Tag Archives: israel

Religious Mafia

I am reproducing a Substack piece by Chris Hedges:    When Religious Mafia & Rightwing Extremists Take Over (w/ Rollo Romig) | The Chris Hedges Report The 2017 murder of Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist and activist, is indicative of … Continue reading

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Strong ties

Previous Mint Press articles I have taken extracts from, revealed the link between Les Wexner (who co-founded MEGA with Ronald Lauder) and Mr Lauder’s close friendship, since they were at Wharton College together, with Donald Trump. Ronald Lauder Birthday: February 26, 1944  … Continue reading

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Recognising Palestine

I am reproducing this Conversation article:  Brian Brivati, Kingston University Share article Keir Starmer has announced that the UK will recognise Palestinian statehood by September 2025 unless Israel meets certain conditions, marking a significant shift in UK policy. For decades, successive … Continue reading

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The Crumbling House of Maxwell

Setting the scene: UK Recession of 1991-92 28 November 2017 by Tejvan Pettinger The UK recession of 1991 was primarily caused by high-interest rates, falling house prices and an overvalued exchange rate. Membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism (1990-1992) was a key … Continue reading

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Conflating criticism of the state of Israel and Zionism with anti-semitism?

I am reproducing the Substack of Chris Hedges: Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Confronts the N.J. State Assembly on Dangerous Antisemitism Bill The bill would accept the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, which conflates criticism of … Continue reading

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Growing consensus on Gaza

Read the full interview at: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/17/omer_bartov I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It”: Prof. Omer Bartov on the Growing Consensus on Gaza StoryJuly 17, 2025

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When the lambs stop screaming

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Military Drone Development: Heralding permanent war?

Drones are ubiquitous now, but a relevant military use timeline can be found, which is relevant to the previous technology blogs: What we do know is that modern drone warfare began in earnest in 1982, when Israel coordinated the use … Continue reading

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Year 2000 tech and terrorism

At the end of the 1990s, Israel found its methods of surveillance outdated and not suited to the craft of their enemies. Their enemies were everywhere, more determined, innovative and increasingly menacing from Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iran, Libya, to Hamas … Continue reading

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The ‘new Anti-semitism’  which creates support for Zionism

The billionaire Jewish philanthropist George Soros gets attacked by authoritarian leaders such as Prime Minister Victor Orbàn of Hungary. ……..2017 parliamentary election, Orbán promoted anti-Semitic imagery of powerful Jewish financiers scheming to control the world. Thousands of posters of a … Continue reading

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