EDITOR—George looks at the state of “democracy” in the Anglo world, especially the UK and USA, where the march to tyranny appears ever more obvious, and where economic and social inequality have become scandalous if not downright criminal. He’s particularly miffed by the official explanations for 9/11, and the irrefutable erosion of all vital democratic norms, something demonstrated in the establishment’s inability or unwillingness to offer the electorate anyone better than two toxic clowns like Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. This episode also includes the testimony of long-time pro-Palestine and human rights activist Sarah Wilkinson, recently subjected to an illegal and heavy-handed police raid designed to intimidate voices opposing the Zionist genocide in the Middle East, and the West’s wicked support for Israel, despite tons of evidence that enormous crimes are being committed daily.
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MARK TAYLOR—As bad as the recent home invasion and arrest of British Journalist and human rights activist Sarah Wilkinson was, it is clear something extremely insidious is happening. In this interview with British former Member of Parliament George Galloway, Wilkinson describes the brutality and wanton destructiveness of the home invasion, Gestapo-like (Mossad-like) interrogation and clearly intended state terrorism.
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ANDREW KORYBKO—The Russian economy weathered the West’s unprecedented sanctions regime, but Russia’s grand plans to create alternative financial institutions and pivot to the non-West haven’t been as successful. This analysis here about how the latest BRICS Summit achieved nothing of tangible significance at all points out how none of this association’s ambitious initiatives were rolled out. It also hyperlinks to proof that the Chinese-based New Development Bank and the SCO Bank surprisingly comply with US sanctions.
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MARK TAYLOR—In mid-August, British journalist Richard Medhurst was arrested on arrival at London’s Heathrow Airport, detained under the Terrorism Act (2000), and had his phone and recording devices that he used for his journalism seized.
“Richard Medhurst’s arrest and detention for almost 24 hours using terrorism legislation is deeply concerning and will likely have a chilling effect on journalists in the UK and worldwide, in fear of arrest by UK authorities simply for carrying out their work,” Michelle Stanistreet, general secretary of the UK’s National Union of Journalists and Anthony Bellanger, general secretary of the International Federation of Journalists, said at the time in a joint statement.
“Both the NUJ and IFJ are shocked at the increased use of terrorism legislation by the British police in this manner,” Stanistreet and Bellanger added. “Journalism is not a crime. Powers contained in anti-terror legislation must be deployed proportionately – not wielded against journalists in ways that inevitably stifle press freedom.”
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PAUL EDWARDS—Your government—the greatest purveyor of lies and deception in the world—has done all it can, which is a very great deal, to shut off or deplatform the last few strong voices left in journalism.
In the name of so-called mis-, dis-, and mal- information it has created a whole industry of “content modifiers”, to censor critical analysis, and co-opted social media giants to omit and eliminate opinion that counters the catechism of The Empire. Sy Hersh and Chris Hedges, two of the greatest of American journalists have been exiled by these scabs from the American press.
Consumed with its terror of truth, because it has lost its status as hegemon in the world, and is in obvious, irreversible decline, it is using lawfare and thought police to impede, obstruct, harass, and even arrest, voices of courage that will not be muzzled.
