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‘A Perpetual Motion Machine Of Killing’:
Alleged Cover-Up Of Civilians Murdered By UK Special Forces In Iraq And Afghanistan

On August 1, a rare in-depth investigative piece appeared on the BBC News website based on credible and serious allegations that UK Special Forces had executed unarmed civilians in Afghanistan. The BBC article was produced in tandem with a report, ‘”Rogue SAS Afghanistan execution squad” exposed by email trail’, published by the Sunday Times. Special Forces are the UK’s elite →

Racism, Sexism, Classism – The Necessary Incoherence Of ‘Mainstream’ Ethical Debate

30th July 2020

What does it mean when journalists who spent the last two decades promoting wars of aggression on brown- and black-skinned people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen take a knee? The Observer commented: ‘There →

Conspiracy Theories Malign And Benign – Face Masks And Israeli Training Of US Police

3rd July 2020

Frightening numbers of people still believe that profit-maximising corporate media merely disseminate something called ‘news’. In reality, ‘mainstream’ ‘news’ is chock full of Pavlovian bells, trigger terms designed to shape and control public opinion. When →

‘Six Months To Avert Climate Crisis’:
Climate Breakdown And The Corporate Media

23rd June 2020

In his classic science fiction novel, ‘Foundation’, Isaac Asimov posited a future in which ‘psychohistorians’ could predict outcomes based on past history and the large-scale behaviour of human populations by combining psychology and the mathematics →

An Illusion Of Protection: The Pandemic, The ‘Criminal’ Government And Public Distrust of The Media

18th May 2020

Any notion that the UK government actually considers that its primary responsibility is to protect the health and security of the country’s population ought to have been demolished in 2020. The appalling death toll that →

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The corporate media - and, yes, that very much includes BBC News and the gatekeeper Guardian - are a huge factor in the disconnect that Francesca points to here:

Jeremy Corbyn@jeremycorbyn·

While the Tories & their billionaire press baron allies try to whip up fear about a “migrant crisis”, we know the real crisis is the war, poverty & persecution that forces people to flee their homes & take dangerous journeys in search of a better life. 👇

https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeremy-corbyn/solidarity-with-migrants-including-refugees-asylum-seekers-socialist-campaign-gr/10157110672695213/

Juan Passarelli @jlpassarelli·

It's confirmed, the UK has received the superseding indictment on the #AssangeCase 18 months after final submissions were supposed to be given. Julian hasn't seen his lawyers in 5 months.

Tomorrow will be a crucial day in court. I will be reporting live.
#FreeAssange https://twitter.com/StellaMoris1/status/1293895319047098368

‘A Perpetual Motion Machine Of Killing’:
Alleged Cover-Up Of Civilians Murdered By UK Special Forces In Iraq And Afghanistan

Racism, Sexism, Classism – The Necessary Incoherence Of ‘Mainstream’ Ethical Debate

Conspiracy Theories Malign And Benign – Face Masks And Israeli Training Of US Police

‘Six Months To Avert Climate Crisis’:
Climate Breakdown And The Corporate Media

An Illusion Of Protection: The Pandemic, The ‘Criminal’ Government And Public Distrust of The Media

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‘A Perpetual Motion Machine Of Killing’: Alleged Cover-Up Of Civilians Murdered By UK Special Forces In Iraq And Afghanistan

Racism, Sexism, Classism – The Necessary Incoherence Of ‘Mainstream’ Ethical Debate

Conspiracy Theories Malign And Benign – Face Masks And Israeli Training Of US Police

‘Six Months To Avert Climate Crisis’: Climate Breakdown And The Corporate Media

An Illusion Of Protection: The Pandemic, The ‘Criminal’ Government And Public Distrust of The Media

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‘A Perpetual Motion Machine Of Killing’:
Alleged Cover-Up Of Civilians Murdered By UK Special Forces In Iraq And Afghanistan

‘Six Months To Avert Climate Crisis’:
Climate Breakdown And The Corporate Media