The title above is taken from Henry David Thoreau’s seminal 1849 essay , Civil Disobedience. One of the most influential ever written. Read by Gandhi and Martin Luther King who both declared its influence upon them, it’s as relevant today as it ever was. Particularly on this day! Election day 2024. Thoreau beseeches us to make voting a symbol of […]
BSNews editor Mike Raddie: David Edwards of Media Lens revealing, in exquisite and agonising detail, how we are so propagandised by western corporate news media most of us barely recognise the deliberate deceit. What will it take for the masses to wake the fuck up? In his very last article, ‘We are Spartacus’, published just a month before his death in December, John […]
Media Lens: ‘An excellent discussion. Very revealing at around 14:30 onwards when they discuss the US-UK establishment opposition to Corbyn-led Labour and Corbyn cites Pompeo, Trump and Netanyahu all basically saying they would not allow Corbyn to become Prime Minister.’
Journalist, rapper and activist Lowkey has been an indispensable source of crucial information on Palestine, not just since the horrendous genocide in Gaza began, but for years preceding it. His voice is needed more than ever now when even blatant mass murder is being sanitised by the huge propaganda machine that includes the corporate media whose collusion with intelligence agencies […]
The Israeli massacre in Gaza’s Nuseirat camp killed over 270 Palestinians and injured many more. Survivors say the horrors they witnessed will stay with them for the rest of their lives. The Israeli massacre in the Nuseirat camp to liberate four Israeli prisoners held by resistance factions in the Gaza Strip started at 11:00 in the morning on June 8. […]
Another atrocity has been committed by the Terrorist state of Israel proving once again its leaders’ sense of total impunity. What we are watching here can only be adequately described as pure evil. (BSN ed Alison ). Al Jazeera : An Israeli air attack on a UN-run school sheltering displaced Palestinians in central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp killed at least 40 […]
The world’s two highest courts have made an implacable enemy of Israel in trying to uphold international law and end Israeli atrocities
London, 1st May 2024- This week, the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) wrote to eighty-two British universities alerting them of the potential risk of criminal liability over any investments held in both arms companies and Israeli settlements. The letters inform universities that profiting off investments made in companies supplying weapons to a military that uses them in the commission of […]
‘Black sites’ are about reminding those who have been colonised and enslaved of a simple lesson: resistance is futile. On a misty November morning 21 years ago, I was desperately trying to remain camouflaged. Concealed in the foliage of an orange grove in Israel’s rural Galilee, I hurriedly took photos of a drab concrete building not marked on any map. Even the […]
Today I am filing applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court in the Situation in the State of Palestine. Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri (Deif), Ismail Haniyeh On the basis of evidence collected and examined by my Office, I have reasonable grounds to believe that Yahya SINWAR (Head of the Islamic Resistance Movement (“Hamas”) […]
While none of the G7 nations recognize Palestine, more than 140 of the 193 members of the United Nations do. Ireland, Spain and Norway on Wednesday said they would officially recognize Palestine as a state from next week, in a diplomatic move that triggered fury in Israel. In Dublin, Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris said Palestine deserved the same right […]
In confecting a media row about the policing of London marches against genocide, the Israel lobby knew it would score a victory, whatever happened. A gruesome discovery was made in Gaza last weekend. Some 300 Palestinian bodies – of men, women and children – were unearthed from an unmarked mass grave in the courtyard of the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis. Even […]
