Of course they are...

Editor's note: ...conspiring, they are led by the British — at least according to critics who say the leaked call shows Europe aligning against the U.S. in shaping Ukraine negotiations. The British want to shut down all discourse in the US — both on Ukraine and what is happening in Venezuela. It's a full on British-led media blitzkrieg against the US in its actions against Venezuela. Probably because it threatens the drug trade and massive amounts of money laundering moving through offshore accounts in British-controlled offshore banking. In case anyone hasn't noticed, the US is ditching the British. Russia likely won't step in to assist Venezuela because Moscow is well aware that the US is pushing back against British control tied to Caribbean drug-trade networks and offshore money-laundering operations. This is "fortress America."

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Clandestine Campaign To Defund ZeroHedge, The Federalist & Breitbart Traced To Kier Starmer Operation

By Tyler Durden | December 5, 2025

Very early into the COVID-19 pandemic, ZeroHedge suggested that a little-known Chinese lab in Wuhan might know something about the novel coronavirus sweeping the globe. As a result, and as you know, we were subject to an intense demonetization / deplatforming campaign that included getting kicked off of Twitter, PayPal, Facebook and other platforms, dropped by our advertisers, and targeted by MSM hit pieces which colluded with foreign 'watchdogs' to inflict maximum damage.

These same groups also targeted outlets including The Federalist and Breitbart over various reporting, which suffered similar fates.

Now, thanks to a new book by investigative journalist Paul Holden that builds on reporting by Matt Taibbi, Paul Thacker and others, we learn that the origin of these campaigns, launched years before the pandemic, was none other than UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer's political machine, which began targeting left-wing outlets speaking critically of Starmer such as The Canary, and then went after conservative outlets in America - just in time for the 2020 US election.

Documents and internal accounts, many drawn from newly disclosed materials, reveal a coordinated project that operated behind a veil of anonymity, misdirection, and unreported political financing.

This murky operation known as the Stop Funding Fake News (SFFN) was launched and resourced through a think tank, Labour Together, that would later be fined for failing to declare £739,000 in donations between 2018 and 2020. Said funds helped underpin this clandestine anti-media strategy which affected news outlets from the UK to the United States.

At the center of the effort was Morgan McSweeney, a political strategist who has since become Starmer's chief of staff and, according to public commentary by prominent journalists, one of the most powerful unelected figures in the modern Labour Party.

The newly disclosed materials reveal that SFFN was not in fact some grassroots, anonymous activist collective it claimed to be, but a political weapon forged by senior Labour figures and funded by millionaire donors, including individuals active in pro-Israel political advocacy.

The goal: destabilize independent media ecosystems aligned with Labour's left under Jeremy Corbyn, elevate Starmer's leadership bid, and delegitimize outlets - domestic and foreign - that threatened the faction’s consolidation of power.

Publicly, SFFN claimed to be run by anonymous activists. Privately, it was shaped by McSweeney and operated from the same small office suite in South London that housed Labour Together.

SFFN ultimately migrated under the umbrella of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), an organization that grew out of a corporate shell once controlled solely by McSweeney.

CCDH would later present SFFN as one of its signature initiatives.

Three Fronts of a Political Offensive

The documents reported by Holden reveal a three-part strategy that reshaped the British political landscape - and reverberated into U.S. media and politics. In a nutshell, this is how the sausage was made:

1. Destabilizing Jeremy Corbyn's Leadership

SFFN's narrative interventions were designed to amplify an "antisemitism crisis" that dogged Corbyn, boosting controversies and legitimizing a media ecosystem hostile to Labour’s left. This influence work aligned directly with the political interests of the centrist faction preparing for a post-Corbyn future.

2. Engineering Starmer's Rise

Labour Together later claimed credit for helping deliver Starmer's 2020 leadership victory, with McSweeney acting as his campaign chief. After Starmer won the July 2024 general election, McSweeney formally became chief of staff, solidifying the faction's institutional dominance.

3. Silencing Dissenting Media

SFFN's most aggressive project was an astroturf campaign against media outlets perceived as ideological threats. Targets spanned both the left (such as The Canary and Evolve Politics) and the right, as noted above.

In each case, the tactic was the same: identify advertisers appearing on targeted sites, publicly shame them through social media threads, and provide tools - including downloadable blocklists - to automatically exclude those outlets from programmatic advertising networks. The effort succeeded in devastating the business model of some targets; others survived but saw sustained pressure.

Please go to Zero Hedge to continue reading.

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Most of what is going on in Britain is very much related to Israel. Jeremy Corbyn certainly discovered that.

Gaza Reveals How Britain Is Run, and Why We Must Change It

This is happening in the EU and in Britain because the leaders of these countries feel their grip slipping, and they're doing everything they can to retain power as they head toward the dustbin of history:

Europe's Censorship Tyranny

The UK does not want competition to its narrative by interlopers and is working overtime to shut them down:

Substack caves into the UK censorship regime and restricts UK users

Collapse of the UK legal system as circumstances in Britain rapidly deteriorate. The UK's Starmer works for the central banks...