🧵Keir Starmer's secret war on Gaza🧵

In a series of parliamentary questions, the Labour govt reveals the extreme secrecy under which it's participating in the Gaza genocide.

1. Labour refuses to say how many Israeli military planes have landed in Britain since it took office. 2. Labour refuses to say if it is allowing the US Air Force to use British bases within the UK and around world to fly weapons to Israel.

The 4 neat tricks corporations used to take over the world.

A comic by @glennhustler👇

Sadiq Khan is a member of the British-American Project (BAP). Of course.

BAP was set up w/ US embassy funding in 1980s amidst CIA concern about leftward drift in Labour.

It’s been funded by BP, BAE, Monsanto. Alumni includes Paul Wolfowitz. Background👇
declassifieduk.org/the-secretive-… Tonight, London Mayor Sadiq Khan—who joined the British-American Project in 2008—hosted an event for the organisation at City Hall.

Panellists included Matt Palmer, Deputy Chief of Mission at the US embassy in London. Event was chaired by BBC’s Jane Hill, who joined BAP in 2005.

Our new book SILENT COUP is published today and should be available across all outlets.

It tells the major story of our time: how corporations cannibalised the states that created them—and rendered democracy a hollow shell.

You can buy it here: shorturl.at/efgL7 As European empires crumbled in 20th century, the power structures that had dominated the world for centuries were up for renegotiation. Yet instead of a rebirth for democracy, what emerged was a silent coup against its very core—the unstoppable rise of global corporate power.

Saudi Arabia is among most horrific dictatorships on Earth—and since 2015, its war on Yemen has, purposefully, turned the country into a living hell.

Since the destruction of Yemen began, 5 major UK papers have taken Saudi regime money to produce and publish propaganda for it. To my knowledge, not 1 journalist at any of those papers has ever publicly denounced their employers taking Saudi blood money.

Could Putin count on such obedience from Russian regime journalists if their media outlets started receiving money from Assad’s Syria? Doubt it.

Nato's key role in the UK 🇬🇧

My latest for @declassifiedUK 👇
declassifieduk.org/natos-key-role… Northwood Headquarters, a military base in north-west London, is home to Nato’s Maritime Command (Marcom), the central command of all its sea operations.

Marcom’s British commander Keith Blout has operational command of all Nato's standing naval forces.

The Daily Telegraph and the Conservative Party represent the right flank of the British ruling class.

The Guardian and the Labour Party represent the liberal flank of the British ruling class. One of the British establishment’s biggest propaganda coups is convincing the population that the UK is a democracy — and they can receive a diversity of perspectives from the mass media. One of main reasons for this success is large parts of the left push same fiction.

The biggest security threat Britain and the world faces is climate change but the so-called “security services” barely mention it.

Why? Well, every head of MI6 since 1999 has joined a fossil fuel company after leaving the agency, making millions of £s in the process. Thread. Sir Richard Dearlove, head of MI6 from 1999-2004, joined Texas-based oil company Kosmos Energy in 2012. From 2013-2019, Dearlove earned more than £2-million in fees from the company, having attended an average of 12 meetings a year.

Interesting facet of the new revelations about the UK government campaign to get Assange out of embassy was how it chimed with an apparent campaign by the Guardian which ran from May to November 2018, culminating with the now infamous front-page Manafort / Assange story. In his diaries, Alan Duncan says the Ecuadorian government were concerned in mid-2018 about the "domestic reaction" in Ecuador to rescinding Assange's asylum and that this was delaying them taking the final decision.

Revealed: The UK government campaign to force Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London

My latest for @declassifiedUK
dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-0… * Prime minister Theresa May was told in March 2018 to ‘butter up’ Ecuador’s president in order to get Assange out of the embassy.

* Later in that year, May’s government spent £20,000 to bring Ecuadorian officials and defence minister to UK.
dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-0…

There's a history of British judiciary using Belmarsh as a means to punish people on behalf of intelligence.

In late 1990s, MI6 whistleblower Richard Tomlinson (no previous criminal record) was remanded in Belmarsh as a Category A prisoner, despite not releasing any secret info. The punishment was meant to force him into pleading guilty. It worked.

When it was announced his trial would be held in a High Court, meaning he would be held on remand for up to two years, longer than likely sentence, he pleaded guilty to breaking the Official Secrets Act.

23 January 2019: Executive director of Bellingcat says the group hasn't received funding from UK Foreign Office (FCO).

20 December 2018: FCO "procurement card" pays Bellingcat £1,800 for "consulting, management, and public relations". In response to FOI request asking for any research on Syria which makes reference to Bellingcat, the FCO says it "can neither confirm or deny" the info exists and that "to give statement of reasons for this would involve the disclosure of info which would itself be exempt info."

.@declassifiedUK has now published 7 investigations into legal irregularities and conflicts of interest in the Assange US extradition case. Thread.

(Number 8 is coming this week) 1. Julian Assange’s judge and her husband’s links to the British military establishment exposed by WikiLeaks
dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-1…

The draconian Belmarsh supermax regime is a tried and tested program the British national security state has used to break dissidents that threaten their power.

https://twitter.com/StellaMoris1/status/1306205472521891840

In 1997-98, MI6 whistleblower Richard Tomlinson spent 6 months in Belmarsh for giving the summary outline of a book to an Australian publisher. He writes about it in his book Big Breach. You can read the relevant section from page 173 onwards here:
wikispooks.com/w/images/f/f1/…

Graeber leaves such a huge hole.

In UK, he was unique in that his academic brilliance had given him some mainstream purchase but he’d never let that world colonise his thinking—he had a totally free mind. His only priorities were truth+justice.

I’ll miss his presence incredibly I was a reporter with the FT in New York when Occupy Wall Street kicked off. At start, me and my colleague told the news editor that we should be covering it. He said “not our sort of thing”. Over following months we interviewed Graeber a bunch of times.
ft.com/content/8b599c…

In February 2000, 200 demonstrators marched to Trafalgar Square in London to protest Russia’s brutal war in Chechnya. Check who was leading it. Two months later, in April 2000, Corbyn puts down an EDM in parliament demanding Putin support a ceasefire in Chechnya and entry of humanitarian supplies.

edm.parliament.uk/early-day-moti…

Saudi Arabia threatened UK with "7/7-style" terrorist attacks on British streets if it didn't stop corruption probes into its arms deals.

Tony Blair dutifully halted the investigation.

Where is the Saudi Report? Israeli spy Shai Masot was recorded plotting to "take down" British MPs—including a cabinet minister—for voicing mild criticisms of Israel.

The Al-Jazeera doc also revealed Labour Friends of Israel as a front for the Israeli embassy in London.

Where is the Israel Report?

REVEALED: Harry Potter, British spies, and the arms corporations penetrating UK schools.

Part 2 of our investigation of GCHQ’s secretive schools programme 👇

dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-0… We saw evidence GCHQ has facilitated “speed dating” sessions at schools for Year 8 pupils (ie 12-13 years old) with arms companies such as Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, which are involved in war crimes against children in Yemen, Iraq, and elsewhere.

This is funded by UK taxpayer

First in 3-part Declassified investigation on UK's largest intelligence agency, GCHQ, infiltrating British schools.

This should outrage parents. I was blocked from getting information by one school's IT teacher who cited national security "exemptions".

dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-0… There are suspicions that GCHQ’s programme is being used to spy on children. We saw evidence that GCHQ and local police launched a “joint tag team event” at one school to gain access to a pupil who had been reported to the authorities by his school for being “very talented”

Why did then head of the CPS, Keir Starmer, meet then head of MI5, Sir Jonathan Evans, for informal social drinks in April 2013, the year after Starmer decided not to prosecute MI5 for its role in torture.

No record any other CPS head accepting hospitality from an intel chief. When Starmer decided not to prosecute MI5, its director-general Sir Jonathan Evans said: “I am delighted that after a thorough police investigation the CPS has concluded that [MI5] has no case to answer”.

"UK govt promoted exports of live animals/shellfish to China for years, knowing they would be sold at “wet markets”, amid repeated warnings from health authorities these markets posed influenza threat"

Huge story from @pmillerinfo for @declassifiedUK

dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-0… Documents seen by Declassified UK show Whitehall has regarded China’s wet markets and “food safety scandals” as an “opportunity” for UK exports since 2013

dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-0…