OUR FUTURE: Arrest & Brutalization Of British Journalist Sarah Wilkinson Reveals We Are Dropping Into Legal Dystopia
Mark Taylor
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OUR FUTURE: Arrest & Brutalization Of British Journalist Sarah Wilkinson Reveals We Are Dropping Into Legal Dystopia
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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.
Confiscation of her phone, laptop and all electronic devices was not enough. The dozen ‘police’ — some plainclothes wearing identity-shielding balaclavas — stole her passport and the money she had with it Her home was ransacked and even the urn containing her mother’s ashes was emptied out onto the floor.
The kind of desecration of the dead Palestinians are all too familiar with.
What prompted such police state terror?
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Planning to overthrow the government?
Plotting a terror attack?
Making bombs in the basement?
She was handcuffed so tightly they cut her wrists and, she notes, “I lost the circulation in my fingers.”
She was thrown into a police van which then drove in the wrong direction of the nearby police station in Shrewsbury. She was in the car for almost 90 minutes as it drove further into the countryside, passing numerous signed turn-offs back into town.
“There was a point in this arrest where I thought, God these aren't police. We're going the wrong way so there was an element of terror in the fact that we drove probably about 30 miles the wrong way,” Wilkinson recalls. “There was a point that I thought that this is an execution. So, yes, I was quite relieved actually to see the police station.”
As this was going on, ‘police’ — and whatever other goons were involved — ransacked and looted her home.
Who were these thugs?
Meanwhile, the nature of the intimidation and threat at the police station was a different kind of abuse, and a different kind of interrogation.
“The interrogation was extraordinarily racist,” Wilkinson explained. “There was a point where I had to break the ‘no comment’ and say ‘I'm sorry but this line of questioning is extraordinarily racist.’
“It didn't feel like British police questioning. We're a multicultural society so to ask questions like ‘why do you think Palestinians are better than us?’, ‘why do you think they're better than white people?’, ‘why aren't white people as good as Palestinians?’ For me, it felt like non-British questioning.”
She was threatened with 5-15 years in prison for refusing to divulge pass codes and PIN numbers for her electronic devices. Because many of her news sources are Palestinians, physicians in Gaza and activists, she refused to provide any of that information, knowing their identification could lead to their imprisonment or — more likely — death.
Numerous police protocols were broken, and, she said, the local Shrewsbury police seemed a little confused by the whole affair. They released her, under seven bail conditions, including not using any phone or computer or any other kind of electronic communication device.
As Galloway notes, “She became the first person in 2024 to be told she could never use a telephone or never use a computer again.”
What it was really about
“I actually don't think they ever intended this to go to court. This was about terrorizing not just me as a civilian in my own home this was [about] terrorizing [of critics].”There are more details of Wilkinson’s ordeal in the video below, but the thing that stands out to me is, the armed thugs who arrested Wilkinson and wantonly desecrated and ransacked her home were not regular police. Perhaps Israeli Mossad or Shin Bet, as Wilkinson says. Certainly the local Shrewsbury police out of the loop. I doubt the terror team were even all British.
If you think such governmental terrorism will be limited to Great Britain, I have a genocide to tell you about.
As I noted in yesterday’s post “Speaking Of Cats...The Cat That Ate America”, we are in a whole different governmental landscape.
The terror attack on Wilkinson is a signal flare for those paying attention.
Waking up to the brutal reality we now confront and seeing it clearly for what it is, is the first necessary act of resistance.
SARAH WILKINSON INTERVIEW: ‘This was purely for terror’
By George GallowayThe Mother of All Talk Shows (9/13/24)
‘This didn’t feel like British police questioning. More like Mossad or Shin Bet.’ Palestine activist Sarah Wilkinson on how balaclava’d ‘gorillas’ - no warrant or ID shown - ransacked her home, stole money and brutalised her.
26-minute video
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Ania K’s Roundtable with Scott Ritter & Larry Johnson: UKRAINE (FOLLOW THE MONEY); RUSSIA (READY TO REPEL MILITARY AGGRESSION)
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LARRY JOHNSON and SCOTT RITTER/UKRAINE (FOLLOW THE MONEY); RUSSIA (READY TO REPEL MILITARY AGGRESSION)
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A MUST-WATCH roundtable discussion of the rapidly deteriorating situation in the conflict between the "collective West" (the US Hegemon plus its vassals), and Russia and its multipolar bloc allies, chiefly China, Iran, North Korea, etc., over the shape of the emerging new world dedicated to national sovereignty for every nation, and non-exploitative trade relations. Ritter and Johnson provide superb explanations for Turkiye's gradual drift away from the EU/US/NATO bloc and Recip Erdogan's moves to rebuild the glory of the Ottoman empire. Both analysts agree that Turkiye's departure from NATO will weaken that organisation considerably and precipitate its dissolution. Turkiye, despite its modernity thanks to Kemal Ataturk's reforms, is and remains an Islamic nation and civilisation, something that many Western leaders and analysts forget at their own peril. Turkiye's values are essentially incompatible with the West's, and its fiercely independent heritage clashes with the American empire's demand to bow before its hegemony. Larry Johnson and Scott Ritter also eloquently describe the problem the world faces in Ukraine, a nation long-recognised as a grifter's paradise, now turned into a malignant instrument for reckless (and typically devious) Anglo-American policy. With the public in Europe and the US anaesthetised by massive ignorance and propaganda about the actual situation, and an Anglo-American leadership brimming with moral mediocrity, alarming insularity, and reckless imperialist arrogance, it was not surprising that Russia's just demands in 2021 for an international order grounded in mutual security were swiftly rejected by "the West". This criminal posture spawned the Ukraine war, which is now pushing the world literally to the edge of the nuclear abyss, warns Ritter, with Johnson concurring.
Editor's Note: I just bought this book, and already read much of it. Absorbing, to say the least, and absolutely INDISPENSABLE. Scott Ritter's passionate voice resonates with facts, moral empathy, and irrefutable logic. As the reviews below attest, am not alone in recommending this work without reservations. My gratitude to Ania K for making this possible.—P. Greanville
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Covering Ukraine: The Scott Ritter interviews through the Eyes Of Ania K. is a unique and timely addition to the literature on the conflict in Ukraine. It offers a fresh look at complex problems that will empower and entertain the reader with new insights and sharp analysis of a war few understand—which as such is doomed to continue in perpetuity, the living manifestation of the age-old adage, “You can’t solve a problem if you do not first properly define what the problem is.”
In this book, Ania K. and Scott embark on a journey to properly define the problems manifest in the Ukraine conflict, and together, they struggle to find a solution.
“Scott Ritter is an American treasure. No one on this side of the Atlantic has articulated a clearer or more thorough understanding of Russian history and culture. In this small book, he has put together a lucid and powerful attack on the Biden administration ignorance of all things Russian and consequent folly in Ukraine. Do yourself a favor and read it. Even though I know Scott well, I couldn’t put this book down. On its pages you will see courage personified and the lessons of history made manifest.” HON. ANDREW P. NAPOLITANO, Host of Judging Freedom podcast and Senior Judicial Analyst for NewsMax
Scott Ritter’s voice has been essential for piercing through the lies behind the U.S.-NATO proxy war in Ukraine, and his regular conversations with Ania K are a critical example of both the information and transnational cooperation we need to get humanity closer to peace.” —DANNY HAIPHONG, Host of “The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong” podcast
”This riveting account delves beyond headlines and statistics, offering a poignant exploration of the human experiences and strategic maneuvers that define this ongoing struggle. Through meticulously researched narratives and exclusive interviews, the book unveils the raw truths behind the war.” —NIMA ROSTAMI ALKHORSHID, Host, Dialogue Works
“There is no greater American authority on this war, the Russian military and the American Empire than Scott Ritter, and this book’s interview style makes that apparent. This is a necessary book full of thought and insight into war and geopolitics. Scott and Ania’s conversations delve into the deeper, psychological reasons for what we see occurring in terms of individuals, nations and history, making this book invaluable” —MATTHEW HOH, Former U.S. Marine officer and Diplomat, and current peace activist
“COVERING UKRAINE: The Scott Ritter Interviews, through the Eyes Of Ania K. is a brilliant piece that provides readers with a deep understanding of Russia’s Special Military Operation through the experience and personal context of an experienced Western military intelligence professional. Those who have little or no military background will easily develop an emotional and spiritual bond with Ania and readily identify with her concerns about the dangers of an expanded conflict that can spiral out of control. I highly recommend this work and genuinely hope that it quickly spreads throughout the Western world.” —GARLAND NIXON, host, NewsViews with Garland Nixon
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MIDDLE EAST IN DEPTH WITH LAITH MAROUF – EPISODE 25 – NEW ISRAELI MASSACRE AND ATTACK ON SYRIA
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MIDDLE EAST IN DEPTH WITH LAITH MAROUF - EPISODE 25 - NEW ISRAELI MASSACRE AND ATTACK ON SYRIA
Garland and Laith discuss the latest developments in the Middle East, and Israel's outrages, now working feverishly to convert the West Bank into another Gaza, a genocide writ large, none of which attracts the criticism of Western "leaders", who may have hitched their wagon to a vehicle —Zionism—that may eventually accelerate their historical demise. Laith comments that in the current confrontation, the Empire's navy is no match for the stubborn commitment of the Houthis, Hezbollah, and other members of the Resistance Axis, and that the US and other members of the alliance may have to withdraw from the region or face a severe military and financial setback. Equally interesting, the Zionist fanaticism of Israel may be condemning Jews, in general, to an ugly backlash around the globe, including in the West itself, since, contrary to protestations, it was the millennia-old brutal persecution of Jews in the "West", culminating in the Nazi horror, that made the idea of a "Jewish haven" an ideal worth pursuing in Palestine. At this point, Israel's own unrelenting depravity toward Palestinians, embodied by leaders like Netanyahu, has sealed the fate of perhaps many generations of completely innocent Jews around the world, this being the cruellest irony of it all.
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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : The Looming War With Iran
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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : The Looming War With Iran
Jeffrey Sachs clarifies the motives behind the West's deeply misguided assault on Russia via proxy Ukraine, and the consequences of the project's inevitable defeat, as well as the growing warmongering noise for war on Iran. Sachs and the judge also discuss the rapidly changing political map in Europe, especially the rise of populist parties of the right and the left in Germany, France, etc., as a result of widespread deindustrialisation triggered by the US destruction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, a conduit which assured cheap quality gas for Europe. The new "populism" opposes the expansion of the Ukraine war. Meanwhile, Turkey and other major nations seek admission to BRICS (which already surpassed the G7 in GDP), while rejecting the US right to impose sanctions on any country trading with partners Washington disapproves of. Sachs has severe criticism for the US empire application of sanctions, and flagrantly illegal moves like kidnapping Telegram's owner, and similar moves to suppress platforms and voices that challenge the empire's official narrative. Sachs also harshly criticizes Ukraine's and Israel's push to draw the US into their conflict with Russia and Iran. The extremist criminal cliques running Ukraine and Iran see only the upside of such a move, but if Washington gets involved, the chances of WW3 and nuclear war increase immeasurably. Sachs: "Netanyahu is a despicable human being and leader."
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The U.S. empire fears confrontation with Iran, and this fear is frustrating its operations in all areas
Rainer Shea
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The U.S. empire fears confrontation with Iran, and this fear is frustrating its operations in all areas
That Iran has been able to gain so much deterrence power over the U.S. empire and the Zionist entity, to the point where it feels comfortable waiting many weeks to retaliate for this July’s Zionist provocations, shows the role which Iran has within the third world war. Iran is a buffer against imperial aggressions; a force that the hegemon fears confrontation with, because it’s shown itself capable of overwhelming Washington. And this fact exposes a weakness within the imperialists, one we can take advantage of.
It’s always been obvious that trying to overthrow Iran’s government the same way Washington overthrew Hussein wouldn’t work, since Iran’s mountainous geography makes a ground invasion completely impractical. And with the shift towards multipolarity, Iran has risen to economic prominence, giving it too much stability for Washington’s color revolution attempts to be effective. Additionally, Iran’s rise has put it in place to threaten the U.S. with economic doom should full war break out, making Washington at risk of experiencing the same crises it subjects others to through its sanctions. Over the last two decades, Iran has also indirectly gained much more military power, since its anti-Zionist resistance partner Hezbollah has become an immensely strong armed force.
Because of how many advantages Iran and the other Axis of Resistance members have gotten, when the Ukraine war started Washington was not looking to provoke Iran in the same way it had just provoked Russia. And it still isn’t looking to do this. It wasn’t until the Palestinian resistance carried out Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, and the Zionist project became threatened, that the imperialists felt a need to put more focus into southwest Asia. Which has put them at risk of getting the war they fear most.
The fear that Iran is making the “Israeli” settler state feel by waiting to respond, wherein Iran has been able to exacerbate the economic crisis within “Israel” and undermine public security confidence, is also being felt by the broader imperial structure. All Iran needs to do is present Washington with the prospect of having to handle a new strike against “Israel,” and it can render the empire paralyzed. Iran is making the hegemon far less confident in its war plans for Korea, Taiwan, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere, because the hegemon knows that if it makes a move in these places now then it will be overwhelmed when Iran acts. This is the gift that Iran is giving to the world: it’s providing us with more time to prepare for the next phase in the anti-imperialist struggle. The phase where Washington carries out its next big maneuver, and tries to throw much of the globe into chaos.
Within Korea’s U.S.-occupied southern half, the ones who oppose the empire are making themselves heard through networks like the World Anti-Imperialist Platform. The struggle for sovereignty and stability continues within Libya. Sudan’s anti-imperialist movement is resisting the USA, and the genocidal local proxy leaders the USA has been backing. The Palestinians have in essence already won, because the anti-colonial struggle has accelerated the Zionist entity’s collapse. Here in the empire’s heart, where our government is now putting the Uhuru Black communists on trial for exercising their freedom of speech, a movement to defend them has emerged. And the traction that the Uhuru case has been getting in alternative media represents an opportunity to bring more of the masses into the revolutionary struggle. We within the global resistance towards U.S. hegemony are indeed taking advantage of this moment.
The U.S. empire is bringing itself closer towards a war that it knows would backfire massively, but that it feels pressured into making ever more likely. Our enemy is uncertain on the question of how to handle Iran, and fearful of the things the future might bring. We must exploit this vulnerability.
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- In cynicism and power, the US propaganda machine easily surpasses Orwells Ministry of Truth.
- Now the fight against anti-semitism is being weaponised as a new sanctimonious McCarthyism.
- Unless opposed, neither justice nor our Constitutional right to Free Speech will survive this assault.
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