The German Revolution: an alternative history

[The German Revolution: an alternative history @otherrevolution]

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[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Palantir, the US spytech firm accused of abetting Israel’s genocide in Gaza, enjoys lavish tax breaks on UK profits that are already derived from taxpayers’ money, an analysis by openDemocracy has found.

The company has been awarded at least £670m in UK public contracts in recent years. That includes a £330m deal to manage sensitive NHS data, signed despite the fact Palantir's co-founder Peter Thiel has expressed disdain for publicly funded healthcare.

Those contracts have helped make the UK Palantir’s second-largest market by revenue, with 2024 pre-tax profits of £25.3m.

But its effective UK tax rate that year was only £2m, or 8%, far lower than the norm of 25% paid by firms with profits above £250,000. In 2023 it was even less, at 4.7%, and in 2022 it was 4.2%.

For 2025, Companies House filings suggest Palantir paid less than £820,000 in cash tax in the UK, less than it paid in Korea, Japan, France and Germany.

The low rate was due a structured arrangement that limits the amount of profits recognised in the UK, as well as a rule that awards large tax breaks to firms that compensate their employees with stock instead of cash, openDemocracy reported.

The report said the nature of filings made it difficult to assess the total amount of tax breaks Palantir has received, but by 2022 alone it had accumulated £230m in tax relief from what it called “employee share acquisition relief”.

“When profitable companies are paying very little tax, especially when much of their revenues derive from taxpayers' money itself, then it's important to ask why,” Mike Lewis, director of TaxWatch, told openDemocracy.

“Is it because tax incentives and tax breaks are poorly targeted? Or is it because companies are shifting profits in ways that our tax system is supposed to counteract?”

[The German Revolution: an alternative history @otherrevolution]

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[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

The UN couldn't print the names of Palestinian children murdered and maimed by Israel.

Why?

Because they feared Israel would respond by killing and maiming the families of the children.

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Australian media ignores UN report on deliberate killing of children - Michael West https://t.co/qmGx8373Si

[The German Revolution: an alternative history @otherrevolution]

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[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Andy Burnham has already come under fire for selecting a pro-Israel corporate lobbyist as his chief of staff.

And now Novara Media can reveal that an advisor to the man likely to become Britain's next prime minister has a record of discriminating against staff trying to unionise.

Andy Haldane should not be “anywhere near a government that claims to stand for working people”, according to the Independent Workers’ of Great Britain union.

Read the full report by @SimonChilds13: https://t.co/znHqRbLkgU

[Proton @ProtonPrivacy]

A defence contractor has figured out how to track you without ever needing your name, face, or numberplate.

The product, SignalTrace, instead listens to the devices you're carrying, and their sensor clips onto existing cameras your city has likely already got mounted.

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[The German Revolution: an alternative history @otherrevolution]

Kenya arrests more than 350 as people mark anniversary of deadly protests https://t.co/b1WmgwNolr via @AJEnglish

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

A highly respected barrister who worked on the era-defining Stephen Lawrence, Hillsborough and Grenfell cases is now being hounded by a judge for mounting a legal defence of four activists who targeted an Israeli drone factory.

More here: https://t.co/xgYWFWIrgo

[💧Mary Kostakidis @MaryKostakidis]

Israel has been outed. Over and over again. The more evidence there is of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including their own incitement, the louder the ‘blood libel’, ‘antisemitism’, ‘obsession with Israel’ cries from the perpetrators and their defenders.

[The German Revolution: an alternative history @otherrevolution]

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[Joel Jenkins @boganintel]

After Israel has destroyed hospitals for sport in Gaza, 'The Lancet' calls for the suspension of the Israeli Medical association.

"Let us toast the people of Israel", said @JacintaAllanMP whilst announcing a hospital partnership between the state of Victoria and the nation condemned by the UN for committing a genocide.

The political class of Australia is changing the essence of our country by going out of their way to support Israel.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

A UN commission of inquiry has concluded that Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children, committing genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, as well as additional war crimes in the occupied West Bank

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff.

He supported Iraq invasion; ex chair of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants.

Next?
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[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Greta Thunberg has warned that 40C heatwaves in the UK are “only the beginning” and says Britain’s leaders have “their heads completely buried in the sand” regarding climate change.

Her comments follow revelations that Labour ministers met fossil fuel industry lobbyists more than 500 times during the party’s first year in power, while Labour MPs took tens of thousands of pounds in donations from oil and gas lobbyists.

The activist, 23, was speaking as the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) issued a rare red heat-health alert for the first time since 2022, with temperatures forecast to reach as high as 40C later this week.

“This is what experts have been warning about for decades,” Thunberg told Metro. “This is unfortunately only the beginning.”

She added: “We know that the climate crisis is here and now, and not a faraway threat in the future, and those suffering the most are the ones who have contributed the least to cause it.”

The red alert – which indicates heat that is life-threatening for even the healthy population – covers the East and West Midlands, London, and southern and east England from 1am on Wednesday until 11pm on Thursday.

The heatwave could also disrupt transport infrastructure, food and water access, energy supplies and force businesses to close, UKHSA warned.

Thunberg said: “What is most concerning about this is not only that we continuously shatter heat records and destabilise the entire biosphere way faster than models have been predicting, but that it is not treated as the existential crisis it is in media and politics.

“The UK’s responsibility for the climate crisis cannot be overstated, still its leaders continue acting as if there was no tomorrow.”

Research by UKHSA published last year found that as well as the elderly, the very young and people with pre-existing medical conditions, people experiencing poverty, overcrowded housing or difficult economic circumstances are also at far greater risk in the heat.

Thunberg’s comments were echoed by climate scientists, including professor Friederike Otto of Imperial College London, who said politicians had failed to respond to the first red heat-health alert in 2022.

“Our first 40C day was supposed to be a wake-up call, but clearly someone hit snooze,” she said.

[The German Revolution: an alternative history @otherrevolution]

Burnham’s pick for chief of staff led firm that advised BP, Apple and Amazon https://t.co/L9uYi5k915

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

The dangerous idea that one government speaks for all Jews continues to cause harm.

When Israel takes controversial actions, Jewish communities worldwide face backlash — even though most Jews had no role in those decisions and many strongly oppose them.

This conflation is unfair and predictable.

Israeli government are not the Jewish people.

Zionism is not Judaism.

Authentic Jewish tradition is a 3,000-year-old faith and covenant that existed long before the modern State of Israel.

Jews are loyal citizens of their own countries, not representatives of a foreign government.

Criticizing Israel is not Jew hatred.

Holding individual Jews responsible for a state they do not control is the real injustice.

#ZionismIsNotJudaism #NotInOurName #JewishValues #NotAntisemitism