An alternative view of the world – up to end of 2022

An alternative view of the world – 2023

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An alternative view of the world – 2025

Comedian (Josh Johnson) says what no one else will about healthcare CEO shooting. (1st January 2025)

We mean nothing to them. Video.

Judge threatens to break the UK’s wall of secrecy around Assange’s persecution. (10th January 2025)

For years, the UK and Sweden stymied Freedom of Information requests to hide why prosecutors under Keir Starmer pursued the Wikileaks founder. Finally the game may be up.

Maduro arms Venezuelan citizens against expected coup. (10th January 2025)

Popular mobilisation against US-backed ‘opposition’ as western media spin ‘threat’ of elected candidate’s swearing-in for third term.

Fire weather. (12th January 2025)

The wildfires in California replicate the massive fire storms in the boreal forest in Canada and Siberia, the lungs of the earth. Our addiction to fossil fuel has ignited an age of fire.

Skripal poisoning victim disputed UK narrative, official inquiry reveals. (13th January 2025)

An official inquiry into a notorious 2018 Novichok poisoning case has found the victim briefly emerged from a coma, revealing information which wholly undermined the British government’s narrative. While the medical professional she told was muzzled, mainstream media has ignored the new finding.

Academies haven’t raised pupil achievement – there’s no need for them to have privileges that other schools do not. (14th January 2025)

The UK education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, is planning to cut some of the freedoms academy schools currently enjoy in England to refocus on improving outcomes for disadvantaged pupils. Critics say academies are hugely successful but my research has shown there are better ways to make education fairer.

Judge threatens to expose Starmer’s role in state persecution of Assange. (14th January 2025)

Court order exposes nonsense of Crown Prosecution Service cover-up.

Iraq’s ancient marshes are running out of time. (24th January 2025)

A Jacobin investigation reveals how Iraq’s southern marshes, the birthplace of early civilization, face ruin from environmental and political mismanagement. As the water disappears, so too does a 5,000-year-old culture.

Starmer’s ‘AI superpower’ plan in tatters after China’s DeepSeek causes US tech share collapse. (28th January 2025)

Starmer’s ‘flagship’ plan was touted to offset his trashing of UK social good and protections – it lasted less than a fortnight (surprise)

SAS ‘rogue heroes’ – or just rogues? (30th January 2025)

How many more shocking allegations about the SAS must emerge before the ‘who dares wins’ regiment is subject to transparency laws?

Did a Trump executive order just cripple the global US regime change network? (31st January 2025)

With federal funding paused to USAID, pro-Western media outlets from Ukraine to Nicaragua are panhandling for donations, and a multi-billion dollar regime change apparatus is in panic mode.

Emilia Pérez: the film’s wildly unrealistic representation of Mexican narco-violence and trans lives is insulting. (4th February 2025)

You would think that Jacques Audiard’s 13-time Oscar-nominated Emilia Pérez was the most watched film of the year given the discussion it has generated. The Mexican-set, French-made film’s opening weekend in Mexico tells a different story.

Streeting appoints health privatiser to oversee 10-year NHS slash-and-burn plan. (4th February 2025)

Health Secretary who has threatened to let NHS die if he doesn’t get his way with it appoints former health privatiser partner to draft implementation plan.

France’s economic collapse: how the Sahel nations ended decades of exploitation. (8th February 2025) Video.

For decades, France relied on Africa’s wealth to sustain its economy—but the winds of change are sweeping across the Sahel. In this explosive documentary, we uncover how Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have expelled French military forces, corporations, and political influence, sending shockwaves through France’s economy.

Labour executive seizes control of Tameside council and selections – to facilitate Reeves’s pension-grab. (9th February 2025)

Reeves plan to take control of public sector pension plans for ‘risky’ investments sees resisters on council likely to be deselected.

Where does the money go? A look at USAID spending in Haiti. (10th February 2025)

‘We’re shutting it down’, Elon Musk said over the weekend in reference to USAID, the country’s main aid agency, which oversees around $40 billion a year in spending and has been around since the early 1960s.

How refrigeration ruined fresh food. (10th February 2025)

Refrigeration is such a significant contributor to global warming and ozone depletion that Project Drawdown points to refrigerant management as the No. 1 thing we can do to mitigate climate change.

How the West destroyed Congo’s hopes for independence. (16th February)

In 1960, Patrice Lumumba became the prime minister of newly independent Congo. His close ally Andrée Blouin describes how Belgium and the US conspired to oust Lumumba and impose Mobutu’s kleptocratic dictatorship on the Congolese people.

UnitedHealth, deeply embedded in NHS, says its ‘critical’ role is to prevent ‘unsustainable’ treatment’. (16th February 2025)

22yo US man died after price of asthma inhaler increased by $473 – CEO’s comments put spotlight on government’s NHS health rationing plans.

The Mafia State. (16 February 2025)

First we got a mafia economy. Then we got a mafia state. We must rid ourselves of the ruling criminal class or become its victims.

The demise of USAID: few regrets in Latin America. (17th February 2025)

‘Take your money with you’, said Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, when told about Trump’s plans to cut aid to Latin America, ‘it’s poison’.

Cardiff to see first ever city-wide facial recognition network this weekend. (19th February 2025)

‘Big Brother’ concerns as South Wales Police to snoop on whole city with ‘semi-permanent’ AI cameras.

German police beat up demonstrators commemorating victims of far-right mass shooting. (20th February 2025)

No violence toward neo-nazi demo in Dresden, but Berlin police pound anti-fascists.

‘I had to move away from everything that I ever had’: Chemically exposed residents of East Palestine, OH, and Conyers, GA, have been left behind. (20th February 2025)

‘I don’t think it’s safe. If I go into my house, I get sick… our animals get sick… These are serious issues. We’re seeing serious things go on and, from where we were in the beginning to now, it’s just progressing’.

The veteran Tory and City lobbyist advising Starmer’s business team. (21st February 2025)

Iain Anderson’s newfound love for Labour has raised eyebrows across Westminster and worried some in the party.

Majority of Unite union’s elected exec calls for special meeting to remove pro-Graham chair. (22nd February 2025)

Chair whose actions led to walk-out by key exec committee last year faces ousting.

The old world order couldn’t stop wars in Ukraine and Gaza; the new world order will accelerate more wars like them. (24th February 2025)

Even the fiction of the US-enforced “rules-based international order” has collapsed, and a new, terrifying world disorder—one that more closely resembles the geopolitical periods preceding World Wars I and II—is emerging. What does global working-class solidarity look like in this new era?

Orange Peace. (25th February 2025)

Is Donald Trump a racist, misogynistic, ethnic cleansing, climate denying opponent of war?

Health privatisers’ nightmare vision for 2040 NHS co-created by man running Streeting’s ’10 year plan’. (26th February 2025)

Davos document ‘Vision of England’s Health System in 2040’ by McKinsey, scandal-ridden UnitedHealth and others lays out nightmarish end for the NHS.

Trump’s aggressive policies and the struggle for a multipolar world. (2nd March)

In this discussion on The Duran, hosted by Glenn Diesen, Max Blumenthal and Alexander Mercouris analyze the United States’ foreign policy under the Trump administration, particularly its approach to a multipolar world.

How Mesopotamia’s urban and industrial revolution started politics as we know it today. (6th March 2025)

Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality. The segmentation and specialization of industrial production required written record keeping, standardization of weights and measures, and surveying and allocation of land planning.

Rachel Reeves softened non-dom plans after Blackstone CEO ‘raised concerns’. (6th March 2025)

Revealed: Head of world’s biggest asset manager lobbied chancellor on tax rules weeks before policy was tweaked.

1965: The Indonesian coup. (7th March 2025) [An important omission here is that there is no mention it was under the Labour Government of Harold Wilson when this slaughter took place – although originally planned under the ‘Thirteen years of Tory misrule’.]

Sixty years ago a bloody coup wiped out the Indonesian communist party, and along with it all the trade unions and peasant associations.

 

An alternative view of the world – up to end of 2022

An alternative view of the world – 2023

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