Martin Shaw

US & Israel doubling even the extreme bombing of the early Gaza campaign.

This is not only incredibly weak, its false equivalence between Farage and Polanski is dangerous. One of them is a threat to liberal democracy, the other one is not. The text is a prime example of how radical centrism and the profound arrogance of self-declared liberals legitimize the far right

Israel's Digital Occupation — The Dial Lebanon has become a laboratory for a new age of warfare.

“The drones that hover over the skies of Lebanon…collect large swathes of data — Wi-Fi, IP addresses, phone signals — which are then organized by AI…in what some scholars and activists say amounts to a “digital occupation.” Fascinating by @justinsalhani.bsky.social

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Operation Epic Fury: A Mass of Shifting Objectives Dr Charles Kriel examines the Iran War as an information operation and identifies what Western StratCom still refuses to understand about it

‘The nuclear weapon Iran has not yet built functions as a particular kind of object: the impossible threat, always just over the horizon, that justifies everything …. You cannot negotiate away a capability that has not yet come into existence.’

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The UK's legal position on the use of its bases in the Middle East is solid with one glaring hole: The US cannot act in collective self-defence with the Gulf States. It is the aggressor. Ergo the UK cannot assist the US in collective self-defence.

They are mainly flinging it at military bases. Maybe telling Trump to stop his war would be more effective in protecting British citizens

Maybe, but Iran is not targeting British civilians

No. Since the US is fighting an illegal war of aggression, the attacks the US makes on Iran from UK bases cannot be regarded as defensive in international law.

No British citizen has been harmed. Intercepting missiles, sure, by that is not the same as helping the US to illegally attack Iran

Not according to the polls. And especially not if this carries on, causes a wider war and global disruption.

The majority of UK voters are now anti-Israel, believe it’s committed genocide, and oppose the UK allowing the USA to use its bases to attack Iran. So the Greens are not so far away from public opinion.

The UK is no longer staying out of it.

Iran is not attacking UK civilians. And if the UK allows the USA to use its bases to attack Iran, legally it is supporting the US aggression. Starmer’s legal justification is fiction,

Keep up. Starmer *was* conflicted, but now he’s resolved that and found a phoney ‘legal’ reason to let Trump use UK bases. He’s getting no thanks from Trump, and losing the little respect he might have gained from those who don’t want war and want him to respect international law.

A very clear explanation of why Starmer’s legal strategy fails.

And do you support or oppose the government's decision to allow the US to use UK airbases specifically to launch attacks against missile bases in Iran? | Daily Question And do you support or oppose the government's decision to allow the US to use UK airbases specifically to launch attacks against missile bases in Iran?

British voters are not convinced by Starmer’s pivot to giving the US use of UK bases to attack Iraq.

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Starmer’s legal fix is phoney: ‘The US is committing an unlawful act of aggression, and the UK cannot aid or assist in its commission. Airstrikes against missile facilities in Iran have been, and will continue to be, an important component of the composite act of aggression.’

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The EU abandons international law: ‘Iran’s attacks of a number of countries in the Middle East are inexcusable’, but the US-Israeli attack on Iran, the cause of the conflict, is completely excused.

Important update on escalating extremism of Reform UK

‘How did we arrive at a moment in which imperialist powers that have waged war across the region and enabled Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, can appear as plausible agents of “freedom for Iran?”’

Trump Just Made the World Much More Dangerous By waging war on Iran, the president is making it more likely that other countries will develop nuclear weapons—to protect themselves from the U.S.

Grateful to @newrepublic.com who asked for my immediate thoughts in Trump’s attack on Iran.

In short, the demand for nuclear weapons is about to go way up. If you do not have nuclear weapons, you are vulnerable.

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Exclusive: Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei could be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed, sources say In the run-up to the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Saturday, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency assessed that even if Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the operation, he would...

Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei would be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed

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200+ Iranian civilians, 3 US soldiers. It’s called risk-transfer war.

From the far right point of view, it really isn’t important that their vibes match up with the facts. Not that kind of politics.

Fascism, rather

So much for Carney’s ‘rupture’.

The 51st state already, even if not in name.

Trump’s war is good for Putin.

At least 80 children dead as missile reportedly hits school in southern Iran The building appears to be among many devastated in Trump’s ‘major combat operations’ as long expected attacks arrive

Children massacred in Israeli-US aggression:

“When weapons come from the US, do they strike us more gently than when they come from the regime’s killing machines?”

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Another illegal war of aggression. Britain must not give any assistance to either Israel or the USA, e.g. helping them defend against Iranian counterattacks.

Israel launches attack on Iran as explosions heard in Tehran

But it’s there, isn’t it? After almost two and a half years of horror which most voters recognise as genocide, it’s a fundamental background reason why not only Muslims, but also liberal-left white British, have rejected Labour.