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‘Global Britain’, aggressive imperialism and draconian policing

by Rohan Rice shared with thanks

Belligerent abroad and Oppressive at home, the government’s Rhetoric is being Cemented into Law. Mass Resistance is the only Response.

Photo: Amardeep Singh Dhillon

On 16 March 2021, Boris Johnson announced that the UK would be breaking its commitment to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons that the UK signed along with 191 other countries in 1968.

It came as part of a defence and security review announcement in which Prime Minister Johnson outlined Britain’s plan to once again become a dominant, aggressive, imperial power on the world stage.

Most notable was the commitment to a 40 per cent increase in nuclear warheads to be purchased from the USA, taking Britain’s total from 180 to 240. No doubt Iran and North Korea will see the irony.

In an impudent show of imperialist intent Britain will also invest more in all five sectors of military defence, including cyber, maritime, land, sea, and space. Within this is the creation of a National Cyber Force, new special forces regiments called ‘rangers’, and a Counter Terrorism Operations and Situation Centre in Whitehall.

Britain’s new off-the-books ‘ranger’ regiments will further undermine democracy and accountability The Canary

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KILL THE MESSENGER: Another Warrior Has Fallen, Andre Vltchek is Dead

from The Smoking Man Source https://www.unz.com… shared with thanks illustrations added

– “…Andre Vltchek’s purpose in life was to royally piss off the people who misrule the world. Based in Lebanon, he was a scourge of the Zionist genocide perpetrators. In places like Latin America, Indonesia, and Thailand, he documented the horrors of US imperial mass murder and destruction of culture, savaging complicit local elites”.. Andre Vltchek Dead—Murdered by NATO/Zionists? – By KEVIN BARRETT .

Andre Vltchek one of the most important voices of the 21st century. Dead already.

We just lost one of the world’s greatest journalists…and one of my radio show’s most eloquent and informative regular guests.

Andre Vltchek, globetrotting scourge of the Western power elite, mysteriously dropped dead while riding in a chauffeured car between Samsun and Istanbul. ABC Newsreports:

Turkish authorities are investigating the death of an American author and journalist who died while traveling overnight from the Turkish Black Sea coastal city of Samsun to Istanbul, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported Tuesday.
Andre Vltchek, 57, and his wife were traveling inside a rented and chauffeured car and arrived in front of their Istanbul hotel at around 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday. His wife tried to wake him up to tell him they had arrived but could not do so, the Anadolu Agency reported.

According to Turkish media, police recorded the case as a “suspicious death.” That is actually quite an understatement. They should have just written “obvious assassination.”