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Iran Crisis: Sketchy Intelligence and Propaganda – We’ve Been Here Before
CJ Werleman sees a familiar pattern in the stoked-up tensions between the US and Iran, and once again the media is failing to check the march to war.
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A New Crusade for White Christian Europe? Not a Good Look
When Far Right and populist figures such as Hungary’s Viktor Orban talk about a ‘crusade’ to defend ‘Christendom’ – this should ring some very shrill alarm bells.
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Christchurch Summit: Mainstream News Sites also ‘Perpetuating Hate’ and Violent Extremism
G7 leaders will gather to discuss calls for a ‘Christchurch Call’ to combat terrorism and violent extremism on social media – but what about the news sites of the traditional press?
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Who’s the Money Man, Nigel?
As Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage dodges more questions about who is bankrolling his new ‘grassroots movement’, Otto English asks: why the need for secrecy?
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Criminal Inquiry Looms into Maltese Government Officials Named by Assassinated Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia
Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri – both named by the murdered Maltese investigative journalist fir their offshore ‘Panama Papers’ accounts – are now under fresh judicial scrutiny.
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A Blood-Soaked Birth: the 25th Anniversary of a Democratic South Africa
Exactly a quarter-century ago South Africans went to the polls in elections that would bring Mandela to power and end almost 350 years of white domination. But it was tense and violent.
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Kurdish Hunger Strikers Occupy Amnesty International HQ
Kurdish Hunger Strikers Occupy Amnesty International HQ to Demand Action on Turkish State Torture
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The New ‘Al-Qaeda’ – a Right-Wing Insurgency
C J Werleman documents the global threat of Far-right terrorism and argues that Trump might seek to benefit from it.
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Tommy Robinson is set to Run for European Parliament – What Next?
Louise Raw counters some of the myths around the former EDL founder and argues there is only one antidote if Robinson announces his candidacy
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Fox Breaks Cover – from Revolutionary Communist to Farage’s Right Hand Woman
Otto English on the weird moral maze of would-be Brexit Party MEP Claire Fox and her Spiked Network.
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MUELLER REPORT – Attorney General Bill Barr’s Timeline of a Cover-Up
As the world awaits publication of the Mueller Report, Attorney General Bill Barr is readying himself for the final act of a slow-motion cover-up.
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Maltese Citizenship for Sale – The Gold Rush Continues
It has been 18 months since Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated and Malta is still no closer to an independent public inquiry, and the trade in passports she complained of continues to boom.
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How Farage’s Campaign Colluded with Putin to Weaponise Hate and Islamophobia
Following Channel 4’s revelations that Nigel Farage’s Leave EU campaign faked inflammatory photos of sexual attacks and staged videos about migrants, Byline Times has evidence of more racist propaganda sourced from the Kremlin.
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Rebel Cities: Kurdish Hunger Strikes Report
As part of our Activist Hub, Ross Morris reports on how hundreds joined Kurdish Hunger-Strikers to protest against the Turkish State in Central London
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TV Comedian leads Polls in Ukraine Presidential Elections – but is Zelensky really offering a fresh start?
Marketing himself as a newcomer to politics, TV Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky is currently in the lead in the run-up to Ukraine’s presidential elections. But maybe he’s not as disconnected to the wheels of power as he appears.
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The Forgotten Killing Fields of Iraq
Cluster bombs, mines, ISIS IEDs: CJ Werleman reports on the ongoing casualties of 40 years of lethal ordnance littering the fields of Iraq.
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THE UPSIDE DOWN: Is Alexander Dugin Putin’s Brain?
John Mitchinson on the ideologue who revived ‘Eurasianism’. Is Dugin really the Rasputin behind a more aggressive Kremlin? Or is he another post-truth prank?
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One Hundred Years On: Government Concerned about ‘Financial Implications’ of Apologising for 1919 Amritsar Massacre
100 years after the horrific expression of British brutality in India, the Government still appears unwilling to formally apologise for the killings in Jallianwala Bagh.
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UPDATED: Julian Assange appears in Court – what happens next?
Following confirmation that Julian Assange has been arrested – twice – today, Byline Times provides the background to his legal battles and asks which allegations will be prioritised.
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Killed because She Mattered – the Murder of an Investigative Journalist
Nicola Driscoll-Davies returns from Malta with more chilling details on the financial and legal threats Daphne Caruana Galizia was dealing with in the weeks before her assassination
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The Story of Brexit is the Story of Empire: Why Did Asian Immigrants Vote to Leave the EU?
The complicated love-hate relationship of immigrants from former colonies with the British Empire cannot be ignored if lessons are to be learned in post-Brexit Britain, says Hardeep Matharu
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Putin’s Ukrainian Refugee Crisis: the leaks Assange wouldn’t Touch
A hacked trove of documents shows Russia’s interior ministry struggling to cope with a refugee crisis caused by President Putin’s Ukrainian adventure
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The Kashmir Conundrum: the Background
Why was Kashmir in the headlines again recently? What are the causes of the problem? What can be done to resolve it?
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‘Ramblin’ Donald: Why 7,000 Republicans Could Never be Wrong
John Cleese wonders why Trump supporters are not terrified by his ramblings. And then the awful truth dawns…
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Blood Money: the Leaks Assange Tried to Stop
When hackers targeted Andrea Manafort’s mobile phone they uncovered messages that appear to implicate Paul Manafort in politically motivated killings – so why didn’t Wikileaks publish them?
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Attorney General Barr’s new Letter lays out his latest Coverup Scheme
Attorney General Barr appears to be living up to his nickname of the “Coverup General,” this time by burying the substance of the Mueller report and selectively editing the information that will see the light of day.
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Christchurch: Where Does this Terror Come From? Former Chief Prosecutor on Child Sexual Abuse Speaks Out on Islamophobia
Nazir Afzal, OBE, decries the Far Fight exploitation of the victims of child sexual abuse in ‘street grooming’ cases in Britain’s northern towns, and explains how ‘endless Islamophobia’ and propaganda provokes violence
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Crimea River: How Subversive Technology Piloted by Russia in Ukraine was used to Orchestrate Brexit and Trump
Why the West took a risk ignoring Russia’s subversive infiltration in Ukraine.
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How Repression in Belarus and Revolution in Ukraine Provides a Warning and a Lesson for Brexit Britain
Natalia Kaliada of the Belarus Free Theatre and Mark and Marichka Marczyk explain how protestors can’t abandon the barricades if they are to defend their freedoms.
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She’s Running for US President: but Who is Tulsi Gabbard?
Faisal Khan profiles high-flying democrat Tulsi Gabbard. What does she stand for? What does she believe in? And who funds her?
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‘We are at War’ with Putin MPs told: his Aim is to Divide Europe
Counter-misinformation group director tells parliamentary session how his Institute of Statecraft was a casualty of 21st Century ‘Hybrid War’
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Tribalism is Killing Us: 40 Years of Zipper Blues
Tina Gharavi launches her new regular column on Tribalism with a tour of the Iranian Revolution, Exile The Smashing Pumpkins, and how Brexit is making Britain an alien place.
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Cohen’s Testimony Could Prove Trump Lied To Mueller About WikiLeaks
Clearly, Mueller isn’t afraid to bring charges against those who lie to investigators — and based on Cohen’s testimony, that may even include the president.
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Trump-Russia Axis Scores Major Victory in Battle over European Energy Autonomy
Trump allies join forces with Putin proxies to seize control through the Trojan horse of Russian gas.
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Justice for Daphne: Passport Investments Company Replies to Accusations of a ‘Faustian Pact’ with Cambridge Analytica
In her first of a series investigating the assassination of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, Nicola Driscoll-Davies explores new revelations from the recent Parliamentary report into Fake News and Disinformation
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Justice for Daphne: the Avalanche of Legal Cases Before Caruana Galizia’s Murder
Maltese Investigative Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was subject to a staggering number of legal challenges before she was assassinated in 2017
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Occupied Ukraine: the Land of Make Believe
How the Narnia-like countries created by Russia manipulated western coverage of the occupied Donbas
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Explosive Report Exposes the Molten Core of the Brexit, Trump, Russia Scandal
The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s final report on disinformation and fake news reveals new evidence and calls for new investigations into dark data, dark money and Russian influence in British elections.
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Special Counsel Mueller’s Team just dropped a Huge Clue about the Russia Probe during a Closed-door Hearing
The revelation that the special counsel’s office is still unraveling mysteries at “the heart” of the Russia investigation seems to contradict the recent suggestion by acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker that the inquiry is “close to being completed.”
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The Lessons of Ukraine’s EuroMaidan are Vital to the UK as we Stumble toward Brexit
The conflict in Ukraine came with the suppression of hopeful young people waving the blue and yellow flag of the EU. They saw in that symbol a sign of hope that we have all but lost sight of in the UK.
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Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson Adviser Steve Bannon Implicated in Mueller Investigation
As Steve Bannon is identified of the ‘High-Ranking’ Trump Campaign official in the Roger Stone indictment, the question of Russian collusion not only moves upwards to the President, but across the Atlantic
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Mueller Looks to London – How Roger Stone’s Arrest by the FBI spells Trouble for Nigel Farage and Brexit
The arrest of Trump’s long time political advisor for his contact with Wikileaks and Russian hacking of the Democratic Party has two key leads to the UK and Brexit
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What is Behind the Rise of the ‘WHITE RIGHT’?
In the past decade, 71% of the 387 murders committed by extremists in the US had been perpetrated by the far right, while Muslims were responsible for 26%
