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Netflix’s The Diplomat marks the first time that the British Foreign Office and the US State Department have made a...
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Defending democracy? The UK and Ugandaby Ian SinclairMorning Star1 August 2021 The June G7 summit in Cornwall generated the usual liberal drivel about the West’s noble global goals. The Guardian’s Patrick Wintour noted Joe Biden and Boris Johnson “had a grand agenda ahead of them, covering democracy’s defence, climate change and pandemic.” The photo illustrating […]

Vanessa Beeley A recent sting operation carried out by the Commission for International Justice and Accountablity (CIJA) entrapped an unsuspecting academic member of the Working Group on Syria Media and Propganda (WGSPM) into engaging in a series of email conversations with a fake “Russian agent”. These emails were then supplied to the BBC producer, Chloe Hadjimatheou, who is responsible …

BBC Document and the reality of UK foreign policyby Ian SinclairMorning Star12 October 2020 In the introduction to his first book, The Ambiguities of Power: British Foreign Policy Since 1945, historian Mark Curtis notes two broad approaches are available to those attempting to understand British foreign affairs. “In the first, one can rely on the […]

The British military has several specialised propaganda and information warfare units, the largest of which is the Berkshire-based 77th Brigade Press TV – February 19, 2020 The extent of the British government’s involvement in sophisticated propaganda campaigns in Syria appears to have been under-estimated. In an exclusive report, the London-based Middle East Eye (MEE – […]

In 2011 the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office granted unprecedented access to consulates in Spain for the TV documentary/reality series...

In 2011 the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office granted unprecedented access to consulates in Spain for the TV documentary/reality series...
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Former head of MI6 and Iraq War criminal Sir Richard Dearlove continued his recent speight of complaining about everything by...

Former head of MI6 and Iraq War criminal Sir Richard Dearlove continued his recent speight of complaining about everything by...

Former MI6 chief Sir Richard Dearlove has criticised spy author John Le Carré for his ‘nihilistic’ and ‘corrosive’ view of...