be construed by a reasonable person as constituting support for" ... etc. In the case of Iran or Palestine it basically makes antiwar organizing a terrorist offense.

Martin's avatar

The writing has been on the wall since 1948 (arguably from 1918) so no surprises. The message is stop the rot before it stops you. And we have been morally, legally and politically stopped.

Jo Waller's avatar

Yes, the Labour party is being thrown under the bus. Sometimes doing what you're told by US interests in oil etc, who have captured our entire political and media system, means making yourself into absurd figures of hatred.

Yes the UK, and the labour party, serve a foreign government, but it is not the one in Israel; who themselves are also vassals and dependent on the US for everything.

The majority of people, both on the right and left, are outraged at Labour's blatant bias in plain sight.

It's deliberate. It's not the ushering in of authoritarianism by globalist Jews. It's continued manipulation by the US interests whose products we buy into every day.

The UK's explicitly stated allotted task is increased military spending for proxy war to weaken Russia and boots on the ground in Ukraine. I think the US calculates a swing 'left', to Polanski; whose cred increases with every slur and threat of arrest, is the best bet to achieve this.

Òran's avatar

Once again first class investigative journalism exposing the black heart at the centre of this complicit government.

Ingamarie's avatar

This is pretty shocking.......and a testament to how badly things have gone in the imperial west, as a beleagured right does what it has to do to silence the people's opposition to elites who support atrocities in Israel.........and imagine standing up against those atrocities deserves jail time.

Shameful........and it doesn't bode well for the future of the UK, if such vile creatures continue to dominate the Labour Party....because of course we do have to realize....support for Israel is tanking, globally, and I doubt there is any redemption for that apartheid state in the cards.

Catch the interview Chris Hedges just did with one of the brave activists from the recent flotilla to Gaza....

Jo Waller's avatar

Hiya Ingamarie, yes support for Israel is tanking. As is support for Labour with this crazy bias. I think Labour are deliberately being made into monsters for a swing 'left'.

The main task for the UK is increased military spending for proxy war with Russia. They may have calculated increasing Polanski's cred with slurs and threats of arrest is a good way to go about it.

Ingamarie's avatar

The truth is, the neoliberal global 'take, take, take' is almost over. But they don't want it to be over, so fantasize sending our boys to kill, maim and steal whatever others have.

It's been fascism in expensive suits, speaking soft $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ nonesense........for a few decades now. Presently, they make nothing but weapons of mass destruction, and of course, have to use them, in order for new orders to keep coming in.

We were morons to ever believe 'wealth creation' and off shore accounts could keep us safe............or happy.

Ad Ennab's avatar

Re Kyle; Why are more people not outraged and taking to the streets to portest. The principle of representative democracy is that MPs are accountable to constituents. Constituents have a right to:

Write to their MP.

Criticise their MP.

Repeatedly lobby their MP on issues of concern.

Organise campaigns encouraging others to contact their MP.

The point at which that becomes unlawful is generally when the conduct crosses into harassment, intimidation, threats, or obsessive unwanted contact rather than political advocacy.

The fact that they had no evidence indicates she did not cross the line! But he is not the only one at fault here. The police should have arrested her. And if they did based on misinformation from Kyle he should be charged with wasting police and the courts time!

Frank Sterle Jr.'s avatar

An ODE to the POLITICAL ANIMAL

Politics is ‘the art of compromise’

politics at its moral peak

though this moral peak

indeed lies below a dead sea’s level,

but the compromise of ethics, morals

thus human(e) integrity is politics

at its natural successful state

—a state in which the media beast

must be fed, will feast from

the politicians’ tin can

filled with naught but the spin man

of and for the political animal.

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It indeed is bewildering how so many politicians can live with themselves, let alone sleep well at night, and even attend religious services seemingly in good conscience — especially those faiths that teach utmost compassion and charity.

Richard Wilding's avatar

The famous THE ONE SHOW question:

"How do you sleep at night?"

Oh, how we laughed.

unwarranted's avatar

It appears that the West is in the grip of irrationality and authoritarianism. How did it get there? The game of faux adversarial kabuki has morphed into unabashed might makes right down to the street.

No overt threats became ubiquitous terrorist threats. Could this all be the bankers realizing their perpetual growth is coming to an end? The pie will not get any bigger. The global order is on life support, so the knives are coming out. The class war is no longer an avoidable subject. It’s the only news.

Jo Waller's avatar

The 'global order' that's on life support is US hegemony. That's what all this theatre is about. The Labour party being told to support increasingly blatant vileness by Israel inevitably creates a backlash. As did the 'covid' measures that swung many people into climate crisis denial- to the benefit of US based big oil and animal ag (pharma's biggest client).

unwarranted's avatar

I think the global order is what facilitates hegemony. Dollar diplomacy is imperialism in the soft power mode, but it underwrites the non-stop weapons production and endless wars. The power of the empire depends on its trading partners to buy its debt and extend the bloated boogeyman.

Jo Waller's avatar

Yes, the 'global order' is US based hegemony which they will not relinquish. Especially to Chinese 'peasants'. It's important to remember that the order is white nominally christian men who have based who will cling to full spectrum global dominance whatever the cost.

Ingamarie's avatar

Perhaps Israel, as the last colonial outpost of the colonial west.....has to be defended in order for the west to believe in its own innate goodness........regardless of how it got its power, or where it's wealth came from???

Other than this long shadow of historical atrocity, it's hard to understand how we've become so confidently complicit.

unwarranted's avatar

I think the pretense of being good is in the past. The internet has destroyed the illusory powers of the intelligence-fed fake journalists. Israel is the most recent proxy or vassal to do the empire’s dirty work, and draw the heat for its masters. The empire won’t lay down. Now the trouble makers will feel the wrath of the state.

Ingamarie's avatar

We've been in tough spots before.......listen to Chris Hedge's interview with one of the organizers of the flotilla to Gaza. What has happened to the Israeli people is a real part of the tragedy.

unwarranted's avatar

You are, from what I can gather, very attentive to the dissonance in western populations. I only just heard of the Rupert Lowe Report on the systemic rapes of young, white British girls by mostly Pakistani Muslims, which dates back to the 1950’s.

I ask you to watch this conversation between Glenn Diesen and Alex Krainer, and tell me if the growing belligerence of the UK and Germany governments, etc, toward Russia can lead to WWIII, in this internet era, with millions of young people rallying around the flag and marching to war like lemmings. This is new territory, and as Krainer points out, the West is DESPERATE for war, because they are aware of their own illegitimacy. This is a wonderful litmus test for the alternative media. Can the publics be cautioned before they are duped again?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TXjSfNZ2xCI&ra=m

Jo Waller's avatar

Hiya, Israel is clearly not the last colonial outpost. The US interests in oil etc have politically captured the west and most of the world- with notable exceptions to their colony in China, Russia and Iran. They use Israel to weaken Iran.

But they also create colour revolutions at will. I think everything the Labour party does is deliberate to swing the UK 'left' and therefore more likely to be at war with Russia.

Ingamarie's avatar

I'm not sure I understand your use of the term "left".......of course its the other side of the 'right' coin, as its often used in the west.

But I'm a CCF born farm girl from rural Saskatchewan. For us, socialism meant a government that built schools, universities, hospitals and good public infrastructure.

We were all working class back when I was a girl.......or a parasite.

It's hard for me to believe that we fell for demonizing good government (which is a worker project, since good governance demands hard work) and voting for a bunch of international grifters who prefer playing war games to working for a living.

The Ukraine war was pushed on Russia by NATO, with the help of the CIA and perhaps MOSSAD.......it makes money for the bastards.

Fortunately, it hasn't worked out as easy as they planned..;..and though its wasteful of earth's resources and her people, it has helped create the opposition to the west that we need right now. To bring us to our senses.

Otherwise...we're on a very short journey to hell on hot house earth. Hating and fearing the other is stupid.....to the point of genocide, as Israel is proving very determined to illustrate for any of us capable of following the details.

Jeremy Corbyn was capable......but there are others. Jonathan Cook for instance.

Together they are waking up a sleeping western giant.......so there is hope.

Jo Waller's avatar

I don't see any opposition to war with Russia- most people still think Russia is a threat to the UK and EU and those who are awake, like JC, are completely distracted by focusing on another of the US' puppets ie Israel.

I think war with Russia is going to come in the back door. In fact it already has. The UK has dutifully upped tax payer spending on US arms companies.

They'll be (more) British boots on the ground in Ukraine before we know it.

Timithius's avatar

So this isn't just an American problem.

Evelyn Craig's avatar

This is all part of the bigger plan .WEF agenda .The Zionists are definitely ruling UK .USA. Australia.canda and most world governments.our digital prison of control and dictators it's all communism by backdoor .

Ingamarie's avatar

Please Evelyn.......leave the communists out of this. We really don't need to substitute one blame game with yet another blame game.

Capitalism my dear, does what it does with 0 help from any other isms....$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$...the Israel lobby provides it.