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Low-meat diets can reduce the environmental impact of food production
Study looks at the real diets of over 55,000 people in the UK.
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Why should the decision of the British government to send depleted uranium to Ukraine be condemned?
The British government failed to review history and acknowledge the damage that has been caused to countries and their people through the use of depleted uranium.
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Assange: An unholy masquerade of tyranny disguised as justice
Julian’s persecution has nothing to do with the law. It is a simple demonstration of the crushing power of the state.
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Labour’s new bankroller is Israel lobbyist, South African apartheid profiteer
The UK Labour Party’s latest corporate mega-donor is a pro-Israel businessperson whose firm profiteered from South African apartheid.
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Julian Assange prepares for last-ditch legal appeal after UK High Court dismisses plea against extradition
As the Wikileaks founder is brought “dangerously close” to being extradited to the U.S., Assange and his family will attempt a last-ditch effort with a renewed appeal to the UK High Court.
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The twilight of freedom
Craig Murray: “Three British journalists I know personally–Johanna Ross, Vanessa Beeley and Kit Klarenberg–have each in the last two years been detained at immigration for hours on re-entering their own country, and questioned by police under anti-terrorist legislation.”
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The Group of Seven should finally be shut down: The Twenty-First Newsletter (2023)
During the May 2023 Group of Seven (G7) summit, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, near where the meeting was held.
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A kingly proposal: Letter from Julian Assange to King Charles III
On the coronation of my liege, I thought it only fitting to extend a heartfelt invitation to you to commemorate this momentous occasion by visiting your very own kingdom within a kingdom: His Majesty’s Prison Belmarsh.
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Corbyn accuses Labour leadership of ‘denigrating party’s democratic foundations’
Sir Keir confirms plans to permanently block the former Labour leader from the parliamentary party.
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Why Britain’s Uranium ammo decision a big deal
The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense announced that it would be sending anti-tank ammunition for the Challenger 2 tanks being delivered to Ukraine that contain depleted uranium.
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Trans rights are under attack
There is a dangerous escalation of transphobia happening right now. The political right in the United States and the United Kingdom are rolling back civil rights for trans people specifically and LGBT people more broadly. This is being driven by an amalgamation of mainstream conservative parties, the far right, Christian fundamentalists and right-wing shock jocks and tabloids.
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A sane voice amidst the madness
Former Australian PM Paul Keating has eviscerated Australia’s deal to buy nuclear submarines from the U.K. and U.S., saying there is no Chinese threat to defend against, despite the war hysteria stirring in Australia, writes Joe Lauria.
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The West no longer World leaders in 84% of critical technologies
Kailath, originally from Kerala but settled in the U.S., is one of the foremost names in the world in communications, control and signal processing. I remembered his words while reading the recent startling headlines that China has become the world leader in 37 of 44 critical technologies evaluated by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).
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Workers in the UK take to the streets in largest day of industrial action in a decade
On the 1st of February 2023, the UK came the closest it has come in a generation to a general strike as workers from across a wide range of sectors including education and transport walked out in protest regarding poor pay, unfair working conditions, pensions and precarity.
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The moral panic around drag makes even less sense in the UK’s pantomime season
The moral panic around drag queens currently sweeping America has arrived in Britain.
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‘Capitalism and Slavery’, and dismantling the accepted narratives of history
“When British capitalism depended on the West Indies,” Eric Williams wrote in 1938, “they ignored slavery or defended it. When British capitalism found the West Indian monopoly a nuisance, they destroyed West Indian slavery.”
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UK government prepares “emergency powers” to smash strikes
The Conservative government is preparing to deploy the armed forces to smash upcoming strikes this month by hundreds of thousands of workers, including a 48-hour nurses walkout.
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11 years on… UK gets what it was always after; Libya’s oil
British oil giants BP and Shell are returning to the oil-rich north African country just over a decade after the UK took part in destabilizing the nation with the 2011 military intervention.
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The role of UK intelligence services in the abduction, murder of James Foley
An investigation into British and American collusion with the terror groups that kidnapped and murdered western hostages in Syria.
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Thousands gather for human chain around parliament against extradition of Julian Assange
THOUSANDS of campaigners joined MPs over the weekend to form a human chain around Parliament and protest against the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange THOUSANDS of campaigners joined MPs over the weekend to form a human chain around Parliament and protest against the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.