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Report: NHS doctor says she was 'strangled' by police at a protest to demand an ambulance for a critically ill hunger striker in a UK prison.

Footage shows police dragging the doctor on her back along the road by the hood of her coat, choking her:

"I was gagging & then I lost consciousness,” Olivia Brandon said.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/police-arrest-and-assault-doctors-supporting-palestine-action-hunger-striker

#PalestineAction #UKHungerStrikers #UKPol #USPol #press #autocracy #Europol #palestine @palestine .

Middle East Eye

Police arrest and assault doctors supporting Palestine Action hunger striker

Doctors demanded an ambulance for a Palestine Action-linked prisoner on hunger strike experiencing chest pain

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DrALJONES

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · 6 hours ago

Democracy vs neo-feudalism - the Dark Enlightenment

Knowledge lies at the heart of a healthy democracy, & its many custodians include libraries, universities, cultural institutions, & a free & independent media.

The Trump administration is intimidating, dismantling or destroying them.

Welcome to the so-called "Dark Enlightenment", aka, neo-feudalism.

~Historian Sarah Churchwell

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/bigideas/sarah-churchwell-america-democracy/105871364

#neoFeudalism #DarkEnlightenment #USPol #Europol #fascism #racism .

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Sarah Churchwell asks — Will American democracy survive the Dark Enlightenment? - ABC listen

Historian Sarah Churchwell takes you on a gripping and confronting journey into America's recent past to explain its extraordinary present, starting with dark story at the heart of that American classic Gone with the Wind. Knowledge lies at the heart of a healthy democracy, and its many custodians include libraries, universities, cultural institutions, and a free and independent media. So what happens when these institutions are intimidated, dismantled or destroyed, as is happening in America, under the government of President Donald Trump? This event was recorded at the University of Technology Sydney's Vice Chancellor's Democracy Forum on 14 May 2025. Original broadcast on June 17, 2025. Speakers Sarah Churchwell Professor of American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of London Author, The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe, Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and The Invention of The Great Gatsby, Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream, and The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells Director, Being Human festival and Living Literature event series Judge, Man Booker Prize Anna Funder (host) Author, Wifedom, Stasiland and All That I Am Luminary and Ambassador, University of Technology Sydney Roy Green (host) Emeritus Professor and Special Innovation Advisor at University of Technology Sydney Former Dean of the UTS Business School Chair of the UTS Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Hub Further information From Gatsby to Huck Finn — American literature in an age of polarisation - Sarah Churchwell on Big Ideas, ABC Radio National 4 November 2024

DrALJONES

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · 6 hours ago

Democracy vs neo-feudalism - the Dark Enlightenment

Knowledge lies at the heart of a healthy democracy, & its many custodians include libraries, universities, cultural institutions, & a free & independent media.

The Trump administration is intimidating, dismantling or destroying them.

Welcome to the so-called "Dark Enlightenment", aka, neo-feudalism.

~Historian Sarah Churchwell

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/bigideas/sarah-churchwell-america-democracy/105871364

#neoFeudalism #DarkEnlightenment #USPol #Europol #fascism #racism .

ABC listen

Sarah Churchwell asks — Will American democracy survive the Dark Enlightenment? - ABC listen

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DrALJONES

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · 9 hours ago

Report: "Israeli arms companies made record-high revenues last year, marketing products as “battle-tested” in Gaza.

"More than half the deliveries in 2024 went to European militaries, while other shipments went to countries in the Asia Pacific region, led by India."

"Israel is one of the top 10 arms-exporting countries in the world."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/21/israeli-arms-companies-revenues-soared-in-2024

#Europol #USPol #IsraeliArmsExport #Press #BDS #palestine #GazaGenocide @palestine .

Al Jazeera

Israeli arms companies’ revenues soared in 2024

Israel's defence exports increased 13 percent in 2024 compared with the previous year to a record of almost $15bn.

DrALJONES

@DrALJONES@mastodon.social · 9 hours ago

Report: "Israeli arms companies made record-high revenues last year, marketing products as “battle-tested” in Gaza.

"More than half the deliveries in 2024 went to European militaries, while other shipments went to countries in the Asia Pacific region, led by India."

"Israel is one of the top 10 arms-exporting countries in the world."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/21/israeli-arms-companies-revenues-soared-in-2024

#Europol #USPol #IsraeliArmsExport #Press #BDS #palestine #GazaGenocide @palestine .