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  • Stella Assange

    The true cost of Julian Assange’s persecution: An exclusive interview with Stella Assange

    Originally published: MintPress News on July 21, 2023 (more by MintPress News)  |

    It is now four years since Julian Assange was imprisoned in Belmarsh’s high-security prison in London and eleven since he was forced into hiding in the Ecuadorean Embassy in the same city. But even before then, the Australian publisher and WikiLeaks co-founder has been under relentless attack from powerful bodies his organization exposed.

  • SpyCops: How the UK Police Infiltrated Over 1,000 Political Groups

    SpyCops: How the UK police infiltrated over 1,000 political groups

    Originally published: MintPress News on August 5, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    As part of their false personas, many officers entered romantic relationships with politcal activists, leading to the births of a number of children whose mothers were completely unaware of their partners’ double lives.

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    A laboratory of empire with Lowkey & Aamer Rahman

    Originally published: MintPress News on July 30, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    In this segment of ‘The Watchdog’ video podcast, Lowkey is joined by comedian Aamer Rahman to explain how Australia maintains close political ties to the United Kingdom, with British Home Secretary Pritti Patel seeing the country’s offshore migrant detention centers, referred to by some as “concentration camps” as a model for the U.K. to follow.

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    Originally published: MintPress News on June 14, 2021 (more by MintPress News)  |

    Four years after the Grenfell Tower fire, rapper and activist Lowkey revisits the tragic fire that tore through the North Kensington tower block on June 14, 2017—killing 72 low-income residents of housing owned by real-estate moguls.

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    Lowkey

    Lowkey (born Kareem Dennis, 23 May 1986) is a British musician, poet, playwright, and political activist of English and Iraqi descent.  Check out Lowkey’s MySpace page: .  For bookings, email . | | Print

  • Long Live Palestine

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    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

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