G.A.Howkins

Abolish the monarchy. Abolish the House of Lords. Abolish the Murdoch press. Establish a real democracy. #NotMyKing

Brilliant video, Jake Dart debunks the “Sharia takeover of London”

BREAKING: Trump administration is reinstating sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur @FranceskAlbs, the world's leading investigator of Israeli apartheid & genocide in Palestine. A three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit Court just issued an administrative stay, allowing the Justice Department to restart punishing Albanese while the courts deliberate. Judge Richard Leon had correctly blocked the sanctions, recognizing that Albanese's First Amendment rights are protected because she owns property in the U.S. and her daughter is an American citizen. But the Justice Department is arguing that foreign nationals abroad have no constitutional rights—a dangerous precedent that would gut free speech protections globally. The Court of Appeals has scheduled key filings for May 28 and June 2. This isn't just about Francesca. It's about whether America will uphold free speech or become complicit in Israel's crimes through censorship and intimidation.

Detainees dragged on their knees, hands tied, in humiliation propaganda by Israel’s Security Minister– and this time, they’re not Palestinian. The reaction has been diplomatic fury at the sadistic treatment of flotilla activists. “Appalling”, “degrading” and “unacceptable” is how EU leaders have slammed the footage. Israeli ambassadors have been summoned to their capitals from the UK to France to Italy to Canada. Roughly 430 passengers were seized and taken to Israeli detention. Peter Oborne hits out at the double standard in international response, when Palestinians are tortured and abused in Israeli prisons everyday. Watch the full episode of MEE Live on Middle East Eye's YouTube channel.

🚨Huge Anthony Lowenstein who spent most of his life as a normie journalist just exposed a false flag operation in Australia. He confirms the individuals arrested for arson attacks on synagogues were not anti-Semitic at all. They were literally petty criminals paid by shadowy groups to stage hate crimes. It wasn’t “Iran” as claimed. Even Anthony Lowenstein is saying it but the mainstream media isn’t.

Here's a good joke for your Bank Holiday. A British magistrate identified in court papers only as "Taylor" has been deciding convictions and sentences for more than 100 British defendants from his home. In Portugal. The arrangement, conducted under the Single Justice Procedure - which is the streamlined process by which a magistrate can deal with minor offences without an open court hearing - was running for years before anyone in the British legal system noticed it was happening, and would still be running today if a fellow magistrate had not, at considerable personal cost, refused to take part and raised the alarm. The whistleblower in question is a serving magistrate who had concluded, after some study, that what was being done was unlawful. He is now suing the Ministry of Justice. He alleges that, having flagged the practice internally, he was bullied, ostracised and progressively excluded from the work he had volunteered to do. The only thing about this that's a surprise is that it's been exposed at all. This sort of baroque, even sublime level of piss-taking is, by now, a recognisable British institutional ritual. So, I must concede, is the reaction to it. An individual notices something is wrong, says so through the proper channels, is treated by the institution as the problem, gets bullied half to death, and ends up in court. We saw it with Alan Bates, with the consultants at the Letby ward, with the surveyors at Grenfell, and now with this magistrate, who has the additional indignity of having had to bring his case while his colleague was, presumably, still in the Algarve. The Ministry of Justice's response is the part of the story that most repays attention. Asked, by Sir Jeremy Hunt MP in Parliament, whether more than 100 convictions secured by a magistrate sitting from a different country might need to be revisited, the Ministry stated that there were "no grounds to suggest that any case where the magistrate conducted remote hearings from abroad was unlawful or needed nullification." The Senior Presiding Judge then advised, in a separate communication, that magistrates and judges should not, in fact, be conducting court proceedings from outside the United Kingdom, the diplomatic objections of the foreign states involved being one of the more obvious reasons. The two positions are not formally in conflict. They are, however, the same Ministry saying that an arrangement which the senior judiciary has now banned for the future was, until ten minutes ago, completely fine. Totally alright. One hundred British defendants (at the lower end of the magistrates' jurisdiction, sure, but the lower end is where most people in this country actually encounter the courts) have now been sentenced by a man from his holiday home. When the Ministry of Justice found out, it concluded that the arrangement was fine. When the Senior Presiding Judge found out, he concluded that it was not. The whistleblower who exposed the whole thing has, predictably, been treated by his colleagues as the problem and is now suing his own Ministry. The convictions, meanwhile, stand. I just hope I get the screenplay rights to this one. It's just too perfect an encapsulation of what the British genius, once responsible for the architecture of the world and man's command over nature, has been reduced to: running obvious abuses of office, rank, and authority for years under the noses of the people paid to notice but too thick or venal to actually notice. If we weren't being consistently saved by single people, heroic individuals, willing to throw themselves into the meat grinder to expose these charlatan prats by a single individual at his own cost, it's absolutely frightening to imagine where we'd be. In respect of abuses like this, like Chagos, like the rape gangs. Anyway, the arrangement ends and the convictions stand. The magistrate will fly back from Portugal (he's still sitting!). The Ministry of Justice will issue a procedural note. The whistleblower goes to tribunal. It's not only time we root-and-branched the criminal justice system in this country - in which 'criminal justice' has come to imply an affinity for the criminal, just as the 'Taylor Swift Holy Dinner Party & Human Affairs Circuit' implies an affinity for Taylor Swift - but our approach to whistleblowing as well. These are the only people preventing our slide into barbarism, as things stand. And whistleblowers who exposed dysfunctions of this kind will, under a Progress government, be honoured for the public service they have performed, and the institutions that punished them will be held to account for the punishing.

Promises with hope and a plan is exactly what this country needs. The Green plan. A promise for wealth taxes, a promise for rent controls, a promise to stop arming a genocide.

Get holocaust-supporting Staveley suspended NOW, @gmcuk.

A transnational Jewish-Italian mob network centered on Meyer Lansky and Santo Trafficante ran Cuba as a privatized extraction arm of US empire: gambling, laundering, narcotics, prostitution, political bribery. What the US could not openly run on its own border, the syndicate ran for it in Havana. Batista was on a $ 1.28-million-a-month retainer, delivered every Monday at noon. His development bank bankrolled half of every new mob casino. And this was not just gambling. Havana was a key node in the postwar heroin pipeline: Turkish opium, Marseille labs, Havana transshipment, New York distribution. By the late 1960s, that French Connection network supplied most of America’s heroin. Then Castro won. In January 1959 the casinos were smashed, the bosses fled or were detained, and Batista escaped with a fortune estimated around $300 million. The national lottery, once a graft channel, was converted into a housing fund. But the mob did not disappear. It was redeployed. Lansky’s lieutenant Doc Stacher later said Lansky offered to finance Castro’s assassination as early as 1959. By September 1960, the CIA was running the operation directly. The Agency hired Johnny Rosselli, Sam Giancana, and Santo Trafficante. The opening offer was $150,000. The weapon: poison pills from the CIA’s Technical Services Division. The 1975 Church Committee found concrete evidence of at least eight CIA plots against Castro between 1960 and 1965. The same Havana-Miami underworld that lost Cuba in 1959 became useful again as the deniable violence arm of US policy. Of the three mob figures the CIA hired, Giancana was murdered before he could testify to Congress. Rosselli was murdered after he did. Trafficante survived. The continuity is structural, not anecdotal: Tampa, Havana, Miami. Casinos became exile paramilitaries. Exile paramilitaries became lobby infrastructure. Jorge Mas Canosa, a Bay of Pigs veteran and CIA-radio figure, founded the Cuban American National Foundation in 1981 at the suggestion of Reagan's advisors. It was modeled on AIPAC and built to harden Cuba policy permanently. The lobby's most famous operative was Luis Posada Carriles: CIA-trained, Bay of Pigs veteran, Iran-Contra contractor under Oliver North, perpetrator of the 1976 mid-air bombing of Cubana Flight 455 (73 dead) and the 1997 Havana hotel bombings. By 1998, he had publicly named Mas Canosa as his financier. He died free in Miami in 2018. They did not just lobby. They wrote the laws. 1992: Cuban Democracy Act. 1996: Helms-Burton. 2019: Trump activates Title III, letting US claimants sue foreign firms using confiscated Cuban property. Today the legal afterlife of Batista’s Cuba runs through federal court: hotel chains, expropriation claims, embargo law, and Miami political power. Marco Rubio, now Secretary of State, is a product of that machine. When he says “freedom in Cuba,” hear the history underneath it: the old casino mobster class wants its island back

🚨 do you understand what just happened to Itamar Ben-Gvir.. The far-right National Security Minister just got banned from France after taunting detained Gaza flotilla activists on camera. This is the same man who: •Was a teenage Kahanist with a long rap sheet for racism and terrorism •Was deemed “too extreme” to serve in the IDF… •Keeps a portrait of a terrorist in his home and has celebrated terrorist acts for years Yet he was handed control of the police... This week he filmed himself waving the Israeli flag and taunting zip-tied activists (including Europeans) who were forced to kneel in front of him as he called himself “the landlord.” France’s response was immediate: full entry ban, calling his behavior “reprehensible.” The most radical voice in the cabinet just kept getting more power and now the whole world knows his name.

The main road to Nabatieh, Lebanon

IF WE DON’T START TALKING ABOUT DATA CENTERS NOW. WE LOSE EVERYTHING. WATER. ENERGY. LAND. THIS IS BIGGER THAN MOST PEOPLE REALIZE. Global data centers already consume 415 TWh of electricity (1.5% of the world’s total in 2024) and by 2030? Projected to hit 945 TWh nearly double in 4 years, rivaling entire countries’ power use. In the US alone: 176 TWh (4.4% of national electricity) today, heading toward 6-12% by 2028. One hyperscale campus can suck as much power as 100,000+ homes. They’re guzzling billions of gallons of water daily for cooling. enough to stress rivers, lakes, and entire communities while blacking out grids.This isn’t “progress.” It’s an unchecked explosion of AI infrastructure that’s about to spike your electric bills, drain local water, and reshape energy policy for decades. We need transparency, smart regluation, and real debate before Big Tech owns the future and we pay the price

The Nazis adopted a reprisal policy, killing 50 or 100 Jews for every German killed, such as in Romania in 1941. books.google.com.py/books?id=1KL-n… Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich today: "For every explosive drone [in Lebanon], 10 buildings in Beirut should fall." jpost.com/israel-news/de…

Israel is bombing residential neighborhoods in Tyre, Lebanon. Tyre is a biblical city, and Israel seeks to destroy it 😞

When Gordon Brown appointed Mendelsohn as Labour’s director of general election resources, he was criticised for promoting an individual who had previously lobbied on behalf of the Ladbrokes betting firm. In 2008, Brown became the first British PM to address the Israeli Knesset.

Imagine being a soldier in a national army and you’re ordered to detain peaceful unarmed protesters. So you take them into custody and torture and rape them. It’s not normal. There is something deeply sick at the heart of Israeli society.

Patrick Diamond is a former Special Advisor to Peter Mandelson, the ex-Labour Party peer and “best pal” of Jeffrey Epstein. In the early 1990s, Diamond spent time living and working at an Israeli colony called Lahav. Lahav is 5km from the illegal Eshkolot settlement.

Ko Tinmaung, a Toronto-based Rohingya activist, has been released after more than 96 hours in Israeli detention following Israel’s hijacking of the Global Sumud Flotilla and the abduction of its civilian participants. His testimony is horrifying. He says he was beaten in a dark room by more than five people, kicked, punched, tasered in multiple places, and handcuffed so tightly that the restraints cut into his wrists and restricted blood flow. He says he still needs treatment for concussion-like injuries. He also says he witnessed other detainees with broken ribs, head wounds, blood from their ears, eye injuries, broken noses and broken teeth. Most gravely, he alleges sexual assaults, including people being tasered on their genitals. Tinmaung’s testimony also exposes the racial dimension of Israeli violence. He says he was mocked as “Ahmed”, assaulted further, laughed at because of his skin colour, and treated as if his passport had no value because he was brown. This was a civilian-led humanitarian mission carrying food, aid and basic supplies to Gaza. So where is Canada? Where are the human rights organisations? Where are the global leadership councils, the moral authorities, the professional defenders of accountability? Silence now is not neutrality. It is complicity. (Video courtesy Forsea.co)

Israël est en train de raser une ville multimillénaire et le monde regarde ailleurs…

Jeremy Vine an awful arrogant shit stirrer. But this time he seems to have gone too far his post about the cost of disabled people was exactly the strategy the Nazis used. Now there are calls for him to be fired. If you think it’s time to end his hate. RT #JeremyVine

BREAKING: President Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico has agreed to host Iran’s national football team during the World Cup after the US declined to do so, Reuters reports. 🔴 More on Aljazeera.com