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Noam Chomsky: The USA is a mafia | with Fatima Bhutto

Part 3: https://youtu.be/I0m_7pqq7rg The war in Afghanistan and the mafia-like global order; Modhi and the collapse of Indian democracy; the “China Threat” and the “pivot to Asia; Joe Manchin and climate change. The world seems like a dark place, and … Continue reading

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The truth about refugees and the English Channel

It is a myth that a few thousand people fleeing war and famine are the UK’s biggest problem. They aren’t even Dover’s.

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Ian Hislop embarrasses MPs in their own select committee on lobbying and transparency

Ian Hislop, Solomon Hughes and Richard Brooks of Private Eye attended the parliamentary select committee on standards to give evidence today. Proceedings became combative and at times cringeworthy as the journalists began reading out the MPs’, who were meant to … Continue reading

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United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony

Honour the victims of the Holocaust and take a stand against Holocaust denial and distortion. On 27 January, International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, join the @unitednations @UNHOP in an virtual ceremony. Watch it … Continue reading

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Holocaust memorial day: ‘The Nazis experimented on me at Auschwitz’ – BBC News

A woman in her nineties who has been diagnosed with dementia has shared her story of how she escaped the Nazis with her son for the first time. After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Alina Peretti was sent to a … Continue reading

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An unflinching speech encouraged Germany to face the Nazi past | Aeon Essays

Helmut Walser Smith is the Martha Rivers Ingram Chair of History and professor of history at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His books include The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Antisemitism in a German Town(2002), The Continuities of German History: Nation, … Continue reading

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More Passion | Tracey Emin

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Why Russia is Building an Arctic Silk Road

Russia’s Arctic construction boom is seriously warming up. For more by The B1M subscribe now – https://bit.ly/the-b1m Full story here – https://theb1m.com/video/russia-north… Executive Producer and Narrator – Fred Mills Producer – Tim Gibson Video Editing and Graphics – James Durkin … Continue reading

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An energy revolution is possible – but only if leaders get imaginative about how to fund it | The Conversation

Providing government subsidies for emerging clean technologies could unlock their transformative potential. Limiting climate change will require an unprecedented global movement to make low-carbon technologies the norm. COP26 – the UN climate conference held last November in Glasgow – showed … Continue reading

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As a former officer, I’m horrified by England and Wales’s Police Bill – Richard Ecclestone | Open Democracy

Protesters gather in London to protest the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, 8 December 2021 | SOPA Images Limited / Alamy Stock Photo   The bill could spell the end of policing by consent – and force police leaders … Continue reading

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