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WATCH: Senior diplomat admits US sabotaged 2022 Russia-Ukraine peace deal

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:30 July 2026
Post last modified:30 July 2026

Neocon lobbyist, Victoria Nuland, was US Under-Secretary of State — one of Joe Biden’s highest foreign affairs officials — as the Russia-Ukraine war started. And she has just admitted (perhaps ‘boasted’ is a better word) that the US sabotaged the 2022 peace deal Ukraine was about to sign with Russia. Former prime minister, Boris Johnson, was the US’ tool, Nuland has claimed. Victoria Nuland finally admits it US officials and Boris Johnson killed the 2022 peace talks so the war could continue. Everything they’ve told you about Russia/Ukraine is a lie. pic.twitter.com/tLM2eYPnDH — Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) July 29, 2026 Russia-Ukraine foil:…

Activists target Allied Irish Bank over potential deal with Israeli tech firm

Post author:Robert Freeman
Post published:18 July 2026
Post last modified:18 July 2026

Activists across Ireland have launched a wave of protests against Allied Irish Bank (AIB) over the company’s disgraceful plans to sign a £1.2 million deal with genocide-linked ‘Israeli‘ cybersecurity firm SNYK. Pro-Palestine group, Your Tech Their Deaths, released a compilation video publicising recent actions against the bank. It shows activists from across the island entering Allied Irish Bank premises. Highlighting the effectiveness of direct action, in some cases the bank responded by shutting branches down. Your Tech Your Deaths founder, Jude Farrell, told the Canary that activists from various groups hit 11 Allied Irish Bank branches in the last week. She said:…

Keir Starmer in Ankara as NATO announces £37bn missile deal

Post author:Joe Glenton
Post published:8 July 2026
Post last modified:9 July 2026

UK PM Keir Starmer was in Ankara on 7 July for a fraught NATO conference as the alliance announced a new £37bn missile deal. The major militarist project, known as Deep Precision Strike, is meant to protect Europe. The Turkey summit will be the outgoing Starmer’s last NATO conference. Anadolu Agency reported: The two-day meeting will focus on implementing defense spending commitments agreed at the 2025 summit, sustaining military support for Ukraine and expanding defense industrial production. The summit is taking place amid renewed debate over transatlantic burden-sharing and continued uncertainty over the Russia-Ukraine war. The BBC said the proposed system:…

Deal or No Deal and the British love affair with the game show format

Post author:Nathan Spears
Post published:6 July 2026
Post last modified:6 July 2026

Britain has a long tradition of television game shows, with formats that have remained part of popular culture for decades. Programmes such as Play Your Cards Right, Blankety Blank, The Generation Game, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and Deal or No Deal have become well-known references in the history of British television. Many of these productions combined simple rules with studio audiences, presenters and carefully structured moments of suspense. Although television consumption has changed significantly over time, these formats continue to influence the design of other forms of digital entertainment. A television tradition that has endured Game shows have occupied…

Watch: Starmer’s pharma deal with US will “cause over 200,000 avoidable deaths”

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:2 July 2026
Post last modified:3 July 2026

The Starmer government’s new ‘pharmaceutical deal’ surrender to the Trump regime will cost well over than 200,000 British lives, according to new analysis. Some £45bn will be diverted into the profits of US companies instead of providing treatment, with cancer patients especially hard hit. The report’s findings were covered by Sky: “.. a new drug supply deal between the US & UK could lead to more than 200,000 avoidable deaths. That’s because billions.. of NHS funding needs to be diverted under the agreement” The Lab right govt is letting profiteering US companies rip us off to the tune of £44.7bn by…

Israel collapses Iran-US deal, Swiss meeting cancelled

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:20 June 2026
Post last modified:20 June 2026

Israel has succeeded — at least for now — in its openly-admitted aim of collapsing peace talks between the US and Iran. Iranian negotiators said they would not attend talks in Geneva after Israel murdered dozens of people in airstrikes in Lebanon — so US vice-president JD Vance has also cancelled. According to Israeli claims, the occupation was retaliating for the destruction of an IOF tank which was busy invading southern Lebanon and the killing of its crew. If the Israelis don’t want their tanks destroyed, they should maybe pull them out of Lebanon. Israel — Gaslighting In a typical gaslighting…

Araghchi calls out Israel’s determination to collapse US-Iran deal

Post author:Skwawkbox
Post published:20 June 2026
Post last modified:20 June 2026

Iranian foreign minister Sayed Abbas Araghchi has taken direct aim at genocidal Israel’s determination to collapse the newly-signed ‘memorandum of understanding‘ for an eventual end to the US-Israel war of aggression on Iran. Araghchi quoted a comment posted today, 19 June 2026, by fascist Israeli ‘security’ minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. In it, Ben-Gvir threatened to kill a thousand Lebanese children for every invading Israeli soldier killed by Lebanese resistance. And Araghchi pointed that this was not just a “rant by a random genocidal lunatic”— with which Israel’s supporters abound. Instead, it is a “public post by the national security minister of the…

Environment secretary writes to Ofwat calling out Thames Water deal

Post author:Grace
Post published:16 June 2026
Post last modified:16 June 2026

Thames Water is now even closer to temporary nationalisation after the government objected to a £10bn rescue proposal from its creditors. Ofwat, the UK water regulator, is also feeling the heat, after Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds penned a letter to the watchdog criticising the lenders’ offering. She warns it would fail both the environment and customers. ‘A holiday from the rules’ Thames Water has teetered on the edge of ruin for several years, at this point. It’s currently buried under £20bn in debt, and has faced record fines for dumping untreated sewage into England’s waterways. The company will run out of…

Terms of Iran and US peace deal to be formalised on Friday

Post author:Joe Glenton
Post published:15 June 2026
Post last modified:15 June 2026

Iran and the US are set to sign a new peace deal this Friday. The US has been humiliated on multiple fronts, to say the least. The Oman-brokered deal, as we have often repeated, offered unprecedented concessions, but the US and Israel attacked Iran anyway. The full terms of the new deal are not yet clear. But we are being told the details are finalised, to be formally signed on 19 June. Here is what the news agency Reuters has reported: STRAIT OF HORMUZ: * Iran immediately reopens the Strait of Hormuz to all commercial vessels, while the U.S. ⁠lifts its naval…

Palantir deal could hand your personal data to Trump administration

Post author:Joe Glenton
Post published:1 June 2026
Post last modified:9 June 2026

A scandalous deal between hard-right AI war firm Palantir and the UK’s financial authority could hand the Trump administration your personal data. Meanwhile, campaigners and MPs say that the deal with Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) must prove that sensitive information will not fall into Trump’s hands. On 1 June, the Guardian reported: A US law that can oblige tech companies to disclose information to American authorities may apply to Palantir’s deal to help the Financial Conduct Authority detect crime. House of Commons science and technology select committee Martin Wrigley MP delivered the warning. He was quoted by the Guardian saying that…

London mayor Sadiq Khan and Met police in row over £50m Palantir deal

Post author:Joe Glenton
Post published:22 May 2026
Post last modified:8 June 2026

London mayor Sadiq Khan has royally annoyed the Met Police after he blocked a £50m deal to hand the cops Palantir technology. Palantir is the genocide-linked AI war firm which has won major military and NHS contracts. Palantir’s founders have openly espoused a far-right ideology. The Guardian reported: After the UK’s largest police force had agreed to use Palantir’s AI technology to automate intelligence analysis in criminal investigations, Khan intervened, citing “serious concerns” about how the deal had been struck. The mayor’s office said there had been a “clear and serious breach” of procurement rules and said police had only seriously…