John Fullerton

Pentagon Makes Largest Known Arms Purchase From Israel — For Banned Cluster Weapons The contract for the controversial weapons known for high civilian death tolls is the largest of its kind in available government records.

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The wound is deep and still there:
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Starmer is toast. But the dark forces that brought him to power are as strong as ever The political and media classes that once venerated Mandelson and are now cutting him adrift are the same ones that spent five years destroying Corbyn

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News at last! Roundfire, the fiction imprint of Collective Ink, has offered me a traditional publishing contract for my latest thriller, Oceans Deep. I was just lucky with the timing—they’ve been look...

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Approved and signed contract for my latest thriller, Oceans Deep. Looking forward to working with the publishers to make it work...they take marketing very seriously, as will I. 😀

Natural Born Killer A former CIA Russia hand illuminates Vladimir Putin’s dark arts

Is Trump's coercive machinery of the state less brutal, less cruel and less murderous?
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‘A white man’s war, a Black man’s fight’: the eye-opening story of Black soldiers in Vietnam At a time when Black military history is being rewritten under Trump officials, new book The War Within a War provides a vital reminder

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Britain’s Rulers Have Been Partners in the Gaza Genocide Tory and Labour governments in Britain have provided every conceivable form of support for Israel’s genocidal project in Gaza. Peter Oborne, an independent-minded conservative journalist, has now prov...

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Glasgow Turkish barber's hilarious response to Nigel Farage comments with hairstyle pics Artist, the Rebel Bear, decided to help G11 Barbers in Partick with the pictures after Farage claimed many of the establishments are fronts for money laundering and drug running.

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The dude whose company, thanks to Labour, will run our military analytics and to whom Wes Streeting is giving our personal healthcare data.

“They started beating me right away when they arrested me”

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I'd forgotten the first chapter...https://youtu.be/ZeDIgiQ9svo?si=gafe0KcBoPdsT_cd

Why Isn't News of Trump Building Vast Concentration Camps Being Treated as a National Emergency? | Common Dreams History shows us that once a nation builds a mass detention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. Wake up, people.

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The strange case of Charles Dickens and a disappearing Edinburgh gravestone In search of the truth about the inspiration behind Ebenezer Scrooge

Charles Dickens took the name “Ebenezer Scrooge” from the Edinburgh gravestone of Ebenezer Scroggie, after misreading Scroggie’s occupation – “meal man”, i.e. grain merchant – as “mean man”.

Or did he? The story may only date back to 2004…
#BookWormSat
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ISRAEL IS A TERRORIST STATE

Palestine Genocide = Israel
Lebanon bombings = Israel
Greenland Threats = Israel
Epstein Files = Israel
Iran Wars = Israel
West Asia chaos = Israel
Charlie Kirk killing = Israel
Coup d’état USA = Israel
9/11, USS Liberty, King David Hotel bombing, etc., etc… all with an Israel Zionist tinge! #TRUTH

Maggie O’Farrell on Grief, Her History with Shakespeare, and Adapting Her Novel to the Screen Maggie O’Farrell was first struck by the homophonic similarity between Shakespeare’s son Hamnet and the titular character of his play, Hamlet when she was 16-years-old. She carried that intrigue ov…

Maggie O’Farrell on Grief, Her History with Shakespeare, and Adapting Her Novel to the Screen
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Labour minister ordered intelligence reports on journalists Exclusive: Material gathered was personally given to Josh Simons when chair of pro-Starmer thinktank, say sources

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Thomas Nagel · Now and Then: Living in Time Our lives don’t just play out over time: we lead them over the course of that time, shaping them as an extended whole...

‘Why is it appropriate for grief to subside over time, given that the reason for grief seems not to have diminished: the person is still dead? Why is there not something disloyal about ceasing to grieve?’

Thomas Nagel on how we live within temporality.

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Tradecraft and Sheer Graft Revealing the writing process of a master

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Yiyun Li | To Remember in America When I was at nursery school in Beijing in the 1970s, there was a teacher who seemed to find tireless pleasure in...

‘A friend in London talks about the mystifying phrase she keeps hearing these days: “This is not America, this is not who we are.” But this is America, this is life, and this is how human beings behave. American exceptionalism will not save us.’

Yiyun Li on the blog.

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The 2-Hour Transaction That Just Rewired Global Capital Allocation How the Gulf Chose India Over the American Security Architecture in Eleven Days, and Why Every Portfolio on Earth Is Now Mispriced

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BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.

BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
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The criminal elite exposed in the Epstein files are burying the truth A handful of figures will be sacrificed - but only to protect a wider culture that believes rules don't apply to the ruling elite

The criminal elite exposed in the Epstein files are burying the truth - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/criminal-elite-exposed-epstein-files-burying-truth

Is the monarchy over? I have already asked this morning whether Keir Starmer's career is over as a consequence of the Epstein scandal. So let me ask another question that appears to require an answer, which is, can the mon...

Is the monarchy over? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02... They're just a bunch of ultra-privileged people who have exploited their position and other people for personal gain and gratification. That's been rumbled now. It's time for them to go.

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This is great. It was on BBC Alba the other night. If you didn't see it, here's another chance. I hope you like it. #Donegal
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