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On the Life and Legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev: an Interview With Richard Falk

12Sep

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Russia

On the Life and Legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev: an Interview With Richard Falk

BY DANIEL FALCONE Photograph Source: SergioOren – CC BY-SA 4.0 In this exclusive interview, renowned international scholar, and author Richard Falk shares commentary on the life of former Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev (1931-2022). Falk discusses Gorbachev’s historical influence, legacy and how the mainstream press covered his passing. He also provides an inside look on Gorbachev by way of two interactions he experienced with the former president. Lastly Falk talks about how Russia will remember Gorbachev and the prospects for a balanced assessment of his life. Falk states that, “It may take several more political earthquakes for Russia and Russians to arrive at a balanced assessment of Gorbachev. But in fact, the West has not done much better,...

12Sep

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United Kingdom

The Queen Is Dead

BY KENNETH SURIN Photograph Source: Queensland State Archives – CC BY 3.0 au Ukania’s longest reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, finally yielded the royal sceptre to her eldest child, who will become King Charles III. Charles’s wife Camilla will now become Queen Camilla. The next few days will see an unparalled excess of Ruritanian/Ukanian flummery, probably the only thing Ukania is good at these days— parades with mounted soldiers and carriages; gun salutes on the banks of the Thames; special programming on radio and TV; flag-bearing crowds congregating outside the royal residences; everyone, from the new king to the archbishop of Canterbury, decked out in their finest regalia, and so on. This will also be a rare-old-time for paparazzi and the court correspondents...

The Queen Tapped Into a Nostalgia that has Kept the Monarchy Strong

12Sep

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United Kingdom

The Queen Tapped Into a Nostalgia that has Kept the Monarchy Strong

BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: Library and Archives Canada – CC BY 2.0 An hour before the Queen died, I looked out of my window in Canterbury at the medieval church of St Dunstan’s, which is associated with two historic events that help to explain why the British monarchy has lasted so long while others have not. The first event took place on 12 July 1174 and illustrates the strong survival instinct of British monarchs down the centuries. On that day, Henry II, the formidable founder of the Plantagenet dynasty and ruler of England and half of France, dressed in a hair shirt under a smock, walked barefoot from St Dunstan’s to Canterbury Cathedral half a mile away in expiation of his responsibility for the murder by his knights of Archbishop Thomas Becket. ...

Filling Gasoline Cars Could Become Cheaper Than Charging EVs in the UK

12Sep

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United Kingdom

Filling Gasoline Cars Could Become Cheaper Than Charging EVs in the UK

Posted by: John Phoenix Filling Gasoline Cars Could Become Cheaper Than Charging EVs in the UKBy Tsvetana Paraskova,Due to skyrocketing energy prices, Britons could soon face higher costs for charging their electric vehicles (EVs) at home than filling up gasoline-fueled cars, The Washington Times reports. Read more Julian Assange: Courage Calls to Courage EverywhereBy Stella Assange, Julian is fighting for his life – his life depends on not being extradited to the United States. This is a political case, it can be stopped here and it must be stopped here. So on the 8th of October, come to London to show your solidarity, come help free Julian Assange. Read more Big Tech Met Regularly with Biden Officials to Discuss What to Censor: Court Documents...

12Sep

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IMMIGRATION

UK immigration law

A compilation of top content on UK immigration law and policy, updated weekly.Revealed: Suella Braverman sets Home Office ‘No boats crossing the Channel’ target – Guardian, 10 SeptemberFreelance journalist Nicola Kelly on reporting on the UK Home Office – Journalism, Home Office policies take centre stage in modern-day Antigone adaptation – Guardian, Truss scraps proposed British bill of rights – Financial Times, I’m told by a Home Office source that civil servants got no parting message from Priti Patel, not even a brief thanks for their work. Apparently this is v unusual for a parting home sec. Quite telling of Patel’s relationship with and treatment of her staff while she was in office. – @maybulman on Twitter,High Court challenge over Rwanda policy du...

12Sep

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IMMIGRATION

The end of legal aid

Our anonymous contributor considers the non-availability of legal aid in the context of a recent Afghan case, and what the future holds for legally aided immigration advice. Sara was in Kabul when the Taliban entered the city. Her husband, Hassan, a British national, was in the UK, working towards the Minimum Income Requirement for her spouse visa. He had not worked for long enough in order to make an application by the time the Taliban arrived. Sara was therefore alone, looking after Yacoob, their severely disabled son, born with a congenital heart defect and constantly in and out of hospital. She was 6 months pregnant with their second child. The application for Yacoob’s British passport had been stuck with HMPO for several months. Hassan was an old client, and I ...

12Sep

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

A soldier is not a civilian

By blurring the line between combatants and civilians, Israel justifies its repression of Palestinians — and decries all resistance to it as “terrorism.” By: Orly Noy An Israeli soldier seen repressing a Palestinian protest against the Israeli outpost of Evyatar, in the village of Beita, near Nablus, occupied West Bank, February 18, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90) This article was published in partnership with Local Call. The shooting at a soldiers’ bus on Sunday in the Jordan Valley, in the occupied West Bank, sent Israel’s military reporters and security commentators rushing to the news studios in familiar fashion. Accordingly, everyone used the same vocabulary to describe what happened: the Palestinian shooters were defined in all of the reports as “terrorists...

A settler stabbed and killed a Palestinian. Now he’ll carry on life as usual

12Sep

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

A settler stabbed and killed a Palestinian. Now he’ll carry on life as usual

A settler stabbed and killed a Palestinian. Now he’ll carry on life as usual The State Prosecutor's decision to close the probe into Ali Harb's killing sends a clear message: whoever harms Palestinians will not be held accountable. By Ziv Stahl The funeral of Ali Harb, who was stabbed to death by an Israeli settler the previous day, in the village of Iskaka, occupied West Bank, June 22, 2022. (Oren Ziv/Activestills) On Aug. 25, Israel’s State Prosecutor Office announced its intention to close the investigative file opened following the fatal stabbing of Ali Hassan Harb, a 27-year-old Palestinian man from the village of Iskaka in the north of the occupied West Bank. The closing of the case without an indictment against the offending settler (whose name is prohibi...

‘Israel’ admits it’s gaslighting the world on Shireen’s killing

11Sep

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Human Rights, Media, Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

‘Israel’ admits it’s gaslighting the world on Shireen’s killing

Amjad IraqiAfter four months of gaslighting, the Israeli army finally admitted, following an internal probe, that one of its own soldiers “most likely” killed renowned Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh during a raid in the West Bank city of Jenin in May. While claiming it wasn’t certain who the shooter was, the army was somehow confident enough to assert that a soldier had probably “mistakenly fired the shots while he himself was being fired at,” and that there was no need to launch a criminal investigation into the matter.Intent, in the army’s eyes, is impossible to suspect when a bullet finds its way past a helmet and press vest and into a journalist’s skull.The conclusion of Israeli culpability is hardly news. What makes the announcement infuriating, however, is the...

Webinar: How anti-Palestinianism went global — and how we can fight it

11Sep

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Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Webinar: How anti-Palestinianism went global — and how we can fight it

Posted by: John Phoenix Palestine activism has faced an aggressive crackdown across Europe in recent months, particularly in Germany and the United Kingdom. This has included the censorship of Palestinian and Arab voices in German media for their views on Israel, the banning of protests in Berlin hoisting the Palestinian flag or keffiyeh, and draconian anti-Palestinian legislation dressed up as measures to combat antisemitism — all while Israel escalates its persecution of human rights groups in Palestine itself.With governments and politicians across the world instrumentalizing a false concern for Jewish safety to suppress Palestine advocacy, there is a growing need to understand the transnational nature of these phenomena and how progressive forces should confront them.Join +972 ...