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Host, 📺Going Underground more than 32m views on YouTube. Award-winning Journalist. @GUnderground_TV Retweets≠verified/endorsements!

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NEW EPISODE OF FORECAST NEWS⚡️ Afshin Rattansi w/Millie Pinch on assignment on this week's White House Correspondents Gaza Genocide SNL Dinner, Blinken in China, Sunak in Kiev, Iran & nuclear Pakistan, Tesla results @ForecastNewsTV
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Hillary Clinton on Julian Assange: “Can’t we just drone this guy?”
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President of Colombia🇨🇴 Gustavo Petro: ‘Germany, France, the UK and the US all support the genocide in Gaza because they want to teach a lesson to all of humanity… they are telling us “look at our military power, what happens to Palestine can happen to any of you if you dare to…
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Iconic British socialist, a fighter against apartheid in South Africa and Israel, and decades-long supporter of the Palestinian cause, George Galloway has won the Rochdale by-election and has become the UK’s latest MP, while the UK government arms Israel’s genocide in Gaza.…
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Julian Assange’s fate is reportedly being decided tomorrow. A UK court will decide whether he will be extradited to the USA. A reminder why the US want to jail him for 175 years: Among the many Wikileaks revelations was the Collateral Murder footage from Iraq, in which a US…
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‘Some hearings lasted 60 seconds…I saw the judge convict some children without even once looking at them…what I saw was a conveyor belt of convicted children.’ -Reporter John Lyons on the military court trials of Palestinian children, the conviction rates in Israeli military…
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‘Don’t keep telling me about the Prime Minister as if he was Moses’ Do you respect the Prime Minister? ‘Do I respect the Prime Minister? I DESPISE the Prime Minister!’ Newly-elected MP of Rochdale George Galloway fires back after Rishi Sunak’s speech @georgegalloway
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The official poverty rate in the 🇺🇲USA was 11.6 percent, with 37.9 million people in poverty. #Ukraine #NATO #Russia
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Note: The British Army was involved in the killing of 20 percent of the entire population of Korea - that's millions of men, women & children.
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💬 "Their bravery and sacrifice helped bring about the freedom and democracy we see in the Republic of Korea today." Defence Secretary @BWallaceMP has paid tribute to British personnel who fought to restore peace to the Korean Peninsula. 🇬🇧 🇰🇷 #Korea70 📸: @I_W_M
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NEW: Vladimir Putin announces that minimum wage, public sector wages, social benefits and pensions will all be raised.
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BREAKING: England's Appeals Court rules in FAVOUR of the Venezuelan Bolivarian government of Nicolas Maduro and the consideration of the return of $1 billion in gold de facto stolen by Andrew Bailey's Bank of England after Boris Johnson backed coup leader Juan Guaido.
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NEW: At the UN Security Council a resolution to condemn Russia over its referendums in Donetsk & Lugansk to come under Moscow's umbrella FAILS after 🇨🇳China, 🇧🇷Brazil, 🇮🇳India, 🇬🇦Gabon refuse to vote with NATO proxy countries. "The resolution was not adopted." - 🇺🇳UN
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A reporter asks John Kirby: “Does it seem plausible to you that the Russian Federation destroyed the dam, flooding places where Russians live and also cutting off the water supply to Crimea? ….It seems about as logical as blowing up one’s own pipeline, doesn’t it?” #Kakhovka
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Russia will have to pay for the war crimes committed in Ukraine. The destruction of the dam, an outrageous attack on civilian infrastructure, puts at risk thousands of people in the Kherson region. Europe is mobilising support through our civil protection mechanism.
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Monstrous massacre committed today in Northern Gaza: While hungry Palestinians waited for food aid to arrive, the US-UK-EU-armed Israeli military launched strikes against the civilians. At least 70 have been killed, though some reports say the death toll is 150+.
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“Israel and Taiwan are bases of operation for Imperialism in Asia. They created Israel for the Arabs and Taiwan for us. They both have the same objective.” -Chairman Mao Zedong of China🇨🇳 (1965)
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BREAKING⚡️: Iran🇮🇷 has launched a fleet of suicide drones towards Israel in retaliation for the Damascus embassy bombing If Biden goes to war with Israel against Iran, a reminder of Biden’s tweet from 4 years ago 👇
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ICYMI: Multiple reports that the revolutionary anti-🇬🇧UK-🇺🇲US-🇪🇺EU government of #Niger increases price of uranium from French dictated price of €0.80/kg to...€200/kg. #nuclearweapons #nuclearenergy
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Latest: UK authorities tonight in Bristol, England set dogs on demonstrators protesting new legislation that could ban any future street protests in Britain. #coronavirus
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Twitter removes Russian Embassy in London tweet.
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This is not a 🇬🇧UK queue to seek additional public money to a donated £5bn that has armed neo-Nazis in Ukraine. It is a queue at a food bank. Today, figures show for the first time since 1961, UK $3.3 trillion public sector debt EXCEEDS annual GDP.
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Today @Wikileaks founder, Julian #Assange begins his fifth year in the London maximum security prison Belmarsh for revealing the truth about global war crimes.   Picture w/ @westwood_japan @GUnderground_TV
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If anyone wanted more proof of NATO's support for Adolf Hitler...
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This is the story of the Forest Brothers who fought the Soviet army for their homelands after WWII
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Wars Colin Powell (April 5, 1937 – October 18, 2021) participated in. Vietnam. El Salvador. Nicaragua. Iraq.
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BREAKING: UK Courts sanction extradition of Wikileaks’ Julian Assange to face possible 175 year prison sentence, setting precedent for any journalist in England to de facto die in USA for revealing Supreme War Crimes under the United Nations Charter.
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A week after Zelensky/Nazi SS Hunka given ovation by Trudeau & the entire Canadian parliament, Zelensky in Ukraine is presented with the emblem of the 14th SS Grenadier Division to which Hunka belonged, that massacred thousands of Jews, Poles and dissidents during the holocaust.
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The West will fight to the last Ukrainian in its proxy war against Russia. Anybody who thinks the West cares about Ukraine as anything more than a tool in its war against Russia is being grossly naïve. And when it comes to the military industrial complex, they know very well…
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US official Nuland - infamous for her part in the 2014 Ukraine coup which would kill 14,000 now admits the US has biowarfare labs on Russia's borders - real WMD not the Iraqi kind?!
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Colonial barbarism backed by the US, UK & EU: Palestinians desperately try to rescue a child whose mother was murdered by an Israeli sniper in the Sheikh Radwan area of Gaza The US’ rules-based order has legalised the annihilation of women and children based on their ethnicity…
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REPORTS: Last night in Ukraine, two 🇬🇧British soldiers killed by Russian Su-24 bombers which also annihilated their multi-million $ UK Storm Shadow missiles at Kropivnitskiy airfield. A critically injured UK soldier was airlifted to Poland. (Info: NATOSpox Yuriy Ignat/File Pic)
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REPORTS: Billions of $ of 🇬🇧UK-🇺🇲US-🇪🇺EU- public money in the form of weapons get destroyed in a Russian #Eurovision airstrike in Khmelinskiy region, 120 km from the Romanian border. See Zelensky's top US military adviser on today's Going Underground
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NEW: Residential Palestine Tower in the heart of Gaza City targeted in direct hit by 🇬🇧UK-🇺🇲US-🇪🇺EU-armed missile, live on Al Jazeera. #GazaUnderAttack
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“From the Euphrates to the Nile…Southern Lebanon is a part of it, all of it. Even parts of Syria, part of Iraq, part of Iran. It’s huge” -Israeli settler leader and former Mayor of Kedumim Daniela Weiss lays out Zionist ambitions to colonise and take over multiple Arab…
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European "civilization". #coronavirus #Ukraine #NATO
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Not one tweet today about the London extradition trial of the world’s most famous publisher - Julian Assange of Wikileaks?
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Justin Bieber's seventh album, Changes, debuts at top of US Billboard chart - beating record set by Elvis nearly 60 years ago
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NEW: Israel again begins aerial bombardment of Gaza, the biggest outdoor prison camp in the world. #Palestine #StateOfWar #GazaUnderAttack
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A London NHS doctor just told me to tweet this: "Can you get a message out to sprs and colleagues to be careful. There have been multiple mugging of doctors going to / leaving hospital at knife point in the last 48-hours. Mainly central London"
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NEW: The CIA boss has urgently flown to Saudi Arabia to express US "frustration" that peace is breaking out in the Middle East against the wishes of Washington. #Iran #Syria #GCC #ArabLeague
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CONFIRMED: Ukraine was ready to sign a peace agreement with Russia but the 🇺🇲US Government did not allow it. Confirmed by Gerhard Schroeder, former leader of Germany. Estimates of 500,000 dead Ukrainians in the US proxy war Coverage:
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This is not a queue for a Covid vaccine This is a queue at a food bank today in the UK. #coronavirus #oxfordvaccine #Pfizer #Moderna #SputnikV h/t @DMinghella
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When the leaders of the US, UK and EU next proclaim that they are defenders of human rights and the ‘rules-based international order’, remember this as an example of the suffering they are imposing on the Palestinians of Gaza by arming and supporting Israel
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Another reason why the UK/US governments have attempted to assassinate Wikileaks founder Julian #Assange is that he published secret cables detailing how neo-fascist #Navalny was a CIA asset, funded by the US National Endowment for Democracy to end democracy in Russia.
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NEW: UK Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer appoints Jess Phillips to domestic violence job. Here she is threatening to knife Jeremy Corbyn.
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NEW: Peace was signed between Ukraine and Russia in Spring of 2022. Putin publicly showed the previously unreleased document in front of South Africa's President Ramaphosa. (Disgraced US puppet Boris Johnson was reportedly despatched by NATO to force Kiev to renege.)
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ICYMI: Jackson Hinkle banned from @twitter hours after defending the Orthodox Church in Ukraine against NATO-proxy Zelensky's ban against Christians.
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How the CIA plants fake stories in the media: "We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, Cuban rapists... We didn't know of a single atrocity committed by the Cubans. It was pure raw false propaganda to create an illusion of communists eating babies for breakfast."
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This is not #Ukraine . REPORTED pictures from last night's 🇬🇧UK-🇺🇲US-🇪🇺EU-armed lethal aerial bombardment of civilians in #Damascus , capital of Syria - de facto supporting Al Qaeda/ISIS.
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BREAKING:UK police try to prevent wedding pictures of the bride of the most famous journalist in the world Julian Assange, Stella - just married at Belmarsh Prison. It follows UK authorities demand that wedding music be switched off.
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Mass demonstrations in Iran against UK/US/EU-linked terror attacks and media regime change conspiracies. Wonder why they're not reported in NATO countries where TV channels are shut down and freedom of expression is illegal? 🤔
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The one and only @MaxBlumenthal grills the White House spox. on Gaza hypocrisy: ‘How can you explain discrepancy between Secretary Blinken accusing China explicitly of genocide…presenting no evidence of mass killing of Uyghurs, and then dismissing out of hand the potential…
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Hong Kong? Venezuela? Syria? No. Portland in the USA. Watch how civilians are held down without a hope of a UN Security Council Resolution.
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“Please don’t say she was killed” A boy in Gaza cries after his sister was killed by a US-UK-EU-armed Israeli airstrike The same nations lecturing Russia, China, and the global south on human rights are the same countries sponsoring this industrial-scale slaughter of children…
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Putin: The nuclear threat from Ukraine is real. Ukraine has become a “colony with a puppet government”. Foreign consultants are being deployed along with the arms being pumped into Ukraine by NATO. The airspace of Ukraine is being used by NATO for surveillance of Russia.
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Norman Finkelstein slams Destiny’s pro-Israel talking points: ‘You find it so far-fetched that Israelis purposely, deliberately target civilians?’
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NEW: 🇷🇺Russian Ambassador to 🇺🇳UN claims NATO-nation media using pictures of a tank which the Russian army no longer use. The Ukrainian army do.
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50% of ‘Genocide Joe’ Biden’s 2020 voters say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza 49% of 18-29 year olds in the US say Israel is committing genocide Such a ‘democratic’ system when the President is facilitating a genocide despite resounding opposition from the population?…
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NEW: Attempted coup underway in NATO-nation destabilized Sudan shortly after Washington meeting involving US @WorldBank .
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Zelensky. Many a true word..?
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‘Israel with Bibi now behaves exactly like Germany in the 1930s…they studied everything that Germany did to us, we are doing now to the Palestinians.’ -An Israeli protester in Tel Aviv
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Journalist Julian Assange, tortured by British authorities according to the UN for revealing NATO war crimes & Hillary Clinton's sabotage of Bernie Sanders' election campaign, faces 175 years in a maximum security prison.
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Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron announces the UK🇬🇧 is considering imposing more sanctions on Iran🇮🇷 after its retaliation strike…yet no sanctions are being considered for Israel for bombing Iran’s embassy in Damascus, killing 33,729+ Palestinians in Gaza and committing war crimes
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China: The US has 336 labs in 30 countries under its control, including 26 in Ukraine alone. It should give a full account of its biological military activities at home and abroad and subject itself to multilateral verification.
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Julian Assange interviewing Imran Khan: ‘Al-Qaeda was trained by the CIA and ISI’ @PTIofficial
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ICYMI: 🇺🇲US infrastructure is collapsing as trillions of $ of public money is recycled through arms companies who lobby Congress. #ukraine #Afghanistan #Syria #Iraq See Pulitzer Prize Winner Sy Hersh on where the cash is going:
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Texas comes out in its masses to say ‘Israel is a racist state’ A seismic shift in public opinion, as even citizens in the imperial core become more and more disgusted with US support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and the occupation of Palestine
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While the most famous journalist in the world Julian Assange of Wikileaks is tortured in London as he fights for the rights of all political journalism.. #FreeAssange
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Laura Kuenssberg
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Very happy to collect this award tonight along with great colleagues from ⁦ @itvnews ⁩ ⁦ @SkyNews @Channel4News ⁩ and ⁦ @channel5_tv ⁩ after the privilege of covering an extraordinary story - TV a team sport!
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The BBC's @StephenSmithBBC tonight smeared Maradona for holidaying in Cuba. What a despicable video report, attacking the world's greatest footballer for his fervent belief in a better world when his body is not even yet cold.
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Miko Peled: Are we out of our minds? Condemning the resistance of the people who are being oppressed and killed? Subjected to genocide for 75 years! Are we out of our minds? Miko Peled, his grandfather signed Israel’s Declaration of Independence.
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BREAKING: English judge Vanessa Baraitser warns the most famous publisher/journalist in the world - Julian Assange, tortured by UK authorities according to the UN - not to speak again or be removed entirely from the court and be tried for his life in his absence. #FreeAssange
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John Pilger (1939-2023) to CIA officer: What right do you have to do what you do in other countries? CIA officer: National security interests Pilger: The people you do it to have no say CIA officer: Well that’s just tough
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ICYMI: Putin flies in Russian aid planes to Libya after environmental catastrophe kills thousands...because of NATO-press cheerled UK/France/Obama's US- annihilation of infrastructure of what was Africa's richest per capita country.
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BREAKING: Millbank in Westminster is a sea of blue flashing lights as police speed to escalating #GeorgeFloydProtests outside Boris Johnsons's home in Downing Street. h/t @dawkinsreturn
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So a CIA agent alleged to have killed a child in Britain doesn't have to be extradited but will rather be tried remotely. Wikileaks' Julian Assange has killed nobody and yet is tortured by the UK before English courts agree with Biden administration to him facing 175 years.
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US citizen Anne Sacoolas will face London court in January charged with causing death of Harry Dunn by dangerous driving, prosecutors say
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“This judgement is appalling. Three weeks for yet more arguments to be made by the Biden Administration. Even though we know US authorities planned Julian Assange’s assassination.” My reaction to the UK court decision today on potential US extradition for Julian Assange Follow…
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NEW: 🇮🇱Israel's Netanyahu and 🇺🇲Joe Biden discuss on the telephone the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians aided by Britain & EU nation weaponry as the Associated Press in Gaza is destroyed by warplanes.
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‘You don’t teach your children in schools a line of colonial history’ Shashi Tharoor destroys British🇬🇧 media over Britain’s colonial history Real wages in India🇮🇳 declined by 23.3% during the 350 years of British rule Under British rule, India's share of the world economy…
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Reports: At least 115 dead or wounded 🇬🇧UK-🇺🇲US-🇪🇺EU mercenaries fighting for NATO against Russia in city of Zaporozhye.
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So leaked documents show that the self-styled UK government mouthpiece @BBCNews "verifier" @mariannaspring turns out to be an MI5 asset?
@MaxBlumenthal
Max Blumenthal
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@mariannaspring Hey Marianna, did you ever attend this meeting proposed by a UK intelligence contractor that was aimed at cooking up smears of The Grayzone? Why did a spook propose you as a specialist in taking down an indy outlet like ours? And what exactly is your relationship w/ UK intel?
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After banning TV stations, Dostoyevsky & Tchaikovsky, Ukraine's minister of foreign affairs Dmytro Kuleba now calls on all nations to "criminalize the use of the [letter] 'Z'".
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What the British media won't remind you about, this morning.
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#OtD 14 May 1938 the England football team gave a Nazi salute before a match in Berlin. They had been ordered to do so by the govt which had made a pact with Hitler when much of the ruling class supported fascism. More about UK fascism at the time here:
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Still watching NATO nation media coverage of Ukraine, believing their interviews, their video packages? They lied to you about Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria & Libya, about Assange & Russiagate. Why should you believe a word they say now? Watch RT at RT dot com.
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As Biden & Sunak celebrate Friday's 🇬🇧UK court ruling to speed up extradition of Wikileaks' founder, here's @rogerwaters 4 years ago calling on authorities to #FreeJulianAssange on @GUnderground_TV . #RogerWaters
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Starmer literally letting Raab get away with murder at today's coronavirus #PMQs ?
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Arrests begin across London of those seeking a republic in Britain. #Coronation #Coronation2023
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NEW: Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud hours after US's alleged Nordstream mastermind 🇺🇲Blinken visited Saudi Arabia👀 (File pic)
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"We were heading home when the [Israeli] army stopped us & asked us to turn off the engine. We did. Then they said "go" so we moved, before they showered us with bullets. My husband fell in my lap & died" -Wife of Osama Mansour, killed today by UK-armed Israeli forces.
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BREAKING: 🇬🇧UK-🇺🇲US-🇪🇺EU-armed aerial bombardment of the capital of Yemen, Sana'a & main port for humanitarian goods, Hodeidah. Tonight's reported pictures from the world's worst humanitarian crisis where the UN says at least 377,000 have been killed. *NATO-nation media silence.
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‘What would Britain do if a hostile nation flattened one of our consulates?’ Foreign Secretary David Cameron after condemning Iran🇮🇷: ‘We would take very strong action.’ One set of rules for the global south, another set of rules for the US and Europe.
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Julian Assange: ‘I think the media is, in general terms, one of the most destructive forces that has ever existed. It has led to nearly every war that we’ve had.’
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