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MPs Raise Concerns as Government’s Reliance on Controversial Foreign COVID Testing Firm Continues
John Lubbock investigates why domestic lateral flow test manufacturers are still being left out in the cold by the Government
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Dark Money and the Climate Crisis: The US Legal Charity Setting Back Environmental Protections
The Federalist Society claims credit for creating a US judicial system sceptical of climate change – with ‘dark money’ backers linked to the fossil fuel industry and Donald Trump
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Why is Rupert Murdoch’s Media Parroting Russian Propaganda Over Ukraine?
CJ Werleman considers the past dealings of the media mogul and Russian President – and how this could be impacting the decision to allow Fox News to question US support for Ukraine over a likely Russian invasion of the country
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A Broken State: A Visit to the Epicentre of the War in Afghanistan
Francesca Borri reports from Sangin, a place scarred by the events of the past 20 years, and considers what the American legacy is for a country now in chaos
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Liz Truss: The Tufton Street Candidate
Sam Bright unravels the ties between Conservative leadership hopeful Liz Truss and Westminster’s network of opaque libertarian think tanks
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US Law-Makers are Blacklisting Renewable Energy Efforts
Thomas Perrett reports on the efforts of corporate lobbyists to stymie US President Joe Biden’s climate ambitions
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Insurrection at the Capitol – One Year On: The Race War
Sian Norris and Heidi Siegmund Cuda delve into what happened on 6 January 2021 at the US Capitol and investigate how the white supremacist aims of the insurrectionists have led to a far-right capture of education policy
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Millions of Pro-Trump Americans Support Political Violence – But Not Who You Might Think
CJ Werleman unpicks the insights from a new report into who took part in the attempted insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 and what this tells us about the growing pro-Trump far-right movement in America
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Insurrection at the Capitol – One Year On: How QAnon Went Mainstream
Sian Norris and Heidi Siegmund Cuda report on how the extremist QAnon conspiracy theory has captured the Republican Party and had devastating human consequences
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Insurrection at the Capitol – One Year On: How the Far-Right Won on Abortion
Sian Norris and Heidi Siegmund Cuda examine how far-right aims on abortion expressed by the ‘mob’ at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 have become the policy of the Republican elite
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Insurrection at the Capitol – One Year On: The Militarisation of Far-Right Resistance
Sian Norris and Heidi Siegmund Cuda delve into what happened on 6 January 2021, exposing both the militarisation of the insurrectionists and the failures of the security forces to respond to a war-like threat
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Insurrection at the Capitol – One Year On: The Dark Money Funding Trump’s Coup
On 6 January 2021, far-right groups and Donald Trump supporters invaded the US Capitol in an attempted insurrection. One year on, Sian Norris and Heidi Siegmund Cuda delve into what happened that day and expose how far-right aims expressed by the ‘mob’ have become the policy of the Republican elite
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Otto English’s 2021 Round-Up: Part One
Brexit, Coronavirus, insurrection – the first five months of the year were packed with concerning developments on many fronts
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Islamophobia in America’s Democratic Party
CJ Werleman explores how a campaign to challenge the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco was roiled by contesting claims of misogyny and anti-Muslim bigotry
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UK Bought £500 Million of COVID Tests Six Days After US Drugs Agency Warning
A federal agency warned US consumers ‘not to purchase or use’ certain tests by the firm, days before the UK purchased devices worth hundreds of millions, Sam Bright reports
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Kyle Rittenhouse Fundraiser Organised by Far-Right Defenders Connected to UK
A website that aimed to raise money for Kyle Rittenhouse’s defence was hosted in the UK and suggests an increasing transatlantic trade in right wing activism
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QAnon Changes Strategies and Spreads Globally
CJ Werleman reports on how the appeal of the baseless conspiracy theory is taking hold in Australia, where anti-vaxxer protestors are using QAnon to speak out against lockdowns
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Under the Radar: How the Hindutva Lobbying Campaign Has Extended to the US
CJ Werleman explores the growing influence of radical Hindu nationalists in American politics
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How the UN is Held Hostage by Power and Money
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey explores the forces manipulating and undermining the objectives of the United Nations
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In a War Between the US and China Over Taiwan, Who Wins?
CJ Werleman assesses the capability and will of both superpowers as tensions continue to escalate over the island territory
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The Far-Right’s Corruption Paradox
Sian Norris explores why populist and far-right leaders win on anti-corruption platforms only to be accused of exploiting their positions for personal gain
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A US-China War Over Taiwan Appears Not Only Inevitable, But Imminent
CJ Werleman explores what the rapidly escalating tensions over Taiwan reveal about the nature of the world’s two superpowers
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After Trump, is Cooperation Blossoming in the Middle East?
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey explores how the power balance in the region has shifted following last year’s US Presidential Election
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Can Biden Face Down the Agribusiness Industry which Drives Climate Change?
Unless the US President’s ‘Green New Deal’ deals with the stranglehold that big business has on food production, his climate emission targets aren’t going to be met
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AUKUS Launches Cold War Against China
CJ Werleman reports on the announcement of a new strategic alliance between Australia, the UK and the US which is likely to tackle threats posed by Beijing
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Up to Six Million People: The Unrecorded Fatalities of the ‘War on Terror’
Nafeez Ahmed examines the direct and indirect deaths of the post 9/11 era, as a new kind of state-sanctioned mass violence became globalised and normalised
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The ‘War on Terror’: Turning a Blind Eye to 20 Years of Brutality
Cloaked under the false dichotomy of the need for a trade-off between security and rights, the post-9/11 years are a shameful track record of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment which must not be forgotten, says Dr Maria Norris
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How Osama Bin Laden Made the US Succumb to Terror
From the disaster of Iraq, the creation of the ‘Islamophobia industry’, to defeat in Afghanistan, America has fallen into the trap set by the leader of al-Qaeda
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The Afghanistan War is Not Over Until the US Legacy of Impunity Ends
With the killing of civilians by an airstrike two days before its forces left, the US exits Afghanistan in the same way it entered it: with zero accountability or resolution of the ‘Forever War’
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The UK’s Conservative Political Figures Linked to the US Anti-Abortion Drive
Numerous Conservative MPs, donors, and allies have spoken at and collaborated with Washington D.C. think tanks and organisations working to overturn the state-wide right to safe, legal abortion in the US
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Scathing Report On Afghanistan Reconstruction Paints a Picture of American Chaos and Waste
Findings by America’s Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction paint the country’s mission in Afghanistan in a very bad light, reports David Hencke
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Afghanistan: The Terrible End of the War on Terror
In the collapse of its $2 trillion 20-year war in Afghanistan, which cost hundreds of thousands of lives, Hasan Sari sees the last disastrous epitaph for US foreign policy
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Light and Shadows: Law-Makers and Populist Attacks – A Transatlantic Comparison
Amid the multiple similarities between the populism of Donald Trump and Brexit, Peter Jukes and Heidi Siegmund Cuda look at the stark differences between the way in which the UK Parliament and the US Congress deal with threats to democracy
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Right-Wing Churches Could Kill Millions in Africa with Anti-Vaccine Conspiracies
CJ Werleman reports on the disinformation being disseminated by those on the Christian right around the Coronavirus which is now spreading via social media to followers further afield
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Conservative PR Firm Linked to Black Lives Matter Hoax That Fooled Right-Wing Press
A fake organisation designed to stir up the US culture war is linked to a Utah PR firm that has connections with Republicans and dark-money groups
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Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Anti-Vaxx Website Shared More than World Health Organisation
receiving more Twitter shares than the World Health Organisation and Centers for Disease Control
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Vladimir Putin’s ‘Piece’ Plan for Ukraine Exposes Seven Years of Deceit
From his experience of the propaganda wars around the Russian invasion of Eastern Ukraine and annexation of Crimea, Paul Niland dissects the document released by Donald Trump’s former lawyer
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America’s Summer of Violence is Set to Turn More Brutal
A heady mix of conspiracy theories, the summer heat and lax gun laws are inflating America’s violent death toll, says CJ Werleman
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How the US Christian Right Lends Support to Europe’s Anti-LGBTIQ Movement
American activist Brian Brown gave a speech about his ‘hope and optimism’ that US conservatives will join him in supporting Levan Vasadze’s anti-rights agenda in Georgia, reports Sian Norris
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Is President Biden Just an Interregnum Before a Bigger Storm?
With the Republican Party now wedded firmly to the ‘Big Lie’ about the last election, CJ Werleman fears the worst is yet to come with a Trump 2.0
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The Trump Supporters, Russian Oligarchs and Aristocrats Funding Anti-Gender Actors in Europe
A report published by the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights reveals the extent of money being channelled to anti-abortion, anti-LGBTIQ initiatives
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The UK’s Misrule-Based International Disorder
The G7 summit further wrenched Britain away from our liberal democratic allies, says Mike Buckley
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Major UK COVID Test Provider Under Fire from US Regulator
A firm that has been contracted to supply more than £2.3 billion worth of tests to the UK has been accused of several violations in America by the FDA
