Britain has quietly resumed arms exports to its NATO ally Turkey, whose brutal operation in Syria targets the UK’s key Kurdish allies fighting Islamic State (ISIS). Turkish-backed militias are complicit in human rights abuses and include former members of ISIS
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Partygate referees: why are they so spooky?
by PHIL MILLER | 31 January 2022
TAGGED: GCHQ, MI5, Police
Who’s driving the Russia invasion scare?
by MARY DEJEVSKY | 28 January 2022
TAGGED: Russia, Ukraine
Why have the US and the UK chosen to whip up a massive campaign against a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine, that makes no sense in mid-winter against a well-equipped and fiercely patriotic Ukraine?
Conservatives give £100m aid to ‘reduce poverty’ in China, while increasing it in UK
by MATT KENNARD | 27 January 2022
TAGGED: Aid, China
The UK government is spending £103m from its aid budget to promote ‘economic development’ and ‘poverty reduction’ in official enemy China while its austerity policies in Britain helped force 600,000 children into poverty.
The UK-backed African regime run by five men
by PHIL MILLER | 26 January 2022
TAGGED: Cameroon
Secretive UK team met in Venezuela to promote British energy interests
by JOHN McEVOY | 20 January 2022
TAGGED: Venezuela
Radiation pills distributed in nuclear submarine ports
by PHIL MILLER | 18 January 2022
TAGGED: Nuclear
‘CIA sidekick’ gives £2.6m to UK media groups
by MATT KENNARD | 17 January 2022
TAGGED: Media, US
Bombing the ‘Irish Beatles’ – who ordered their murder?
by ANNE CADWALLADER | 12 January 2022
TAGGED: Ireland, Police, terrorism
A court has awarded £1.5 million in compensation to survivors of a terrorist attack in Northern Ireland that involved collusion between British soldiers and paramilitary forces. But those responsible for controlling the ‘Miami Showband’ killers have still not been held accountable.
Stakeknife and the spy who went on safari
by PHIL MILLER | 10 January 2022
TAGGED: Ireland, Kenya