Declassified UK spoke to Ellie Kamio, one of the first people in British history to be sentenced as a terrorist for property damage. In the trial, defendants were not allowed to say the word “genocide” or why they targeted Israeli…
The judge didn’t allow Palestine Action activists at trial to explain they were trying to stop a genocide. Their attorneys decried terrorism sentences following a nonviolent conviction as unprecedented and dangerous to speech.
Leading U.K. media don’t mention the Israel Lobby because they’re part of it, writes Mark Curtis. But its influence over U.K. politics is likely to be greater than any other state, except perhaps the U.S.
From Jimmy Savile to Peter Mandelson, Keir Starmer has followed a trajectory of career-enhancing ignorance. He knows far more than he lets on. It’s the reason, after all, why he was knighted.
UPDATE: Trump’s plan for a full naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has been dropped as the U.S. will instead only block ships departing Iranian ports, writes Joe Lauria.
Britain’s former Prime Minister shows there’s no price to be paid for engineering mass slaughter in the service of Western empire. Which is why those crimes not only continue, but grow in scale.
UPDATED: Iran is making Trump go mad. How will world leaders and his people deal with him? This is the most urgent question. Only a worldwide depression and possible nuclear war are on the line, writes Joe Lauria.
The disgraced Labour grandee Peter Mandelson appears to have kept ties with Conservatives long after his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein emerged, reports Martin Williams.