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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 3h

This is harrowing… brave, brave people, knowing they will be targeted again and again for reporting what they see and hear!!

zeteo.com/p/israel-kil...

Israel Killed Our Storytellers, But It Can’t Kill Our Stories

In a new book, co-edited by Zeteo contributor Fatima Bhutto, writer and translator Huda Fakhreddine pens a powerful essay about the Palestinian truth tellers Israel systematically targets and kills.

zeteo.com

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 3h

Absolutely This!!!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 3h

We must sever all diplomatic ties with the genocidal apartheid state of Israel immediately.

Expel the ambassador. Close the embassy.

As apartheid South Africa was isolated, so too must Israel be — a pariah state.

We’ll march until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea.

Zarah on the stage at the Palestine demonstration infront of a large crowd in Whitehall

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 3h

We must sever all diplomatic ties with the genocidal apartheid state of Israel immediately.

Expel the ambassador. Close the embassy.

As apartheid South Africa was isolated, so too must Israel be — a pariah state.

We’ll march until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea.

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INBELLA @inbella.bsky.social · 9h

Zack Polanski labelled ‘breath of fresh air’ after Question Time performance

https://www.inbella.com/1317803/zack-polanski-labelled-breath-of-fresh-air-after-question-time-performance/

UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski has been praised for how he grilled Reform’s Zia Yusuf on BBC Question …

Zack Polanski labelled 'breath of fresh air' after Question Time performance - INBELLA

UK Green Party leader Zack Polanski has been praised for how he grilled Reform’s Zia Yusuf on BBC Question Time, along with making several other well-received

www.inbella.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3h

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Is Zack Polanski the Left's answer to Nigel Farage?

YouTube video by Channel 4 News

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 5h

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

New episode with Zack Polanski and Owen Jones out now on all platforms

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone in the country should know this name

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

"I don't think the plane is going to cry from it's hurt wounds" 🎤⤵️

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 6h

Why might UK be pushing hard for measures that are clearly self-destructive?

An obvious answer would be role of US lobbyists behind the huge pharmaceutical companies.

Plus the fact our politicians, appear surprisingly beholden to the charms of such Big Pharma!

www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/20...

How the UK-India trade deal threatens affordable medicines

The government is pushing for strengthened intellectual property rules for India-made pharmaceuticals.

www.newstatesman.com

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Mad Michael @madmichael1961.bsky.social · 6h

Agreed, Lynne.

He's carried on the genocide during previous 'ceasefires' - with impunity!

#MakeIsraelPalestineAgain

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 6h

www.globaljustice.org.uk/blog/2022/11...

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 6h

Why might UK be pushing hard for measures that are clearly self-destructive?

An obvious answer would be role of US lobbyists behind the huge pharmaceutical companies.

Plus the fact our politicians, appear surprisingly beholden to the charms of such Big Pharma!

www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/20...

How the UK-India trade deal threatens affordable medicines

The government is pushing for strengthened intellectual property rules for India-made pharmaceuticals.

www.newstatesman.com

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 6h

www.globaljustice.org.uk/blog/2022/11...

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 6h

A 1/4 of NHS drugs are generic

Whilst UK should buy more of these cheaper drugs from India, the introduction of stricter intellectual property (IP) rules by our govment has forced prices up

Thus the British market is now ripe for exploitation by big U.S pharma

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

NHS could pay 25% more for medicines under plan to end row with drugmakers and Trump

UK ministers preparing to raise payments to end standoff with pharma industry, cited as reason for firms axing British investments

www.theguardian.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks

Govts of Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman, China, France, Germany Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Singapore, Spain, UAE, US would like to thank UK for letting their entities own UK infrastructure.

Vast profits exported, Britons stare at sewage in rivers.

If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership

Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

leftfootforward.org

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Laura76574 @laura76574.bsky.social · 21h

www.commondreams.org/opinion/peac...

'Peace' Has No Meaning When Right-Wingers Like Maria Corina Machado Win the Nobel Prize | Common Dreams

As Venezuelan-American, I know exactly what Machado represents: the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention...

www.commondreams.org

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Fran Yule @fjyule.bsky.social · 17h

Admitting total ignorance about Venezualan politics, I take back everything I expressed about this psychotic chick who won the Nobel Prize for Peace - they might as well have given it to Trump or Netanyahu.

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 7h

This is so true!!!

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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 1d

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justiceseer.bsky.social @justiceseer.bsky.social · 8h

And👉'The Israeli army would remain in control of 53% of the #GazaStrip,excluding urban areas.'

So the #IsraeliTerroristState is STILL illegally occupying over HALF of #Gaza!

#Trump doesn't give a monkey's! He'll turn up"like a bad smell"for a photo-op then disappear-and #Satanyahu will resume war!

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 8h

Exactly! 🤣

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 8h

😂🤣😂👍

Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 8h

The difference between Corina Machado and Trump?

— She was last years top Fascist!

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

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