Tag: UK

Israel

Interview With UK Journalist Under House Arrest on Terrorism Charges After Covering Gaza

Interview With UK Journalist Under House Arrest on Terrorism Charges After Covering Gaza

Israel

Why Limiting Israel Arms Sales Doesn’t Absolve the UK

Each day the Labour government delays banning all arms to Israel – not just a few – the more Britain contributes to Israel’s crimes against humanity,

Why Limiting Israel Arms Sales Doesn’t Absolve the UK

September 6, 2024

Israel

Craven Tokenism: The UK Suspension of Arms Export Licenses to Israel

Craven Tokenism: The UK Suspension of Arms Export Licenses to Israel

Israel

Gaza hellscape: Starmer recalibrates UK foreign policy for global justice

However, the unimaginable sufferings of the Gaza population have now brought Starmer to his senses. Since entering No 10 Downing Street on July 5, he has shown fresh thinking over Gaza. He has not only broken with the approaches of his predecessor, Rishi Sunak, but also distanced the UK from the US. And it is not hard to see why.

Gaza hellscape: Starmer recalibrates UK foreign policy for global justice

Israel, Israel Crimes

We’re already in a regional war. Only a Gaza ceasefire can end it

The back-to-back assassinations of Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut and Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran were acts of either strategic folly or willful pyromania. While Israel has claimed responsibility for the former and remained cryptic about the latter, there is little doubt that it orchestrated both — and even some of its allies believe that, this time, the Israelis went too far.

We’re already in a regional war. Only a Gaza ceasefire can end it

Israel, UK Elections

Labour Friends of Israel hides “supporters” list ahead of election | The Electronic Intifada

Three women pose for the camera

 

Israeli embassy front group Labour Friends of Israel has deleted its public list of “Parliamentary supporters” ahead of the UK’s upcoming general election on 4 July.

The deletion appears to be a way to protect pro-Israel Labour candidates from electorial challengers on their left flank.

But copies of the list made as recently as 5 April are still available on internet archives. You can also read a full copy of the most recent list at the end of this article.

It seems likely that the list will be updated and republished later this year after the election.

Labour Friends of Israel did not respond to a request for comment.

Source: Labour Friends of Israel hides “supporters” list ahead of election | The Electronic Intifada

Israel

Tony Greenstein’s Blog- UK ‘s Jewish Chronicle
The ‘JC’ claims to be the world’s oldest Jewish newspaper but today it’s not possible to call it a newspaper in any meaningful sense. It is a propaganda sheet serving Zionist and Israeli interests. Alan Rusbridger, former Editor of the Guardian asked, Who really funds the Jewish Chronicle? It is a question yet to be answered.

With Its Funding Sources Hidden and Half its Copies Given Away, the Jewish Chronicle is a Propaganda Sheet not a Newspaper

Israel, Uncategorized

Tony Greenstein’s Blog-The Murder of 6 Year Old Hind– a War Crime that Genocide Joe, Slimy Sunak & Dodgy Dave Cameron armed and supported

As Israel pursues its genocidal and ethnic cleansing agenda in Rafah the United States is show to be morally naked before the world. All it can do is repeat ‘anti-Semitism’ as if it were an incantation. You’d have to be brain dead to fail to understand that ‘anti-Semitism’ has been weaponised against those with a conscience.

US National Security spokesman John Kirby has said there is no evidence of “deliberate” Israeli war crimes in Gaza. To paraphrase Paul Simon’s The Boxer the man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest.

US National Security spokesman John Kirby has said there is no evidence of “deliberate” Israeli war crimes in Gaza. To paraphrase Paul Simon’s The Boxer the man sees what he wants to see and disregards the rest.

The Murder of 6 Year Old Hind– a War Crime that Genocide Joe, Slimy Sunak & Dodgy Dave Cameron armed and supported

 

Israel

Tony Greenstein’s Blog: Tony Greenstein ‘An Ordinary Rebel’ – A film by Helena Aksentijevic

my journey from Zionist Youth to Prominent anti-Zionist

Source: Tony Greenstein’s Blog: Tony Greenstein ‘An Ordinary Rebel’ – A film by Helena Aksentijevic

Israel

Blackout Imposed on Israeli Military Aircraft in U.K.

The British government has imposed a block on all information about Israeli military planes landing in the U.K.

Amidst speculation that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is set to issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers, the new blackout could be intended to protect British ministers from possible prosecution for complicity in war crimes, including defence secretary Grant Shapps.

Kenny MacAskill, Alba MP for East Lothian, asked last week how many Israeli Air Force (IAF) planes had landed and taken off from Britain since Oct. 7.

Shapp’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) responded: “For operational security reasons and as a matter of policy, the MoD does not offer comment or information relating to foreign nations’ military aircraft movements or operations.”

However, this is a new policy. MacAskill had asked the same question in February and the MoD revealed that nine IAF planes had visited the U.K. over the previous four months.

Source: Blackout Imposed on Israeli Military Aircraft in U.K.

Israel

 Why is the Morning Star’s Communist Party of Britain Justifying Zionism’s ‘Anti-Semitism’ Narrative?

‘Anti-Semitism’ has been the weapon that Zionism has deployed to defend genocide in Gaza. It is not out of choice but necessity. Any manifestation of support for the Palestinians is deemed anti-Semitic for one simple reason. It is impossible to defend mass executions, starvation of a population, destruction of hospitals and mass murder of children unless you attack your critics. It is as if protesters against Apartheid in South Africa had been motivated by hatred of White people.

Source: Tony Greenstein’s Blog

Israel, Israel Crimes

West Bank: Israel Responsible for Rising Settler Violence, Displacement of entire Palestinian Communities

( Human Rights Watch ) – (Jerusalem) – The Israeli military either took part in or did not protect Palestinians from violent settler attacks in the West Bank that have displaced people from 20 communities and have entirely uprooted at least 7 communities since October 7, 2023, Human Rights Watch said today.

Source: West Bank: Israel Responsible for Rising Settler Violence, Displacement of entire Palestinian Communities

Israel

RAF’s Support for Israel Stretches Concept of Self Defence

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s decision to deploy RAF warplanes to shoot down Iranian drones heading for Israel raises serious questions about international law and the spectre of Britain’s involvement in a widening conflict in the Middle East.

Source: RAF’s Support for Israel Stretches Concept of Self Defence

Israel

The West now wants ‘restraint’- after months of fuelling a genocide in Gaza – Pearls and Irritations

London, UK. 13th Apr, 2024. National March for Palestine-Ceasefire Now. Thousands of people from all over England march through Central London calling for an immediate ceasefie. So far over 33,000 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict following the attack on November 7th. They are asking that the UK Government stops supplying arms to Israel. Image:Alamy/Karl Black/Alamy Live News

Posturing for domestic political sake.

Suddenly, western politicians from US President Joe Biden to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak have become ardent champions of “restraint” – in a very last-minute scramble to avoid regional conflagration.

Source: The West now wants ‘restraint’- after months of fuelling a genocide in Gaza – Pearls and Irritations

Israel

Revolt in Northern England: No Ceasefire, No Vote

There is a rebellion brewing in England, particularly in the north, where voters are fed up with the similar, repressive policies of both Labour and Conservative Parties, in particular when it comes to Gaza.

Source: Revolt in Northern England: No Ceasefire, No Vote

Israel

UK Ignores Its Lawyers’ Warnings on Arms to Israel

Pressure is growing on the British government to stop arming Israel after a leaked audio recording revealed that it is ignoring the advice of its own lawyers that Israel is breaking international humanitarian law and that Britain is in danger of also violating international law by continuing to ship Israel arms.

Source: UK Ignores Its Lawyers’ Warnings on Arms to Israel

Israel

Censored: Keir Starmer’s Emails About Israeli War Crimes Case

  • The coalition government changed U.K. law in 2011 to enable Israeli ministers accused of crimes to visit Britain without fear of prosecution.

Tzipi Livni

Livni was the Israeli minister of foreign affairs between 2006 and 2009, and a member of Israel’s war cabinet during the brutal bombing of Gaza between December 2008 and January 2009, known as Operation Cast Lead.

According to a U.N. report, “numerous serious violations of international law… were committed by Israel during the military operations in Gaza”, which killed around 1,400 Palestinians, 333 of whom were children.

Those crimes included “the direct targeting and arbitrary killing of Palestinian civilians”, as well as a “deliberate and systematic policy… to target industrial sites and water installations”.

The U.N. report specifically cited Livni as saying:

“Israel is not a country upon which you fire missiles and it does not respond. It is a country that when you fire on its citizens it responds by going wild – and that is a good thing”.

Prior to this, Livni had declared:

“I am a lawyer… But I am against law — international law in particular. Law in general”.

Source: Censored: Keir Starmer’s Emails About Israeli War Crimes Case

Israel

A ‘no-go zone’ for Jews? The making of a moral panic in London

Jews march within a large rally for a ceasefire in Gaza in central London, November 11, 2023. (Alisdare Hickson/CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED)

“London’s antisemitism shame” was the headline splashed across the front page of the free commuter daily The Evening Standard on March 5, accompanied by a warning that “Jewish families plan to flee capital amid rising tide of hatred.” “London is now a no-go zone for Jews,” proclaimed the front page of the right-wing broadsheet The Daily Telegraph three days later. The liberal online news site The Independent went even further, asserting that British Jews are considering leaving the country altogether, because it “feels like Nazi Germany.”

Source: A ‘no-go zone’ for Jews? The making of a moral panic in London

Israel

Slaughter in Gaza Has Discredited Britain’s Political Class

Britain’s two main parties are still defending Israel’s war on the people of Gaza despite overwhelming public support for a cease-fire. Rishi Sunak’s government would rather attack democratic rights in Britain than withdraw its support for war crimes.

Source: Slaughter in Gaza Has Discredited Britain’s Political Class

Israel, Israel Crimes

Britain Wants to Ban Boycotts of Israel. Does That Mean They’re Working? – ScheerPost

Victories

It is tough to measure the effect of BDS on company ledgers or Israel’s economy: the movement is largely decentralised, with activities happening locally and nationally run by different groups and individuals.

But companies are cutting ties with Israel – most recently the German sportswear brand Puma, a BDS target since 2018, which announced in December that it would not renew its contract with the Israel Football Association (IFA).

Source: Britain Wants to Ban Boycotts of Israel. Does That Mean They’re Working? – ScheerPost

Israel

In Blow to Democracy, British Parliament Votes to Outlaw University and Council Boycotts of Israel amid Gaza Genocide

For us as Palestinians, boycotting Israeli goods has been a method of non-violent resistance for many decades, wielded against illegal occupation, colonization, ethnic cleansing, land theft, killing, persecution and apartheid. Now, defending the right to boycott Israel and to stand for justice for the Palestinians is becoming a new battle ground in defending democracy and free speech in the west.

Source: In Blow to Democracy, British Parliament Votes to Outlaw University and Council Boycotts of Israel amid Gaza Genocide

Israel

Meta’s Nick Clegg assures EU that Palestinians are being censored | The Electronic Intifada

Nick Clegg learned long ago that pleasing Israel is mandatory to have a successful career in politics or business. (UK National Archives/Wikimedia Commons)

Former British politician has conveniently forgotten his call to stop arming Israel.

The argument for why politicians should never be trusted can be summed up in two words: Nick Clegg.

Fifteen years ago this week, Israel launched Operation Cast Lead – the first in a series of major attacks on Gaza.

Nick Clegg was leader of the Liberal Democrats, a British political party, at the time. He responded to the attack by urging a ban on weapons exports to Israel.

From 2010 to 2015, Clegg was in a position to insist that such a ban be introduced. He was deputy prime minister in a coalition government with the Conservatives.

Far from banning weapons exports to Israel, that government kept on authorizing them.

Britain granted licenses worth millions of dollars for deliveries of arms and their components to Israel during the six months before the 2014 war against Gaza. The Liberal Democrats were similarly treacherous on domestic issues, famously breaking a pledge not to increase students’ tuition fees.

Today, Nick Clegg is a senior figure in Meta, the corporation which owns Facebook and Instagram.

Both of these social media platforms have been actively censoring Palestinians. Clegg is directly involved in assuring the authorities that the censorship is far-reaching.

Source: Meta’s Nick Clegg assures EU that Palestinians are being censored | The Electronic Intifada

Climate Change

In First, Britain Likely Generated more Electricity from Wind/Water/Hydro than Fossil Fuels in 2023

By Grant Wilson, University of Birmingham; Joseph Day, University of Birmingham; and Katarina Pegg | – There are many milestones to pass in the transition from a high to low-carbon sustainable energy system. There is the first hour without coal, or oil, or gas generation (or all of them together) and the point when the last coal, oil or gas power plant (or all of them together) are finally retired. Another milestone that feels important is the first year when renewables generate more electricity than fossil fuels. For the past three months we have been tracking the data for Great

Source: In First, Britain Likely Generated more Electricity from Wind/Water/Hydro than Fossil Fuels in 2023

Israel

Court victory for activists who disrupted Israel’s weapons trade | The Electronic Intifada

“How can we be the criminals when the perpetrators of… [what] we now know is a genocide … are free to profit and we have to spend weeks and weeks in court for an action that we took three years ago?,” asked Nicola Stickells, a mother of two who was raised in a working class family in the English county of Kent.

Many allegations against the Elbit Eight have been rejected by a jury in a London trial.

Source: Court victory for activists who disrupted Israel’s weapons trade | The Electronic Intifada

Israel

Hundreds of Thousands Join London March to Demand ‘Cease-Fire Now’ in Gaza

National March for Palestine

What would Dutton do?

“In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians,” demonstrators chanted at Saturday’s march, described as one of the largest political protests in U.K. history.

Source: Hundreds of Thousands Join London March to Demand ‘Cease-Fire Now’ in Gaza

Israel

“These are not the Droids you’re Looking For:” Biden and Blinken try to Make the Israeli genocide against Gaza’s Palestinians Disappear

While Israel has the right to strike back at the Hamas organization in the wake of the latter’s hideous October 7 attack on Israel, it doesn’t have the right to do so in a way that recklessly endangers civilian lives. Beyond that issue, Israel is recognized by the United Nations at the occupying power of Gaza, and therefore has responsibilities under the 4th Geneva Convention of 1949 to preserve the lives and well-being of the occupied population. Finally, according to the Rome Statute that underpins the International Criminal Court, targeting a group such as “the Palestinians of Gaza” for death is a form of genocide, regardless of the number killed.

Source: “These are not the Droids you’re Looking For:” Biden and Blinken try to Make the Israeli genocide against Gaza’s Palestinians Disappear

Capitalism

Craig Murray: Destitution Capitalism

I remember when begging was illegal and the police would come and move you on, charge you, or take you away. It seems that begging is now the norm in the UK  and being on Welfare is a crime. Robocop certainly indicated that to be the case in Australia

Ordinary U.K. citizens have been propagandised out of the belief that the state should in any way regulate economic activity for the greater good.

Source: Craig Murray: Destitution Capitalism

Class War

400 years and counting: Your social status is determined by class – Pearls and Irritations

Equality concept between two men.

Due to the entrenched English class system, research has shown that the strong familial persistence of social status across generations has not changed in the UK across 400 years of accumulated data. With growing inequality and the emergence of ultra-wealthy and privileged classes in Australia – are we following the same path?

Source: 400 years and counting: Your social status is determined by class – Pearls and Irritations

Israel

Craig Murray: Extreme Policing

People are getting arrested at a factory in the U.K. belonging to Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer for doing nothing but exercising the democratic right to protest.

Source: Craig Murray: Extreme Policing

Fox News

The Corruption at Fox News Is Worse Than You Assumed – Mother Jones

An explosive legal filing reveals evidence showing the network is crooked from top to bottom.

Source: The Corruption at Fox News Is Worse Than You Assumed – Mother Jones

Israel

Israelis are calling their leaders fascists. Why can’t British politicians?

Far-right MK Itamar Ben-Gvir takes part in the 'flag march' in the city of Lydd, December 5, 2021. (Oren Ziv)

This should have been a legitimate question for a politician to ask the British prime minister in the House of Commons. But no sooner had Labour’s Kim Johnson asked it of Rishi Sunak last Wednesday afternoon, during an edition of Prime Minister’s Questions, than she was summoned to the office of her party’s chief whip and ordered to apologize.

Source: Israelis are calling their leaders fascists. Why can’t British politicians?

Israel

Russia’s Annexation of Part of Ukraine Drew Western Sanctions, but UK’s Liz Truss is rewarding Israel’s Annexation by moving British Embassy to Jerusalem

Considering this British history of inflicting suffering on the Palestinians, it would have been more appropriate for a British Prim Minister to apologize to the Palestinians for Britain’s crucial role in causing the endless suffering. Instead, Truss chose to support illegal occupation and annexation and gave history another episode of western hypocrisy, double standards and violation of human rights. My conversation with the former British soldier shows that those who know the truth are less likely to side with injustice which demonstrates the importance of raising awareness of the plight of the Palestinian people and their history.

Source: Russia’s Annexation of Part of Ukraine Drew Western Sanctions, but UK’s Liz Truss is rewarding Israel’s Annexation by moving British Embassy to Jerusalem

Truth in Humor

UK wishing there was some sort of regional economic group it could join to help bolster economy | The Shovel

With their confidence shattered and the economy plunging into recession, people in the UK were today thinking how good it would be if there was some sort of network of local economies that they could join, in Europe say, to help them weather the upcoming storm.

Source: UK wishing there was some sort of regional economic group it could join to help bolster economy | The Shovel

Democracy Now

Australia might be saving our democracy. Can the UK and US? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Truss is, as the 2021 essay forecast, entirely immersed in the world and personnel of the billionaires’ ultra free market lobby groups masquerading as thinktanks. Her Chancellor is an ideologue and true believer in the message. The “thinktanks” face the moment of testing: who was the liberty for that they championed? Only the Ultra High Net Worth class and their High Net Worth enablers? Both the UK and the US stand on the brink of something unthinkable a decade ago. Australians must fight to ensure that our radicalised right (and the “thinktanks” that foster the internationally-networked radicalisation) don’t take us back down that path. We have a chance to rebalance the playing field. Will our right resume playing the game as a contest, or continue to try to trash the field?

Source: Australia might be saving our democracy. Can the UK and US? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Israel

New bombshell film exposes Israel lobby role in UK Labour Party

Israel lobbyists protected

A new cache of leaked Labour documents shows how Israel lobby operatives worked against former leader Jeremy Corbyn from within the UK’s main opposition party.

Israel lobbyist Luke Akehurst intervened to help save suspended right-wing Labour activist Luke Stanger from expulsion – despite a series of complaints of harassment and intimidation.

The leaked files also detail how Palestine solidarity activists and left-wingers were investigated, suspended and expelled from the party, while right-wing pro-Israel members were protected by senior party figures.

The documents were revealed on Thursday in the first episode of The Labour Files, a new three-part series by Al Jazeera’s investigative unit – the same team behind the 2017 series The Lobby and the censored 2018 series The Lobby – USA.

The Qatar-based satellite channel describes the trove of internal Labour Party materials as “the largest leak of documents in British political history.”

During the Corbyn years, the files show, the generally left-voting city of Brighton became a focus of clashes between the party’s left and right wings.

Capitalism

Luring Doctors From Poorer Countries is the UK’s Quiet Scandal – scheerpost.com

The UK isn’t the only one “looting” trained professionals from third-world countries Australia is too,

Meanwhile, the voice of Andrew Bolt can be heard crying ” don’t allow our medical professional’s to volunteer” in the case of Ebola in Africa.

While Cuba at times of need sends their professionals to where they are needed most. While our Australian Medical Association retains a post-WW2 attitude that cries out ” don’t let these Imports into practice because how do we know they are sufficiently trained?

Self-interest is reflected over and above the “common good” in our not so  “Free Market Place” What’s left is fear, confusion and disrespect for practitioners.

The looting of artistic and religious objects from Africa and Asia by British invaders in the 19th century causes much rancorous debate about whether the artefacts should be returned to the countries they were originally stolen from. But the discussion is much more muted about equally acquisitive expeditions launched by Britain today that may ultimately cause more suffering than those imperialist ventures long ago.

Source: Luring Doctors From Poorer Countries is the UK’s Quiet Scandal – scheerpost.com

Informed Comment

Queen Elizabeth II’s Reign Glamorized Britain’s Political Backwardness

During Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year reign, the UK witnessed immense social transformation. Throughout this tumultuous period, the monarchy served one purpose: suppressing Britain’s political divisions in the name of unity and deference to the Crown.

Source: Queen Elizabeth II’s Reign Glamorized Britain’s Political Backwardness

and

Rather than doing away with the old aristocracy, capitalism has found its own uses for the British monarchy. The two now function in tandem to preserve the status quo in Britain — and should be opposed together.

The British Monarchy Has Woven Itself Into the Fabric of Capitalism

 

Climate Change

National emergency in Britain as the mercury soars to near-record levels | The New Daily

Britain’s Met Office weather forecaster has declared a national emergency, with temperatures early next week predicted to approach – and possibly exceed – record highs.“Exceptional, perhaps record-breaking, temperatures are likely on Monday, then again on Tuesday,” the Met Office said on their website.

National emergency in Britain as the mercury soars to near-record levels | The New Daily
Conservative Media, Media, Uncategorized

Boris Johnson Was a Creation of the British Media

Boris Johnson Was a Creation of the British Media

They may have criticisms of him today, but the British media was all in for Boris Johnson when they saw him as a necessary alternative to Jeremy Corbyn’s socialism. And despite everything, they would do it all over again in a heartbeat.

Boris Johnson Was a Creation of the British Media
Refugees

Refugees and Changing Political Narratives – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australia’s solutions over the last nine years leads one to doubt not just the humanity but the sanity of those who implemented the Morrison solutions. The United Kingdom under the apparently intellectually challenged and spoilt man-child Boris Johnson is merrily heading down the path that Australia created.

The same self-serving populist speak and a rather bizarre solution, sending refugees and asylum seekers to Rwanda. What would we find if we followed the money trails, both in Australia and the United Kingdom? There are still many questions left unanswered and the mainstream media is complicit by giving race baiting and populist propaganda oxygen.

Murdoch, Murdoch's America, Murdoch's madness, Murdochville, Rupert Murdoch

Will Corporate America Turn Against the Murdoch Family?

Rupert Murdoch, co-chairman of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc., left, and Lachlan Murdoch, co-chairman of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc., arrive for a morning session at the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on Friday, July 13, 2018. The 35th annual Allen & Co. conference gathers many of America's wealthiest and most powerful people in media, technology, and sports. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Why the Murdochs should become the next Sacklers.

Source: Will Corporate America Turn Against the Murdoch Family?

Democracy

Democracy in decline: Australia’s slide into ‘competitive authoritarianism’ – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australia is at a critical point. A government that would cling to power to impose unpopular policy threatens the very nature of our democracy.

It is common to refer to countries that were “consolidated democracies” as corroding to “illiberal democracies”. Hungary is the most notable example. If, however, the term “competitive authoritarianism” is employed to describe regimes instead, it becomes clear that the danger for Australia is just as strong as it is for the USA and the UK, as well as for Hungary.

Source: Democracy in decline: Australia’s slide into ‘competitive authoritarianism’ – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Murdoch Media

Leaked texts show Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo gave Trump White House questions she’d ask president in advance – Raw Story – Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

Leaked texts show Fox News' Maria Bartiromo gave Trump White House questions she'd ask president in advance

Murdoch Practice. In the UK criminal phone taps anything to get ahead of the competion. In US largely PR staging Interviews & promoting Republican interests while trashing the Dems. In Australia, simply being the largest private player in the nation’s quid pro quo cash for comment business.

On Friday, CNN reported that Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo supplied former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows with questions in advance of interviewing former President Donald Trump.

Source: Leaked texts show Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo gave Trump White House questions she’d ask president in advance – Raw Story – Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

Informed Comment

Nostalgia at the AUKMIN Talks: Britain’s Forces Eye Australia – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Dutton’s feelings might be hurt he wants the right to sue for Defamation and us the taxpayers to pay to shut Binoy and other critics up. Scott and Michaela are preparing the Bill to do just that and keep themselves safe.

Give the man credit where it’s due. Few could possibly be congratulated for selling the sovereignty of a country in full view of its citizenry, but Peter Dutton, former Queensland copper turned sadistic Home Affairs minister turned Defence Minister, is very capable of it. Australia promises to become a throbbing bordello for the strategic affairs of other states (to a large extent, it already is), awaiting submarine insertions, naval manoeuvres, and more troop rotations. With the AUKUS arrangements being firmed up, US and UK sailors, personnel and miscellaneous staff are being readied for more time Down Under, ensuring that Australia becomes a staging ground for future forward military operations. Canberra has relinquished much say in this; the song sheets and blueprints are coming from elsewhere.

Source: Nostalgia at the AUKMIN Talks: Britain’s Forces Eye Australia – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Julian Assange

Demands to ‘Free Assange Now’ Surge Ahead of Ruling on US Extradition

A demonstration in support of Julian Assange in London

A U.K. court is set to rule Friday on whether WikiLeaks publisher and journalist Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States, an impending decision that led press freedom advocates and human rights campaigners to redouble their calls for his immediate release. “We fully believe that Assange has been targeted for his contributions to journalism.” “Freedom should be the only possible outcome for Assange,” Kristinn Hrafnsson, the editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, said Thursday.

Source: Demands to ‘Free Assange Now’ Surge Ahead of Ruling on US Extradition

Climate

After 30 Secret Meetings, US and China announce Joint initiative to Combat Global Heating in Diplomatic Thaw

So much for AUKUS,  CHUKUS seems a more apt term for this immediate agreement where China the UK, and the US are in step, Why? It’s patently clear. But not so for the A in AUKUS. However, given China hasn’t invaded anyone recently and the LNP has why are they acting as if China has? How embarrassing for Morrison whose been left out of the loop not advised of 30 secret meetings his besty has had. He will feel the sting of his do-nothing climate policy in the near future well before he gets any submarines. Because America China, and the UK will invest in climate cooperation which translates into much wider cooperation and they will leave the climate laggard, Morrison’s Australia, out in the wilderness.

The US-China competition is much more like European rivalries in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, as between France and Britain or Britain and Germany, where capitalist countries competed for entry into foreign markets on the most favorable terms and for diplomatic and military spheres of influence. Despite President Xi’s sabre rattling, China isn’t at the point where it has taken over other countries (as the US did most recently in Iraq and Afghanistan).

Source: After 30 Secret Meetings, US and China announce Joint initiative to Combat Global Heating in Diplomatic Thaw

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- The LNP are anti-Australia’s Compulsory Vote and for Voter ID. Now that’s an elitist move to a Voting Pantomime, Authoritarian Rule and a rigged election. Think GOP, Republicans, Trump. Think Orban in Hungary, Erdogen in Turkey.

Fighting Fake News with REAL 5/11/21; CO2, COP26, UK, LNP has become the Trump Party Australia

Scott Morrison

UK’s top climate adviser launches scathing attack on Australia on eve of Cop26 | Cop26 | The Guardian

Lord Deben, the chair of the UK’s Climate Change Committee

It’s amazing how our mainstream media seems to be reportion through the prism of Scott Morrison whereas the US, France and the UK seem to see it and Morrison very differently.

Lord Deben says there is ‘no indication’ Scott Morrison has a plan to deliver the net zero commitment ‘we’ve squeezed out of him’

The UK government’s climate change adviser has launched a scathing attack on Australia’s net zero commitment on the eve of critical talks in Glasgow.

Lord Deben, the Climate Change Committee chair, told the BBC on Saturday there was “no indication” that the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, had a plan to deliver on the commitment to net zero that was “squeezed out of him”.

“It’s very sad that a great country like Australia should change our climate,” he said.

UK’s top climate adviser launches scathing attack on Australia on eve of Cop26 | Cop26 | The Guardian

Scott Morrison climate plan
Australia’s 2050 net zero emissions plan relies on ‘gross manipulation’ of data, experts say

Read more

Julian Assange

Biden’s DOJ Downplayed Suicide Risk for Assange in Appeal of Extradition Denial | The Smirking Chimp

The United States also says it will not object to Assange serving any custodial sentence he may receive in Australia. Summers cited a case in which the U.S. reneged on its assurances that Spanish drug trafficker David Mendoza Herrarte could serve his prison sentence in Spain if he was first extradited to the U.S. for trial. The U.S. retorted that the prosecutor had just assured that Mendoza could apply for a transfer to Spain and the DOJ denied the application. Moreover, the U.S. cannot guarantee that Australia would consent to host Assange’s incarceration. It will be several weeks before the High Court issues its ruling on Biden’s appeal. The losing party can ask the U.K. Supreme Court to review the case. More than two dozen press freedom, civil liberties and international human rights groups, and people around the world, are protesting the persecution of Assange. This case is a bellwether for the future of investigative journalism and the survival of the First Amendment right to freedom of the press.

Source: Biden’s DOJ Downplayed Suicide Risk for Assange in Appeal of Extradition Denial | The Smirking Chimp

Informed Comment

Has PM put Australia on the hook to finance struggling UK, US submarine projects? – Michael West Media

AUKUS, Dreadnought submarine, BAE

“Almost comical”. Experts lambast Scott Morrison’s “crazy” AUKUS deal to buy nuclear submarine tech from parlous UK and US programs. Marcus Reubenstein finds a real prospect Australia will be used to “underwrite” the foundering foreign submarine industry.

Source: Has PM put Australia on the hook to finance struggling UK, US submarine projects? – Michael West Media