I am not easily shocked by the mendacity of UK arms export policy.  As a long-time observer of British involvement in the arms trade, I have seen sniper rifles described as ‘crowd control goods’, repeated instances of civilian harm reduced to ‘isolated incidents’, and risks of harm dismissed...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now When we’re kids we play cops and robbers, and watch cartoons about evil criminals being stopped by virtuous crime fighters. Then when we mature we learn that all the most evil people are operating within the law...

A Metropolitan Police officer who was filmed “intimidating” Al Jazeera journalists in London has been suspended, after he was identified by Declassified . Special Constable David Soffer was at the front of a mob that surrounded the film crew last week. Soffer, 34, was seen directly app...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Whenever Israel is killing tons of civilians the western media always start churning out articles about “antisemitism” and Jewish feelings. “ Jews Begin to Wonder: Is Anywhere Safe? ” blares a recent headline f...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The US-Israel alliance exists to fix the problems created by its existence. The US and Israel have sown death and destruction throughout the middle east for generations, creating generation after generation of ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now LBC has a report titled “ Republicans ‘storm out’ of Iran briefing as they claim US ‘war machine’ is trying to put boots on ground ” about MAGA lawmakers whining that Trump’s war looks set to turn into a land in...

A man who was filmed “intimidating” Al Jazeera journalists in London has been identified by Declassified as a serving Metropolitan Police officer. Special Constable David Soffer was at the front of a mob that surrounded the film crew on Monday, shouting “go home”. Footage shows Soff...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now As soon as you accept that Israel must exist as a “Jewish state” no matter what, you are accepting that there will never be peace in the middle east. Because Israel cannot exist as it is without nonstop violence...

British officials had at least five meetings with a former Iranian army Colonel who sought to overthrow the regime in Tehran and promote a “military government”, declassified files show.  The Colonel, Nasrullah Tavakoli, said in 1991 that he had been in contact with MI6 “since 1980”, the doc...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now There’s another giant “No Kings” protest scheduled for this weekend , and right now all I can think about is how disgusting it is that this is the closest thing to a mass-scale antiwar protest in the United Sta...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The only worthwhile “western culture” in modern times is culture which rejects and opposes the dystopian nature of western civilization and the abuses of the western empire. Western civilization is what’s bombi...

Israel’s nuclear arms programme was seen as the major obstacle to achieving a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East, declassified files from 1993 show. An agreement to introduce such a zone could have curbed Iran’s nuclear ambitions which were then described as being at an “early stag...

Last summer, as the death toll in Gaza climbed above 50,000, punk group Bob Vylan provoked a media storm by chanting “death, death to the IDF” at Glastonbury festival. The scene was broadcast live on the BBC and quickly racked up millions of views online. Shortly after, Avon and Somerse...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Israel’s Foreign Ministry has posted a statement on Twitter which reads, “The Iranian regime devastated Arad and Dimona by deliberately striking civilians with missiles. Over 100 people were injured, including...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now I saw a clip of Fox News war propagandist Sean Hannity solemnly reading a tweet by Atlantic Council fellow Jamie Metzl which said, “It is profoundly disturbing that a growing segment of the far left appears ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton has a tweet that’s got me absolutely fuming right now. “In 2018–2019, I made the case for regime change in Iran as often as I could. Voices in Trump’s orbi...

Trump isn’t the first US president tempted by an Israeli plan to destroy Iran and thereby “remake the Middle East”, as this extract from my book Israel and the Clash of Civilisations sets out.

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) arrested pro-Palestine activists against its own internal guidance, documents seen by Declassified suggest. The files, obtained through Freedom of Information requests, also show that the force is cracking down on the use of Arabic words far beyond its...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Westerners are about to start paying a lot more attention to the war in Iran as massive US-Israeli escalations point to a coming energy crisis set to impact the whole world. Israel has bombed the world’s lar...

The Ministry of Defence is refusing to apologise for an official describing Declassified as “extreme” in a private briefing given to the Australian Attorney General’s office. Brigadier Geoffrey Dodds was found to have described Declassified as an “extreme, non-msm [mainstream media]” o...