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“On some ops [operations] the troop would go into guest house-type buildings and kill everyone there,” one SAS veteran explains. “They would go in and shoot everyone sleeping there.”

More evidence of corporations acting as psychopathic externalising machines.

Perhaps an obvious point but worth highlighting how the recent US-Israeli bombing of Iran has probably made it more likely they will try to acquire nuclear weapons theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

The Morning Star on the connection between proposals to restrict jury trials and the attack on democracy in the UK morningstaronline.co.uk/article/auster…

I missed this when it was published back in 2007 but can confirm Carne Ross has written an important critique of UK diplomacy. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand how the FCDO operates Media Lens

This section of Carne Ross's Independent Diplomat book from 2007 suggests activists opposing the sanctions on Iraq impacted UK government policy Media Lens PeaceNewsFour Lindsey German

Remember when the Syrian government bombing and shelling its ‘own people’ was bad?

This sounds too crazy to be true. Solomon Hughes: Health Secretary Wes Streeting met with General Stanley McChrystal - who oversaw lots of torture and killing in Iraq - to discuss so-called reform in the NHS morningstaronline.co.uk/article/what-l… Media Lens Steve Howell Aaron Bastani

The UK government should be instituting an emergency plan right now to protect the population from extreme heat theguardian.com/environment/20…

Worth noting Iran's nuclear programme goes back to the Western-backed Shah theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

I'm no expert but I'm fairly confident the US-UK invasion of Iraq didn't happen because Blair got bored x.com/AaronBastani/s…

Jeremy Corbyn was hounded and smeared over alleged antisemitism by people claiming to be anti-racists. How have those same people responded to genocide? Superb analysis by Richard Sanders for Double Down News youtube.com/watch?v=IETxE7…

Britain’s foreign minister visits to Libya to “reduce foreign interference in Libya”. New entry in my 2025 tweet of the year competition.

In his book Independent Diplomat Carne Ross explains how the US and UK deceived other members of the UN Security Council during the 1998 Desert Fox bombing of Iraq (the Russian Ambassador Lavrov seemed especially annoyed) Media Lens Steve Howell

Useful background on the planned resident (AKA junior) doctors strike theguardian.com/society/2025/j…

'All the talk of Western politicians claiming to uphold a “rules-based international order” supposedly threatened by the likes of Russia and China stands exposed by their complicity in a live-streamed genocide in Gaza.' morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bogota…

'Britain’s role is not limited to arms sales to Israel... but involves the use of our bases in the Mediterranean to help supply Israel, the deployment of RAF spy planes to assist the IDF, and ongoing training of Israeli soldiers in Britain itself' morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bogota…

Owen Jones explains why the BBC is biased in favour of Israel theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The climate crisis is here, and getting worse. "The hottest days people endure have dramatically increased in frequency and severity, and periods of intense rain have also ramped up, data from hundreds of weather stations shows." theguardian.com/environment/20…