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Media Lens @medialens.org · 4h
Jonathan Cook forensically exposes how the 'mainstream' press is keeping our minds right for the security state's propaganda: jonathancook.substack.com/p/reporting-...
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Reporting of the RAF Fairford arrests blows the idea of a ‘free press’ out of the water
When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons even the semblance of critical distance from the state
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 29/09/2026
Another stellar edition of ColdType: www.coldtype.net/Assets23/PDF...
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 28/09/2026
‘You were right’: Ed Miliband tells critics Labour was wrong on Gaza www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘You were right’: Ed Miliband tells critics Labour was wrong on Gaza
Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 25/09/2026
The BBC really are so brazen. This front-page headline should read: 'Dozens of delegates walk out before Netanyahu's UN speech' www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Netanyahu defends Israeli military action as delegates walk out before UN speech
The Israeli leader labels those who left his speech at the UN General Assembly as "moral cowards".
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 25/09/2026
Former BBC journo Martin Asser: 'I remember in mid-2000s being handed Media Lens emails by my editor at BBC Middle East Online desk to draft the responses. They were hardest (usually impossible) to argue against compared with the pro-war pro-Israel stuff flooding our inbox.' x.com/martasser/st...
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Martin Asser (@martasser) on X
@medialens Great piece by @OborneTweets. I remember in mid-2000s being handed Media Lens emails by my editor at BBC Middle East Online desk to draft the responses. They were hardest (usually impossible) to argue against compared with the pro-war pro-Israel stuff flooding our inbox.
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 25/09/2026
Our latest media alert, in case you missed it: medialens.substack.com/p/you-cant-b...
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‘You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train’ – The Ed Sheeran Furore
Audio narration by Matt Alford
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 24/09/2026
'African elephants use dozens of different medicinal plants to treat themselves and their families when they are sick. 'This is the conclusion of a study which interviewed people who live and work alongside the elephants in the Mount Elgon region of Kenya.' www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Elephants treat themselves with medicinal plants, witnesses say
African elephants use dozens of different medicinal plants to treat themselves and their families when they are sick, research reveals.
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 24/09/2026
Michael Barker has spent a quarter of a century thinking about ‘the ability of the mainstream media to confound the clear thinking of ordinary people’ and it has been time well spent. underthemaskofphilanthropy.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/f...
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Free book: Propaganda on the Mind
Download my latest book for free (see below): “Michael Barker is laser focused on the impediments to democracy and working-class power today. In Under the Mask of Philanthropy, he investigate…
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 23/09/2026
How the BBC normalises the unthinkable: 'Netanyahu calls Macron's remarks on West Bank in UN speech "grotesque'" Try imagining this BBC headline: 'Putin calls Macron’s remarks on Ukraine in UN speech "grotesque"' www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Netanyahu calls Macron's West Bank comments in UN speech 'grotesque'
Israel's PM denounces the French president after he appeared to downplay Hamas's activities in the occupied territory.
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 23/09/2026
In this age of genocide, corporate psychopathy and climate breakdown, to be neutral is indeed to collaborate, not just with ‘their’ annihilation, but with our own. medialens.substack.com/p/you-cant-b...
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‘You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train’ – The Ed Sheeran Furore
English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is a megastar.
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Dennis "dejay" Koch @dennisjkoch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
‘You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train’ – The Ed Sheeran Furore @medialens.org #GAZA #EdSheeran #USA #uspoli medialens.substack.com/p/you-cant-b...
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‘You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train’ – The Ed Sheeran Furore
English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is a megastar.
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 22/09/2026
Today's Media Alert is read here by Matthew Alford: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vL3...
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Is Ed Sheeran Just Being a Bit Jesussy? | Media Lens on Ego, Billionaires, Gaza and Ukraine
Is Ed Sheeran a coward—or is he attempting the apolitical message of love associated with Jesus, Buddha and other spiritual teachers? Why was Macklemore removed from Sheeran’s tour after declaring…
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 22/09/2026
Today's Media Alert, now available in Portuguese: 'You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train' – The Ed Sheeran Furore www.medialens.org/2026/you-can... 'Não Se Pode Ser Neutro Num Trem Em Movimento' – A Controvérsia Envolvendo Ed Sheeran zqxjkv0.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/m...
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 22/09/2026
Media Alert: ‘You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train’ – The Ed Sheeran Furore medialens.substack.com/p/you-cant-b...
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‘You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train’ – The Ed Sheeran Furore
English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran is a megastar.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Vote Green on October 8th in Holborn & St Pancras 💚
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 21/09/2026
Excellent film. Please watch and share: 'When the UK government ignores mounting evidence for climate breakdown, a group of scientists turn to civil disobedience to warn the public themselves, risking arrest, a criminal record and their professional reputations.' plan-z-film.co.uk
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 17/09/2026
Excellent letter in response to this BBC propaganda piece: 'A team that offered hope... then, four months later, Hamas attacked Israel.' substack.com/profile/2541...
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 17/09/2026
Caitlin Johnstone captures the moronic inferno of the corporate monoculture exactly: 'If you want to be a mainstream artist in this dystopia, your vehicles for creative expression are (A) propaganda or (B) empty distraction.' caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/09/15/m...
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Macklemore’s Tour Cancellation Shows Why Celebrities Don’t Criticize Israel
American oligarchs kicking an artist off a tour for supporting Palestine is a very in-your-face illustration of why mainstream culture is so vapid and fake these days.
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 15/09/2026
Gavin Lewis: Diane Abbott MP, BBC Newsnight and the Pro-Israel ‘Racism Definition’ Moral Panic znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
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Diane Abbott MP, BBC Newsnight and the Pro-Israel 'Racism Definition' Moral Panic
Introduction Black British MP Diane Abbott has recently been readmitted to the UK Labour Party having been excluded for expressing - in historical terms -
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 15/09/2026
New York Times: 'About a year ago, at B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization I lead, we realized we were struggling to explain what was happening in the West Bank. The problem was not a lack of information. Quite the opposite...' archive.ph/YmMu9
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 15/09/2026
'From 7 October 2023 through August 2026, the military and settler militias killed some 1,107 Palestinians in the West Bank, including some 245 children and teenagers.' www.btselem.org/the_eliminat...
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 14/09/2026
'Glaciers are retreating, permafrost and high-mountain slopes are becoming increasingly unstable, and communities and infrastructure downstream face growing risks from complex and cascading hazards.' www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Nepal floods: The Himalayas are melting faster - and India's economy is 'at risk'
A new report warns Himalayan glaciers are melting faster, threatening India’s water, economy and communities.
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 11/09/2026
'We are living in an age of fools.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair
Exclusive: Survey of hundreds of experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn climate fight must not be abandoned
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 11/09/2026
The BBC asked: ‘What will you tell your grandchildren about the summer of ‘26?...' If we are even around in ‘years to come’, we won’t be talking about the summer of ‘26; we will be talking about the cataclysmic summers to come. medialens.substack.com/p/the-nepal-...
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The Nepal And Tibet Flood - Another Warning, Another Failure To Respond
After a summer of climate-related disasters, there is no global alarm, no placing of nations on a war footing to combat the threat, just business as usual
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 11/09/2026
So, according to the BBC, the primary story here is war criminal Netanyahu suing Haaretz, not Harretz's highly credible claim that Netanyahu was warned by the UAE president that Hamas was planning an attack just days before 7 October. That’s jaw-droppingly shameful: www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Israel's Netanyahu to sue Haaretz over claim UAE warned him of 7 October attack
The paper said it stood by its reporting, after publishing extracts from a book where the claim appears.
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 10/09/2026
Thanks to Murilo Leme, today's alert is already available in Portuguese: 'A Inundação no Nepal e no Tibete – Mais um Aviso, Mais uma Falha em Responder': zqxjkv0.wordpress.com/2026/09/10/m... Original here: www.medialens.org/2026/the-nep...
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 10/09/2026
Latest media alert: About as many people died from the heat in the UK in May and June as died in the terror attacks of 11 September 2001. The heat deaths of 2026 are being met with action to make the problem worse. medialens.substack.com/p/the-nepal-...
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The deaths on 9/11 sparked a propaganda blitz launching a global "war on terror". Over 10 times that number killed in Europe by this summer's heat is met not just with inaction but by moves to make the crisis far worse. Media Lens on mounting global insanity: medialens.substack.com/p/the-nepal-...
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The Nepal And Tibet Flood - Another Warning, Another Failure To Respond
After a summer of climate-related disasters, there is no global alarm, no placing of nations on a war footing to combat the threat, just business as usual
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Global Issues @globalissues.org · 10/09/2026
"After a summer of climate-related disasters, there is no global alarm, no placing of nations on a war footing to combat the threat, just business as usual"
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 10/09/2026
As Jonathan Cook writes, chief rabbi Mirvis' 'conflict of interest is probably visible from outer space'. jonathancook.substack.com/p/british-je...
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British Jews are being made less safe by chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, not Ed Miliband
Mirvis confirms the antisemites’ worst assumptions when he keeps confusing Jews with Israel and using his influence to protect Israel from ever being held accountable for its crimes
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 10/09/2026
A stark warning was issued to humanity via CCTV on 26 August when a tsunami-like torrent of flood water rising as high as 130 metres destroyed Gyirong Port, one of the main border crossings between Nepal and Tibet. Read our latest Media Alert here: medialens.substack.com/p/the-nepal-...
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The Nepal And Tibet Flood - Another Warning, Another Failure To Respond
After a summer of climate-related disasters, there is no global alarm, no placing of nations on a war footing to combat the threat, just business as usual
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 09/09/2026
'Netanyahu was personally alerted by the president of the United Arab Emirates that Hamas was planning a large-scale offensive against Israel a week before its 7 October 2023 attack, but did not act on the warning, according to a book by Haaretz reporters.' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Netanyahu was warned of 7 October Hamas attacks, book claims
Israeli PM says allegation that UAE president alerted him more than a week before major offensive is ‘absolute lie’
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 08/09/2026
The Guardian is finally beginning to catch up: 'The first and most obvious change is in the way heatwaves are reported on. The tendency to use images of “fun in the sun” should be balanced by serious examination of disrupted transit...' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on extreme heat: its scale should be a wake-up call to us all | Editorial
Editorial: With thousands dead across Europe this summer, it’s time to recognise heatwaves as the major natural disasters they are
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miketyl.bsky.social @miketyl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The answer in the fairly short term to his question will be it was a bit cooler than the summer of 27….
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 04/09/2026
'Tessa Khan, executive director of environmental group Uplift, said: '"The science is clear that the world already has far more oil and gas than can ever be safely burned if we are to limit warming." www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Jackdaw gas field set to be approved as soon as mid-September, sources say
The government is set to give the go-ahead for the gas field off the coast of Aberdeen, the BBC understands.
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 04/09/2026
This is psychopathic. Especially given that we've all just experienced the incineration of Europe this summer and the climate-related catastrophe on the Tibet-Nepal border. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Jackdaw gas field set to be approved as soon as mid-September, sources say
The government is set to give the go-ahead for the gas field off the coast of Aberdeen, the BBC understands.
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 03/09/2026
The BBC's Stuart Rust doesn't get it. In 'years to come' we won't be talking about summer of '26; we'll be talking about the ever-hotter summers hammering us: 'As it draws to a close, we look back on some of the moments that will be talked about for years to come.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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What will you tell your grandchildren about the summer of '26?
It has been a summer of broken records, wildfires and hosepipe bans across the South.
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 03/09/2026
The full-scale US-Israeli attack on Iran beginning 28 February is a textbook example of an illegal war of aggression. This is how it's described by the BBC: 'However, the ship was diverted to the Gulf after the US and Israel began military operations against Iran...' www.bbc.com/news/article...
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USS Abraham Lincoln: US sailors arrive in Thailand's Pattaya after record 250 days at sea
The USS Abraham Lincoln is docking close to Pattaya, known for its neon-lit nightlife, and for sex tourism.
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 02/09/2026
Peter Oborne memorably told Amol Rajan of the BBC: ‘You are a client journalist yourself… you were a crony journalist yourself. It’s time this system was exploded… Your record was and is shameful. Where to start?’ See here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2ra...
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Amol Rajan: Why I’m leaving the BBC | Political Currency
Our final special summer interview sees George Osborne sit down with Amol Rajan, as he leaves the Today Programme and sets out on a new venture. They discuss his new endeavour, the changing media…
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 02/09/2026
People who understand the issues are calling for the world to be placed on a war footing to combat climate breakdown. But the propaganda system only screams for action in response to vested interest-led crises (real or imagined). 1,000 www.commondreams.org/news/nepal-a...
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'Declare a Worldwide Climate Emergency': Death Toll in Nepal-Tibet Floods Tops 1,000 | Common Dreams
With over 1,000 dead and thousands missing in Nepal and Tibet due to glacial collapse, campaigners and scientists argue climate action is urgently needed.
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 01/09/2026
Everyone, especially politicians and journalists, should read this piece slowly and carefully. Then read McGuire's book, 'Waking the Giant - How a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes'. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Nepal and Tibet flood is a warning: melting snow and ice will bring more disasters around the world | Bill McGuire
In Alaska, the Himalayas, the Andes, Greenland, and perhaps also the Alps, deadly chain reactions are just waiting to be triggered, says climate professor Bill McGuire
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 28/08/2026
The latest free and beautifully designed issue of ColdType, edited by Tony Sutton, is now online at: coldtype.net/Assets23/PDF... and at: issuu.com/coldtype/doc... Vital analysis!
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 26/08/2026
Murilo Leme has kindly translated our latest media alert into Portuguese: 4 Bilhões De Mortos: 'Não Há Palavras' zqxjkv0.wordpress.com/2026/08/24/m... Original in English: 4 Billion Dead: 'There Are No Words' www.medialens.org/2026/4-billi...
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Jonathan Cook @jonathan-cook.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Coming climate shockwaves over the next two decades are likely to kill between 2 and 4 billion people, research shows. What has been the response of corporate media invested in the very activities fuelling those deaths? Silence, of course. Media Lens explain: medialens.substack.com/p/4-billion-...
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4 Billion Dead: ‘There Are No Words’
If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting from 3 degrees Celsius of global warming by 2050...
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Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Watching Swallows gather on the wires this morning was amazing. There are many birds I'm in awe of and the Swallows & Martins must be towards the top of the list. They are about to embark on a 6,000 mile journey! Then they will come back to maybe the same nest next year, all without sat nav!
Swallows and House Martins collecting on a wire.Swallows and House Martins collecting on a wire.Swallows and House Martins collecting on a wire.Swallows and House Martins collecting on a wire. Difficult to get a picture to show how many there were
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 25/08/2026
Last year, a team of experts published a report, ‘Planetary Solvency’. One of the scenarios considered was 3C of global heating by 2050 leading to ***4 billion deaths***. It was largely ignored by the UK media. A stunning example of propaganda by omission. medialens.substack.com/p/4-billion-...
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Bold Politics @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What happens when you challenge the status quo Subscribe: linktr.ee/boldpolitics
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Media Lens @medialens.org · 24/08/2026
If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting from 3 degrees Celsius of global warming by 2050 made barely a dent in news headlines. medialens.substack.com/p/4-billion-...
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4 Billion Dead: ‘There Are No Words’
If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting from 3 degrees Celsius of global warming by 2050...
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 20/08/2026
👉 NEW — Jury refuses to convict seven Palestine Action 'organisers' for Israeli arms factory raid By Dania Akkad After 37 hours of deliberation, the jury was unable to reach verdicts on most of the charges www.declassifieduk.org/jury-refuses...
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Jury refuses to convict seven Palestine Action 'organisers' for Israeli arms factory raid
After 37 hours of deliberation, the jury was unable to reach verdicts on most of the charges
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 20/08/2026
Every week, our small team investigates subjects many larger news organisations overlook. We scrutinise power and publish stories because they matter - not to please advertisers or owners. Reader donations help make this happen, please chip in today at www.declassifieduk.org/join
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