Met Police re-opens war crimes case on Britons fighting for Israel

• Post author:DANIA AKKAD
• Post published:23 July 2026
• Post last modified:23 July 2026

Exclusive: The Metropolitan Police has reversed its decision to close a war crimes probe into UK nationals who fought in Gaza. The Metropolitan Police Service has reversed its decision to close a war crimes probe into UK nationals who fought for Israel amid the Gaza genocide, it can be revealed. The 240-page referral was first submitted by the Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) in August 2025. It alleged that ten UK nationals – including dual citizens – had committed war crimes and crimes against humanity while fighting for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF)…

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Wes Streeting said Israel was committing war crimes. What now?

• Post author:DANIA AKKAD
• Post published:22 July 2026
• Post last modified:22 July 2026

Andy Burnham’s new defence secretary is now responsible for the military treaty with a country he believes exhibits “rogue state behaviour” Late last July, as a famine unfolded in Gaza and Israeli settler attacks intensified in the West Bank, Wes Streeting texted a friend shortly before midnight. “Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes,” the then health secretary told Peter Mandelson over WhatsApp.“Their government talks the languages of ethnic cleansing and I have met with our own medics out there who describe the most chilling and distressing scenes of calculated brutality against women and children.”In messages that Streeting released earlier…

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Trump’s Iran war plunges the Global South into a state of siege

• Post author:Nandita Lal
• Post published:14 July 2026
• Post last modified:14 July 2026

In a scathing new report, the International Development Economics Associates Limited (IDEAs) has documented the heavy toll Global South continues to pay for a war it did not create — as corporations cash in. The report describes a state of siege across the Global South region, with countries facing mounting economic pressure as the fallout from the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran spreads. Global South picks up the tab The report stated that operations of Epic Fury waged by the US, and Roaring Lion waged by the colonial-settler state Israel have led to substantial hardship for countries throughout the global…

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The Murdoch rags & the Mail are at war with Reform UK

• Post author:Willem Moore
• Post published:14 July 2026
• Post last modified:14 July 2026

The observant among you may have noticed that the mainstream media have recently rounded on Reform UK and Nigel Farage. Interestingly, the outlets ganging up on Reform include the Daily Mail and Rupert Murdoch’s the Times: Pleased as I am to see the Murdoch and Rothermere press attacking Farage as stridently as they previously lavished praise on him, I can't help wondering what has brought on the recent U-turn — David__Osland (@David__Osland) July 13, 2026 Reform: right-on-right violence The broader strokes of what these outlets are reporting on are things independent journalists began covering years ago. The Times and others have certainly…

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Manchester mayoral election — Greens slam ‘unserious’ Labour as Reform ‘go to war’

• Post author:Cameron Baillie
• Post published:13 July 2026
• Post last modified:13 July 2026

The Green Party tells the Canary that Labour’s “contempt for Greater Manchester residents” is on full display as the mayoral election looms soon. The party slams Labour for failing to yet deliver a costed manifesto, saying that Greater Manchester voters need to know what they are voting for. It’s now just over two weeks until Greater Manchester goes to the polls on 30 July. Postal votes are already landing on doorsteps for the single most significant ongoing election in English politics outside of Westminster. But Labour’s candidate, Bev Craig, has failed to publish a manifesto yet. Even Reform UK, despite Clacton-caused…

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The Capitulation Treaty: How the Lebanese Regime Shielded Israeli War Crimes

• Post author:Mohamad Kleit
• Post published:10 July 2026
• Post last modified:11 July 2026

If the Lebanese state refuses to stand as a shield for its own people, who will hold the Israeli war machine accountable for its savage campaign of devastation? Israel’s unchecked brutality The numbers released by the Lebanese Ministry of Health paint a horrifying picture of unchecked brutality: more than 4,000 human lives extinguished; over 12,000 individuals maimed and wounded; an entire nation subjected to calculated terror. This is not mere collateral damage; it is a systematic logbook of unpunished war crimes. From the deliberate obliteration of entire villages and the engineering of mass human displacement to the calculated targeting of journalists,…

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China has saved the global oil market amid Trump’s war on Iran

• Post author:Nandita Lal
• Post published:9 July 2026
• Post last modified:9 July 2026

A prominent oil analyst has claimed that China’s dramatic reduction in crude oil imports since the US/Israel war of choice on Iran helped prevent a full-blown global energy shock. Real demand for oil plateauing in China In an interview with German DW, oil analyst Rory Johnston said: Chinese crude oil imports fell by roughly 40- 45%, roughly 5 million barrels a day from pre-war levels to the levels we saw average through June. That is gargantuan. That is a larger shift than the entirety of the world’s SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserves) releases combined. According to Reuters, since the unprovoked war on…

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Matt Kennard explains how the ‘War on Terror’ put the far right in charge

• Post author:Ed Sykes
• Post published:7 July 2026
• Post last modified:8 July 2026

Journalist Matt Kennard’s book Irregular Army shows how the ‘War on Terror’ pushed the US further into authoritarian extremism. And following the release of a new expanded and revised edition, we spoke to him to find out why the book remains so relevant today. War atrocities, neo-Nazis, and Trump The Declassified UK co-founder told the Canary that: The War on Terror militarised American political life. It taught the public to accept permanent emergency, surveillance, secrecy, executive violence, and the idea that whole populations could be treated as enemies. That logic did not stay in Fallujah or Kandahar; it came home. The…

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Stop the War slams media platforming generals and arms companies

• Post author:The Canary
• Post published:30 June 2026
• Post last modified:1 July 2026

Keir Starmer announced his defence investment plan (DIP) today and while the media is welcoming it with open arms (pun intended), the Stop the War (StW) Coalition has rightly called out the BS. The FT said the increase in defence spending of approximately £15 billion was recently raised by £1 billion in the wake of John Healey’s resignation as defence secretary this month. It has apparently been signed off by Starmer’s expected successor, Andy Burnham. Stop the War: ‘Never mind the cost of living crisis…’ Stop the War (StW) Coalition posted on X that generals and arms companies have been all…

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White House requests $67bn for Iran war — where it already declared victory

• Post author:Grace
• Post published:25 June 2026
• Post last modified:25 June 2026

The White House house has now asked Congress to grant a funding request for $87.6bn, some $67bn of which will go straight to the US ‘War Department’. For the most part, the massive bill is directly related to “urgent needs” regarding the war in Iran. The news comes after the US Senate passed its symbolic War Powers Resolution on 23 June. Four Republicans supported the resolution, which nominally forbids Trump from continuing hostilities against Iran without congressional approval. However, it doesn’t carry the weight of law. Likewise, it also follows over a week after both Trump and Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkianset…

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US Senate passes War Powers Resolution, heaping embarrassment on Trump’s Iran loss

• Post author:Grace
• Post published:24 June 2026
• Post last modified:25 June 2026

Trump’s war on Iran has finally gone too far even for the Republican-controlled US Senate — on 23 June, the upper house passed a War Powers Resolution nominally barring the president from continuing hostilities against Iran without congressional approval. Unfortunately, the resolution is primarily a symbolic gesture. Whilst the resolution passed the lower House of Representatives at the beginning of June, and has now passed through the Senate, it won’t be passed to Trump for his approval. Likewise, it won’t carry the weight of law. Meanwhile, Trump has called the act “poorly timed and meaningless”, and signalled his intent to ignore…

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UN inquiry: Israel deliberately targeting Palestinian children in genocide, war crimes

• Post author:The Canary
• Post published:23 June 2026
• Post last modified:24 June 2026

Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent UN inquiry said in a new report released today. The report found that Israel has targeted Palestinian children in Gaza in two distinct ways: directly by shooting at their vital organs using precision weapons such as quadcopters and snipers; and through the use of high-impact weapons, causing widespread and systematic attacks on residential buildings, schools, and displacement camps crowded with children. It also found that killing continued even after the October…

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The war against Iran may have ended, but Trump’s war against anti-war Iranians continues

• Post author:Sanaz Raji
• Post published:22 June 2026
• Post last modified:22 June 2026

It was upsetting for fans to learn that Team Melli – the affectionate nickname for Iran’s national football team – was forced by US immigration authorities to leave immediately after their World Cup match in Los Angeles against New Zealand. Previously, the Iranian national football team was supposed to stay in Los Angeles after the match to recover. This incident follows several Iranian football personnel being denied visas to enter the US. When the US and Israel were still at war with Iran, Team Melli was forced to abandon its Arizona training base. At the invitation of Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum,…

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War bonds and socialism ‘reassure’ Burnham’s financiers

• Post author:The Canary
• Post published:22 June 2026
• Post last modified:22 June 2026

When the press tells us we should be “reassured” by Andy Burnham’s economic team, we should be worried. Bloomberg’s headline says it all: Burnham’s Finance Friends Are a Reassuring Bunch What follows in the article is an admission that Burnham has surrounded himself with the very architects of the system that he is seemingly rebelling against.  These are the men reassuring the bond markets: Jim O’Neill (Goldman Sachs), Andy Haldane (Bank of England), and Richard Hughes (the hedge fund man). That should tell us everything we need to know. Bloomberg seemingly praises Andrew Haldane’s plans for “war bonds to boost defense spending”. They…

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Avi Lewis ruins Canada PM Mark Carney over ‘Iran war was worth it’ gaffe

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

Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Avi Lewis has just rinsed ex-banker PM Mark Carney over a bizarre claim that the US war on Iran was “worth it”. Lewis said Carney’s comments were ‘disturbing’ and an ‘insult’ to Iranians killed by the “imperial’ war of aggression. He also said the war had harmed the Canadian workers hit with higher costs for basic necessities. Lewis — think Jeremy Corbyn plus Zack Polanski plus a bit of Naomi Klein (he is the left-wing author’s husband) — is the socialist, anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist Jewish leader of Canada’s most left-wing electoral party. Lewis was responding…

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War hungry Thiel’s secret meeting in Ireland exposed

• Post author:The Canary
• Post published:18 June 2026
• Post last modified:18 June 2026

Technofascist, AI-loving, German-American billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel’s secret meeting near Dublin this August was a four-day retreat for over 220 of the world’s most powerful elites, including NATO’s top commander, politicians and their advisors (read cronies), tech moguls, media barons and others. View this post on Instagram A post shared by WIRED (@wired) WIRED reported that a directory for the secretive society, known as Dialog, was revealed by Swiss hacktivist Maia Arson Crimew, who received it via an anonymous tip and independently verified its contents. WIRED also verified the registration list for Dialog’s 2026 retreat with a separate source.…

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Israeli arms imports to UK surged during Gaza war

• Post author:DANIA AKKAD
• Post published:18 June 2026
• Post last modified:2 July 2026

UN trade data shows value of military goods from Israel to UK increased by a factor of more than 100 between 2023 and 2025 The value of Israeli military goods imported into the UK multiplied by more than 100 times during the war on Gaza, an analysis of international trade data by Action on Armed Violence has revealed. Figures from the UN Comtrade database show that UK imports from Israel of arms, ammunition and related parts increased from just £55,000 in 2023 to almost £5.9 million in 2025.  That is equivalent to around a 10,589 percent rise during two years in…

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One killed in US ‘narco’ strike as Trump’s Latin America shadow war builds steam

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

One person was killed and two injured in the latest ‘narco’ boat strike in the eastern Pacific on 17 June. While all eyes are on US-Iran peace talks, US president Donald Trump’s administration is still terrorising Latin America. The US has killed over 200 people in the Caribbean and Pacific under the guise of stopping ‘narco-terrorist’ boats. The US military’s southern command posted on X: On June 16, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was…

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Ex-defence minister Al Carns condemns ‘unbelievable’ waste of war industry

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

Ex-defence minister Al Carns has condemned the waste and inefficiency of the British war machine. The former commando wants more to be spent on war. He’s wrong, but his latest interview does expose certain grim truths about the UK war machine. Carns resigned his cabinet post as a junior defence minister on 11 June, citing Starmer’s failings on the so-called Defence Investment Plan (DIP): We owe those who serve the UK the kit to do the job and the loyalty to stand by them when it's done. We are failing on both. I’ve spent my whole time in government making that…

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Book Review: Outlasting the War on Terror in Iraq

• Post author:Nazli Tarzi
• Post published:16 June 2026
• Post last modified:17 June 2026

The War on Terror has claimed countless Iraqi lives and left social systems irreparably fractured. The lasting injury is the subject of anthropologist Kali Rubaii’s debut book, Resurgency: Outlasting the War on Terror. Few studies have captured in such depth the ways Anbaris’ react, respond and heal from “war-induced social and ecological collapse.” Rubaii’s journey began in Fallujah a decade prior, supporting local hospitals through transnational solidarity work. She returned in subsequent years. Moreover, she came to form close relations with displaced Anbari farmers. After the guns go silent The portrait of Fallujah isn’t the city caricatured as the launchpad of…

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