Steve Hewitt
@stevehewitt.bsky.social
A repatriated Canadian settler living in Birmingham, UK, with an interest in security and intelligence in the past and present and in a US-Canada-UK context. I also follow politics in those countries as well as the strange world of academia. Plus, I run.
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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November 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
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VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
www.theguardian.com/education/20... Staffordshire University
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
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November 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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How investigating Indigenous activists became a CSIS priority for at least a decade
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How investigating Indigenous activists became a CSIS priority for at least a decade | CBC News
Canada's spies subjected Indigenous activists to a series of “Native extremism” investigations for at least a decade beginning in 1988, in what internal documents show was a countrywide surveillance p...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
How investigating Indigenous activists became a CSIS priority for at least a decade
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Ken Burns says Americans have been fighting each other since the beginning
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Ken Burns says Americans have been fighting each other since the beginning
In his new documentary series “The American Revolution,” the prolific filmmaker depicts a nation created by violence. Still, he finds cause for optimism.
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November 15, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Ken Burns says Americans have been fighting each other since the beginning
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‘They’re not wolves – they’re sheep’: the psychiatrist who spent decades meeting and studying lone-actor mass killers | Australian books | The Guardian share.google/5GtoeFdf8xcw...
‘They’re not wolves – they’re sheep’: the psychiatrist who spent decades meeting and studying lone-actor mass killers
Paul E Mullen has had a front-row seat to the men behind some of the worst public massacres. He says it’s possible to ‘disrupt the script’ for future violence
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November 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
‘They’re not wolves – they’re sheep’: the psychiatrist who spent decades meeting and studying lone-actor mass killers | Australian books | The Guardian share.google/5GtoeFdf8xcw...
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Exclusive: The CIA conducted a classified program to manipulate Afghanistan’s lucrative poppy crop, blanketing fields with modified seeds that germinated plants containing almost none of the chemicals that are refined into heroin, The Post learned.
Inside the CIA’s secret mission to sabotage Afghanistan’s opium
In a decade-long secret operation, the CIA modified poppy seeds and dropped them by the billions from aircraft over Afghanistan in an attempt to weaken the potency of the country’s opium crop.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Exclusive: The CIA conducted a classified program to manipulate Afghanistan’s lucrative poppy crop, blanketing fields with modified seeds that germinated plants containing almost none of the chemicals that are refined into heroin, The Post learned.
BBC News - Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian warehouse and land as West Bank attacks surge
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Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian warehouse and land as West Bank attacks surge
Several Palestinians were also injured when settlers launched arson attacks targeting an industrial area, a Bedouin village, and farmland east of Tulkarm.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
BBC News - Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian warehouse and land as West Bank attacks surge
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We have all been thinking about this, Ghislaine.
November 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
We have all been thinking about this, Ghislaine.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Inside the CIA’s secret mission to sabotage Afghanistan’s opium
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Inside the CIA’s secret mission to sabotage Afghanistan’s opium
In a decade-long operation, the CIA modified poppy seeds and dropped them by the billions from aircraft over Afghanistan in an attempt to weaken the potency of the country’s opium crop.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Inside the CIA’s secret mission to sabotage Afghanistan’s opium
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activehistory.ca/blog/2025/11... a lovely piece by Donald Wright about historian Jim Miller
Jim’s Vision: Some Reflections on J.R. Miller
Donald Wright When I learned that Jim Miller had died, I reached out to his partner, Lesley Biggs, to express my condolences. A few weeks later, she invited me to share a few words about him that w…
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November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/11... a lovely piece by Donald Wright about historian Jim Miller
Prevent ‘no longer keeping country safe’, review finds share.google/xpqUNSogbs7l...
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Prevent ‘no longer keeping country safe’, review finds share.google/xpqUNSogbs7l...
'Victimised' academic says Cardiff University should not use his work in research excellence submission share.google/BNMYv0qcxeN4...
'Victimised' academic says Cardiff University should not use his work in research excellence submission
Martin Shipton A retired academic who believes he was victimised by Cardiff University says it would be unethical for the university to use his publications as part of its submission to be validated a...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
'Victimised' academic says Cardiff University should not use his work in research excellence submission share.google/BNMYv0qcxeN4...
Far-right extremists outnumber Islamists in anti-terror programme referrals, data shows www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Far-right extremists outnumber Islamists in anti-terror programme referrals, data shows
Total referrals reach record high, with 21% being due to ‘extreme rightwing concerns’ and 10% to Islamist ideology
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November 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Far-right extremists outnumber Islamists in anti-terror programme referrals, data shows www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
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November 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Hurricane Melissa rapidly intensified to a Category 5 on its way toward Jamaica, where up to 40 inches of rain is forecast to bring catastrophic flash flooding and landslides.
It may become the country’s strongest hurricane on record.
It may become the country’s strongest hurricane on record.
Hurricane Melissa threatens Jamaica with worst-case scenario as Category 5
Hurricane Melissa rapidly intensified on its way toward Jamaica, where it may become the country’s strongest storm on record when it hits late Monday.
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October 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Hurricane Melissa rapidly intensified to a Category 5 on its way toward Jamaica, where up to 40 inches of rain is forecast to bring catastrophic flash flooding and landslides.
It may become the country’s strongest hurricane on record.
It may become the country’s strongest hurricane on record.