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Imran Khan. (Photo: Behind Closed Doors / Independent POV)

Imran Khan: ‘West gains from corruption’

26 January 2023

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Britain’s 42 coups since 1945

12 January 2023

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The UK’s 83 military interventions around the world since 1945

10 January 2023

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A US B-52 drops a load of 750-pounds bombs over a Vietnamese coastal area, 5 November 1965. (Photo: USAF)

Britain’s secret propaganda campaign in the Vietnam war

17 November 2022

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Britain’s secret role in the brutal US war in Vietnam

16 November 2022

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Charles Powell holds an umbrella for Margaret Thatcher on a foreign engagement. (Photo: Bill Rowntree / Mirrorpix / Getty)

Golden Temple massacre: Probe into SAS role marred by nepotism

3 November 2022

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A wounded man is held at gunpoint by British forces in Malaya. (Photo: Ministry of Information)

Britain’s forgotten war for rubber

13 September 2022

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India’s last Viceroy and the £450,000 battle to read his diaries

12 July 2022

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Revealed: Australia’s secret propaganda unit

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16 June 2022

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Britain’s bumbling foreign policy over Taiwan and Ukraine

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8 June 2022

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Anger as Queen bags ‘generous’ gift from dictator

2 June 2022

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Prince Charles rides a speedboat given to him by Imelda Marcos. (Photo: Tim Graham via Getty)

Our Men in Manila

6 May 2022

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USAF B-1 Bombers at the air base on Diego Garcia. (Photo by: Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Britain’s occupied territory

1 March 2022

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Archeologists excavating Buddhist relics in 2011 before the Mes Aynak copper mine was due to open (Photo: Jerome Starkey / Creative Commons)

Britain and Australia’s resource grab in Afghanistan

16 February 2022

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Shanghai, China’s largest city and financial hub. (Photo: Creative Commons)

Conservatives give £100m aid to ‘reduce poverty’ in China, while increasing it in UK

27 January 2022

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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (black turban) with Ahmed Shah Massoud on his right at peace talks in 1992 (Photo: Sami Zubeiri / AFP via Getty)

To charm ‘seriously evil’ warlord, Foreign Office overlooked journalist’s murder

9 November 2021

Tagged AfghanistanPakistan
Boris Johnson greets Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the COP26 summit (Photo: UN)

Greenwashing genocide? The UK welcomes Sri Lanka’s notorious president

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3 November 2021

Tagged Sri Lanka
Yunus Khales with President Ronald Reagan at the White House on 12 November 1987 (Photo: Dirck Halstead / Getty Images)

MI6 helped Bin Laden ally get medical treatment

20 September 2021

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Britain supported Pakistan as it helped the Taliban kill UK troops

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9 September 2021

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Margaret Thatcher receives Prime Minister of Pakistan Zia Ul-Haq at 10 Downing Street in London on October 6, 1980, UK.

Margaret Thatcher’s support for Afghan jihadists covered up by UK censors

8 September 2021

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British intelligence backed Afghan mujahideen from Jamiati Islami in the 1980s.

How MI6 backed ‘right-wing religious fanatics’ in Afghanistan

4 September 2021

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Britain in Afghanistan: Unprepared then, unprepared now

3 September 2021

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Afghan refugees have asked for sanctuary for a long time — only now do we listen

20 August 2021

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Arming the Philippines: It’s a Duterte job, but does Britain have to do it?

1 July 2021

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