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A wide, desaturated shot of an empty airport terminal in the Middle East, a single discarded suitcase in the foreground, and the orange glow of distant explosions reflected in the massive glass windows.
A wide, desaturated shot of an empty airport terminal in the Middle East, a single discarded suitcase in the foreground, and the orange glow of distant explosions reflected in the massive glass windows.

Articles #

A desaturated, high-contrast photograph of a dark military transport plane on a tarmac at night, silhouettes of families carrying luggage under harsh floodlights, a handheld camera feel with heavy grain.

THE REPATRIATION RACKET: DUBLIN PROFITEERS WHILE THE MIDDLE EAST BURNS #

While the skies over the Middle East glow with the fire of 'retaliatory' strikes, the Irish government has found a new way to squeeze its own citizens: charging them for the privilege of not dying in a war zone. As thousands of Irish and British nationals remain trapped in the fallout of the US-Israeli assassination of Ali Khamenei, the mask has slipped on what 'state protection' actually looks like. It looks like a bill for €800. The Irish embassy in…

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A close-up of a thick stack of British pound notes being handed through a glass security partition, the hands are blurred and anonymous, the lighting is cold and clinical.

THE £40,000 BRIBE: LABOUR BUYS ITS WAY OUT OF THE BORDER COLLAPSE #

Faced with a total collapse of border integrity and a humiliating electoral drubbing, the Labour government has reached for the only tool it has left: your money. Home Secretary Mahmood has announced a 'pilot scheme' that would pay failed asylum seekers up to £40,000 per family to simply leave. Let…

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In Brief #

THE BRITNEY DISTRACTION

While the Middle East teeters on the edge of total war and the UK government bribes its way through a migration crisis, the corporate media spent Wednesday night obsessing over Britney Spears’ latest DUI arrest. Spears has deleted her Instagram, but the real disappearance is the public’s attention span, carefully managed by a celebrity-obsessed press corps.