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‘Could be the making of him’: Starmer’s allies praise stance on Trump and Iran Refusal to kowtow to US president has won public backing – and left Badenoch and Farage playing catch-up

We’ve not had a British prime minister say no to an American president since Vietnam. This is a big deal!!”

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UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

When gas prices spike, the right blames net zero. But the truth is the exact opposite: the more dependent you are on gas, the more exposed you are to geopolitical chaos and profiteering.
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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#TellTheTruth #NetZero #ClimateAction

Anti-Muslim bias in British media is off the charts. Will anyone step in? In a study examining more than 40,000 articles, a stunning 70 percent framed Islam or its practitioners in a negative light

Anti-Muslim bias in British media is off the charts. Will anyone step in?

www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/anti...

#StopTheHarm #AntiRacist #HopeNoteHate

Israel drops charges against soldiers in Palestinian detainee abuse case Charges dropped against five soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee at a military facility.

Israel’s military advocate general just gave his soldiers license to rape -- so long as the victim is Palestinian,” said Sari Bashi,

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#Justice #StopTheHarm #FreePalestine

RIP Country Joe McDonald!! (01/01/1942 - 07/03/2026)

#FixinToDie #Woodstock #60sCounterCulture

Cor, sure would feel great right now if we were self-sufficient in renewable energy, and laughing at all the rubes reliant on global oil supplies. We'd have a bit of a swagger in our step today.

Great idea & make the UK a target for future revenge attacks!! 🤷‍♂️

#StopTrumpsWar #Peace

March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.

This is what ecocide looks like.

Missiles fired by US, Israel hit two schools near Tehran: Iranian media The latest attack comes six days after the deadliest single one during the war on Iran, which killed 165 people.

“There are straight lines between what Israel has attempted to do… in Gaza, to completely decimate and collapse the systems that existed there, to what we are seeing in Iran,”

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

#StopTrumpsWar #Peace #Freedom

Keir Starmer is gaslighting the country.

The UK has followed the US into an illegal war against Iran.

Opinion | Trump’s Fantasy Is Crashing Down

The fantasy is that America can bomb Iran and walk away untouched.
The reality is missiles hitting Gulf states, oil markets shaking and escalation spreading across the region.
Wars have consequences, especially in the most strategically important energy corridor on Earth.

#StopTrumpsWar #Peace

Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

"One of the great weaknesses of our era is that we get lone superhero movies that suggest that our big problems are solved by muscly guys in spandex, when actually the world mostly gets changed through collective effort… The counter to Trump always has been and always will be civil society"

Iran has huge oil reserves, but wars today aren’t about “stealing oil.” Oil is traded globally. The real strategic issue is the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway through which roughly 20% of the world’s oil supply moves.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

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@misanharriman.bsky.social

#StopTheHarm #HandsOffIran #FreePalestine

'Don't die': the two words that sum up our lives in Tehran now | Anonymous In a park overlooking the city, I ran into a group of young people chatting and joking. As the bombs fall, fragments of life remain, writes an anonymous Tehran resident

“Israel has long enjoyed a unique position of near-total impunity when it comes to harassing Palestinians, and now the green light to aggression seems to extend to its unending wars and spreading of terror across the region.”

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Miami Republicans, university rocked by report of racist group chat A Florida university said on Thursday law enforcement is investigating a Miami Herald ​report that prominent members of the local Republican Party and conservative student leaders exchanged racist, an...

Quelle surprise!! 🤷‍♂️

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#AntiRacist #AntiFacist

We don’t need Islamo-fashion It may seem strange that fashion is the latest branch of public life to find Ramadan and by extension Islam hip.

@julieburchill.bsky.social trick is simple: take women forced to veil in authoritarian states, mash that together with women freely choosing modest fashion in London, shout “civilisational decline” and call it feminism.

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#Women #Feminism

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

While governments pour resources into war, the planet keeps heating.
New research shows global warming has accelerated sharply in the past decade.
On current trends we breach 1.5°C before 2030.
The real emergency isn’t waiting.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#StopTheHarm #ClimateAction

BP’s new boss will take home at least £11.7m this year, more than double her predecessor Meg O’Neill will be first woman to serve as CEO of 117-year-oil firm when joining from Woodside Energy in April

BP’s new CEO will take home £11.7m this year.
The same industry driving the climate crisis is still rewarding its leaders like hedge-fund traders.
And we’re supposed to believe the transition will come from inside the system?

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

#ClimateActionNow #StopTheHarm

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

Most people think the Epstein scandal was about one man.
This essay argues it exposed something bigger: a network of tech billionaires, elite universities and celebrity intellectuals flirting with eugenics & genetic superiority.

Disturbing reading, but important.

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Defense giant Elbit becomes Israel’s most valuable company, after 45% surge this year Fueled by booming arms sales, Elbit's market value soars to $40 billion in Tel Aviv, overtaking generic drug giant Teva and the country's largest banks, Leumi and Hapoalim

Who says war doesn't pay? 😢

www.timesofisrael.com/defense-gian...

#StopTheWar #HandsOffIran #Peace #Elbit

We’re told Iran is run by religious fanatics.

Yet US commanders at 30+ bases reportedly told troops the Iran war is part of “God’s plan,” even calling Trump “anointed by Jesus” to spark Armageddon.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation reports 110+ complaints.

She has served us well” is political code for: YOU'RE FIRED

Hands Off Iran – Stop Trump’s Wars: march to US embassy The Middle East is being set alight by the US-Israeli attacks on Iran. Already hundreds of civilians have been...

Heading to London on Saturday.
We’ve seen this movie before: Iraq, Libya, endless war sold as “liberation”.
Not again.
#HandsOffIran #StopTheWar #TellTheTruth #Peace 🕊️

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Exclusive: Trump says he must be involved in picking Iran's next leader "Khamenei's son is unacceptable to me. We want someone that will bring harmony and peace to Iran."

"We're going to stop the reckless and costly policy of regime change overseas." - Donald Trump, 2016

This man is a walking talking lie machine .... why the hell are Americans falling for this BS?

#TellTheTruth #StopTheWar #HandsOffIran #Peace

Democrats issue dire warning after congressional briefing on Iran Senators emerge from classified Capitol Hill session with Secretary of State Marco Rubio claiming administration has no endgame for conflict with Tehran

Even US senators leaving classified briefings say the Trump administration has no clear plan for how this war with Iran ends.
No strategy. No definition of victory.
History has a name for wars like that, Iraq.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

#StopWar #Peace #HandsOffIran

‘Domestic Terrorism’ ICE Contractor Palantir’s Tools for Tracking Dissent – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition The controversial data firm co-founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel – which holds UK government contracts – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE’s data platfor...

The surveillance infrastructure built by Palantir Technologies sits at the intersection of AI, policing, immigration enforcement and protest monitoring & the company already has major UK government contracts.

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#surveilance #iceout #monitoring

Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

The #UN is beginning to say it out loud:

An economy designed to serve the ultra-rich is incompatible with planetary survival.

Climate crisis and inequality are the same problem.

#degrowth #inequality #socialjustice #tellthetruth #taxtherich