a military tech firm supplying war robots to #Ukraine, that has ties to the MoD, and whose biggest shareholder is a Tory donor who gave £1m to Boris Johnson, is about to support a US-NATO military exercise in #Scotland you say...? surely this is some kind of mistake...?
well no, no mistake - it's just the global arms industry and its lapdogs in government functioning as they always do - killing people for profit (except in #Ukraine it's not majority Black or Brown people they're killing for a change)
of course, QinetiQ is even closer to government than that- as defence secretary Ben Wallace used to work for them (just like countless defence secretaries before him either worked for, or end up working for, private military companies)
A number of nations are meeting soon to negotiate a global treaty on the use of plastics and a UN environment programme has released a report on "turning off the tap" on the use of plastics
However, the report doesn't go far enough
The report mentions the reuse, remanufacture, and recycling of plastics and in doing so ignores the core of the issue: a circular economy that keeps plastic use going is a catastrophe for the planet and a win for oil and gas companies
Palestinian Abu Zubaydah was tortured at black sites for years before being detained in Guantanamo Bay for decades - now his drawings that show abuse and torture at the hands of the CIA and FBI form part of a new report into torture from US agencies
Professor Mark Denbeaux said:
"Abu Zubaydah is the poster child for America’s torture program
He was the first person to be tortured, having been approved by the Department of Justice based on facts that the CIA knew to be false."
Abu Zubaydah was never charged during his 21 year detainment, and fellow Guantanamo detainee @Moazzam_Begg from @UK_CAGE said:
"They fear to release Abu Zubaydah not because of what he did but what was done to him."
Elections are being held in Turkey today. They could unseat Erdoğan's dictatorial government. A member of @TheCanaryUK has joined the election monitoring in Bakur. We'll be giving updates throughout the day in this thread #TurkeyElections
Erdoğan has imprisoned 6000 people from the HDP since 2015, and replaced elected HDP mayors with state appointed governors. The Turkish state began moves to criminalise the HDP before the election, so the movement formed the Green Left Party to contest the elections @HDP_Europe
The Green Left Party isn't your average political party. They want to create radical, people-centred democracy in Turkey, led from a grassroots level. Read our Canary article about them here #TurkeyElectionsthecanary.co/opinion/2023/0…@HDP_Europe
As we’re all having this conversation out loud now, here are six ways racism shows up routinely in my life. You can watch out for this behaviour in yourself and those around you: 1/13
1. I get mistaken for an employee in transport hubs, hotels, at special occasions etc. I actually have to think about what I wear, with that in mind. And the tone people use when they think they’re speaking to “the help” isn’t cool. 2/13
2. People tell me I’m lucky “they let me” vote in this country...where I was born. 3/13