A chilling crime by Pete Hegseth and the US Navy. Iranian warship IRIS Dena was unarmed and taking part in an int’l exercise with countries including the United States when she was sunk off Sri Lanka by a torpedo fired by a US nuclear submarine, killing at least 87 Iranian sailors.
🚨NEW: The UK Government’s Foreign Office quietly gave £90,000 to fund an Israeli report that described sexual violence on October 7 as “systematic” and “premeditated” — a characterization not substantiated by UN or Amnesty investigations, and central to Israel’s public case for its war on Gaza, Novara Media’s @rivkahbrown reports. FOI documents show the grant covered 75% of the “Dinah Project’s” budget. Israeli officials described the report as “a significant public diplomacy tool,” and state agencies launched a coordinated campaign to promote it globally. Drop Site News has previously reported that its methodology lowered evidentiary standards, and the report notes that London has not backed comparable probes into documented rape and sexual abuse of Palestinians by Israeli forces. Full details ⬇️
See new posts Conversation Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown SCOOP: The UK gave £90,000 to an Israeli report claiming that Hamas used sexual violence as a “weapon of war”. The Israeli government used the UK-funded report in a massive propaganda campaign, while Israeli officials called it a “significant public diplomacy tool”.
Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown · 3h In March 2024, UN special rep Pramila Patten found that there were “reasonable grounds” to say there were “instances of sexual violence” on 7 October in “multiple locations”. She did not conclude the violence was systematic, and added it didn’t justify further hostilities. Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown · 3h Patten's full report can be read here https://un.org/sexualviolenceinconflict/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/report/mission-report-official-visit-of-the-office-of-the-srsg-svc-to-israel-and-the-occupied-west-bank-29-january-14-february-2024/20240304-Israel-oWB-CRSV-report.pdf Rivkah Brown @rivkahbrown · 3h The claim that sexual violence wasn’t scattergun but systematic has been central to Israel’s narrative of 7 October and its justification for genocide. Hamas ordering rape as policy is worlds apart from its militants individually committing rape.
🚨NEW: The UK Gov't's Foreign Office quietly gave £90,000 to fund an Israeli report that described sexual violence on Oct. 7 as “systematic” & “premeditated” — a characterization not substantiated by UN or Amnesty investigations, &
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Yep, Labour is still riddled with pro Israel bias despite the ongoing genocide, and this needs to be continually exposed.
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By: Robert Hunziker on Friday, March 6, 2026
Cover of the hardback edition of Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain, by Ian Fraser published by Birlinn Ian Fraser’s Shredded: Inside RBS, The Bank That Broke Britain was named as Book of the Year by the Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Week and Huffington Post and one of best books of the decade by the Financial Times. Shredded has also been described as the “definitive account” of Royal Bank of Scotland’s collapse, one of the five best books on the global financial crisis, and “a model of the journalist’s craft”. The banking group that the book is about changed its name from The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC to NatWest Group PLC on 22 July 2020.
Paperback edition of Shredded: Inside RBS That Bank That Broke Britain, updated and revised edition publised in 2024. Ian Fraser’s Shredded: Inside RBS, The Bank That Broke Britain was named as Book of the Year by the Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Week and Huffington Post and one of best books of the decade by the Financial Times. Shredded has also been described as the “definitive account” of Royal Bank of Scotland’s collapse, one of the five best books on the global financial crisis, and “a model of the journalist’s craft”. The banking group that the book is about changed its name from The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC to NatWest Group PLC on 22 July 2020.
Updated edition of my book ‘Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain’—about why the world’s largest bank by assets collapsed in 2008 and took more than a decade to recover—available here:
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The @ipso.co.uk ruling of Telegraph’s preposterous “We earn £345k but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays”, reveals the article to have been a fabrication. There is no such family as Al, Alexandra, Ali, Harry and Barry Moy. Glad to have acted as lead complainant on this.
🤮 Channel 4's 'Dirty Business' exposed how filthy and corrupt privatised water is.
🤯 Yet Ofwat still hasn't rejected the Thames Water creditors' request to pollute illegally until 2040 ?!?!
✍️ Take 2mins now to send our latest email to Ofwat and tell them how FURIOUS you are about this deal.
The coast guard in Cuba arrests those on board what they claim is a US infiltration vessel, as Trump's desire for control of the region grows
And yet experience complicates certainty. Because when I look at the debate now unfolding in Spain — a debate framed in the confident vocabulary of liberation, prohibition and public order — I cannot help but think back to that classroom in Sana’a and the dozens of young women who navigated a world far more restrictive than anything Europe could imagine. I remember how some of them laughed loudly and without apology, even removing their masks once the classroom door closed. I remember how others argued fiercely over grammar exercises, over politics, over whether they should apply for scholarships abroad. And I remember, above all, the unsettling realization that the black cloth which seemed, to me, the most visible symbol of their constraint was not always the constraint that most defined their lives.
'The Veil, the State, and the Illusion of Liberation
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus – Mark Twain'
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Our privatized water system has failed.
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The hidden hydropolitics behind a conflict that reshaped the 'Middle East'. Lebanon’s struggle with Israel over its own water
“The last three years are indicative of an acceleration in the warming. They’re not consistent with the linear trend that we’ve been observing for the 50 years before that.”
Ex-Israeli military intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe is in the news, explaining Jeffrey Epstein’s decades-long intel work for Israel. But who is this man that Israel has smeared and tried to silence?
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"The study’s authors found that there were 75,200 ‘violent deaths’ in Gaza between October 7, 2023 and January 5, 2025, with women, children & elderly Palestinians making up around 56%.... The researchers estimated an additional 16,300 nonviolent deaths—from disease, accidents, or other causes..."
Literally today's news:
⚠️ President is corrupt
⚠️ Royalty is corrupt
⚠️ Govt is corrupt
⚠️ Opposition is corrupt
⚠️ Journalist is corrupt
⚠️ Celebrity is corrupt
⚠️ Sports body is corrupt
😕 Why is public trust so low?
The Nazi Origins of the South American Drug Trade: Klaus Barbie, Cocaine, & the CIA | #CounterPunch
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These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.
*one voice altered to disguise identity
It says a lot abiut the intellectual heft of Farage fans that 13% of them want to reverse his only policy achievement.
How the US Blockade Hurts the People of Cuba consortiumnews.com/2026/02/16/h...
Medea Benjamin asks: who will win this demonic game Trump and Rubio are playing with the lives of eleven million Cubans?
Sign the petition calling for peace and sovereignty - The US attack on Venezuela raises grave threats to Cuba and the region, writes NATASHA HICKMAN of Cuba Solidarity Campaign
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Palantir is a threat to our freedoms and independence www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/canc...
Write to Keir Starmer to demand that he cancels all government contracts with Palantir, which provides AI technology used in Israel's genocide in Gaza palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/cancelpalant...
🚨BREAKING: The new Representation of the People Bill is here.
The Bill aims to "restore trust in our democracy" - but it doesn't even touch the voting system that leaves millions unrepresented.
60% of Brits want to scrap First Past the Post.
Tell Starmer to include electoral reform in the Bill ⬇️
Israel ‘Evaporated’ Nearly 3,000 Palestinians in Gaza
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“We found nothing of Saad. Not even a body to bury. That was the hardest part,” Gaza resident Yasmin Mahani told Al Jazeera.
Silwan: the Palestinian neighbourhood that's a microcosm of Israel's ethnic cleansing
The Canary speaks to residents in Silwan occupied East Jerusalem, where far-right Israeli settlers are carrying out ethnic cleansing for the Zionist project
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Israel is waging a secret war in Gaza. Proxy militias have now become central to Israel’s strategy to exhaust Gaza’s social fabric
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'Charlie don't surf' but Hazza do 😉
🚨 The gov has agreed a #NHS drug price hike with Trump’s administration - and neither the public nor MPs have had a say in it.
This deal could force the NHS to pay BILLIONS more for medicines, pushing other services to breaking point. Watch, share, and tag your MP. 👇🏽
