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In this 2010 photo, British Labour Party lawmaker Gerald Kaufman, is is welcomed in Gaza after arriving from the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, southern Gaza Strip. (AP/Eyad Baba)
(ANALYSIS) — Gerald Kaufman, the Jewish, British Labour MP who once controversially compared Israel’s devastating treatment of Gaza to the work of the Nazis, has died aged 86.
Kaufman was “Father of the House,” the longest-serving member on the benches, having entered parliament in 1970.

Ahmed Gaddaf al-Dam, cousin of the late Libyan revolutionary leader Muammar Gaddafi, has given an exclusive interview to RT where he clearly explains just how much of a failed state Libya has become since Britain and France led a war on the country, a war whose political mastermind and strongest agitator was Hillary Clinton, then Barack Obama’s Secretary of State.

The British state-owned broadcaster BBC have aired a film about football hooliganism in which Russian football supporters are portrayed as savage thugs.
The film has elicited a disappointed response from former Sports Minister and current Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko.
Mutko stated:

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at Downing Street in London, Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. (AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Benjamin Netanyahu has pressed Britain to act against a “militant Iran” bent on conquering the Middle East and destroying Israel, as he attempted to shift the focus of talks with Theresa May away from illegal settlement building in the occupied West Bank.

Readers of The Duran may recall that back in October the British bank NatWest announced that it was withdrawing banking services to RT’s London branch.  At the time there was widespread speculation – and in the British media a great deal of gloating – that RT’s London branch might be forced to close.
At the time the withdrawal of banking services was announced I predicted it would fail to close RT’s London branch down

It is always amusing to see ideology blind people to reality.
A recent example of this has been the reaction of the British Parliamentary establishment and the UK mainstream media to Prime Minister Theresa May’s visit to Washington D.C. to meet with President Trump.
It seems that the old hands in Whitehall and Fleet Street think they can do something that thus far the Democratic Party, much of the Republican Party, the CIA, the NSA, the Pentagon, and China, have been unable to do, which is pressure Donald Trump to change his mind.

The extent to which US President Donald Trump’s arrival in the White House is already changing the political weather is shown by comments made yesterday Thursday 26th January 2017 by Britain’s two most senior ranking foreign policy officials.

Reports in the British media suggest that the recent visit by British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to the US to meet with Donald Trump’s team did not go well.
Johnson was sent to the US by a seriously concerned British government, which is clearly alarmed at the potential risk to Britain’s long standing alliance with the US caused by the use Donald Trump’s political enemies in the US are making of the Trump Dossier, which was compiled by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer.

The degree of paranoia within some parts of the US intelligence community about Donald Trump is best illustrated by what seem to be authoritative news reports that US spies have warned their Israeli counterparts against sharing Israeli secrets with Donald Trump’s administration lest it be leaked to the Russians.
The clear implication is that some parts of the US intelligence community do genuinely believe that Trump is somehow under the Kremlin’s control, or that the Kremlin has leverage over him.

Donald Trump is no fan of post-1979 Iran, but name me any former US President who was? However, there is one character in modern Iranian history that Trump ought to feel some level of sympathy with. That man is former Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.
Mohammad Mosaddegh was the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran in 1951. He promised to make industry work for the people, he promised to make Iran into a society that served Iranian not foreign interests. Many called him a nationalist and an extremist, but his popularity did not wane.