UAE-funded Israeli mercenary ran surveillance operation against British activist

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:21 August 2026
• Post last modified:21 August 2026

An Israeli-Hungarian mercenary ran a covert surveillance operation against a British activist and think-tanker. The operation was funded by the United Arab Emirates (UAE). One member of the surveillance team even suspected the operation was part of a lead-up to an assassination attempt. ITV News reported on 19 August that US-based mercenary Abraham Golan had organised a UAE-funded close surveillance operation against Anas Altikriti. Altikriti is a former Stop the War Coalition vice president and hostage negotiator. He is also a founder member of the Cordoba Foundation thinktank. The surveillance took place in 2016. Golan has a long history with the…

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Trump’s Rwanda scheme? First 20 US deportees have arrived in Liberia

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:20 August 2026
• Post last modified:20 August 2026

The first 20 deportees from the US have arrived in Liberia. The Trump administration plans to send 1,200 people in total. The plans echo the UK’s failed Rwanda deportation scheme. Associated Press reported on 20 August: The deportees arrived at the Roberts International Airport outside Monrovia. The Liberia-U.S. agreement is among the largest third-country deportations driven by the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration. It comes a day after the UK’s Conservative Party chairman Kevin Hollinrake tried to re-hash the Rwanda scheme. The scheme, which was widely seen as abhorrent, was scrapped by the incoming Labour government in 2024. AP reported: The 1,200…

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Pro-Palestine groups call for Israel arms ban on anniversary of UK recognition

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:20 August 2026
• Post last modified:20 August 2026

UK pro-Palestine groups have called for a full ban on arms sales to Israel. The demand comes a year on from the UK’s recognition of Palestinian statehood. Palestinian Forum in Britain, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Friends of Al-Aqsa and Muslim Association of Britain all co-signed the call. Their 19 August statement said: Nearly three years into Israel’s continuing genocide in Gaza, Palestinians still face killing, starvation and displacement, while British-funded humanitarian aid remains subject to Israeli restrictions. The Government must secure an end to Israeli attacks and unrestricted humanitarian access to Gaza. Adding that:…

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Canary vindicated in new report on SAS ‘war crime’ press coverage

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:20 August 2026
• Post last modified:20 August 2026

The UK media has consistently mis-framed SAS war crimes allegations while marginalising the voices of alleged victims. That’s according to a new report by Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) which delves into how the press has responded to the ongoing scandal. The report looks at a wide range of media coverage — with the Canary getting a positive mention for our work. The study, titled ‘Witch hunts or war crimes? How the British media talks about allegations of SAS killings of civilians in Afghanistan‘, was published on 18 August. The Haddon-Cave inquiry into allegations of extrajudicial killings in Afghanistan at the…

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Conservative party chair calls for return of failed Rwanda scheme

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:19 August 2026
• Post last modified:19 August 2026

The chair of the Conservative party has called for the failed, racist Rwanda scheme to be reinstated. Kevin Hollinrake was quoted in the press arguing it was a better option than housing asylum seekers in a Yorkshire RAF base. The Tory Rwanda scheme would have seen asylum seekers relocated to the African state. One of former PM Keir Starmer’s first moves upon taking power in 2024 was to scrap the scheme. Hollinrake said: We, in a previous government, decided where to put them, we said they should be detained and deported back to their home country, or if they couldn’t go…

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US cops offered new ICE ‘insurance’ scheme against misconduct charges

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:18 August 2026
• Post last modified:19 August 2026

Cops willing to work with Trump’s violent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) thugs are being offered a new insurance scheme to protect them from misconduct charges. The scheme would cost officers $250 a year, but that cost would be reimbursed. CNN reported on 18 August: The agency is proposing to subsidize liability insurance for state and local officers who are trained and deputized to enforce federal immigration laws, according to a planning document published Friday. It is hoped that the coverage would encourage police departments to join up with ICE in its often violent anti-immigrant operations: ICE’s partnerships with local departments have soared…

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Secretive Galapagos strikes hint at Trump’s Latin American ambitions

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:18 August 2026
• Post last modified:18 August 2026

The US has been striking alleged ‘narcoterrorism’ boats in the Caribbean and east Pacific since September 2025. The Trump administration has been militarising the region, backing like-minded dictators and killing people ever since. They even kidnapped the Venezuelan president. Now, new reporting suggests a parallel but separate operation carried out in March 2026 killed or kidnapped fisherman near the Galapagos islands. It is not clear if this operation was carried out by the CIA itself or private military contractors in its employ. According to new reporting from The Washington Post, the CIA was behind the secret attacks on three Ecuadorian fishing…

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Serco worker charged over leaks “in connection” with Thetford riots

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:18 August 2026
• Post last modified:19 August 2026

A Serco employee has been charged in connection with a leak of addresses that were later targeted in attacks on homes in Thetford, police say. Serco is a major service provider across defence, customer service, asylum seeker housing and other sectors. ITV reported on 18 August: A man who works for Serco has been charged over the release of addresses linked to asylum seekers which were later targeted during disorder in a Norfolk town. The properties in Thetford were vandalised and police officers were assaulted during three nights of anti-immigration unrest earlier this month. Rioters in Thetford, Norfolk, tried to break…

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‘Air thick with flies’: UAE’s Colombian mercenaries recount horrors of Sudan siege

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:17 August 2026
• Post last modified:17 August 2026

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) proxy war in Sudan has killed and displaced millions. The UK and the rest of the international community have let the war roll on unabated. Former members of the UAE’s Colombian mercenary corps have now recounted the siege and the fall of the city of El Fasher in 2025. UAE: complicity One soldier, named as Luis, described the aftermath of the assault in horrific detail: The air was thick with flies, drawn by both the dead bodies and the heaps of trash. There were bodies that had already turned purple from being exposed to the sun…

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An increasing number of British police forces are using Palantir technology

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:17 August 2026
• Post last modified:18 August 2026

Numerous UK police forces are now using Palantir technology for surveillance and tracking. The far-right genocide-linked tech firm has been capturing UK public bodies at pace – and shows no signs of slowing down. The new Good Law Project and Computer Weekly investigation claims: that these projects involve, “tracking, monitoring or surveillance”, as well as data on “racial or ethnic origin, political opinions” and even people’s “sex life”. As the Canary has repeatedly warned, Palantir’s close relations with the Labour government have assured the firm’s foothold in Britain: The UK military is currently locked into a multi-billion pound contract with Palantir. The statement makes…

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Trump’s Americas? The CIA has set up a new Cuba taskforce

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:6 August 2026
• Post last modified:6 August 2026

Trump’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has set up a new Cuba task force. Its aim, it seems probable, is the overthrow of the ‘communist’ state just 90 miles of the Florida coast. The New York Times claims to have spoken to unnamed insiders with knowledge of the unit. First, a caveat: intelligence sources brief the press for their own reasons. The US clearly wants regime change in Cuba, this is clear. We don’t know whether the briefing itself is meant to influence the relevant parties — part of an information war — or is a genuine leak. The NYT reported on…

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Palestine protestor cleared of criminal damage after two year trial

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:6 August 2026
• Post last modified:6 August 2026

Pro-Palestine activist Paula Akpan has been cleared of criminal damage after a two-year trial. She had been charged with criminal damage after her role in a 2024 protest outside a genocide-linked bank. The financial services company Scotiabank, was one of many which held Israeli investments. On 6 July, the Good Law Project said the woman had: attended a protest outside Scotiabank on 17 June 2024, along with nine others. At the time, the bank was the largest foreign shareholder in Elbit Systems – holding a massive $500m stake in Israel’s leading weapons manufacturer, whose military hardware is directly used to target…

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Ex-neo-Nazi Tory candidate withdraws, but lands counter-extremism role

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:6 August 2026
• Post last modified:6 August 2026

Former neo-Nazi Joshua Bonehill-Paine has withdrawn as a Tory candidate for the 2027 council elections in Somerset. Far-right candidate are hardly a rarity in UK politics these days. However, reports claim he has now been given an internal Conservative Party role educating people about extremism. Another Tory misstep Bonehill-Paine was convicted in 2016 for harassing former Jewish Labour MP Luciana Berger. The Guardian reported on 5 August: Joshua Bonehill-Paine said on Wednesday that he had withdrawn from next year’s local elections, and that the Conservative leader had instead asked him to become an adviser to the party’s culture and integration commission,…

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Former military general and hard-right ‘think tank’ are lobbying for nukes

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:4 August 2026
• Post last modified:4 August 2026

A hard-right think tank and a former military general with links to arms firms have released a report lobbying for nuclear weapons funding. The report, fronted by former top general Richard Dannatt, was published by the 878 Institute. The ‘think tank’ subscribes to the same bizarre ‘civilisational’ ideology loved by AI billionaires. Its ‘head of defence’ is a former soldier linked to another reactionary ‘think tank’ — The Henry Jackson Society (HJS). The 878 Institute published a new report on 1 August titled ‘Britain’s Military Deterrence Gaps’. Among other things, it warns that the UK’s nuclear weapons programme is being ‘hollowed…

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Desperate US military asks analysts to brainstorm ways to beat Iran

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:4 August 2026
• Post last modified:4 August 2026

A desperate US government has asked junior analysts to brainstorm ways to beat Iran. The Trump administration is refusing to accept defeat despite having been locked into a stand off with the country. CNN described what it called a “crowdsourcing” effort in a report this week: “We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran,” an officer in US Central Command’s intelligence branch wrote in a message sent Wednesday to a broad group of military analysts, according to a source familiar with the message. Adding: A second source also said that a senior US military officer…

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Reform UK re-hash failed, ridiculous plan to use navy to stop migrants

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:4 August 2026
• Post last modified:5 August 2026

Far-right Reform UK have re-hashed a failed plan to use the navy to stop channel migrants. The scheme was tried and discredited years ago, yet leading Reform figures are trying to promote it. Another day, another batshit fascist idea. And they even based it on recent events in Morocco. The Guardian reported on 3 July that Farage had claimed: his party would launch the “largest military operation in the English Channel since world war two” to prevent small boat crossings. Needless to say, Farage and co are currently under the hammer about massive, shady donations. Internal crises are usually when dubious…

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US mocked after mislabelling every country in Africa on AIDS conference map

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:1 August 2026
• Post last modified:1 August 2026

A US government delegation to an AIDS conference mislabelled every nation in Africa on a map it used during a presentation. Audience members at the conference in Brazil naturally snapped the bizarre map and shared it online. A Reuters analysis found: The image of the map included ⁠in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools. The ​company said it was investigating the report. The state ‌department said it took “full responsibility” ‌for the confusion caused and that the map had been produced by a team member who hastily changed ‌the slide deck before…

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Spain deploys army to Moroccan colony after mass influx of refugees

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• Post published:31 July 2026
• Post last modified:31 July 2026

Spain has deployed the military after up to 50,000 migrants crossed into Ceuta, a common crossing point and Spanish colonial enclave on the north African coast. Authorities are tightlipped about the mass crossing but up to 34 people are reported to have died. Time magazine reported: While surges in illegal crossings have happened before in Ceuta, it’s unclear what caused the recent one. Thousands of migrants have streamed into the tiny Spanish territory of Ceuta in North Africa from Morocco, prompting local officials to call for help from Spain’s national government in Madrid to restore the border. pic.twitter.com/S2fTWapBzR — The Associated…

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‘Try-again’ PM Burnham lauds nukes and militarism during BAE visit

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:31 July 2026
• Post last modified:31 July 2026

New PM Andy Burnham’s left-wing credentials have lasted about as long as left-out milk. Less than a fortnight into his reign, the gimmicky Scouser was spotted bowing to The Holy Nukes in a visit to BAE Systems’ Barrow-in-Furness death factory. BAE won’t fix what’s broken Burnham told reporters: Keeping this country safe is the first responsibility of any government – but security is not only about what we build; it is about who builds it, and who benefits from it. Nukes, naturally, are well known for bestowing safety. In a press release ahead of the visit on 30 July, the government insisted:…

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Militarist chancellor Healey wants military oversight of defence budget

• Post author:Joe Glenton
• Post published:31 July 2026
• Post last modified:31 July 2026

Newly appointed chancellor John Healey has opened the door for the UK military to shape defence budgets. His proposal is another step away from democratic oversight of how public money is spent. And it’s all part of a defence spending ideology that’s full of holes! Declassified UK reported on 30 July: Britain’s new chancellor John Healey has asked for a military officer to accompany him at the Treasury, it has emerged. The move indicates how much weight Healey will place on weapons procurement after resigning as defence secretary last month in protest at Keir Starmer’s military spending plans. The UK-based outlet…

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