When Dave Nellist entered parliament in 1983 as the Labour MP for Coventry South East, he became one of Westminster’s best-known socialists.  He was seen as a workers’ MP on a worker’s wage, donating more than half his salary to left-wing causes.  But within a few years, he was embroile...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now I’ve been putting out more and more of these “today in dystopia” write-ups because our society is plunging into iron-fisted authoritarianism and AI-induced idiocracy so rapidly that it’s hard to keep up with how i...

Jurors in an eight-week trial of Palestine Action activists who allegedly planned a raid on an Israeli-owned arms factory were discharged on Wednesday. It came after they told the court they had been unable to reach verdicts for seven of the defendants. An eighth defendant, who cannot b...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Today in dystopia, police have been wrongfully arresting people based on faulty information from AI-assisted Flock surveillance footage instead of actually investigating the evidence of the crime. In an article t...

Leaked emails reveal Britain’s domestic spying service attempted to recruit a high-ranking BBC board member as a key agent of influence, at a time when the British state broadcaster was embroiled in a bitter legal and journalistic battle with MI5. This June, British oligarch Damon Buffini stepped d...

The last act of death is not mortality but the erasure of memory. Chris Hedges ScheerPost The tombstone for my grandparents, Ethel and Philip Prince, and my uncle, Maurice Prince. MECHANIC FALLS, Maine — I am standing in Maple Grove Cemetery in Mechanic Falls, Maine. In front of...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Love and cherish our world. That’s the secret to remaining both (A) deeply happy and (B) well-informed about the dystopian abuses of the empire. You don’t have to choose. You can have both. I sometimes get calle...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Life in the 2020s comes with so much dissonance and dysphoria because everyone knows this civilization is doomed, but it’s not being acknowledged by any of our mainstream institutions. We can all see everything g...

“I don’t think we live in a functioning democracy—and that has been true for some time.” Hedges Joshua Scheer Six months into the disastrous U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, the fantasy of a quick and decisive victory has collapsed. American weapons stockpiles are dwindling, energy and food pr...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now The capitalist empire blames all systemic problems on the individual. The problem isn’t billionaire megacorporations polluting the planet, it’s that you drive a car. The problem isn’t that it’s getting harder an...

As the British state seeks to destroy Palestine Action, a new trial is underway in which a judge has threatened defendants with a ‘terrorism connection’ if they explain the motives behind their activism.  It is one of three such trials in which the government has muzzled defendants, blinded jurors ...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Today in dystopia, the US government is monitoring the social media accounts of individuals who oppose the rapidly spreading installation of Flock surveillance cameras throughout the United States. In an article ...

A family of Iranian legal permanent residents was abducted and confined to an ICE prison after US government-backed regime change activist Masih Alinejad campaigned for their deportation. The family committed no crime, and was only targeted by Alinejad for their bloodline. A family of Iranian legal...

British taxpayers funded “therapeutic healing” for Israeli soldiers who fought in Gaza, Declassified can reveal. An Israeli organisation received an undisclosed sum via a UK charity, with 25% Gift Aid added on by the British government. Emails obtained by Delcassified show how the Y...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now It’s hard to wrap your mind around the abusiveness of the imperial status quo, partly because it’s all we’ve ever known, and partly because it’s too big to perceive all at once. The statistics don’t show you the ...

We are seeing today a surge in heretical media outlets including Novara, Doubledown News, Drop Site, Byline Times, Middle East Eye – and of course Declassified UK. We have emerged thanks in part to a growing appreciation that the mainstream media is broken, cannot be trusted, and is far more...

Reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Joe Biden’s cancer is moving into the advanced stages, according to the former president’s son Hunter. AP reports : “Former U.S. President Joe Biden’s prostate cancer has spread to other parts of his body and ...

Subscribe now This is just a note to my patrons and newsletter subscribers to say I’m sorry I haven’t published anything these past few days. I’ve received a number of messages from concerned readers wondering if I’m alright, so I just want to let everyone k...

Britain has used its major air base on Cyprus to move sensitive equipment without scrutiny, declassified files show. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) wrote in a formerly secret 1993 file that RAF Akrotiri plays a “key role in support of the Priority 1, Category A intelligence and communications eff...

One of the first tasks of Whitehall’s mandarins – the permanent government – is to indoctrinate a new prime minister in the need for official secrecy, especially around the intelligence agencies. Andy Burnham should be more sceptical judging by his comments over many years and could prove to...