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<p>I’m an elderly lefty, living in South West England who’s looking for a nice place in the fediverse where I can share/ learn/ politely disagree etc with others &amp; (occasionally) vent my frustrations &amp; concerns about the parlous state of the world that my grandkids are growing up in! When I’m not “doom scrolling” I enjoy gardening, bird watching, bread baking &amp; being the best granddad I can be.</p>

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    “The civilisational collapse cult” by Sam Bright on Substack @uk_politics @thegreenparty @green “Nigel Farage has said he thinks it’s ‘absolutely nuts’ for CO2 to be considered a pollutant, while Kemi Badenoch says candidates aren’t welcome in the Conservative Party who support the UK’s 2050 net zero emissions target. The backdrop? Wildfires raging across Europe, forcing more than 300,000 people to flee their homes. Welcome to the civilisational collapse cult” https://open.substack.com/...

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    “Leaked files expose Britain’s covert influence campaign in Iraq” by Kit Klarenberg in The Cradle @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press @uk_politics “Leaked documents describe an elaborate campaign built during the war against ISIS, with Baghdad’s youth-oriented news and social media platform Yalla at its center. They detail how a British government contractor planned to use its considerable reach t...

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    “‘By the Way, the World is Not Stopping Us’: The Secret of Israel’s ‘Success’” by Jeremy Salt in The Palestine Chronicle @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Had a multinational military force been sent to Gaza to protect the Palestinians, Israel would have had to choose between confrontation and withdrawal, but this option wasn’t even considered by an ‘international community’ committed to upholdi...

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    “Today’s Headlines: Two Palestinians Killed | Ceasefire without Meaning | ‘Kingdom of Hypocrisy’” by Palestine Chronicle Staff @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Read the latest headlines and summaries from today’s coverage by The Palestine Chronicle” https://www.palestinechronicle.com/todays-headlines-two-palestinians-killed-ceasefire-without-meaning-kingdom-of-hypocrisy/ #Press #SocialMedia #...

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    All the trustworthy news &amp; analysis on #Israel’s ongoing #PalestinianGenocide in Gaza &amp; the West Bank - and the heroic #Palestinian #resistance - that you won’t get from the genocide-enabling #Vichy #LegacyMedia - especially the #Zionist-run #BBC state propaganda ‘service’! Now also including Trump’s renewed attacks on Iran following the #US/ Israel surrender after #OperationEpsteinFury &amp; Netanyahu’s ongoing “Greater Israel” desecration of #Lebanon! https://www.palestinechronicle.co...

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    “The US springboarded its regime change in Iraq from Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf allies, working alongside them to collapse one government after another across the region. Now it is targeting Iran in order to take out the only nation on earth that backs up resistance factions across the region. Hence the propaganda aimed at convincing people that Sunni and Shia Muslims should be at war, it is a trick aimed at convincing populations across West Asia to kill each other in order to strengthen...

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    “The ‘Mecca Pact’ Exposed: A Muslim Alliance Fighting Yemen with Israel’s Help” by Robert Inlakesh in The Palestine Chronicle @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Pakistan and Turkiye have declared their intention to back Saudi Arabia in its war on Yemen, implementing the mutual defense clause embedded within the recently signed ‘Mecca Pact’. Originally portrayed as the emergence of a Sunni Muslim...

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    “Today’s Headlines: Tanker Struck near Qatar | ‘Mecca Pact’ Exposed | Who Will Monitor Europe?” by Palestine Chronicle Staff @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Read the latest headlines and summaries from today’s coverage by The Palestine Chronicle” https://www.palestinechronicle.com/todays-headlines-tanker-struck-near-qatar-mecca-pact-exposed-who-will-monitor-europe/ #Press #SocialMedia #Journ...

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    All the trustworthy news &amp; analysis on #Israel’s ongoing #PalestinianGenocide in Gaza &amp; the West Bank - and the heroic #Palestinian #resistance - that you won’t get from the genocide-enabling #Vichy #LegacyMedia - especially the #Zionist-run #BBC state propaganda ‘service’! Now also including Trump’s renewed attacks on Iran following the #US/ Israel surrender after #OperationEpsteinFury &amp; Netanyahu’s ongoing “Greater Israel” desecration of #Lebanon! https://www.palestinechronicle.co...

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    “Why Britain is being forced to revisit the Balfour Declaration” by Soumaya Ghannoushi in Middle East Eye @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “For decades, western politics permitted criticism of Israel, provided it stopped short of Zionism itself. Governments could be condemned, [..] Netanyahu denounced - but the founding ideology remained beyond the limits of respectable debate. That line has n...

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    “British support for Israel is shattering” by David Hearst in Middle East Eye @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press @UKLabour@mastodon.cloud @thegreenparty @uk_politics “A dam has burst in British politics.” [..] “For the first time, a British foreign secretary told those fighting for justice for the Palestinians that they were right. For the first time, Britain has committed itself to a UN d...

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    “From Suez to Hormuz: The crisis of American hegemony after October 7” by Amro Allan in Al Mayadeen English @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “When a hegemonic power cannot subordinate an adversary materially weaker than itself, war can accelerate the exposure of the limits of its position. It can also lead other states to reconsider assumptions they had previously treated as settled” https://eng...

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    “Al-Aqsa Flood: Engaging &amp; Imagining #Anticolonial #Resistance” @uk_politics @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Announcing a year-long #collaborative #study October 7, 2026 - On the third anniversary of the al-Aqsa Flood, the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism [#ICSZ] announces a year-long project of study of this historic act of #Palestinian resistance and its meanings and consequences for our shared worlds and...

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    “It Took A Live-Streamed Genocide To Punch Through The Wall Of Western Apathy” by Caitlin Johnstone in Caitlin’s Newsletter on Substack @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “I never wanted to know what it looks like when military explosives blow an infant’s head off. I only know it because Israel forced me to know it. The reason the Gaza holocaust hit westerners so hard is because it punched throug...

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    “Three Years Of The Hannibal Directive Cover-Up” by Justin K. P. In The Dissident on Substack @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “For exactly three years today, the mainstream media and Western governments have covered up what really happened during Hamas’ Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7th of 2023. Most notably, they have continued to cover up the fact that Israel issued the ‘Hannibal direct...

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    “The media refuses to ask Palestinians if Zionism is racism. Apparently, only Zionist feelings count” by Ricky from Council Estate Media on Substack @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @uk_politics @BBC5Live@social.bbc @BBCRadio4@social.bbc @BBCNews@flipboard.com @guardian@press.coop @Independent@flipboard.com @thetimes@press.coop @thegreenparty “The most telling thing about the backlash against the Greens’ ‘Zionism is racism’ motion is the refusal of the media...

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    True to form! When push comes to shove the Grauniad *always* stands with the Zionist-run corporate establishment! “The Guardian inverts reality as number of UK anti-Zionist Jews leaps by 50%” by Skwawkbox with The Canary @thecanaryuk@independent-media.co.uk @uk_politics @guardian@press.coop @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press The Guardian has been accused of inverting reality in its attempt to...

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    “Today’s Headlines: Three Years of Genocide | We Will Continue Resisting | The Genocide of Women” by Palestine Chronicle Staff @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Read the latest headlines and summaries from today’s coverage by The Palestine Chronicle” https://www.palestinechronicle.com/todays-headlines-three-years-of-genocide-we-will-continue-resisting-the-genocide-of-women/ #Press #SocialMedia...

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    All the trustworthy news &amp; analysis on #Israel’s ongoing #PalestinianGenocide in Gaza &amp; the West Bank - and the heroic #Palestinian #resistance - that you won’t get from the genocide-enabling #Vichy #LegacyMedia - especially the #Zionist-run #BBC state propaganda ‘service’! Now also including Trump’s renewed attacks on Iran following the #US/ Israel surrender after #OperationEpsteinFury &amp; Netanyahu’s ongoing “Greater Israel” desecration of #Lebanon! https://www.palestinechronicle.co...

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    “[UK] TORIES TOOK £1.3 MILLION FROM FIRM LINKED TO ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS” by Martin Williams and Dania Akkad in Declassified UK @uk_politics @UKLabour@mastodon.cloud @thegreenparty @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “The Conservative Party took £1.3m in donations from a business linked to the destruction of Palestinian villages – before opposing new sanctions on Israeli settlements last month.” [..] “Peter Frankental, Amnest...

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    “Zach Bryan smashes Sheeran’s stadium record after defying Kraft on Palestine” by Skwawkbox with The Canary @thecanaryuk@independent-media.co.uk @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Country musician Zach Bryan defied ultra-Zionist billionaire Robert Kraft for his concert last Friday. Singer Ed Sheeran had shamed himself by caving to Kraft and sacking rapper Macklemore for showing solidarity with Palestine.” [..] “Bryan wore...

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    “The Green Party Is the First Major Political Party in Europe, to tell the truth about Zionism – That it is a Racist, Genocidal, Ethnic Cleansing Ideology” by veteran UK socialist &amp; anti-Zionist campaigner Tony #Greenstein in his regular blogpost @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press @thegreenparty @uk_politics @ZackPolanski@mastodon.green “My Question to Caroline #Lucas and the Green #MPs is...

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    “British Greens Adopt ‘Zionism is Racism’ Policy – All We Need to Know” by Palestine Chronicle Staff @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press @thegreenparty @uk_politics “Key Takeaways: - Green Party members voted 1,022 to 813 to adopt a motion stating that Zionism, as defined in the policy, should be treated as racism. - The policy supports Palestinian liberation, the right of return, BDS, a full ar...

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    “Today’s Headlines: Israel Continues Shelling across Gaza | Over 800 Teachers Killed | ‘Completely Untrue’” by Palestine Chronicle Staff @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Read the latest headlines and summaries from today’s coverage by The Palestine Chronicle” https://www.palestinechronicle.com/todays-headlines-israel-continues-shelling-across-gaza-over-800-teachers-killed-completely-untrue/ #...

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    All the trustworthy news &amp; analysis on #Israel’s ongoing #PalestinianGenocide in Gaza &amp; the West Bank - and the heroic #Palestinian #resistance - that you won’t get from the genocide-enabling #Vichy #LegacyMedia - especially the #Zionist-run #BBC state propaganda ‘service’! Now also including Trump’s renewed attacks on Iran following the #US/ Israel surrender after #OperationEpsteinFury &amp; Netanyahu’s ongoing “Greater Israel” desecration of #Lebanon! https://www.palestinechronicle.co...

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    All the trustworthy news &amp; analysis on #Israel’s ongoing #PalestinianGenocide in Gaza &amp; the West Bank - and the heroic #Palestinian #resistance - that you won’t get from the genocide-enabling #Vichy #LegacyMedia - especially the #Zionist-run #BBC state propaganda ‘service’! Now also including Trump’s renewed attacks on Iran following the #US/ Israel surrender after #OperationEpsteinFury &amp; Netanyahu’s ongoing “Greater Israel” desecration of #Lebanon! https://www.palestinechronicle.co...

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    “Today’s Headlines: Israel Continues Shelling across Gaza | Over 800 Teachers Killed | ‘Completely Untrue’” by Palestine Chronicle Staff @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Read the latest headlines and summaries from today’s coverage by The Palestine Chronicle” https://www.palestinechronicle.com/todays-headlines-israel-continues-shelling-across-gaza-over-800-teachers-killed-completely-untrue/ #...

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    “Labour’s Holborn candidate ‘is Zionist JLM member’” by Skwawkbox with The Canary @uk_politics @thecanaryuk@independent-media.co.uk @UKLabour@mastodon.cloud @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “Sagal Abdi-Wali, the Labour candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, appears to be an ‘ally’ member of the ultra-Zionist ‘Jewish Labour Movement‘ (JLM). At the very least, she has extensive li...

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    “BREAKING: Greens also vote overwhelmingly to boycott Israel” by Skwawkbox with The Canary @uk_politics @thegreenparty @thecanaryuk@independent-media.co.uk @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “The Greens are the first major UK party to make the common-sense declaration that believing you have a right to expel and kill people on the grounds of race and religion is racist. And they are also formal...

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    “BREAKING: Green party passes ‘Zionism is racism’ motion despite Israel lobby tactics” by Skwawkbox with the Canary @uk_politics @thecanaryuk@independent-media.co.uk @thegreenparty @ZackPolanski@mastodon.green @ZackPolanski@mastox.eu @palestine@fedibird.com @Palestine@masto.ai @palestine@lemmy.ml @iran @iraq@mastodon.social @palestinenews@gts.liberated.press “UK voters now, at last, have a party to support that explicitly opposed Israel’s genocide in Gaza, its apartheid and its theft...