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Mark Curtis and Phil Miller reveal the scale of support to Saudi Arabia by the United Kingdom. This potential means mean that as many as a third of the Typhoon fleet is being flown by UK-trained pilots. Also RAF personnel, on secondment to BAE Systems, are also providing “refresher training” for Typhoon pilots in Saudi Arabia. These are planes Saudis use with UK expertise to drop bombs and kill  Yemenis.  Daily Maverick Article More than two dozen Saudi Typhoon pilots trained in Britain

Mark Curtis and Phil Miller reveal the scale of support to Saudi Arabia by the United Kingdom. This potential means mean that as many as a third of the Typhoon fleet is being flown by UK-trained pilots. Also RAF personnel, on secondment to BAE Systems, are also providing “refresher training” for Typhoon pilots in Saudi Arabia. These are planes Saudis use with UK expertise to drop bombs and kill  Yemenis. 

An important ruling today could help limit #masssurveillance across Europe. The Court of Justice of the European Union said that national security concerns are not an excuse for #EU governments to violate people's right to #privacy. It remains to be seen whether in practice this will be adhered to. However for citizens of the UK, after Brexit mass surveillance and data collection will the hallmark of their lives. Who can be forgiven for not expressing grave concerns regarding the UK Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill, rightly condemned eloquently by MP Zarah Sultana during one of the most powerful speeches delivers in the House of commons by an ethnic minority MP?  This bill will no doubt enable unnecessary and unlawful interference with the legitimate activities of anti capitalists, trade unions, environmentalists, anti-racists and  other campaigners. They have already banned teaching of socialism, communism and anti capitalism in UK education system. The county is slidin...

The consummation of consumption  This is an indictment of US capitalism, if not capitalism as a whole. "Far from confronting the structure of White supremacy, the failure to break with a fetishized idea of race, can lead to strengthening rather than weakening its iron grip on society" - Samir Gandesha This is an indictment of US capitalism, if not capitalism as a whole.

The Swiss will, once again, show the world the difference between an open-minded society (🇨🇭) and an ignorant and racist one. The voices of division, segregation & ultra-nationalism have been defeated by voters in Switzerland #directdemocracy rocks! A well-informed electorate makes rational decisions.  Lessons for #Brexit folly. #Switzerland #referendum. They’re not stupid .... they’ve got Brexit as a benchmark for world beating incompetence .... And to add to the clarity, it’s an absolute rejection of the hatred projected towards #EU citizens by #Brexiteers. Well done #Switzerland. Many of us #Remainers would like our #freedomofmovement back. 10% of Swiss citizens live and work in the EU. Well over a million EU citizens live and work in Switzerland contributing massively to the Swiss social system including its healthcare and social benefits system.  The Swiss know which side their bread is buttered on. Switzerland has refused to follow in the fo...

The bourgeois liberal state wants to create a ‘respectable Left’, in other words a tame left, people who will write superficially radical things and can appear on TV to provide ‘balance’ but won’t challenge the *fundamental* basis of the ruling class: capitalism and imperialism. Bourgeois society will give people, some who may genuinely be radical, a platform on TV, journals, and writing articles for ‘mainstream’ publication like the Guardian/NYT then if they want to keep appearing they have to become ‘respectable’: losing the criticism of imperialism. That’s why, when you hear the ostensibly ‘radical’ socialists, even ‘communists’(!), who appear in  ‘mainstream’ journals and on daytime political television programs they never actually *say* or *do* anything genuinely radical when they have that platform or they’d get cut off. I will always maintain that if your views are a genuine threat to the bourgeois liberal order you will never be allowed to write for ‘mainstream’ publication...

GASLIGHTINGASSANGE as explained by Mr. John Shipton, a humanitarian, pro-peace, pro-justice man who is fighting for press freedom and his son's freedom.  FreeAssange GASLIGHTINGASSANGE as explained by Mr. John Shipton, a humanitarian, pro-peace, pro-justice man who is fighting for press freedom and his son's freedom.  FreeAssange     You see very few genuinely heroic people in the political arena or in life generally. Assange is one: A bona fide hero. WATCH: John Shipton 'Julian didn't do anything, they did' Outside the court where his son endures what the judge now admits is a political trial, Julian #Assange's father, John Shipton, describes the human carnage caused by America and utters an unforgettable truth: "Julian didn't do anything, they did." You see very few genuinely heroic people in the political arena or in life generally. Assange is one: A bona fide hero. Thanks for standing up and tell the truth as his father do, Julian is proud. I a...