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Items by Yvonne Ridley
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Israel's leading arms dealer is running scared
It must be rather humiliating when you claim to be a world leader in security and surveillance systems but have your own headquarters breached frequently by a disparate group of angry citizens armed with nothing more than red paint and innovative ideas about peaceful resistance to a brutal military...
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The Prophet of Islam gives Muslim rulers a lesson on strength in unity
Many of the world’s Muslim rulers have come together in a powerful show of unity which could well bring the increasingly Islamophobic Indian government to its knees. There are many lessons to be learned from this. It may even bring an end to the genocidal tendencies within the world’s...
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Rogue state Israel is licensed to kill
Israel has become a law unto itself and unless the international community stands up to the rogue state it will continue to use the world as its own backyard in order to plot against and kill its enemies. This was made clear on Sunday when Israeli Prime Minister Naftali...
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Imran Khan could be up against spies, lies and black propaganda in Pakistan
Millions of Pakistanis are being asked to converge on the capital Islamabad by charismatic ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan and his supporters who claim that he was removed from office in a dirty tricks campaign run by US intelligence agents because his policies were against America’s regional and global...
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The Scottish government is silencing Palestinians
Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is facing a backlash after a group of Palestinian academics criticised her decision to embrace the working definition of anti-Semitism prepared by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance because the definition clearly contradicts a hate crime review commissioned by her own government. The Holyrood government took...
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Israel must be held to account for Shireen's murder
Like a worm on a fish hook, Tel Aviv is slithering and wriggling over the assassination of Palestinian journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh. Showing absolutely no shame, the Zionist State began spewing out lies and a false narrative the moment the iconic Al-Jazeera journalist hit the ground, taking her last breath. Be...
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This runaway Afghan general should push his own off button
I read with some incredulity that a former three-star general in the Afghan National Army is planning to launch a new war against the ruling Taliban eight months after the movement’s victory which brought an end to a brutal 20-year conflict involving US-led NATO forces. According to defeated Lieutenant...
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Springtime in Islamabad
Is Pakistan embarking on its own version of the Arab Spring? The incredible scenes of people power from Peshawar to Islamabad, Lahore to Karachi and beyond suggest that 227 million Pakistanis are on the brink of something momentous. If so, they could smash dynastic Pakistani politics forever. Recently ousted Prime...
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We might be powerless to stop state-approved theft, but we should still call it out
The anniversary of the fateful day when US troops took the Iraqi capital Baghdad in 2003 will no doubt be marked this week with a deafening silence in Washington, because it was also the day when the so-called victors looted and plundered the country’s banks. The fact that such...
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With one stroke of his pen, Joe Biden has condemned a million children to death by starvation
Economic warfare is the name of America's new revenge mission against the people of Afghanistan...
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The makers of Israel’s deadly drones continue to evade British justice
It’s impossible to pick out one single act of brutality committed by Israel’s occupation forces over another, because there have been so many in eight decades of the Palestinian struggle for survival. Each atrocity bears the hallmarks of a crime against humanity: Deir Yassin in 1948 — at least...
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Ruthless Abbas is following Putin's lead when it comes to seeing off his rivals
Is Russian President Vladimir Putin advising his Palestinian Authority counterpart Mahmoud Abbas on how to maintain his iron grip on power while seeing off political rivals? I only ask because Abbas, who is also the chairman of Fatah and the Palestine Liberation Organisation, has already postponed — yet again...
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Charge Putin with war crimes by all means, but why stop at the Kremlin?
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is spearheading an international initiative to launch a tough, new war crimes tribunal styled on the Nuremberg trials established after the Second World War when senior Nazis and their minions were brought to justice. Brown is keen to see Russian President Vladimir Putin...
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Blinded by White Culture and privilege
The front page of a national newspaper in Scotland speaks volumes about the difference in the way that the media covers the war in Ukraine and the ongoing 70+ years of undeclared war inflicted on the people of Palestine from the Israeli-occupied West Bank to the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip...
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If Ukraine can have an international brigade, why can't Palestine and Syria?
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said that she will support anyone who wants to go to Ukraine to join an international brigade of fighters against Russia. She described such a mission as taking part in a battle “for freedom and democracy”. I can’t help but wonder, though, about those...
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The crisis in Ukraine exposes the hypocrisy of Israel and its Zionist allies
In Scotland, when someone is on shaky ground or skating on thin ice they are said to be hanging by a “shoogly peg”. That is exactly where Israel has found itself over the crisis in Ukraine as the hypocrisy of Tel Aviv and its Zionist allies is exposed for...
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Espionage is a dirty game that Israel plays with impunity
Ever since British intelligence agencies alleged that Chinese spies are seeking to “covertly interfere” in Britain’s political landscape, a whole host of scare stories bordering on the hysterical have poured forth; it’s “reds under the beds” all over again. The British media, never known to underreact to a good...
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PUMA sportswear is being urged to axe its football sponsorship in apartheid Israel
Europe’s largest sportswear manufacturer, Adidas, has ended its lucrative boot deal with French footballer Kurt Zouma, after the English Premier League player was shown to kick and slap his pet cat in a video clip uploaded by his brother onto social media. The West Ham United defender has since...
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The BBC’s decision to axe the Gaza aid appeal may come back to haunt it
The BBC is facing its biggest crisis in years, including merciless budget cuts, after the British government announced that it is freezing the corporation’s funding for the next two years before abolishing the TV licence fee in 2027. The licence fee is the BBC’s source of income. Having worked for...
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Criminalising journalists for telling the truth is in nobody’s interest
When journalists start to make the news instead of breaking it, there are usually some serious consequences, especially when they work beyond the confines of the mainstream media. An exclusive story generally results in rival publications either ignoring the revelations or trying to discredit them. Why do journalists turn so...
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The pro-Israel lobby sees more Palestinian activists walk free from court
We all know that political lobby groups can be influential, and that those which back the occupation state of Israel are more influential than most in the West. However, it seems that such influence may be on the wane, especially as far as British courts are concerned. Justice has...
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Blair's knighthood is a royal act of treachery against his victims in Iraq and Afghanistan
Tony Blair’s final act as a human wrecking ball could well bring down the British monarchy following the controversial decision by Queen Elizabeth II to award him a knighthood. Not just any old knighthood, you understand; he has been made a member of the Order of the Garter, the...
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An American Tale as yet untold by the Afghans
According to Christians and the post-Christian world in which many of us live, this is the season of peace and goodwill to all. However, I derived little Christmas cheer from an incredible tweet sent by Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US Ambassador to the United Nations this week. I imagine that the...
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Let’s be honest, Zionist Israel is built on a tissue of lies
Not all Jews are Zionists and not all Zionists are Jews, but say anything negative about the political ideology of Zionism or speak in favour of Palestine and the chances are, regardless of your religious beliefs or lack of them, you will end up being accused of anti-Semitism. In...