BBC continues to mislead on OPCW’s Douma ‘chlorine gas’ report
On Friday, the BBC – on its website and in its broadcast coverage – published blatantly fake news when it claimed that ‘chemical weapons watchdog’ the OPCW had confirmed that […]
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Video: BBC News joins fake news scandal over OPCW’s Douma chlorine report
As the SKWAWKBOX reported not long ago, the BBC News website published outright fake news on Friday evening when it reported that the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical […]
BBC’s outright fake news tonight on Douma ‘chlorine attack’
The BBC has been freely critical of Russia Today/RT, Iran’s Press TV and other similar state broadcasters, routinely hosting ‘talking heads’ who dismiss those broadcasters as mere mouthpieces. Tonight, the […]
Benn’s Leeds Central CLP stays 100% left at AGM
Former Labour front-bencher is, for many on the Labour left, the epitome of centrism – all the more so for his grandstanding speech supporting Britain’s bombing on Syria. A speech […]
Three pics that capture what’s wrong with #PeoplesVote/#FBPE/centrism
Comment Saturday saw a march in London by the – largely centrist – ‘FBPE’ (follow-back pro-EU) crowd and the – almost entirely centrist – organisations that have sprung up like […]
OPCW completes Douma mission
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has completed its fact-finding mission to the Syrian town of Douma, site of an alleged – but disputed – chemical […]
Video: bad day for centrists as rendition apology burns last shreds of Blairite credibility
The government’s letter today to Libyan politician Abdelhakim Belhaj and his wife Fatima Boudchar, apologising for their ‘rendition’ – their forcible and illegal transport – to Gaddafi’s Libya after their […]
Video: Williamson on May’s Syria decision: “hearsay, social media and inhumanity”
Labour MP Chris Williamson appeared last night on Channel 4 News to talk about Theresa May’s decision to pursue military action in Syria without giving MPs a vote. Presenter Cathy […]
The 205 Lab MPs who supported Corbyn call for parliament to approve military action
Today in the House of Commons, after a debate in which a number of centrist back-benchers again disgraced themselves, two hundred and five of Labour’s two hundred and fifty nine […]
Three times Corbyn supported (genuine) humanitarian troop deployments
This week, the Tories and a few backbench Labour ‘moderate warmongers’ have attempted to portray a false dichotomy in the Commons debates on Syria, claiming that the choice has been […]