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Lammy blames Jesus for jury trial abolition. Jesus says nope. (5th January 2026)
David Lammy, previously an appalling foreign secretary, now an appalling and direly misnamed justice secretary, says Jesus is to blame for his attack on UK justice.
The asset stripping of Asda and Morrisons reduces the entire finance industry to hot air. (5th January 2026)
Private equity has raised £6.5bn from asset stripping Asda and Morrisons’ properties after purchasing the supermarkets, according to the Financial Times. The properties that Asda and Morrisons own are worth more sold individually than the private valuation of the whole companies under their brands. But when compared to publicly owned supermarkets the type of finance private equity operates under is reduced to hot air.
MSM has ignored the names of bankers and financial institutions in the Epstein files. (5th January 2026)
On 23 December 2025, the US Department of Justice released a second tranche of files from the FBI’s investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
It was hoped that ‘burying’ the files would not make interest as great over the holidays. It was wrong. What followed was a fever-pitch ‘scavenger hunt’ as journalists, podcasters, bloggers, and social media activists around the world dove in – and how.
Why Blackrock just moved $2.1 trillion out of America (and what it means for you). (5th January 2026)
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EU official plotted to ‘organise resistance’ against Hungary’s Orban, files show. (11th January 2026)
As the EU has sought to prolong the Ukraine proxy war, expropriate frozen Russian assets, and enlarge the bloc at any cost, Viktor Orban’s Hungary opposed it at every turn. Now, with his support teetering, leaked documents reveal a major EU official plotted a long-term covert campaign to oust him.
A picture that shows what’s wrong with military bases. (19th January 2026)
Of course it would take millions of images to convey the full story of the harm done by military bases, foreign and domestic, but a key point is, I think, conveyed by the map above. The countries colored blue or purple have U.S. military bases in them. The countries colored red or purple have been threatened with war by the United States or actually attacked or invaded by the U.S. military within the past year.
Maduro redux – the profanity of life. (20th January 2026)
Trump’s behavior has triggered a recall of Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel, based partly on his life, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. In the novel, the protagonist’s employer hires an eccentric Bolivian scriptwriter to write soap opera serials. The novel chronicles the scriptwriter’s success and increasing popularity. The soap operas become more bizarre and reflect the scriptwriter’s descent into madness.
Renee Good’s killing reveals how far the state will go. (22nd January 2026)
No one is safe. ICE expansion exposes the long deadly history of state violence against Black bodies at home and abroad.
The government won’t tell us the criteria used to allow US military bases. (23rd January 2026)
The British government has refused to disclose the criteria that permits the US to militarily colonise Britain. Defence minister Al Carns told Your Party MP Jeremy Corbyn it was a secret due to ‘security reasons’. Highly original, Al.
‘Everybody showed up’: stunning crowds at Minnesota Day of Strike and Shutdown Against ICE. (23rd January 2026)
Extreme cold didn’t stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.
‘The weak must suffer’ (23rd January 2026)
The eternal fiction of the ‘international rules-based order’.
The Davos Donnybrook – John Mearsheimer. (23rd January 2026)
On 22 January 2026, I was on ‘Breaking Points’ with Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti talking about what happened at Davos over the past three days.
Demonstrators flood Minneapolis streets as hundreds of businesses close to protest ICE. (24th January 2026)
Thousands of protesters shut down streets throughout Minneapolis-St. Paul to demand that federal immigration agents end their weekslong crackdown. Businesses closed in solidarity.
We can fight this: Minnesota’s general strike shows how. (24th January 2026)
Only a future of general strikes involving large-scale disruptions has the chance of stopping Trump’s forces.
Bessent orders allies to stop US bond dump as Japan triggers Treasury selloff. (25th January 2026)
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Minnesota strides forward against ICE. (25th January 2026)
Lenin’s assessment of 1899 that ‘strikes are a school of war’ remains true today. This has been confirmed by the January 2026 events in Minnesota.
The neocolonial ambitions of NATO countries. (26th January 2026)
In the 21st century, the meaning of the term neocolonialism has expanded and is now used to refer to the power of developed countries (the so-called Global North) over developing countries (the so-called Global South).
Capt. Matt Hoh: the execution of Alex Pretti and what’s happening in Minnesota; the Kurds in Syria; and the ‘negotiations’ in Abu Dhabi over the SOE in the Ukraine. (27th January 2026)
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The lives behind the numbers — unacceptably tough, and getting harder. (27th January 2026)
Members of the Grassroots Poverty Action Group (GPAG) describe in just a few words their realities of facing the injustices of poverty over the last 20 years. Watch our short animation to hear their real voices and experiences. This follows the publication of UK Poverty 2026: the essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK, a report published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The full report.
Read the report on Alex Pretti’s killing — and the bizarre Q&A CBP gave Congress first. (27th January 2026)
When Congress pressed CBP for a report on Pretti’s killing, it offered answers to a list of questions. CBP also supplied the questions itself.
ICE unit to fill security role at Winter Olympics in Milan. (27th January 2026)
News that a unit of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be present during the upcoming Winter Games has set off concern and confusion in Italy, where people have expressed outrage at the inclusion of an agency that has dominated headlines for leading the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
The war profiteers feast while the poor starve. (27th January 2026)
The world is being reshaped—and disfigured—by those who profit from war. We often describe conflict as a diplomatic failure or a geopolitical tragedy, but beneath these narratives lies a harsher truth: war has become one of the most profitable industries on earth.
Is the ‘New World Order’ really new? With Yanis Varoufakis – The Chris Hedges Report. (28th January 2026)
As U.S. hegemony continues to dwindle, Donald Trump and his international allies are making preparations to maintain some grip on world power. One of these methods includes the “Board of Peace,” which was ostensibly created to reconstruct Gaza, but has demonstrated yet another attempt by Trump to undermine international law.
These patches are clues to identifying immigration agents. (28th January 2026)
We built a guide to patches worn by ICE and CBP to help the public determine which federal agents are in their communities.
Bruce Springsteen ‘We’ll remember the names of those who died On the streets of Minneapolis’. (29th January 2026)
Some Leftists in the 1960s totally disparaged the pop song brigade as a propagandist distraction from the struggle. And maybe large parts of the category were consciously designed to to ‘tune in, drop out’. But when does a folk song get composed, and ultimately written or recorded?
Lobbying firm selling access to ministers for £30,000 [UK]. (29th January 2026)
Firms can get direct access to tech minister and No 10 advisers in exchange for sponsoring tech event, brochure says.
‘Minneapolis mayor’ tells JD Vance to ‘fuck a couch’. (29th January 2026)
‘Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey’ found a colourful way to tell US vice-president JD Vance what he thinks of him. Sadly, the account is a parody.
Feds knew who Alex Pretti was and broke his rib a week before they killed him. (29th January 2026)
Executed Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti was known to federal agents before they killed him, sources claim. They also beat him up and broke his rib days before he was shot to death. Sources told CNN that Pretti had a run-in with federal agents prior to them killing him on 24 January.
Canadians in ICE? Neither Canada nor U.S. keeps track. (29th January 2026)
‘It’s in our interest to know what citizens are doing, but it’s also in our interest in terms of national security and public security’.
A running count of how many people ICE has killed and injured. (29th January 2026)
Ice doesn’t share its violent incidents with the public. So here’s our list.
Blood for oil, from Iraq to Venezuela. (30th January 2026)
‘An end to wars, peace among the nations, the cessation of pillaging and violence – such is our ideal, but only bourgeois sophists can seduce the masses with this ideal, if the latter is divorced from a direct and immediate call for revolutionary action’. V. I. Lenin
ICE thugs assault old lady for filming peaceful protest. (30th January 2026)
ICE’s war on the US people — under the guise of a racist ‘immigration’ purge — continues to spread. After murders and maimings in Minnesota and the tear-gassing of peaceful protesters in Texas, the viciousness has hit Colorado.
ICE thugs unleash brute force on peaceful anti-ICE march in Texas. (30th January 2026)
Trump’s fascist war on peaceful resistance to his racist ICE purge has moved to Texas. ICE thugs and National Guard troops attacked an entirely peaceful anti-ICE march outside ICE’s Dilley, Texas concentration camp. Dilley is the camp holding five-year-old Liam Conejos Ramos and his father after ICE abducted Liam to arrest his dad. Liam was described as ‘depressed and lethargic’ by a Democrat congressman who visited him yesterday.
The US is pushing so many regime change agendas it’s hard to keep up. (30th January 2026)
It’s just incredible how quickly and aggressively the US is advancing longstanding agendas of global conquest under the Trump administration. Now they’re racing to take out Cuba.
US choking Cuba’s economy – Moscow. (31st January 2026)
Russia opposes unilateral sanctions, including Washington’s ‘maximum pressure’ strategy, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said. [Words – but no real action.]
Carney’s job cuts undermine Canada’s position against Trump. (2nd February 2026)
Austerity undermines the foundation for a fairer economy that is less dependent on the united states.
America’s toxic future looks like East Palestine, Ohio, today. (2nd February 2026)
Three years since one of the worst industrial disasters in US history, politicians, the media, and the public have forgotten about East Palestine. But we haven’t.
Three years later, life in East Palestine, Ohio, is still derailed. (2nd February 2026)
While corporate payouts have flowed, most East Palestine families still haven’t seen a dime.
Meditations on a delivery robot steering to avoid a homeless man on the pavement. (3rd February 2026)
I saw a video of a food delivery robot navigating around the body of a homeless person lying on the sidewalk, and I can’t stop thinking about it.
The Epstein files: a blueprint for empire. (4th February 2026)
When the latest batch of Jeffrey Epstein documents hit the public domain, the predictable circus began. Headlines chased royal names and celebrity cameos, outrage was safely directed at individual monsters, and the commentariat performed its ritual of shock. It was, in other words, a perfect spectacle of misdirection.
Dr. Wolff explains the secret ingredient to economic fascism. (4th February 2026)
Renowned economist Dr. Richard Wolff examines how oil functions not just as a resource but as a tool of political control and imperial power, as illustrated by recent US aggression in Venezuela.
The US has even more military bases in the UK than we thought. (4th February 2026)
The UK is even more of a US military colony than we thought. New documents found in the US War Department’s website show that Britain hosts double the number of American military facilities previously reported.
What will the future look like in the ‘new world order?’ – with John Mearsheimer. The Chris Hedges Report. (5th February 2026)
Donald Trump believes that U.S. economic and military might are all he needs to become a benign dictator and achieve unilateral control over America’s allies — what will the effects of this policy be?
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