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  • Starmer’s whole team follow Mandelson’s grubby example of taking favours from the rich

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/starmers-whole-team-follow-mandelsons-grubby-example-taking-favours-rich

     Prime Minister Keir Starmer (right) and then British ambassador to the United States Lord Peter Mandelson during a welcome reception at the ambassador’s residence in Washington, DC, February 27, 2025

    The PM says Mandelson ‘betrayed our values’ – but ministers and advisers flock to line their pockets with corporate cash, says SOLOMON HUGHES

    WES STREETING says Peter Mandelson “fundamentally betrayed our values.” But Mandelson helped write the values of New Labour, which Streeting and Starmer and their whole team are following.

    Peter Mandelson denies wrongdoing, but the emails between him and Jeffrey Epstein look like sleazy corruption. It’s no surprise Streeting and Starmer want to put distance between him and them.

    But Mandelson’s career follows the “New Labour” method he helped design: taking the side of the rich and big corporations, especially around low tax, deregulation and privatisation.

    Taking favours from the rich while in office. Taking lucrative jobs working from the corporations they favoured in government when they leave office.

    Squashing the Labour left who might try and stop the party being used as a launchpad for these post-ministerial corporate careers.

    …

    This became a basic “New Labour” pattern: when ministers stood down, many joined the private corporations they helped while in power, with ex-ministers taking jobs with privatised water companies, private security firms like G4S, arms firms and so on.

    These post-ministerial careers often pay much more than actually being a minister, so Labour MPs have an incentive to push pro-business policies, even if they are wildly unpopular: Labour might haemorrhage enough working-class support to lose elections, but the ministers end up earning more in the long term.

    Starmer’s government brought Mandelson back and bought into all his “New Labour” values. Even though the government is still quite new, we can already see signs that Starmer’s team will also leave government for corporate jobs, just like Mandelson.

    Labour rehired one of the key Labour ministers who did this back in the day. Wes Streeting employs Alan Milburn as an adviser.

    …

    The article is detailed and recommended. See the original article at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/starmers-whole-team-follow-mandelsons-grubby-example-taking-favours-rich

    Keir Starmer says that the Labour Party under his leadership is intensely relaxed about assaulting those least able to defend themselves - the very poorest and most vulnerable.
    Keir Starmer says that the Labour Party under his leadership is intensely relaxed about assaulting those least able to defend themselves – the very poorest and most vulnerable.
    Keir Starmer explains that he feels no shame or guilt benefitting personally from gifts from the rich and powerful while insisting on policies of severe austerity causing suffering and death.
    Keir Starmer explains that he feels no shame or guilt benefitting personally from gifts from the rich and powerful while insisting on policies of severe austerity causing suffering and death.
    Keir Starmer commits to play the caretaker role for Capitalism through the "hard times".
    Keir Starmer commits to play the caretaker role for Capitalism through the “hard times”.

  • Labour Together hired private investigators to dig dirt on journalists who exposed secret Starmer donations

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-together-hired-private-investigators-dig-dirt-journalists-who-exposed-secret-starmer

     Downing Street chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, in Downing Street, central London, ahead of the visit today of President Zelensky, October 10, 2024

    A BLAIRITE think tank reportedly paid at least £30,000 for private investigations into journalists who exposed its failure to declare £740,000 said to have supported Sir Keir Starmer’s rise to power.

    Labour Together was run by the PM’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney when it did not register the donations between 2017 and 2020. 

    Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons took the helm when Mr McSweeney left Labour Together in 2020 and joined Sir Keir’s team.

    Under Mr Simons’s leadership in 2023, Labour Together hired APCO Worldwide to investigate journalists from the Guardian, the Sunday Times and other outlets and to identify their sources of stories about its funding, according to Democracy for Sale.

    The late filings led to a £14,250 fine by the Electoral Commission in September 2021.

    One of the APCO’s reports for Labour Together was reportedly an investigation into the London-based investigative outlet run by the South African journalists Paul Holden and Andrew Feinstein, Shadow World Investigations.

    Mr Feinstein said: “Labour Together, led by Starmer’s Chief of Staff, tried to dig dirt on me, my colleague Paul Holden and our organisation. 

    “It was already known I was likely to stand in the election against Starmer. Their contempt for British democracy must lead to their removal from office and investigation by law enforcement.”

    …

    Article continues at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-together-hired-private-investigators-dig-dirt-journalists-who-exposed-secret-starmer

  • Media COVERED UP Mandelson’s Starmer Role with Paul Holden

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  • ‘Crime Against Environment and Health’: Israel Slammed for Dropping Toxic Glyphosate on Lebanon, Syria

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    Original article by Brad Reed republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). 

    Smoke rises as civil defense and firefighting teams arrive in the area to conduct emergency response operations after Israeli army carried out an airstrike in southern Lebanon on February 2, 2026. (Photo by Ramiz Dallah/Anadolu via Getty Images)

    “This incident cannot be viewed in isolation from the scorched-earth policy pursued by the Israeli army,” said watchdog Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.

    The Lebanese president has accused the Israeli government of committing “a crime against the environment and health” for allegedly spraying the herbicide glyphosate on agricultural lands in Lebanon and Syria.

    As reported by Naharnet on Wednesday, Lebanon’s agriculture and environmental ministries recently conducted analysis of soil near the site where Israel had sprayed a chemical substance and found glyphosate “20 to 30 times higher than the average” in the area.

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    The ministries said that this level of glyphosate in the soil could cause “damage to agricultural production,” while also harming soil fertility.

    Lebanese President Joseph Aoun denounced the spraying as a “flagrant violation of Lebanese sovereignty,” and called on the United Nations (UN) and the international community at large to take action to stop future attacks.

    Al-Jazeera reported on Tuesday that the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was warned by the Israel military on Monday to stay away from the border area because it planned to deploy a “nontoxic chemical substance” there, forcing the peacekeeping forces to cancel over a dozen planned activities.

    Stephane Dujarric, a spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres, condemned Israel for preventing UNIFIL from conducting operations, emphasizing that “any activity that may put peacekeepers and civilians at risk is of serious concern.”

    Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on Wednesday that it has detected “Israeli aircraft spraying pesticides of unknown composition over farmland in the countryside of Quneitra in southern Syria” on January 26 and 27.

    “This incident cannot be viewed in isolation from the scorched-earth policy pursued by the Israeli army,” the human rights watchdog said. “It forms part of a pattern of systematic destruction of agricultural land, including the burning of approximately 9,000 hectares during recent military operations using white phosphorus and incendiary munitions.”

    Original article by Brad Reed republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). 

  • Global Sumud Flotilla Announces Spring Mission to ‘Break the Illegal Blockade of Gaza’

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    Original article by Brett Wilkins republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). 

    Sirius, a boat taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla, departs from Barcelona on September 1, 2025. (Photo by Lluis Gene/AFP via Getty Images)

    Organizers say they’re “mobilizing thousands from over 100 countries in a coordinated, nonviolent response to genocide, siege, mass starvation, and the destruction of civilian life in Gaza.”

    Organizers of the Global Sumud Flotilla—the largest-ever activist effort to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza by sea—said Thursday that they will launch a new and bigger mission next month to deliver humanitarian aid to the Palestinian exclave, whose people have suffered from 28 months of genocidal Israeli war and siege.

    Global Sumud Flotilla called its spring 2026 mission, which is scheduled to depart from Barcelona on March 29, “a historic escalation in civilian-led maritime action to break the illegal blockade of Gaza.”

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    “We are sailing again this year. This time, we’re sailing with more boats, and more activists… and we are determined to break this illegal siege on Gaza and show the world that the peace talks are not really peace talks, but the further colonization of Palestinian territories,” organizer Yasmin Acar told South African Broadcasting Corporation News Radio. “We will not stop until the siege is broken.”

    Global Sumud Flotilla said: “A primary focus of the 2026 mission is the deployment of a specialized medical fleet. Carrying more than 1,000 healthcare professionals and stocked with lifesaving medicines and equipment, this fleet aims to stabilize Gaza’s healthcare system and support the efforts of local medical teams who have endured two years of genocide.”

    Like most of Gaza, the strip’s healthcare infrastructure is in ruins after deliberate targeting of medical facilities and workers by Israeli forces.

    Mandla Mandela, grandson of South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela and a past flotilla participant, called the new effort “cause… for those that want to rise and stand for justice and dignity for all.”

    Last summer, dozens of boats carrying hundreds of activists from over 40 nations took part in the last Global Sumud Flotilla—sumud means “perseverance” in Arabic—as it attempted to run Israel’s naval blockade and deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid including food, medicines, and baby formula to the starving people of Gaza amid Israel’s genocidal war and siege on the people of the coastal strip.

    Israeli forces intercepted and seized the flotilla vessels in international waters in early October, arresting all aboard the boats and temporarily jailing them in Israel, where some including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg said they were physically and psychologically abused by their captors.

    The Freedom Flotilla Coalition has made numerous attempts to break Israel’s blockade by sea, all of which ended in more or less the same way. In 2010, Israeli forces raided one of the first convoys carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea. The Israeli attackers killed nine volunteers aboard the MV Mavi Marmara, including Turkish-American teenager Furkan Doğan.

    “We may not have reached Gaza physically,” flotilla activist Susan Abdallah told Al Jazeera Thursday, but “we have reached the people in Gaza.”

    “They know that we care, that we will not stop at anything until we actually break the siege,” she added.

    Original article by Brett Wilkins republished from Common Dreams under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). 

    Experiencing issues with this image not appearing. I suspect because it's so critical of Zionist Keir Starmer's support of and complicity in Israel's genocides.
    Genocide denier and Current UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quoted that he supports Zionism without qualification. He also confirms that UK air force support has been essential in Israel’s mass-murdering genocide. Includes URLs https://www.declassifieduk.org/keir-starmers-100-spy-flights-over-gaza-in-support-of-israel/ and https://youtu.be/O74hZCKKdpA
    Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza's hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
    Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.
    Orcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.
    Orcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.