Just 36 percent of respondents in a USA Today/Ipsos poll released on Friday described Floyd’s death as murder, down from 60 percent last June. The racial divide in how the May 25 tragedy is viewed is startling, with 64 percent of black poll participants and just 28 percent of whites …
Read More »George Galloway: Nicola Sturgeon’s testimony answered no questions; this round goes to Alex Salmond
I have learned, too late in life, that it is better to measure twice and cut once. At the end of Nicola Sturgeon’s borefest of deflective ‘don’t knows’ and ‘definitely I don’t remember that’, I felt like Denis Law denouncing Jim Baxter’s playing keepie-up against the World Champions. The Law …
Read More »George Galloway: This epic, bitter battle between Salmond and Sturgeon may be a fishy affair, but it has a whole nation hooked
In 1967, the Scotland football team scored its most epic victory over the then World Champions England on their home turf at Wembley. Legendary languid Scottish midfielder Jim Baxter ran the show, most memorably playing ‘keepie-uppie’ with the ball in the midst of the battle, and even, though this is perhaps …
Read More »Los Angeles police hunts for alleged ‘Valentine’s Day meme’ mocking George Floyd’s death as lawyer demands APOLOGY
“This is beyond insult on top of injury – it’s injury on top of death,” attorney Benjamin Crump said in a statement on Monday, demanding an apology and that anyone who is involved with the meme be held accountable. “The type of callousness and cruelty within a person’s soul needed …
Read More »Doctors found that police played role in death of ‘French George Floyd’ Adama Traore – media
The French media cited a report by four Belgian doctors commissioned by the investigators in the case. The doctors said they believed that Traore had “very likely suffered a heatstroke.” However, “the role in the lethal process of a period of suffocation due to physical constraint cannot be ruled out,” …
Read More »NY attorney general sues NYPD for ‘excessive, brutal & unlawful’ treatment of George Floyd protesters
James condemned the NYPD and its leadership for its “excessive, brutal and unlawful” response to the protests against racism and police brutality that followed on the heels of the death of black Minneapolis man George Floyd under a white officer’s knee last May. In a news release published on Thursday, …
Read More »China says ‘George Floyd cannot even breathe freely’ as it blasts US over Uighur Muslims forced labor claims
“In the United States hundreds of thousands of innocent people died of Covid-19, people like George Floyd cannot even breathe freely,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said during a regular press conference on Thursday. Zhao blasted US allegations that Xinjiang products were made through the “forced labor” of detained …
Read More »George Galloway: I’m happy my friend Julian isn’t being sent to a US gulag. But this shameful episode is a huge stain on Britain
The global historic figure Julian Assange, the greatest journalist and publisher of our age, will not be extradited to the gulag of the American injustice system. Sing Hallelujah! But as Wellington said after the Battle of Waterloo: “It was a damn close run thing.” Hard pounding it has been. Most …
Read More »Farewell, George Blake. They say you were a traitor, but to whom & what? You helped rescue humanity from fascism
Blake, half-Jewish, was born in the Netherlands in 1922. He might have thought it was his home, but only briefly. When the state he was in collapsed like a cheap tent before Hitler’s invasion, his neighbours didn’t even wait for the SS to arrive before beginning to murder the Jews …
Read More »George Blake, famous Soviet double agent who fled to Russia after London prison break, dies at 98
“We have received bitter news, the legendary George Blake is gone,” SVR spokesman Sergey Ivanov told Russian media on Saturday. Blake, a member of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), became a communist while serving as a prisoner of war in Korea. In 1953 Blake informed Soviet intelligence of US and …
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