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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · Dec 7

This will be a very long thread of articles about how shit The Guardian is.

How the UK Security Services neutralised the country’s leading liberal newspaper

MATT KENNARD and MARK CURTIS

10 September 2019

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How the UK Security Services neutralised the country's leading liberal newspaper

The Guardian, Britain’s leading liberal newspaper with a global reputation for independent and critical journalism, has been successfully targeted by security agencies.

www.declassifieduk.org

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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 10m

Jewish peace activist Avigail Abarbanel, a former Israeli citizen who renounced her citizenship in 2001 during the Second Intifada. She discusses Israel’s war on Gaza and explains why the October 7 events are rooted in a broader historical context.

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Jewish activist: October 7 has deeper historical roots

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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 2h

Revealed: Labour-run council using legal loophole to serve families with no-fault evictions

Exclusive: London council created an arm’s-length body to manage some of its housing stock

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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 16h

How Palestine Action Shook the Empire | ATTRITION #6 ft. Huda Ammori

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How Palestine Action Shook the Empire | ATTRITION #6 ft. Huda Ammori

YouTube video by ATTRITION Podcast

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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 23h

Pro-Palestine activists smash windows and facilities at Palantir UK office

www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Pro-Palestine activists smash windows and facilities at Palantir UK office

Activists targeted Palantir for propping up the IDF and for its attempted expansion into British data mining amidst surveillance worries

www.thecanary.co

againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 23h

Venezuelan woman who begged Trump to bomb her country wins Nobel Peace Prize

www.normalisland.co.uk/p/venezuelan...

Venezuelan woman who begged Trump to bomb her country wins Nobel Peace Prize

María Corina Machado has become the first person since Barack Obama to win the Nobel Peace Prize for doing absolutely nothing.

www.normalisland.co.uk

againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 23h

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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 1d

Mary Turfah

Given This Reality

The history of Zionism, as seen by its victims

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Given This Reality | Mary Turfah

“Who are these people? Why did they come here?”

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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 1d

Why Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East

Oliver Eagleton

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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 1d

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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 1d

Media Lens

Blinkered Bowen: The BBC’s International Editor On The ‘Gaza War’

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Blinkered Bowen: The BBC’s International Editor On The ‘Gaza War’

On the second anniversary of the 7 October attacks on Israel, with Middle East peace talks underway, BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen asked, ‘Will Israel and Hamas seize the chance to end the war...

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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 1d

Lowkey EXPOSES Truth Behind Gaza Ceasefire

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Lowkey EXPOSES Truth Behind Gaza Ceasefire

What REALLY Happened

www.doubledown.news

againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 4d

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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 4d

The Dead Walk Again

On Labourism in the New Left Party

Ewan Tilley

stateandconfusion.substack.com/p/the-dead-w...

The Dead Walk Again

On Labourism in the New Left Party

stateandconfusion.substack.com

againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 5d

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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 5d

[It's Bloody Complicated - A Compass Podcast] Labour's Autumn of Discontent | ep. 133

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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 5d

Your Show

The Fraud, Labour’s ‘crimes’ and the right kind of Jew!

John Davies is joined on Your Show by Jenny Manson, Stephen Kapos & Martin Abrams in the Liverpool studio during Labour Conference 2025

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The Fraud, Labour’s ‘crimes’ and the right kind of Jew!

YouTube video by Socialist Telly

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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 5d

Your Show - Liverpool Riverside - Setting the record straight

John Davies is joined by Helen Marks and Rica Bird, the two Jewish, former Labour Party members who were accused of antisemitism in a BBC Panorama broadcast just before the 2019 General Election in the UK.

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Your Show - Liverpool Riverside - Setting the record straight

YouTube video by Socialist Telly

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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 5d

Interesting analysis.

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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 5d

This is patently untrue:

"Corbynism will survive; it has deep roots among renters, recent ex-students and antiwar voters. He remains much more effective articulator of left populism than Green leader Zack Polanski..."

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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 5d

In the UK, you can be arrested for "terrorism" saying you disagree with a government decision

Ricky Hale and Council Estate Media

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In the UK, you can be arrested for "terrorism" saying you disagree with a government decision

At an anti-genocide protest, a woman was arrested by the Metropolitan Police for holding up a sign reading: “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action.”

www.councilestatemedia.uk

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Linda Lombard @heavensgone.bsky.social · 6d

#LauraKuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Interview
The new #GreenParty leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the #BBC show

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 6d

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againstcentrism.bsky.social @againstcentrism.bsky.social · 6d

David Timoney

Our People

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