🔴 The World Food Programme has paused food deliveries to northern #Gaza, noting "complete chaos and violence due to the collapse of civil order"
The agency says the decision was not taken lightly and crews had faced crowds, gunfire and looting
Videos verified by the #BBC show people rushing to delivery trucks and a man gathering spilled flour off the ground. One girl, in tears, says she misses bread
The #UN has been warning of looming #famine...since December
Today in Labor History February 9, 1969: The anarchist Angry Brigade bombed the Bank of Spain in Liverpool, England. The Angry Brigade was a far-left group that committed 25 bombings in England between 1969 and 1972. They targeted banks, embassies, the BBC, and the homes of Conservative Members of Parliament. No one was killed in the bombings. 8 people later stood trial, four were acquitted. John Barker, along with Hilary Creek, Anna Mendelssohn and Jim Greenfield, were convicted on majority verdicts, and sentenced to ten years.
Activists establish protest camp outside Antony Blinken’s home as demonstrations escalate against the Biden administration
Activists are camped outside Antony Blinken’s home to bring the call for a Gaza ceasefire directly to the Secretary of State’s doorstep. The protest is part of an escalating wave of protest directed squarely at the Biden administration.
But Christiof, the #BBC is neither “independent” nor “impartial”!
It messaging wants us to believe that it’s independent and impartial, but when you look closely, its role as an amplifier of state propaganda becomes clear!
Here’s a good quote for you to chew on:
“[Historian] AJP Taylor wryly remarked, [former BBC Director General from 1927 Lord] #Reith had ‘managed to preserve the technical independence of the BBC by suppressing news which the government did not want published. This set a pattern for the future: the vaunted independence of the BBC was secure so long as it was NOT exercised."
Also the late, great journalist John #Pilger imo hit the nail on the head when he said;
“The greatest #propaganda institute in #Britain is the BBC. It is that because it has the greatest reputation. It has the greatest credibility. It has a worldwide reputation. Some of it earned. In news and current affairs, almost none of it earned. And I don’t say that again satirically. So this idea that we concentrate on the demons, Murdoch , the Daily Mail (bad enough), because in a way the Mail and the BBC compliment each other and they all follow each other. …It’s about understanding that spectrum of propaganda and how it affects all of us.”
Today in Labor History January 30, 1972: Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland occurred when British soldiers gunned down 14 Roman Catholic civil-rights marchers in Derry. The victims were all unarmed and running away from the soldiers when they were shot. Many more were injured by shrapnel, rubber bullets or batons. The soldiers who killed them were members of the 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment, which had committed the Ballymurphy Massacre several months prior. Two days after Bloody Sunday, Paul McCartney recorded, “Give Ireland Back to the Irish.” It was one of the only songs banned by the BBC. John Lennon later recorded “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” In 1973, Black Sabbath recorded a song about the incident, “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.” And, of course, there is the 1983 U2 song, “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0izN111lXUg