Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now One under-discussed ticking time bomb is the way Israel keeps saying it’s going to resume incinerating Gaza if Hamas doesn’t disarm while Hamas keeps saying it won’t disarm. Netanyahu’s office is saying that H...

This article is co-published with Real Media The first time I really knew about Palestine Action was in 2019, several months before their official launch, when I followed their co-founder Richard Barnard and other activists into the Instro Precision factory in Kent. After dozens of ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now US empire managers have been making some surprisingly honest admissions in recent days, with Senator Lindsey Graham saying the wars of the future are being planned in Israel and Secretary of State Marco Rubio ca...

Britain’s defence ministry awarded a £10 million contract to an Israeli-owned arms firm which operates under the authority of sanctioned minister Bezalel Smotrich, Declassified can reveal. Based in Newcastle, Pearson Engineering was acquired by Israel’s state-owned arms giant Rafael in 202...

Donald Trump’s threats to Greenland have led many in Europe to question whether the US is a reliable ally. Repeatedly, critics allege that his administration has been heavy-handed and self-serving, putting singular US interests above productive collaboration and long-term global interests. T...

The Home Office’s decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist group last year was unlawful, a three-judge panel at the High Court has ruled . In a hearing on Friday, Dame Victoria Sharp, one of the judges, said there had been “very significant interference with the right to freedom of s...

The death of an Iraqi civilian after British soldiers forced him to perform exercises in dangerously hot weather “is a stain on the reputation of the British army,” the UK’s former top army lawyer in Iraq said. Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Mercer made the comments after reviewing the findings...

More than 2,000 Britons served in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) during the Gaza genocide, it can be revealed. The information was obtained by Declassified via a Freedom of Information request issued to the IDF by lawyer Elad Man from the NGO Hatzlacha . The data outlines the number...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Our leaders are not going to fix the worst problems in our world. They couldn’t if they wanted to. And they don’t want to. Our leaders are not wise or insightful. They’re not even particularly intelligent. Our ...

Peter Mandelson claimed he conducted unofficial diplomacy with Israel on behalf of the last Conservative government after fresh details of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein had emerged, Declassified has found. The disgraced Labour grandee said he raised questions with the Israeli government in t...

Hanan Abu Hadaid’s family was fast asleep in their tent when the attack began. “Suddenly, everything was turned upside down,” the 60-year-old told Declassified of the Israeli airstrike on 31 January that hit their shelter in al-Mawasi, an area in southern Gaza that the Israeli military has...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Australian authorities were fully aware that inviting Israel’s president for a visit was going to ignite unrest and furious opposition. They invited him anyway, and sent in the police to assault the protesters. ...

Keir Starmer’s reputation will “forever…be associated with the decision to appoint the best friend of the world’s most notorious paedophile” as British ambassador to Washington, the author of a book on the prime minister has said. Investigative journalist Paul Holden told Declassified that...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now They launched a live-streamed genocide in full view of the entire world. They’re openly targeting civilian populations with siege warfare in Iran and Cuba in full view of the entire world. They openly kid...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now I saw a tweet by Elon Musk the other day, “Whoever said ‘money can’t buy happiness’ really knew what they were talking about.” He put a sadface emoji at the end. I personally do not feel the slightest bit so...

A think tank with ties to the top of the Labour government paid a PR firm £30,000 to investigate journalists from media outlets including Declassified UK , it has emerged. Our chief reporter John McEvoy was among the journalists targeted by the group Labour Together in November 2023, acco...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Speaking before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explicitly stated that the US deliberately caused a financial crisis in Iran with the goal of fomenting civil unrest ...

In October 2001, two years into his presidency, Hugo Chávez made a trip to London to meet with then UK prime minister Tony Blair and other high-level officials. Official records detail how the Venezuelan president’s proposed Hydrocarbons Law, a major restructuring of Venezuela’s oil industry...

One August night, Riyaadh Kadhim Alateya and his family’s lives changed forever.   The 54-year-old lived in the southern Iraqi city of Basra with his wife, Sabeeha Rasheed Mashi and his teenage son, Ali.  He ran a livestock trading business, and when he wasn’t working, his preferred w...

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