The purpose of my newsletter is to give you important information that is censored in the mainstream media. If you would like to keep up to date with the very latest information, please follow me on X, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram or Telegram.
“The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public.” – Robert Kennedy Jr.
“Science is more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking; a way of sceptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask sceptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be sceptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along.” – Carl Sagan
“Never worry about who will be offended if you speak the Truth. Worry about who will be misled, deceived and destroyed, if you do not.” and
”Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled by and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
Though the newsletter chapters interrelate, they are divided into six sections and have a common realisation that a cabal of corporate elites have captured global trade, global governance, mainstream and online media, and ultimately many of our minds.
As a stenographer, I link to an article or audio and paste a key section. My most trusted websites are platforms for journalists who don’t compromise on the truth and have thereby many have been shunned by the mainstream media. These include; SUSTAIN, The Sustainable Food Trust, Soil Association, Farm Gate, The Organic Grower Podcast, Global Research News, Consortium News, Children’s Health Defence, Geopolitical Economy Report, The Grayzone, Unlimited Hangout, 21st Century Wire, UK Column; The Duran, Robert F Kennedy podcast, The Jimmy Dore Show, Palestine Declassified, Alex Krainer, Mattias Desmet, Dr John Campbell, The Cradle, Quds News Network, The Grayzone News, The Electronic Intifada, Jonathan Cook, Richard Medhurst, Russell Brand, Judging Freedom, Craig Murray, Syriana Analysis, The Exposé, The Intercept, Declassified UK, The Light printed newspaper, and via Telegram, For The People, Assange News, Resistance News Network, Juan Sinmiedo, Resistance News Network, B’Tselem, Pepe Escobar.
Great & The Good: Jerome Flynn
Game of Thrones star Jerome Flynn, and Farms Not Factories founder Tracy Worcester explore the profound bond between farmers, their livestock and their land. Jerome reflects on the stark contrast between small-scale, high welfare farms and the distressing realities of cruel and polluting factory farms.
Jerome says, “For me, farms and factories just don’t go together. Farming feels like an extension of our hearts and our land and our food and our relationship with bringing that into harvest, whether that be animals or plants. There’s a beautiful act involved in that, of reverence and with gratitude.”
In an age where many people are disconnected from the sources of their food, Jerome implores us to buy food from local, small-scale farmers who use traditional skills and farm with genuine care and devotion.
It’s not just a profession for them, it’s a way of life that nourishes the soil, livestock, biodiversity and produces healthy food.
“There’s a longing to be in more of a lived relationship with our food and with each other and starting to trust each other and not compete with each other.”
Let’s heed Jerome’s call to stand with these unsung heroes of the land and use the power of our purse to embrace a future where ethical farmers can thrive.
Jerome Flynn has for years been a supporter and spokesman for Farms Not Factories, and has been actively promoting our campaigns to raise awareness of the ghastly conditions that pigs have to endure in factory farms. In 2017 he presented our series of short films, called Game of Farms; The Mega-Farms are Coming, to help local people resist plans to build what would have been the largest factory pig farm in the UK at Limavady in N Ireland.
After filming Game of Thrones, he was able to use his mighty fame to help Farms Not Factories promote our campaign Pigs in Chains about the stranglehold that supermarkets have on our pig farmers. We bought single shares in Tesco, Domino’s, Sainsbury’s and Greggs and crashed their AGMs, haranguing their CEOs and top directors about their irresponsible and unethical policies of sourcing factory farmed pork.
In an interview for Jerome’s part as the ‘Pig Man’ in the Channel 4 series, The Change, he mentioned his pig stunt for our campaign; ‘I got a letter from Bridget, sharing her heart and her vision and explaining what Pig Man was about. I really got her journey, her passion, and her vision. The fact that I’ve specifically campaigned for pigs, made the documentary about them, and got on my hands and knees in the middle of Oxford Street in a cage to protest about the treatment of 95% of our pigs – that was when I put those two together. That was when I was like, “Okay, I’ve definitely got to play this part!” As we’ve become orphaned from our own natural place and connection to Mother Earth and her beings, that then goes hand in hand with totally dishonouring and disrespecting the lives of our animals. We’ve become so desensitised from that so, for me, it’s not only an entertaining piece of television, but also, it’s actually saying something really important and inviting people in to consider their lives in a certain way. We are at a point of needing to deeply consider how we live if we want to go on living in a decent way.’
Accompanied by a colleague dressed in a pink pig costume, we filmed outside supermarkets with Jerome asking people as they came out whether they were happy that the supermarket was sourcing factory farmed pork, showing them pictures of pigs in green grassy fields compared with those in barren, overcrowded concrete sheds. The customers either walked straight past us or stopped to tell us why it was wrong. Outside Tesco, we filmed a group of students who said they would never buy factory farmed pork, apart from one who said that as the pigs were going to die anyway it didn’t make much difference. Watch Jerome’s inspired response.
Food & Farming/Inheritance Tax/CO2 tunnel vision/bird flu
As the UK celebrated Pancake Day on March 4th, farmers marched on Westminster to stand up for British agriculture. The ingredients in a pancake that we take for granted, like eggs, flour, and milk, are under threat. Farmers are fighting to continue producing the basics that sustain us while the government is deliberately pushing them out of business. I asked one farmer, “Why are you here today?” His answer, “I’m 80 years old, and financially, my family would be better off if I committed suicide before next April,” sheds light on the harsh reality of the government’s proposed inheritance tax changes on farmers ability to carry on feeding us. Succession planning (giving away the farm and living 7 years avoids inheritance tax) is no longer an option for many farmers, and as this farmer highlights, we’ve already seen the devastating impact with farmer suicides predicted to rise. The future of farming in the UK is at stake, and the need for support has never been more urgent. Only buy from UK farmers and ideally avoid the supermarkets and buy high quality produce online via Big Barn where you can find your local butcher, farmers market, farm shop, or box scheme.
Joining a rally to demand a livelihood for our farmers isn’t as productive as only buying food from a local farmer, writing to your local farmer to ask them to supply local outlets and writing to or visiting your local MP to demand an end to farmageddon. However, even if demonsrations are largely ignored by the mainstream media, it is spiritually uplifting to be marching with like minded people, knowing that the independent media will send our message out far and wide.
March; Food in Our Hands London, 26 April 2025
‘On April 26th 2025, we’ll be bringing together farmers, growers, food system workers, activists and everyone who has a stake in the UK’s food system (yes – that includes you!) to march in London under the banner ‘Food In Our Hands’.
There’s a lot to be angry about right now; from DEFRA’s abrupt closure of the SFI scheme and the ongoing struggle of food producers to make a decent living, to rising inequality and continued attempts by the far-right to hijack UK farming.
Now is the time for us to come together and build a broad and progressive coalition across the UK’s food, farming and land working sectors, and present our vision for a more just and equitable future.
We’ll be taking action with allies from across the movement, and we need you to be a part of it!
Videos from the packed conference ‘Supporting Farmers for Food Security’, Cheltenham, 16 March 2025
Organised by Stroud Our Free Town volunteers, including Kay Divine, who described the event in the local Stroud News Journal; ‘The global geopolitics and associated history of farming and food supply were explored in the morning sessions with Sandi Adams and Holistic Vet Roger Meacock and Ellie Everyman from the Farmer’s Movement UK.’
‘A key theme of the event was to describe schemes that enable the public to buy top quality food direct from farmers, how to set these up and learn how existing models work for their communities. Mark Byford from Bury St Edmunds, the renowned Bowler Hat Farmer, and Jon Cook, a dairy farmer near Swindon who produces raw milk, explained how to produce nutrient-dense food and take us well beyond the supermarket-centred consumer model. Mark Byford’s Food Finders Hub initiative acts as an innovative directory for farmers to join so they can sell direct to the public and for the public to join, showing their commitment to supporting local farmers.
The overriding view at the event was that people want the choice to buy real food, not corporate, synthetically produced lab food and don’t want to leave food and farming in the hands of government, corporations and unelected supranational organisations and NGOs. The unaccountable influence over the food supply (via the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Davos influence) is something that those present express their determination to challenge and resist.’
The vet, Roger Meacock’s talk exposed so many government lies that the video was taken down from YouTube after 3 hours, but thankfully, we still have Rumble to hear what the government doesn’t want us to know about the false positives from their PCR test on birds, dangerous mRNA vaccines, and climate change scam. He also discusses many other concerning issues such as the Bovaer feed additive for dairy cattle.
Great news; high-tech vertical hydroponic farms, where the plant roots have no contact with the soil and its nutritious trace elements, are going bust.
Watch; The EPIC Failure of Vertical Farms – What Happened? Two Bit da Vinci 16 March 2024
“By 2023, the vertical farming market was already worth over $5 billion, seemingly with every venture capital firm around the world with fear of missing out, looking to invest in the next big vertical farming unicorn. There was real buzz in the air and the excitement was palpable. People actually thought that Silicon Valley might have finally solved the farming sustainability problem. The benefits of vertical farming were widely publicised. Better crop yields, for example, where vertical farms could produce multiple times higher output than regular farms or even greenhouse farming.
In vertical farming, crops grow vertically and stack trays or containers, maximising the use of surface area. Plants don’t need soil. They get their nutrients from a special water solution delivered directly to the roots by hydroponics or aeroponics. But the key is lighting. We replace regular sunlight with special LED lights that mimic the natural light spectrum plants need to grow. Lighting in vertical farms takes advantage of a certain principle that plants don’t actually use all the light from the sun, it’s only special wavelengths. So vertical farms use special LEDs that produce light in two colours that plants love. Blue LEDs provide blue light that help plants grow, while red LEDs promote flowering and fruiting.
After looking at the technology and comparing it to normal agriculture, I noticed several clear cons. You need a lot more high tech equipment and sensors which are just more expensive up front. It seems kind of silly to buy high tech LEDs in red and blue to mimic sunlight when we could just use the sun for free. And operating a vertical Farm also requires much more skilled workers with knowledge of plant science, engineering and controlled environment agriculture. Not only are these skills harder to find, but they also do much higher labour costs compared to hiring some field hands to work a farm. And after a bit of digging, I also discovered that vertical farms are much more prone to certain risks, like pests and diseases, since both the water and the air are circulated in a closed loop system.
So the very benefit that they were trying to go for, controlling the environment, can very quickly turn on you as well. Also, have you noticed that practically all the stuff that comes out of a vertical farm is lettuce, basil and other leafy greens? How on earth are we going to feed the world with nothing but green salad? Where are the fruits and vegetables?”
Another example of tech agriculture failing is corporate-owned genetically modified corn that was supposed to resist rootworm, but just as diseases become resistant to antibiotics, the rootworm has developed immunity and now destroys the GM corn.
Read; GMO Corn, Serious Losses for Farmers. The US Study Dario Dongo, 7 March 2025
‘A 12-year study published in Science (Yes et al. 2025), reveals shocking economic losses for farmers relying on rootworm-resistant GM corn. This in-depth analysis, conducted in ten key US Corn Belt states, provides original data quantifying regional yield disparities and confirming the acceleration of pest resistance.
In light of the data collected, the researchers indicate Bt GMOs as a ‘finite resource’, whose uncontrolled spread is harmful to agricultural systems. The author’s analyses on the imperialism of seeds by the ‘Big 4’ are thus brought back to the forefront, and ‘GMO, the Big Scam’ (2015). What impact does GMO technology have on sustainable agriculture and what challenges does it pose to equitable farming practices?
Le Big 4 have profited enormously from the global GMO market, while farmers struggle with rising production costs and declining soil fertility. Trait aggregation in seeds forces farmers to pay for unnecessary technologies, further enriching corporations at the expense of agricultural sustainability. As highlighted in GMO, the Big Scam (Dongo, 2015), this system privileges the corporate profits versus farmer welfare and ecological health.
Furthermore, the excessive use of chemical pesticides, often associated with GMO crops, has exacerbated ecological damage. A 2019 study by Di Bartolomeis et al. found that the load of acute toxicity of insecticides used in U.S. farmland has increased significantly, posing a risk to pollinators, aquatic life, and human health. This underscores the need to move away from chemical-based, intensive agriculture.’
Read; The UK’s GMO ‘Free-for-all’ Begins; Beyond GM, 6 March 2025
‘New secondary legislation that expands the sweeping deregulatory powers of the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act, has been laid. The secondary legislation, developed by DEFRA and the Food Standards Agency, raises serious concerns about consumer choice, food safety and government priorities when it comes to farming and food – as well as being a dramatic shift from Labour’s previous position on these things. The Act dismantles key safeguards such as labelling and traceability for genetically engineered – so-called “precision bred” organisms (PBOs). According to Pat Thomas, director of Beyond GM:
“The Genetic Technology Act is a shoddy piece of legislation that is a fundamental breach of public trust in the UK farming and food system and a significant step backwards for consumer rights. By stripping away essential labelling and traceability, it leaves consumers uninformed, the large majority of non-GMO farming and food businesses in the UK exposed to unforeseen risks including financial and reputational loss and, potentially, a competitive disadvantage.” You can read Beyond GM’s response to the new legislation in its recent submission to the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee.
These new regulations will affect every level of the UK food system: Developers of GMO food and feed will be allowed to self-certify the food and environmental safety of their PB-GMOs) rather than have to go through a formal application process. It has been estimated that 94% of these products will enter the market without any further oversight under the new self-certification system. Consumers will lose their right to make an informed choice. Instead of clear labelling, they’ll need to cross-reference multiple government registers to identify the PB-GMOs allowed in the UK. However, none of these databases will tell consumers which products these organisms are in.
In organic agriculture, PB-GMOs will, legally, continue to be regulated as GMOs and subject to existing GMO regulations. However, organic and non-GMO Food businesses face unprecedented challenges in maintaining GMO-free supply chains. The government has confirmed it won’t fund the necessary testing technology to help them verify GMO-free status. British farmers risk being undercut by PB-GMO food and feed imports produced to even lower standards than those required in the UK.
The apparent hypocrisy extends beyond parliamentary debates. In public statements in the lead-up to the 2024 general election, Labour said its priority was to “put consumers first” and “maintain the highest food safety standards.” The party’s election manifesto pledged “to champion British farming while protecting the environment“. This reversal becomes even more striking given that four government agencies – the Regulatory Policy Committee, the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee, the Constitution Committee and the European Scrutiny Committee – declared the draft of the Act “not fit for purpose”, “unclear” and unconstitutional, having failed to provide “adequate justification” for the delegated powers that it confers.
Reading the new draft legislation, it becomes painfully obvious that the biotech industry is the only beneficiary of this new legislation, which not only removes regulatory controls but all liability from biotech developers. It shifts the responsibility for avoiding precision-bred GMOs to those farmers and food companies that choose not to use precision-bred GMOs, and to consumers that choose not to eat them. Instead it offers up a confusing set of registers housed on the government and FSA websites which will detail what organisms are classified as PB-GMOs but not what foods contain them.’
To save our farmers, our health and our soil buy organic food, not only to avoid ingesting transgenic food but to prevent the entire ecosystem cross breeding with these dangerous GMOs.
Watch; Transgenic Wars; The Hidden Cost of GM Agriculture; 10 Mar 2025
Transgenic Wars – For over 15 years, genetically modified crops have promised higher yields and efficiency—but at what cost? In Argentina, resistant weeds have led to the uncontrolled use of toxic chemicals, while in Denmark, livestock are mysteriously dying. With rising cases of genetic deformities and environmental damage, Transgenic Wars uncovers the unsettling truth behind GM agriculture. Is our food system truly sustainable, or are we paying a hidden price?
Starmer wants 10% of the UK land to be taken out of farming, equating to 2.4 million hectares, leaving ever more food to be imported or industrially manufactured in factories rather than farms. His cabal of globalists’ goal to get rid of family farms took another massive step forward this week with the closing of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) payment scheme. The 14th March episode of Farming Today interviews Dr Charlie Taverner, Food Farming and Countryside Commission, about their Paying The Price Report that offers solutions to our broken food economy. They then interview Starmer’s Agriculture Minister who pretends that closing the SFI subsidy that enabled farmers to reduce their chemical impact on nature, was a good thing. The truth is that the government coffers are being drained to fund a war machine producing weapons for our proxy war in Ukraine to plunder Ukrainian and ultimately Russian resources.
Listen; Farming Minister on closing the environmental farming scheme; BBC Farming Today, 14 March 2025
BBC Presenter; “For most of that time, farmers have been supported by subsidies under the old EU system and that must have kept them going.”
Dr Charlie Taverner; “Despite that support, the numbers of farms have been falling. Farms have been forced to get bigger, to intensify, and that’s left lots of other farms falling by the wayside.”
BBC Presenter; “Now that we’re moving away from subsidies in the UK, after we’ve left the EU, will those companies and ultimately consumers be facing higher prices for food?”
Dr Charlie Taverner; “What we’re not saying in this Paying The Price Report that people need to suddenly pay more for food and that will sort all our problems out overnight. But I think what we have got to acknowledge is that the promise of cheap food at all costs policy that we’ve had for 50 years, actually for longer, hasn’t achieved its aim. Britain’s food has been progressively cheapened over time and actually ordinary people, farmers and the planet are losing out. What we’re starting to see now, with some of the rapid price rises from over the last few years with cost of living, is the price that we’re paying for a system for being reliant on global food markets that are immensely volatile and that the shocks are going to come through climate change and through geopolitical instability that we’ve got to face now. And that’s going to ultimately be felt in our food system too.”
BBC Presenter; “What do you want to see happen?”
Dr Charlie Taverner; “People have been talking about things like public procurement, standards on trade, being clever with our tax system, (for example, to incentivise the consumption of healthy foods like fruit and veg), disincentivise the consumption of the kinds of foods that are causing real harm to their health. What we need is a real level of ambition. We want the government to test and explore and see how far we can push some of these well known levers that we talk about all the time to try and start building a long term plan for a food system that is actually healthy, that’s actually resilient and is actually fair to everyone.”
BBC Presenter; “The Farming Minister has told Farming Today that it’s the success of England’s biggest environmental scheme which has led to its closure. As we’ve reported this week, there’s been a furious reaction to the Government’s decision to close the SFI to new applicants. The Sustainable Farming Initiative, to give it its proper name, paid farmers for environmental work. Farming and environmental organisations have criticised its closure, saying it will put financial strain on farming businesses and have a detrimental impact on the environment. The Government says it plans to reset the scheme before reopening it. Well, the SFI is part of England’s post Brexit payment system, which inevitably has another acronym, ELMS, the Environmental Land Management Scheme. It replaces direct payments to farmers with public money paid to them only for public goods, things like planting hedges or improving soil. The other UK nations are designing their own systems and, in the meantime, retain direct payments. But in England, those started to be phased out in 2021, a process accelerated in October’s budget, which saw further cuts. The Farming Minister, Daniel Zeichner, says more farmers than in previous years have applied for SFI, and so the budget has been spent.”
Daniel Zeichner; “Unlike the previous government that failed to get the money to farmers, we are really pleased that all that money has gone to farmers. Obviously, there’s a limit to the budget that’s been reached. That’s why we’re not accepting any more new applications. But we have 50,000 people now in Environmental Land Management schemes, 37,000 in SFI. Everyone who’s in SFI absolutely is guaranteed to be paid. So this is actually a good news story, because what it shows is, unlike this time last year when the talk was of low applications to SFI, we now have lots and lots of people in SFI. The scheme is working and it’s successful.”
BBC Presenter; “Part of the reason that more people have applied is that you cut the direct payments to farmers in October’s budget to put more money into this. And so people looking at a cash flow issue thought, ‘oh, actually, maybe I’ll look at SFI now’. Many of those people haven’t yet got their applications in and they are facing a massive cliff edge.”
If the Minister thinks it’s a good thing to end subsidies, he clearly isn’t listening to advice outside of Starmers global market approach. The report below, reflecting what citizens want, has obviously not impressed him.
Read; Citizens create mandate for government to fix food; 8point9; March 28, 2025
This week citizens met politicians in parliament for the launch of a Citizen Manifesto to Fix Food.
The event marks the culmination of nearly two years of conversations with citizens across the country to find out what people really want from food.
Led by the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission (FFCC), The Food Conversation is the largest ever public dialogue about food in the UK. Through in-depth deliberations in 12 parts of the country and over 75 community conversations, citizens explored a wide range of policy interventions proposed by the National Food Strategy, Obesity Health Alliance, Food Foundation, Which? and others.
The Manifesto is the result – offering new insight into the shared priorities of citizens across all four UK nations, from all demographics and backgrounds, about what they want from the food system. It is a plea for joined up thinking and collaboration to address food inequalities, food poverty and food waste, creating a better system for all. It covers a wide range of areas from school children eating well, to families being able to afford nutritious food, to farmers being fairly supported.
This Citizen Manifesto to Fix Food comes at a timely moment for this mission-led government.
Last year, a report by Prof Tim Jackson for FFCC (The False Economy of Big Food and the case for a new food economy Nov 2024) revealed that unhealthy food is costing the UK economy a staggering £268bn. Last week, FFCC published a follow up report, Paying the Price which revealed that the UK’s long-term food security is at risk from a dysfunctional food economy that’s failing the public and farmers.
Sue Pritchard, Chief Executive of the FFCC, said, “As evidence mounts of the urgency to change the way food works in the UK, the Citizen Manifesto to Fix Food reveals where citizens see the opportunities for change. With the new Food Strategy for England and a 25-year farming roadmap underway, this is a useful contribution from citizens who care deeply about transforming food as a way of building a fairer society.”
Alongside the Manifesto, a new report from The Food Conversation partner Hopkins van Mil sets out in more detail findings and analysis from each deliberation location. And next month, the final report from The Food Conversation will provide insight into the process and methodology behind the deliberations.
Read the Citizen Manifesto to Fix Food
Excellent reports about a healthy UK food economy have, and continue, to be written to influence politicians but Starmer is simply following his globalist ideology to kill the UK food economy so we will be forced to eat his corporate funders frankenfood.
Listen; New Wheat from the Chaff: SFI; Farm Gate; 26 March 2025
Intro; ‘8point9.com editor, ffinlo Costain, is joined by farmer and columnist, Joe Stanley – they discuss the abrupt closure of SFI, the Sustainable Farming Incentive Scheme, and what that means for farmers and the countryside – they look at Paying the Price, a report by the Food Farming & Countryside Commission into UK diets – and they talk about the opportunity to stack natural capital services with food production.’
ffinlo Costain; “I think the government must have looked at this (Paying the Price) and just put it through the shredder even before reading. It seems that so many of the actions that the government is taking is primarily focused on price and nothing else that all of these different external costs that we’ve been trying to internalise, we’ve been trying to build back into the food system around ecology and society and health and all the rest of it, not to mention rural economy, these are just falling by the wayside.
You talked about some of the key takeaways in the The Paying the Price report.
Farm incomes stagnating since the 1970s. You beautifully described the way that that is the case. It says farmers caught on the agricultural treadmill that we’re chasing ever more units, whether that’s kilos or litres for ever less profit taking on enormous and risky debt as we increase mechanisation, usually increasing fossil fuel reliance.
And then of course we have falling prices linked to supermarket dominance, an increase in ultra-processed. We’ve got supply chains dominated by a very small number of very large companies. And then finally the report was about consolidation leading to farmers with no bargaining power, working for a state which undervalues their contribution, selling to corporations who control government policy, locking the food systems into continuing dysfunction and ever greater dysfunction.”
Joe Stanley; “the government is expecting the more productive agricultural land in the country, to be farmed harder. For the farmers in those areas, the majority of farmers in England, to make a living from the market. They’ve actually been quite explicit in that subsidies must end and farmers must make a living from the market. So, given everything you’ve just said, ffinlo, what we’re looking at is a future where this government is anticipating farmers to be having to engage with that market increasingly, whilst they are sending price signals out on essentially the value of nature and natural capital as something that the state doesn’t care about.
So if the state says it doesn’t care about it, what signal is that supposed to be sending to the private sector?
Starmer’s corporate backers operate in the global market so don’t want subsidies keeping small scale family farms alive. Their bankruptcy, caused by the cancellation of the SFI subsidy and the new inheritance tax on farms, will see the end of the production of real food.. This is Starmer’s idea of progress.
Listen; New Wheat from the Chaff: SFI; FarmGate, 26 March 2025 8point9 editor ffinlo Costain is joined by farmer and columnist Joe Stanley.
Joe Stanley; “A significant proportion of what we were expecting as a farm business income has now disappeared, and is going to disproportionately impact smaller and especially tenanted farms because the industry has now built itself around the availability of these income streams. Things like tenancy agreements are now based on the fact that farmers are going to be entering into those schemes so are going to be hugely disadvantaged.”
ffinlo Costain; “You’ve talked about a range of different sorts of farmer that are likely to be affected there. Going back to the letter from Chris Price (Rare Breeds Survival Trust), he talks about the way in which lowland farmers were given ample time to apply, as most of their relevant options were announced months ago. But he’s pointing out that by contrast, many upland options were only very recently confirmed with some still being finalised by DEFRA officials. And so therefore, upland farmers simply hadn’t been given the opportunity at this stage. It wasn’t that they were being tardy and they’d put it off, it’s just that they haven’t been given those options until very recently and haven’t therefore had the chance to apply. And this links into a story that was on 8point9 quite recently, talking about economic modelling by Julia Aglianby from the University of Cumbria. The headline was ‘Upland Farmers in England working for Below the National Minimum Wage’. So we’re talking here about who are relying on government promises, as you said, to adequately pay them for improving the natural environment, doing all these other things that we keep talking about; climate change, mitigation and adaptation, now working on less than the minimum wage. And so what Julia said when we interviewed her on 8point9 was ‘my modelling is looking at the cost centres that DEFRA used. So I’ve used exactly the same approach that DEFRA used to find business income and try to predict for the next three years what’s being shown is that income for farms is going to decline because the basic payment scheme is going down. ELMS isn’t replacing that, there isn’t the ability for people to transition. And in particular, the majority of upland farms are stuck in old legacy schemes, both high level stewardship and the old countryside stewardship schemes’. She says ‘there’s a moral case here. She says, ‘can we expect people to work and deliver if they’re receiving only 55% of the minimum wage?’ Moving forwards into 2027, 2028, she says that they expect farm income to equate to about seven pounds per hour’. Now you can’t expect people to work and do a good job at that level, let alone feel excited about what they’re doing and contributing to society.”
ffinlo Costain; ” The government seems to not only undervalue farmers, but almost disdain farmers entirely. And it seems to be entirely comfortable with the idea of losing farms, comfortable with the idea, therefore, of land just going out of production, production being shifted to factories using imported commodities to produce ultra-processed foods, completely comfortable with the health impacts that are associated with that, comfortable with land being taken out and rewilded, comfortable with land being taken out for carbon credits.
You mentioned the Land Use Framework and we’ve had this conversation about land sharing and land sparing over the last decade or two, but nobody’s particularly come to a conclusion. And I felt a couple of years ago that we were starting to see much more of a push towards land sharing under the last government. This government seems to be really hell-bent now on a committed active policy towards land sparing. I can’t tell whether this is a committed policy, which is by design, or whether it’s just happening by default because the government isn’t interested in anything from food production apart from keeping prices low. We are recording on Tuesday the 24th, this morning’s announcement about a new expert group to help drive food strategy at government level, this seems to me, again, to demonstrate that the government is only interested in food prices. There’s one farmer there. I understand that they’re retired, possibly from a fairly industrialised pig system, but the rest of the people are just from food companies.”
Rory Stewart explains how much family farmers contribute to rural economies beyond producing food by giving a massive return on subsidies in terms of community, culture and heritage.
Watch; There are three reasons why traditionally we supported farmers Rory Stewart, restispolitics, 20 March 2025
“Most of their money was meant to be coming for this new environmental scheme, but only about 50% of farmers made it in and far less than 50% of the small upland farmers. They’re no longer going to get their environmental payment.
Effectively, they’re going to get no subsidies at all. Now, why does that matter? Well, it matters because the farmers that I represented in Cumbria are often on incomes of £16,000 to £17,000 a year. If you’re a crazy free market Tory like Liz Truss, who was my boss, she would say, well, I don’t care. But the reason why we did it is the third reason we haven’t talked about, which is community, culture, heritage. There was a study in Wales that suggested that for every £ of direct payments to a poor rural farmer, £9 goes into the broader economy. So really what we need to get back to is what the Welsh and the Scots are still doing. They’re still doing basic farm payments because they still care about small farmers and they still understand rural communities.”
Farmer Harry, who was able to switch to agro-ecological farming because of the SFI subsidy scheme, is now doubtful that the scheme will still be running when his present agreement expires. This means that to compete with cheap imports, he will be forced to revert to his previous methods of chemical-intensive cropping.
UK Government stops farm SFI support with zero notice & farmers are fuming Harry’s Farm, 22nd March 2025
Farmer Harry; “Together with the low yields, lower prices and the infamous October budget by our mate Rachel Reeves, she has knocked out the area payments – the standard farm payments.” …..”It turns out, under 50% of farmers in England, have applied for SFI (Sustainable Farming Incentive) and they always said ‘if we are ever going to do anything to it, we’ll give you six weeks notice.’ Half past five on Tuesday evening, after a very tough cabinet meeting, as I understand it, DEFRA called the NFU said we’re going to make an announcement at six o’clock, we’re closing the scheme. Half an hour notice just to some journalists and interested parties, no time at all for a farmer to react. The payments have stopped, so for over 50% of the farmers, they’ve had a terrible harvest, they can’t go into these environmental schemes and SFI is over, and it’s pretty shocking the treatment of farmers again. To me it’s understandable because the payments were set high and they should have realised that they were going to run out of money if they were going to keep the same budget as they had before.
Whether farmers should be paid to do this sort of work? That is the tricky one. My understanding is it’s Boris’s plan from back then – it’s all the dreaded NetZero. The reason they like me doing this is because it’s taking land out of production. It’s locking up carbon and it will mean I farm in more extensive ways so won’t use much nitrogen and therefore I will have a lower carbon footprint.
They thought this is a good idea because farming, if it didn’t do anything, would be the devil in CO2-ness because we’re all going to be driving around in electric cars by 2030 and we all got this lovely clean energy that’s coming from all these turbines. And farming, if it didn’t change, would be a big admitter because of their misunderstanding of methane, that they don’t realise that cows belch.
They don’t produce methane. They’re not born with thousands of tonnes of methane inside them. It’s a carbon cycle as I’ve explained many times and there’s not much you can do about it. But anyway, they hate methane and therefore cows have got to go as well. We’re to get rid of all ruminants. So yeah, we’re going to get rid of all the deer and all elephants and giraffes and everything! So that was the reason they introduced all these environmental schemes because that would reduce the footprint of UK farming.
All these agreements have nothing to do with food security . Nothing encouraged me to farm to produce food. Something’s going to have to change, isn’t it? Because I can’t see how this carries on. I have a suspicion that these will be the last agreements I do and I will be farming conventionally (chemical intensive) again from 2029.”
For the day Starmer is not dictating the rules around farming, below are reforms needed to keep our precious farmers in business.
Read; Farmers left in the lurch as DEFRA’s flagship funding scheme abruptly closes; Sustain, 12 March 2025
‘The high level of demand for SFI has sent a clear message: farmers want to be part of the transition to nature-friendly farming. Sustain and its alliance members urge the government to do more to support nature-friendly farmers.
– The Treasury should prioritise farming in the upcoming Spending Review, by increasing the annual agricultural budget to £5.9bn – the amount required to meet legally binding environmental targets.
– Expand plans for supply chain fairness reforms and introduce them with greater urgency, to ensure farming businesses remain viable.
– Provide a clear timeline for future ELM schemes application windows: this means sticking to the promised schedule for Higher Tier schemes in summer 2025, and allowing a wider range of farms to apply (applications are currently only open by invitation).
– Increase transparency in communications from DEFRA. Going forward, farmers need clear expectations about what funding is available for each of the schemes.
– Ensure delivery of ELMs is more strategic in future. For example, caps could be set on the amount of funding each applicant can receive, to ensure payments are distributed fairly.
– Address financial barriers to the agroecological transition in the 25-year Farming Roadmap.’
UK Column News reports on the government’s undermining farmers and farm workers by; ending the public money for public goods scheme, the Sustainable Farm Incentive (SFI); by promoting robots and drones to replace labour; underplaying the fire dangers from solar farm battery stations, by building pylons and paying the locals who are upset by them rather than paying for the electricity cables to be buried underground and by compulsory purchasing farm land at a price much lower than farmers usually get for development projects.
Listen; UK Column News 12th March 2025
UK Column Presenter, Charles Malet; “With news that the government has been boasting about the amounts of money that it will be handing over to farmers, (whilst of course in no way being honest about the amounts it is taking away from them), this tweet shows the spin being put on the changes being made to the Sustainable Farming Incentive, SFI. The SFI scheme which came in last year, (use the word ‘inherited’), almost seems to be a dig at farmers in relation to the proposed changes to agricultural property relief. And the statement tells the lie, and tries to cash in on it, that they are doing something different from the previous government. They say they inherited an uncapped scheme despite a finite farming budget. This is simply not true as discovered at the time by UK Column’s questioning of DEFRA. SFI was uncapped initially, which led to a massive increase of 107% of uncropped arable land. And then in a panic, the then Conservative government restricted its availability, but it had done its job, which was to take land out of production and to prevent farmers from using it (the land) in any other way or indeed earning any income from it, other than that prescribed by the government. So claims of putting money back in farmers’ pockets seem rather hollow, especially when run alongside news that funding for more robots and drones is seen as the future.
Here’s an announcement; amazingly from the armed forces, in which the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory DSTL work with DEFRA, are further promoting automated interaction within agricultural practices. They say that ‘a golf bag of robotics and autonomy could soon be protecting lives by replacing people in dangerous situations where there are chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear threats’. So one might ask why hazards faced by armed forces personnel should be deemed similar to those involved in the growing of food! But whatever the answer, it hardly suggests the production of food in a manner conducive to health would be forthcoming. Now in the statement about this they say DEFRA will use these tools for environment remediation and recovery work. So it seems they might know something that we don’t. Now this might create a dystopian image of the future, an anti human future certainly, but we’re not there yet. And here’s an image of an example robot which, somewhat reminiscent of the kit used in the moon landing photographs, appears to be held together with a plastic bag. But drones and the use of drones becoming increasingly prominent in the talk of future and present agricultural practices. Here we see the operations of Farm Drones UK. Now the most important thing here is the licence for spraying pesticides is pending approval. I’m sure it will be granted with absolutely no regard given to the risks posed. And this massive surge in proposed drone use asks many questions about the use of airspace which I think are not being answered sufficiently.
Now we come on to further government action. A massive challenge to the rural environment was set out yesterday in the form of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill which was laid before the House of Commons by Angela Rayner. Common with legislation of this age, it has a high likelihood of dangerous and negative outcomes, and to obfuscate, it’s therefore very long and unnecessarily detailed. It seeks to prioritise what’s called Critical Infrastructure and Planning. The question being, critical to whom and at what cost?
There’s provision for schemes which are designed for the purpose of encouraging the development and use of long duration electricity storage installations. Now they mention hydro projects, but this is really doublespeak for what are called Battery Energy Storage Systems or BESS. They’re massive areas of containers filled with lithium-ion batteries which should store energy produced by the extremely unreliable and inefficient solar and wind technologies. And the point to make here is that with BESS, there’s no safety data and, so far, the only recommendations made by fire services are that they are an ‘unmanageable fire hazard with horrific ecological and environmental consequences should anything go wrong’. (think fire at Heathrow from electricity substation).
Now, as though to soften the blow, the Bill proposes to subsidise those people living near the development sites for electricity infrastructure, which completely contradicts and undermines the argument for not burying cable cables. So instead the government proposes to carry electricity overground in order to save money and then pay money to those who live nearby. A bill, of course, that can only go up as the population goes up. Natural England will be given new powers for compulsory acquisition and the land will go to Natural England if they require the land for purposes connected with the taking of a conservation measure. Note if ‘they’ require and not ‘us’. This rewrites the law. The Bill rewrites the law on compulsory purchase and invokes Communism in the process whilst preparing the ground for corporatism. ‘The reforms reinforce the principle that landowners should not receive excessive compensation where compulsory purchase powers are used to assemble land and deliver schemes in the public interest’. So what’s being asked here, and to illustrate the unfairness and indeed the likelihood of its abuse, it should be noted that the average value of agricultural land is about £8,000 an acre at the moment, but perhaps £1 million an acre or more with planning permission, but there’s no scope for the use of an overage clause shown on screen here which would benefit the vendor if the land goes up in value. Of course a lot of money will be made but just not by small landowners or farmers, thus continuing the theme of not just an assault on food security but of those that produce it. This needs to be fought in the strongest possible terms as it progresses, or really shouldn’t progress, through Parliament.”
The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) subsidy system did not support food production and instead rewarded farm policies that take land out of food production and into schemes to increase biodiversity and the carbon content of soil. But farmers that entered the scheme face a precarious future and the prospect of being forced to return to less agro-ecological farming when their agreements run out after three years.It’s time farmers shunned the centralised food system and, along with local veg growers, supply food direct to their local community.
Farmers’ Protests: The Wrong Target? Charles Malet, Tuesday, 4th March 2025
‘In creating the illusion of the pursuit of food security, the Government holds aloft a banner around which farmers and consumers may be made to feel that they can coalesce. Really, though, what is happening is the establishment of an ever-greater reliance on subsidy and, this time, subsidy for not producing food. As a direct result of Barclay’s (Steve Barclay, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2023 to 2024) amendments to the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) in early 2024, the uncropped arable area in England increased by 107% in that same year, as farmers decided to take the cash, rather than the risk which comes with the production of food. That is equal to 581,000 hectares going out of production. Farmers are seeing any chance of running a viable business disappearing over the horizon.
This is set alongside what Guy Singh Watson—founder of the very successful organic farm Riverford—has described as ‘farmwashing’. Farmwashing is the practice used by supermarkets, to attempt to convince the shopper that they are supporting British enterprise, by stocking products from British farms. Many of the items labelled with Union Flags, or with the names of British-sounding farms are, in fact, a charade. A huge quantity of these things is imported from places with very different regulations on animal welfare and the use of chemical crop treatments. This is patently unfair and unhealthy but protesting about this has all but been drowned out.
As highlighted year on year by the Groceries Code Adjudicator’s Annual Report, the supermarkets treat farmers with a contempt eclipsed only by that of the Government. Rank opportunism would be how to describe the way in which these organisations have cashed in on the inheritance tax furore. Joining the same queue is the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) which has attempted to assume control of the issue. The NFU may boast over 46,000 members, but the last census reported over 467,000 people working in agriculture.’
Supermarkets have captured the Grocery Code Adjudicator, the body that was supposed to protect farmers from their exploitation.
Listen; Investigation into supply chain arbitration; BBC Farming Today, 28 March 2025
Presenter; “Farmers are too afraid to use a government system that was set up to improve their relationship with the supermarket. According to a new investigation by BBC One’s Countryfile, back in 2013, fruit and veg producers had high hopes for the then new Grocery Code Adjudicator, the GCA, which was brought in to oversee the relationship between retailers and their suppliers, who to make sure everyone in the supply chain was treated fairly. Fast forward 12 years and there are concerns over how effective the GCA really is. With just two investigations, 13 arbitrations, little over one a year, and it’s never once used its powers to impose fines on the retailers, despite more than 200 direct complaints from suppliers against supermarkets last year alone. Here’s Countryfile’s Tom Heap.”
Tom Heap; “The pretty much constant refrain that we heard from either farmers or suppliers was that they were fearful, they were worried about the consequences for their business, for their farm if they went to the adjudicator.
Presenter; “And farmers and growers are notoriously reluctant to speak about these things public, but you did get two of them to go on the record and speak to you, what did they have to say?
Tom Heap; “We got one to go on the record who had orchards, fruit orchards, Top fruit. And he was no longer with the supermarkets. He just said that they had moved away from them a couple of years ago because he felt the price was so low. They weren’t listening to him. He was angry, getting nowhere. He thought that alongside a lot of other farmers that they were worried about being delisted. That means, in effect, the supermarket saying, I’m not buying from you anymore. So that was one of them. Another one was a supplier that spoke to us anonymously. He was very clear, ‘when he had been to the adjudicator, that the adjudicator had actually told him that going to the adjudicator could harm his business. Which struck me as particularly poignant because that is surely the one thing that going to the adjudicator shouldn’t lead to. Anyway, here’s what he had to say.
Farmer; “I saw the adjudicator about an issue and the adjudicator listened to what I’ve got to say and warned me off and said that if you start an adjudication process, it will have implications on your business.”
Tom Heap; “Sorry, but the adjudicator actually said, despite the fact that this is supposed to be anonymous, if you go through this, this could harm your business?”
Farmer; “Yes, I was only in a meeting for 10 minutes or so. But I came away from that meeting dejected. The only way I could bring it to bear was to talk to a lawyer.”
The Government has hatched a new scheme, the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, to under-pay farmers if and when they demand their land;
Read; Will farmers be forced by councils to sell their land below market rate? Farmers Guide, 11 March 2025
‘Farmers, who have already been facing life-changing difficulties connected to changes to the inheritance tax reliefs, may now have another worry on their shoulders.
As deputy prime minister and secretary of state for housing, Angela Rayner, explained, the Planning and Infrastructure Bill aims at delivering 1.5 million new homes in the country. The government confirmed that the Bill will see “significant measures introduced” to speed up planning decisions to “boost housebuilding and remove unnecessary blockers and challenges” to the delivery of vital developments like roads, railway lines and windfarms.
One of the key measures, Compulsory Purchase Orders (CPO), is set to hand greater powers to local authorities so they could buy land at its current price rather than the value of what it would be if it were to be developed, The Telegraph reported. Currently, land bought under CPOs is sold at its so-called ‘hope values’, which reflect beliefs on what the land would be worth with the requisite planning permission.
It can sometimes significantly drive up prices, leading to major delays as owners haggle over values. Following the new reforms, councils would be able to apply for permission to use compulsory purchase orders without ‘hope values’ and without needing to consult the government, the media outlet explained. Country Land and Business Association (CLA) deputy president Gavin Lane said: “We urgently need more affordable housing, but pushing landowners into selling land isn’t the answer.
“Compulsory purchase drags landowners through years of stress, disruption and compensation battles, harming individuals and communities alike.
“Instead of pushing landowners to bear the burden, why not work with them? Most want to see progress and could deliver development faster, cheaper and with more care.
“Hitting landowners isn’t the solution – fixing the planning system is.”‘
Read; Farmers to be forced to sell fields at lower value under Rayner land grab Emma Gatten, Telegraph, 10 March 2025
‘Farmers will be forced to sell fields for less than their potential value if they are seized to build new homes or hospitals, under measures in the Government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill.’
Through the Planning and Infrastructure Bill (PIB), the government is taking power from local government and sidestepping the democratic process.
Criticism of the Government’s PIB; UK Column 26th March;
Charles Malet, UK Column presenter; “Angela Rayner spoke very dismissively about the meritless cases being dragged through the courts (by local objectors). So there was some pushback, but really only from Conservative MPs, and that makes it abundantly clear that the requirement to represent the views of constituents has evaporated altogether in the House of Commons. It emerged with the result of 330 votes versus 74 for the Bill to progress and not a single Labour vote against. A few contributions are noteworthy, though none was given any consideration.
Deputy Conservative Prime Minister, Bradley Thomas, MP asked whether ‘225,000 homes have yet been built because the Labour government pledged that they would construct one and a half million of them during this Parliament’. That went unanswered. (Conservative) Geoffrey Clifton-Brown said, ‘if we are to override local people, we might just as well have a nationally directed planning system rather than a local planning system. Will she think carefully about that balance?”
No. Of course she did not commit to thinking about that balance. But the question in itself did indicate that the government can of course just override the wishes of the population.
Now, another contributor to the debate was Ashley Fox, MP and he made an obvious statement, but one that is worth repeating. He said, “I’m concerned about the abuse of power, particularly in relation to agricultural land and green spaces. By simplifying land acquisitions and reducing protections for affected landowners, the Bill could pave the way for large-scale developments that displace communities, damage the environment and undermine agricultural interest.”
I think the only thing I’d fall out with is by saying, ‘could’ pave the way I should think it would be absolutely certain that it ‘will’ pave the way.
Now following on from this, we had specific references to compulsory purchase, which brings us on to Natural England because of course as reported after the first reading of the bill, it was Natural England that were going to be given power to seize land by compulsory purchase if they, Natural England required it.”
Don’t sign this petition because if the education referred to is designed by tech-loving Starmer’s government, it will promote NetZero-friendly, genetically-engineered foods grown in vertical farms operated by scientists and served via 3D printers along with a healthy dose of insects and lab grown meat.
Petition; Embed food, farming, and sustainability education into the national curriculum Deadline 1 May 2025
‘We are calling on the government to integrate comprehensive food, farming, and sustainability education into the national curriculum, making these subjects core to students’ learning from early years through secondary school.’
The subject will not be taught according to how we would like to see farming change. The government is determined to promote CO2 tunnel vision, agri-tech farming in ways I describe in my comments labelled TW below;
– agricultural education and careers; TW – tech, science, chemical, monocultures, GM
– the Government’s farming and countryside programme; TW land sparing as opposed to land sharing.
– food security; TW – cheap imports, GM seeds, lab grown meat, insects, vertical farms, 3 D printed food, etc.
– innovation and agri-tech; TW all of the above plus drones, robots, GPS
– land use; TW – rewilding, bird seed, vertical farms, insect farms, AI farms, solar panels, wind turbines, battery power units and electricity substations
– nature-friendly farming; TW – all of the above plus ‘CO2-friendly livestock’, ie none
– profitability of farming; TW – only given subsidies for not growing food
– tenant farming.’ TW – short term tenancies so there is no security
Cheap imports to the UK are undermining both UK farmers and the farmers in producer countries who would benefit from keeping their food production to feed local people.
Watch; Vandana Shiva speaking the truth about the real cause of hunger; Unity News, 25 May 2022
“I think the first thing to recognise about hunger is that today it’s a rural phenomenon. It’s mainly in third world countries and it’s mainly among communities that are actually agricultural communities. So why are people who are growing food going hungry themselves? They’re going hungry because everything they have grown has to be sold in order to pay for the costly seeds and the costly chemicals.
So a high cost, chemical intensive agriculture is a recipe for hunger. Secondly, the models of agriculture that chemical farming has promoted are monocultures. Monocultures are nutritionally impoverished. The same acre of land using biodiversity, using organic and ecological methods, could produce five to ten times more nutrition than a monoculture can.
So maximising the production of commodities for international trade is directly proportionate to the decrease in nutrition availability to local communities, which is why hunger grows. If the world has to be fed, it has to be fed by growing food locally to be used locally as the biggest proportion of the food basket. Some elements will be treated internationally, but what is traded internationally should not be staple foods. What is traded internationally should be that extra flavour of spices from India and coffee from Guatemala.
That’s all right. But to turn the world into a dependency on staples has nothing to do with feeding the world. It has a lot to do with controlling the food supply. The United States evolved a phrase during the Vietnam War and the war phrase was ‘food as a weapon’, the use of food as the ultimate weapon of control. And the tragedy is the growth of agribusiness in the US has gone hand in hand with the US foreign policy to deliberately create hunger locally in order to make the world dependent on food supplies through which you can then control countries and their decision making ability. So hunger has become an instrument of war. And food responding to that artificially created hunger is an instrument of war. Peace means you grow food locally, you grow food with peace, you grow food non violently. And the countries that are today the worst victims of hunger could be the highest producers of food. Africa has the largest land per human being per capita.
Africa is an abundant continent and yet because of the deliberate policies, it has today been turned into a continent of hunger. India, which has the best soils, the best monsoons, the highest biodiversity, should not have any problem. We’re growing enough food and yet 70% of our children are going hungry because the economic system is robbing them of their right to food. So food production must once again be an issue of sustainability.
Taking care of the earth and, and the human right to food must be an inalienable right. These rights cannot be insured through a marketplace where food has become a commodity and a subject of speculation. We saw what speculation did in 2008. Food prices doubled and the companies that control the food system doubled their profits, while riots took place in 40 countries.”
Colin Tudge is a brilliant philosopher whose ideas enacted through renaissance not revolution, could solve all the world’s problems. We could be living in a Garden of Eden similar to that shaped by the Amish who reject the industrial model of development.
Read; THE GREAT RE-THINK Colin Tudge
‘This website is intended to identify and develop the ideas needed to rescue humanity and our fellow creatures from what is now the brink of total disaster — for if only we did conceptually simple things well then we and our fellow creatures could still be looking forward to a long and glorious future: the next million years for starters.
Everything we do and take for granted must be re-considered and where necessary re-constructed: it all amounts to nothing less than a Renaissance. But the focus should be on food and farming — the things we absolutely have to get right and in some respects are getting most wrong.
And the whole endeavour must be led by us – people at large — because our present leaders are not going to do what’s needed. They have not grasped the problems and have their own agendas.
I want this website to be a Forum, a place where people who take a serious interest can exchange and develop ideas. So please add your thoughts by using the comment form at the end of each page or blog post.
This website is intended to complement those of the organisations of which I am co-founder: the Oxford Real Farming Conference and the College for Real Farming and Food Culture, and all their various projects, all under the umbrella of the Real Farming Trust. The main ideas are outlined in my latest book, THE GREAT RE-THINK, published in 2021, which was and is intended to provide “an agenda for discussion”.
Agriculture is key— “Enlightened Agriculture”, aka “Real Farming”, designed expressly to provide good food for everyone while looking after the rest of the world—which would be eminently possible if only we applied the established principles of agroecology and food sovereignty. Instead, farming in this neoliberal age is conceived as “a business like any other” and designed to maximise and concentrate wealth —in practice the opposite of what’s required.
Yet we can’t put agriculture to rights in isolation. To create a world that’s safe and good to live in we need to re-think and re-design everything: all technologies, and the underlying science; the economy; the way we appoint governments; and the moral and spiritual mindset that underpins all that we do, think, and feel. In fact we need nothing less than a Renaissance—a re-birth; metamorphosis and metanoia; and the Renaissance we need now must be led by us, people at large. Our present leaders – an oligarchy of governments, corporates, and financiers—won’t do what’s needed. They are committed to the status quo. The Great Re-Think describes what’s entailed—and shows what we can all do to make the Renaissance happen.
“Colin Tudge, one of our great rural thinkers, argues with eloquence, love and an extraordinary depth of knowledge for a better path, and, with inspirational hope, asserts that such a renaissance is do-able. Let’s get on and do it.” Guy Singh-Watson, founder-creator of Riverford Organic Farmers
“The Great Re-think is a beautiful blueprint for a new renaissance…a book of profound wisdom as well as a practical roadmap.” Satish Kumar, founder of Schumacher College, Devon
THE GREAT RE-THINK is available from some bookshops and from various sites online, including Blackwell’s and Amazon.’
Inspired by the article above, it’s time to return to the land;
Watch; Quit your Job and Farm Full Time: Joel Salatin’s Recipe for Success, Farm Like A Lunatic with Joel Salatin 16 July 2024
‘So, you’ve been homesteading and you’re ready to go all in. What are the next steps for quitting your job and farming full time? Joel Salatin provides his recommendations for a successful transition to becoming a full time farmer.’
Joel Salatin; “Some people say, ‘I’m going to start with a homestead, I’m going to quit my town job and I’m going to make a living from the farm. So what’s the recipe for making that happen? I’ve got a couple of little things. One is stay with your job long enough to get a nest egg together. Preferably a nest egg for at least one year where you can live for one year even if things don’t go just quite like you think they should, one year, two years is even better.
You’ve got to learn how to live frugally. That means there’s no eating out, there’s no movies, there’s no vacation, there’s no Disney trips, there’s no Netflix, there’s no nothing. Strip your life down to the most frugal thing. If you can live in a tent, if you can live in a RV. It won’t always be this way. It’s that initial indebtedness and capital tie down, It gets you on a treadmill and you just can’t get off of it. So get out of debt, get a nest egg, start living frugally. That’s the critical thing. And then the next one is you want to have one or two income streams that you feel really confident about, that means that you need to become a master at something. And ideally it’s something that’s not a luxury item, not exotic, what I call an everyman food, an everyday food. That’s one of the reasons I like chickens as opposed to something like beef or llama or ostrich. You want consumable things that people are going to keep coming back for and back for and back for, something that people keep buying all the time year round, so that every week you’re selling something.”
Considering starting your own farm or homestead? Learn more about Joel Salatin’s “Farm Like a Lunatic” masterclass on regenerative farming here. At FarmLikeALunatic.com, lunatic farmer Joel Salatin shares the insight he’s gained through more than 60 years of farming. He’ll walk you step-by-step through the process of setting up and running your own successful egg operation.
Farm Like a Lunatic Now Includes: • 6 Courses & 121 video sessions; • 26+ hours of video; • Downloadable PDF transcripts for each video lesson; • Homework PDFs for each lesson that guide you through the essential steps. • Expert insight from an award-winning farmer; Farm Like a Lunatic is the most comprehensive educational video series for regenerative farming in the world. These courses will help you to avoid costly mistakes and move you to a profitable farm enterprise.’
For growers, The Organic Grower Podcast is always insightful – this episode particularly if you want to sell to chefs.
Listen: Michael Fitzsimmons and Cinderwood Market Garden; interviewed by James Butterworth from Cotswold Market Garden – Organic Grower Podcast; 27 March 2025
Intro; ‘Michael is a breath of fresh air – incredibly open, honest and clear in his thinking. When I approached him I didn’t know he was about to take a step back from growing so the conversation came at a really interesting point in time, full of food for thought for all of us as growers. Cinderwood is such an interesting case study of a market garden founded with one foot in the growing world – that’s Michael – and one foot in the culinary world – that’s his business partner, chef Joseph Otway. We talk about how the business has developed to cater for chefs, mostly in the Greater Manchester area, and all the opportunities and challenges that presents. Michael goes into detail about crop planning, logistics, communications and pricing, as well as a deep-dive into celtuce and onions and garlic production on a small scale. It’s a really wonderful conversation and I’m really grateful to Michael for opening up about so many things, including how he thinks of himself as a weed – I love it. So, let’s get to it.’
This podcast is brought to you by the Organic Growers Alliance, the UK’s only grower-led organisation providing technical and practical advice and support on organic growing.
First Milk is a British farmer-owned dairy cooperative with 700 farming families. All of them farm regeneratively and their CEO Shelagh Hancock advocates land sharing over land sparing. If we only bought milk and dairy products direct from farmers like these we could help shift more UK dairy farmers to produce milk in symbiosis with nature.
Listen; Leaders – Shelagh Hancock: Women in agriculture, Championing regen dairy; Farm Gate, 18 March 2025
Shelagh Hancock; “You mentioned (CO2) tunnel vision…I think if you try to look at just one aspect of the food production system, you will only go in one direction. You have to think of your impact on other aspects of the production system. We looked at it. I think there is a combination of things here that you have to achieve. Yes, absolutely, reducing emissions is an important aspect of it, but in itself it’s not going to reach the destination that’s going to restore natural capital, it’s not going to build resilience in our landscapes, it’s not going to eventually get to a NetZero position by itself. So you have to bring in all of the other aspects into play.
You have to be able to improve your soil health, you have to be able to do that to encourage your soil carbon capture. Carbon sequestration is a hugely important part of reaching the net zero position that everybody in every part of the industry is trying to achieve. But in doing so, we also need to ensure that we are balancing and restoring nature. Because if you look at the UK, we’re probably one of the worst countries in the world in terms of the loss of biodiversity. And some of the policy that’s coming forward at the minute is trying to separate the two, separating food production to the rewilding sort of situation. So it’s all about land sparing or land sharing and we would believe that land sharing is absolutely the way forward because it is beneficial for both the land and food production if you can combine both those activities.
A co-op is about a collection of farmers coming together to market their products and to secure as much of the value directly to the primary producer. Think that’s an important aspect within the supply chain and it is different. It’s a different business model because we know that it’s not about the profits that you drive for perhaps a city shareholder in a PLC business. You know that the money that’s earned within the business goes directly back to farming families. And I think it’s one of the reasons why I’m really passionate about the co-op structures. We’ve got a lot of empathy with farmers and I think that it’s a way of ensuring that the share of value from the supply chain is retained with the farmers. There’s a growing number of businesses that are now becoming a B Corp and it is around doing business in a better way for a broader range of stakeholders. I think about people, but it’s also the communities in which you live as well as the planet and the environment.”
RSPCA has come up with a pathetic list of improvements to their welfare standards for pigs. The RSPCA label is hardly any better than Red Tractor so it is up to consumers to only buy Organic, Free Range or Outdoor bred and reared pork if they want to see decent standards of animal treatment.
Read; RSPCA Assured Rolls Out New Welfare Standard for Pigs; Farming UK, 4th March 2025
‘The RSPCA Assured’s new standards include:
• The use of off-site lairaging facilities must not be used as an extension of the abattoirs’ on-site lairage. Off-site lairages may only be used in emergency situations
• A prohibition on the use of equipment that is designed to rear surplus piglets, except in emergency situations to protect the welfare of sick piglets.
• The introduction of split-sexing of male and female pigs by the time they reach an average live weight of 50kg. This has been reduced from 110kg in the current version of the standards (must be met by March 2026)
• Cull sows and boars must be transported according to the RSPCA’s transport standards – and by an RSPCA Assured-approved haulier. They must also be slaughtered according to the RSPCA’s slaughter standards at an RSPCA Assured-approved abattoir (must be met by March 2026)..’
The government will no doubt win in its efforts to speed up lab grown food through the regulatory process. But we don’t have to buy it! The solution to cruel factory farming is not to go vegan or eat artificial food but to only buy higher welfare meat. Besides, lab meat is not vegan because it is made from cells grown in fetal bovine serum from an unborn calf .
Read; How lab-grown food could be on UK shelves within two years; Sky News, 10th March 2025
‘Once the stuff of sci-fi novels, food grown in a laboratory could be approved for human consumption in the UK within two years. Companies in the UK have already been producing meatballs, animal fat and other foods in laboratories, but have complained about the difficulties in getting them approved by the Food Standards Agency (FSA). However, the government department has now said a team of scientists and regulatory experts will begin gathering “rigorous scientific evidence” about the products and how they are made.
The FSA added that it is committed to completing a “fully safety assessment” of two lab-produced foods which would allow them to be sold in the UK within the next two years.’
The globalisation of the food system can only be reversed if we buy local.
Read; Trump’s tariffs threaten Canada’s food security. It’s time to go local Corporateknights, 11th March 2025
‘Most Canadians assume that because we have vast farmland, we must be food-secure. But nearly 80% of our grocery industry is controlled by just five major corporations – companies that are vertically integrated with deep ties to U.S. supply chains. This level of corporate control stifles competition and innovation, keeps local producers locked out, and forces Canadians to rely on a supply chain we don’t control.
Trump’s tariffs might just be the wake-up call we need – a reminder that we cannot afford to take our food system for granted. The sooner we invest in local food production, the stronger and more resilient our nation will be.’
Watch this film about a free range pig farm struggling to survive under multiple assaults; the council wants the land for a cemetery, planners want to build houses on it and siblings want to sell to take their share of the value of the property. The loser is of course the sibling that has lovingly farmed it for many years, consumers who loved the sausage rolls bought in the Tobacco Factory Farmers’ market, and the ecosystem that will lose the biodiversity nurtured by the organic farming methods practiced by farmer, Catherine Withers.
Watch Film; One Last Farm
‘One farm, one fight, one story. Short documentary about Bristol’s last working farm–fighting for local food, wildlife, and green spaces. Directed by Nikki Dodd.’
The US study below shows that 80% of US adults have traces of glyphosate (aka Roundup, produced by Beyer, formerly Monsanto) in their urine. As 70% of adults in the EU have traces of the herbicide in their urine, we can assume that levels in the UK are similar.
Read; Glyphosate poses widespread risks to female fertility and reproductive health, researchers say by Pamela Ferdinand, US Right to Know, 15 March 2025
‘Uterine damage, genetic changes, hormone disruption are among the health effects found in scientific studies.’
‘The evidence suggests glyphosate can harm the female reproductive system and increase the risk of infertility and disease in multiple ways. Glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, disrupts female hormones and damages the ovaries and uterus in ways that can make it more difficult for women to get pregnant, according to a new review of human and animal research. The study, published in Reproductive Sciences this week (21 March 2025), also found that glyphosate may be tied to polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and endometriosis, due to its endocrine-disrupting capabilities and reproductive toxicity.
PCOS is a hormonal disorder that affects the ovaries, fertility, and periods, among other symptoms. Endometriosis is an often painful condition when tissue similar to the uterine lining (endometrial tissue) grows outside the uterus. Both conditions are among the leading causes of infertility. “Collectively, these findings raise concerns about potential associations between [glyphosate-based herbicide] exposure and female reproductive system diseases, including PCOS, endometriosis, and subfertility/infertility,” the researchers say. The study highlights growing concerns about the long-term health effects of glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides, such as Roundup®. Glyphosate use rose sharply in recent decades, with around 240 million pounds sprayed annually on U.S. farms.
People are exposed to glyphosate through skin contact, ingestion in food or water, and inhalation of airborne particles. Studies have detected glyphosate and its breakdown product (aminomethylphosphonic acid, or AMPA) in blood, breast milk, and urine. A 2022 survey found glyphosate in more than 80% of urine samples from U.S. adults and children. Although the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers glyphosate safe, recent studies have linked it to cancer, adverse early neurodevelopment, lower birth weight, liver inflammation and metabolic disorder, toxic effects on the nervous system, and diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Research has shown impacts on the male reproductive system, including hormonal changes, developmental delays, and reductions in sperm count and quality, as well as in lab animals exposed to glyphosate. Several studies also suggest that glyphosate-based herbicides, which contain additional chemicals, are more toxic than glyphosate alone.’
There are micro and nano particles of plastic in waste water streams from sewage sludge that treatment works don’t remove. So when spread on the land it’s ingested by the entire food chain.
Listen; Soil microplastics BBC Farming Today, 18 March 2025
Presenter; “A new study has found that after four years of applying sewage sludge to farmland, the amount of microplastics in the soil had risen by 1,450%. The research was carried out by the James Hutton Institute and Robert Gordon University in Aberdeenshire. It looked at soil samples from an experimental field in North Lanarkshire. Microplastics are pieces of plastic measuring less than five millimetres in size. They’re present in products like cosmetics, or they’re formed by breaking off from larger pieces of plastic. Dr. Stuart Ramage, an analytical chemist at the James Hutton Institute, told me they get into sewage sludge from wastewater.”
Dr. Stuart Ramage; “So in sewage sludges, it’s through wastewater streams. So, for instance, when you wash your clothes in the washing machine/the tumble dryer, it then gets flushed through to the sewage sludge treatment works. Typically there isn’t any process to remove them from the sludge itself. There is processes to remove as much microplastics as possible from the waste water, but in the sewage sludge, they typically just accumulate there.”
Presenter; “And what then is the matter with it? Is it a problem?”
Dr Stuart Ramage; “Microplastics can affect a wide variety of things. It can affect the physical and chemical properties of soil, such as your PH or your water retention. It can also affect microbial function, so it can have impacts on nutrient cycling, for example. And all this has impacts then on plant growth and root development, uptake of nutrients. Of course, this can then feed up the food chain from plants to animals and potentially into humans. For an example, earthworms, can ingest plastics that remain in their guts, which can then be eaten by birds, for example. And again, as you go up the food chain, it basically keeps bio-accumulating.”
Presenter; “And what about when the plant is growing, does it ever take up plastic?”
Dr. Stuart Ramage; “So there have been some studies which have reported seeing very small microplastics, or what we then call nanoplastics, which are very, very tiny pieces of plastics, could potentially be uptaken through the roots.”
Presenter; “Does it ever get to the leaves or the fruit? Would we be eating micro or nano plastics from plants which have been taking up nanoplastics from the soil?”
Dr Stuart Ramage; “So there is evidence that suggests, potentially in fruits, that there is microplastics present, whether that’s through things like packaging or films used on agricultural soils to promote growth, or whether that’s with the uptake of plastics from the plant itself, remains unknown.”
Presenter; “You were looking specifically at a site that had sewage sludge put on it specifically. But how widespread is sewage sludge used across the country? And how widespread do you think microplastics are in the soil?”
Dr Stuart Ramage; “So sludges are used up and down the length of the UK, and even if you apply a little for a short time or a lot over the course of a long period, microplastics will be just continuously accumulating in the soil environment. And so agriculture cells are becoming a big hotspot for microplastics.”
Modern diets of highly processed food are making us sick.
Watch; The metabolic pandemic Dr John Campbell, 6 March 2025
Dr Aseem Malhotra; “Essentially for a large proportion of the population, if not most of them, insulin resistance is very common now. The one approach, the one trigger and the one solution is all linked to our consumption of starchy carbohydrates and sugar. And the reason for that is anything that causes a rapid intake of blood glucose into the bloodstream is going to drive insulin to go up. And insulin is also one of the fat storing hormones, but the primary place it stores fat is your belly, so one of the primary ways of getting the waist circumference down quickly is really cutting out, eliminating all the starchy carbs and sugar and focusing on protein fibre, so called healthy fats in the form of extra virgin olive oil, for example, but even including things like butter and cheese and stuff, which are not harmful, all of these together through a dietary approach can actually get the waist circumference better.
On top of that, I’ve been finding with my patients and also with the programme that I’ve set up with a nutritionist, is that in these conditions, the metabolic health markers get better. That also means the blood pressure gets better, the type 2 diabetes can even go into remission. I find it with patients in not a small minority of patients within just a few weeks of dietary changes alone, doing nothing else since. It’s interesting, I’m a big fan of exercise for your body, but it’s never really been shown in any clinical trial on its own to really improve the metabolic health markers by much at all. But what has rapidly shown that on its own is dietary changes.”
Dr John Campbell; “Particularly the refined foods, particularly the refined carbohydrates.”
Pesticide chemicals should be banned as they are getting into our children’s bodies and causing health damage and cognitive impairment.
Read; Kids Exposed to Agricultural Pesticides Experience ‘Cellular Distress’ Beyond Pesticides; The Defender, 5 March 2025
‘The researchers took blood and urine samples from 431 children ages 6-12 and collected questionnaires as to pesticide exposures from the parents or guardians. They tested the samples for biomarkers linked to various cellular stressors, principally oxidative stress triggered by reactive oxygen species. It is well established that children are more vulnerable than adults to environmental insults such as pesticides from conception onward. Children living in agricultural areas are exposed differently from those in urban areas.
A study of rural children by researchers at Mexico’s Universidad Atónoma de Nayarit compared two communities located less than a quarter of a mile from agricultural fields with one control community located more than a mile away. The study shows that children in the field-adjacent towns are clearly exposed to pesticides and are experiencing cellular distress as a result. The state of Nayarit is on the west coast of Mexico near Mazatlan. Rural children encounter aerial application, spray drift, and erosion. If their parents are agricultural workers and especially if they apply pesticides, they bring home residues on their clothes. Residential storage of pesticides and small children’s propensity to play in the dirt and put things in their mouths exacerbate their exposure. Urban children get hit by pesticides in their homes, schools and parks.
Tobacco is a particularly concerning crop. Eighty percent of Mexico’s tobacco is produced in Nayarit. The 2006 study conducted on children as young as five years old who work in tobacco fields and sheds, where families also sleep, found the children’s acetylcholine levels significantly depressed. This is a familiar outcome of organophosphate and carbamate exposures and interference with acetylcholine is known to be neurologically toxic. Tobacco is especially risky, the authors noted, because its leaves exude nicotine resin, which can hold the equivalent of 30 applications of chemicals and is easily absorbed through the skin. Children in agricultural areas are not the only children exposed to pesticides. There is ample evidence of urban children’s exposure as well. The main difference may be the chemical types.
A 2023 study of low-income urban and rural Latino children in North Carolina found that the urban children were mostly exposed to organochlorines, which are no longer widely used but are very persistent, whereas the rural children were exposed to organophosphates and pyrethroids, which are still used in agriculture. Unexpectedly, there was some suggestion in their results, although not conclusive, that the organochlorine exposures resulted in more cognitive impairment than the organophosphates, which would imply that urban children being exposed to persistent pesticides may be at higher risk for neurological damage than rural children exposed to currently-used pesticides.’
Though not described specifically as such, Andy Cato from Wildfarmed recommends ‘land sharing’ where nature and farming co-exist rather than the government’s adopted ‘land sparing’ approach, where chemical intensive, monoculture farming continues with ‘spare’, ie less productive, land is set aside for nature.
Listen; Monetising Water Management; ffinlo Costain Farm Gate 4 March 2025
‘In this programme ffinlo Costain investigates how farmers and other land stewards can earn money from managing water effectively on their land.’
Intro; ‘One food company that has managed to unlock water management funding for its farmer suppliers is Wildfarmed, the regenerative slice bread producer. In January Wildfarmed announced an exclusive deal in which four water companies; Affinity, South Staffs, Southern Water and Wessex Water will each pay farmers to grow wheat in line with Wildfarmed’s audited regenerative standards. A model that the company says has been proved to reduce water pollution and improve soil resilience.
ffinlo Costain, Farm Gate presenter; “What is it that you are looking at in particular in terms of those nature payments, in terms of stacking those different values?”
Andy Cato, Co-founder of Wildfarmed; “There’s three bits to the nature thing as far as I’m concerned. One is that now we can measure the nature outcomes of food-producing systems, it’s a madness to me that we’re about to do a massive development, sort of push for growth, and that all of the money from all of those developers has no choice but to go into rewilding landscapes rather than food producing landscapes. Now that we can measure and we can prove that you can produce food whilst having immediate and significant uplift for nature and biodiversity, we have to surely get a BNG (Biodiversity Net Gain) eligible food producing landscape. There can be a grassland version of that, there can be an arable version of that. Obviously the arable one is my focus. There could be a horticultural one of that. Imagine if some of that BNG money could be creating allotments, as long as they were done with cover crops and companion plants and so on and so forth.
So I think there’s a massive social and financial and political opportunity in channeling some of that development money into food producing land rather than just rewilding. The second one I think is trying to create nature markets for private food businesses. Try and expand beyond carbon myopia and create some kind of a standard so that these can sit on balance sheets as assets. Once you’ve got a measurable and quantifiable nature asset on a balance sheet, it means that if you’re paying £200 for some flour that’s from a nature rich landscape and £150 from some that isn’t, that £50 pounds difference is actually a nature token. It’s in your balance sheet. You’ve actually paid the same amount of money for both types of flour, so it’s no more expensive for the foods. And the third one is about SFI. There’s lots of good things about SFI, but the shadow of ‘nature versus food’, which is the whole premise of the Agri-Environmental schemes in the UK.from the beginning in the eighties, if you want more nature, you grow less food, set aside and all that stuff. You can see that shadow over the SFI still today. So what we really want is an option which recognises again food producing landscapes and hopefully if there was an SFI option, which is nature and food combined, that could also be the framework that is the BNG landscape.”
ffinlo Costain; “Back for a brief moment to the water companies, what do you think their chief motivation is for paying maintenance payments?”
Andy Cato; “Six to one return on investment. It’s as simple as that. This is focussed on not having to get the stuff out of the water downstream. It’s quite a radical shift having a loaf that you can trace back to a group of farmers. I think that in terms of our mission, which is farmer fairness, landscape transformation, food from these systems that’s affordable for all.”
Farmer-grown food shortages in the future will ensure that we will be eating meat manufactured in a laboratory, insects, and ultra-processed plant-based products, all for profit for our corporate masters of wealth and control.
Read or listen; A decade of dissent: defying the global psychopaths Paul Cudenec, 5 March 2025
‘Referring to an astute report by Winter Oak contributor Najm Al-Dīn, we said: “The Ukraine-Russia conflict clearly represents a continuation, by other means, of the Great Reset agenda and will help push forward all the technocrat slavemasters’ pet projects from ‘green’ energy to lab-grown food and, of course, their holy grail of compulsory digital identities for all”. We warned readers not to fall into the trap of taking sides: “It is possible, after all, to be aware at one and the same time of NATO’s provocative expansionism and of the historical links between the militarist Putin regime and the World Economic Forum, which saw a WEF Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution being set up in Russia as recently as 2021”. We stressed: “Development is still destruction even when it is called ‘sustainable’. Bankers are still bankers, whether they have offices in London, New York or Moscow. A ‘multipolar world order’ is still a world order and still very much the enemy of humankind”.
It was pleasing to see that the inspirational anti-globalist Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico, shared our position’ ‘Cause for concern was evidence of a land-grabbing exercise being carried out in the name of environmentalism and “reducing nitrogen emissions”, with agriculture its target. As Najm Al-Dīn pointed out, food shortages “will offer a major boon to the synthetic biology industry as the convergence of digital technologies with material science and biology will radically transform the agricultural sector and encourage the adoption of plant-based and lab-grown alternatives on a global scale”.
We likewise quoted blogger The Feisty Adélie, who wrote: “A vast network of corporations and institutions work together to push the world into accepting synthetic food…”
“From the perspective of appreciating nature as a perfect system, there really is nothing more profane than poisoning manure and replacing animal protein with lab grown meat”.
In reaction to this threat, Dutch farmers, inspired by the Canadian truckers, blocked city streets, motorways and airports and teamed up with German farmers to block border crossings. Farmers in Italy were also in action, declaring, “We are not slaves, we are farmers!” More land-grabbing, again under a false “green” flag, was going on in Africa, a central focus for the global mafia’s neo-imperialism. We wrote, ‘Fortress or colonial conservation, set to expand massively if governments agree to protect 30% of the planet this year, is marketed to the public as a New Deal For Nature, a Paris Agreement for Nature or Nature Positive. In January, the Tanzanian government renewed efforts to seize 1,500 km2 of legally registered village land from Maasai pastoralists, who have sustainably stewarded the area for generations.’ We explained that the government plans would displace more than 70,000 Maasai pastoralists from their ancestral land to create a wildlife corridor that would be used for trophy hunting and tourism.
The Acorn exposed the totalitarian agenda behind Smart Cities revealed in a brochure issued by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat).
We said the title of the 80-page publication was, in itself, disturbing: “Centering People in Smart Cities: A playbook for local and regional governments”. And we commented: “Maybe the title of the brochure could be translated, in plain and truthful English, as ‘Imprisoning People in Digital Concentration Camps’?” The brochure described a 2019 UN resolution stating that “digital technologies have the potential to facilitate efforts to accelerate human progress, and ensure that no one is left behind in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals”. We noted that “accelerating human progress”, from the forked tongue of the global mafia, means nothing more than accelerating their control and profit by means of technological tools.
The Acorn explained: “Global power has used Covid to get us all used to online work, to QR codes, to the need for a digital identity in order to access state services.
“This process, aimed at locking us down in a panopticon of constant surveillance and total control, is set to rapidly accelerate in the years to come if we don’t manage to stop it.
“We are being pushed towards a Chinese-style social credit system, where everything that we consume and do in life is measured, calculated and evaluated by the authorities, with conformity rewarded and dissidence punished. “This totalitarian nightmare is already being rolled out in Europe with the digital identity wallet championed by European Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen. But now it was clear, we said, that we were dealing with “a vile clique of power-hungry psychopaths lying and intimidating their way towards their goal of total global domination”.’
Kennedy’s work to make Americans healthy again will ripple across the Atlantic to improve our food quality, diets and thereby health.
Watch; GRAS (Generally Recognised As Safe) chemicals currently in our food; R F Kennedy Jr, 13 March 2025
“Hi, I’m Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I’m the secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services. In the final months of the election, President Trump repeatedly called for removing toxins from our food supply. He added his voice to the millions of MAHA moms who were touting the Make America Healthy Again agenda. The first step is radical transparency, because right now not even the US government knows what’s in our food. In 1958, the government created a designation called Generally Recognised as Safe or GRAS, so that we could make common ingredients like salt and baking soda exempt from testing. But today it isn’t just salt and baking soda.
Food companies and cooperative regulators have enlarged the GRAS exemption so that these companies can decide for themselves whether a substance is generally recognised as safe. No FDA approval is needed. European nations, on the other hand, require that a chemical be proven safe before it becomes a food ingredient. In our country, the GRAS standard means that every chemical is presumed safe until proven dangerous. And that proof might not happen until millions of Americans are sick with chronic disease. This mass experiment on the American population with GRAS has, in short, been a catastrophe. We now have around 10,000 chemicals in our food. Europe has only 400.
For example, titanium dioxide, potentially linked to DNA damage and cancer, is banned in the EU, but it’s in our children’s food. Potassium bromate, a suspected carcinogen banned in Europe and Japan, and you guessed it, it’s in our children’s bread. Dyes such as red dye 40 and yellow 5 and 6 come with warning labels in Europe, they’re linked to behavioural issues in children, but in the US, they’re generally recognised as safe. I can’t really blame the food companies, they’re just doing what we’ve allowed them to get away with in a system that’s taken on a life of its own. We all agree now that it’s time to change the system.
And that’s exactly what we’re going to do. I am today directing the FDA commissioner to start the process of changing the rules to eliminate the self affirming GRAS pathway for new ingredients. I’m also directing the FDA and NIH to ramp up post market assessments of GRAS chemicals currently in our food so that we can rapidly identify the compounds that are making Americans so sick, and so that American consumers and regulators can make informed decisions. This issue isn’t going away.
Moms aren’t going to return to wanting chemicals in our food that are banned in other developed countries. Even industry knows that we have to change. So I promise you, I’m going to work with all parties, the companies, the moms, the scientists, the consumer advocates to make American food the healthiest in the world the way that it was when I was a child.”
UK farmers reducing pesticide use by 10% by 2025 sounds good, but the small text of the Pesticide Action Plan says that ‘UK governments will support farmers to increase their use of sustainable farming practices to reduce the potential harm from pesticides by 10%.’ I presume they are going to achieve this with agri-tech solutions such as GM crops that are supposed to be resistant to pests, or GM crops resistant to herbicides like glyphosate, which is already widely used across the UK, most alarmingly to dry cereal crops just before harvest.
Until it makes economic sense to stop using pesticides, conventional farmers will be unable to compete with the pesticide-doused produce from abroad. To avoid this conflict between farming and Nature, the government should subsidise conversion to organic mixed farming where animals, crops and soils are locked in a fertility cycle.
Read; Government launches first action plan on pesticides in a decade; Pesticides National Action Plan, 8point9.com, 21 March 2025
‘The UK is a world leader in agri-food research & development. The actions in the National Action Plan (NAP) will build on this strong foundation and support continued growth in the sector, including by supporting manufacturers to bring more biopesticides to market and reducing barriers to innovation and precision application technology, such as drones.
Through the Farming Innovation Programme, DEFRA has already committed £150 million for industry-led research and development in agriculture and horticulture, demonstrating the Government’s commitment to drive innovation that will transform the productivity, profitability, and sustainability of farming.’
Words of wisdom and experience from two US farmer heroes discussing their vision of farming.
Watch; Michael Pollan & Joel Salatin | The Future of Food And Farming; The Homestead
Michael Pollan; “…… I wanted to understand where the beef I was eating came from. Little did I know that to find out where your food comes from in America, you now need an investigative journalist. 75 years ago, everybody knew where their food came from, but it’s hidden now behind this long, opaque food chain. And this was an article not primarily about grass-fed beef and alternatives, it was an article about the industrial system and how screwed up it is, and that we were feeding corn to animals that evolved to eat grass and that necessitated all these pharmaceuticals that we were giving them so they could not get sick on their corn diet. It was a pretty dark piece.
I bought a steer in South Dakota. I followed it through the whole process from insemination to slaughter and wrote this account of it. I didn’t want to leave people feeling despair at the end of this article so, even though it was a long piece I wrote a section at the end that there is an alternative; there’s a handful of people, and they’re growing, finishing cattle on grass. It might be a little more expensive, it might be a little chewier, but compare these two food systems; you have one which is an oil-based food system using fossil fuel to create the nitrogen fertiliser to create the corn, to feed the animals. You’re eating oil essentially when you eat that kind of meat. Or imagine another food chain where the sun feeds the grass and the grass feeds the animals, this food chain one I learned about from Joel.”
I’m one year out of date to inform you about Food Inc 2, an excellent film about the concentration of our food economy into the hands of a small number of giant corporations – hence sick people.
Watch; Food, Inc. 2 – Official Trailer | Directed by Melissa Robledo, Robert Kenner | Documentary produced by Magnolia Pictures & Magnet Releasing April 2024
Intro; ‘In Food, Inc. 2, the sequel to the 2008 Oscar®-nominated and Emmy®-award winning documentary, Food, Inc., filmmakers Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) to take a fresh look at our efficient yet vulnerable food system. Since the first film, multinational corporations have tightened their stronghold on the U.S. government. The system at large has robbed workers of a fair living wage, and profit focused corporations are proliferating a chemically formulated international health crisis by focusing on growing the market for ultra-processed foods.The film centers around innovative farmers, future-thinking food producers, workers’ rights activists and prominent legislators such as U.S Senators Cory Booker and Jon Tester, who are facing these companies head-on to inspire change and build a healthier, more sustainable future.’
The most inept government adviser is back lauding his absurd predictions to the powers that shouldn’t be.
Read or listen; It’s Time to Prepare for Armageddon (or at least hide in the Shed): Ferguson is Back; Rhoda Wilson, The Exposé, 8 March 2025
‘Neil Ferguson, the man I think of as possibly the most laughably inept scientist in the world, is back with a prediction that dairy herd outbreaks of avian influenza will continue to be a significant public health challenge. There is, inevitably, a call for urgent biosecurity interventions and targeted surveillance schemes. Doubtless, there will be calls for cows to stand 12 feet apart in fields and socialising for cows will be banned completely. Cows with feathers, or those which fly around in the evenings, will be quarantined. Schools for calves will be shut. This is what I said about Ferguson in my book `Truth Teller: The Price’:
Early in 2020, Antoinette and I realised that governments around the world were over-selling the risks associated with the coronavirus. Widely quoted predictions based on mathematical models were clearly outrageous, and everyone in government and the medical profession seemed to have forgotten that the ordinary, common or garden flu can (and does) kill many hundreds of thousands every year. The warnings and predictions were clearly exaggerated, and the epidemiology of what was being promoted as a new and deadly plague was clearly identical to the epidemiology of the annual flu. Neil Ferguson, the man most widely recognised as being behind the mathematical models had a terrible track record, and it was difficult to see why anyone in authority was taking any notice of his warnings. Ferguson was professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College in London and on the basis of his advice, the politicians decided we should be locked in and subjected to social distancing rules. But this is what the Government knew about Ferguson when they decided to put their trust in him and his team:
– In 2001, the Imperial team did the modelling on foot and mouth disease which led to a cull of six million sheep, pigs and cattle. The cost to the UK was around £10 billion. But the Imperial’s work has been described as “severely flawed.”
– In 2002, Ferguson predicted that up to 50,000 people would die from mad cow disease. He said that could rise to 150,000 if sheep were involved. In the UK, the death total was 177.
– In 2005, Ferguson said that up to 200 million people could be killed by bird flu. The total number of deaths was 282 worldwide. That’s 282, not 282 million.
– In 2009, Ferguson and his chums at Imperial advised the Government which, relying on that advice, said that swine flu would kill 65,000 people in the UK. In the end, swine flu killed 457 people in the UK.
– Finally, Ferguson admitted that his model of the Covid-19 was based on undocumented 13-year-old computer code that was intended for use with an influenza epidemic.
No one seemed to question Ferguson’s work on Covid-19 – despite the fact that if he was wrong again (which I believed he was) the nation would be pushed back into the Dark Ages as a result of his work. In February and March of 2020, I questioned the claim that we were at the start of a major plague. In the early months of 2020, I started writing articles for my websites about what I called then “The Coronavirus Hoax.” I could see that bad things were about to happen and I knew I had to do whatever I could to share my fears with as many people as possible. My comments (all of which were entirely accurate and based on fact) proved deeply unpopular with the medical and political establishment. Overnight, without any evidence, I was labelled as a conspiracy theorist, a discredited doctor and a danger to mankind. I believe that I was subsequently targeted more than anyone (and I know of no other doctor or author in the world who has been as completely banned as I have) and I suspect this was simply because I have a medical degree, a good deal of experience in writing and a large, global audience of loyal readers. So, what are the odds of Ferguson being wrong again? And, more importantly, why is anyone listening to this bozo? Why isn’t he cleaning drains and digging ditches for a living? Ferguson, the reliable purveyor of garbage science, is, remember, also infamous for breaking his own lockdown rules. And, curiously, Ferguson was invited to give evidence to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry. (It should be noted that Ferguson was invited after getting everything wrong. I got everything absolutely right and although I offered to give evidence I was ignored.) On past history, Ferguson can be expected to provide reliably inaccurate figures which can be used to spread fear and terror, push up food prices and do further damage to the economy. Why would anyone listen to such a man? Actually, I’m surprised he isn’t a Scientific Adviser to the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organisation and the rest of the lunatics. Maybe he is.’
If Kary Mullis, the inventor of the PCR test, says that it should not be used to detect infectious diseases due to its giving false positives, why is it being used to test poultry or any other livestock for avian flu? Perhaps the PCR test on the sheep recently found to have bird flu was backed up by a more sensitive test such as immunoassay? Vet, Roger Meacock would have been a good voice to include in the Farming Today programme to debate whether birds or livestock really should be killed and livelihoods destroyed if bird flu is simply detected by the PCR test.
Listen; UK Column 26th March commentary on the BBC Farming Today 26 March 2025
UK Column Presenter; “Now, here is Christine Middlemiss speaking on BBC farming today, this morning about the peril that we’re in!”
Christine Middlemiss, UK’s chief vet; “We don’t think there’s increased risk if there’s not a clear pathway. So I wouldn’t be worrying about necessarily being near a poultry farm, but don’t leave open sheep feed if you can avoid it where wild birds can come along and they have bird droppings in the feed and then the sheep eats them. These sorts of things are important to be, be aware of.”
BBC Presenter; “How worried are you that there has been a case in sheep full stop?
Christine Middlemiss, UK’s chief vet; “Well, this is our surveillance working, We have a risk based programme and it said there is risk and we found one sheep and the other sheep are negative. So that actually is quite comforting that we have a programme in place and it’s doing what we asked it to do. And they say the risks to the general public remains as low and additionally the Food Standard Agency say the risk to the general public is very low.”
UK Column Presenter; “So at the same time as the risk of the public is low, why should we be worried as it cannot affect you, but it can… all very confusing. Given what she said, is it in fact just possible that sheep could come into contact with wild bird droppings that might be found in the middle of field! So the whole narrative is of course absurd. It illustrates that confirmation bias will be allowed to play now that this so-called surveillance will move to species in proximity to poultry birds. And it’s beyond question that if you want to find it, you only need to test (PCR test?) for it and then it’s of no consequence at all whether there is any discernible or observable disease.”
CO2 tunnel vision
Michael Mann has been a poster boy for the climate hoax for years. Mark Steyn tried to sue him for his corruptions but that backfired. However, now Mann’s plotting against detractors has backfired as well. It seems that more members of the public are waking up to this particular skulduggery.
Read; The downfall of climate change poster boy Michael Mann James Delingpole, The Spectator, 20 March 2025
‘Even if you’ve never heard of Michael Mann, you will have felt his baleful influence on your energy bills. He is the inventor of the hockey stick chart, which shows a sharp increase in late 20th century global temperatures, like the blade of an ice hockey stick. It put rocket boosters on the climate change scare and was used as an excuse by policymakers to send green taxes, tariffs and regulations soaring. Mann was an obscure academic who had just been given his PhD at the University of Massachusetts when his graph was published in the journal Nature in 1998. Within months – fêted everywhere from the New York Times to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – he’d become the poster boy for the alleged global warming apocalypse. Never before had a scientist demonstrated the threat of imminent climate catastrophe so graphically or dramatically.
But from the start, Mann’s thesis came under attack from an array of critics. They argued, for example, that the proxies he had used to recreate early temperatures (e.g. tree ring data) were unreliable; that his statistical methodology was flawed; that his algorithms were so corrupt that whatever data you input, you’d always get the same unscientific, politically driven hockey stick shape. And at last those critics have been vindicated. Not, unfortunately, by an official re-examination of Mann’s chart, which is never going to happen because there are too many vested interests at stake. But rather in the unlikely setting of a Jarndyce vs Jarndyce-style lawsuit, which Mann launched years ago with a view to impoverishing and immiserating his detractors, but which has recently backfired spectacularly’.
Climate change is being used as a weapon of fear to escalate global control by corporations over individuals.
Read or Listen; The decades-long “climate change” plan to strip away personal freedom, wealth and property by Rhoda Wilson The Exposé, 13 March 2025
‘The Rockefeller family and the Trilateral Commission have been orchestrating a sinister plan under the guise of “climate change.” This scheme raises serious threats to individual freedom, personal wealth and property rights. What’s really at stake in this agenda and how might it impact our way of life? Jesse Smith dives into the implications and uncovers the truth behind the headlines.’
‘Jesse Smith has been publishing a series of articles titled ‘Technocracy Ascending’. The following is Part 3. You can find other parts published so far by following the hyperlinks below:
Technocracy Ascending – Part 1: Why It’s Crucial to Understand the End Game
Technocracy Ascending – Part 2: Trust Me, I’m a Technocrat
In Part 3, Smith describes how the Rockefeller family and the Trilateral Commission have been instrumental in advancing a new international economic order and global governance, aiming to establish a technocratic dictatorship.
They co-opted the environmental movement, using fear and misinformation to shift the blame for ecological damage from corporations to individuals, and promoting the concept of Sustainable Development as a means to control resources and populations.
The Rockefeller family has created and funded various organisations, including The World Bank, the United Nations and the Club of Rome, to promote the theory of anthropogenic global warming and push for a sustainable future.
The United Nations’ Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 are key plans to implement a technocratic system, to inventory and control all aspects of human life and nature, ultimately leading to the annihilation of individual rights and national sovereignty.
The ultimate goal of the “green economy” is not environmental protection, but a wealth redistribution scheme that benefits multinational corporations and private banks, while stripping away individual freedom, wealth and property.’
Interesting to hear Liz Truss talk about the Deep State being made up of the Davos elite and equate both the transgender and the NetZero narratives to ‘groupthink’ – ie both being utter nonsense.
Watch; The Dark Truth: This is Who REALLY Rules The UK – Ex-Prime Minister Liz Truss Andrew Gold, 24 February 2025
Liz Truss; “….even ministers in the system don’t fully understand the whole system. I have worked in six government departments, so I’m quite rare in having seen a lot of it. And the same problems, the lack of transparency, the lack of accountability, the lack of information I see across the board. So this is a systemic problem with the British state. A lot of people just think, okay, I was a minister in the Environment department, that was terrible, but I’m sure the other departments are better. They’re not. They’re all like that.”
Presenter Andrew Gold: “I see. It is crazy and it makes you go, well, who really is in charge? There are conspiracy theories of course, but who really rules the country or the world? Did you get any inkling into that? Like the Deep State? What is the Deep State?”
Liz Truss; ” I don’t think there is a conspiracy of people trying to orchestrate the British government, but what there is is a severe case of groupthink. It was influenced by the EU when we were a member and is now influenced by, you might call it the Davos elite – the acceptable thinking amongst people in corporations, people in government departments, people in the mainstream media, the US State Department. And when you see what’s coming out of USAID and the projects they’re funding, that is the way this thing operates. But it doesn’t operate by a single person in a dark room with puppet strings. It’s been a takeover of western democracies by an elite group of technocrats who think they know best and have bought into the climate change NetZero ideologies that are a part of that. They bought into the transgender ideology. It was unacceptable a few years ago to say, well actually these men are not women, they’re actually men. So that kind of spreading of bad ideas has been enabled by the British state because it’s so opaque and it’s so unaccountable.”
Oh dear…….23 pages of the author Paul Cudenec are excessive but what could I leave out when he makes so much sense? His four articles written in March expose the deep state operating against the interests of humanity as they consolidate their long held plans to control and subordinate us to become their useless eaters and servants. This one shows how climate change has been used as the pretext towards a global government in the hands of a few corporate, family billionaires and political elites.
Read or listen; Rising to our feet; Paul Cudenec 19 March 2025
“How does it make you feel to know that the same people who five years ago assaulted the world with their Covid scamdemic are today committing genocide in Palestine? And that once again their corporate media and political puppets are pushing their agenda, relaying their odious lies and intimidating those whose dare speak out against their crimes? How can we deal with the fact that this same globalist entity is also using the pretext of “fighting climate change” to poison our food, steal our freedom, herd us towards its innovative and inclusive smart concentrations camps? And that it is still deliberately manufacturing and prolonging bloody wars, demonically sacrificing countless young lives on all sides, in order to satisfy its relentless greed for control? I know that there are many others out there whose guts are screaming out to them that we cannot allow this to continue, that we simply have to do everything we possibly can to stop this evil. It is not a question of “politics”, of the “left” and “right” and “centre” with which they always distract and divide us, of the single issues and rigid sectarian positions in which they are happy to see us immerse ourselves, losing sight of the larger context.
What we clearly need today is an awakening on a scale far broader, and with an understanding far deeper, than anything humankind has ever witnessed before. The peril facing us is so great, so insidious, that we have to tap into resources of strength, determination and courage that have until now remained dormant. We need to shake off all the confusion and lethargy inflicted on us by the poisonous parasites and finally say “NO!” to their imposture. This Great Rejection will have to weave together several great threads in a way that until now has not been achieved. First, and most obviously, it will be against globalisation. The only people in the world who want a World State are those who know they are going to be controlling it. Top-down control of humankind on a global level – which already exists to a great extent, as we saw in 2020 – is entirely incompatible with any kind of genuine democracy.
A call for real democracy, for decisions to be made by – and thus in the interests of – the people rather than our self-appointed rulers, will therefore be central to our uprising. Globalism is also a denial of the right to self-determination, another key ingredient of our alternative vision.”
If the authorities make NetZero the motivation for everything they do, then they must accept that NetZero is the cause of most of their fuckups too.
Read; Why Did Heathrow’s Backup Fail? Paul Homewood, 21 March 2025
‘Chaos at Heathrow Airport can be blamed on the drive for NetZero by successive governments, according to Reform UK MP Richard Tice. Speaking on GB News, Tice said Heathrow has changed its backup electrical systems to reach green targets and the decision has now come back to bite them.The airport will be closed all day Friday after a fire at an electrical substation near by that supplies it with power. Tice said on the People’s Channel, “Critical infrastructure like that obviously needs a backup and I can exclusively reveal to you this morning that Heathrow changed its backup systems to be NetZero compliant. It got rid of their diesel generators and moved to a biomass generator which was designed not to completely replace the grid, but work alongside the grid. Their NetZero compliant backup system has completely failed in its core function at the first time of asking. It beggars belief.”’
Corporate greed is driving the CO2 hoax.
Read; More taxpayer-funded pork barrel for the Green Blob; Andrew Neil, 20 March 2025
‘Ed Miliband is offering the CEO of his new state-owned GB Energy company a combined salary and bonus of £525,000/year. The bonus alone is bigger than the PM’s salary of £172,000. Oh yes … for two out of five days of the week you can work from home. Lovely Jubbly.’
Globalist Starmer taps into the murky world of climate finance for Labour donations. The opaque company makes perpetual profits, like a money printing machine, it doesn’t pay wages but, in 2022 the employees earned an average of £3.66 million a year each.
Listen; Dirty Money Shuffles: And Who Are Quadrature? UK Column News Podcast, 17 March 2025
Ben Rubin; “We’re going to have a look at how international investors and algorithmic trading companies in the City of London are pumping millions of pounds into the UK political system in order to create and capture a trillion pound marketplace in climate technology. I’m going to start by looking at this organisation, this is Quadrature, a technology business that takes trading positions determined by statistical models to generate returns on its own proprietary capital. They use algorithms to trade with their own money to make essentially perpetual profits, like a money printing machine. They call it the Ultimate Automated Trading Business. And you’ll notice there are no people in the video on their website. Very telling. They do actually have a few employees. They’ve got just over 200 employees. They’re based in the City of London, right next to the Gherkin, and they pay their people an average of £3.66 million a year each in 2022. Right. So they’re generating an enormous amount of money. They’re incredibly opaque. So both technologically they run a black box trading system. We don’t understand how this thing operates in the background financially. It’s based in the Cayman Islands, so it’s in a tax haven and culturally it’s described by people in industry as a bit of a cult.
So it’s quite an interesting term to use when talking about an organisation like this. The cult is led by these two, so this is Greg Skinner and Sunil Setia, who are big time maths and science guys. One studied mathematics, one studied physics, Cambridge and Manchester University respectively. They’ve been working in the City for the past 30 years. They set Quadrature up about 15 years ago and interestingly, they receive no salaries from the business, but instead they’ve taken a combined total of about £160 million in low interest loans from the company in order to drastically reduce the amount of income tax that they have to pay, which makes them perfect candidates to make huge donations to the Labour Party. And last year they gave £4 million to Labour. It’s the largest ever donation that has been given to the Labour Party in its entire history. And this was particularly interesting. This report here from Open Democracy came in September and they revealed that the Labour received the donation in the one week window between the former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announcing the general election and the start of the pre-poll reporting period in which all political donations over £11,180 had to be published weekly rather than the quarterly norm. So essentially they’ve made this donation deliberately in that period to avoid scrutiny ahead of the election. I think we have to assume that Starmer et al., the whole Labour apparatus would have known about this. I can’t say whether it was their choice to do so or not, but the minimum is they could have declared it to the public so that it was made highly visible to the public and of course that didn’t happen. In line with my opening segment today where Starmer and his team do not want to tell the public how they’re even running the government.
So £4 million straight into the Labour Party. And then what else is Quadrature doing with the money? It’s putting tens, hundreds of millions into this thing. This is the Quadrature Climate Foundation. The new climate reality demands unprecedented climate action. We’re very familiar with all this stuff and what are they up to? So they say that their work has a global focus. ‘Since launching in 2019, we’ve committed more than a billion dollars to more than 180 organisations in 17 countries advancing climate solutions around the world’. This includes donations to the United Nations, the London School of Economics, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the World Economic Forum, the Bureau for Investigative Journalism. So they’re funding the people that are supposed to be investigating them. No conflicts of interest there at all. And also a political foundation who I’ll come back to a little bit later. Now, all this climate stuff, you could present this potentially as being altruistic. They want to fix the problems of the world, but unfortunately I’m a bit more cynical and actually the actions of the founders suggest that that’s not what’s going on here at all. Because Greg Skinner at the start of this year acquired a 50% stake in Ethical Power Group, right, which is a UK business actually based in Exeter, just down the road, and they’ve already got 14 projects up and running across the UK. Solar energy, you can see the image just popping in at bottom of the frame there. And his money includes a £15 million working capital loan to support the growth of this organisation in the UK market and internationally.
So the Quadrature Fund, one of the owners, has got a vested interest in the commercial growth and development of the market that his charitable fund is promoting, is pushing the agenda.
What else has he got from his money from the Labour government? Well, quite a lot actually. So the UK Climate envoy, so our top international voice talking about climate issues, this lady, Rachel Kite, former World Bank Climate Chief, was put into position in September. So Quadrature have put a load of money in. This appointment is made and she’s actually a trustee of Quadrature Climate foundation. So she’s on the board and she hasn’t resigned that position. So she’s still a trustee while operating in that capacity for the British government. And Quadrature have also put a lot of money, as we’re about to find out, into a political foundation in order to retrain UK government officials to make them more amenable to the climate agenda.”
Chemtrails
‘America is rising to reclaim her skies — 25 states strong, and now the Executive Branch is listening.’
Read; US Executive Momentum is Building: RFK Jr. Signals Support for State-Led Geoengineering Bans Sayer Ji, 24 March 2025
“24 States move to ban geoengineering our climate by dousing our citizens, our waterways and landscapes with toxins. This is a movement every MAHA needs to support. HHS will do its part.” Robert F Kennedy Jr
‘With 24 U.S. states now having introduced legislation to ban atmospheric geoengineering — including a soon-to-be filed bill from Michigan, the latest to join — the grassroots-led, people-powered Sky-Sovereignty Movement is achieving what many once thought impossible: awakening the nation to the silent, shadowy manipulation of our weather and skies. This is no longer fringe. This is no longer future. This is now. Our skies — and our children — can no longer be treated as collateral damage in unregulated experiments cloaked in climate “solutions.” The spraying of our atmosphere with unaccountable aerosols, nanoparticles, and chemical agents violates bodily sovereignty, environmental sanctity, and human dignity. What was once dismissed as conspiracy is now the subject of state-level policy, grassroots mobilisation, and now — federal attention.’
Watch; Are Chemtrails Real? RFK Podcast with Dane Wigington, 1 March 2023
R F Kennedy Jr; “One thing that a lot of people have heard about and nobody really knows what to think about it are chemtrails. Are chemtrails real? Tell us about them.”
Dane Wigington; “Let’s start with the appropriate place to start. What we’re seeing in our skies are not condensation trails. In almost all cases they are sprayed particulate trails. And we’re not speculating. We have up close film footage of military tankers and commercial nozzles visible turning on and off. GeoEngineeringWatch.org as a part of the film The Dimming at great effort and expense, we acquired a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration flying lab, put top scientists in it, took samples at altitude behind heavy aircraft. We sampled what they were emitting, sample was processed at one of the top testing institutions in the world. We found exactly what we knew we would find, climate engineering elements starting with aluminium, which is named in one of the most significant climate engineering patents. The climate engineers themselves have stated their goal of putting tens of millions of tonnes of aluminium nanoparticles into the atmosphere annually as part of solar radiation management, to block some of the sun’s incoming thermal energy with no consideration of the consequences whatsoever.”
Censorship/Surveillance/Coercion/Corruption
‘Digital Public Infrastructure, a technology agenda that’s being pushed by unelected global elites, bureaucrats, and big corporations with one goal in mind; complete control over every aspect of your life.’
Watch: How DPI Threatens YOUR Personal Freedom; GB News, 25 March 2025
‘Explore how Covid-19 accelerated the rise of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), threatening personal freedom through digital IDs, CBDCs, and AI surveillance. Learn the shocking truth about government and corporate control in our post-pandemic world.’
Intro GB News Presenter; “Have you ever felt like the government is trying to control more of your life? Well brace yourselves because things are about to get a lot worse. We’re talking about the rise of Digital Public Infrastructure, that’s DPI to you and me. A technology agenda that’s being pushed by unelected global elites, bureaucrats, and big corporations with one goal in mind; complete control over every aspect of your life. And no this isn’t a conspiracy theory. This is happening right now and it’s happening fast.
I’m Patrick Christie, and this is GBN Original. So let’s get stuck in. Imagine a world where every single transaction, movement, and choice you make is tracked, monitored, and influenced by both public and private entities. A world where access to basic goods, services and even your mobility could be controlled by a digital ID. So first, let’s break down what exactly digital public infrastructure is. According to a recent report from the World Bank, DPI consists of three components, a digital ID, fast payment systems, and data exchanges that link governments, businesses, and citizens.
The authors of this report claimed ‘the Covid-nineteen pandemic underscored the value of DPI demonstrating that countries with existing DPIs were able to deliver emergency assistance faster and more effectively.’
Madagascar Wallah; “In fact, it was an occasion for us to experiment a digital surveillance. We developed an application called The Covid Data during the pandemic, and in fact, it was the first time that we were tracking the spread of the virus in the two main towns of Madagascar, Antananarivo, and Tuomaala, in order to stop the spread of the virus. And we succeeded in it. And in fact, as it was the first experience, it was a success. And in fact, we are now implementing a national wide surveillance.”
Patrick Christie; “Covid-nineteen is where it all began. Like so many things, the pandemic was the perfect excuse for governments to roll out their digital surveillance systems. We saw how quickly lockdowns, contact tracing, vaccine distribution, all of those things were managed using digital tools, and now the infrastructure put in place during the pandemic is being used as a blueprint for the future. The World Bank even went so far as to praise India’s digital ID system, called Adha. The government used AI to track and monitor who was vaccinated and who wasn’t. They went through more than 1 billion people to find who wasn’t vaccinated and then forced it upon them. It’s remarkable, isn’t it? For anyone who they couldn’t effectively force the vaccine on them, they just locked them out of society. They did this with the use of QR-coded vaccine passports. The Supreme Court of India later ruled in May, 2022 that no individual could be forced to get vaccinated owing to bodily integrity and personal autonomy. Under Article XXI of their constitution.
Reporter in India; “The Supreme Court has also come down heavy on the government for imposing vaccination. In fact, in the latest Supreme Court observation, they have said that no individual can be forced to get vaccinated. And the right to boldly integrity, bodily integrity of a person under Article XXI of the Constitution includes the right to refuse to get vaccinated.”
Patrick Christie; “Well, it didn’t stop them doing it at the time though, did it? Now, with digital public infrastructure, the government will be able to control everything from what you can buy to where you can go, simply by controlling your digital ID. Imagine that world where your access to everything is determined by a simple string of data. Your digital identity needs to go out and buy some groceries? Your ID has to match certain criteria. Do you want to travel? Your digital record determines whether you are allowed on the plane or the train, whether it’s government agencies or private corporations, thet will all be able to access and control this data. And it’s all powered by AI and machine learning, which can predict, analyse and even manipulate human behaviour. But it’s not just about convenience. This is about power, control over every single one of us. Now, let’s talk about potentially the biggest concern here. Okay? Programmable Digital Currencies. These aren’t just your regular credit cards or bank notes. We are talking about Central Bank Digital Currencies and Stable Coins, which are fully traceable and programmable. That means that governments or corporations could decide at any given time what you can and cannot purchase.”
David Miller, describes his arrest after attending and reporting on the funeral of Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut.
Listen; UK Column News Podcast 5 March 2025
David Miller; “So I was detained under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism act when I came back from Beirut on Monday night, the 24th. And the reason for that was of course, because I’d been at the funeral for Sayed Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut and I had posted on X a number of posts about my experience of the funeral with shots of the actual ceremony itself. As a result, zionist Twitter went absolutely crazy, started mass reporting me to the police, anonymous trolls, known personalities, zionist lobby groups, all calling for me to be stopped and detained under Schedule 7. And then the Daily Mail just after midnight and then the Telegraph later on that day. And the Telegraph had a quote from Robert Jenrick, the former Housing Minister who called for me to be arrested, said I was supporting terrorism and wasn’t even hiding my anti semitism. Now, of course, Robert Jenrick has form in this regard. Of course, he’s a political zionist and he tried to get me sacked from my job at the University of Bristol, in which he was partially successful. So that’s why I was stopped and detained under Schedule 7, because the zionists bounced the police into doing it.:
Vanessa Beeley; “Of course, section 7 was the section that I was also detained under a couple of years ago. And this has basically led me onto this oral statement by the Security Minister, Dan Jarvis, yesterday in which he announced that they will place the whole of the Iranian state, including the intelligence agencies, the Republican Guard, onto the enhanced tier of the new Foreign Influence Registration Scheme, FIRS, which is very similar to the FARA scheme in the US, the Foreign Agent Registration Act. In his statement he said, basically, the director of MI5 recently stated that since the start of 2020, the UK has responded to 20 Iran-backed plots presenting potentially lethal threats to British citizens and UK residents. Well, I’m sure people would like more details on that. I’m also sure that people are going to get zero details on what exactly those supposed threats were. He went on to say, this action will mean that those that are directed by Iran to conduct activities in the UK, such as criminal proxies. So he leaps immediately to the accusation that will be levied at anyone that has connections to Iran in the UK, must register that activity, whatever it is, or face five years in prison. So this of course means people like David Miller and others who are presenting a show in the UK that is effectively on behalf of Press TV, Iranian State TV, are going to have to register their activities. So, you know, the crackdown on dissent and the challenging of UK establishment narratives continues and the ramping up of antagonism against Iran.”
Yet another voice for Palestine, Max Blumenthal, arrested and questioned with his wife and child on their return to the US
Watch; MAX Blumenthal : Restrained at Dulles International for Speech! Judge Napolitano 27 February 2025
Max Blumenthal; “I can’t be specific, but generally speaking, it’s about the political views that I express in public and just to be sure everything I do is public, right? I’m a journalist, I’m transparent about my views. Had I participated in political activities in Nicaragua, it would’ve been public. I would’ve said ‘I was at this ceremony or I interviewed this politician’. Nothing is taking place secretly. Shout out to the FBI right now, ‘I hope you all are enjoying this episode. I hope you learned something even.I hope you open your mind a little bit.”
Judge Napolitano; “I think you’re a hero, Max. You’ve known that I’ve felt that way for a long time. And this is another example of it. I wonder what would’ve happened if you had asserted your constitutional right to remain silent. But would you and Anya still be there?”
Max Blumenthal; “Well, perhaps I should have, there was a red line I wasn’t going to cross, but I didn’t reach what I thought was the red line. But to anyone who’s watching this, the best course of action is always to assert your constitutional right to remain silent. The Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that the police and authorities inside the US are allowed to lie to you in order to elicit a criminal confession. The ACLU has, I think, forced the government into allowing any traveler into the United States after a certain period of time. So the US government is not allowed to prevent you from entering your country where you are a citizen and you have constitutional protections. So it could have been that I would’ve been delayed. We arrived at around 3 am, as you mentioned I had a small child with me, and we had been on a long flight. So I did want to get out of there quickly, and they could have held us in what would’ve been kind of a form of abuse. But they can’t force you to answer questions without a warrant or a subpoena. And they can’t not let you back in your country. So it’s really just a waiting game.”
Watch; Zionist lawfare in Canada; Palestine Declassified; 26 March 2025
‘This episode of Palestine Declassified exposes who is behind the tactics being deployed by the zionist lobby in Canada to silence opponents of genocide.’
Chris Williamson; “Yves, you spent five days in jail on the say-so of a genocide apologist. I wonder whether you could tell us what happened and who was this person who reported you?”
Yves Engler; “Yeah, Dahlia Kurtz is her name, she is a prominent zionist influencer. She used to have a role in the corporate media. She still does a bit, but mostly or the way I know of her is just that she posts all kinds of racist, pro-violent, anti-Palestinian messages on X. And going back maybe a year, when I became aware of her a bit more than that, I just responded to her racism by mocking her a bit, but mostly just sort of political statements. And sometime in the summer, she posted this threatening kind of message, she tweeted me harassing me, please stop, this is the only warning I’m giving you,’ kind of stuff. And I just responded in the same kind of way on acts of, of political response with a bit of snarky kind of stuff, never messaged her, never contacted her, don’t even follow her on X.
She decided not to block me. Instead, she went to the police. The police opened this case against me. They decided that there wasn’t enough evidence to move forward. They closed the case. Then this lawyer, Neil Oberman, who’s this prominent zionist lawyer, the leading lawfare activist in Montreal who was running for the Conservative Party in the upcoming elections, he sent a letter to the police on behalf of his law firm and they reopened the case. And then two months later, they decided to charge me. I mean, Dahlia Kurtz, she didn’t even block me on X. It was as simple as you don’t want me to be able to respond to your racist messages, just block me. She decided not to do that. It was obviously planned. I assume when she made her declaration on X she’d already got some advice from a lawyer to try to sort of begin the process of opening up a legal front here.
I went to jail. It’s important to note I didn’t go to jail because I was found guilty of anything that I did. What I went to jail for was, the police wanted to insert conditions that said that I couldn’t talk about the case. I couldn’t mention Dahlia Kurtz’s name. And I should also note that after I wrote about it, when the police told me to come in to arrest me the next day, I wrote about it later that day. They then the next day charged me with four counts of harassing the police so initially I was harassing the zionist influencer, now I’m harassing the police because I wrote about the case against me.
Ultimately we got before a judge we won this condition battle so I am allowed to do this interview now and mention her name but that was why I spent five days in jail for criticising a zionist influencer, absolutely.”
Again free speech undermined in the US, the land of the allegedly free!
Read; Brown University Professor Deported to Lebanon Over ‘Sympathetic Photos’ of Hezbollah Leaders; Scheerpost, 19 March 2025
‘Rasha Alawieh, a Lebanese physician and assistant professor at Brown University in the US, was deported to Lebanon over the weekend despite holding a valid US work visa and a federal judge’s order temporarily blocking her removal. Her detention began Thursday at Boston Logan International Airport following a trip to Lebanon. Alawieh, 34, had travelled to Lebanon for a family visit, spending two weeks with her parents. Upon returning to the US on 13 March 2025, she was surprised to be detained by immigration authorities at Boston Logan International Airport. Despite her legal visa, her phone was confiscated, and she was prevented from communicating with her family or lawyer. Despite her lawyer’s continued efforts to defend her, she was deported to Lebanon after several hours of detention without any convincing explanation.
US authorities attempted to justify the deportation by citing alleged ties to Hezbollah after discovering “sympathetic photos and videos” on her phone of prominent leaders of the group. Alawieh allegedly told border authorities she had attended the funeral of the Lebanese resistance movement’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah. After her cousin filed a lawsuit, Judge Leo Sorokin issued an order requiring federal officials to notify the court before deporting her. However, before the hearing scheduled for Monday, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) ignored the court’s directive and placed her on a flight out of the country. In response, Judge Sorokin condemned the government’s actions, stating that CBP had knowingly disregarded the order and demanded an explanation. CBP declined to comment, but a spokesperson claimed to Reuters that it follows strict security protocols in screening foreign nationals. Alawieh’s deportation has sparked outrage at Brown University, where colleagues expressed disbelief over the decision.
“None of us know why this happened,” said Dr George Bayliss, a Brown medical professor who works with Alawieh. Brown issued a statement saying it is investigating the situation but advised international students and faculty to reconsider travel due to potential policy changes. Her case is part of a broader escalation of immigration enforcement since US President Donald Trump took office, which has recently deported hundreds of people despite judicial orders and is considering new travel restrictions affecting citizens from multiple countries.
Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who helped lead student protests at Columbia University against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, faces deportation after being arrested by federal immigration officials. President Trump has warned that the arrest of Khalil, a legal permanent resident, represents the “first arrest of many” as he cracks down on campus opposition to the war in Gaza on Israel’s behalf.’
Watch, instead of read, the above info follow this link
A pro Palestine Columbia University student, a legal permanent resident of the US, is arrested, jailed for the past 2 weeks and threatened with deportation.
Read; Season of the Sophists Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News 19 March 2025
‘Trump’s disrespect for the law and courts is not the only question raised by the disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil. There are several others, from long before Jan. 20.’
‘Mahmoud Khalil, 30–year-old holder of a green card permitting him permanently to live and work in the United States, spouse of an American, lettered in his field after study at an Ivy League university, with nothing on his record to suggest criminal activity of any kind: Mahmoud Khalil is now under arrest and awaiting deportation at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Jena, a town of 4,100 in the Louisiana boondocks. Khalil was arrested on March 8 at his apartment near Columbia University, where he recently earned a graduate degree. Khalil’s crime — sorry, no crime, let me try again — Khalil’s offense — no again — Mahmoud Khalil has simply exercised his free-speech rights while leading demonstrations, beginning in the spring of 2024, against zionist Israel’s campaign of terror in Gaza. Khalil, to be noted, is Palestinian by parentage and born in a refugee camp in Syria. He is formally a citizen of Algeria.
For a time after his arrest, Khalil’s family was unable to contact him and did not know where he was. Now they know but cannot see him. Were this one of the Latin American dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s — Pinochet in Chile, Videla and his junta of colonels in Argentina — we would say Khalil has been “disappeared.” Here is what President Donald Trump put out on Truth Social, his sludgy social media platform, just after Khalil was arrested: “This is the first arrest of many to come. We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti–Semitic, anti–American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it.” And here is Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times’ poseur “leftist,” in an opinion column on March 10 under the headline, “This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech since the Red Scare. If in the United States someone can legally be grabbed from his home for engaging in constitutionally protected political activity, we are in a drastically different country from the one we inhabited before Trump’s inauguration.”
You have to say “Amen” to this. Goldberg immediately followed this observation with a quotation from an interview with Brian Hauss, an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union: “This seems like one of the biggest threats, if not the biggest threats [sic] to First Amendment freedoms in 50 years. It’s a direct attempt to punish speech because of the viewpoint it espouses.” These two give the Khalil arrest an amplitude it warrants, although Goldberg ought to tell us which Red Scare she means — the first, in the 1920s, or the 1950s version, cultivated in the mulch of McCarthyist Cold War paranoia. The arrest and sequestration of Mahmoud Khalil exceeds Trump’s numerous excesses by many times. Every civil-liberties lawyer in New York and Washington ought to be on this case.’
Professor Mearsheimer from the University of Chicago and Judge Napolitano discuss the arrest without charge and possible deportation of Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil, and what his persecution reveals about American ‘values’.
Listen; Prof. John Mearsheimer Judging Freedom, 13 March 2025
Judge Napolitano; “We fully understand who’s in charge in this relationship. When Secretary Rubio rescinds the green card of a person he probably never heard of because of statements the person made on the Columbia University campus last April. This, of course, is a big deal here in New York. It should be a big deal everywhere, because it’s an attack on freedom of speech like we haven’t seen in this country in many generations. But I suspect it is the Trump Department of Homeland Security and DOJ doing a favour for the president’s zionist backers.”
Prof Mearsheimer; “The truth is, Judge, that the single greatest threat to freedom of speech in the United States at this point in time is Israel and its supporters here in the United States. It’s truly amazing the extent to which Israel’s supporters are going to enormous lengths to shut down free speech, not only on university campuses, but all across the country.”
Judge Napolitano; “And what can be done about it when the Israelis have the President in their pocket or they’re in his pocket? I’m not sure how the analogy goes.”
Prof Mearsheimer; “Well, what can be done is very simple. People could speak up about this. They could stand on the rooftops and scream about what’s happening and making it very clear that this is a threat to basic American values. This is a threat to liberal democracy. But the fact is we live in a country where most people would prefer to stay down in the foxhole and not get up and actually fight this battle.”
Judge Napolitano; “I read Jeff Sachs and I read it together with each other. It’s not very long. It’s only about three or four pages. The charging document against Mr. Khalil. It alleges no crime. It alleges no facts. It alleges no misbehaviour. It offers no evidence. It simply concludes that in the opinion of the Secretary of State, and I’m telling you again, I can’t imagine Marco Rubio has ever heard of this guy. In the opinion of the Secretary of State, his physical presence, Khalil’s physical presence in the United States of America impedes the effective execution of American foreign policy. What judge would accept that? Unless the judge is an immigration judge whose boss is Marco Rubio.”
Prof Mearsheimer; “I don’t know. You know the legal system better than I do. But the legal system in the past does not work to prevent Israel and its supporters here in the United States from carrying out acts like this. This is disgraceful. There’s no other way to put it. And in fact, it’s more than disgraceful. As I said, it threatens basic American values.”
Read; Even More Assaults On Free Speech To Silence Criticism Of Israel Caitlin Johnstone, 11 March 2025
This (the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil) comes as we learn that the US government will be using AI to compile lists of people suspected of expressing support for Hamas on social media, and as the Trump administration announces that funding will be killed for any schools which allow “illegal protests” in support of Palestinians on their campuses. I have said it before and I will say it again: there is no greater threat to free speech in our society than Israel and the western governments who support it. Civil rights are being stomped out throughout the western world to shut down all criticism of Israel. We’re now seeing escalations in western zionism’s assault on civil rights on a daily basis. Pretty much every day I’m reading about at least one western government silencing criticism of Israel with some new authoritarian abuse. Zionism is the number one threat to free speech in our society. Westerners need to understand that Israel and the west’s support for it are a direct threat to our personal freedom. This is about YOU now. If you didn’t have enough compassion to oppose Israel for its genocidal atrocities, you should at least now oppose it to protect yourself.
Trump supporters are falling all over themselves trying to justify Trump’s assaults on free speech the same way Bush supporters fell all over themselves to justify the authoritarianism of the Bush administration. Republicans haven’t changed. They think they have but they haven’t. This happens as opposition to Israel becomes more urgently needed than ever. Israel has cut off all electricity to Gaza, which is expected to cripple Gaza’s water supply by killing power to critical desalination plants. Once again this genocidal apartheid state is targeting civilians with deadly force in order to advance its depraved agendas, but anyone who wants to criticize such things is being aggressively targeted by increasingly tyrannical measures throughout the western world.
The most horrifying thing about all the footage of HTS thugs massacring people in Syria is not the violence itself, it’s how happy its perpetrators are in the videos. Grinning. Laughing. Joking. It’s deeply disturbing how easily people can be turned into monsters.
I’ve been on the receiving end of shrieking vitriol ever since I started this gig for opposing the western empire’s regime change operations in Syria. Got a good dose of it last December when the operation finally succeeded. Now look. Look where it landed.
Always oppose the empire.’
‘Police records obtained by The Intercept show Dataminr tracked Gaza-related protests and other constitutionally protected speech.’
Read; Los Angeles Police Department SURVEILLED GAZA PROTESTS USING THIS SOCIAL MEDIA TOOL by Sam Biddle, The Intercept, 17 March 2025
‘One week after Hamas’s October 7 attack, thousands rallied outside the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles to protest the country’s retaliatory assault on Gaza. The protestors were peaceful, according to local media, “carrying signs that said ‘Free Palestine’ and ‘End the Occupation,’” and watched over by a “sizable police presence in the area.” The LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) knew the protests were coming: Two days earlier, the department received advanced warning on Dataminr, a social media surveillance firm and “official partner” of X.
Internal Los Angeles Police Department emails obtained via public records request show city police used Dataminr to track Gaza-related demonstrations and other constitutionally protected speech. The department receives real-time alerts from Dataminr not only about protests in progress, but also warnings of upcoming demonstrations as well. Police were tipped off about protests in the Los Angeles area and across the country. On at least one occasion, the emails show a Dataminr employee contacted the LAPD directly to inform officers of a protest being planned that apparently hadn’t been picked up by the company’s automated scanning.
Based on the records obtained by The Intercept, which span October 2023 to April 2024, Dataminr alerted the LAPD of more than 50 different protests, including at least a dozen before they occurred. It’s unclear whether the LAPD used any of these notifications to inform its response to the wave of pro-Palestine protests that spread across Southern California over the last two years, which have resulted in hundreds of arrests.
Neither the LAPD nor Dataminr responded to a request for comment.”
The psychopaths ruling the US usually couch their evil acts in carefully crafted lies to keep the public thinking the Yemeni people are the enemy rather than their US/zionist genocidal leaders. The leaking of their Signal texts praising the bombing of a Yemeni civilian building reveal their true genocidal nature.
Read or Listen; Thoughts On The Trump Team’s Signal Chat About Bombing Yemen; Caitlin Johnstone; Mar 27, 2025
‘The Atlantic has published the full contents of a Signal chat from earlier this month featuring top Trump administration officials discussing the bombing campaign the president was about to begin in Yemen.’
“The first target—their top missile guy—we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building, and it’s now collapsed,” Waltz said.
“Excellent,” Vice President JD Vance responded.
“Great job all,” said Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
“Kudos to all—most particularly those in theater and CENTCOM! Really Great. God bless,” said White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
“Great work and effects!” replied intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard.
Waltz and Trump’s middle east envoy Steve Witkoff are seen posting numerous celebratory emojis.”
‘Imagine how fucked up you have to be inside to react this way to the bombing of an apartment building full of civilians. How far gone you have to be as a human being. These are the kinds of freaks who rule our world.’
‘In reality this entire conflict could have been avoided by simply using the leverage the US has over Israel to make it honor its ceasefire agreement with Hamas. The only reason Yemeni forces began attacking ships in the first place was to blockade Israel because of its genocidal atrocities in Gaza; as soon as a ceasefire was in place those attacks stopped, and the Houthis only announced that their blockade would resume again when Israel announced a genocidal starvation siege on the entire Gaza Strip. The Trump administration told Israel to let the US handle the Houthis for them, and that’s exactly what happened.’
‘It’s always fascinated me how much empire managers focus on messaging. Their focus is never on whether or not they should do evil things, it’s on what narrative they’re going to sell to the public about the evil things they’re going to do.
Here we see Hegseth talking about the challenges in the administration’s “messaging” regarding its upcoming bombing campaign on Yemen, and the need to establish a public narrative about how (1) Biden is to blame for it and (2) the Houthis are “Iran funded”.’
More on the Signal scandal in UK Column; Patrick Heningson; 28 March 2025
Watch; Resistance rockets target Tel Aviv with Jon Elmer The Electronic Intifada, 28 March 2025
“This video number seven coming up is a Yemeni strike on Tel Aviv that happened this week. So I just wanted to warn people that there’s audio incoming of rocket sirens from Tel Aviv. So that’s the many Palestine 2 ballistic missiles that’s after the intercept of them, the Arrow 3 hit that one and knocked it to pieces. And so that the Arrow 3 system air defence system has been intercepting these, but only partially so, we’ve seen fragments landing throughout the area that’s targeted, which is Ben Gurion Airport and this is goes along with the sea blockade in the Red Sea. Abdel Malik Al Houthi said that they were going to escalate their attacks, and so that’s what we’re seeing here. They’re escalating their attacks, firing ballistic missiles daily now at Israel targeting Ben Gurion airport in order to disrupt air traffic. To match the naval blockade, these are precision guided ballistic missiles with a 500 kilo warhead. They’re a significant upgrade from what is fired from Gaza, but you can see here because of the speed, the size and the payload, the warnings are all over Tel Aviv, but the a target is Ben Gurion airport which disrupted flights on Friday.
They fired them today to mark the a 10th anniversary of the beginning of the war, the US/ Saudi war on Yemen, a mountainous country with tunnels and it was subject to 25,000 airstrikes that killed and wounded 50,000 people over that decade, including 10,000 children killed during that offensive. So a besieged people, an attacked people in solidarity with besieged and attacked people, Yemen and Gaza respectively.”
Read; Palestinian Oscar winner missing after being severely beaten by Israeli settlers Middle East Eye 24 March 2025
‘Palestinian film director and Academy Award-winner Hamdan Ballal was violently attacked by what his colleague described as a “lynch mob” of Israeli settlers on Monday night in the Palestinian village of Susya, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
Susya is also the site of an Israeli settlement, which is illegal under international law and something most American administrations have agreed violates Article 49 of the Geneva Convention.
Ballal’s whereabouts are now unknown after Israeli soldiers then seized him from the ambulance that arrived to treat him, his co-director and fellow Oscar winner of the documentary No Other Land, Yuval Abraham, said on X.
Abraham, a journalist for +972 magazine, said in a separate post featuring a shaky cell phone video that masked settlers “attacked Hamdan’s village, they continued to attack American activists, breaking their car with stones”.
The five Jewish-American activists at the scene “are participating in a three-month long coresistance project” in Masafer Yatta, the village at the heart of No Other Land, the Center for Jewish Nonviolence said in a statement released on Monday.
Masafer Yatta is a short drive southeast of Susiya.
The activists “responded to calls to come and support the village of Susiya while it was under attack,” and “when the activists returned to their car to seek shelter, the settlers surrounded the car, slashed its tires, and smashed the windows with stones”, the statement read.
Basel Adra, the Palestinian resident of Masafer Yatta whose story is told in the film, said on Monday that he was “standing with Karam, Hamdan’s 7 year old son, near the blood of Hamdan’s in his house, after settlers lynched him”.
Ballal “is still missing after soldiers abducted him, injured and bleeding”, Adra said.
“This is how they erase Masafer Yatta.”
Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians and their homes and farms are commonplace. The attacks are often violent and can be deadly and can include the torching of property and animals and the beatings of residents.
The United Nations humanitarian agency, OCHA, has documented at least 220 attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in 2025 alone.
In a particularly gruesome case in 2015, an 18-month-old Palestinian boy was burned to death when settlers torched a home in Duma, south of Nablus.
Former US President Joe Biden sanctioned a number of Israeli settlers for carrying out such attacks, but President Donald Trump has since lifted those sanctions.
“Local and international activists regularly document the actions of settlers carrying out similar attacks, often calling the police for some sort of recourse, but settlers are rarely, if ever, held accountable for their crimes,” the Center for Jewish Nonviolence said.
Eyewitnesses have often recounted how the Israeli military either stands by as settlers carry out attacks or arrests the Palestinians and foreign activists who are defending the property.’
A more recent article is here.
Andrew Bridgen, former Conservative MP was expelled from the party because he shared a link to an article about Covid vaccine injuries saying “As one consultant cardiologist said to me, this is the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust.”
A few hours later Matt Hancock, who was the disastrous Health Minister during Covid, wrote, “The disgusting and dangerous antisemitic, anti-vax, anti-scientific conspiracy theories spouted by a sitting MP this morning are unacceptable and have absolutely no place in our society.”
Andrew Bridgen is suing Hancock for libel.
Watch; Bridgen’s Supporters at Royal Courts: “If You Don’t Have Money, You Don’t Get Justice.” Resistance GB, 5 March 2025
Presenter; “What did you think about Matt Hancock’s brief argument? Do you think he had any points at all or do you think he had no legs to stand on?”
Norman Richmond; “No, I think, I think Matt Hancock did not plead truth, which is a legal sort of technicality. He’s using that as a guise in building his defence and I think, I hope the judge will see through that and find in favour of Andrew Bridgen. I think it’s quite illustrative that Matt Hancock didn’t appear here himself and no one apart from his barrister was here to support Matt Hancock. The entire public gallery was full, overflowing with Andrew Bridgen supporters. So I would hope that the court the next time not only have a bigger court and a bigger public gallery, but they, allow this to be live streamed as well, which they didn’t allow today.”
Meet like minded people and learn about the technological assault on the human race by the global corporations and their stooges in government.
Event; The Alternative View Special ;”The Undeclared Frequency War on Humanity and the Planet” 28 June 2025
Venue: The Old Convent, Beeches Green, Stroud, GL5 4AD
‘On Saturday the 28th June 2025 at the invitation of Project Libertas The Alternative View travels to Gloucestershire for a one day AV Special Event.
We will be bringing together four experienced and knowledgeable speakers who will discuss the current technological assault on the human race and the planet. Among the topics covered will be the rise of AI, 5G, the war on biology, Smart Technology, Geoengineering, Smart Cities, the war on food, the nefarious agenda to control food production, full spectrum digital tracking and the weaponisation potential of technology sold to us on the promise of an easier and more secure life.
Gary Fraughen will be hosting the event and adding his comment throughout the day.
There will be plenty of time to network, share ideas and meet the speakers. Knowledge is power. If we can wise up to what is being done to us we can find solutions and alternatives, reject big government and rediscover a better way of life.There will be an evening bar for socialising and chat. Come along and have an interesting day out and mix with like-minded people.
Bonus evening crop circle and paranormal presentation by AV’s very own Matthew Williams.’
If you cant make it it will be recorded and will appear on their website: https://alternativeview.co.uk/
Tom Luongo and Jim Kunstler discuss world leaders and their scripted posturing to hide their dark desires for war, domination, theft and control.
Watch; KunstlerCast 420 — Tom Luongo of Gold, Goats and Guns, Talkin’ Europe, Russia, and America in a Dangerous Year by James Howard Kunstler and Tom Luongo 8 March 2025
Jim Kunstler; “We’ve got Prime Minister Keir Starmer now in Great Britain, and he’s looking increasingly like a central casting character out of a George Orwell. He’s punishing his own citizens brutally through the law while doing everything possible to wreck his country. What are you observing about Keir Starmer and his relations with the USA? He did come over here about 10 days ago to visit with Mr. Trump. Did you notice anything about that meeting?”
Tom Luongo; “Oh, yeah, a lot. Let’s start with the obvious. I have friends in Britain who call him Keir Stalin, which I think is lovely, right. And understand that I also don’t believe that Starmer works for the traditional British remnant. I think he works for what I would call Davos. I think he actually works for the other vertical within Evil Corp Central. So when you understand that his goal has been, and Labour’s goal, and really the most of the British political establishment’s goal has been, to betray Brexit and bring them back into the European Union. And they’ve done so assiduously, block by block, moment by moment, brick by brick, over the last now nine years. His attempt, when he came over to work with Trump and to meet with Trump. First, it was French President Macron on Monday. Then it was Starmer on Wednesday. Then it was Zelensky on Friday. This was a charm offensive and, as my first friend Alex Krainer put it, a classic Three Card Monty. They came over here with the idea that they were going to sell the United States the mineral wealth of Ukraine, which Zelensky had already sold to the British four days before Trump was inaugurated.”
Jim Kunstler; “So Great Britain and to some extent Euroland altogether is kind of engaged in this quixotic venture to capture the resources of Russia out of sheer desperation because they’re out of colonies and they’re out of production and they’re going mediaeval. And yet you have Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin trying to revive a relationship between the USA and Russia against a tapestry of incredibly dense propaganda militating against it, long running Russophobia. What are you noticing? It seems to me that Putin and Trump have been relatively successful in their public demonstration of how this relationship can be rebuilt.
Tom Luongo; “The first phase of it is what you’re seeing right now, which is first we have to prove to everybody who the real enemy is. It ain’t Mr. Putin, it’s Mr. Macron, it’s Mr. Stalin (Starmer), it’s Ursula von der Leyen, it’s all the rest of them. They are playing that part perfectly. Every day I’ll spin out a new theory to see if I can back test it as its reality. You go back to when Macron was elected, he ran on the idea of ending NATO and creating an EU army. This has been a very big deal of his for a very long time. Now, the standard answer to that is, of course, he wants the French military industrial complex to replace the American military industrial complex in creating a new security architecture for Europe. Why? Well, because the Agenda 2030 idea is that the European Union will morph into the UN, first we’ll transfer monetary sovereignty, such as it is, from the European individual central banks to the ECB and then from the ECB to the IMF, all institutions they control, and then use that to instantiate global government with a regulatory scheme built on the European model and force everybody onto their regulatory model.”
Jim Kunstler; “That would be an extractive kind of operation.”
Tom Luongo; ” Sure, it would be an extractive operation because now you have the perfect programmable Central Bank Digital Currency to force people to eat bugs and live in pods. And not your type of 15 minute city you know, decent, proper towns and walkable cities and all that.”
Watch; George Galloway : The World as I See It! Judge Napolitano, 27 March 2025
Andrew Napolitano; “Why do we have these endless wars? No matter the ideology of the head of state, whether it’s a Conservative or Labour in Great Britain, whether it’s a Republican or a Democrat, a Liberal or a Conservative here in the US they all want perpetual war. How do you get your hands around that, George?”
George Galloway; “Well, I think it’s partly systemic. I’ve just been reading the, what’s said to be the full transcript of the WhatsApp group or Signal group of the Yemen bombers and it struck me that there was no difference of tone whatever between the exaltation over the collapsing of an entire apartment block. There was, no difference whatever between the exaltation of someone like Tulsi Gabard revealed in that chat and Hillary Clinton, her one time nemesis. And it was chilling. And it struck me as you have just adumbrated, the extent to which it doesn’t really matter who’s in power because the system will mould whomsoever is in power into the same gung ho, cold hearted, cold blooded and reckless warmongering. Because nobody knows who was in that apartment block. Nobody knows if the top ballistic guy as he’s described, they don’t even give him a name, girlfriend, if he really had a girlfriend and if she really lived there and if she was in and how many other people were in their houses and who were killed as part of that. And they are waving flags and cheering at the collapsing of it, just as Hillary Clinton said on the sodomising and murder on camera of the Libyan Gaddafi, we came, we saw, he died, right? Oh, how they laughed. This could have been Jake Sullivan laughing at the deaths of a thousand innocent Palestinians. It could have been Hillary Clinton laughing at the torture and butchering of Muammar Gaddafi. Instead it was Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth laughing at the deaths of innocents in Sana’a.”
Andrew Napolitano; “Is America any safer today, George, because the Pentagon demolished an apartment building in a residential neighbourhood in downtown Sana’a, Yemen?”
George Galloway; “Well, plainly not. We are constantly plunging ourselves into a maelstrom of greater and greater hatred, desire for revenge. The eldest son of every person that was killed in that apartment block yesterday will definitely be dedicated to revenge of one form or another. Now, most of them will never be able to quench their thirst on that. But some of them might. So, making more and more people hate you. Going to war in more and more places. It seems to me self evident that none of that makes us safer. The pursuit of amity, the exercise of diplomacy. You were recently and I and I envied you in the presence of the master of diplomacy, Mr. Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister. If every foreign minister in the world had the wisdom, the sagacity of Mr. Lavrov, then the world would be a safer place. As long as it’s filled with Pete Hegseth and their British and other equivalents. I’m afraid our societies will continue to spiral downwards.”
US citizens don’t want to join the military because they don’t want to get killed – why would anyone want to fight people who have done them no harm?
Watch; From US Marine to Anti-War Activist: Exposing the True Cost of the US War machine with Matthew Hoh; Empirewatch, 14 March 2025
‘Associate Director of the Eisenhower Media Network, former Marine Corps captain, Afghanistan State Department officer, and disabled Iraq War veteran, Matthew Hoh joins the “Global Majority for Peace” podcast.’
Matthew Hoh; “The US military has been struggling with recruitment issues for 15 years now. Since the first couple years of the Iraq war, the US military has been struggling with meeting its needs in terms of personnel, to the point that they’re recruiting people that they said they never would recruit before in terms of qualifications, whether it be mental health issues, whether it be criminal histories, whether it be ability to pass the various tests that you take before you go into the military, whether they be physical or educational tests. So they’ve really been stretching to try and make their mission and a number of reasons for that. The Republicans will say it’s because the military is too woke, which is just nonsense. I mean, the military does surveys as to why people don’t want to join the military,and the number one issue keeps coming up over and over again; people don’t want to get killed.”
The Navy is the best case and example. The Navy doesn’t have enough sailors to man its ships. You hear a lot in the United States about how the United States Navy is so small now compared to its preceding eras. The reality is, even if you did have a magic wand and were able to build all these ships, because the whole issue of construction of these ships is another big problem with the Department of Defense, they just can’t build ships. There are always overruns in cost. They take forever to build, and then when they do build them, they don’t work. This has been the reality of naval shipbuilding for 20 years now. But even if you erase all that, say they could get their act together and they could build ships, they don’t have the sailors to man them.”
Patrick Henningsen reports on the recent release of documents and the connections between the assassination of JFK and Israel’s nuclear weapons programme.
Listen; UK Column News 21 March 2025
Patrick Henningsen; “What’s important to understand is what’s been dumped or what Trump has signed to release, is actually just a small percentage of the total amount that came through the 1992 JFK Act or the Records Collection Act, so we’re not seeing everything. And there’s still a lot that’s there, even on the government side. So that’s the first thing. The other thing is, and this gets to the core of the JFK debate, you’ve got the who and the how. Who pulled the trigger? How was he killed? Was it two shooters, three shooters, one shooter? But then you have another question, which is the why, the why and the motivation behind it. And that, to me personally, is the most fascinating one. And I think we have quite a bit of evidence in this dump that inadvertently or not, points to the why, to the motivation behind this.
Now, I’m going to share this clip with you. This is from a C SPAN clip from a few years ago. This is Martin Sandler. He is the author of Letters to JFK. He’s talking about some of the things that he discovered in his book back then that absolutely corroborates the evidence that we found in these files as well, that many of them, by the way, have already been accessible, so these aren’t all classified documents that Trump has signed to release. But anyway, listen very closely to this clip.
Martin Sandler; “There’s a very surprising series of letters between Kennedy and David Ben Gurion, not only the prime minister, premier of Israel, but the founder of Israel, in which they’re very angry letters in which Kennedy is saying to Ben Gurion, I’m killing myself trying to get a nuclear test ban treaty. I’ve even got de Gaulle on board, and that’s impossible. And you keep testing in Dimona. You’ve got to stop. And Ben Gurion, in so many words, says, it’s easy for you to say, sitting in Hyannis Port. I’m sitting with the Arabs all around me, and you want me to give up nuclear testing. And Kennedy threatens him, and he threatens him in such a way that Ben Gurion resigned. And I will tell you that I found articles, not in any crackpot publications, but in very sophisticated publications, saying, “forget Lyndon Johnson, forget the CIA, forget Fidel Castro, the Mossad killed Kennedy because they were so upset over what he did to Ben Gurion.”
Patrick Henningsen; “So right after David Ben Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel, resigned very soon after John F. Kennedy was murdered.
So the timeline of that is quite compelling. Now let’s look at some of the evidence that has surfaced and also people’s comments on it. This is Anya Parampil, she’s an excellent journalist, and what she’s saying is quite striking. When JFK’s mistress, Mary Pinchot Meyer, was murdered in 1964, and it goes on to point to WikiLeaks who have been going through these documents as well. James Jesus Angleton, top CIA officer working almost exclusively for and on behalf of the state of Israel. And that’s what we find in here, Israeli Intelligence Service. These are pinned on my timeline, so you can go to @21 wire and see some of these documents. But this is one of many mentions of Israel intelligence in context of the John F. Kennedy assassination. There are obviously other documents that we aren’t going to have privy to on this. And that’s just for starters.
Take a closer look here at this interesting letter about the Chicago mob. A lot of people aren’t aware that Kennedy, was meant to visit Chicago, but that trip was cancelled, likely possibly because of security threats there. There may have been a chatter about a possible attempt on his life through the mob. They say, quote, ‘here we now have plenty of money and our new backers are Jews’. Meaning Israelis probably. And as soon as, quote, ‘we or they take care of Kennedy’. So it’s right there in print. So that’s the mafia talking, basically. And these were cables basically disseminating that information. So this is highly interesting. And other mentions here of Israeli intelligence. And we’ll bring in another document here. And so the story gets very interesting at this point, there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes between the United States, the Soviet Union and Israel, okay? Khrushchev at the time, you have to remember, wasn’t particularly massively pro-Israel, but was also trying to work with Kennedy on this nuclear test ban treaty and Israel was holding it up, basically. So that’s quite another interesting one. Here’s another file worth looking at here.’ Unredacted church committee exposes CIA’s secret role in atomic weapons transfer. Arming Israel with nuclear technology against JFK’s wishes.’ Here, the unredacted files reveal that Mr. James Jesus Angleton from the CIA confirms that atomic technology or knowledge was transferred to Israel. And again, you have to go through a lot of these documents to try to parse out what you’re looking for here. But this is really the piece de la resistance James Jesus Angleton from the CIA and the head of Mossad Global Operations, Meir Amit in 1966, posing in a kind of dubious cowboy outfit there. I’m not sure what that was all about, but suffice to say that Angleton was there. They had a forest named after him in Israel after he died, he was almost given somewhat of a post humanist state funeral, not unlike another super spy, Robert Maxwell, but Jesus Angleton was a gentile, he wasn’t Jewish like Maxwell. So this is very odd now, so there’s a great documentary film. We’re going to play a clip. It’s called NUMEC. It’s by Ryan Dawson, independent documentary film. And this is just a very small snippet.”
Film Narration; “Despite the well established and well known precedents of zionists smuggling and stealing boatloads of armaments from the United States and the indisputable evidence of Israeli intelligence agents regularly meeting with Zalman Shapiro in Pennsylvania, a dedicated and committed zionist with ties to the Israeli government, as well as hundreds of kilos of highly enriched uranium being reported missing from NUMEC and unaccounted for, the highest out of every commercial plant in the United States, and Israel having a covert nuclear programme which they lie about at every turn, undermine inspections of and the very suspicious samples at Dimona of highly enriched uranium that was measured with scientific certainty which the Israelis by themselves could not develop. The notion that highly enriched uranium was diverted from the United States to Israel was challenged.”
Patrick Henningsen; “So the evidence of this is overwhelming This is the documentary film called NUMEC. It’s about this nuclear facility in Pennsylvania, but also the bigger plot of the Israeli secret nuclear weapons programme, and to this day it’s undeclared. So they’re completely exempt from any international inspections or anything like that. But you can watch that film on Rumble for free. It is a fantastic, very well researched piece and I have it on very good authority from veterans within the intelligence services in America, that the data and the information in NUMEC, this film is solid.
So we’re not in the realm of conspiracy theory here. We’re into the realm of conspiracy fact. And the case overwhelmingly points, and I think it will be increasingly so, that there is a very high probability that the motivation, doesn’t matter who pulled the trigger, whether it was the Italian mob, the Jewish mafia or the CIA or some Cuban stooges. What was really behind the motivation to get rid of JFK ultimately is coming from the Israeli interests. He also wanted Israel to register with FARA as a foreign agent for the lobby AIPAC at the time. And of course, that all went away after Kennedy was killed.
Read or listen; A decade of dissent: the struggle goes on Paul Cudenec, 17 March 2025
‘In the final part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look at 2025 and beyond. The online document covering the entire decade can be found here.
The 99th issue of The Acorn came out in January 2025, a month before our 10th anniversary. It was published on the first day of the year but I can exclusively reveal that it was entirely written in 2024 and, unsurprisingly, continued in very much the same vein.
It described how the British population was under attack from Keir Starmer’s regime, which even appeared to want them dead and was poisoning their food, freezing them to death, polluting their water, bombarding them with radiation, jabbing them to death and encouraging them to commit suicide. We noted that Bill Gates, who in 2009 convened a summit of billionaires with the priority of tackling “overpopulation”, was one of the first big names who came to visit Starmer in London after he became prime minister.
The Acorn judged that Starmer had made “an ostentatious show of allegiance to the global mafia” by appointing Bilderberg/WEF regular “Lord” Mandelson – a friend of Jeffrey Epstein and listed in his notorious Black book – as ambassador to Washington and by filling the House of Lords with zio-Labour cronies.
The UK government is compromised. pic.twitter.com/mpiyLeS8iw
— Darren of Plymouth (@wolsned) December 23, 2024
We also drew attention to Starmer’s announcement that the UK would be “working in partnership with leading businesses, like BlackRock, to capitalise on the UK’s position as a world leading hub for investment”. We wrote: “BlackRock is a Rothschild entity and, coincidentally, Starmer, his Jewish wife and their family belong to London’s Liberal Jewish Synagogue, long associated with the Rothschild family”. And we quoted one astute commentator as saying: “Starmer has sold the UK’s future to the absolute worst criminally corrupt corporate organisation on the planet”.
Read or listen; A decade of dissent: zionism and the criminocracy Paul Cudenec, 14 March 2025
‘In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on its content in 2024. The online document covering the entire decade can be found here. Just as the Covid coup in 2020 had revealed to millions the existence of the global mafia, so did the Israeli genocide that began in October 2023 – and the “official” worldwide response to it – reveal the zionist nature of that mafia. In 2024, the horrifying news and images from the Middle East, plus the blatant complicity of “the international community”, forced more and more people to cross the Rubicon and clearly identify the source of the problem, as was related in The Acorn throughout the year. Said Mike Robinson of UK Column: “This regime, which is cracking down on dissent, is the same regime which is behind the blowing-up of people in Gaza, it’s behind the blowing-up of people in Ukraine and we need to recognise very quickly who the enemy actually is and act accordingly”.
Rapper and journalist Lowkey noted: “Pro-Israel forces currently have control of NHS, Foreign Office, Home Office and Ministry of Defence data. Your data”. Ben Rubin identified Keir Starmer, now the UK’s prime minister, as not only a staunch supporter of genocidal Israel, but also personally linked to the Rothschilds, who were effectively the founders of the Israeli state.
UK diplomat-turned-dissident Craig Murray wrote: “Sometimes the blindingly obvious is worth saying out loud. Whether I am fighting for Julian Assange, fighting to save Palestinians or fighting the massive wealth gap in western society I always find I am fighting against precisely the same people and forces”.
Dr Syed Mujahid Kamran noted: “The wealthiest families on the planet have striven systematically and secretly for a One World Government under their absolute control.
“Using the wealth that they have acquired through usury and manipulated wars, these families have, among other things, established universities and institutes which they control”. Glenn Diesen described how fake intellectuals working for dubious corporate “think tanks” exercised undue influence on both public opinion and government policy through their ubiquitous presence in the mainstream media and academia and through their authorship of official policy reports. He explained that their job was to manufacture consent for the goals of their paymasters — notably weapons manufacturers and oil companies who profit from war. Sophie Cooke wrote about corruption, BlackRock and the “public private partnerships” that are the basis of corporatist rule, concluding: “What appears to be the case is that important decision-making positions within a government or a public sector body can now be occupied by people who are working for private interests”.
Read or listen; A decade of dissent: smears and revelations Paul Cudenec, 10 March 2025
When The Acorn looked to see who was behind this (the use of toxic flame retardants in home furnishing, which are used to meet legislation imposed in Britain and Ireland but not in Europe and the USA.) outrage, we discovered the involvement of the Israeli chemicals industry and of Vanguard, part of the Rothschilds’ global empire.
Another deep dive was my piece ‘Cogs of corruption and control’, based on a look at a supposedly African “privately held” business called Vanguard Economics Ltd in Rwanda.
The firm’s interest in Rwanda was made clear by the way that it regarded young people, who make up more than 60% of the total population, as “valuable resources for the country’s development” – as human capital, in other words. I discovered it had just launched the Vanguard Economics Young Impact Associate scheme in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, that its bosses had a background with the World Bank and the international “development” scene and that its “partners” very much reflected that same affiliation, including as they did the Rockefeller Foundation and the World Bank.
And I remarked: “One single multi-faceted self-concealing worldwide public-private empire is behind this vile agenda”.
Another important issue addressed in The Acorn was the alarming prospect of a world without mothers.
We reported: “The eugenicists behind test-tube babies and surrogate motherhood now have their sights on genetic engineering and artificial wombs which would cut women out of the reproductive process”.
There’s a Brave New World coming and we don’t even know it… https://t.co/iZqQQF8C1I pic.twitter.com/o3vI0Stry2
— Jerome Buting (@JButing) May 14, 2018
We quoted an article by Silvia Guerini in a special edition of the French review Ecologie & Politique in which she argued that while the current justification for the technology was on medical grounds, helping people who could not have babies naturally, the long-term goal for the industry was no doubt to make artificial reproduction the norm.
Guerini warned: “The use of your own body would be considered a sign of social inferiority and poverty. A natural mother would be considered potentially irresponsible, like mothers who currently opt for home birth, refusing the hospitalisation and medicalisation of the process… Natural childbirth would first be treated as irresponsible, then criminal”. When this excellent edition of Ecologie & Politique was published, four members of its own editorial committee publicly attacked the contents. They labelled the contributors “reactionary”, tried to imply some kind of connection to “the rise of the extreme right” across Europe and dropped in a random reference to “nostalgists for fascism”.
State overreach is allowing puberty blockers to be used on vulnerable children.
Read Post; Children deserve protection, not experimentation; CitizenGo UK, 20 March 2025
‘At the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council, CitizenGO’s UK Campaigns Director, Christopher Joyce calls on lawmakers around the world to take urgent action against the reckless use of puberty blockers on vulnerable children. Despite the well-documented harms of these drugs, the UK government has approved a £10.7 million clinical trial, exposing children to treatments that can cause cognitive impairment, infertility, and irreversible medical dependency, leaving many with lifelong regret. This unethical experiment must be stopped. CitizenGO is funding a legal challenge by Keira Bell and James Esses to halt these trials before they begin.
Stand with us and send James and Keira a message of support here: Support our legal challenge by donating here.’
In a complete reversal of statements she made before taking office, Tulsi Gabbard is now approving more bombing of Yemen, the only country in the world to actively resist the Israeli genocide. She’s obviously another victim of zionist coercion.
Read; Tulsi Gabbard reverses her strong opposition to ‘genocidal’ Yemen war The Grayzone, 19 March 2025
‘US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has just called for other countries to join the US in attacking the Houthis in Yemen, a country in which she once strongly opposed intervention.
This article was originally published by Antiwar dot com.’
‘The US launched a major round of airstrikes against Yemen on March 18, killing at least 53 people, including women and children. Tulsi Gabbard, the Trump administrations Director of National Intelligence, now says that the US wants countries that are more impacted by a disruption in Red Sea shipping to get involved. “Our country and other countries should not be in a position to reroute commerce going through that area simply because of the threat that exists,” she told the Indian broadcaster NDTV during a visit to India, according to Bloomberg. Gabbard said that President Trump had taken decisive action and that the US “will look to other affected countries, as there are many impacted by this, to similarly take action.” The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, ceased their attacks on Israel and Red Sea shipping after the Gaza ceasefire went into effect on January 19. The US began bombing Yemen again in response to the Houthis announcing that they would reimpose a blockade on Israeli shipping in the region. During President Trump’s previous term in office, when Gabbard was in Congress, she was a leading critic of the US-backed Saudi war against the Houthis in Yemen, which killed hundreds of thousands of people.
“It is absolutely outrageous that the United States has continued its support for years now for Saudi Arabia’s genocidal war in Yemen that has killed thousands and thousands of innocent Yemeni people and caused mass starvation,” Gabbard said in a 2018 interview with The Real News. At the time, Gabbard was critical of the fact that the Yemen war was unauthorized by Congress, making US participation illegal under the Constitution. President Trump’s new bombing campaign is also unauthorised and illegal, as was President Biden’s airstrikes against the Houthis that he launched from January 2024 to January 2025. Gabbard was involved in a War Powers Resolution that would have ended US support for the Saudi war in Yemen, which was vetoed by Trump in 2019. “Congress has now for a very long time given up its responsibility to declare war. And this war in Yemen is a perfect example. So, I and a few of my colleagues are introducing a resolution that will take back our congressional authority and responsibility that’s given to us through the United States Constitution to stop this, our illegal participation in this Saudi-led genocidal war in Yemen,” she said in the 2018 interview.’
Covid cover-ups, coercion and corruption at the top level in UK government.
Watch; YOU WERE RIGHT: Proof The Government Cover-ed Up Chinese Covid Lab Leak Andre Walker, 17 March 2025
Andrew Bridgen; ‘Unfortunately the lab leak virus out of the Wuhan institute of Virology was funded by the US government via Anthony Fauci, as were the so called Covid 19 vaccines and both of them were actually bio weapons. Many people need to face justice for these crimes.’
Andre Walker; “Today the Mail on Sunday have published evidence that the British government knew that the coronavirus had leaked from a Chinese lab. They didn’t know whether that was deliberate or accidental but they chose to cover that up rather than telling the truth to the British people and taking action on what was a 12 trillion pound disaster for the world. Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister covered it up but that was only on the advice of Sir Patrick Vallance, the chief scientific Officer. Now Lord Valance, a science Minister who I think should resign or at best be prosecuted. You know I’ve seen people like Andrew Bridgen absolutely vilified for what they’ve said about the coronavirus. This platform itself threatened to ban people who even suggested that the Wuhan lab was the cause or the place where the coronavirus first came from. We saw Fauci in the United States of America and Valance in the United Kingdom defend that fake doctor, Dr. Tedros. Remember he’s not a medical doctor. He’s the first head of the World Health Organisation who is not a medical doctor. He’s an Ethiopian communist who was put there by Xi Jinping of China.
Covid/Vaccines Scam
A year ago this would have been discarded as a conspiracy theory, but now we know that the whole Covid/vaccine story was a litany of lies, coercion, corruption and fraud.
Read; Ex-CDC Director- ‘Long Covid’ is ‘mRNA vaccine injury’ Frank Bergman, Slay News, 5 March 2025
‘American virologist Dr. Robert R. Redfield, who served as the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the pandemic, has admitted that reports of “so-called Long Covid” are actually a cover-up for global surges of “mRNA vaccine injury. Redfield made the explosive admission during a new interview with the MAHA Initiative podcast. During an almost three-hour conversation with host Del Bigtree, Redfield blew the whistle on the Covid lab leak, discussed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new role in public health, and dropped bombshells on the pandemic. Since leaving his federal government position at the end of President Donald Trump’s first term in January 2021, Redfield has focused on treating patients in his medical practice. He explains in the interview that his surgery is flooded with patients who have been led to believe they have “Long Covid.” However, he notes that the vast majority of those patients are actually suffering from an injury caused by the Covid mRNA “vaccine” they received. He made the revelation while discussing the immunity that vaccine makers received for developing the Covid injections. Those protections shield pharmaceutical companies from being held liable when people are killed, disabled, or otherwise injured by the “vaccines.” However, Redfield argues that the companies that produce the injections should not have any immunity. Yet, Redfield said he’s hopeful that vaccine makers will lose their immunity now that Secretary Kennedy is leading Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The bombshell from Redfield comes as the former CDC chief has been increasingly blowing the whistle on the pandemic and sounding the alarm about the mass-vaccination agenda. As Slay News previously reported, Redfield dropped several whistleblowing bombshells on the Covid pandemic and mRNA “vaccines” in a November interview. During a new interview with singer-turned-health activist Dana Parish, Redfield dropped multiple mind blowing revelations. Redfield declared that the Covid-19 “was engineered” in a lab. He also asserted that former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Anthony Fauci was central to the development of the human-engineered virus. Redfield argues that Fauci is responsible for 20 million deaths. In addition, Redfield also warns that Covid mRNA “vaccines” contain cancer-causing ingredients. Since Redfield’s November interview, however, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made the explosive admission that Covid mRNA “vaccines” are spiked with contaminations that triggered a global surge in cancers. The federal agency made the admission after an FDA study confirmed that Pfizer’s Covid mRNA “vaccine” contains dangerous levels of excess DNA contamination. As Slay News previously reported, leading scientists have been warning for some time that surges in deadly cancers among the Covid-vaccinated were caused by DNA fragments in the mRNA injections. Those warnings have now been confirmed in a bombshell study conducted in the FDA’s own laboratory. Tests conducted at the FDA’s White Oak Campus in Maryland found shocking levels of DNA contamination in the “vaccines.” The residual DNA levels exceeded regulatory safety limits by 6 to 470 times.’
A Slovak doctor confirms that the Covid vaccines are genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Read; Covid Vaccination Batches Officially Confirmed as GMO. Slovak Republic by Julian Rose 19 March 2025
‘Dr. Peter Kotlar, Slovak physician, government commissioner and MP announced at a press conference in Bratislava, March 14, 2025 that after completing an analysis of retained vaccine batches from the 2020 Covid pandemic, it has been officially confirmed that the vaccines are genetically-modified organisms (GMO).
Dr. Kotlar stated that “patients are therefore undergoing experimental gene therapy that forces the body to produce a toxin.” The doctor is calling upon the Slovak government take action to destroy the remaining vaccines and demand reimbursement for the costs of purchasing them from the firms responsible. The below video shows Dr. Kotlar announcing the details at the press conference 14 March 2025.
Slovakia is the first country to make official this highly significant and explosive information.’
Dr Liz Evans was a NHS doctor who switched to ecological medicine after suffering a chronic adverse reaction to a flu vaccine, and now focuses on medical ethics.
Watch; interview with Dr Liz Evans UK Column, 18 March 2025
“Obviously we haven’t just been covering Covid, we are looking at all the areas in which medical ethics are being violated. And one of our big concerns is that there seems to be a massive power grab by the state into the healthcare decisions for children. And I think this is happening in several ways. We’re increasingly seeing schools medicalised. So schools are becoming a big setting for public health measures, obviously with vaccines in particular, and just increasing numbers of vaccines, increasing numbers of visits into school.
So we argue that that is a really inappropriate place for any medical intervention because you’ve got no parents there to advocate for them. You’ve got peer pressure, you’ve got pressure from teachers, the child’s quite vulnerable. If things go wrong, it’s not really a great setting and these public health measures are being given by individuals who don’t know the children, so they don’t know their medical histories.
So that is worrying the fact that that’s now kind of been established, especially through Covid when there was all the testing going on in schools and it was mortifying for children who weren’t being tested or weren’t wearing masks or who weren’t getting their Covid jab, because it’s very public. There’s no confidentiality, there’s no privacy. You can be publicly shamed by your peers for not following the crowd. So it’s a very highly coercive environment. So we are really worried about that.
We’ve also got the NHS who, especially through Covid and since, are directing propaganda at children. They were running superhero clinics to encourage five to 11 year olds to want the vaccine. Using your posters, cartoon characters. We’ve become aware of a few GP practices who do this every year with flu vaccines. They have sort of party sessions with bouncy castles where the children can come and play and have their flu jab.
I just think that is totally inappropriate. It’s not a sober responsible administration of a medical intervention which has risks and benefits. It’s making such light of something which actually could have profound effects and it’s undermining informed consent. Then we were absolutely horrified to discover at least two GP practices, sending letters directly to children as young as 10, inviting them to basically be responsible for their own interactions with the GP practice and cutting their parents out.
I got a couple of letters. So the first one was a letter to a twelve-year-old child from a GP surgery, which says, ‘we are writing to make sure you know that from the age of 13 you are able to take responsibility for your own healthcare decisions, which can include making appointments and seeing a doctor or nurse by yourself. We encourage you to talk through any decisions with a parent or guardian, but we will always try to respect your wishes if you do not wish anyone else to be involved. Confidentiality means your visit to the surgery and anything discussed while you are here will not be shared with anyone else unless we feel that you or someone else is at risk of serious harm. If you have been sharing a mobile phone number or email address with a parent or guardian, then those details’, this is so sinister, ‘will be removed from your medical record’.
It then says ‘we need to hold up to data contact details for you’. So basically says, ‘we need your own personal mobile number and your personal email address’. ‘Please complete the enclosed personal details form and return it to the surgery’.
If any other adult in any other circumstances approached a child like that to say, you can come and meet us alone, we’ll make sure your parents don’t know, give us your own mobile number, we can contact you direct, we’re going to cut your parents out of this, this is a huge safeguarding red flags. Then it says, ‘you may wish to have someone else involved in your healthcare, such as a parent or guardian. In order to do this, we need your written consent and contact details for this person so that they can discuss appointments, medical records, medication, and other personal details held by the practice’. And then this 12-year-old has to complete another form, a patient consent form and return it to the surgery. You just think what planet are these people living on and how entitled that they feel that they can step into the family and just usurp the role of parents and cut them out of the loop. And then if that wasn’t bad enough, we found a group called Unity Health, another GP practice, I think a company who run a few practices, write to a ten-year-old saying, ‘we are writing to you as you approach your 11th birthday. This means we need to ensure the contact details on your record are your own.’ It’s outrageous. And it says, ‘if they belong to your parents or guardian and you wish to update them to your own, get in touch with us via email’. So you’ve got children having supervised private contact with adults they’re not related to, there’s no accountability, there’s no supervision. ‘Or you can come into the surgery or call us’. So this ten-year-old might just start wandering off into town two miles away on their own.
And then it says, ‘if they belong to your parent or guardian, you wish for them to remain on your record, you need to complete a third party consent form’. So it’s an option that a ten-year-old has to actively do something to keep their parents involved. ‘And you can specify which areas of your record you want them to have access to or for how long you want that access to last.’
This is causing a massive area of secrecy, division between parents and children. Children need their parents to advocate for them to explain things to them. Even a sixteen-year-old is going to struggle with complex medical decisions and you can imagine that something serious could be going on with your child and you don’t even know about it. Or they’ve been put on medication, or they’ve been put on the pill or whatever, and you are not even aware, or they’ve got an eating disorder and you haven’t been told. It is just so horrific.We could not quite believe that this was happening.
If anyone is aware of this happening anywhere else, please can you let us know because we want to see if this is just a few rogue practices or whether this is starting to become a widespread NHS policy.”
“We’ve been lobbying a lot, lobbying upwards to policy makers and decision makers, but we recognise that that’s unlikely to have a massive impact. What we want our letters to do is actually to educate and empower individual people, the public, so that they start to understand what are their rights, what an ethical consultation looks like aAnd they need to start demanding ethical consultations and informed consent from their medical practitioners.
So calling out the individual doctors and nurses when what they’re doing is not ethical. Most medical healthcare professionals are in the profession for the best interests, for the best reasons. They’re acting in good faith and they want to help people. But while they’re in a system which is starting to completely dismantle medical ethics, I think a lot of them are blind to it.
We need to reconnect them to their moral and ethical compass and just call them out when they’re coercing people, when they are, for example, doing this with children. I just kind of spell it out to them. We do have to keep lobbying MPs and the MHRA and all these different people. But I think we do also, as the public, need to take responsibility to have adult to adult interactions with the health service.
When you’re in hospital and they say, ‘oh no, you can’t visit your loved one, or ‘we are going to put your loved one on a DNAR (Do not attempt resuscitation), or whatever the issues are that you are not comfortable with, we need to get some courage to just challenge it and just say, ‘no, this is not right’. A lot of these things are being done, which actually, if you resist, it won’t get done. So it’s just sort of automatic. I know lots of people who’ve had to sit by the bedside of their loved ones who are elderly, vulnerable, who the hospital want to put on DNARs, morphine, midazolam, and who are saying, no, they don’t need it. They’re fine. Leave them alone. And at that point, most practitioners will not overstep the mark and just do it regardless. So we’ve got to help people to kind of get in touch with their humanity again”
The fact that the Wuhan lab was funded by the US isn’t mentioned in the Daily Mail revelation that the Covid19 virus came from the Wuhan laboratory. All blame is on the Chinese to rile us up ready for another proxy war. Conveniently concealed is the involvement of US criminals such as Anthony Fauci, Peter Daszak and Professor Ralph Baric, who were producing and profiting from the roll out of the Covid bio weapon and the vaccine.
Read or listen; Covid Bioweapon: Disclosure of MI6 memo to (Boris)Johnson comes on the heels of almost identical disclosures from German intelligence services to Merkel Rhoda Wilson, The Exposé, 17 March 2025
‘Should the British people trust Johnson’s representations about the conflict between Ukraine and Russia – representations that have been endorsed by his successor, Keir Starmer? For all the British people know, Johnson received security briefings about this conflict that contradict what he has told them about the war. Then there’s the abominable corporate media in the US and Britain that characterised everyone who pointed out the obvious indications of the lab origin as “conspiracy theorists.” The New York Times just published an ass-covering “Opinion” titled ‘We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives’ -as though The New York Times editors managed to remain ignorant about the mountain of evidence of this until now. The disclosure of this British intelligence memo comes on the heels of almost identical disclosures about the German government of Angela Merkel. As investigative journalist Michael Nevradakis just reported in the CHD Defender:
Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the BND, determined with 80%-95% certainty in 2020 that the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic originated with a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China – but successive governments kept the information “under lock and key,” according to a German investigative report. The report, published jointly on Wednesday by Die Zeit and Süddeutsche Zeitung, was the result of an 18-month investigation. The investigation found that in 2020, then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel commissioned a BND operation code named “Project Saaremaa” that targeted Chinese agencies and research institutions. When the BND’s investigation concluded that a Wuhan lab leak was the most likely source of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Merkel government prohibited the spy agency from releasing its results to the public. When Mr. Nevradakis asked me what I thought about the German disclosure, I told him the following:
The revelation that German intelligence knew that SARS-CoV-2 emerged from a lab, and was not of natural origin, is no surprise, given the vast amount of evidence that the pathogen was not zoonotic. It’s also not surprising that the Merkel government decided to conceal the spy agency’s findings. The BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst) has long worked very closely with the CIA, and the Merkel government consistently complied with Washington’s directives. Concealment of the lab origin of SARS-CoV-2 is consistent with the Gercharitableman government’s concealment of Paul Ehrlich Institute’s assessments about many elements of the Covid-19 pandemic. For over three years, Dr. Peter McCullough and I have expressed our conviction that the cover-up of the lab origin of SARS-CoV-2 is the greatest organised crime in history. The latest revelations about the BND and the Merkel government confirm our long-held suspicions.
For a full copy of the March 27, 2020 Security Briefing to Prime Minister Johnson, click HERE.’
Murky, secretive management of the virus research programme by the US military.
Watch; Anthony Fauci funded risky gain of function research at the Wuhan lab and in Ukraine, which explains a lot of things! The Benny Show, 17 March 2025
Presenter; “What are the bio labs in Ukraine? Why were they all over Hunter Biden’s emails? Why were there so many Obama-level State Department people involved in that? What has happened to these pathogens? What do you think will be discovered in Ukraine?”
“It’s a great question. There’s a charitable interpretation, there’s a really, really, really dark possibility, and then there are layers of gray in between, and we don’t yet know where it all lands. The fact is, if you’re going to get involved with a company like Metabiota, or bio labs in a foreign country that create freakazoid pandemic viruses, you’re going to need the sign-off of the National Security State and the U.S Intelligence Community. You’re going to need that to be vetted by CIA, by NSA, by FBI counterintelligence, by the White House National Security Council interagency process. So, I mean, this is how you see Avril Haines at Event-201. This is how you see the U.S military effectively in charge of the vaccine programs when DARPA funds the creation of these viruses. This is what happened, many believe with Covid-19, there was a major DARPA program in 2018 that funded the creation of these cleavage sites, these foreign cleavage sites with the SARS‑CoV‑2 virus that then was incubated in the Rocky Mountain lab that Tony Fauci was running. In 2018, made its way to the UNC EcoHealth folks. USAID obviously funded $15 million to the Wuhan Llab. That same Rocky Mountain laboratory in Montana that the DARPA grant went to, to create what many believe is effectively the recipe for Covid-19, that played a very significant role in, in the biological warfare program in the 1950s against Cuba. You can read Chris Newby’s book ‘Bitten’ about the creation of tick-borne viruses by the U.S military to be used in the North Korean War in 1950, and to be used against the agricultural crop workers in Cuba to create basically a sublethal virus that would not result in tens of millions dead, but would rather incapacitate the agricultural workers so that they would not be able to mine their own crops, and not be able to refine sugar or to support themselves on the island of Cuba, and in tandem with sanctions would effectively force Cuba to be reinstated into the US Empire, because they’d effectively starve to death because of these tick-borne viruses that would effectively incapacitate their ability to support themselves. So they need to import from the US and with the US refusing imports, this would effectively complete the strategy there. And that book meticulously documents the use of the Rocky Mountain labs for collecting ticks and fleas and other insects, creating gain-of-function research. Many believe the origins of Lyme disease, which is its own topic.
The benign case for it is these Ukrainian bio labs exist for the same reason that USAID funds the Wuhan lab and funds labs in Canada and in other countries to do gain-of-function research where they create freak mutant super viruses, they jump them from animal to human so that we can advance the state of biomedical research to create vaccines in case something like this ever develops naturally in the wild through a wet market, or in case a foreign country develops bio weapons, we’ll already have the vaccine for it. This is like the nuclear weapon defense. Why did we do so much nuclear weapons testing even after we bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki that we needed bigger and bigger hydrogen bombs and atom bombs and neutron bombs because Russia was developing nuclear bombs, and so we needed even bigger nuclear bombs than they needed. Of course, that set off the nuclear arms race and effectively defined several decades of US history. But that ended when there were nuclear treaties that everyone agreed to put down. But the fact is basically every country is signatory to these bio weapons treaties as well. So the charitable case is we’re doing this in Ukraine and China and Canada because we can’t do it here in the US, it would be too dangerous. Or we have laws and regulations and contravention of doing that. Of course, Ukraine is a lawless zone. We just saw the struggle for control over the legal system and the prosecutors in Ukraine and that John Kerry clip.
So the charitable case is we’re doing it so that we can make vaccines there. Of course, you see Pfizer and the biosecurity world all over the Ukraine map. But there’s a potentially darker story here, which is that if you ever needed to de-stabilise Russia, and you’re right on its border with Ukraine, you could see a pandemic popping off in the western part of Russia where it would be very easy to do. You simply carry pathogens over the border and you could do the same thing potentially there that the military intended to do in Cuba in the late 1950s. The same thing that was done in North Korea. There’s a strange habit of these outbreaks breaking out in conflict zones. The Pentagon talked about this in the 1990s. Everyone can read Thomas Barnett’s ‘Pentagon’s new Map’. It’s a book and a video series presentation you can still find on YouTube where he justified the post 9/11 military expansion of the American Empire by saying, ‘we need to fold the rim into the core, the rim are all the countries that NATO has not yet conquered because from the rim, three things are coming out of it. He said, drugs, terrorism, and pandemics. So these mystery pandemics keep coming out of the countries we have not yet attained political vassalage control over. We can use that as a predicate to get military boots on the ground. And when you have these massive medical facilities, you need security to guard them. So boom, just like that, you’ve got a military presence to protect all the hospital workers and the clinics and the public health ecosystem. Well, now you’ve got your special forces in there, now you have your internal foreign defense funds, you basically are already halfway pregnant in terms of military presence there.
We did this in Africa, for example, with AIDS by alleging that Africa was suffering this massive AIDS epidemic, we managed to get a giant military presence in Africa. You see the same thing that happened with MERS and with SARS and with Zika, basically the military and medicine follow very closely. Donald Rumsfeld, I should note, who was the head of the Pentagon for Bush, what was he doing right before that? He got plucked out of Gilead Sciences, the major pharmaceutical company who had come to play one of the leading roles in Covid with Gilead funding the production of Covid vaccines. Well, you know, what was Donald Rumsfeld doing as the chairman and CEO of Gilead Sciences and then going immediately to become the Secretary of War for the Bush administration during 9/11? If you folks remember, it was the anthrax scare that actually got Congress to authorise the military invasion of Afghanistan right after 9/11. Where did that anthrax come from? Well, it came from the high level military facility at Fort Meade in Maryland. It was actually a U.S biolab that those very anthrax files came from, that was used as the justification. What I’m saying is, we don’t yet know the answer. Sometimes a gain of function, freak mutant virus creation on the Eastern edge of Ukraine to create a vaccine is just a freak mucosoid mutant biological super weapon to create a vaccine. Maybe as Freud said ‘a cigar is just a cigar’. But I have a lot of questions and I think only Pam Bondi and this executive branch can really get the answer.”
Read; Injectable Electronics is Today’s Reality by Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD, PhD 11 March 2025
“Injectable Electronics” – is this really possible? Aren’t electronic structures are too large, don’t fit in a syringe and would not survive in our blood stream? Moreover, it does not apply to you, so why bother. The reason it should bother you is because I am finding them every day in my patients and, most likely in you as well. This is where I lose 99%, because few are open enough to listen to my findings and understand the implications. The reality is uncomfortably scary and unimaginably diabolic. But, once you experience life-extinguishing symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, sleeplessness [insert symptoms] and try everything to improve your health, perhaps you will open up to accept the reality we are faced with today: You likely have electronics – or nanobots – in your body that alter your body’s function, health and your perception of reality. I stand firm in my assertion that we are being attacked without our knowledge. This attack is a great threat to our individual lives, humanity at large and nature as we know it.
Let’s go back in time: In 2013 Dr. Ido Bachelet’s presented at TEDMED in Israel his enthusiastic view of nanobot technology in medicine. He developed the nanobots in collaboration with Shawn Douglas, Associate Professor at UCSF, in 2010. At the TEDMED talk, Ido is holding up a syringe he brought from his lab, filled with “1,000 billion robots”, each 50 nanometers in length. Injectable electronics is today’s reality – whether you have been actually injected, or whether you inhaled or ingested them – these electronics can self-assemble, attach, sense, interfere, compute and alter your body’s function autonomously or remotely and they are already in your body. The nanobots I observe are more sophisticated, beyond the technologies described here. In 2015, Pfizer announced that it is collaborating with the DNA robot laboratory of Prof. Ido Bachelet at Bar-Ilan University. It is unclear what this collaboration has led to but I am witnessing the types of nanobot capabilities Dr. Ido Bachelet worked on over the last 15 years in my observations with dark field microscopy.’
Watch; The BEAST of the LAND | Transhumanism & Synthetic Futures – Part 2 by Ana Maria Mihalcea MD, PhD, 14 March 2025
‘This was a fantastic discussion with Harald Kautz Vella, Elana Freeland, Sacha Stone and Dr Ana Mihalcea about the self assembly nanotechnology in human blood and the technocratic takeover of humanity.
Dr Aseem Malhotra explains the falsehoods that led to approval for the Covid vaccines.The politicians, scientists and drug companies who advised us with such confidence during Covid turn out to be charlatans. Now their lies have been exposed and people know better than to trust officials and experts ever again.
Watch; Vaccine SAFE AND EFFECTIVE – A Second Opinion Film by ORACLE FILMS, 30 September 2022
Narration; “Safe and effective? Would millions have been so confident if they’d known how different these gene therapies were? The word vaccine may have served as a reassurance, but by no traditional definition were these vaccines.”
Dr Clare Craig; “The definition the authorities are using is not what people understand the word vaccine to mean. The public’s perception of a vaccine is, we’re thinking about polio and about measles and the conventional vaccines, where you have a very inert part of the virus being used and it prevents the illness. What we’re using now is a different technology. It’s new and it doesn’t prevent the illness.”
Dr Aseem Malhotra; “Although it’s not my traditional area of expertise, my understanding, looking at the data of the mechanism of harm from the vaccine, is that the spike protein, which we believed initially to be localised to the arm, appears to be distributed throughout the body in every major organ system for several months, causing either a direct reaction through toxicity or an autoimmune reaction. And that is the most likely explanation behind the mechanism of harm from the MRNA products.”
Narration; “Development of the jabs was done at warp speed, so much so that governments had to indemnify the drug companies against any future injury claims and invest billions upfront. They knew they were taking risks.”
Dr Aseem Malhotra; “Relative risk reduction is a way of exaggerating the benefits of any intervention, clearly, which would be in the interests of people trying to sell you something, in this case, the pharmaceutical industry. So if, for example, you have 1,000 people in a trial that didn’t have the vaccine versus 1,000 people that did in the placebo group. In the dummy group, you may have two people dying, and in the intervention group, you may have just one person dying and that’s a reduction of 50%. One over two is a 50% relative risk reduction, but actually you’ve only saved one life out of a thousand. So the absolute risk reduction is only one in a thousand. It’s a big difference. The guidance has been for many years that we must always use absolute risk reduction in conversations with patients, not just relative risk reduction alone. Otherwise it’s considered unethical.”
Narrator; “The accusation is that governments acted on Pfizer’s relative risk figure of 95% efficacy when the absolute risk was a mere 0.84%. In other words, you’d have to vaccinate 119 people to prevent just one from catching Covid.”
Dr Aseem Malhotra; “So we were basically sold on something that ultimately, in retrospect now, was very, very misleading.”
In the name of AID, the UK is giving our taxes to AID the corporate takeover of every sector across the globe
Read or listen; How much is Bill Gates’ GAVI getting from UK’s foreign aid? by Rhoda Wilson, The Exposé, 1 March 2025
‘On Tuesday, Keir Starmer announced drastic cuts to Britain’s international aid budget to help pay for a major increase in defence spending. The aid budget will be reduced from 0.5% to 0.3% of GDP. We have heard many recipients of UK aid concerned about its impact on them. What we haven’t heard is what the UK is actually spending taxpayers’ money on.’
‘Obviously, if the UK were to leave the criminal World Health Organisation and the United Nations, huge savings could be made. Not only on contributions to these organisations but also payments made to spread and capitalise on the UN’s nefarious “climate change” agenda. One of the other big savings that could be had is to defund Bill Gates’ GAVI. In October 2024, the BBC reported that Bill Gates joined a chorus of international development voices criticising the Government for cutting billions in overseas aid spending in the Budget. It’s not surprising considering how much GAVI milks the UK taxpayer. Attached below is a summary of a search for “GAVI” on the UK government’s ‘Development Tracker’; 348 results are returned where GAVI is either the sole recipient of UK funds or is a participating organisation in the programme.
From 2010 to 2025, FCDO has “invested” just under £3 billion in GAVI. In addition to this, FCDO paid £96,000 for the hosting of the GAVI Replenishment Conference in 2020 and technical support in 2008. Another £1.4 billion has been given to GAVI-related programmes, in the main between 2018 and 2025. The GAVI-related funding is primarily either to the World Health Organisation (£917 million) or UNICEF (£500 million). Depending on the programme, there could be several participating organisations listed. Of the £917 million given to WHO, £400 million relates to polio eradication from 2013 to 2019 (read why this is the problem and not the solution HERE), £430 million was spent on what would seem to be health systems that could benefit people, and £87 million relates to preparedness, health strategies and implementation of International Health Regulations. The £500 million given to UNICEF largely relates to policies, strategies, monitoring, planning and communications.
Adding it all together, over the last ten years or so, the UK government has given £4.4 billion to GAVI and GAVI-related programmes. However, please see our notes below on how we compiled these figures as it’s not as straightforward or definitive as it first appears, but it’s a start and going through the list makes one realise just how little of the UK foreign aid is actually benefiting people. To go some way in demonstrating this further, on its website the UK government has a collection of ODA resources which was first published in 2015 and last updated in March 2023. It lists some of the programmes the FCDO funds. You can find the collection HERE.’
Provoked war with Russia
In a nutshell…. pic.twitter.com/1ikHAEYfAq
— GrrrGraphics-Ben Garrison ???? Cartoons ???????? (@GrrrGraphics) March 2, 2025
Hopefully Starmer’s war mongering has hit a brick wall.
Watch; UK Starmer coalition of the willing crumbles The Duran, 27 March 2025
Alex Christoforou; “Let’s talk about Keir Starmer and his coalition of the willing, which is now turning into the coalition of the volunteers. Whatever countries want to volunteer to join Keir Starmer on his Ukraine peacekeeper ventures, they could go to the many meetings that he’s holding in London. But it does look like this coalition of the willing, which was the UK and France with a little bit of Denmark sprinkled in, that this thing has collapsed.
Alexander Mercouris; “I think it has collapsed. I think it always had about it a quality of unreality, but it’s increasingly clear that more and more European countries are opting out of it. Meloni in Italy has said no. She says that this whole thing is premature and even ill-conceived. She’s made it absolutely clear that she’s not sending Italian troops to Ukraine under any circumstances. I think she’s seeing the polls in Italy and is getting the sense of Italian public opinion, and they’re dead against it, as are members of her own government.
I think Spain is coming out against it too. I think in Germany, there’s no enthusiasm for this. Poland is adamantly opposed to it because they see this as weakening Poland’s own military defence. So I think that what we’ve seen over the last week, is that the moment European countries began to understand that Starmer was actually serious about this, they said, enough’s enough. Look, this man is out of his mind. We are not going to Ukraine. We don’t want to have anything to do with this. And they’re pulling out.
The other thing is the Americans clearly are not behind this. They’re not going to provide the backstop. They’re not going to provide the guarantee that Starmer was saying was the essential necessity for this. So that’s all ended. The Russians, of course, have been adamantly opposed all along, and they are maintaining their opposition.
So a couple of days ago, Starmer came up with a new idea. He said, ‘maybe we won’t send troops to Ukraine, maybe we will actually patrol the skies over Ukraine with our Air Forces, British and French fighter jets, and all of that. Which would have to be based in Poland, by the way, just saying.
The Russians would interpret that as an attempt to create a no-fly zone, which it is. There is apparently a shift against this, both by European countries and most importantly by Britain’s own military. Now, there has been an excoriating article about all of these ideas appearing in the Daily Telegraph today, and it is clearly sourced from people within the military. These are all anonymous because they’re serving military officers, but one source after another basically saying, this idea is harebrained. We don’t know what kind of mission these troops would be sent to do, how this would work. There’s no possibility of sorting out the logistics. We’re talking about 10 to 20, 30,000-man force. The Russians have at least 700,000 men around Ukraine.”
Starmer reveals himself as a delirious power-crazed despot with grandiose delusions of military conquest with nukes.
Watch; ENDLESS WAR – MOATS with George Galloway – EP 432 George Galloway, 23 March 2025
“You must be asking yourself, has the world gone mad? Have the leaders of the west gone mad? Well, judging by European performance over the last few weeks, yes, I’m afraid they have. Britain and Germany are effectively now in a state of war with the nuclear armed superpower with 5,850 nuclear warheads, a country called Russia. The state of war is now moving rapidly to a deployment, the active phase, as Keir Starmer put it, the operational phase, as Keir Starmer put it, is now upon us. That means to say that Britain is about to send troops to Ukraine. This despite the warning from Russia that this would be a declaration of war against them. This despite the obvious that with one single Oreshnik missile, non nuclear, the entire British expeditionary force could be wiped out. It would be very much greater a military setback than what happened in the Charge of the Light Brigade. It would be very much more serious than almost anything that the British armed forces have faced ever, never mind since the Second World War, because Starmer says he will respond to any act against British troops in Ukraine with the potential use of British nuclear weapons.
Now, there are a number of problems associated with that. First of all, as many technical reports have made clear, Britain does not have operational control over its nuclear weapons. It would have to have the permission and the cooperation of the United States to fire its nuclear weapons at Russia. The British government were boasting this week that they could take out 40 Russian cities, although that’s not true, because as soon as the first Russian city was taken out by British nuclear weapons, Britain would cease to exist. And so the braggadocio of the Starmer government accused this week by General Kellogg of being in the grip of the worst case of pound shop Churchill impersonation since Doughboy Boris Johnson. Keir Starmer is a joke, according to General Kellogg, President Trump’s representative on the Russian front. But as soon as we had taken out one Russian city, every single British city would literally cease to exist. That’s the balance of power that exists between Britain and Russia. And yet the British government persists in the most nakedly aggressive way to threaten Russia, including to threaten it with nuclear weapons. Well, I am not privy to the thinking in the Kremlin, but I imagine it goes something like this. This chihuahua, Keir Starmer, just threatened 40 Russian cities with nuclear attack. We better get ready to preemptively stop any possibility of that happening. And so the reality is that Keir Starmer who presides over a sinking economy, a society that is ripping itself apart, that cannot agree on anything, which is cold, wet, miserable and getting poorer and poorer and going to get much poorer still. According to Keir Starmer, by 2030, every family in Britain will be worse off. Vote for me, I’ll make you worse off, said no successful political party ever.”
Full Speech In English: Putin Shocks Trump On Peace Plan, Reveals Plan To Oust Zelensky With UN Aid; Hindustan Times; 28th March 2025
Against the wishes of the vast majority of the EU citizens, Starmer, von der Leyen and the rest are talking up war to boost arms sales, improve their dismal ratings, weaken Russia and plunder Ukraine.
Watch; Spain Rebels Against EU’s War Plans – Protesters Say ‘No to NATO, No to Militarization’ Times New World, 19 March 2025
Narration; “The European Union, long portraying itself as a pillar of peace, now faces accusations from within. In a rare display of internal dissent, Spain is openly challenging Brussels, accusing it of fueling war rather than preventing it. Madrid’s decision to ramp up defence spending by $8 billion dollars annually, aligning with NATO and EU demands, has sparked protests on the streets, reflecting growing discontent with the bloc’s militarization efforts. On Tuesday, demonstrators gathered in Madrid, denouncing what they called a reckless push toward rearmament. Banners reading ‘No to War Budgets’ ‘Peace with Russia Now’ and ‘Let Them Not Drag Us Into War’ filled the streets, while chants of ‘NATO No’ and ‘Bases Out’ echoed through the Spanish capital. Protesters argue that the issue goes beyond Spain’s budget, accusing Brussels of transforming the EU into a militarised entity controlled by warmongering elites.
Demonstrator; “The last step that is being taken in Europe to turn what was the European Union militarily occupied by the United States, but without its own army. They are now turning it into a warmongering entity. They are trying to take away public funds that come from the workers, money to buy more armaments to convince us that Russia is our enemy when our enemy is them.”
Narration; “Despite the backlash, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez defended the spending plan, emphasising Spain’s security needs. It is Europe that has to protect Europe, Sanchez stated, reinforcing his support for Brussels push for military expansion. Spain’s move comes amid a broader $800 billion initiative under the Rearm Europe plan, an unprecedented effort to bolster the continent’s defence capabilities. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, speaking at the Royal Danish Military Academy on Tuesday, left little room for doubt about Europe’s direction.”
Are UK’s unemployed young to be cannon fodder in Starmer’s resource-grab war in Ukraine and Russia?
Listen; UK Column News 19 March 2025
UK Column presenter; “This is Tory MP Mark Pritchard speaking to Liz Kendall.” (Labour MP and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions)
Tory MP, Mark Pritchard; “Youth unemployment stood at 642,000 as of the last quarter of 2024. A rise of 136,000 on 2023 and a youth unemployment rate at 14.8%. She mentions earlier in her statement, ‘earn and learn’. Does she agree with me that one way of perhaps attracting some people back into work is for her to have discussions with her colleague in the Ministry of Defence, the Defence secretary, and would she agree with me getting more young people into his Majesty’s Armed forces Air Force, Navy Army would be a starting place those days.”
Labour MP, Liz Kendall; “I absolutely agree with the Honourable gentleman. Indeed, before I was appointed to this position in opposition as a constituency MP, I have discussed with my local Job Centre and the Armed Forces Recruitment precisely these issues because of the really exciting careers and opportunities that are available, I think are really important for young people in, in my constituency and the one that he represents. And I will certainly be having more conversations with colleagues in the Ministry of Defence to make sure we put this plan into action.”
UK Column presenter; “So she’s going to put this plan into action. What plan, what are the details? No one’s talking about this plan. So maybe this is something everyone might like to write to their MP about and ask exactly what is the plan with the Ministry of Defence, which is going to be put in action. I think we know whether it’s called conscription or national service, it is coming. And I think if we don’t want our children and grandchildren involved, now is the time to take note and take action.
Presenter, Charles Malet; “I think my first thought is that the government have an amazing amount of control over the younger generation. First of all, like we see here, people who are claiming any sort of benefits are obviously financially dependent upon the government. So therefore can be pushed in any which way. But the other thing, looking at it the other way round, if we’re to say ‘this is a plan’ when quite clearly it isn’t, but if we’re talking about people who are willfully staying out of the workplace, either because they’re unfit enough to enter it due to quite probable injuries from pharmaceutical products, or indeed the product or of simply living a very unhealthy lifestyle from 2020, haven’t been sort of interned, what sort of people are going to be fed into the armed forces if they’re not willingly coming forward? The bar would have to be lowered considerably in order people got through whatever training is required. So the outcomes for anybody concerned would be absolutely terrible.”
While independent media on the internet survives, the young will continue to see through the lies peddled by the government and, with any luck, refuse to fight in their endless wars. UK Column’s Montgomery Toms, went into central London to ask the young if they will join the army to fight for Ukraine.
Watch; Who Wants Conscription, Anyway? UK Column News, 5 March 2025
Montgomery Toms; “If you were forced to fight against Russia on behalf of Ukraine as an English young man, would you do it?”
Youth; “Most likely not.”
Toms; “Would you fight, sir?”
Youth; “I don’t have an opinion on political matters, if I’m honest.”
Toms; “It’s not political. What if you were forced to fight and put your life on the line for this country? Would you do it?”
Youth; “No.”
Toms; “Fair enough. No one I’ve met today would. And as a mum to this lovely young man, would you want him to fight? “
Mum; “No.”
Toms; “Do you believe in conscription in the UK?”
Youth; “Hell no.”
Toms; “Why?”
Youth; “Because I want to choose what I want to do.”
Toms; “Would you fight for England right now if you had to, if you were forced to?”
Youth; “Nah.”
Youth; “Nah.”
Youth; “I would not, stop it, mate.”
Toms; ” Do you think young men should be sent off to fight?”
Shopper; “No.”
Toms; “Why?”
Shopper; “Absolutely not. Nobody should be forced to do anything. That’s the first thing. Then in this century, there shouldn’t be anything that should involve the World War as well. So this is my opinion.”
Toms; “That’s a good opinion. I agree. What about yourself?”
Shopper; “I think we live in a society where we can have discussions around the table. I think war is kind of a final option. I don’t think we need to go to that, to be perfectly honest. There are things that could be solved by talking. We live in a society now where things can be resolved.”
Toms; “As I mentioned halfway through this video, the response has been pretty consistent. People do not want to fight on behalf of the UK and that doesn’t seem to be changing. And most young people, they don’t actually know what conscription is. I’ve had to explain what conscription is quite a few times now, and it just seems that young people are also just very detached from current affairs. They’re not too interested in politics, they’re not too interested in left or right.”
Since 1990 the US has been lying to Russia, promising to respect their security while every year moving NATO eastwards and installing missiles closer and closer to Russia’s border. Now they try to blame Putin, when in fact all Russia and most of the world agrees with Putin that by orchestrating violent regime change in Ukraine in 2014 and by backing the ultra-nationalists’ attacks on Russians in Donbas, the US has gone way past any red line that they themselves would ever put up with. Imagine if Russia instigated a violent regime change in Mexico and then threatened to put missiles there.
Read; From Corona to Ukraine – The New Mass Formation by Mattias Desmet 17 March 2025
‘I believe that any sober analysis of the situation will conclude that Putin and Russia had a choice: either they invaded Ukraine, or it was over for Russia as a great power. Moreover, Putin already made it clear at the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest that Ukraine was the red line: if NATO made moves to annex Ukraine after the rest of Eastern Europe, war was the only outcome. He probably didn’t need to explain it to them, they knew it better than him. Any analysis of the historical data shows that the European and American leaders at that time realised that their maneuvers in Ukraine were almost inevitably heading toward a third world war.
So, we are witnessing a struggle between great powers. One is more expansionist than the other, one is more successful in the dirty military game than the other. Like all great powers, they feel threatened in their dominance. Great powers are subject to the law of the Ego: the more power one has, the more fearful and aggressive one becomes. Like all great powers, they use all the harmful strategic and military techniques of our rationalist time. Both thrive on propaganda, including false flag operations where, if necessary, their own citizens are sacrificed to influence public opinion. And both do not shy away from political persecution and murder.
The population should not so much choose between one of these two great powers; they must make it clear that a large-scale military and nuclear conflict is not an option, and that at least the way of words must be fully explored first. Putin is a human being, the Russians are human beings. And a human being wants to be heard. There are enough reasons to listen carefully to what the Russians have to say.
I do not want to say with this article that Ukraine should be left to its fate. Certainly not. What I do want to say is that the lead-up to a conflict and the intentions behind it must be assessed and portrayed as accurately as possible. And that we should certainly be cautious about fueling a war that, with diplomacy and a little bit of introspection, might be stopped. That is the only way we can truly offer the suffering men, women, and children of Ukraine a prospect of ending this senseless violence.
It is an illusion to think that a looming nuclear inferno, which threatens to wipe out all life on this planet, will wake the masses up from their mass formation. The mass is an organism that thrives on death drive. Its ultimate goal is self-destruction. The person who slides into mass formation has already chosen death; the death of all others and their own death. The only thing that can stop this tendency is the courage to speak the truth by those who feel that something is wrong with the war story. A mass formation always develops under a growing veil of illusion, a one-sided and misleading danger that attributes all the misfortune in the world to one object. It is that illusion that must be broken with words, words that are spoken from the realisation of the limitation of all knowledge, from the realization that the truth cannot and should not be fully said, from the realization that the one who thinks and is different is ultimately also a human being, from the realisation that the Other is only our enemy in illusion.’
This is a truthful account of the events leading up to the war in Ukraine that you won’t find in the western mainstream media. It relates the timetable of western lies, hypocrisy and aggression that led to the present debacle that thankfully Trump and Putin want to end, ignoring the deranged eurotrash clamour for the fighting to continue.
Watch; Aaron Maté on how NATO provoked Russia in Ukraine and undermined peace The Grayzone, 21 March 2025
‘The Grayzone’s Aaron Maté argues that the US and NATO provoked Russia in Ukraine by expanding NATO, dismantling arms control, installing military assets threatening Russia, meddling in Ukraine, and blocking multiple opportunities for peace. From a debate hosted by Young Voices in New York City on March 19, 2025. Link to the full debate video here.’
Aaron Maté; “In addressing the question before us, it’s important to make a distinction between provoked and justified. To argue that Russia’s invasion is justified, one has to meet a very high burden that I believe Russia has not met. But when it comes to the issue at hand, whether Russia was provoked, I think there’s an overwhelming case that the answer is yes. And this is the question I think should most concern those of us in NATO states. Because our governments, I will argue, are behind the provocation and accordingly a major geopolitical disaster that needs to come to an end. The provocation of Russia, in my view, has four main elements. Expanding the NATO military alliance to Russia’s borders, tearing up vital arms control treaties, installing military assets that threaten Russia’s security, and finally, and most fatefully, meddling in countries on Russia’s doorstep, primarily Ukraine.
Let’s start with the most uncontroversial issue, which is NATO expansion. It’s now widely accepted that in the talks to end the Cold War, the Soviet Union was promised that NATO, in the words of Secretary of State James Baker, would, would expand not one inch eastward. Now one could argue, well, too bad this pledge was never made in writing and it’s true there was no formal treaty. Then the question becomes why violate this verbal pledge to not expand NATO and was it worth it? Well, on the question of why, we know the answer from the US architects of NATO expansion. In October 1994, a Clinton National Security Council memo formally endorsed NATO expansion into Ukraine and other former Soviet countries. The memo argued for expansion on the basis of what it called a, quote, insurance policy, strategic hedge rationale, I.e. neo containment of Russia. But this goal will be kept in the background only rarely articulated. In other words, we’ll tell the public that NATO expansion is about freedom, self defence, democracy and keep our real goal, the neo containment of Russia in the background. Now, not everybody was on board. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbot argued that pursuing a, quote, strategy of preemptive containment would be a catastrophic mistake. Our policy would become a self fulfilling prophecy. This is mainly because Talbot said, quote, the prospect of NATO expansion provokes some of the most basic Russian reflexes to twitch their fear rooted in geography and history of encirclement and exclusion. Bill Clinton ignored this warning and as he further enlarged NATO, many other prominent diplomats, including George Kennan, one of the most authoritative diplomats in US history, issued similar pleas that went ignored. Expanding NATO, Kennan wrote, would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post Cold War era.
Now, when it comes to Ukraine in particular, why would this be such a fateful error? Well, Ukraine is integral to Russia’s history and identity. Kyiv is known as the mother of Russian cities. Ukraine and other former Soviet states contain sizable ethnic Russian speaking minorities. This issue was laid out by George W. Bush’s ambassador to Russia, William Burns, most recently director of the CIA. In a very important 2008 cable, he relayed fears from inside Russia that NATO expansion into Ukraine, quote, could potentially split the country in two, leading to violence or even some claim, civil war, which would force Russia to decide whether to intervene. Given that possibility, Burns predicted inviting Ukraine into NATO will create fertile soil for Russian meddling in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, while just as Bill Clinton did, George W. Bush ignored this high level and prescient warning. At the 2008 NATO summit in Romania, the Bush administration pushed through a pledge that Ukraine and Georgia will one day join NATO. It’s important to stress here that Bush was not just ignoring the advice of veteran diplomats and some of his own advisors, like Fiona Hill, but crucially, Ukrainian public opinion. Roderick Line, who is the UK’s former ambassador to Russia, said this. It was stupid on every level at that time. If you want to start a war with Russia, that’s the best way of doing it. Moreover, any poll in Ukraine showed that 2/3 of the Ukrainian public did not want NATO membership. That longtime Ukrainian public position reflected Ukraine’s founding declaration of state sovereignty, which affirmed Ukraine’s, quote, intention of becoming a permanently neutral state that does not participate in military blocks, unquote. While that pesky problem of Ukraine’s founding constitution and Ukrainian public opinion was overcome in 2014 with the ouster of Ukraine’s democratically elected president, Viktor Yanukovych in the Maidan coup.
Now here, the standard narrative is that Yanukovych was a Russian puppet ousted by a massive popular movement known as the Maidan, because Yanukovych turned away from the European Union and NATO to align closer with Russia. In reality, Yanukovych wanted to maintain ties to both Russia and the West. For this reason, he ruled out Ukraine’s entry into NATO while still holding talks about joining the EU in an economic deal. The problem with the EU deal is not that Yanukovych was ordered by Russia to ignore it, but Yanukovych actually read the fine print. And what did it say? That he’d have to embrace harsh austerity measures and curtail ties to Russia, which would have been a disaster in particular for Yanukovych’s base in east and southeastern Ukraine. Now, meanwhile, the Maidan coup that overthrew Yanukovych was led not by the peaceful protesters who went out to Maidan, but by powerful and small in number, but large in force, Ukrainian ultra nationalists, including some neo Nazis who lacked the support of a majority of Ukrainians, as Poles from that time affirm. As two specialists with prominent western think tanks wrote in Foreign Policy magazine one month after Yanukovych was overthrown, the uncomfortable truth is that a sizable portion of Kyiv’s current government and the protesters who brought it to power are indeed fascists. Leading the fascist contingent in the Maidan was Oleh Tiahnybok of the Svoboda party. Now, one year earlier, the European Parliament had condemned what it called Svoboda’s racist, anti semitic and xenophobic views and urged Ukrainian political parties not to associate with, endorse or form coalitions with this party. Well, one very important party ignored the European Parliament’s advice, and that was the U.S. government. Victoria Nuland of the State Department, Senators John McCain and Chris Murphy were among those to fly to the Maidan and cavort around with Tiahnybok and other fascist leaders around the Maidan. McCain and Murphy openly talked about bringing about a transition. And when that transition was finally achieved with Yanukovych’s ouster, Murphy took credit. He said that it was our role in part that helped lead to this change in regime. What was that role? Well, we know from the infamous intercepted phone call between Victoria Newland and Geoffrey Pyatt that the US was helping to pick which leaders from the Maidan should join the new government. This reflected the key influence that the US had won by spending millions of dollars via USAID, the NED and US-friendly billionaires. Accordingly, when the fascist elements of the Maidan sabotaged a power sharing agreement that had been negotiated by fellow Maidan members, that would have left Yanukovych briefly in power, the Obama administration forgot that it had supported the power sharing agreement and immediately recognised the new coup government that overthrew Yanukovych.
What happened after that? The new coup government turned its focus on Ukraine’s ethnic Russian population, effectively trying to ban the Russian language and tolerating deadly assaults on ethnic Russians, including in Odessa. In response, Eastern Ukrainians launched an armed rebellion with Moscow’s support. The Kremlin, meanwhile, seized Crimea, which hosted its most important naval base. How did the US respond to this? By encouraging more violence. April 2014 John Brennan goes to Kyiv, tells the Ukrainian government, ‘you should launch an operation against the Donbas. We’ll back you up’. That’s exactly what Ukraine did one day later. Russia then ramped up its support for the rebels, finally militarily intervening directly in August 2014. This fighting leads to the Minsk Accords, which was premised on Ukraine agreeing to recognise limited autonomy for the Donbas. And the rebels would disarm. Well, again, two powerful constituencies ignored this. Ukraine’s ultra nationalists who implemented what the Ukrainian American journalist Levka Linkin calls a policy of veto through violence. Every time the Ukrainian government took steps to implement Minsk, the Ukrainian fascists held violent protests and they were joined in their opposition by powerful US officials. Victoria Nuland privately schemed to undermine Minsk. William Taylor, the top US diplomat in Ukraine at the time, told Volodymyr Zelensky, who had been elected on a platform of peace, that implementing Minsk is, quote, ‘a terrible idea’. When Biden took power, Zelensky was encouraged to be more belligerent, culminating in the days before Russia’s invasion when Zelensky’s government was openly saying, ‘forget Minsk, we’re never going to implement it’. When Russia invaded, that forced Zelenskyy into his rejection of Minsk. You had peace talks culminating in the istanbul Accords of April 2022. We know that there was a deal almost reached. That’s because Ukrainians told us that Alexander Chali, a senior member of the Ukrainian delegation, said this. We managed to find a compromise. What happened to the compromise? Boris Johnson came over to Kyiv on behalf of the US and told Zelensky that he would not be backed up if he made a peace deal with Russia. Now, on top of sabotaging peace opportunities like the Minsk Accords and the Istanbul Accords and also expanding NATO to Russia’s borders, these dangers have been compounded by the US systematically dismantling arms control treaties, most significantly the ABM Treaty and the INF Treaty. No longer constrained by such agreements, the US has placed advanced weapon systems closer to Russian territory, all while ramping up military exercises, naval activity, Russia tried to address these issues in its December 2021 proposal to the US NATO, which was effectively rejected. So in conclusion, by expanding NATO, ignoring the warnings of high level western officials, dismantling arms control, meddling in Ukraine’s government, building up CIA bases inside of Ukraine and finally blocking a diplomatic settlement, multiple times the US and NATO have absolutely provoked Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Finally, time to put an end to this carnage and embrace the peaceful alternatives that have long been undermined.”
Wise words, as ever from Craig Murray. Annually, Starmer gives 5 times more money to Zelensky (£12.8 billion) than he does to all UK farmers (£2.4 billion). Now the main farm subsidy has been cut off to keep the money flowing to Ukraine, showing where Starmer’s priorities lie.
Read; Craig Murray: Putin Is No Hitler Consortium News, 14 March 2025
‘Russian intervention in Syria prevented for a time its destruction by the West in the same way that Iraq and Libya were destroyed by the West. Russia held back the coming to power of crazed Islamist terrorists, and the massacre of Syria’s minority communities. Those horrors are now unfolding, in part because of the weakening of Russia through the Ukraine war. For those nations that destroyed Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya to argue that Russia’s intervention in Syria shows Putin to be evil, is dishonesty of the highest degree. The United States has had a quarter of Syria under military occupation for over a decade and has been stealing almost all of Syria’s oil. Pointing at Russia here is devoid of reason.
Strangely, the same “logic” is not applied to Benjamin Netanyahu. It is not argued by neoliberals [neocons] that his annexations of Gaza, the West Bank and Southern Lebanon mean he must have further territorial ambitions. In fact, they even fail to note Netanyahu’s aggressions at all, or portray them as “defensive” — the same argument advanced much more credibly by Putin in Ukraine, but which neoliberals [neocons] there outright reject.
The economies of Western Europe are being realigned onto a war footing, led by the utterly transformed European Union. The enthusiastic proponents of genocide in Gaza, who head the EU, are now channelling an atavistic hereditary hatred of Russia. The foreign policy of the EU is propelled by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen [Germany] and Vice President Kaja Kallas (Estonia). The fanatical Russophobia these two are spreading, and their undisguised desire to escalate the war in Ukraine, cannot help but remind Russians that they come from nations which were fanatically Nazi. To Russians this feels a lot like 1941. With Europe in the grip of full-on anti-Russian propaganda, the background to Trump’s attempt to broker a peace deal is troubled and Russia is understandably wary.
The U.K. continues to play the most unhelpful of roles. They have despatched Morgan Stanley’s Jonathan Powell to advise Zelensky on peace talks. As former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s chief of staff, Powell played a crucial role in the illegal invasion of Iraq. Wherever there is war and money to be made from war, you will find the same ghouls gathering. Those involved in launching the invasion of Iraq should be excluded from public life. Instead Powell is now the U.K.’s national security adviser.
I am not a follower of Putin. The amount of force used to crush Chechnya’s legitimate desire for self-determination was disproportionate, for example. It is naive to believe that you get to be a lieutenant colonel in the KGB by being a gentle person. But Putin is not Hitler. It is only through the blinkers of patriotism that Putin appears to be a worse person than the western leaders behind massive invasion and death all around the globe, who now seek to extend war with Russia.
Here in the U.K., the Starmer government is seeking actively to prolong the war, and is looking for a huge increase in spending on weapons, which always brings kickbacks and future company directorships and consultancies for politicians. To fund this warmongering, New Labour are cutting spending on the U.K.’s sick, disabled and pensioners and cutting aid to the starving overseas. Labour Friends of Israel has published a picture of Starmer meeting with Israeli President Herzog, six months after the International Court of Justice’s interim ruling quoted a statement by Herzog as evidence of genocidal intent.
The Starmer government was voted for by 31 percent of those who bothered to cast a vote, or 17 percent of the adult population. It is engaged in wholesale legal persecution of leading British supporters of Palestine, and is actively complicit in the genocide in Gaza.
I see no moral superiority here.’
Its not looking good for NATO if they’re stupid enough to go to war against Russia. Steven Jermy, a retired British Navy Commodore, has written this article explaining why war with Russia is definitely not a good idea.
Watch; US-Russia talks, Ukraine ceasefire w/ Commodore (Rtd) Steven Jermy The Duran, 14 March 2025
Steven Jermy; “The article, as you say, was based on the theoretical situation of a war, a conventional war between NATO with America on board and Russia. The key point being that most people assume that NATO could dominate and sort of win that war. You’ll often hear it said that NATO is the greatest alliance ever. It’s simply untrue. The greatest alliance ever was in the Second World War, I would say, and it was between the Allies, which included the the Americans, the Russians, Britain and its Commonwealth nations, and of course China. That was by far the greatest alliance. When you look at NATO as it currently stands, then were we to be in the situation of a conventional war with Russia, what that would mean would be that the war would extend beyond the boundaries of Ukraine into the whole of the NATO hinterland. So if you then look at the key elements of how we would mobilise for that war, I mean, please rest assured it’s a theoretical thing, it would be about the most strategically stupid thing that we could do. And that’s saying something, because we’ve done many stupid things so far. But first of all, we’re not mobilised for war. And it would take us, at best, if we were going quickly, two to three years, but more like five to 10 years. So we would be obviously out-mobilised by Russia in such a situation, who is already partly mobilised for war. A good example, the American army, currently about 427,000. It might be slightly lower than that, according to Daniel Davis, versus an army in Russia of 1.5 million or thereabouts. And all the NATO armies or the European armies are much smaller. I think the French and the Germans are probably about the largest. Having then got that mobilisation underway, we’d have to get the kit from America and the soldiers, et cetera, to Europe. And that means going by sea. The majority would have to come by sea. And there we would run the gauntlet of both Russian submarines and mines.
The experts in anti submarine warfare during the early post Cold War period were the British. And I certainly was one of my specialist areas. And at the moment I look at the anti submarine warfare forces in Britain and they’re a third of the size they were in 1985. And that matters because the number of units matters, because maintaining pressure on submarines is very difficult. So those logistics and troops which did survive the journey across would then arrive in ports. And those ports are vulnerable to attack by a Oreshnik and other ballistic conventional weapons, the hypersonic weapons against which we have no defence, none whatsoever. One of my jobs in the Navy was to command an air defence destroyer with anti air missiles. And I can assure you I think we’ll be lucky to have any defence against those in five years and probably more like 10 years. They’re extremely difficult targets, hypersonic missiles. So those are against both the logistics, but also of course, our energy infrastructure. People often say that Putin has been attacking the Ukrainian civilians. I simply don’t believe it. I think he’s been attacking the energy infrastructure for the very good reason that actually it’s a critical part of maintaining his forces forward. And of course there have been collateral damage a result of those attacks, but we would expect the same here. And I think in the article I said that if an Oreshnik missile hits somewhere like Southampton or Rotterdam LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) tanker position, then the effects will be sub nuclear. You know, these are extraordinary effects. And so again, the energy infrastructure will soon start to shut down our economies. We then got to think about the troops that we will be deploying into the front line. And there’s no doubt in my mind that by far the most experienced and the most battle hardened of the two parties is Russia. And they’re now three years into this and they’ve largely speaking, defeated the Ukrainian army. We have a disparate bunch of armed forces in NATO, from the sort of the small to the medium sized to the larger Americans, but none of them with the experience that Russia now has, nor, I would say, the battle tested equipment that Russia now has as well. So when you’re actually in NATO, it’s much more disparate than people think. Ssome of the Baltic states, for example, have almost nothing. Very brave people, please don’t get me wrong. But you also get very different levels of training and very different standards of equipment. So it’s very much a disparate bunch. Whereas in Russia you’ve got a single set of logistics supporting a single armed force which is trained to a single set of standards. And last, but by no means least says NATO can’t do strategy. In fact, it’s useless at it. I wrote a book when I left the service called Strategy for Action Using Force wisely in the 21st century. It’s not a plug for the book because it’s out of print, but I wrote it because I realised how badly we were doing strategy. I’m sad to say it was a failure in as much as I was hoping it would prevent these sorts of poor thinking. But looking back to Afghanistan, I served in Afghanistan in 2007 and when I arrived at the theatre the most extraordinary thing was to find out that six years into that campaign, with the NATO headquarters having taken over, there was no strategy and the organisation of the forces was pretty poor. So that, to me, doesn’t sound like a good starting point if we were ever to be in a conventional war. And it also gives you, I think, Alexander, a sense of the scale of the challenge that we would need to meet to be getting anywhere near, to be able to confront Russia and multiply that challenge by a factor of about 10, if the Americans are not involved, which I think would be the case.”
The distinguished author, academic and parliamentarian Lord Skidelsky, exposes the lies and propaganda behind the so-called ‘coalition of the willing’ who, says Starmer, ‘will enforce a ‘just’ peace on Ukraine’, whatever that means. He’s delusional as Russia would never tolerate British troops in Ukraine, they would be shot straight away. Skidelsky, whose parents are from Russian descent, went to a party at the Russian embassy last year to show “respect and affection for the Russian people on their National Day, especially in these circumstances”. Starmer and his warmongering ‘coalition of the willing’ are irrelevant and sidelined while Trump and Putin sort out the disastrous war caused by NATO expansion and US/UK subversion of democracy in Ukraine from 2014 onwards.
Watch; UK Parliamentarian DESTROYS Western War Propaganda; Neutrality Studies, 23 March 2025
Robert Skidelsky; “I’ve been roughly saying the same thing for the last two and a half years, which is that we must have a peace policy and not a war policy. And we can’t have a war policy because if we were really serious about a war, we would just risk dangerous escalation because Russia is obviously much stronger than Ukraine. So a war policy doesn’t make any sense. My criticism of the British policy is that every single statement by governments in the last three years has said, ‘we will support Ukraine until it achieves victory’. And that was always mendacious, it was always a lie. They were never going to do that. But what it did was encourage the war to go on and on. Now what’s happened is that the Americans have simply thrown that into the dustbin. That script is now scrapped. So what they’re trying to do, I think the British, together with the Europeans, is to find some way of inserting themselves into a peace process which they never initiated. So I think that’s the difficulty for British policy at the moment.
The British have now said, ‘what we favour is a just and durable peace’. That’s the formula, that is the word. Well, what is just? Durable, yes, of course, but if you add justice to it, then of course you’re immediately almost destroying the possibility of a peace. Because we understand justice in this country mainly as a restoration of the territorial integrity of Ukraine and the payment by Russia of reparations for the damage, the bringing war criminals to trial and so on. We understand those as the requirements of a just peace. But if that’s our policy, we’re not going to get peace at all, because you only get that sort of peace if you defeat a country in war, then you can extract that kind of peace. But we’re nowhere near either doing that or suggesting that that’s the way the war should go. So the policy is very counterproductive. And here’s another example of a counterproductive policy. The idea that Britain and France and one or two other countries, which we call the coalition of the willing will send peacekeeping or peace enforcing troops and aircraft to Ukraine. Well, that was always a no starter. It was mad to think anyone would agree with it. Certainly Americans didn’t agree with it because it seemed to require what was called an American backstop. And the Russians wouldn’t agree to it because they’d been fighting a war to stop NATO troops coming into Ukraine. And to suggest that you have a bunch of NATO troops and you don’t call them NATO, you call them a coalition of the willing there to enforce a ceasefire is something they would never have accepted.
They want to maintain their relevance. Their script’s been upended, I should say. And so in a way, now what happens is a matter of America and Russia or Trump and Putin and Ukraine. And Ukraine will more or less have to accept that what the two great powers can agree on in this. Nnow, where does Europe fit in? It doesn’t. Because its policy was not to talk to Putin at all. There’s been no diplomatic contact between European leaders and the Russian leadership for two and a half or three years. So they’re not part of this bargain. They haven’t got a place in it. And that’s why they’re really terrified that Putin and Trump will form a new alliance which will exclude the Europeans somehow and that America will withdraw from NATO, will abandon NATO and that will force the Europeans to think seriously about their defence. And that’s where I think the game is now, the Europeans have said we’ve got to increase our defence spending. They argue that that’s to meet the Russian threat. But it’s not so much to meet the Russian threat because I don’t think there is a Russian threat, but it’s to follow the demand of the United States that Europe start paying a lot more for its own defence. At the moment, I think it’s right to say that America contributes 75% of the cost of NATO. And Trump is saying, we’re not going to defend you forever. If you want a separate policy, you’ve got to have a separate defence policy. And otherwise we, we decide the main issues between Russia and Europe.”
Tulsi Gabbard demands US-funded bio labs are closed in Ukraine and across the world.
Watch; Tulsi says there are OVER 25 BIOLABS in Ukraine Rand Paul Review, 21 February 2025
Tulsi Gabbard; “Here are the undeniable facts. There are 25 to 30 US-funded bio labs in Ukraine. According to the US government, these bio labs are conducting research on dangerous pathogens. Ukraine is in an active war zone with widespread bombing, artillery and shelling. And these facilities, even in the best of circumstances, could easily be compromised and release these deadly pathogens. Now, like Covid, these pathogens know no borders. If they are inadvertently or purposely breached or compromised, they will quickly spread all throughout Europe, the United States and the rest of the world, causing untold suffering and death. So in order to protect the American people, the people of Europe, the people around the world, these labs need to be shut down immediately and the pathogens that they hold need to be destroyed. Instead of trying to cover this up, the Biden-Harris administration needs to work with Russia, Ukraine, NATO, the UN to immediately implement a ceasefire for all military action in the vicinity of these labs until they’re secured and these pathogens are destroyed. In addition to all this, the US funds around 300 bio labs around the world who are engaging in dangerous research, including gain of function, similar to the lab in Wuhan where Covid 19 may have originated from. Now, after realising how dangerous and vulnerable these labs are, they should have all been shut down two years ago, but they haven’t. This is not a partisan political issue, the administration and Congress need to act now for the health and well being of of every American and every person on this planet.”
Zelensky’s ultra nationalist military aggression against Russian civilians in East Ukraine aligns him with Netahyahu’s Nazi-style Blitzkrieg attacks on Palestinian families.
Watch; WE ALL KNOW WHAT THE Z IN Z€L€NSKY STANDS FOR mo_hamz, 1 March 2025
“So I’m sure you’ve already seen President Zelensky get completely ambushed and supremely embarrassed by these two bigoted bullies, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. I’m also seeing people feeling bad for Zelensky right now. But I want you all to remember one thing. Zelensky is a zionist of the highest order. When Russia was invading Ukraine, where did Zelensky cry to first for support? Aside from the United States? Yup. He gravelled to the place that knows about invading and stealing a country. The terrorist non-state of Israel. Let me repeat. Zelensky of Ukraine, who was complaining about being invaded, went to a country that is known to be one of the world’s most egregious invaders and land thieves in the history of mankind, aside from Britain and America, to ask for help to stop their country from being ‘invaded’. Do you understand this level of sick hypocrisy? I understand it. Why? Did you know that a large majority of the people that displaced Palestinians in the Nakba of 1948 were Ukrainian Jewish colonists? No. Really? Read your history. You could start right here. Did you know that while Ukraine was getting ‘invaded’ by Russia as early as January of 2022, Israel began planning to transfer Ukrainian Jews to become colonists in the land of the Palestinians. Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Immigrant Absorption proclaimed, ‘we call on the Jews of Ukraine to immigrate to Israel, your home.’ Did you know that while Russia was ‘invading’ Ukraine, President Zelensky went to the Israeli Knesset to beg for help, while citing Ukrainian Jewish colonist Golda Mabovich, aka Golda Meyer, Israel’s former Prime Minister? The same Golda Meyer who denied the Palestinian people ever existed. Zelensky even had the audacity to say to the Knesset that Ukraine finds itself today in the same situation as Israel, namely that both countries seem to have horrible neighbours who want to see us dead. Oh, and then there’s the case that Ukrainians, not all, but a large majority, stand with Israel. Oh, and then there’s the case that the Ukrainian soldiers came to fight alongside the least moral baby-killing rapist terrorist called the IDF. So yes, I saw this most pathetic display of foreign affairs, which was just a schoolyard bully show where this little shrimp gets devoured by two not so great whites. So do I give a shit? No, zio Zelensky can go eat zift”
Andrew Napolitano asks Russian media mogul Konstantin Malofeev about the sale of Russia’s state assets to oligarchs, and how the West’s attempts to undermine Russia with sanctions failed.
Listen; Judge Napolitano w/ Konstantin Malofeev Judging Freedom, 11 March 2025
Andrew Napolitano; “Why do you think that Americans for so many generations hated and misunderstood Russians?”
Konstantin Malofeev; “Because America was led by wrong people. And these wrong people misunderstood not only Russia, but Americans as well. As we can see. Look at this woke LGBT plus and all these genders and the cancel culture and this proclamation against mother and father, which has to be parent one and parent two. These people who wanted to build this post-human and definitely post Christian world, they didn’t understand Russia because Russia is very traditional.”
Andrew Napolitano; “How did Russia transform from a planned central economy to a free market economy that it has today?”
Konstantin Malofeev; “That’s happened in late 80s and early 90s, unfortunately, with the help of USAID and other consultants from the US. And this move from plan centralised economy to the free market economy was a disaster. That was a disorder. People became to be poor immediately. 99% of them, 1% of them became to be very rich. We call them oligarchs now. I remember how it was. Soviet Academy of Science made evaluation that all assets that have to be privatised in the Russian Federation has to be evaluated like …16 billion. So 1% of the real value. And they made vouchers such a certificate for each citizen of Russian Federation back to year 1993. So based on these vouchers you can buy a piece of national welfare, national prosperity. Of course, people sell this sometimes for a bottle of vodka, sometimes for a few rubles to these speculants. And the speculants sell this after to the guys like Soros. So they made a fortune because they bought with 99% discount what were built within 100 years. Started from Tsarist time, through all Soviet era. Our heavy industry, our oil and metallurgical companies. And that’s how these people became to be oligarchs. And that’s how Soros and other so-called foreign investors made huge money in Russia in 1990.
Of course, people were very poor. But when Putin came in the beginning of 2000, it started different economy and this middle class start to appear. Why? Because oligarchs were limited by Putin. Their growth by other population were limited. They became not to be so rich. The difference between 10% of poorest and 10% of richest became to be less than was in Yeltsin’s time. So that was the start of Putin’s policy. Putin arrested in jail the most arrogant oligarchs and other oligarchs understood that this country belong not to them, more this country belongs to the government again. So that was his first time in the beginning of 2000, when he just came. Thanks to his victory, we live now in the country when you have a lot of middle class people, people who lives a much better life than in Soviet time.”
Andrew Napolitano; “Tell me about the Russian economy. As a result of the sanctions, the Americans thought they would cripple the Russian economy. And that has not happened.”
Konstantin Malofeev; “So they believe that after sanctions, within couple of months, Russia would collapse. This is ridiculous. We are the richest country in the world. We have 20% of natural deposit of the world. We have the biggest territory. We have more water than anybody else in the world. We fully prepared for any isolation. Belgium could be isolated, Russia could not be isolated at all. So it means that when sanctions came, it started like the process of Russian economy grows, not decline. First, western companies leave the country. Can I imagine they invested billions in this market and they just leave the commodity.”
Andrew Napolitano; “Just to interject here, your foreign minister Lavrov, your friend, estimated that American Companies alone lost 330 to $350 billion in revenue because of the American sanctions.”
Konstantin Malofeev; “And after they lost this, what does it mean that this space where this vacuum has to be filled by somebody, it was filled by China, partially, but partially by Russian business. So Russian business grow up first. Europe does not buy Russian gas more fine, but China does. So what does it mean? So you mean that how e supply 30% of world gas…..so they did an awful job. They made Russian economy stronger than before sanctions.”
Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister of Russia for more than twenty years, is the wisest, most truthful and most humane voice in this whole debacle. If the western leaders had his vision and integrity the Ukraine war would never have happened, and neither would the illegal, unprovoked destruction by the west of Syria, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Palestine.
Watch; Is The Ukraine War Unconstitutional? Interview with Sergey Lavrov Analysis by Richard Cook; Global Research, 14 March 2025
‘On Wednesday, March 12, Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov spoke in Moscow with US commentators Mario Nawfal, Larry Johnson, and Judge Andrew Napolitano. See video and full transcript of interview with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Lavrov made it crystal clear that his government views the conflict in Ukraine as a war between the US and Russia. This is despite the fact that the Trump administration is trying to portray itself as an honest broker between Russia and Ukraine in seeking a cease-fire. How can anyone doubt Lavrov’s assessment? The US has been behind the steady advancement of NATO across eastern Europe to the borders with Russia that has been going on for more than a generation in violation of pledges given to Russia during and after the fall of the Soviet Union.
The US instigated the 2005 “colour revolution” against the Ukrainian government and the 2014 Maidan coup that installed the present regime now headed by Zelensky. The US and NATO armed Ukraine in its actions to consolidate power over the Russian-speaking regions in eastern Ukraine, including assaults against civilians, leading up to the start of Russia’s Special Military Operation by which it invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
This is a US war fought by Ukraine with US money and weapons and US military technology. The US has used its influence to pressure and coerce the nations of the EU to support and finance the war. Leading the cheerleading has been the government of Great Britain. Without a doubt, Britain has been much more influential in bringing on the war and keeping it going than anyone has been ready to admit.
In fact the war in Ukraine has been a blatant manifestation of the power of what may be called the Anglo-American-Zionist Empire in its self-defined mission of world conquest that has been going on for well over a century. The US has provided much of the muscle for this mission ever since Cecil Rhodes and Nathaniel Rothschild set out to “recover America for the British Empire” before the end of the 19th century. For the details, see my (Richard Cook) book Our Country, Then and Now.
During this period, the US has fought dozens of wars and conflicts around the world resulting in the deaths of millions of people and the destruction of many nations and even whole civilizations. This has included the destruction of the advanced Christian cultures of Central and Eastern Europe, with the current assault on Russia only the latest. The US has also been presiding over the chaos in the Middle East, the latest episodes being the US-facilitated genocides by Israel in Gaza and elsewhere and the US acquiescence in the ongoing terrorist destruction of Syria.
Let me mention just one problem with all this, which is the fact that the US Constitution gives Congress the authority to declare war against nations, not a unitary executive.
Congress did in fact declare war against belligerent nations in World Wars I & II. In some of the US military incursions, but very few, there was a congressional war resolution. And Congress has approved military budgets over the decades that produced the weapons used to fight in all these wars.
But in the case of Ukraine, Congress has not declared war against Russia. There has never been a meaningful congressional debate. With what is going on today in the discussions of a cease-fire, it is obvious that the Ukraine war has now become Trump’s war, with Zelensky now Trump’s boy as much as he was previously Nuland’s-Sullivan’s-Blinken’s-Biden’s boy.
Obviously a great drama is now going on with the meetings in Saudi Arabia and the dispatch of US negotiators to Moscow. But let’s please be clear, this is an illegal and unconstitutional war fought under false premises to the detriment of all the nations involved. This includes the US itself which has been corrupted beyond belief by lies and violence. And it must stop now.’
Watch; Comments on the above interview with Lavrov; Judge and The INTEL Roundtable w/ Johnson & McGovern; Judging Freedom podcast, 12 March 2025
I can never understand why so many so-called human beings believe their politicians’ excuses to support war. You can easily find out who they are by asking people what they think of the wars we are presently funding against Russia and for Israel. Whether you decide to side with your politicians or you have done the research to find out the truth about the conflict, we need to put ourselves in the enemy’s shoes to see where they stand so that we can proceed with conflict resolution as opposed to supporting the killing of someone else’s son/daughter, brother/sister, husband/wife father/mother, friend/hero.
Watch: Killing Without Purpose; Judge Napolitano with Prof. John Mearsheimer- Judging Freedom
Prof. John Mearsheimer; “We are and have been supporting a genocide in Gaza since late 2023.There’s nothing new here. Furthermore, if you look at our behavior in Afghanistan, our behavior in Iraq, our behavior in Libya, our behavior in Syria, the number of people who have died, and here we’re talking about civilians, women, children, elderly men, it’s off the charts. This is just standard fare for the United States of America. If you look at Israel, just how it behaves in the Middle East these days, it’s shooting the works up in countries all around the region, and we support it. Nobody protests. They decide they’re going to attack in Southern Lebanon. They do it. They decide they’re going to attack in Syria, they do it. We decide we’re going to attack the Houthis. We do it. We don’t care about the Constitution, we don’t care about the law. We don’t care whether civilians are being killed. This is the point that we’ve reached here.”
Judge Napolitano; “The Hamas Health Ministry announced that they had buried their 50,000th Palestinian Gazan resident. The number didn’t make a big deal worldwide at all. We are totally unfazed by the magnitude of the slaughter, and that’s a small number because this doesn’t count the bodies that are found in the rubble. This is counts just the bodies that they were able to find in the streets and the buildings and and bury.”
Prof. John Mearsheimer; “It’s also very important to understand that it doesn’t include the people who will die in the immediate future or the near future as a result of what’s happened in Gaza. In other words, if you go back to the Holocaust, the Nazis murdered significant numbers of Jews directly. But large numbers of Jews in places like the Warsaw Ghetto died slowly over time. So you want to remember, if you take into account those indirect deaths in the range of 200,000.
The Lancet Report made this clear. But again, are we surprised by this? We’ve been supporting the genocide since the fall of 2023. The Israelis are now trying to starve the Gazans to the point where huge numbers die and they’re forced to abandon the Gaza Strip. That’s what the policy is. So this (genocide) is just not surprising at all.”
Judge Napolitano; “Policy paid for by Donald Trump, not personally by him, but with American Funds”
Prof. John Mearsheimer; “And before that, by Joe Biden.”
Judge Napolitano; “Correct.”
John Mearsheimer; “This is what’s happened to American values. The United States is supporting an apartheid state that’s engaged in genocide. Do you need to know anymore?”
As a former diplomat, Craig Murray had an inside view of the distortion, propaganda, media fiction and lies that governments use to manufacture public consent for wars, surveillance, arbitrary arrests and genocide.
Read; The Moral Balance of Power; Craig Murray, 12 March 2025
‘There is a logical fallacy that dominates European neoliberal “thinking” at the moment. It goes like this. “Hitler had unlimited territorial ambition and proceeded to attempt conquest of all Europe after annexing the Sudetenland. Therefore Putin has unlimited territorial ambition and will proceed to attempt conquest of all Europe after annexing Eastern Ukraine.” This fallacious argument gives no evidence of Putin’s further territorial ambition. For evidence of Putin’s threat to the UK, Keir Starmer risibly refers to the Salisbury “novichok” affair, perhaps the most pathetic propaganda confection in history.
But even if you were to be so complacent as to accept the official version of events in Salisbury, does an assassination attempt on a double agent credibly indicate a desire by Putin to launch World War 3 or invade the UK? Hitler’s territorial ambitions were not hidden. His desire for lebensraum and, crucially, his view that the Germans were a superior race who should rule over the inferior races, was plain in print and in speeches. There is simply no such evidence for wide territorial ambition by Putin. He is not pursuing a crazed Nazi ideology that drives to conquest – or for that matter a Marxist ideology that seeks to overthrow the established order around the world. The economic alignment project of BRICS is not designed to promote an entirely different economic system, just to rebalance power and flows within the system, or at most to create a parallel system not skewed to the advantage of the United States. Neither the end of capitalism nor territorial expansion is part of the BRICS project. There is simply no evidence of Putin having territorial goals beyond Ukraine and the tiny enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. It is perfectly fair to characterise Putin’s territorial expansion over two decades as limited to the reincorporation of Russia threatened minority districts in ex-Soviet states. That it is worth a world war and unlimited dead over who should be mayor of the ethnic Russian and Russian-speaking city of Lugansk is not entirely plain to me. The notion that Putin is about to attack Poland or Finland is utter nonsense. The idea that the Russian army, which has struggled to subdue small and corrupt, if western-backed, Ukraine, has the ability to attack western Europe itself is plainly impractical. The internal human rights record of Putin’s Russia is poor, but at this point it is marginally better than that of Zelensky’s Ukraine. For example the opposition parties in Russia are at least allowed to contest elections, albeit on a heavily sloped playing field, whereas in Ukraine they are banned outright.
Still less convincing are the arguments that Russia’s overseas political activities in third countries require massive western increases in armaments to prepare for war with Russia. The plain truth is that the western powers interfere far more in other countries than Russia does, through massive sponsorship of NGOs, journalists and politicians, much of which is open and some of which is covert. I used to do this myself as a British diplomat. Revelations from USAid or the Integrity Initiative leaks give the public a glimpse into this world. Yes, Russia does it too, but on a much smaller scale. That this kind of Russian activity indicates a desire for conquest or is a cause for war, is such a shallow argument it is hard to believe in the good faith of those promoting it. I have also seen Russian military intervention in Syria put forward as evidence that Putin has plans of world conquest. Russian intervention in Syria prevented for a time its destruction by the west in the same way that Iraq and Libya were destroyed by the west. Russia held back the coming to power of crazed Islamic terrorists, and the massacre of Syria’s minority communities. Those horrors are now unfolding, in part because of the weakening of Russia through the Ukraine war. But for those nations that destroyed Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya to argue that Russia’s intervention in Syria shows Putin to be evil, is dishonesty of the highest degree.’
In a dark comic farce that no one would dare write for fear of ridicule, a mediocre comedian steps out of his soap opera role to become president of Ukraine, and immediately allows himself to be controlled by criminal oligarchs, neo-nazi fascist militia and the corrupt, disgraced western leaders Biden and Johnson. Regaled with mind-numbing hypocrisy by western politicians, he blunders into a western proxy war with Russia causing the destruction of his country and the needless deaths of a generation of Ukraine’s youth.
Read; Slava Kokayin Joe Jones, 11 March 2025
‘For three years, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been America Britain and Europe’s darling, a khaki-clad symbol of defiance, pleading for billions in aid and NATO’s embrace amid Ukraine’s self inflicted war. To many well-meaning Americans, Britons and Europeans, he’s a hero battling overwhelming odds. But behind the curated image lies a far uglier truth, a stooge comedian turned president, propped up by a criminal oligarch, surrounded by cronies, and presiding over a regime of corruption, repression, and broken promises.
This is the real Zelenskyy, an actor playing a role he’s woefully unfit for, that was proven yesterday in the oval office. As Ukraine spirals deeper into chaos and its brutally harvested conscript army collapses in retreat, it’s important that decent Americans, Brits and Europeans understand who and what this man really represents.
Let’s start with Kvartal 95 (Ukrainian TV channel), the oligarch’s launch pad. Zelenskyy’s story starts not in politics but comedy. Born in 1978 in Kryvyi Rih, he co-founded Studio Kvartal 95 in the 1990s with a group of friends that had hit it big by the 2000s. Ironically their big breaks were made in Russia, performing in Russian and focusing on Russian and Ukrainian political and cultural life. The key to all this success? Ihor Kolomoisky, a billionaire Ukrainian oligarch with a laundry list of crimes, including fraud, money laundering, and brutal violence. Kolomoisky then owned 1+1, the TV network that handed Zelenskyy’s Kvartal 95 a national platform starting in 2012. He didn’t just offer airtime, he bankrolled Zelenskiy with cash, security, and legal and criminal muscle. This wasn’t mentorship, it was a transaction. Kolomoisky, later sanctioned by the U.S. for “significant corruption,” saw Zelenskyy as a pawn in his game. By 2019, when Zelenskyy ran for president, Kolomoisky’s DNA was all over the campaign providing vehicles, lawyers, bodyguards, and a media blitz. Zelenskyy was never an outsider; he was a “made man”
This is where it gets almost unbelievably bizarre. In 2015, Zelenskyy starred in “Servant of the People,” a hit satire aired on Kolomoisky’s 1+1 channel, where he played a teacher turned president railing against corruption. Ukrainians, tired of the endemic corruption in the post Soviet state, lapped it up. Then, in 2018, his Kvartal 95 crew decided to turn fiction into reality, registering a political party called, you guessed it, “Servant of the People.” It had absolutely no manifesto, no policies, and no plan of action, just a TV title and Zelenskyy’s face. Running in 2019, Zelensky promised to end corruption and the Donbas civil war, which had erupted after the CIA-backed Maiden Coup, winning in a landslide thanks to Kolomoisky’s media machine. An actor who played a president on TV was now remarkably in the real job. Zelenskyy didn’t waste any time handing power to his showbiz pals. Ivan Bakanov, a Kvartal 95 co-founder, became head of the SBU security service with no experience. Serhiy Shefir, another comedy crony, took a top aide role, no experience. And then there’s Andriy Yermak, a film producer turned Zelenskyy’s right-hand man, now head of the Presidential Office, dubbed Ukraine’s “shadow president.” Yermak, physically and intellectually towering over Zelensky, controls policy and access, a fixer running the show while the president flounders. These weren’t appointments based on merit. They were loyalty hires, a Kvartal 95 clique utterly unfit for a grossly dysfunctional war-torn nation.
Zelenskyy’s laughable anti-corruption pledge met reality in 2021 with the Pandora Papers. The leak revealed he and his inner circle, including Bakanov, were funnelling cash to Kolomoisky with Zelenskyy stashing millions offshore. Zelenskyy swore to end corruption and the Donbas war. Instead, he’s delivered more of both, a million lie dead, the free media crushed, billions stolen, languages and religion banned. This criminal is no hero, no Churchill and no friend of Britain, Europe or America. He should be treated accordingly. On his election campaign Zelensky promised to bring peace to Ukraine, he failed. He walked away from the 15-point peace deal that was agreed between the Russian / Ukrainian delegation teams in Turkey because the USA / UK said they will support him militarily and financially, if he walked away form said peace agreement.
Now Ukraine has lost a million soldiers, lost 20% territory, 2 million Ukrainians displaced across the EU zone and Ukraine is now burdened with debt that will go on for generations to come. It’s once very fertile arable land is now contaminated with depleted uranium which the UK supplied. They will own nothing as it will all be owned by western corporations such like Blackrock. Zelensky maybe be many things but a hero he is not, he is an inept, inexperienced politician that has failed the Ukrainian people. That may be your idea of some kind of hero, but to me it’s my idea of a fool.’
The real purposes of western-provoked wars always turn out to be to boost arms sales, gratify the war-addicted media and to plunder the defeated country’s resources. Too bad if people have to die, ‘national interest’ and corporate profits come first.
Read; Britain Wants Ukraine’s Minerals Too by Mark Curtis, Declassified UK, 13 March 2025
“It’s not just Trump.” Mark Curtis reports on the U.K.’s scramble for Ukraine’s natural resources.
‘When U.K. officials signed a 100-year partnership with Ukraine in mid-January, they claimed to be Ukraine’s “preferred partner” in developing the country’s “critical minerals strategy.” Yet within a month, U.S. President Donald Trump had presented a proposal to Ukraine’s President Volodymr Zelensky to access the country’s vast mineral resources as “compensation” for U.S. support to Ukraine in the war against Russia. Whitehall was none too pleased about Washington muscling in. When Foreign Secretary David Lammy met Zelensky in Kyiv last month he reportedly raised the issue of minerals, “a sign that [Keir] Starmer’s government is still keen to get access to Ukraine’s riches”, the iPaper reported. Lammy earlier said, in a speech last year: “Look around the world. Countries are scrambling to secure critical minerals, just as great powers once raced to control oil.” The U.K. foreign secretary was correct, but Britain itself is one of those powers, and Ukraine is one of the major countries U.K. officials — as well as the Trump administration — have their eyes on.
It’s no surprise why. Ukraine has around 20,000 mineral deposits covering 116 types of minerals such as beryllium, manganese, gallium, uranium, zirconium, rare earth metals and nickel. The country, whose economy has been devastated by Russia’s brutal war, also possesses one of the world’s largest reserves of graphite, the largest titanium reserves in Europe, and a third of the continent’s lithium deposits. These resources are key for industries such as military production, high tech, aerospace, and green energy. In recent years, the Ukrainian government has sought to attract foreign investment to develop its critical mineral resources and signed strategic partnerships and held investment fora to showcase its mining opportunities. The country has also begun auctioning exploration permits for minerals such as lithium, copper, cobalt and nickel, offering lucrative investment opportunities. Media narratives largely parrot the U.K. government’s interests in Ukraine being about standing up to aggression. But Whitehall has in the past few years stepped up its interest in accessing the world’s critical minerals, not least in Ukraine.’
Watch or Read; Ukraine “rare earths” deal: the empire’s fatal mistake; Alex Krainer, 8 March 2025
‘I first wrote about the “rare earths” deal between the US and Ukraine last week, on Tuesday, 25 February and I intended to follow up with this report in a day or two. However, the situation continued to evolve and the rabbit hole presented new discoveries. The affair appears to be a deceitful ploy contrived by the British ruling establishment to lure Donald Trump into providing security for Ukraine and ultimately to go to war against Russia. However, this could prove to be the British Empire’s fatal mistake that will probably accelerate its final collapse.
The undead empire
Yes, the British Empire is still a thing. It’s an undead empire of money, bankers and money laundering; it’s an empire of secret intelligence networks and covert diplomacy; of illicit influence, bribery and corruption; it’s an empire of false narratives and co-opted governments of degenerates, morons and incompetent bureaucrats. It’s a parasite that has infected humanity centuries ago and turned it into a radical perversion of itself.
It’s also a dying empire, wounded and extremely dangerous as it is prepared to set the world on fire to preserve itself. Today this empire has run up against powerful opposition, not only from Russia, China and other sovereign world powers, but now also from the new administration in the US. The unravelling could span years and will present one of the most investable geopolitical themes out there, but more about that toward the end of this report
Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to the White House on Friday, 28 February has got to be one of the most extraordinary events in modern history. Zelensky came to Washington, ostensibly to sign the “rare earth” minerals deal with the US, turning over some $500 billion in Ukraine’s resources to American interests. In exchange, Zelensky wanted a security guarantee and continued financial and military support for Ukraine from the United States.
Starmer’s stealth act of piracy
To preempt Trump and secure Ukraine’s resources for Britain, Sir Keir Starmer rushed to make the deal with Zelensky under the framework of the “One Hundred Year Partnership” The new partnership was signed on 16 January of this year, only four days before Donald Trump’s inauguration. In Article 4, the agreement sets out its purpose: to “strengthen conditions for investment and trade … and cooperate across a range of sectors, including but not limited to transport, infrastructure, and energy to make both their economies more modern, resilient and prosperous.” According to the intelligence leaks from Ukraine, the agreement includes a secret appendix, which provides that after the end of hostilities, the UK would gain control of all of Ukraine’s ports, power plants, natural gas deposits, storage facilities and pipelines, titanium deposits and more. Apparently, Zelensky signed over these resources in exchange for the UK’s commitment to Ukraine’s security, support for her NATO membership and “no less than £3 billion a year,” for “as long as needed to support Ukraine.” Reading through the “One Hundred Year Partnership” agreement makes the allegations made by AENews seem plausible.
Britain’s support isn’t likely charity
To begin with, it is unlikely that the UK has committed to providing such generous support to Ukraine out of pure charity. AENews dismisses this idea, citing Czechoslovakia’s historical experience with the British government. The Czechs fought for Great Britain in World War I. After the war, however, London charged the Edward Benesh government [1935-1939] for repayment of all the costs of clothing, gear, food, accommodation, and training of Czechoslovak soldiers. They charged them even for the medical bills of wounded soldiers and for the funerals of fallen ones. There’s no reason to believe that the current British government will prove any more charitable with the future governments of Ukraine. Furthermore, the 100-year partnership agreement is not an “entire agreement.” Customarily, agreements include the “entire agreement” clause which stipulates that contracting parties’ commitments are limited to that which is explicitly spelled out in the signed agreement or specifically listed schedules or addendums. Instead, Article 11 refers to unspecified “further agreements or arrangements as necessary and appropriate to implement this agreement.” That implies that there might exist a secret appendix granting the rights to Ukraine’s resources to British interests.
The Americans are so very greedy
And there you have it. It would appear that the British have already secured the lion’s share of Ukraine’s wealth, but it can’t protect it without the Americans doing the dirty work and all the heavy lifting. To get the Americans into the game, the British presented bait in the shape of the “rare earth minerals” deal to be implemented through some future fund from which the US will receive a portion of the proceeds. It is likely that this bait was contrived already in September of last year, when Zelensky first offered the deal to Trump.
Obviously, the arrangement has a massive downside for the United States: in addition to the cost in blood and treasure of providing security, there would also be the likelihood of a nuclear war with Russia. But the very existence of those rare earths in Ukraine is in doubt. Meanwhile, British interests would snatch most of the loot. Per trade practices that the British have perfected over the centuries, this act of piracy would be so well disguised through secret agreements with designated Ukrainian trustees, corrupt government officials, endless strings of offshore shell companies and the money laundering services from British and European banks, that few would even suspect that British interests were involved at all.
What’s the reason for Britain’s deranged Russophobia
What could be the reason behind the British establishment’s deranged obsession with vanquishing and dismembering Russia and why do they seem perfectly willing to set the world on fire to achieve that goal? I believe that the answer lies in her natural resources wealth, which dwarfs that of Ukraine. Britain, whose finances are in a catastrophic state, is desperate for fresh collateral to fuel a major new credit cycle needed to refloat its financial system. Without Ukraine’s and Russia’s resources, all they have are the printing presses which will turn Britain’s stagflation into a hyperinflation and the final collapse of their empire. In fact, that’s almost certainly the most likely outcome of current events. The world has changed since Churchill contrived his own cunning plan. Starmer’s and Johnson’s hustle is almost transparent. Trying it on Donald Trump could turn out to be the undead British Empire’s fatal mistake.”
Listen; The Corporations Benefitting from the Ukraine War Sandi Adams, UK Column News, 5th March 2025
UK Column Presenter, Sandi Adams; “Starmer has just agreed to send more UK taxpayers money to Ukraine this week, investment so far – over 12 billion since 2022 in alleged help in their fight for democracy. Most of this money isn’t actually going to Ukraine. Instead, it’s being funneled into the pockets of defence contractors, multinational corporations, and financial giants like back BlackRock.
This is a racket. It’s a system designed to enrich the elites while keeping Ukraine in a cycle of war, debt and economic servitude. The US has committed over $113 billion in so-called aid to what Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) admitted some time ago, that the money we are sending isn’t really going to Ukraine, it’s going to American defence manufacturers.
We’ve got Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Boeing, and General Dynamics all receiving massive military contracts. And this week, the Thales group have taken on a contract in Belfast to make munitions for Ukraine.
As war rages on what happens after the war? That’s where even bigger profits come in. BlackRock has already signed agreements with the Ukrainian government to advise on post-war reconstruction. They’re helping structure investment funds to build Ukraine, but it’s not charity. Obviously, BlackRock and its investors will control how funds are going to be spent and who benefits? Major Western corporations will seize control of Ukraine’s post-war economy. Taxpayer money will fund it, but corporations will profit. So it’s all being sold to the highest bidder. Ukraine’s economy is devastated. It can’t repay the billions in loans from the U.S, the EU, the IMF, and the World Bank.
These loans aren’t really designed to be repaid. They’re designed to keep Ukraine under western economic control forever. And how it works is; Ukraine takes on massive debt in exchange Ukraine is forced to sell off its national resources, farmland, energy infrastructure to foreign corporations. And when it defaults its economy is handed over to the western financial institutions and multinational corporations that have bailed them out.
It’s the same IMF debt trap that’s been used in Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, and Iraq. Ukraine isn’t being saved, it’s being colonized by economic means. Monsanto, now Bayer, is buying it up plus DuPont and Cargill, three of the biggest agribusiness firms in the world. And who owns big shares in all of these? BlackRock. Right now, 30% of Ukraine’s farmland is already owned by foreign corporations. The same western powers funding Ukraine’s war are now taking its land.
500,000 Ukrainians have died in this war. Did they die so their land could be taken by Monsanto? I don’t think so. We’ve got NATO’s expansion. Weapons manufacturers have been pushing for NATO’s expansion for decades and lobbied for eastern European countries to join NATO”.
Read; Zelenskyy’s Meltdown & a History Lesson by George Christensen, Nation First, 1 March 2025
‘Nation First looks behind the blow-up in the White House to see who Zelenskyy really is and whether the mainstream narrative around Ukraine stacks up.’
‘Many would have been shocked to see this—Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the so-called hero of democracy, in an outright shouting match with Donald Trump and JD Vance in the White House. For years, the media painted Zelenskyy as a courageous leader, a beacon of freedom, standing up to Russian “aggression.” But yesterday, the mask slipped.
– Zelenskyy’s mask slipped during a fiery confrontation with Trump and JD Vance in the White House, proving he is not a grateful ally but a desperate puppet.
– Ukraine has always been historically tied to Russia, and its so-called independence was only ever made possible by western interference.
– The US and NATO deliberately orchestrated Ukraine’s turn against Russia, using coups and propaganda to install a puppet regime that serves their interests.
– Zelenskyy is possibly a western intelligence asset, propped up by globalist elites while enriching himself at the expense of his own people.
– The war in Ukraine was never about democracy—it was a western-provoked disaster meant to weaken Russia, and now that it has failed, Zelenskyy is being cast aside.
When Vance asked a simple question—why isn’t Ukraine showing gratitude for the billions of dollars in aid—it triggered an outburst. Zelenskyy, instead of thanking the US for bankrolling his war effort, accused America of not understanding what’s coming. Trump, never one to back down, reminded him exactly where he stands: “You don’t have the cards right now.” And he’s right. Zelenskyy has never been in control of this war. He isn’t some heroic leader calling the shots. He’s a desperate man clinging to power in a crumbling regime, propped up by western money, western weapons, and western propaganda. And now, as Ukraine’s battlefield losses mount, as conscripts are dragged off the streets to fight, as the tide of public opinion in the west shifts—Zelenskyy is panicking. And why wouldn’t he be? He was never the real power in this war. The real architects of this disaster have been sitting in Washington, Brussels, and London, playing their geopolitical games. The war in Ukraine was never about protecting democracy, and it certainly wasn’t “unprovoked.” It was engineered—deliberately—by the west. But to understand that, you need to know the real history of Ukraine and Russia—history the mainstream media will never tell you.
Read; From Corona to Ukraine – The New Mass Formation by Mattias Desmet 17 March 2025
Here is my modest opinion: Russia knows that in the great expansionist struggle it might lose, and if it comes to war, it is largely because it feels that it has a knife to its throat. In this article from ten years ago – written in tempore non suspecto – you can read that the geopolitical maneuvers of NATO in the Black Sea region would inevitably lead to war with Russia. Those maneuvers were merely the point of the spear directed at Russia in a much larger expansionist USA project. Since WWII, the USA has, by most estimates, built between 700 and 800 military bases abroad. To those who are so convinced that Russia is the only aggressor in the Ukraine story: try looking through the eyes of the Kremlin. How would Europe or America feel if, under the cover of many beautiful stories about ‘democracy’, Russia marched toward Brussels or Washington with hundreds of military bases?’
Romania
Routine criminal interference to force other countries ‘democracies’ into line with western interests.
Watch; Why NATO’s civil-political affairs network keeps pushing to cancel democracy in Romania Mike Benz, 8 March 2025
“Why is that Port of Constanta so important to NATO? NATO is building the largest NATO base in all of Europe right there on the Black Sea coast, pointing straight out at Crimea. As we speak, drones and military fighter jets are being moved from the Ramstein Air Force base into that exact NATO air base. It is going to be the number one source of force projection for NATO against Russia for the duration of this war and frankly for the decades following. Romania does not want a big ‘kick me’ sign from Russia on its back. And so what Georgescu is guilty of is the same thing that Imran Khan and the PTI party were. It’s what the State Department cables refer to as taking a quote, ‘aggressively neutral’ position. Just before Imran Khan was ousted he had said ‘we want to be friends with everyone. We don’t hate the United States, but we don’t hate Russia’. Same thing with the Polish PIS party was shifting towards at the end of their tenure. They wanted good relations with all and the same thing with Georgescu has been saying’ he hasn’t been talking ill of the west very much. It’s been mostly that just didn’t want to have Romania be the source of force projection for killing Russians.
And Romania plays a very important role for several reasons. It is also one of the primary modes of transport of weapons from Pakistan and from other shipment by sea before it gets to Ukraine and because it is a NATO country and so Russia cannot mess with goods bound for Romania the same way they could if it was going directly to Ukraine. And so there is this pipeline of trans-shipment of munitions into Romania. Georgescu has indicated that he wants to stop that. He doesn’t want Romanian bound weapons killing Russians and he doesn’t want the NATO base there. So NATO can no longer go around assassinating people or doing 1999 style, 78 straight days of bombing campaigns, on the parliament in Romania simply because they voted for someone in an election. They need another mechanism to make sure their plans still happen. And that mechanism is taking over the court system in Romania. And we saw USAID funds juicing the whole Romanian court system. We see USAID programmes for rule of law and anti corruption and all that means is regime change because you can’t assassinate him formally. The only way you can do it is judicially.”
Greenland
Donald Trump threatens to forcibly annex Greenland, even though 85% of Greenlanders oppose this. The US wants to restrict China’s access to the Arctic region, and to exploit the territory’s natural resources, especially critical minerals needed for new supply chains.
Read; 85% of Greenland Oppose Joining USA, but Trump Wants to Colonise It Over Minerals & China Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy, 19 March 2025
‘The vast majority of people in Greenland oppose becoming part of the United States, despite Donald Trump’s threats to colonise their land. A staggering 85% of Greenlanders do not want to join the US, according to a poll published in January by a Greenlandic newspaper. Just 6% of people in Greenland support Trump’s proposal to annex their homeland. (The remaining 9% are undecided.) Greenland wants independence from both Denmark and the US. Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark, although polls have long shown that the majority of people there, who are of indigenous Inuit descent, consider themselves to be a separate country and want formal independence. Just because they want independence from the Danish empire, however, does not mean that Greenlanders want to instead be colonised by the US empire. “We don’t want to be Danes. We don’t want to be Americans. We want to be Greenlanders”, insisted Greenland’s Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede.
The Trump administration has openly rejected the wishes of the Greenlandic people, and has made it clear that it is serious about taking control of Greenland. A Trump ally, Republican Congressman Earl “Buddy” Carter, introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that calls to “authorise the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as ‘Red, White, and Blueland’”.
War with China
Trump‘s vice president, JD Vance and his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio’s motivations for war with China.
Watch; This speech accidentally exposed the truth about the US Geopolitical Economy Report, 22 March 2025
J.D. Vance; Vice President; “The idea of globalisation was that rich countries would move further up the value chain while the poor countries made the simpler things. You would open an iPhone box and it would say, designed in Cupertino, California. Now, the implication, of course, is that it would be manufactured in Shenzhen or somewhere else”. “But I think we got it wrong. It turns out that the geographies that do the manufacturing get awfully good at the designing of things.” “Now, we assumed that other nations would always trail us in the value chain, but it turns out that as they got better at the low end of the value chain, they also started catching up on the higher end. We were squeezed from both ends.”
Sen. Marco Rubio, Republican Florida, Secretary of State Nominee; “The Communist Party of China (PRC) is the most potent and dangerous near-peer adversary this nation has ever confronted. They have elements that the Soviet Union never possessed. They are a technological adversary, a competitor, an industrial competitor, an economic competitor, geopolitical competitor, a scientific competitor now in every realm. It’s an extraordinary challenge. It’s one that I believe will define in 21st century. When they write the book about the 21st century, there’s going to be some chapters in there about Putin, there’s going to be some chapters in there about some of these other places. But the bulk of that book about the 21st century will be not just about China, but about the relationship between China and the United States and what direction it went.”
Ben Norton; “The Trump administration ‘wants to unite the populists’, as they say, ‘with Silicon Valley, with big tech corporations’. Vance argues that there’s no contradiction between working-class people who supported Trump and billionaire oligarchs in Silicon Valley and big tech corporations, which is obviously an absurd argument. But he’s trying to bring these forces together against China, against the global south.
He’s arguing that the U.S will reindustrialise by imposing very high tariffs and cutting taxes on the rich and cutting taxes on corporations and scapegoating China for all of the problems in the U.S that were caused by neoliberal globalisation. However, Vance and the Trump administration are trying to separate the neoliberal economic policies of people like Ronald Reagan because they support those policies like tax cuts on the rich, privatization, deregulation. They’re continuing with all of those same neoliberal economic policies that benefit the rich at the expense of the working class, but instead, they’re scapegoating foreign countries and especially China.”
Topics 0:00 (CLIP) JD Vance excerpt; 0:38 US vice president speech; 1:03 Preparing for war on China;3:15 Summary of Vance’s speech;3:56 (CLIP) Marco Rubio on China “threat”;4:39 Deindustrialization;5:02 (CLIP) JD Vance vows “industrial comeback”;5:41 Uniting billionaires and “populists”;6:26 Neoliberalism;7:01 JD Vance’s patron Peter Thiel;8:22 Trump recruits Big Tech billionaires;9:34 For monopoly, against competition;10:21 (CLIP) Peter Thiel loves monopolies;10:35 Elon Musk and Trump;11:05 Billionaire Marc Andreessen;11:47 (CLIP) Trump admin loves Silicon Valley;12:08 Trump coalition: billionaires & workers?;13:37 (CLIP) Techno-optimists vs populists?;14:21 Big Tech manifesto;15:56 Scapegoating China;17:13 (CLIP) JD Vance scapegoats China;17:34 JD Vance calls China “biggest threat”;18:53 (CLIP) JD Vance scapegoats China;19:12 Neoliberal globalization;20:07 (CLIP) JD Vance on globalization;21:18 Neoliberal globalization;22:07 Imperialism & dependency theory;24:11 China’s development;24:35 US bans Chinese competitors;26:15 (CLIP) JD Vance on China’s AI;26:40 US Big Tech monopolies;27:23 (CLIP) “Competition is for losers”;27:38 Trump’s tariffs;28:36 Jake Sullivan’s industrial policy speech;29:16 (CLIP) Jake Sullivan on Washington Consensus;31:36 Industrial policy;32:45 Tech war on China;33:31 Trump’s strategy;34:01 (CLIP) JD Vance on US shipbuilding;34:53 China’s Shipbuilding;35:46 State-owned enterprises;38:07 US government-owned factories;40:32 Industrial policy;43:41 (CLIP) Tax cuts on rich & deregulation;44:07 Reaganism 2.0;44:28 Historical tax rates on rich;45:48 Oligarchs avoid taxes;46:52 Trump boosts deficit & debt;47:38 Fake industrial policy;49:09 (CLIP) JD Vance is “fan” of Big Tech;49:28 Andreessen Horowitz investments;50:30 S&P 500 stock buybacks & dividends;51:03 Reaganomics ;51:59 Trumponomics;53:21 Tariffs & wealth transfer.
Zionism is a Colonial State Project/Gaza, Syria, Lebanon & Iran
By breaking down the Tucker Carlson interview with Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, the series presenter, Kevork Almassian, exposes US/Israeli allegiances with oil rich Middle Eastern countries that want to undermine the Axis of resistance countries ie those countries that don’t kowtow to US/Israeli exploitation of MIddle Eastern people, finances and resources.
Watch; This Tucker Carlson Interview EXPOSES Trump’s Middle East Policy | Syriana Analysis; 24 March 2025
Syriana Analysis is an independent political commentary channel founded by award-winning journalist Kevork Almassian. With expertise in geopolitics, Almassian’s primary objective is to offer informative content that challenges the prevailing narratives of mainstream media.
Presenter; “This video is about the recent interview of Tucker Carlson with the Trump Special Envoy to the Middle East. Steve Witkoff – around one and a half hours covering the Middle East, West Asia, and Ukraine. I watched it and I cut out the most important segments regarding the Middle East, and we will understand if we read between the lines what the Trump administration or the US Empire want from the Middle East, especially after the regime change in Syria. What happened in Syria is worse than the Six-Day war of 1967, and the repercussions of it are going to be enormous on the entire region, especially in regards to the state and non-state actors in the region who wanted to establish an independent region. By independent, I mean a region that doesn’t depend on the US empire for its development, for its economies and for its security. However, after the regime change in Syria and what preceded the regime change from October 7, the decimation of the Gaza Strip, the decapitation of Hezbollah leadership, and then the regime change in Syria will definitely be in favor of Israel and the United States and their dominance on the region.
This interview of Tucker Carlson with Steve Witkoff, shows what the United States wants next, what Israel wants next, what the Gulf countries, especially the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar want next, what is going to be the approach of Trump with Iran and why the Gulf countries are coming together in order to solve the issue of Iran in collaboration with the United States and even Israel. Segment by segment, I will give you my opinion about this. Let’s start with Qatar, which is a very important player in the region, and they have been instrumental in the past 20 to 30 years in implementing the US strategy in the region in order to achieve an American absolute hegemony over the region.”
Watch; What’s the truth behind the “anti-Hamas” protest in Gaza? with Ali Abunimah; The Electronic Intifada; 28 March 2025
Ali Abunimah; “Headlines have been screaming from the New York Times, the Washington Post, all the big media, ‘anti-Hamas protests’. Of course, that’s very significant to them if true. The main point is killing Palestinians for the sake of killing them and exterminating them. But another purpose is to inflict enough death and suffering that Palestinians will blame Hamas and turn against them.
And that’s always been the goal in Lebanon, in Palestine, across the region in Iraq with the sanctions and bombing prior to the U.S invasion; inflict direct suffering on the civilian population in the hope that they will turn against the rulers. Of course, that was also the policy in Syria. That’s the context to see this in their interest. And Mohamed Jhadi, who is a journalist, he’s worked with the Euromed for Human Rights, he’s now a fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, did a tweet thread on this.
I’m going to take us through that and comment on some of the things he says. So the first thing is, it does appear that there were protests in Beit Lahya in the North, or rallies. And there are lots of photos of these. And what’s notable, and you can see this, Arabic readers will see this in the photo there, that Mohamed Jhadi posted that people are holding protest signs. And the ones there, and I’ve seen other similar ones and photos, they say, ‘we refuse to die.
Our children’s blood is not cheap. Stop the war’. None of these signs, not one that I’ve seen, says anything related to Hamas. There is no evidence that this protest is organized in advance target, Hamas. And these signs are similar to other protests we’ve seen in Gaza, particularly involving children that were organized to scream out ‘We are humans, stop murdering us’. And they’re directed at those who are doing the genocide. They’re not directed at Hamas.
If we go to the next tweet in Mohamed Jhadi’s thread, you can see that he says, ‘the protests seem to have started spontaneously in small numbers, in limited areas. Their grievances are genuine, people are tired, desperate for the genocide to end at any cost. Many want Hamas to step down from government to take away Israel’s pretext for the siege and killing.’
Again, that sign of the girl in the photo doesn’t say anything about Hamas, just says, ‘al-Faal Palestine, children of Palestine, we, children of Palestine, want to live’. But what he’s saying there is not like anything that people would need to go out and protest about, because Hamas has said very clearly, it has no interest in governing Gaza. They’re (Hamas) the ones who wanted the ceasefire, who have stuck to it, who stuck to it, to the letter as John pointed out, they’re still talking about going back to the ceasefire. So why would people need to protest against Hamas when Hamas a has no interest in ruling Gaza? They’ve said, so. They’re willing to hand over to a, a sort of nonpartisan tech technocratic committee that’s proposed in the Egyptian plan we talked about a couple of years ago that Hamas publicly welcomed. And they’re the ones committed to ending the war.
So let’s go to the next slide or the next tweet in Mohammed Jihad’s thread where he says, ‘the protests quickly drew the interest and influence of external actors keen to exploit Gaza’s despair and pain and this may end up undermining the movement instead of helping. For example, Israel demanding Gaza’s take to the streets or face death, land theft, and forever war, will backfire.’
I wouldn’t go far as calling it a movement. How much Hadi uses that word. But this seems to have a spontaneous rally or an organized rally in Beit Lahya against the war and against the genocide, not against Hamas, but I’ll come to the part about anti the anti Hamas element that appears to be separate from this protest where you see the children, the signs, in a second, but let’s look at the next tweet where Mohammed notes, ‘when Israel suddenly blesses Palestinians right to expression against Hamas while detaining maiming and murdering those exercising the same right against the occupation, it discourages people from taking part in the protest, lest they be called Israel’s collaborators.’
Well, again, the protests are not about Hamas. From what I’ve seen. The photos of the protests which were organized had nothing to do with Hamas. Of course, Israel doesn’t just murder those protesting against the starving and murdering everyone. And so the idea that Israel or its government would care about anyone in Gaza is ludicrous on its face or the US or western politicians who’ve been helping this.’
For the latest atrocities inflicted by Israel, the US and UK across the Middle East
Watch; Resistance rockets target Tel Aviv Jon Elmer, The Electronic Intifada, 28 March 2025
Watch; “The gates of hell” Electronic intifada livestream Article in Responsible Statecraft, 23 March 2025
Craig Mokhiber on Israel’s accelerating genocide, Eli Clifton on Trump mega-donor Miriam Adelson aiding free-speech crackdown, Abubaker Abed from Gaza and more.
Ali Abunimah; “Israel launched Intensive attacks on Gaza early Tuesday, killing more than 500 Palestinians and injuring hundreds more. As of this morning, at least 174 Palestinian children in Gaza were killed in Israeli airstrikes early this morning, marking one of the largest one-day death tolls since the beginning of the genocide – the human rights group Defense for Children International said on Tuesday. Joining us now to talk about the latest developments is Craig Mukhaybar. He is a human rights lawyer with more than three decades of experience in a campaign of justice. He served as the director of the New York office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights until he resigned in late October, 2023 to protest the world bodies in action in the face of Israel’s unfolding genocide, which now is almost reaching its 18th month.”
Craig Mokhiber; “Thank you very much, Ali and Nora. It’s a pleasure to be back with you.”
Ali Abunimah; “Thank you, Craig. On Wednesday, Israeli defense minister Israel Katz issued what he called a final warning to the citizens of Gaza. He said, quote, ‘the Air Force attack against Hamas terrorists was only the first step. The rest will be significantly worse, and you will pay the price. Soon, the evacuation from the fighting zones will resume unless all the Israeli hostages are released and Hamas is expelled from Gaza, Israel will act with forces never seen before. Take the US President’s advice, return the hostages and expel Hamas, and other options will be presented to you, including relocating to other places in the world. For those who wish, the alternative is utter destruction and devastation.’ Those are the words of Israeli defense Minister Israel Katz. Craig, what’s your reaction to that statement? What has been the world’s reaction and what should the reaction be?”
Craig Mokhiber; “Well, I think the only thing that you can say, as we’ve been saying all of these months, is that what you’re hearing is the sound of impunity. That when you have a government official engaged in crimes against humanity and genocide, who feels confident to broadcast directly a war crime. And let’s be clear, under international humanitarian law, spreading terror among the civilian population is a crime.
Secondly, what he’s declaring is an act of collective punishment, which is also a war crime and a crime against humanity.
So what we should first recognise is that what he’s doing here is he’s contributing to the cases before the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, and hopefully someday cases through universal jurisdiction in the courts of others. He is committing crimes in public because the West, beginning with the United States, has guaranteed Israeli impunity. That can only be described as a Nazi-like state statement.
People are always very careful about the rhetoric that they use. But the last time we heard these kinds of direct threats of crimes against humanity against a civilian population was during World War II. Listen carefully to what he said, he was very explicit in not directing his statement to Hamas or to any armed resistance. He said that ‘he was explicitly addressing the residents of Gaza, the civilian population’. He’s threatening them with quote, ‘total ruin’, ‘harsher attacks than they have already experienced’, which have already broken the records for attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure.
He said, ‘you the residents will bear the full cost of this’. Needless to say, he threatened forced displacement and ethnic cleansing, which are also war crimes and crimes against humanity. He said even if they comply, they would face ethnic cleansing from Gaza. So this is a criminal act promising further criminal acts in full public view because of the degree of impunity that has guaranteed. I am sure that those involved in the cases in the international tribunals are taking note of this additional crime being perpetrated. Hopefully we will see the day when these horrific human rights violators, let’s say Nazis, will face the accountability that they deserve.”
Ali Abunimah; “Craig, just to follow up on that, the International Criminal Court, the Hague has indicted Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Galant, who was Israel Katz’s predecessor as defense minister and Galant was Defense Minister during most of the genocide to date. Those arrest warrants don’t seem to have deterred Netanyahu from escalating this genocide hasn’t deterred Israel Katz. Is there any point to it? I know what you’re going to answer, but I’m just expressing my own sense of exasperation that nothing seems to be able to stop them.”
Craig Mokhiber; “Well, it’s clear they’re not afraid, as I said, that the sound of impunity that we’re hearing, and they’re confident that that impunity, guaranteed by the government of the United States of America, the taxpayers of the United States of America will continue. But I think that there is hope that they will begin to feel……. and remember, these are two indictments to arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court with a promise of others to come. And it is impossible for the International Criminal Court, the case having been opened, to ignore crimes being perpetrated in public that relate to that. So you can bet that Katz is on a short list as he should be. Will they be immediately arrested, and brought to the Hague, as in the case of Duterte of the Philippines just several days ago? No, probably not. But they will feel the impact in their inability as to travel to, over or through other member states. And I believe the time will come when we will get our hands on at least some of these perpetrators. In the meantime, the historic record is being built. The case for accountability is growing, and little by little, piece by piece, we’re chipping away at the wall of impunity that Israel has enjoyed for all of these years. So, justice in the international sense grinds on too slowly and certainly too slowly for those under the bombs and bullets of the Israeli regime.
But it is moving, it is moving maybe at a snail’s pace, but this is not the world that we had two years ago. Now Israel is on trial for genocide in the International Court of Justice. Its leaders indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the international criminal court. Legal action being taken in national courts around the world, a wealth of evidence having been collected, conclusions of every major international human rights organisations, that Israel is perpetrating genocide. This is a level of accountability we did not see just a couple of years ago, and we have to keep at it. We have to keep at it, and we have to find ways to make sure that that accountability bites, we don’t have to wait for those courts to issue final decisions.
We have other means at our disposal of boycott and divestment and sanctions and local prosecutions and education and advocacy and demonstrations and civil disobedience. But this just feeds the case for accountability and we have to make sure that that happens.”
Breaking news and analysis on day 538 of the Gaza genocide; The Electronic Intifada; 27 March 2025
01:45 Ahmed Masoud talks about his novel and family in Jabaliya; 27:48 Nora Barrows-Friedman delivers news report; 01:05:06 Helena Cobban analyzes regional developments; 02:11:06 Jon Elmer delivers resistance report; 02:37:03 Group discussion
Watch; How Israeli-US billionaire Miriam Adelson is helping Trump destroy free speech, with Eli Clifton The Electronic Intafada, 25 March 2025
Nora Barrows-Freedman, Presenter; “According to Eli Clifton, our next guest, the Trump administration’s unprecedented decision to seek the deportation of Khalil, a U.S permanent resident without bringing any criminal charges as an overlooked ally. She is Miriam Adelson, the Israeli-American billionaire, who is the largest financier of Trump’s three presidential campaigns. Eli Clifton is a senior advisor at the UNC Institute. He just wrote the article, the Israeli-American Trump Mega-Donor behind Speech Crackdowns for Responsible Statecraft, the publication where he is investigative journalist at large.
Eli Clifton; “So the Adelson family, and specifically Sheldon Adelson, made billions of dollars, largely with his development of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which is a company based, as you might guess, in Las Vegas, Nevada. But it’s important to keep in mind that he owned at the peak of its American presence, the Venetian Casino in Las Vegas, he’s segued from running conventions in Las Vegas.
The Comdex Convention was something he helped spin up and he turned this into a fortune worth in excess of $30 billion, which is now, while it is still called the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, it really isn’t in any sense connected to Las Vegas other than being based there. What it really is is an Asian gaming company. Most of their casinos are in Macau, Special Administrative Region of China, and they have a casino in Singapore, the Marina Bay.
Sheldon Adelson died in 2021, not that his family, now led by his wife, Miriam Adelson, are any less active in American politics. If anything, they’ve scaled up their involvement. Miriam Adelson was born in Israel. She’s an Israeli-American dual national and that gets thrown around a lot, I should say, especially in circles where people are concerned about the influence of Israel, claiming that people are dual nationals, where in some cases they are not. I think it’s a dangerous thing to use that label when you can’t prove it. It’s in SEC filings, it’s established that she holds dual citizenship.I think a lot of donors in the political space are very coy about what they want and who they are and why they give money, I think that’s a bad thing. I think the Adelsons, to their credit, certainly when Sheldon was alive and going on now with Miriam, are very outspoken that their primary interest in being the largest donors to the Republican Party, is really focused on Israel. That is their first and foremost concern. Maintaining zero daylight between US administrations and Israel is really the most important thing to them and the thing that they take a great deal of pride in their philanthropy as well as in their political donations.
So I think that that sort of sums up her role. Miriam Adelson has become more public since Sheldon’s death in 2021. He used to speak for them more than she did, but it’s very clear that she holds, if anything, views probably more hawkish into the right of where he was in terms of what she thinks US policy in the Middle East should be. The fact that she sees Trump as serving a biblical function in defending Israel, which is kind of striking coming from the person who has overseen the most political contributions going to Trump’s entire political career, openly has written that she sees him, and the reason that she loves him so much, isn’t because of any of his domestic agenda or politics, it’s really about his support for Israel, something that he delivered on in enormous ways in his first term and that she regularly brings up.
And that included the delivering on the Golan Heights, aggregating from the JCPOA, the Iran nuclear deal, and moving the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, something that, again, they had talked about quite a bit as the family had wanted. The final step in that was that the Trump administration, this is the first Trump administration, wanted to make sure that whoever came next wouldn’t be able to so easily move the embassy back to Tel Aviv. One of the steps they took was to sell the Ambassador’s home in Tel Aviv and they sold it to the Adelson family. That tells you about what these people want, why they give their money, and again they’re very open about it.
Read; The Rot at the Core of “Democracy” Craig Murray, 19 March 2025
‘Israel’s U.S.-supported massacres of Palestinians, Trump’s seizure of Mahmoud Khalil and the C.I.A. spying on Julian Assange all tie together.’
As 320 Palestinians were massacred on Monday night, most of them women and children, we live in a world where it is accepted as legal that U.S. President Donald Trump is genocidally zionist because he received a $100 million donation from Miriam Adelson to be so. In addition to which Adelson is the second largest donor to AIPAC, which openly pays hundreds of other elected and potential U.S. politicians to be genocidally zionist too.
This is Western democracy. The argument – now used against Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student who led pro-Palestine campus demonstrations and who is detained by the Trump administration and threatened with deportation – that the First Amendment only applies to U.S. citizens, was also employed by the Biden administration in extradition proceedings against Julian Assange. It surprises me how very often the Assange case proves revealing of the internal workings of power in the U.S.
When the C.I.A. wished to bug Julian Assange on Ecuadorian diplomatic premises in London, and to look into the possibility of kidnapping or murdering him there, they decided to operate through a cutout for such a diplomatically fraught move. That C.I.A. cutout was Sheldon Adelson, multi-billionaire late husband of Miriam Adelson. Adelson’s fortune had come from a Las Vegas casino and property empire. You are probably aware this is not, in general, the most respectable and free-from-organised-crime area of economic activity. There is a lazy stereotype that the control over crime in Las Vegas lies with the Italian mafia. In fact from the days of Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky, Las Vegas organised crime has had close ties to Israel from its very establishment as a state, and in recent times Israeli mobster gangs have controlled narcotic distribution in Las Vegas.
Allow me to point out that the first of those two links is to the official Catholic publication The Tablet, and the second is to Forward, the American Jewish magazine and not the British far-right publication of the same name. Adelson hired a private security company named UC Global, headed by a former Spanish marine named David Morales, to conduct the illegal surveillance for the C.I.A. As one of the subjects of the illegal surveillance, I gave evidence last year to the court case in Madrid in which Morales, head of U.C. Global, is criminally charged. This case seems to ramble on forever, but last week there was a development as Morales was charged with forging documents in the case, for which a new trial is opening. He allegedly fabricated emails from the Ecuadorian ambassador commissioning the spying.
The C.I.A. commissioned the activity from Adelson during the first Trump presidency, but notably the Biden administration condoned this and defended it during the Assange extradition proceedings. It is yet a further example of the meaningless nature of democracy in uniparty America, of the power and reach of the ultra-wealthy and of the fascist links between big business and secret state agencies.’
Craig Murray is an author, broadcaster and human rights activist. He was British ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004 and rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010.
Watch; the film the Israel lobby didn’t want you to see The Electronic Intafada, 2 November 2018.
The Electronic Intifada has obtained a complete copy of, The Lobby – USA, a four-part undercover investigation by Al Jazeera into Israel’s covert influence campaign in the United States.
Ghada Karmi is a distinguished Palestinian academic, physician and author. She was born in Jerusalem and living there with her family when in April 1948 they were forced to leave by zionist militia who were terrorising their neighbourhood, burning and looting houses and shooting people in the street from empty buildings.
Watch; The Party’s Over: Zionism Must Be Dismantled Ghada Karmi, Palestine Deep Dive, 22 March 2025
“The party’s over, it’s not business as usual. In the words of the song, the party’s over, it’s time to call it a day. Precisely. What this has evoked is a deep questioning amongst people who must ask themselves, where do they stand on the question of evil? Because I believe that what we’ve seen in Gaza is evil. We cannot describe it in any other way. There is a sort of deliberate dehumanisation of Palestinians which enables Israelis to actually enjoy it and believe it’s justified. This is a degree of dehumanisation of the other, which is really pathological. How can this be allowed to happen? How is it that the same actors who support Israel have gone on supporting Israel despite these horrific crimes that Israel commits? What does that say not only about those states, but about the world we’re living in? What does it say? Really, is this a world in which the wanton killing of of small children, the destruction of homes, the starvation of people are actually acceptable?
I was born in Jerusalem before 1948, in an area called Katamon, which was cosmopolitan at the time. It had Jewish families, Christian families, foreign families living there. And then in April 1948 came the day when we left our home in Katamon, in Jerusalem, as it turned out, forever. We didn’t think that then. My parents thought we were just being evacuated because things were dangerous and Jewish militias were shooting at people in the street from empty buildings. How wrong we were. Nothing was ever the same again.
It was over for us in April 1948, in the sense of having our place in our country, in our city, in our home, that was over. Our house, which had been a one story villa, as all those Katamon houses were, actually had a floor built on top of it, which had never existed before, and which I found out was something that the New York Times had bought sometime in the early 1980s for their bureau chiefs. But even more bizarre was the denial and the alarm that I found when I talked to the bureau chief of the time, and that was in 2005. He may have had a pang of conscience or something, I don’t know, but he invited me and said,’ I think, I believe I’m living above your old house, would you like to visit?’ I couldn’t resist, really. So we sat and we had this drink and I then said, forgive me, I must ask you something. Now, you knew, quite rightly, that you’re living above my house, our old house, and the fact that you’re here is because we’re not here. So how do you feel about that? And he looked uncomfortable. He started to squirm and I said, no, no, I said, you know what’s happened here. You know it better than anybody else. Do you really still support Israel? Do you have nothing to say about this? What do you think? He would not be drawn. He was uncomfortable, he was unhappy about it. He wanted to change the subject. He wanted to do everything possible to move on, as you might say. That was the house and that’s the reality and it is still there and it is still the home of the New York Times bureau chiefs.
Israel was the product of a political ideology called zionism, and zionism, whatever else it might mean, and however it’s been interpreted, at bottom meant the creation and sustenance of a state for Jews, or at least for a majority of Jews within that state. What it’s meant has been all the characteristics which we associate with Israel, aggression, militarism, greed, destruction of property and peoples who get in its way. That’s really what it’s meant. So there no way anyone can be a supporter of zionism who believes themselves to be moral, humane and just. There’s no way.
There is something very wrong in the world today. Why is it that such appalling conditions can be allowed to exist and can be aided and abetted, which is the case with Israel, by western states which themselves profess to believe in and support all the principles of humanity, humaneness, international law, and clearly do not support those principles, clearly are hypocrites. Israel’s creation was a crime. I really can’t describe it any other way, because it involved the expulsion and the dispossession of the inhabitants of Palestine.
That’s the first thing. Secondly, it led to wars, instability, conflict, warped development on the part of the Arab countries and the Middle East altogether. If Israel could have been created somewhere in, I don’t know, in some vacuum where nobody was harmed and nobody paid a price, then that’s one matter. But the reality is it’s not that. Israel was created at the expense of other people and it maintains itself and survives to this day at the continued expense of other people. This has to do with a state that was established deliberately to be an arm of western imperialism that has been aggressive, that has been a big problem for the region. Secondly, a state which is an apartheid state, which practises apartheid. And finally, a state that is prepared to and shows the insane cruelty of what we’re seeing in Gaza.
Really? Does one want a state like this to continue? I would say the answer is definitely not. You don’t want a state like this. You want to dismantle the structures of a state like this so it ceases to be an apartheid state. It ceases to be a state of belligerence, of aggression and of war. That’s what we need. If the Israeli army laid down its arms tomorrow and aid rushed into Gaza and the people of Gaza were able to eat, etc., that’s not the end of the story. The only viable future for this tormented part of the world is for the Israelis who want to live between the river and the sea, and the Palestinians who currently live between the river and the sea, plus all the Palestinians who are expelled and live in refugee camps or in exile, people like me, that the only way forward was for them to share that land between the river and the sea. It seemed to me to be the only sensible solution and the only sensible way forward, apart from it being, of course, humane and democratic and just. So that’s the book that I wrote of course, after October 7th and the window it opened onto this black soul that the Israeli army and the Israeli government, the Israeli people have, that I started to ask myself, really, is that the future? Is that what I want for us Palestinians who have suffered so much and for so long, to embrace these people who think like this, who actually practise this kind of cruelty? Of course, it made me hesitate. Nevertheless, on the basis of that the Palestinians stay in Palestine and that Israel is not assisted by western countries to expel the Palestinians, it remains the only way forward. It can only happen with a group of people, Israeli Jews, who have rid themselves of the idea of supremacy, of specialness, of being the chosen people. They have to remove these ideas. They have to understand they are people like others. And others deserve the kind of good lives that Israelis have been enjoying since 1948. So that’s why I keep talking about dismantling zionism, getting rid of these supremacist ideas of entitlement and being special. I’m calling on people who feel strongly about what’s happening in Gaza, who want to support the Palestinians. This is the way to support them, support them towards this end. And that will involve, on the one hand, facing your own governments in the west, to call them to account for what they’re doing in supporting the current apartheid state of Israel, and secondly, to support the Palestinian struggle for equality and the right to their homeland. Please never give up.
It will happen. We will succeed. Don’t give up. You must fight and fight with vigour, with a belief that in the end we will succeed, because our aims are moral, they are just, they are humane, and that is the only way we, whether you and your youth or me, at my age, that is the only way I would want to live.”
There is a need for a revised definition of zionism to include those who are not jewish but who identify with the same colonialist goals as the jewish zionists.
Read or listen; Zionism: the bigger picture; Paul Cudenec, 12 March 2025
‘As I have been explaining for some time now, our contemporary world is in the grip of a Rothschild-dominated criminocracy, which I have termed the zionist single global mafia.
Some readers have questioned, however, whether “zionist” is the most accurate label to attach to this entity, referring as it does to the specific question of the Israeli state.
It is certainly true that the financial-industrial power to which I am pointing goes much further back in history than the moves to create a Jewish settler colony in Palestine.’
‘Later, both the English Revolution under Oliver Cromwell and the “Glorious Revolution” of 1688 were covertly financed by European Jews seeking to re-establish influence over the country.
But despite certain historical continuities, it is not correct to crudely refer to those running today’s financial-industrial global empire as “the Jews”. For a start, Jewish people are no more a monolithic entity than are “the Americans” or “the British”. While most of them unfortunately seem to support Israel, even in its genocidal Gaza land grab, they have been subject to a lifetime of zionist propaganda dehumanising Palestinians and sanctifying their own people. Their cheerleading for Israeli war crimes is of the same nature as the brainwashed American or British public’s cheerleading for “their” warmongering interventions. Likewise, one can imagine that many misguided Jewish people take pride in the economic, social and cultural power wielded by their tribe, in the same way that misguided British people were proud of an empire on which the sun never set.
However, outlooks can change over time, particularly when people become aware of the moral depravity of the entity they have been supporting, and the fear of losing the diaspora is one which permanently haunts the zionist ruling clique. Moreover, there are of course many Jewish people who speak out against zionism and the global mafia as a whole, including like-minded dissidents such as Mark Josephs and David Rovics. No matter how small this critical minority may be, its very existence means that referring to the global mafia as “the Jews” is both inaccurate and entirely counter-constructive, serving only the purposes of zionism by herding all Jews into its camp. So what term, then, can we use to acknowledge the strong Jewish element to the globalist mafia – so evident, for instance, at the WEF’s annual Davos gathering – without falling into the trap of lumping together Jews as a whole? I would suggest that the answer lies in vastly broadening our definition of “zionist”, in the same way that the zionists have vastly broadened their definition of “anti-semitic” to suit their agenda.
It would look something like this. Revised 2025 Definition of ‘zionist‘
i. A follower of the ethno-cultural nationalist movement that emerged in the late 19th century and aimed to establish a national home for the Jewish people.
ii. A person who today defends or champions the Israeli state.
iii. A person not resident in that state who nevertheless prioritises its interests over those of the country in which he or she resides.
iv. A person who maintains that Jewish people have the moral or historical right to occupy Palestine.
v. A believer in Jewish exceptionalism and/or supremacism.
vi. A person who defines opposition to Jewish exceptionalism or supremacism as “anti-semitism”.
vii. A person or group deliberately exploiting their Jewish identity and/or connections in order to advance their own economic or political interests at the expense of the public as a whole.
viii. A practitioner or promoter of so-called “Jewish philanthropy”.
ix. A person who considers it acceptable or even commendable for the Jewish 0.2% of the world’s population to wield disproportionate economic, cultural or social influence over the 99.8% non-Jewish majority.
x. A person who seeks to classify any criticism of activity dominated by Jews (such as banking, mass media or property development) as an “anti-semitic trope”.
xi. A person who seeks to censor criticism of the activities of certain Jewish people or families (such as the Rothschilds) on the basis that this is necessarily anti-semitic.
xii. A person who claims that any suggestion of a group of very rich and powerful people secretly controlling the world, whether or not a Jewish dimension is mentioned, is effectively anti-semitic.
xiii. A person unable or unwilling to explain why the suggestion, per se, of a secret group controlling the world should automatically be deemed anti-semitic.
xiv. A person who frequently warns of anti-semitism while not accepting the reality of Jewish prejudice against non-Jews.
xv. A person who insists that the deaths of Jews in Nazi-controlled Europe in the 1940s represents a totally unique historical event to which no other can ever be compared without committing an anti-semitic hate crime.
xvi. A person attempting to establish the events of October 7, 2023, as a lesser but similar “Holocaust”, any questioning of which should be regarded as anti-semitic “denialism”.
xvii. A person seeking to instrumentalise historical Jewish suffering in order to justify, promote or advance a contemporary agenda or project.
xviii. A person who claims that anti-zionism, or indeed this current broader definition of zionism, amounts to anti-semitism.
On The Greyzone, Aaron Maté comments on his confrontation with zionist fanatic Shmuley Boteach on the Piers Morgan show.
Watch; Aaron Mate to Shmuley: You’re a Nazi The Grayzone, 16 March 2025
Aaron Maté to Schmuley; “Accusing people like my friend Omar of anti semitism simply because he wants the freedom of his people. It saddens me to see what people like you have done to the Jewish tradition. The suffering of my family, my great grandparents perished in the Holocaust. They were murdered by the Nazis. And today I have to tell you, I see you as the modern day followers of the Nazis supporting this mass murder campaign in Gaza, putting the people of Gaza in what even Israelis have called a concentration camp. It’s the Israeli Jews of today, supported by American Jews, unfortunately, some, that are following in the footsteps of our oppressors. And I hope one day you can connect to your own humanity and the very best of your own tradition, which I believe in, to see just how horrible this modern supremacist state is not only for the Palestinian people who are…”
Piers Morgan; “Aaron, you can’t seriously be saying that Rabbi Shmuli, one of the most high profile Jews in the world, is a successor to the Nazi…”
Aaron Maté; “He’s a Nazi.”
Shmuley Boteach; “Excuse me, excuse me. Omar started calling me a liar. He wouldn’t deal with any facts. A hypocrite. He said I’m drunk on lies, et cetera, et cetera. That’s what we call ad hominem, personal attacks. I’ve seen it whenever, and I debate everybody because I like Piers, this is why I love the show. I’m also a free speech absolutist. The person you just called a Nazi spent the past year with his friend Ron Dermer, who was condemned by Adam Boehler because of our close relationship from my years as Rabbi at Oxford. He was my student president. And Bobby Kennedy Jr. the new Secretary of Health and Human Service, saving 200 Palestinian children who had cancer. Hamas would not let them go to an Israeli hospital because they would kill their families if Israeli hospitals treated them, Zedek, Sheba Medical, all of whom agreed to take them. We had to take them to St. Jude’s Hospital in Amman and I helped get them out. “
Aaron Maté speaking on the Greyzone; “Yeah, I didn’t want to interrupt because I don’t like to do that because I try to be respectful, but I shook my head because I just don’t think what he’s saying is true. And the only people who deny Palestinian cancer patients the right to leave Gaza is Israel, which lets people die when they have cancer because they won’t let them leave for treatment. Not just if they have cancer, but other ailments, too, including serious wounds suffered under Israeli bombardment. So I just think he’s lying through his teeth there.”
Watch; “STOP Blaming Israel!” Rabbi Shmuley Debates Gaza With Pro-Palestinians; Piers Morgan Uncensored, 11 March 2025
Piers Morgan; “I’ve got to say, when I saw that Israel was yanking its power supply and fuel supply into Gaza, knowing how many innocent children have already died in Gaza during this war, many, many, many thousands. I just thought it was an act of inhumanity, which Israel doesn’t need to do and shouldn’t have done.”
Omar Baddar; “It certainly is an act of inhumanity, and one that is obviously designed not just to demonstrate dominance and bullying and increase the suffering of the people of Gaza, which has been Israel’s goal for a very long time, but more precisely in this moment, to try to figure out a way out of the ceasefire in which the Palestinians get blamed in some way. And what they’re trying to do is provoke a response that would then justify the continuation of the slaughter. And you have to pay attention to the fact that Israel has been violating the ceasefire over and over again. They have killed over 100 Palestinians since the ceasefire was announced. They have prevented the entry of adequate humanitarian aid, as was stipulated in the terms of the ceasefire agreement. And they’re just looking for any way possible to try to fall short on their obligations to trigger some kind of response. And it’s directly in response to the fact that the entire world now seems to be moving away from Israel’s ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza that Trump has endorsed. You’ve had this Arab proposal that has come together about rebuilding Gaza endorsed by many European nations, but Israel’s eyes remain laser focused on the need to ethnically cleanse Gaza and empty it of Palestinians. They want to finish the job of this genocide. And right now, I think this is why they’re pushing for these provocations.”
Shmuley Boteach; “What I would say to my friend Omar is if you hate Israel so much and you falsely accuse it of genocide, let’s imagine for one moment that Trump says to all the Jews of Israel, 6 million, look guys, 75 year experiment of Israel, constant wars, everyone hates you, move to Florida, and I grew up in Miami. And all 6 million decide, you know what, let’s close Israel, not through any tragic means. Tell me Omar, what then happens to the people of Gaza? Do they suddenly have liberty and democracy and freedom? No. Women are still killed in honour killings by their cousins inspired by Hamas if they have a boyfriend. Gays are still castrated and hung in city squares. Gazans who want political freedom are granted none. There hasn’t been one election since 2000. Take Israel out of the Middle East and the Middle East and any country run by Islam is the Muslim Brotherhood are still dumps where people have no human rights. Stop blaming Israel. You know the problem is not Israel.”
Aaron Maté; “There was an election. The people in the West Bank and Gaza voted for Hamas. And how did Israel and the US respond? Not being generous to Gaza, as Rabbi Shmuley falsely claimed, putting it under an inhumane, crippling siege, depriving it of all the basics people needed to survive. Even certain types of hummus were banned from entering Gaza under Israeli rule. That’s the benevolent Israeli occupation that Rabbi Shmuley wants us to believe in. The reason why Hamas turned to armed resistance against Israel on October 7th is because they tried all other means. When Palestinians launched the Great March of Rreturn in 2018, tens of thousands of people marching peacefully, they were gunned down by Israeli snipers. When Hamas leaders accepted the Arab League peace proposal of a two state solution accepting just 22% of Palestine, their historic homeland, Israel said they wouldn’t even discuss it. So that answers the question of why Hamas has turned to armed resistance. Because when they’ve tried to pursue the diplomatic path, Israel has ignored them. And that’s the fundamental problem here. Rabbi Shmuley mentioned countries in the region that don’t have electricity, whereas the other regions, whereas other countries thrive well. All those countries that Rabbi Shmuli mentioned, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, they share another thing in common with the Palestinians. They’ve been relentlessly attacked by US Israeli aggression for years. The Iraq War, for example. Syria, Israel stolen the Golan Heights, is currently stealing more territory today. Lebanon, Israel invades in 1982, kills tens of thousands of people, occupied it for many years, recently undertook a new round of massacres. So if Rabbi Shmuley cared about the people of the region and all Israel apologists, what they would simply do is say for the first time in our history, we’re actually going to accept the right of Palestinians to have their own land, not come up with these fantasies of ethnic cleansing which Israel has tried to do since its founding in1948; say we’re actually going to recognise the rights of Palestinians to have self determination, which everybody in this world has. The reason why they don’t accept that is because they’re a Jewish supremacist state founded on this idea that Jews are superior, have a biblical right to all this land.”
A heroic citizen’s act of bravery breaks through the mainstream media’s silence to call for justice for Palestinians and an end to police violence against pro-Palestine protestors.
I wrote about the Big Ben protester for Palestine and @Pal_action activists: https://t.co/7e8E9pmwCd #Filton18 #FreePalestine
— Naila (@BrownNaila) March 8, 2025
Read; Climbing Big Ben for Palestine; Naila, 8 March 2025
‘In the early hours of the morning of Saturday March 8, 29-year-old Daniel Day broke headlines in the British mainstream media after scaling the walls of London’s iconic Big Ben clock tower – housed in the Elizabeth Tower – with a Palestine flag and a keffiyeh. He was protesting the ongoing state attacks against pro-Palestine activists and protests.
Dressed in black clothing and a black cap, Day filmed himself on social media walking along Bridge Street, before swiftly jumping over the gates of the Palace of Westminster. Along the climb up, he removed his shoes to allow for an easier grip. Police arrived at the scene at approximately 7:24 am today. From the ground, one officer asked Day to come down, “Morning mate, can you step down? I’m a bit worried you’re going to hurt yourself.”
Day responded he was safe and went on to explain the reasons behind his protest:
This is a protest against state repression and police violence against peaceful protesters. Our rights are being stripped away from us. Our protests are getting banned. We’re getting arrested for peacefully protesting. We’re getting locked away. So why not bring the protest to the so-called hub of democracy? Day was referring to recent bans on protests in London, such as one pro-Palestine demonstration scheduled outside the BBC headquarters – due to its poor reporting of Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians – which was banned under a Public Order Act because police claimed – without evidence – that the location was near a synagogue and could upset Jews. Police relocated the protest to nearby Margaret Street, but subsequently, that too was banned. In response, activists took their protest to Parliament Square, opposite the Big Ben tower and its one-man protester. Shortly after, this protest on the ground was shut down under Section 14 of the Public Order Act, with one police officer revealing the British’ state’s bias when telling an activist she could protest at the site if she supports Israel. Activists then moved their protest to Whitehall where it was able to continue without any police harassment. Other banned protests of late are the Jewish-led demonstrations held every Friday outside Israeli Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely’s residence at Swiss Cottage, which London’s Metropolitan Police placed a ban on two weeks ago, resulting in activists moving their protest to police headquarters in London, Scotland Yard.
Demands of the Big Ben protester were the immediate release of Palestine Action activists – or Actionists – known as the Filton 18, who were initially detained under the Terrorism Act for dismantling weapons at Israeli factory Elbit’s research hub in Filton, Bristol, allegedly costing the company over £1 million in damages. In total, 18 Actionists were charged and are now held on remand, awaiting their trial at The Old Bailey Crown Court scheduled to begin on March 27, 2025 at 9:30 am. You can support them here. Back in London, at around 10 am, three emergency personnel raised themselves on a cherry picker crane to speak to Day and encourage him to come down. He responded:
“I’m protesting against police repression and violence against protesters. The police are the problem. Your own conduct is the issue. NO MORE POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST PEACEFUL PROTESTERS! We’re seeing this country spiral into fascism, arresting peaceful protesters on the pavements. I came here very early to ensure that there were very few people around and I would do no harm to others. I’m doing this for the love of humanity. For Palestine, for all of our political prisoners.”
Read or listen; Israel doesn’t care about the captives. It always planned to reboot the genocide; Jonathan Cooke, 18 March 2025
It is President Trump and his administration that must be held responsible for every Palestinian death.
Israel says it is trying to force Hamas to release the captives in Gaza.
Yet, as we know from those already released, the indiscriminate bombing of Gaza only increases the chances the captives will be killed. There is no plausible scenario in which dropping US-supplied 2,000lb bombs across Gaza makes any Israeli held in the enclave safer or brings them home sooner. In any case, there was a known and easy way for Israel to get the last of the captives back. They were due to be freed in the second phase of the ceasefire agreement, already well past its implementation date. But weeks ago Israel decided to tear up the agreement it had signed and impose new terms in which the rest of the captives would have to be returned – and without Israel either ceasing its fire or withdrawing from the enclave, as it had agreed to do.
What Israel’s return to genocide shows is that the Israeli government would rather kill the remaining captives – vaporising them with Trump’s latest shipment of 2,000lb bombs – than either make a concession to secure their release or place any limitation on its ability to slaughter the people of Gaza.’
Watch; Alastair Crook: Israel at War With Itself; Judging Freedom, 17 March 2025
Andrew Napolitano; I don’t know if the President understands the Middle Eastern mind or if the Middle Eastern mind understands the President. I mean, when Donald Trump says, ‘do as I say or there will be hell to pay’, to me, that is almost an incentive in the Middle Eastern mind to do whatever they want to do, the opposite of what he is commanding them not to do. Am I right?”
Alastair Crooke; “Exactly. Because, you know, the people on the right, Ben Gvir and Smotrich are plain about it. When they talk about the Big War, they’re talking about Armageddon. And so when Netanyahu says, ‘I let hell loose on you’, their answer is, bring it on, bring it on, that’s exactly what we want and we can complete the project. So we have a sort of nascent civil war taking place, and I call it the Kingdom of Judea, which is the settlers and all the element of the right, which is powerful and has its own military, has its own police. And on the other side, the conventional forces of the European secular liberal belief, who have the forces of the law and order, Security Council, they have the old IDF, the old military establishment, and they usually have most of the press on their side. So these are the two forces, I think are coming and going to likely clash. And it means that Trump’s tools of threat and trying to create the conditions for a negotiation with eschatological of people who are looking forward to redemption and to Armageddon taking place as a means to bring their project, because it’s a completely different epistemological basis of thinking from Trump’s. This is revelation. And we are obliged, in the case of revelation, to obey and to abide by God’s commandments. That’s it. There’s no negotiation about this. This is revelation for discussion.”
Andrew Napolitano; “Are you of the view that Donald Trump is sick and tired of Bibi Netanyahu and that’s why he has dispatched Mr. Witkoff and others to negotiate directly with Hamas? And if you are of that view, how does that play out in Israel, in Israeli politics?”
Andrew Napolitano; “You quote an Israeli school child as saying, how can we condemn Hamas for killing innocent men, women and children on October 7th when we have been doing the same? Is that attitude beginning to become pervasive amongst Israeli society?
Alastair Crooke; “I think it’s discomforting. It is more than discomforting among some, but amongst others, absolutely not. But for many people it is raising the question, ‘how do we go on in this way? Is it really possible to continue on the basis that we assume that anyone that is not a Jew wants to kill Jews, and therefore they are Amalek, and we must destroy them? Is this the future, to replace the Ben Gurion model of deterrence, that we now have to become really a sort of a project, a killing machine project, in order to preserve Israel and how do we keep our values, how to keep what Israel stands for? In this context, is that really the basis on which society can come. Well, this is the issue that’s tearing Israel apart. It’s coming to a point where the thing may explode because there’s no clear answer to this. These are deep questions, and there’s no easy answer to those questions about what the future of Israel is. But this is coming to a head. Going back to the old Ben Gurion one. Does that work? No, Most Israelis don’t believe it worked. That’s why 70% of them believe that the Palestinians must be removed from Gaza because they don’t believe that Hamas can be deterred in Gaza. So there’s no real solution. And this is why we are close to internal conflict in Israel and at a time when the region is really dry tinder and can explode in many different places at this point, I mean, we’ll see what happens after the recent assaults in Yemen took place over the weekend.”
Watch; Israeli historian Ilan Pappe: ‘This is the last phase of zionism’ Al Jazeera, 14 January 2025
Professor Ilan Pappe; “I’m willing to say with some caution that this is the last phase of zionism historically. Such development in ideological movements, whether they are colonials or empires, doesn’t matter. In the past, it’s usually the final chapter, the ruthless one, the most ambitious one, and then it’s too much and then they fall and collapse. When we say neo zionist, we mean, I think that the old values of zionism are now being more extreme, in a far more aggressive form than they were before, trying to achieve in a short time what the previous generation of zionists were trying to achieve in a much longer, more incremental, gradual way. So this is an attempt by a new leadership of zionism to complete the work that they started in 1948, namely of taking over officially the whole of historical Palestine and getting rid of as many Palestinians as possible.
A scenario in which you have minimal American involvement is a positive scenario. The whole political structure that was built after the First World War is collapsing in front of our eyes and it includes Israel and Palestine. So these are long regional processes which I think will benefit the Palestinians in the long run and would hopefully create a decolonised country in the end. This is the product of a very indoctrinated society from the cradle to the grave. They can see dead Palestinian babies and say, ‘good, very good’. This dehumanisation is part of the Israeli DNA and is very hard to confront just by giving them more information. It needs to be a fundamental reprogramming, so to speak.”
Listen or Read; New BBC documentary ‘The Road to 7th October’ is an utter travesty by Jonathan Cook, 9 March 2025
‘Pressured into removing a humanising portrait of Gaza’s children, the BBC offers instead a series on Israel-Palestine that frantically revives the very narrative that made the genocide possible.’
‘There has been a prolonged furore over the BBC’s craven decision to ban a documentary on life in Gaza under Israel’s bombs after it incensed Israel and its lobbyists by, uniquely, humanising the enclave’s children.
The English-speaking child narrator, 13-year-old Abdullah, who became the all-too-visible pretext for pulling the film Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone because his father is a technocrat in the enclave’s Hamas government, hit back last week. He warned that the BBC had betrayed him and Gaza’s other children, and that the state broadcaster would be responsible were anything to happen to him. His fears are well-founded, given that Israel has a long track record of executing those with the most tenuous of connections to Hamas – as well as the enclave’s children, often with small, armed drones that swarm through its airspace.
The noisy clamour over How to Survive a Warzone has dominated headlines, overshadowing another new BBC documentary on Gaza – this one a three-part, blockbuster series on the history of Israel and Palestine – that has received none of the controversy. And for good reason. Israel and the Palestinians: The Road to 7th October, whose final episode airs this Monday, is such a travesty, so discredited by the very historical events it promises to explain, that it earns a glowing, five-star review from the Guardian. It “speaks to everyone that matters”, the liberal daily gushes. And that’s precisely the problem. What we get, as a result, is the very worst in BBC establishment TV: talking heads reading from the same implausibly simplistic script, edited and curated to present western officials and their allies in the most sympathetic light possible.
Which is no mean feat, given the subject matter: nearly eight decades of Israel’s ethnic cleansing, dispossession, military occupation and siege of the Palestinian people, supported by the United States.
But this documentary series on the region’s history should be far more controversial than the film about Gaza’s children. Because this one breathes life back into a racist western narrative – one that made the genocide in Gaza possible, and justifies Israel’s return this month to using mass starvation as a weapon of war against the Palestinian people.
‘Honest broker’ fiction
The Road to 7th October presents an all-too-familiar story.
The Palestinians are divided geographically and ideologically – how or why is never properly grappled with – between the incompetent, corrupt leadership of Fatah under Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank, and the militant, terrorist leadership of Hamas in Gaza. Israel tries various peace initiatives under leaders Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert. These failures propel the more hardline Benjamin Netanyahu to power. The United States is the star of the show, of course. Its officials tell a story of Washington desperately trying to bring together the two parties, Israel and Fatah (the third party, Hamas, is intentionally sidelined), but finds itself constantly hamstrung by bad luck and the intransigence of those involved. Yes, you read that right. This documentary really does resurrect Washington as “honest broker” fiction – a myth that was supposed to have been laid to rest a quarter of a century ago, after the Oslo accords collapsed.
The film-makers are so lost to the reality in Israel and Palestine that they imagine they can credibly keep Washington perched on a pedestal even after we have all spent the past 16 months watching, first, President Biden arm Israel’s “plausible” genocide in Gaza, killing many tens of thousands of Palestinians, and then President Trump formulate an illegal plan to ethnically cleanse the enclave of its surviving Palestinian population to develop it as a luxury “waterfront property”. A viewing of a short, Trump-endorsed, AI-generated promo video for a glitzy, Palestinian-free “Trump Gaza”, built on the crushed bodies of the enclave’s children, should be enough to dispel any remaining illusions about Washington’s neutrality on the matter.’
The wise, rational and humane voice of Professor Seyed Marandi who teaches at the University of Tehran speak about Gaza and the .
Watch; Bombing Yemen is the next best thing to bombing Iran; George Galloway; 20 March 2025
Seyed Marandi; “I think the very fact that we’ve had 18 months of genocide, with the exception of a brief break where even during these two months where we had a so called ceasefire, on average three Palestinians a day were being murdered in the Gaza Strip and the ethnic cleansing and murder in the West Bank increased dramatically and we also had a murder a day in Lebanon. So this was never really a ceasefire. But except for these couple of months that it’s been more quiet, the Israeli regime has been carrying out genocide, basically because Netanyahu needs war. And so he cannot stop the war. He is going to have to constantly expand the war, enter Gaza, bomb Gaza, in order to satisfy his partners in government, his fanatical religious zionists, in order to stay in power. And he has had success. You see the head of Shin Bet is now out of power. He’s gotten his way. He’s becoming more like the emperor of Israel. The more secular liberal zionists, who are just as genocidal towards the Palestinians, are very unhappy. The divide in Israel among the people who live in that regime, is extraordinarily great and some believe it can become deadly. So he needs to keep pushing.
But I do not see the regime succeeding in Gaza, just as I do not see the United States succeeding in Yemen. They will only continue to slaughter more people and they will become more despised. And George, I really think that in a way, restarting a holocaust is even worse than continuing a holocaust. For well over a year, people like yourself and others have been active to create awareness. But after a period of time, after months of seeing dead children and beheaded babies, it becomes normalised. But when the so-called ceasefire took effect, the collective, the international communities took a collective sigh of relief, even though, as I said, they were still killing people. But now when Netanyahu restarts this genocide, people are stunned and shocked. And especially in one day, he slaughtered over 400 people, almost 200 of them children. This angers people. It intensifies the animosity towards the Israeli regime. This, I think is a huge mistake. It is evil, utterly evil, but it is also extremely damaging for the regime. I continue to believe that the Israeli regime is in its final stage of existence. I’m not saying it’s going to end tomorrow or next week or next month or next year, but it has been exposed to the world for what it is and those powers that lie behind it, have been discredited and they continue to decline in power. These are dark days. But I believe that in the future we will see light at the end of the tunnel.”
Watch and Read; Death Sentences for Teenagers? Israeli Diplomacy Crosses a Genocidal Rubicon Free Palestine Now, 24 March 2025
‘Israeli ambassador to Austria, David Roet, has now joined the pantheon of supremacist ideologues who say the quiet part out loud. In a leaked March 20 audio recording, calmly delivered to a closed-door audience in Innsbruck, Roet openly advocated for the execution of Palestinian teenagers, stating that even if they’re “16 or 17 and holding a grenade,” they “should be killed off.” A death sentence, summarily administered, no courts, no due process. Just Israeli air power, American weapons, and a blank check of moral impunity from the US and EU.
There are layers to unpack here. First, the breathtaking arrogance of an official who knows that no EU government, certainly not the cowardly censors in Paris or Brussels, will even whisper a word of protest. Because Roet isn’t a rogue element. He represents a state apparatus that views the children of Gaza not as future doctors, poets, or engineers, but as statistical threats in a spreadsheet of demographic warfare.
Second, let’s talk about what this says about the de facto normalisation of zionist supremacism. This is no longer just about “fighting Hamas.” When you say there are no uninvolved civilians in Gaza, you are granting your military full license to bomb hospitals, schools, UN shelters, and apartment blocks. When you say that any child with a rock or a slingshot or a fantasy of dignity deserves a death sentence, you are erasing the very concept of civilian immunity. You are codifying genocide.
And third, Roet’s chilling follow-up: If the EU is “crazy enough” to rebuild Gaza, Israel will simply destroy it again. Read that again. The destruction is not accidental. It’s not collateral. It is deliberate. Cyclical. Structural. The goal is not security. The goal is erasure. Gaza must never rise again, because the very presence of Palestinians on their ancestral land is considered an existential threat by a colonial regime hellbent on ethnic cleansing with American-made weapons and EU-funded silence.
This is the same Israel that has killed over 13,000 children in Gaza since October 2023, according to the UN and Gaza’s Health Ministry. These aren’t numbers. These are names, faces, futures, vaporised, buried in rubble, crushed under the weight of a war machine that calls itself “the most moral army in the world.” And now, through Roet’s words, we are told the quiet part out loud: they’re proud of it.
Where is the outrage? Where are the “rules-based international order” gatekeepers? Too busy redacting Epstein files and selling air defense systems to pretend they heard anything. Roet will face no censure. Israel will issue no apology. Because the killing of Palestinian children is not a bug in the system, it is the system. The west props it up, funds it, launders it through PR campaigns and de-platforming of critics.
We are now deep into Nakba 2.0. The genocide is livestreamed, normalised, and, if you listen to the likes of David Roet, rationalized. Israel has crossed every red line, and still the EU and US treat it as a “partner.” It’s not a partner. It’s a rogue settler state with nukes, a messianic military caste, and a leadership that believes its license to kill extends to infants, toddlers, and teenagers.
As for David Roet, history will not forget what he said behind closed doors. It will remember his voice, his calm demeanor, and the way he tried to sell the murder of teenagers as a pragmatic necessity. That’s how fascism always cloaks itself: reasonable, composed, diplomatic.’
Yemen
Read and watch; Houthis Rain Fire, Bombard US Warship, Strikes Ben Gurion Airport With ‘Zulfiqar’ Missiles; Times Of India; 27 Mar 2025
‘Yemen launched a major assault, firing ballistic and hypersonic missiles at Israel and U.S. warships. The attack marks a dangerous escalation in regional tensions, with the Yemeni Armed Forces vowing to continue their blockade on Israeli navigation in the Red and Arabian Seas.’
Read; Exposing Britain’s Covert War On Yemen by Kit Klarenberg, 19 March 2025
‘The rationale for Britain’s interest in Yemen is obvious. On top of neutralising one of the most potent regional threats to its Israeli proxy post-October 7th, Saudi Arabia’s preceding genocidal, eight-year-long aerial intervention in the civil war represented an almost unprecedented bonanza for London’s arms industry. Moreover, these interrelated conflicts provided a golden opportunity to fulfil the long-held fantasy of restoring a British military presence “East of Suez”, following their 1967 ouster by Yemeni liberation forces.
‘Overwhelming Evidence’
In March 2015, Saudi Arabia, in coalition with several regional allies, launched a wide-ranging military intervention against Yemen aimed at restoring the rule of Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, displaced weeks earlier via a popular uprising led by AnsarAllah. It was not until January next year insinuations of intimate British involvement in Riyadh’s savage campaign began to trickle into the public domain. By that point, the predominantly air-focused effort had already claimed thousands of civilian lives, displaced millions, and produced what the UN dubbed a “humanitarian catastrophe”.
Results of a 2016 Saudi-led bombing of a funeral in Sanaa, Yemen, which killed at least 140 people and injured another 500
This trickle subsequently became a deluge. Yet, British officials rigidly stuck to the line that London was neither a member of the Saudi-led coalition, nor a party to the conflict, and simply sought a “sustainable political solution” to the war. In reality, Riyadh and its confederates were wholly reliant on London’s assistance for arms and training, and identifying airstrike targets. Over half of the equipment used in coalition bombing raids was British-supplied, including Tornado and Typhoon aircraft, Paveway bombs, and Brimstone and Stormshadow missiles.
Throughout Saudi Arabia’s intervention, Yemen was bombarded daily by British-made bombs – including internationally banned cluster munitions – dropped by British-made planes, flown by British-trained pilots. Once their destructive sorties were complete, these jets flew back to Riyadh to be repaired and serviced by British contractors, including Royal Air Force engineers. Chief among those contractors was BAE systems. Independent investigations calculated at least 6,200 employees of the company were posted to Saudi Arabia for the purpose. Receipts for this assistance ran into billions.’
Watch; Bombing Yemen is the next best thing to bombing Iran Interview with Prof Seyed Marandi on MOATS, George Galloway, 20th March 2025
“Ansarullah is popular because it is legitimate. It is not a proxy. Iran supports it. Iran is honored to support it, but they are independent. And they say that the Israeli regime, as long as it’s carrying out a starvation siege, they will not allow its ships to pass through the Red Sea. They are enforcing the Genocide Convention.
And what do they get in return instead of being thanked? The Americans and the British bomb them and Qatar, the Emirates, the Saudis and Bahrain all facilitate the attack in order to bring them to their knees. But it’s going to fail. It failed in the past. It will fail today, and it will fail in the weeks ahead.”
So I think it’s possible that he’s (Trump) recognised that this bombing campaign is not going to do any damage to the Ansarullah and Yemeni Armed forces underground facilities. It’s just murdering ordinary people, making Trump look as evil and sinister as Biden. And it is making Ansarullah more popular than ever before in the eyes of the people on the streets across the region.”
The incredibly brave Houthis, in support of their brothers in Palestine, say that now that the ceasefire has been broken by Israel, they will renew their blockade against shipping in the Red Sea until humanitarian aid is allowed into Gaza.
Read; How Starmer aided Trump’s deadly bombing of Yemen by Iona Craig, Declassified UK, 18 March 2025
‘Exclusive: Britain provided aerial refuelling for US jets during Yemen airstrikes that killed 53 people, including women and children.’
Or watch the above on; Keir Starmer SECRETLY helped Donald Trump kill Yemeni children, on Israel’s behalf; Declassified UK; 26 March 2025
Intro; ‘A scandal is underway in the Trump White House after it was revealed that the editor of liberal magazine The Atlantic was mistakenly added to a top secret group on messaging app Signal, where the top national security politicians and even the vice-president were discussing how and when to bomb the Houthis in Yemen.
And now, it turns out UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer quietly involved Britain’s armed forces in President Donald Trump’s bombardment of Yemen last weekend, Declassified can confirm. A Royal Air Force (RAF) Voyager aerial refuelling tanker carried out two flights from Akrotiri airbase in Cyprus into the northern Red Sea to support the USS Harry S. Truman. The US aircraft carrier launched multiple waves of air raids across Yemen on Saturday and Sunday in Trump’s largest military operation since returning to office. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump warned Yemen’s Houthi group: “HELL WILL RAIN DOWN UPON YOU LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE!”
Starmer participated in the raids on Yemen for the first time since Labour took power, although the RAF did not announce its involvement. Publicly available flight tracking data shows that on Saturday 15 March an RAF Voyager departed Akrotiri at 17:49 UTC and headed south into the Red Sea. The refuelling tanker reached the area just south of Jeddah in waters off Saudi Arabia’s coast, where US naval vessels were stationed, at around 19:20. The Voyager KC2, with its capacity of more than a hundred tonnes of fuel, spent more than two hours at the location of the USS Harry S. Truman.The first strikes in Yemen were recorded around 17:15 UTC and lasted for more than five hours. A defence source confirmed to Declassified that “the UK provided routine allied air-to-air refuelling support to aid the self defence of a US aircraft carrier in the region from which the strikes were launched.” At least 27 civilians were reported killed and 22 injured in the first night of American airstrikes across seven of Yemen’s governorates.’
Iran
Will the west go to war with Iran? – ……………Craig Murray, former UK Ambassador in Uzbekistan and journalist, says no, and David Miller, UK’s preeminent scholarly critic of Israel, says yes
Watch; EU and UK complicit in Syria ethnic cleansing The Crispin Flintoff Show, 16 March 2025
Crispin Flintoff; ” Is Iran next in line for attack from the West, Craig?
Craig Murray; “I don’t think so. I mean it’s been Netanyahu’s main priority, I think to drag the United States into a war with Iran for years. But I don’t think that’s going to happen. I don’t think Trump, despite, Trump’s fanatical zionism that he’s displaying in his Trump 2 version, I don’t think Trump’s going to want to the start a major war in the Middle East. It’s also worth saying that Iran has always denied its attempting to actually create a nuclear weapon. And I imagine if Iran was actually trying to create a nuclear weapon, it would have been able to by now. Countries like Pakistan have managed it. It’s not that difficult to create a nuclear weapon. Iran certainly has the technological ability and to make one or two, you don’t need a vast programme. So I think this is much more a kind of diplomatic issue than it is a real world issue in the sense of Iran actually trying to build a large nuclear arsenal. I think it’s also worth saying that when Israel has nuclear weapons, I find it hard to see it as a terrifically immoral position for Iran to feel it should have some. If I were Iran, I would certainly want to be able to deter Israel from attacking me with nuclear weapons. So this is a complex issue. I don’t think we’re going to see an escalation into war and I think it’s actually much more likely that we are going to see a diplomatic breakthrough and a reinstatement of some sort of nuclear inspectorate deal that would enable some sanctions on Iran to be lifted. I’m actually quite hopeful. I think things are more likely to go in a good direction than a bad direction.”
Crispin Flintoff; “What would you like to say on that, David?
David Miller; “I take just the opposite view to Craig on this matter. I think that we are headed towards an escalation in relation to Iran. We’ve already seen over the years many attempted regime change movements. The current president of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, is of course a moderate, and has tried to negotiate with Trump in the past. He tried to negotiate with the Americans when Biden was still there, and was told that they should postpone.
True Promise 3, which is their promise to retaliate against Israeli aggression, which would have been more significant than the True Promise 2 which was itself pretty significant in the sense that almost every single missile invaded Israel’s much vaunted air defence system and hit its targets, showing what could be done should it be required. He stood down True Promise 3. It’s said by the Iranian government that that is not finished and not over with. But he stood it down on promise from the Americans there would be a ceasefire. There was no ceasefire. The Americans lied to them. Big surprise that the Americans lie to them! That’s what the Americans do. And Iranians who are involved in their government’s foreign policy strategy should be aware of that. The more revolutionary end of the political spectrum associated with Ayatollah Khamenei and with the IRGC (The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) and the Quds Force, etc. They are aware of this and they think, many of them, that Pezeshkian is leading Iran to a disaster. I think the same too. I think we are in a place where this is an existential matter for the Islamic Republic of Iran. Either they cleave to their revolutionary heritage and they take on the west, the collective west, and indeed the zionists, and collapse the zionist regime, or it will be the end of Iran. There is no other way. Through this, zionism will continue to provoke its neighbours, occupy more territory, pursue a greater Israel and try and destroy Iran, so that you can have a greater and greater Israel effectively in west Asia. That’s the strategy that they’re pursuing. And unless they are defeated, they will destroy Iran. I have no doubt about that at all. And I think what we’re going to see is something coming, some escalation on this coming quite soon. Let’s test whether I’m correct or whether Craig’s correct in the coming weeks.”
Watch; Here’s What They Aren’t Telling You About War With Iran Tucker Carlson Network, 24 March 2025
Tucker Carlson; “Do you think that we are moving toward war with Iran?”
Douglas Macgregor; “Yes, I do. And it looks like the chosen destination is indeed Armageddon. There doesn’t seem to be any real appreciation for the implications for us and frankly for Europe and the world as well as the Middle East of such action. Take for an example, just on the economic side, about 20% of the world’s oil passes through the Straits of Hormuz every month, probably 25% of liquefied natural gas. And you’re talking about shutting down 2 to 3 million barrels a day of oil from Iran. You know, this entire region is involved in the war. This is not an Iranian monopoly by any stretch of the imagination. But the point is that when we’re looking at 10 year treasury yields up over 5% and people are increasingly convinced that the Fed has lost control, the economic side of the House is a catastrophe. Then when you look at the military side, you have to look at the arsenal of missiles that Iran possesses. And they can reach out 1,200 miles with great precision. Very high explosive conventional warheads that would do enormous damage, destroying whole city blocks in places like Haifa, Tel Aviv, even Jerusalem, though I doubt they would attack Jerusalem. The bottom line is that we need to think this through and everyone right now is emoting. There is no thinking anywhere as far as I can tell. The only possible exception may be, amazingly enough, Mr. Erdogan in Turkey, who came out this morning and indicated he was willing to mediate the dispute between Israel and Hamas. Whether or not anyone in Washington or Israel is interested in talking, I don’t know. But if we could sideline Turkey and keep Turkey out of the fight, that would ultimately help Israel enormously.”
Tucker Carlson; “So what would happen to the United States if we followed Senator Graham’s advice and just began bombing critical infrastructure in Iran? What would happen then?”
Douglas Macgregor; “Well, all of the bases that we have in Iraq and Syria, unfortunately, where we still have over 1,000Americans, all of those would be targeted. And this time they would target them accurately. And this destruction would be wholesale.”
Jeffrey Sachs; “If you watch every day now, the mainstream media is pushing for US War with Iran. Netanyahu’s pushing for war with Iran. They’re really trying to get this started to make seven out of seven (General Wesley Clark listed the 7 countries that the US wanted to invade post 9/11….. The only one left is Iran). But Obama, you know, for no particular reason, by the way, but he launched two of these wars on the list of seven. He launched the war to bring down the Libyan government, Muammar Gaddafi , the war started in March 2011, and he and Hillary Clinton, his Secretary of State, said Assad must go in the spring of 2011. I remember scratching my head at the time, saying, oh, that’s interesting. How are they going to do that? Syria was a normal, functioning country at the time. Despite whatever you read, whatever propaganda is said, Syria was a normal, functioning country. I recently dredged out a report by the International Monetary Fund on Syria in 2009 that praised the Syrian government for its reforms and its rapid economic growth and looked forward to continued years of economic development. In other words, it was not this wasteland or this battlefield. It was an actual normal country.”
Tucker Carlson; “Was it a threat to the United States?”
Jeffrey Sachs; “It was no threat to the United States whatsoever. But it was deemed to be by Netanyahu, a threat to Israel because of a simple reason, which is that Netanyahu wants to control all of Palestine, wants to rule over the Palestinian people, does not want a Palestinian state. And that has led to militant opposition, that’s led to Hamas, that’s led to Hezbollah, that’s led to other groups. Netanyahu’s theory is, ‘well, we’re never going to allow a Palestinian state, so we have to bring down any government that supports those militant groups against us, because our core aim is Greater Israel’. That’s not much of a worthy cause, by the way. Having a Palestinian state next door and having peace could have saved probably a million lives by now over the last 30 years. But that’s not Netanyahu’s crazy ambition.”
Tucker Carlson; “What is Greater Israel?”
Jeffrey Sachs; “Greater Israel means, depending on how crazy the people are, either that Israel controls not only its geographic territory, but that it essentially controls or annexes the West Bank, the Golan Heights, which they’ve just enlarged,, Golan Heights being part of Syria. Historically, it was part of Syria. It’s claimed by Israel, and now with an expanded territory and East Jerusalem. So everything that was captured in 1967, Netanyahu explicitly said, we’re never giving that back. Now, there are two motivations for that. One, Netanyahu says, not safe to give it back because he doesn’t want to negotiate any kind of peace or any state of Palestine. Then there are religious zealots, I would use even stronger terms, who use the book of Joshua, which is 2,700 years ago, that said, ‘well, God gave us everything from the river in Egypt, meaning the Nile, to the Euphrates’. And there are zealots in Israel and they’re in the government who believe, yes, this is God’s ordinance, we’re going to take whatever we want. If you take the greater view of this, it would include Lebanon, it would include Syria, it would include part of Iraq, it would include part of Egypt. And some of these people actually quote the Bible and say, we’re going to do this. And it’s, it’s a little sad and absolutely terribly frightening.”
Douglas Macgregor: “Zelensky, frankly, the way he was treated, I think President Trump was far too gentle. I’m surprised that two giant Secret Service agents did not come in, pick him up and remove him from the office, but the way he handled Zelensky is the way he’s got to handle Netanyahu, because if he doesn’t, Netanyahu will drag him into the abyss because he wants this war in the Middle east, come hell or high water, and it’s not in our interest.”
Syria
Craig Murray, former UK Ambassador in Uzbekistan and journalist, and David Miller, UK’s preeminent scholarly critic of Israel, explain how the West have installed a murderous sectarian gang in Syria which is rampaging across the country murdering Alawite and Christian families because they share the same religion as Asad, the former Syrian ruler, .
Watch; EU and UK complicit in Syria ethnic cleansing; The Crispin Flintoff Show, 16 March 2025
Crispin Flintoff; “Well, the reason I wanted you to come on was last week these atrocities happened in Syria that have kind of not been properly reported by the mainstream media and some also some commentary from people that you would expect to be better on this as well. Jolani’s ISIS forces have committed new massacres across Syria in the past 24 hours, some of them reminiscent of the tragedy at Sabra and Shatila in 1982 when another zionist proxy force slaughtered thousands of Palestinians in Lebanon. This time the zionist proxy force is in Syria led by Abu Muhammad Al Jolani. His regime forces rampaged through Syria last night and this morning, singling out Alawite citizens for mass execution. This thread shows horrific evidence of those massacres. These murderous monsters are the products of a 15-year regime change war on Syria by the zionist state, NATO, the GCC and Turkey. Blood is on their hands as well as their ISIS shock troops.
People are saying that the dead bodies are being buried in mass graves. …not only were Alawite and Christian civilians targeted, but Sunni families who sheltered Alawites were also slaughtered in Banyan. HTS terrorists and affiliated gangs executed approximately 14 Sunni families, their only crime being their humanity protecting Alawite families from slaughter. Their sacrifice stands as a testament to true righteousness resisting the sectarian terrorism of jihadists who have no religion. This video is of an Alawite woman talking about the situation. And you can see here that the Alawite Sheikh Shaaban Mansour was assassinated by terrorists. A 90 year old elder, he was executed publicly with his son. And also there’s another picture here. Terrorists backed by Israel, the U.S. and NATO killed Hazar, a young Syrian pharmacist Hazar and her entire family in Tartous, Syria today. This is what western media calls ‘liberation’. So it’s clear to me that these killings are based on the ethnicity of those people. Is that definite, David?
David Miller; “Well, I mean this is the latest in a whole stream of sectarian killings which have occurred since the collapse of the Assad government last year. So yes, there has been mass killings of Alawis especially in the last few days, but before that as well, mass killings of Christians, even killings of Sunnis who are from the wrong political faction or the wrong party or are held to be somehow what’s called Assad remnants. The people you’ve just been putting up as having been killed are clearly not a sad remnant. That’s the line which you get from the sectarian Sunni supporters and indeed from the apologists for US and British imperialism and zionism are that these are people who are Assad remnants. Well, they’re plainly not Assad remnants. I even saw a guy called Scott Lucas. I don’t know if you come across him, Crispin, who used to be at Birmingham University and now works at the Clinton Institute in Dublin. And he’s been saying that these were people who were caught in the crossfire between Assad remnants and the government security forces. Now this is clearly a sectarian rampage, as everybody who has any knowledge of HTS, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, previously known as Al-Nusra, previously part of Islamic State, when it came from Iraq, when it was the Islamic State of Iraq and its deputy leader Jolani was sent to Syria and created Nusra Front, which was the version of Al Qaeda.
This is the kind of activities they’ve been doing since the beginning. They have been doing sectarian murders for more than a decade now. So yes. Were these people killed just because of their ethnicity? Well, yes, of course. And that’s what’s happening. That’s what the people who’ve put Jolani in power have intended to happen. Now of course, some of them are throwing up their hands in horror and saying, ‘oh, we didn’t mean that’, and ‘isn’t it terrible these Islamists’, the word of course which they use for all Muslims engaged in political activity, are engaged in these things. I even saw a piece in the Jewish Chronicle this week saying the rest of the media are not reporting these Islamist killings in Syria. And you think, well, hang on a minute, these are the people you put in power. This is what the zionists did. They supported ISIS, they supported Israel, they patched them up in the field hospital in the Golan. And now of course, once Israel has destroyed almost all of Syria’s defensive capability and in the hundreds of raids they did shortly after the fall, they have also been taking more territory, including just in the last few days have come up with a plan that the whole of the south of Syria will be a demilitarised zone over which they will have effectively military control, if not direct occupation. So for anyone who thinks that this was not part of the zionist plan, go back and have a little look. Let’s remember we saw our friend Benjamin Netanyahu in the Golan saying, ‘yes, look what we’ve done, we’ve brought this about, it was our doing and this is a win’. This is part of the strategy to demobilise and to dismantle the axis of resistance. What was amongst the first things that Jolani did? He outlawed all the Palestinian factions. He stopped arms being smuggled across the border to Hezbollah. Of course also let’s remember he arrested senior members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and tortured them. The footage of that is available online should you wish to go and look for it. So yes, this is what Jolani is supposed to do.”
Craig Murray; “The media are desperate not to portray the result of western installation of this terrible Al Qaeda essentially government in Damascus. On top of which, the thing which really is astonishing is that Canada yesterday announced it is lifting all sanctions and is giving $80 million to the Jolani government. And tomorrow, I believe, the EU are having a funding conference with Jolani where all the EU countries are going to pledge donations to Jolani and discuss the lifting of sanctions against Syria. They’re doubling down. Even as the truth starts to come out about what kind of government this is, those who installed him, rather than backing off, are doubling down, looking to pump in money and get behind Jolani, which is appalling. It really is appalling. But of course, Jolani is doing what he was supposed to do. He has allowed Israel to take large swathes of territory extending 50 or 60 miles from the Israeli border. Israeli troops have taken territory, Jolani has allowed that. We’ve seen Jolani’s forces shooting up and killing Alawite and Christian civilians. They have still not fired one single shot at the Israelis who are occupying hundreds of square kilometres of their country. Almost on a daily basis, Israel takes more territory without meeting any resistance whatsoever of Jolani. Not only that, the Jolani administration has passed laws or regulations making it illegal for anybody to oppose the Israeli occupation of southern Syria. If you, as an individual, attempt to do anything either violent or nonviolent to counter the Israeli occupation of your town or your building, the Jolani regime will stop you and will imprison you for taking action against the Israelis. So, Jolani is doing exactly what he’s meant to be doing by those who backed him. And there’s one other point I wanted to add is I’m not sure people really understand just how much the Syrian so called rebels were proxies for Israel and for the United States and the United Kingdom and certainly the UK was training and equipping members of Al Jolani’s forces in Lebanon and in fact in the military air base in the Beqaa Valley. Certainly they were still there in January. They were British special forces who had been training and equipping Jolani’s people. So this is very much a regime. It’s not just a regime which the British government supported politically, this is a regime we helped in very practical ways to put into place.”
Listen; UK Column News 19 March 2025
Vanessa Beeley; “People will remember back in January, just after the international coup finally toppled the Syrian government and replaced it with Al Qaeda. So (David) Lammy was then saying that he discussed the importance of an inclusive political transition and regional security with interim Syrian Foreign Minister Assad Shaibani. The UK will support Syria’s long term stability through humanitarian aid and coordination. Of course they didn’t, they basically destabilised Syria to the maximum from about 2009 onwards. But let’s look fast forward to 17th of March. UK pledges up to £116 million to support Syria’s recovery and stability in post Assad era, the UK government has pledged £160 million in ‘AID’. I always put that in inverted commas to help ‘stabilise’ should also be an inverted commas. Syria following the fall of the Syrian government, let’s have a look at what the actual Minister for the Middle East, Hamish Falconer said. ‘UK aid delivered through trusted UN and NGO partners will provide life saving support for Syrians including refugees across the region’.
Of course Mike, we know who those trusted NGOs are, predominantly the White Helmets. We also know that there will be zero transparency about that £160 million AID to the previous millions, if not billions that the UK has sent to support basically, Al Qaeda and their White Helmet helpers and all other NGOs associated with Al Qaeda in Syria.
Then this is quite interesting; this was on the 6th of March an update on ‘Syria lifting asset freezes on 24 entities which includes the Syrian Airlines, the Syrian Central Bank’ but interesting that they’re maintaining sanctions on the Assad family because of their alleged links to the Captagon drug trade in Syria that we’ve covered quite a few times on UK column and debunked, particularly a BBC documentary accusing former President Assad of being the head of the Captagon trade. Interesting that there have been a number of arrests recently of drug smugglers in Syria. So despite President Assad no longer being present, the most recent one Iraq’s Interior Ministry announced Sunday the seizure of 1.1 tonnes of captagon and the arrest of a major cross border drug network in coordination with Erbil and Soleimani counter narcotic units authorities tract going from Syria via Turkey. So one assumes it’s going from Idlib which was previously under the control of Jolani who’s now the unelected self proclaimed President in Damascus and it is one of Iraq’s largest drug busts. So a few questions to be raised over 1. the reason for the sanctions and 2. the propaganda regarding the Captagon production in Syria.
And then we move on back to Brussels and Vvon der Leyen and the whole team there. This is standing with Syria donor conference in Brussels that ended, I think, a couple of days ago. And who was invited? The interim foreign minister, who, of course, was previously al Qaeda. I know that we’ve mentioned this before. He was actually a founder of Al Qaeda in Syria, named back in December as a Caretaker Foreign Minister. I know I keep repeating this, but I do think it’s quite important. Here is a picture of him on the right or left, depending on how you’re looking at it. I think that was at the WEF in Davos and on the left as an acting Al Qaeda and formerly ISIS member carrying out atrocities against Syrian civilians. And of course, he did meet Kaya Khalas. Bilateral meeting between Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani and EU High Representative Kaja Kallas on the sidelines of the Brussels donor conference on Syria. So again, the EU and their various representatives embracing Al Qaeda members in Brussels. And of course, they’re also upping the ante in their funding for Syria. The EU and its partners, Qatar, Kaja Kallas says, just pledged 5.8 billion euros for Syria and its neighbours. ‘This will support Syria at a crucial time of transition and address the dire needs on the ground. This is a chance for the people of Syria to seize the moment and shape their own destiny,’
But I just want to move on to Assad. Shaibani’s actual speech that he made where again, he was basically reiterating the propaganda that has sustained the regime change war for the UK, the EU and the US against Syria since 2011, that it was all the fault of the minorities. And President Assad, he states that ‘the age of tyranny is over. We have sworn an oath to our people that the age of oppression has passed and will not return’. And he goes on, he says, ‘the unelected Al Qaeda Syrian government remains the sole guarantor of civil peace’. Well, really, last week we talked about the ethnic cleansing and the effective genocide that’s being conducted by HTS and its various foreign mercenary, fanatical extremist terrorist groups against the people in the coastal area, particularly Christians and Alawites, but even against Sunni Muslims who are protesting massacres of Syrian Alawites. So I just want to play this video of a lady who was being interviewed in Jableh on the coastal area in Syria. ‘The massacres are continuing. Houses, apartments, shops are being looted and burned. And there is now talk of displacing all of the Alawite civilians and replacing them with Sunni Muslim children’. Extremist factions to actually reconstitute that area of Syria.
I just wanted to quickly show this rather than another execution video. This is a kid in Aleppo being given a semi automatic by an HTS fighter. This is how the children in Syria are being indoctrinated.”
Read; The Genesis of Sectarian Death Squads in Syria Denis Kucinich, 12 March 2025
‘The Clean Break, Benjamin Netanyahu, the CIA, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and the Defense Intelligence Agency are all responsible for the disintegration in Syria which has resulted in extreme sectarian violence. Most of those who are being killed today were then just children, in a country where communities attending mosques, churches and synagogues existed side by side.
U.S. tax dollars, funneled through the CIA and USAID, have played a pivotal role in arming and enabling extremist factions whose ascendance resulted in the atrocities. In Syria, America’s Middle East machinations scaled tragic heights. Under the Obama administration, the CIA launched “Timber Sycamore” in 2012, a covert operation that funneled billions of dollars in weapons and training to so-called “moderate” connected to Al-Queda, Al-Nusra and ISIS. A good deal of weapons paid for by U.S. taxpayers and intended to be used against Syria, ended up in the for sale on the black market.
The American people were told a fairy tale that we were supporting freedom fighters against a dictator. What we actually accomplished was funding the terrorists who now murder Christians, massacre Alawite villages, and impose radical Islamic rule in areas they seize.It was a reckless intervention, driven by a geopolitical obsession with weakening Iran and Russia. It has not only destroyed Syria but it has also created a breeding ground for global terrorism.
Now, in the aftermath of Assad’s fall, the worst-case scenario has come to pass. Cities that once housed some of the world’s oldest Christian communities lie in ruins, their people slaughtered or driven into exile. Christians and Alawites are labeled heretics by the very groups America helped empower. And I ask again: Why? Why would America champion policies that lead to the killing of Christians, the destruction of churches, the massacre of Alawites and the rise of radical jihadists? Why did our leaders knowingly aid those who murdered the very people America claimed to want to protect? The answer lies in a corrupt, immoral foreign policy dictated not by ethics, human rights, or even national security, but by the interests of the military-industrial complex and strategists who view human lives as pawns in a geopolitical chess game. This tragic situation in Syria is but one example of in the catalogue of chaos which is U.S. foreign policy; Iran in 1953, Guatemala in 1954, Lebanon in the 1980s, Afghanistan in the 1980s-90s, to Iraq post-2003 are notable examples of similar perfidy, though these debacles are by no means exclusive. U.S. foreign policy all too often reveals calculations to excite and exploit sectarian, religious, or ethnic divisions to achieve vainglorious geopolitical goals which blowback in disintegration and defeat.’
EGYPT
Watch; Israel fears Egypt Palestine Declassified, 8 March 2025
‘This episode of Palestine Declassified looks at whether Israel’s ongoing anxiety about Egypt posing a potential existential threat to the zionist colony, is justified.’
Latifa Abouchakra; “Hints are also beginning to emerge that the big target for Israel in this map changing policy, will be Egypt. Former Israeli Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi went on record publicly stating, we are worried about Egypt. They have a very advanced army and the situation could turn against us at any moment. In 2011, the regime changed and we were on the verge of being attacked. Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danan also bitterly complained about the Egyptian military buildup in the formerly Israeli occupied Sinai. He charged that ‘post October 7th any Egyptian mobilisation should raise alarm bells. They spend hundreds of millions of dollars on modern military equipment every year, yet they have no threat on their borders’, Dannon told an Israeli radio station. Why do they need all these submarines and tanks? Aafter October 7, this should raise alarm bells. We have learnt our lesson. We must monitor Egypt closely and prepare for every scenario. He also said that despite the surrender treaty between Egypt and Israel, the Arab state is still culturally opposed to zionism. This was of course clear in May 2024 when an Israeli Mossad linked businessman, Ziv Kipper, who, staying in Alexandria, was assassinated. The shooter pointed a gun at Kipper and announced ‘Shalom from Gaza’s children’ before firing eight shots into the Israeli agent. The group responsible named themselves the Mohammad Salah Brigade after the Egyptian soldier who crossed into the zionist entity and killed three three Israeli police in June 2023 before being killed himself. The anti zionist instincts still exist in the Egyptian army and Israel is right to fear it.”
Chris Williamson; “Joining me in the studio as usual is our resident expert, David Miller, who’s widely regarded as the UK’s preeminent scholarly critic of Israel. David’s a senior research fellow at the Centre for Islam and Global affairs at Istanbul Sayem University and is a co-director of the lobbying watchdog Spin Watch. Today’s guest contributor is a lifelong anti racist socialist and the founder of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Mick Napier. Mick’s the only Scot certified free of racism by two Scottish law courts after successfully fighting off zionist lawfare tactics. Yet just a few hours before recording today’s show, Mick was arrested by officers from the Scottish Police Service for alleged hate speech following a malicious complaint by Sami Steen, the chair of the Glasgow Friends of Israel. So I’m particularly pleased that Mick’s still been able to join us today. Welcome to the show.
David, what do you make of these tensions that were referred to in the (Egypt) report there?”
David Miller; “Well, it’s very unclear what’s going to happen in the short to medium term. We’ve seen the Israelis disengage from Lebanon, from parts we didn’t think they were going to disengage from. Indeed, parts that I subsequently went to visit, including on Maroun El Ras, which is a big hill overlooking the border of occupied Palestine. So you would think that they would not want to leave somewhere like that, which is strategically quite valuable. They’ve got five points left now in Lebanon, but that’s the only five points. Apparently the US have said they can stay there, which of course is a violation of the ceasefire, so they’ve removed themselves almost entirely, but they’re still in those five points, so that’s problematic. They’re moving in Syria again towards Damascus. There’s all sorts of tensions there between the Druze and the Israelis. Some of the Druze are on the Israeli side, others aren’t. So there’s those kinds of tensions there. They’re trying to move towards Damascus and the allegations have been that they’re actually trying to take over the whole of Syria. And the questions about whether they’re trying to keep the Russians there in order to dissuade Erdogan from invading, which of course he’s not going to do. And then, of course, down south in Egypt, the same kinds of tensions. I mean, it’s really unclear what’s going to happen. As the report was making clear there. Some of the things that have happened would suggest that it could be a really negative future. But others suggest that that there are clearly people in the Egyptian military who are desperate to take on zionists.”
Chris Williamson; “Well, Mick, do you think it’s likely that Israel will try to snatch the Sinai from Egypt in pursuit of the Greater Israel Project?”
Mick Napier; “It’s on the cards. I think it’s only a question of timing, and that has to be carefully calculated by Israel in terms of its relations with Washington. But Israel has expansion built into its DNA. They view the situation in the Sinai, where there are resistances and insurrections against the Egyptian regiment, as a pressure for Egypt to mobilise in that area. And they are very concerned about the Egyptian army. It’s the only Arab army at the moment which could pose a considerable threat to Israel if the regime were to be overthrown and those weapons and that military power were to pass into other Egyptian hands. So, yes, I think Israel’s scared, it’s worried, and it would like to preempt that possibility by expanding into the Sinai.”
Please donate
Forgive me for pointing out that, while we receive some one-off donations, I am funding Farms Not Factories myself, and if we are to continue to fight the cruel, antibiotic-led factory farm system, we will need some regular donations from like-minded people. Please consider a monthly subscription of £2/month and help us support a network of smaller scale, humane and healthy UK pig farms, local abattoirs and butchers.
“Our message is simple, we want to help bring an end to this dangerous, inhumane system. Vote for real farming over factory farming.”
– Tracy Worcester, Director
Contents
Share This Article
Related ArticlesView All
No Farmers No Food
The purpose of my newsletter is to give you important information that is censored in the mainstream media. If you… Read More
Plant Truth Bombs in Sleeping Minds
The purpose of my newsletter is to give you important information and narratives that are censored in the mainstream media…. Read More
Orchestrated Extermination of Independent Farmers
The purpose of my newsletter is to give you important information and narratives that are censored in the mainstream media…. Read More
I Farm, You Eat
The purpose of my newsletter is to give you important information and narratives that are censored in the mainstream media…. Read More
Home Grown Food Is Bad For The Climate!
The purpose of my newsletter is to give you important information and narratives that are censored in the mainstream media…. Read More
Constant Lying
The purpose of my newsletter is to give you important information and narratives that are censored in the mainstream media…. Read More