Alan Smith
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Keen on facts. And Tesco finest crinkle cut lightly sea salted hand cooked crisps.
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For the @equatormag.bsky.social newsletter, I talked about how I reported my piece on the BBC and Gaza, and what's at stake in the current crisis. You can read/sign up below - Equator is a brilliant and necessary new magazine, so give it your support!
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
November 15, 2025 at 10:52 AM
For the @equatormag.bsky.social newsletter, I talked about how I reported my piece on the BBC and Gaza, and what's at stake in the current crisis. You can read/sign up below - Equator is a brilliant and necessary new magazine, so give it your support!
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
www.equator.org/articles/ins...
Phoebe Greenwood describes from within the extreme consequences of the Western media’s false equivalence over Palestine:
My years reporting on Gaza broke me down. Why did it take so long for the world to become outraged? | Phoebe Greenwood
My years reporting on Gaza broke me down. Why did it take so long for the world to become outraged? | Phoebe Greenwood
My years reporting on Gaza broke me down. Why did it take so long for the world to become outraged? | Phoebe Greenwood
Between 2010 and 2013, I was on the ground capturing Israel’s attacks on Palestine. Few wanted to see it
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Phoebe Greenwood describes from within the extreme consequences of the Western media’s false equivalence over Palestine:
My years reporting on Gaza broke me down. Why did it take so long for the world to become outraged? | Phoebe Greenwood
My years reporting on Gaza broke me down. Why did it take so long for the world to become outraged? | Phoebe Greenwood
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A map of Gaza’s 400+ UN aid distribution points — in stark contrast to the four GHF-run sites: three in the south, one in central Gaza, and none in the north.
(Each GHF site opens for only about 8 minutes a day, and all four are rarely open at the same time.)
(Each GHF site opens for only about 8 minutes a day, and all four are rarely open at the same time.)
August 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A map of Gaza’s 400+ UN aid distribution points — in stark contrast to the four GHF-run sites: three in the south, one in central Gaza, and none in the north.
(Each GHF site opens for only about 8 minutes a day, and all four are rarely open at the same time.)
(Each GHF site opens for only about 8 minutes a day, and all four are rarely open at the same time.)
Mouin Rabbani: Israel’s orchestration of societal collapse.
Israel is Minutely Engineering the Famine in Gaza
Mouin Rabbani, co-editor of Jadaliyya and a former UN official who worked as a special adviser on Israel-Palestine for the International Crisis Group, talks about how famine and starvation in Gaza is "minutely designed and managed" by Israel.
Mouin Rabbani, co-editor of Jadaliyya and a former UN official who worked as a special adviser on Israel-Palestine for the International Crisis Group, talks about how famine and starvation in Gaza is "minutely designed and managed" by Israel.
July 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Mouin Rabbani: Israel’s orchestration of societal collapse.
The Onion is up for this.
Trump: ‘We Could Argue All Day About Who Is Or Isn’t A Child Rapist’
July 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The Onion is up for this.
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Today was the day when Europe announced that it is moving on:
The Franco-British agreement to establish a nuclear supervision group, and a permanent headquarters for the Ukraine coalition of the willing can become contours of a new European security architecture - this time without the US.
The Franco-British agreement to establish a nuclear supervision group, and a permanent headquarters for the Ukraine coalition of the willing can become contours of a new European security architecture - this time without the US.
Contours of European Strategic Autonomy
Europe is moving on without the US, and the US does not seem to like it after all.
open.substack.com
July 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Today was the day when Europe announced that it is moving on:
The Franco-British agreement to establish a nuclear supervision group, and a permanent headquarters for the Ukraine coalition of the willing can become contours of a new European security architecture - this time without the US.
The Franco-British agreement to establish a nuclear supervision group, and a permanent headquarters for the Ukraine coalition of the willing can become contours of a new European security architecture - this time without the US.
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"We are experiencing a true reversal of ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere. Something we've never seen before."
"While the world is debating the potential collapse of the AMOC in the North Atlantic, we are seeing that the SMOC is not just weakening, but has reversed."
"While the world is debating the potential collapse of the AMOC in the North Atlantic, we are seeing that the SMOC is not just weakening, but has reversed."
July 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
"We are experiencing a true reversal of ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere. Something we've never seen before."
"While the world is debating the potential collapse of the AMOC in the North Atlantic, we are seeing that the SMOC is not just weakening, but has reversed."
"While the world is debating the potential collapse of the AMOC in the North Atlantic, we are seeing that the SMOC is not just weakening, but has reversed."
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BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air.
"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com.
Here's the trailer:
"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com.
Here's the trailer:
July 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air.
"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com.
Here's the trailer:
"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com.
Here's the trailer:
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British Medical Association Severs Links with Israel.
July 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
British Medical Association Severs Links with Israel.
15 yrs of Norwegian stats: The economic activity of immigrants creates more jobs than they take and increases the pay.
🚨🚨🚨Blockbuster paper out today! Bear with me as I explain why this one is so important.
🤔 The *economic* anger about immigration is based on the false notion that immigrants take jobs or lower wages. A major misunderstanding behind this view is that immigrants only increase the supply of labor.
🤔 The *economic* anger about immigration is based on the false notion that immigrants take jobs or lower wages. A major misunderstanding behind this view is that immigrants only increase the supply of labor.
June 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
15 yrs of Norwegian stats: The economic activity of immigrants creates more jobs than they take and increases the pay.
If true, this suggests a slightly higher intellect at play than we have come to expect. No idea who.
🚨BREAKING: U.S. Told Iran Strikes Were “One-Off” — @amwajmedia Report
The U.S. privately informed Iran that its strikes on the Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear sites were limited in scope and not intended to trigger full-scale war, according to a new Amwaj.media report.
Details 👇🏼
The U.S. privately informed Iran that its strikes on the Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear sites were limited in scope and not intended to trigger full-scale war, according to a new Amwaj.media report.
Details 👇🏼
Exclusive: Iran given advance notice as US insisted attack on nuclear sites is ‘one-off’
The story: US President Donald Trump says three key nuclear facilities in Iran have been “obliterated,” while threatening more strikes “if peace does not come quickly.” This comes as Amwaj.media has l...
amwaj.media
June 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
If true, this suggests a slightly higher intellect at play than we have come to expect. No idea who.
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the 'hunger games' continue
June 22, 2025 at 7:33 AM
the 'hunger games' continue
DT Quoting Richard Seymour: Neoliberalism … aimed to “‘abandon tribal sentiments of solidarity and accept the law of universal competition’. The result, amid soaring wealth inequality, is a ‘paranoid system’: if everyone is a potential competitor, there can be no meaningful social sphere ….”
New piece: been working on this for the best part of a year. But really it's trying to draw on everything I've seen and thought about since I first started reporting on far right politics in the late 2000s. Online now and in tomorrow's LRB.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism?
As the historian Ian Kershaw says, trying to define fascism is ‘like trying to nail jelly to a wall’, yet for all...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
DT Quoting Richard Seymour: Neoliberalism … aimed to “‘abandon tribal sentiments of solidarity and accept the law of universal competition’. The result, amid soaring wealth inequality, is a ‘paranoid system’: if everyone is a potential competitor, there can be no meaningful social sphere ….”
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New piece: been working on this for the best part of a year. But really it's trying to draw on everything I've seen and thought about since I first started reporting on far right politics in the late 2000s. Online now and in tomorrow's LRB.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism?
As the historian Ian Kershaw says, trying to define fascism is ‘like trying to nail jelly to a wall’, yet for all...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
New piece: been working on this for the best part of a year. But really it's trying to draw on everything I've seen and thought about since I first started reporting on far right politics in the late 2000s. Online now and in tomorrow's LRB.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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What the Brexit media misses about Starmer’s quite good deal. My latest
Burying Brexit
What the media misses about Sir Keir Starmer's EU reset deal
open.substack.com
May 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
What the Brexit media misses about Starmer’s quite good deal. My latest
There is so much in this astonishing speech that it defies any single quote or description.
https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46686
https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46686
Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat Addresses the UN in Commemoration of the 77th Anniversary of the Nakba
Comemmorating the 77th anniversary of the start of the Nakba, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat adressed the UN. During the address, Erakat highlighted the shortcomings of international law in stoppin...
www.jadaliyya.com
May 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
There is so much in this astonishing speech that it defies any single quote or description.
https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46686
https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46686
Francesca Albanese - the nearest we have to a real-life superhero.
May 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Francesca Albanese - the nearest we have to a real-life superhero.
Can any publication credibly change their stance without first facing up to their own complicity?
The pro-genociders have lost The Independent, The Telegraph, The Economist, The Guardian and Piers Morgan all in a matter of days
May 15, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Can any publication credibly change their stance without first facing up to their own complicity?
Peter Foster: “Years of cravenness and timidity take their toll. A plague on all their houses.”
Labour's immigration announcement today is a reflection of the paucity of honest debate by BOTH political parties over the last decade on this issue.
Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n
Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n
May 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Peter Foster: “Years of cravenness and timidity take their toll. A plague on all their houses.”
Reporter: Who taught you this?
Kid: I have a brain bro.
Wonderful.
Kid: I have a brain bro.
Wonderful.
Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins
May 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Reporter: Who taught you this?
Kid: I have a brain bro.
Wonderful.
Kid: I have a brain bro.
Wonderful.