When a remote east African city was being shelled by Somaliland soldiers three years ago, a German academic became an unlikely messenger for the beleaguered inhabitants of Las Anod. Dr Markus Hoehne, an anthropologist then at Leipzig University, spoke Somali and had previously spent time i...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The world would be a much better place if everyone understood that manipulators do not use language the same way normal people do. Normal people use language to communicate and connect, while manipulative people...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Western politics is mostly just empire managers making up fake problems to fight so they don’t have to address the real problems. Can’t stop waging wars or the western empire will collapse. So they make up fake...

Foreign minister Hamish Falconer refused to answer questions on Wednesday about the UK government’s failure to stop British nationals fighting for the Israeli army in Gaza. It comes after more than 25,000 people signed a letter to the Foreign Office demanding they investigate UK citizens w...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now As both US and Israeli leaders openly contemplate attacking Iran again, it’s easy for the world to miss the fact that the genocidal alliance has also dramatically reinvigorated its ethnic cleansing agendas i...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now As self-styled “democratic socialists” make some advancements in blue states, Republicans have launched a renewed fearmongering campaign about the urgent threat of “communism” — an ideology with no meaningful po...

Reform UK’s deputy leader said last week that a parliamentary debate into Israeli influence on British politics was “antisemitic in its very motivation and at its core”. “As such, we should utterly reject it,” argued Richard Tice to a room full of MPs. What he did not tell them, how...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now I hold out hope because people aren’t buying the propaganda like they used to. I hold out hope because trust in the imperial media is at an all-time low while our ability to attack and discredit the official na...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Israel is still pushing for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. They keep trying different angles and rebranding it under different names, but the end goal has remained the same since October 2023: the removal of all ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The Israeli press are reporting that police documents on the security for the October 7 2023 Nova music festival were mysteriously deleted at some point in early January 2024. The Jerusalem Post reports that “...

Reading by Caitlin Johnstone : Subscribe now They’re designing park benches so that homeless people can’t sleep on them and placing metal spikes beneath overpasses so they can’t be used as shelter. Jerry Seinfeld says Palestine doesn’t exist and tha...

“Other than hexing the man, I really wasn’t surprised”. This is how Leona Kamio, known as Ellie, describes what was going through her mind when a judge announced she would be sentenced as a terrorist alongside three co-defendants earlier this month. Kamio, a 30-year-old nursery teacher,...

Even if likely successor Andy Burnham wants change, he’ll face formidable external controls from the financial markets and internal constraints from the Labour Party machine.

On Monday, Sir Keir Starmer was given a largely respectful farewell by the ‘mainstream’ media, portraying him as a ‘decent’ man who put his country first. And now the same news organisations are burnishing Andy Burnham’s credentials to enter 10 Downing Street without actually submitting his record ...

Newly released documents reveal the inner workings of Labour Together and its role in covertly undermining Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour party. The documents were disclosed to Corbyn in response to a subject access request. They contain emails from Labour Together’s two key figure...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now There are two types of racism in the west: the kind that’s considered acceptable in polite liberal society, and the kind that’s widely frowned upon. The acceptable type of racism is the kind which considers it ...

British MPs compared their colleagues to Nazis during a debate about Israel’s influence on UK politics on Monday. The event in Parliament was triggered by a petition signed by more than 118,000 people, calling for a “public inquiry into pro-Israel influence on politics & democracy”.  ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now I just saw an article in The Conversation titled “ Your AI habit is wasting precious resources. Here’s how to use it responsibly ,” and it pisses me off because you can already see where this is going. Neolibera...

A leading British civil rights barrister faces contempt proceedings once again after a judge decided to refer allegations against him for a second time. The original proceedings brought against Rajiv Menon KC were thrown out last month for procedural reasons. But on 22 June, Mr Justice John...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now A spirituality that is uninterested in ending war, genocide, poverty and injustice is a dead spirituality. If you hold your time on the meditation cushion as something separate from the weeping mother clutching ...