Western nations are benefiting from corruption across Asia, the ousted prime minister of #Pakistan has said in a brave new documentary: Behind Closed Doors
👉 @ImranKhanPTI says of the UK authorities in the new film:
“They are benefiting from billions of dollars which flow into their properties and their businesses stolen from this country.”
He opens up about trying to stop “this plunder of the poor countries” by corrupt elites.
👉 The film also features a possible coup by BP in #Azerbaijan.
Emin Huseynov, a journalist who fled fearing for his life, says -- “The political opposition has always said BP was responsible for the [1993] coup, they brought Heydar Aliyev to power.”
👀 @DavidLammy's foreign policy speech is traditional Labour, positioning the party in government as the other half of the UK establishment. It offers no clear change to the Tories.
👉 Stella on British media: “If the UK press had reported fairly and critically about this case, would Julian be in Belmarsh prison today? I don’t believe so.”
👉 Stella on US extradition: "I’m convinced Julian cannot survive under the conditions the US will put him in."
👉 Stella on prison: “I think they keep him in Belmarsh because they can get away with it. It’s most effective way of silencing him.”
👉 Stella on UK judiciary: “These concepts of independence and fairness are only thing standing between us and a complete darkness of raw power."
The President of Bolivia from 2006-19 invites Declassified to his house deep in the Amazon rainforest for a world exclusive interview. declassifieduk.org/evo-morales-we…
👉 COUP: ‘UK participated in it – all for lithium’
👉 BRITISH: ‘Superiority is so important to them, the ability to dominate’
👉 US: ‘Any relationship with them is always subject to conditions’
👉 BOLIVIA: ‘We are putting anti-imperialism into practice’
.@evoespueblo continues:
👉 NEW MODEL: ‘We no longer submit to transnational corporations’
👉 JULIAN ASSANGE: ‘The detention of our friend is an intimidation’
👉 NATO: ‘We need a global campaign to eliminate it’
👉 RACISM: 'It is our battle to overcome this mentality'
While many celebrate the PM’s resignation, we cannot ignore role played by unelected officials – often remainers – in bringing down Britain’s democratically elected leader. declassifieduk.org/how-the-perman…
.@NortonTaylor: "The prime minister’s downfall was encouraged, even engineered, by parts of the Whitehall establishment. This included Britain’s top spooks – what I call the ‘permanent government’ and in the US they call the ‘deep state’."
.@NortonTaylor: "It was the decision of Lord McDonald, former permanent secretary at the Foreign Office, to publish a letter accusing No 10 of telling lies over what Johnson knew about the behaviour of his former deputy chief whip that was the last straw for hesitant ministers."
Defence secretary Ben Wallace told parliament today that the UK has given Ukraine:
5,000+ anti-tank missiles,
5 air defence systems with more than 100 missiles,
1,360 anti-structures munitions, 4.5 tonnes of plastic explosives,
Starstreak anti-air missiles,
120 armoured vehicles
Wallace added that a small number of Stormer armoured vehicles with launchers for anti-air missiles are being provided, and if possible long range artillery with ammunition, and anti-ship missiles
UK has also given Ukraine non-lethal aid comprising:
90,000+ ration packs,
3,000+ pieces of body armour,
Nealy 77,000 helmets,
3,000 pairs of boots,
10 pallets of medical kit,
Communications equipment
The UN Convention against Mercenaries was passed in 1989. Britain, France, the US, Russia and China have never endorsed the international ban.
Throughout the 1980s, UK officials at the UN actually worked to undermine the ban, as we previously revealed declassifieduk.org/exclusive-why-…
Eventually, the Foreign Office advised Thatcher's government to sign the UN ban on mercenaries, once they'd ensured the wording defined mercenaries “in such a way as to exclude the Gurkhas and the French Foreign Legion”.