The shoddy and misleading Guardian article, written by Ben Jacobs, was published on December 24. It made two primary claims — both of which are demonstrably false. The first false claim was hyped in the article’s headline: “Julian Assange gives guarded praise of Trump and blasts Clinton in interview”…
Facebook Admits Handing Thousands of Its Users’ Details Over to British Authorities…
Social media giant Facebook has confessed to giving the personal details of thousands of its users to the British government this year. Facebook says that officials requested access to 7,199 profiles between January and June of 2016 – a 30 percent increase on last year…
Extensive British Spying Throughout Africa Revealed in Le Monde…
India Overtakes Britain as the World’s Sixth-Largest Economy…
Score one for the post-colonial underdog. India’s economy has reportedly overtaken the United Kingdom’s for the first time in over 100 years, now standing as the world’s sixth-largest economy by GDP after the United States, China, Japan, Germany, and France. The milestone is a symbol of India’s rapid economic growth and…
Farage Undermines PM Theresa May Again with 3rd Trump Meeting…
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has visited Trump Tower in New York for the third time, in what is likely to be a major embarrassment to UK Prime Minister Theresa May, who has yet to meet the US president-elect. US news reporters confirmed Farage entered the lobby of Trump Tower in New York…
Snowden Leak: British Intelligence Calls Israel “True Threat” to Middle East…
According to leaked documents released by Edward Snowden, British intelligence spied on Israeli diplomats and military officials in 2008 and 2009, the French newspaper Le Monde and Israel’s Haaretz reported on Wednesday…
The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance…
The UK is due to pass its controversial new surveillance law, the Investigatory Powers Act…The Act formally legalizes a number of mass surveillance programs revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013… introduces a new power which will force internet service providers to store browsing data on all customers for 12 months…
Thomas Mair Found Guilty of Murdering Jo Cox…
Thomas Mair has been found guilty of murdering British politician Jo Cox a week before the UK voted to leave the European Union. Mair has been sentenced to life in prison without parole…
UK/Brexit: High Court Rules Government Needs Parliament’s Approval to Trigger Article 50…
Parliament must vote on whether the UK can start the process of leaving the EU, the High Court has ruled. This means the government cannot trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty – beginning formal exit negotiations with the EU – on its own…