[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] The exhibition “Windrush: A Voyage Through the Generations” will be launched in the Clapham Library (at the Mary Seacole Centre, 91 Clapham High Street, London) from June 1 to September 2, 2023. Will Noble (Londonist) reviews the exhibition. “It was incredible the response […]
This Stunning Windrush Exhibition Lands in London
Helpfullist from FDA, found while doing research and organizing my files on: Public Health Emergency (PHE), Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) and PREP Act notices, declarations, determinations and authorizations issued by HHS Secretaries and their delegees from Jan. 2020 to the present; Legal advisory opinions about PREP Act liability immunity, issued by the HHS Office of […]
93 biochemical weapons to decline whenever a medical mercenary offers them to you or your children.
This species was last reported from the wild in 1937. If the Bangka Slow Loris is still alive then the burning of their habitat and conversion to agriculture (especially palm oil plantations) is their greatest threat.Pint-sized and cute primate the Bangka #Slowloris is critically endangered from #palmoil #deforestation. Just 20% of their rainforest remains on […]
Bangka Slow Loris Nycticebus bancanus — Palm Oil Detectives
Anarchist Communist Group. The latest issue of our theoretical journal has just been published. It is available from our shop. https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/product/stormy-petrel-5-out-now/ Articles include: Ecomodernism, Music and capitalism, Brian Morris on the Dark Trinity of Capitalism, the State, and Religion, Workplace Struggles, Mining and resistance, David Graeber, Cuba, and reviews.
Stormy Petrel 5 Now Out!
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. New evidence suggests the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and U.S. Food and Drug Administration may have violated the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act when they withheld knowledge about myocarditis safety signals from the public and from COVID-19 vaccine fact sheets. According to Dr. Meryl Nass, the U.S. […]
Criminal Coverup? New Evidence FDA, CDC Hid Early Data on Myocarditis
From Tridni-valka The following lines are a short response to an article by Wayne Price published on the Czech Anarchist Federation (AFed) website. The delay in our brief response can only be explained by the fact that it took us a long time to recover from the text “Are Anarchists Giving in to War Fever?”…
What’s new in “anarchism”? National self-determination and the coincidence of interests with capital?!
Human Wrongs Watch (UN NEWS)* — As a clearer picture emerges of the trail of destruction left by Cyclone Mocha in Myanmar and Bangladesh, humanitarians are continuing to provide life-saving assistance, and the need for an urgent increase in funding. © UNOCHA/Pierre Lorioux | Men repair a shelter damaged by Cyclone Mocha in Nget Chaung […]
Cyclone Mocha Leaves a Trail of Destruction – Urgent Funding Needed as Hunger, Diseases Loom
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky made an unexpected trip to Britain last week on a whistle-stop tour of European capitals, pleading for more powerful and longer-range weapons to use in his war against Russia.
British warmongering is driving Europe towards catastrophe in Ukraine
23 May, 2023 16:53
Covert operatives took part in multiple foreign conflicts without any parliamentary approval or oversight, a newly published study has found
British and Ukrainian special forces train during a NATO exercise in Denmark, October 6, 2021 © Flickr / NATO
The UK has sent its special forces to 19 countries since 2011, according to a report by Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), a London-based charity that conducts research on global armed violence. The deployed British operatives trained foreign militants, carried out assassinations, and reportedly fought alongside child soldiers.
In a report published on Tuesday, AOAV stated that British operatives have been deployed to fight or surveil hostile forces in Algeria, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Iraq, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russia, Somalia, the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and Oman, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, and Yemen.
Some of these deployments were into locations in which British troops were already fighting, as was the case in Afghanistan and Iraq. However, UK Special Forces (UKSF) continued their operations in both countries long after regular forces withdrew. In Afghanistan, hundreds of civilian deaths were attributed to night raids by British and American special forces between 2009 and 2012.
While parliament authorized military action in Afghanistan and Iraq, UKSF have deployed to other active conflict zones without the assent of lawmakers. Three days before parliament voted against a deployment to Syria in 2013, UKSF and MI6 operatives were on the ground targeting Syrian air defense installations and calling in American airstrikes, the report stated. Within months, they were training anti-government militants while assassinating Islamic State fighters.
Pentagon leak exposes NATO special forces in Ukraine
In Yemen, UKSF operatives conducted raids on Al Qaeda-linked militants, but, in some cases, fought alongside jihadists who had been recruited by Saudi Arabia and the UAE to attack Houthi rebels. Up to 40% of these jihadi forces, AOAV noted, were child soldiers.
Training missions and hostage rescue operations made up most of the rest of the deployments, while the UKSF operation in Russia focused on providing security for British athletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Recently leaked Pentagon documents suggest that the UK has deployed 50 special forces personnel to Ukraine since Russia launched its military operation last February. Prior to the leak, multiple media outlets reported the presence of British and American special forces in Ukraine, while one general told The Times last year that as many as 300 British commandos were conducting “discrete operations” alongside Kiev’s forces.
“The extensive deployment of Britain’s Special Forces in numerous countries over the past decade raises serious concerns about transparency and democratic oversight,” said AOAV Director Iain Overton. “The lack of parliamentary approval and retrospective reviews for these missions is deeply troubling.”
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