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Forget Norway. Is the Pentagon’s Carbon Footprint Actually Britain-Sized?

For years, the standard claim has been that the Pentagon emits 55 million metric tonnes of CO2 annually - this is sometimes flagged as being as much carbon as produced by the whole of Norway.

That sounds like a startling figure. Norway is...

9 days ago
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The Man Urging Putin to Drop the Bomb

I’ve always said: NATO expansion was reckless; Western policy provoked Russian escalation, and we have thrown blood and treasure into a war that at best will have wrecked Ukraine.

But the Kremlin may be on the brink of a folly that would d...

18 days ago
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'This is How World Wars Can Start'

The BBC’s Security Correspondent Frank Gardner rightly observed ‘this is how world wars can start,’ after the Ministry of Defence claimed two Russian warplanes ‘repeatedly and dangerously’ intercepted an unarmed RAF spy plane over the Black...

a month ago
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Propaganda Is Everywhere. Why Is The Field That Studies It So Unstable?

While denying responsibility for the Nordstream gas pipeline sabotage, the former head of MI6 Sir Alex Younger told The Times:

‘The Russians have been doing disinformation, propaganda since the time of the Tsar… we don’t do disinformatio...

2 months ago
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New Data: How UK Media Covered the Gaza Genocide

New data on how British news outlets have covered Gaza forms the basis for a damning report about the UK media.

NewsCord examined 11,295+ classified excerpts from 686 articles across four major outlets - BBC, Sky News, The Guardian, and Al...

2 months ago
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