British government

Leaked documents reveal a British intel contractor singled out The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal for online censorship, and seeks to redefine factual criticism of NATO as disinformation. This report was originally published at Jack Poulson’s All-Source Intelligence Fusion. Subscribe here. A leaked 130-page report made public here for the first time documents an international censorship campaign funded by the British government and led by a public relations contractor for U.S. Special Operations Forces. The basic strategy is to redefine “disinformation” to include even […]

Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with journalist Juan Passarelli, director of the film “The War on Journalism: the Case of Julian Assange,” about the trial of Julian Assange and his experience working with Wikileaks. Passarelli explains how the UK court has not made the proceedings accessible to the media, and how Assange has been systematically mistreated and is “obviously suffering a lot, mentally and physically”: JUAN PASSARELLI: “Julian (Assange) has not been given the right to a fair defense. […]

For over a year, the West’s top anti-corruption NGO, Transparency International, has not said a word about the world’s most…
The post State Dept-funded Transparency International goes silent on jailed transparency activist Julian Assange appeared first on The Grayzone.

Professor Piers Robinson, Co-Director of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies, and Chair in Politics, Society and Political Journalism at the University of Sheffield, spoke to Sky News about the Skripal case, Russia and Syria, reiterating that ‘more evidence is needed’ before the British government’s claims can be legitimately stood up:

The events of the last few days in the Skripal case provide an object lesson of why in criminal investigations the rules of due process should always be adhered to.  The reason the British now find themselves in difficulties is because they have not adhered to them.
This despite the fact that – as they all too often like to remind us – it was the British themselves who largely created them.

It’s a story that seemed to suddenly blow up out of nowhere. And it resulted in Pritti Patel being called back from Nairobi to meet with the Prime Minister – after which she immediately resigned from office. The reason, we are told, was a breach of protocol – Patel had failed to inform the appropriate […]

And so we’re dragged back to the Ken Livingstone ‘Anti Semitism’ scandal and the torches and pitchforks are back out. Livingstone, who has been described as “the only truly successful left-wing British politician of modern times”, may have made a comment that was offensive to some: but it was essentially only a historical observation, and […]

The British government is now lobbying hard on behalf of Britain’s intelligence agencies, demanding that they be put in a position of being able to read encrypted messaging provided by platforms like WhatsApp.

A brief word in respect for Labour MP Gerald Kaufman, who passed away a few days ago. Kaufman, who served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until his death in 2017, was the longest-serving MP in the House. It was curious that Kaufman happened to pass away at precisely the time I was putting […]

A senior Foreign Office official has admitted human rights are no longer a “top priority” for the British government.The post British Government Admits It Doesn’t Really Care About Human Rights appeared first on The Anti-Media.