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Exclusive: UK funded therapy for Israeli soldiers

Post author:PHIL MILLER
Post published:13 August 2026
Post last modified:13 August 2026

British taxpayers funded “therapeutic healing” for Israeli soldiers who fought in Gaza, Declassified can reveal. An Israeli organisation received the undisclosed sum via a UK charity, with 25% Gift Aid added on by the British government. Emails obtained by Delcassified show how the Yahalom Foundation – an Israeli veterans group – tells British supporters to channel their donations via its “registered partner platform in the UK”. “Processing your donation through them ensures you receive full tax recognition and enabled Gift Aid, maximising the impact of your contribution,” it says. “100% of your gift is routed directly to Yahalom to support our…

UK government covering up Israeli spy firm’s Scottish election interference

Post author:Cameron Baillie
Post published:13 August 2026
Post last modified:13 August 2026

The UK Government is refusing to publish any information it holds on a shadowy Israeli firm caught meddling in Scottish parliamentary elections. It cites a dubious Freedom of Information (FOI) exemption which allows documents to be withheld if they would supposedly prejudice relations between the United Kingdom and any other state. In other words, the UK’s security apparatus values its “relations” with the settler-colonial apartheid regime over its duty to its own Scottish citizens. That says all you need to know about Westminster rule. Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s UK Government refuses to publish files linked to Zionist spy firm BlackCore. BlackCore…

Coastguards call for vote of no confidence in the boss of their government agency

Post author:The Canary
Post published:13 August 2026
Post last modified:13 August 2026

Almost 600 Coastguards have called for a vote of no confidence in the chief executive of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). GMB Union wrote to the MCA chair Lord Stevens in July to ‘formally express our lack of confidence in the leadership of the MCA under Chief Executive Virginia McVea’. Since then, 580 Coastguards across the UK have signed up to the no confidence vote. Lord Stevens has not yet responded to GMB, and the union has now written a further letter to ‘formally escalate the concerns previously raised’. The volunteers are calling for an expression of no confidence, an…

Gold and the global power games fuelling Mali’s escalating civil war

Post author:Ed Sykes
Post published:13 August 2026
Post last modified:13 August 2026

Gold production and global power struggles are fuelling a brutal and escalating conflict in Mali, one of Africa’s biggest countries. With the UK being a key player in the global gold trade, what role do we have to play? The battle to trade other people’s gold London has a central position in the global gold trade, despite producing almost no gold itself. The Bank of England, for example, boasts that it’s: the second-largest custodian of gold in the world This is part of the lingering financial power that justifies the US empire keeping the UK on as a junior partner. Gold…

Kwasi Kwarteng gives the game away on fossil fuel tax cuts

Post author:Willem Moore
Post published:13 August 2026
Post last modified:13 August 2026

As highlighted by Tax Justice UK, Kwasi Kwarteng has given the game away on taxing oil companies: Oops, Kwarteng said the quiet part out loud: cutting taxes for fossil fuel giants to l̶o̶w̶e̶r̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶b̶i̶l̶l̶s push their profits higher. We say tax excess profits, cut bills, build renewables, break free from fossil fuel doom-loops. Agree?Act now: https://t.co/nG1r6GI5pr pic.twitter.com/Gk20tiHixo — Tax Justice UK (@TaxJusticeUK) August 12, 2026 Credit to Faiza Shaheen here for pushing him into admitting this. Tax the profiteers Tax Justice are encouraging people to sign a petition which will ‘raise taxes on companies profiteering from the Iran war’. The…

Website linked to fraudster Reform donor mysteriously shuts down

Post author:Willem Moore
Post published:13 August 2026
Post last modified:13 August 2026

George Cottrell – a.k.a. ‘Posh George’ – is a convicted fraudster and close friend of Nigel Farage. Their closeness became a source of controversy recently because Cottrell made undeclared donations to Reform UK and provided Farage with undeclared benefits. It also emerged that Cottrell may have been more involved with Reform than previously believed, making the donations potentially even more scandalous. As with every other ongoing scandal, Farage no doubt hopes the controversy around Posh George will blow over. The problem for him is that things like this keep happening to things like his Tether gambling site: Not. Going. Away. (Although…