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Peter Thiel’s Free Speech for Race Science Crusade at Cambridge University Revealed
In a special investigation, Nafeez Ahmed reveals how Palantir-linked Donald Trump lobbyists are using ‘free speech’ to normalise white nationalism on UK campuses
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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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The Radical Right Interests Behind the School Boards Race Row
A series of seemingly grassroots, parents group turned the USA’s school boards election into a vicious row over race – but who are the radical right interests behind the ‘concerned moms’?
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The Fantasy of War: The Far Right and the Military
An undercover investigation by Byline Times reveals military personnel and veterans on far-right Telegram channels, and how the far-right in the Us and UK use military tropes to recruit and spread their message
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COP26: Soaring Rhetoric But Few Commitments
Mike Buckley considers what needs to be done to turn the positive rhetoric of the first week at COP26 into agreement and action
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Fake News: Greece’s Proposed Law Threatens Press Freedom
Increasingly, right-wing and authoritarian governments are taking action to stop the spread of disinformation – while using fake news themselves to sow distrust and entrench power
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The Meta Narrative: How Zuckerberg Just Won’t Listen
The Facebook boss’ response to damning revelations about the social media platform has been to go full Orwellian, says Kyle Taylor
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Far Right IED Attacks Increased Under Donald Trump
As Trump continues his violent rhetoric, new data from Action on Armed Violence show a rise in improvised explosive device attacks by right wing extremists during his Presidency
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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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Facebook’s Big Lie is Finally Being Exposed
Kyle Taylor puts the social media platform’s recent scandals into context and argues that the House of Zuckerberg is slowly crumbling
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Conservative Donors, Turning Point USA and the US Capitol Attack
A man charged with assaulting police officers in Washington D.C. on 6 January arrived at the riot on a bus organised by Turning Point USA. Sian Norris explores the transatlantic background of the youth conservative group
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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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The Far-Right Co-Option of the Transgender Rights Issue
As political leaders are asked if it’s transphobic to say only women have a cervix, Sian Norris investigates how far-right and religious-right groups are using ‘gender critical’ arguments to further their anti-LGBTIQ agenda
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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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How Cambridge Analytica’s Style Propaganda Failed in Afghanistan
Professor David Carroll reflects on the “colonialist, aristocratic, and oligarchic” assumptions of the campaigning firm involved in Trump and Brexit
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America Faces Its Biggest Abortion Battle Yet – How Did We Get Here?
As Texas bans abortion after six weeks and the Supreme Court prepares to hear a case that could overturn the law allowing safe, legal abortion, Sian Norris and Heidi Siegmund Cuda trace the right wing, racist and biblical forces in play
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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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‘They Do What they Do and Leave Us Without Taking Responsibility’: The Grenfell Survivor Whose Family is Trapped in Kabul
Flora Neda and her son Farhad were the only two people from Grenfell Tower’s top floor to survive 2017’s devastating fire. Now the family faces tragedy again – this time in Kabul
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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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The Return of the Taliban: The End of the US Empire?
Before 9/11, Nafeez Ahmed warned of an impending invasion of Afghanistan to control a strategic pipeline. 20 years on, the return of the Taliban is the predictable legacy of America’s failed strategy
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‘This Was Their Responsibility Towards Us – Shame On Them’, says Afghanistan’s UN Youth Representative
George Llewelyn speaks to Shkula Zadran, currently in a safe house in Kabal, about the devastation unleashed on the country by the withdrawal of troops by the US and its allies
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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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A ‘Brainwashed Death Cult’: The Gamification of Conspiracy
Heidi Siegmund Cuda investigates how the QAnon movement modelled itself on popular gaming culture
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GB News Presenter Nigel Farage Emerges in Unredacted FBI Files
Zamaan Qureshi explores new revelations from the Mueller probe into the leaking of emails hacked by Russian intelligence services to Wikileaks during the 2016 US Presidential election
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Tucker Carlson’s Visit to Hungary: Lobbying, Free Speech and Far-Right Conspiracy
Fox News’ bombastic Conservative commentator, Tucker Carlson, meets Hungary’s authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, two years after a firm where his father is a director received thousands from the Hungarian Government to help with media and PR, Sian Norris reports
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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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US Foreign Policy For Sale: Thomas Barrack, Jared Kushner and the UAE
After the indictment of the former president‘s ‘best friend’, Zamaan Qureshi ties together the web of links between the Trump Campaign and agents of foreign governments
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The ‘Red Wall’ Myth: How Pollsters Can Make Words Mean Anything
Northern Powerhouse, Freedom Day, Levelling Up – Mic Wright dissects the US import of political buzzphrases to shape rather than sample public opinion
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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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The Moral Vacuum of English Politics is a Replica of Trump’s America
Truth and decency have little currency in Boris Johnson’s rump Trumpocracy, says Sam Bright
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End Game: Why the Council for National Policy’s Machine is a Threat to US Democracy in 2022
Heidi Siegmund Cuda explains how a consortium of far-right religious extremists and fossil fuel magnates are not only a threat to democracy, but to the earth itself
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‘Public Threat’ Rudy Giuliani’s Law License Suspended
Heidi Siegmund Cuda reports on the unprecedented suspension of Donald Trump’s personal lawyer for misconduct and deception over the 2020 Presidential Elections
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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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The Brexit Project’s Appropriation of the ‘Left Behind’
Five years after the EU Referendum, Sam Bright considers how perceptions of Brexit-voting areas have been warped by radical right-wing forces
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Can Philanthropy Save Public Interest Journalism?
Rodney Benson assesses the pros and cons of the funding model of American non-profit news organisations and considers whether it could help stop the relentless redundancies happening in UK journalism
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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
