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Robert S. Mueller III.
Is special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, appointed in mid-May to lead the investigation into suspected ties between Donald Trump’s campaign and various shady (a… Read More
Volunteers prepare food parcels in south London foodbank.
Food banks shouldn’t even exist. Don’t let them become the new normal by Owen Jones.
Britain is one of the richest soci… Read More
The vetting files: How the BBC kept out so called subversives by Paul Reynolds.
For decades the BBC denied that job applicants were subject to political vetting by MI5. But in fact vettin… Read More
Jackie WalkerRiri Hylton reviews The Lynching of Jackie Walker.
Two years after being purged from the Labour Party over spurious anti-Semitism allegations and a successful run of perfo… Read More
The despicable way the Tory government and Theresa May has treated the children of the Windrush generation was deliberate, it’s not an aberration it’s deliberate policy. The h… Read More
Four days before the British general election of October 1924 the Daily Mail published a letter purporting to have been written by the chairman of the Executive Committee of the Comintern… Read More
Professor Abbas Vali and research assistant Serdar Başçetin are among those caught up in Turkey's crackdown on academic freedom.NOEMI LEVY-AKSU reports for Index Against Censorsh… Read More
If the Islamic dunderheads who are in the tight grip of their god had any thought for the living they would negotiate a path to end the war in Syria, they must know they cannot win. We wi… Read More
When the Tory government cries jump it’s not the the job of the leader of the opposition to reply how high prime minister. One of their jobs is to winkle… Read More
Mark Perryman argues that now, more than ever the parliamentary and protest wings of the LP need to become one.
This week my new best comrade George Osborne has described the impact of Je… Read More
John Pring reports Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) officers who attend benefit appeal tribunals are being asked by their bosses how many high-level awards to disabled people they h… Read More
Tony Greenstein first posted the piece below on his blog, Organized Rage found it indicative of the closed minds of certain zionists thus it"s worth an airing.
The Wit and Wisd… Read More
Below is the second in a series to mark Gerry Adams retirement as president of Sinn Féin, its by a close collaborator Danny Morrison and was published in the Irish Tim… Read More
The judge who upheld the arrest warrant on Julian Assange is typical of her ilk. British magistrates and judges historically have a dreadful reputation, if it's p… Read More
Anthony McIntyre joined the IRA at aged 17 in Belfast when Gerry Adams was a senior commander in the Belfast Brigade. He rose through the ranks of the Belfast IRA until he was imprisoned an… Read More
It's never ceases to amaze me why Gerry Adams claims he was never a member of the IRA, I don't blame him for not admitting his membership, because being no fool he is well aware if he were t… Read More
Helen Steel is a political and environmental activist who was one of the the McLibel TwoMore about undercover police officers grooming young women here Read More
The resignation of a council leader would normally be no biggie. I mean, I’m guessing entirely here, but presumably that happens in towns or cities across Britain several times a… Read More
Freddie Scappaticci.
Earlier this week it was reported Freddie Scappaticci had been arrested, codenamed Stakeknife by his handlers in the army intelligence corps he was one of the British st… Read More
A Vietnamese peasant family flee US bombing.
The Trials of Africa and the Real Dr. King They Want Us to Forget By Ramzy Baroud.
On January 15, millions of Americans commemorated Martin Luthe… Read More
We have come Full Circle: Northern Nationalism has Politically Remobilised By Declan Kearney.
Billy Nelis was an ordinary man. He was a child of the orange state; born in 1932.
He a… Read More
Final U.S. troops to leave Vietnam, including these three Massachusetts Marines — Newell, Ghilain and Silva — climbed on to the next-to-the-last U.S. helicopter out of Saigon.
Ba… Read More
All seventeen of Thurrock's UKIP councillors have allegedly resigned en-mass to form new party called the Thurrock Independent Party. (Tip)
The 'former' group Leader of Ukip on Thurrock c… Read More
Back row, left to right: Ian Benjamin, Vernon Hodgson, Brendon Batson, Derek Richardson, Stewart Phillips, George Berry, Bob Hazell, Garth Crooks. Front row: Winston White, Cyrille Regis, La… Read More
Habur border crossing between Iraq and Turkey
Fehim Tastekin reports the partnership Turkey, Iran and Iraq formed against the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) independenc… Read More
By John Ross
To assess the impact of the Trump tax cut on the US economy it is necessary to analyse the interrelation of two processes:
The determinants of US economic growth in t… Read More
Pinocchio reigns.
A senior representative of Thurrock Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has shown her support for the closure of Orsett Hospital, saying she wants to bring healthcare to the… Read More
The Guardian published an interesting piece about the two most famous whistleblowers in modern history Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden discussing Steven Spielberg’s new film… Read More
By Paul Stewart and Tommy McKearney.
Abstract: Britain’s disengagement from Northern Ireland is not quite what it seems. In conjunction with its deep state, in the a… Read More
Gareth Mulvenna takes a toxic look at Aaron Edwards book UVF Behind the Mask.
The omens are not good when the reader opens the book to be confronted with a dramatis personae that ha… Read More
Uri Avnery writes the recording of Ya'ir Netanyahu the Israel prime ministers son raises a whole pile of questions, each more unpleasant than the next.
NO, I don't want to write about the… Read More
Darkest Hour offers some truths on ruling class contradictions, but retells the myth that the people were fighting for Empire, argues Chris Bambery.
Darkest Hour does us one great servic… Read More
A demo in France in support of the Boycott.
Dr. Haidar Eid on why the time has come for a worldwide Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel (BDS).
The current situation in Occupie… Read More
Dan Morrison reviews Woman in Berlin a diary by a woman who lived in Berlin during the last weeks of WW2 and the first days of the occupation. I don't always agree with Danny but his revi… Read More
It's time for this dreadful woman to go.
The type of community campaign Unit Jeremy has announced is desperately needed in constituencies like Thurrock as it will enable new members to… Read More
Sahar Khan with The Case Against “The Case for Colonialism."
The Third World Quarterly (TWQ), a reputable academic journal in international studies, is currently under fire by aca… Read More
The Fenland Commissioners are seeking to change the law by Act of Parliament. They are arguing that the Fens are an anomaly that should be brought in line with the rest of the count… Read More
Adam Gopnik first reviewed Citizen Clem for the New Yorker.
For anyone with what used to be called “progressive tendencies,” the best, if largely overlooked, book of last year… Read More
Palestinians walk past a sign on a wall in Bethlehem calling for a boycott of Israeli products.
Israel imposes travel ban on 20 foreign NGOs over boycott movement by Peter Beaumo… Read More
In the early days of David Cameron's coalition government he attempted to rewrite the history of WW1 in a sorry attempt to turn ruling class donkeys into lions. Pliable academics from Oxb… Read More
Ashkenazi Jews arrive in Palestine from Europe after WW2.
I AM angry with the Mizrahi elite. Very angry indeed.
Mizrah is the Hebrew word for East. Eastern Jews are those who lived for many… Read More
I am so sorry now that I fell for the great Thatcher-Reagan promise. I can’t deny that I did. I believed all that stuff about privatisation and free trade and the unrestrained marke… Read More
More shocking revelations from the Irish Achieves under the thirty year rule, a letter from the protestant paramilitary group the UVF to Charles Haughey has emerged in which they warned hi… Read More
Roginsky argued that remembering the past was crucial to a civilised society writes Jonathan Steele.
The Russian historian Arseny Roginsky, who has died aged 71, made it his mission to re… Read More
Below the White Fox digs out a small gem about the Democratic Unionist Party from the batch of released documents which were issued under the Irish State's 30 year rule.
Pai… Read More
Robert Fisk asks can the Russian Revolution teach us about the Middle East today.
These days, uprisings should be studied with a cold eye and there’s a fine little exhibition on in… Read More
Heidi, it's you and the government you support who have left so many families cupboards empty.
When I witnessed Tory MP Heidi Allen weep over a starving family in one of the richest nat… Read More
In November of last year Organized Rage pointed out it would be wise to poke with a very long stick whatever the British Government and its tame media say about Iran in the coming weeks… Read More
The great novelist John le Carré spent most of his career exploring the British psyche through the lens of its secret service. Yet despite knowing well many of the senior Brit… Read More
"The boots that stomped on their fingers wore out before they could break the grasp of IRA volunteers like Phonsie McErlean."
John Hedges writes about the life of Phonsie McErlean, IR… Read More
When I read or hear the likes of Yvette Cooper claiming the Internet needs to be policed by the State it reminds me of what ruling class toadies they are.
Today this woman is at the foref… Read More
Owen Jones looks at how odious toads like Nick Clegg and Tony Blair are rewarded and protected by the British ruling class.
The establishment is a safety net for the shameful and the s… Read More
No room at the palace for victims of Grenfell tower fire.While some ordinary folk with a spare bedroom took in homeless young people for a night or two over christmas the English queen… Read More
Chris Bambery argues Cesarni’s Final Solution is an essential and magisterial history on Hitler’s war against Europe’s Jewish population.
At the close of the year it&rsquo… Read More
Uri Avnery asks for god's sake are the children of the stones crazy?
They congregate in the marketplace, boys of 15, 16 years, take stones and throw them at our soldiers, who are armed to… Read More
With the result of the powerful 80 member ANC Executive committee to be announced tomorrow, (Wednesday) the power of the newly appointed head of the ANC Cyril Ramaphosa hangs in the bal… Read More
A group of top US black athletes gather to give support to Muhammad Ali 19197 after he rejected the draft during the Vietnam War at a meeting of the Negro Industrial and Economic Union, held… Read More
Navigation Charts Fashionable Marriage Read More
Dismissed in some quarters as a “missed opportunity for leadership” and a “whitewash”, Tuesday’s publication of the European Union’s first tax haven black… Read More
James Connolly.
Tommy McKearney reports faced with the temptation of entering office the Fianna Fáil leader Mícheál Martin will accept Sinn Féin's… Read More
Portugal's drugs epidemic started in the Algarve and it was from there local communities began to end the war on drugs
Since it decriminalised all drugs in 2001, Portugal has seen dramatic d… Read More
Anthony Bryan, who faced being deported to Jamaica despite not having been there since he was eight.
If you wish to see an example of what a class privileged society the UK has become… Read More
There are indications in the row over Donald Trump’s tweets which suggest this wasn’t an idle mistake – or if it was, it has fitted into part of a wider strategy. Trump r… Read More
I was recently told by a friend who was organising a celebratory meal for herself and her workmates, when she contacted a number of restaurants in Grays to make a booking she was told by mor… Read More
"We need the Guardian’s values now more than ever before," Katharine Viner it's editor in chief recently wrote in the paper. Yet what can one make of such values, when all last week… Read More
Theodor Herzl.
Uri Avnery points out why in the article below.
Already the founding father, Theodor Herzl, a Viennese writer, penned some pieces with a clear anti-Semitic slant. For him, Zi… Read More
By Jon Ross
The Financial Times carried on 27 November a long article on China's increasing impact in Central and Eastern Europe under the self-explanatory title 'Eastern Europe… Read More
Tony Mc Philips with his take on the legitimacy of partition which was first published on the Pensive Quill.
Might I begin by stating that I am old school in that I believe that so long a… Read More
"In the UK, the passing of the intrusive surveillance law, the Investigatory Powers Act, alongside proposals for a new Espionage Act, have been cited as a threat to investigative journalism… Read More
Alleged computer hacker Lauri Love’s appeal against extradition from the UK began this week, he denies all wrongdoing but faces a prison sentence of up to 99 years if he is deported to… Read More
One hundred years ago, French troops fired tear gas grenades into German trenches. Designed to force people out from behind barricades and trenches, tear gas causes burning of the eyes and… Read More
How to counter child exploitation by Terry Bell
Christmas is coming and the tills of the towns in South Africa are unlikely to jingle as merrily as in previous years. Understandably, beca… Read More
George Monbiot looks at how air pollution disproportionately affects poorer communities, exposing their children to yet another disadvantage, as their lungs and brains are stunted.
Der… Read More
A cunning plan that sounds like Baldrick’s By Patrick Kidd
Do you remember the episode of Blackadder where they had to rewrite Dr Johnson’s dictionary after Baldrick threw it… Read More
As an Sionnach Fionn reported if anything encapsulates the political insanity gripping the United Kingdom, surely it must be the sight of the reactionary Labour Party MP, Kate Hoey, arg… Read More
Mrs. Jeanne Brousse stands at center with the Schilli daughters, who were among the French Jews she aided.
As a young woman in occupied France during the second world war, Jeanne B… Read More
The chancellor is endangered by the sudden rise of the far right – but the German electorate needs options beyond continuity or neo-fascism by Paul Mason.
If I was a cow being led… Read More
African migrants in a detention camp in Tripoli.
The Guardian yesterday reported the Rwandan government is providing asylum for 30,000 sub Saharan African refugees trapped in Libya, bu… Read More
Over 1,400 Yemeni children killed and up to 2 thousand schools destroyed, mostly by armaments manufactured in the UK.
By Gianluca Ferrara
Almost nobody talks of the war in Yemen. It is a con… Read More
By Michael BurkeThe manufactured furore surrounding John McDonnell in the wake of the Budget has a clear purpose. It is designed to distract attention from probably the grimmest set… Read More
When Justin Fashanu came out the headline above says it all, the word confesses implies he has committed a crime instead of a courageous act.
We need a culture shift, not just Rainbow L… Read More
Solid Council homes built in 1950s
Government figures show 23,186 social housing properties were sold by councils in 2016-17 alone by Steven Preece of Welfare Weekly.
Figures relea… Read More
Custom checks after Brexit would 'devastate' cross-border trade
THE UK CONSPIRACY THEORY TO EXPLAIN THE BREXIT IMPASSE WITH IRELAND AND EU, BY AN SIONNACH FIONN.
It has become s… Read More
Jurgen Klopp's own political beliefs emerge. “I'm on the left, of course,” he says. “More left than middle. I believe in the welfare state. I'm not privately insured. I wo… Read More
“Our manifesto was a key reason for our gains in the 2017 general election. Now its ideas need to be developed and radicalised. This book is a vital contribution to that process.&rd… Read More
Dear Jonathan Freedland,*
Yours and Katherine Viner’s stewardship of the Guardian reminds me of that saying of Euripides, or was it Sophocles? Those whom the gods seek to destroy… Read More
Frances Crook, Chief executive, the Howard League for Penal Reform wrote in a letter to the MSM:
Our child prisons are a disgrace and that they are harming children. The answer is to clos… Read More
IAEA Failed To Disclose The Fact The Iranian Building Israel Bombed In 2007 Was Not A Nuclear Plant.
International Atomic Energy Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria.
Jonathan Cook writing in the Palestine Chronicle reports how the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) consp… Read More
It's not often we get to see Labour MP's who have plotted and schemed against the Corbyn leadership in all their ignominy, but David Modell's documentary film broadcast on BBC2 was a ge… Read More
The new judge of the long-delayed inquiry looking into police infiltration of political and social justice groups in England and Wales since 1968 was heckled when he announced the real na… Read More
Oguz Guven, a web editor at Cumhuriyet, was convicted of spreading propaganda for a terrorist organisation. He is accused of supporting the Kurdish PKK and the Gulenists, the secretive Is… Read More
"Taha and a captain, Wissam, sat on piles of red, blue and pink underwear in a burned-out storeroom, contemplating their fate. They knew that the commander was under pressure from his comma… Read More