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Correcting the record: Nafeez Ahmed is clueless in his smears on independent journalists

Eva Bartlett — Sat, 25 May 2019 15:40:40 +0000

Background: Our co-ed Alison Banville wrote a piece recently on the corporate media disappearing the children murdered in Syria last week by NATO backed Jihadists. Included was an admonition of Media Lens for consistently refusing to acknowledge Vanessa Beeley’s outstanding investigative work on the ground in Syria. In response, the Davids Edwards and Cromwell posted a reply to Alison on […]

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Whistleblower exposes how NATO’s leading ally is arming and funding ISIS

Nafeez Ahmed — Sat, 17 Sep 2016 13:50:54 +0000

+ Turkey’s intelligence chief, Hakan Fidan, named as member of terror group linked to al-Qaeda and ISIS + Turkish intelligence directly supplied military aid to ISIS for years + Turkish government siphoned military supplies to ISIS through humanitarian relief agency + ISIS fighters, including al-Baghadi’s deputy, received free medical treatment in Turkey and “protection” from Turkish police + Head of ISIS in Turkey received […]

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Documents reveal David Cameron’s own office has ties to far right extremists banned by Theresa May

Nafeez Ahmed — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:49:16 +0000

Documents obtained under Freedom of Information (FOI) confirm that the Office of the Prime Minister had direct communications with a notorious anti-Muslim campaigner, linked to far-right extremists in the US and Europe. Some of the members of this far-right network have been banned by the Home Office due to their inflammatory views about Muslims. The revelations will raise questions about […]

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Tony Blair’s crony elite want to snatch Labour back from the working class

Nafeez Ahmed — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 20:49:33 +0000

The latest coup attempt against Jeremy Corbyn within the Labour Party is being led by an elitist Blairite network who have always seen his sudden rise to leadership as a threat to their waning control of the party. An investigation by The Canary reveals that the organisers of the campaign are part of a pro-Blair ‘old guard.’ In the run-up to the […]

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‘War on terror’ in Yemen has literally quadrupled al-Qaeda terror

Nafeez Ahmed — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 20:39:09 +0000

The State Department’s new Country Reports on Terrorism 2015 reveals that al-Qaeda has quadrupled its presence in Yemen due to Saudi Arabia’s brutal military intervention. Other sources, including a senior Dutch foreign ministry official, say that al-Qaeda is being directly supported by the Western-backed Saudis. The latest Country Reports, released on 2nd June, estimates the number of al-Qaeda in the […]

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The Astonishingly Crap Science of ‘Counter-Extremism’

Nafeez Ahmed — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 17:08:23 +0000

A new United Nations report published this February has criticised prevalent approaches to countering ‘radicalisation’ as ineffective, conceptually flawed, and more likely to reinforce extremist narratives than prevent them. The report to the UN Human Rights Council is authored by Ben Emmerson QC, the UN Special Rapporteur on Counter Terrorism and Human Rights. Emmerson is a leading British lawyer, deputy […]

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Edward Snowden: ‘we must seize the means of communication’ to protect basic freedoms

Nafeez Ahmed — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:22:38 +0000

A gathering of journalists, hackers and whistleblowers in Berlin this weekend heard former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, Edward Snowden, issue a call for citizens to find ways to take direct control over the information technologies we use everyday. The Logan Symposium, organized by the Center for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) based in Goldsmiths University, London, also heard from Wikileaks publisher […]

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Saudi war for Yemen oil pipeline is empowering al-Qaeda, Islamic State

Nafeez Ahmed — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:41:44 +0000

Secret cable and Dutch government official confirm that Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen is partly motivated by an ambitious US-backed pipeline fantasy. Nearly 3,000 civilians have been slaughtered and a million displaced in Saudi Arabia’s noble aerial bombardment of Yemen, which is backed by the United States and Britain. Over 14 million Yemenis face food insecurity – a jump of […]

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Milo Yiannopoulos and his far-right support base want the ‘freedom’ to harass women they disagree with

Nafeez Ahmed — Sat, 16 Jan 2016 01:09:06 +0000

Earlier this week, Milo Yiannapolous, an editor at the right-wing news platform Breitbart.com, had his widely coveted ‘blue tick’ removed from his Twitter account by the social media company, for violating ‘terms of service’ (ToS).

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The Quilliam Foundation is financed by Tea-Party conservatives investigated by Sam Harris

Nafeez Ahmed — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 22:52:21 +0000

And Ghaffar Hussain, a London Borough PREVENT manager, is listed as a co-leader for their million dollar project. The Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism think-tank in London that has influenced British government national security strategies, has received over a million dollars in funding from an American conservative philanthropic organisation, with close ties to the Tea Party and extreme right-wing Christian networks. […]

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