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Miliband’s ‘green energy’ sea cable risks spreading nuclear waste across Orkney

 Miliband’s ‘green energy’ sea cable risks spreading nuclear waste
across Orkney. Project could disturb radioactive particles on the seabed
which were created by the now-decommissioned Dounreay nuclear power plant.
The Orkney Link Transmission Project will enable renewable electricity to
be sent from the Scottish mainland to Orkney via an undersea cable that was
first approved in 2019. The project, overseen by the Department for Energy
Security & Net Zero, has already been criticised by locals for being
unsightly. It has now also emerged that the cable could disturb
“irradiated particles” on the seabed which were created by the
now-decommissioned Dounreay nuclear power plant decades ago. There is a
risk these radioactive particles, including radioactive forms of cobalt,
Americium and niobium, could wash ashore if disturbed. While official
documents state the risk is “extremely small”, the Government has
approved a £20m taxpayer-backed insurance policy to cover the cost of any
possible clean up operation.

 Telegraph 17th Jan 2026, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/17/milibands-green-sea-cable-risk-spreading-nuclear-waste/

January 20, 2026 Posted by | environment, UK | Leave a comment

Keir Starmer to rule over Gaza?

DECLASSIFIED UK, 16 Jan 26

This week, it was revealed that UK prime minister Keir Starmer has been offered a place on Donald Trump’s Gaza “Board of Peace”, and he looks poised to accept the offer.

Last November, the UN Security Council (UNSC) voted in favour of establishing the board as a “transitional authority” to oversee Gaza reconstruction as well as the deployment of an International Stabilisation Force, with a mandate lasting until the end of 2027.

This allowed Trump to drive a bulldozer through any “Uniting for Peace” proposal at the UN General Assembly (UNGA), which authorises that body to take over from the UNSC in its role of maintaining international peace and security.

The actions of the UNGA become particularly important when the UNSC is deadlocked due to vetoes used by the major powers. The US government, for instance, has continually vetoed resolutions calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

By September, the “Uniting for Peace” mechanism had been backed by 45 UN human rights experts including special rapporteurs, independent experts, and working group members.

They urged the UNGA to recommend six proposals, including establishing a peace force, opening all crossings into Gaza, and deploying humanitarian naval missions.

The initiative also had the support of international leaders such as Colombian president Gustavo Petro, and had a chance of passing the two-thirds voting threshold at the UNGA.


But the effort was stymied by Trump’s “Board of Peace”, which effectively puts the genocidaires in charge of planning for the day after the genocide.

“I assume that the US, at Israel’s urging, was very unhappy about the prospect of Uniting for Peace”, international law expert Richard Falk told the Electronic Intifada.

“It’s a very strange context in which the perpetrator of genocide and its principal supporter are rewarded by presiding over a supposed peace process”, he added.

The same could now be said for Starmer, a man who continued to provide intelligence support and sell arms to Israel amid the genocide, while welcoming Israeli soldiers to train on UK soil.

On Tuesday, foreign secretary Yvette Cooper responded to the reports that Starmer was due to join the board, and showed little signs that the prime minister would reject the offer.

“We supported the 20-point plan to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza”, Cooper said. “That is still fragile and there’s still a huge amount of work to do, including humanitarian surge and support, and including the decommissioning of weapons from Hamas”.

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign responded to these developments, saying: “This would amount to a grotesque new low for Starmer, once again deepening his complicity in the denial of Palestinian rights”.

The group added: “Trump’s board is not about achieving lasting peace or justice. It’s about entrenching Israel’s colonisation, fragmentation and occupation of Palestinian land”.

January 20, 2026 Posted by | politics international | Leave a comment

Deconstructing Trump’s Gaza ‘Peace’ Plan (w/ Norman Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report

The resolution, Finkelstein points out, annuls decades of precedent established under international law on Palestine — erasing its entire legal history.

Chris Hedges, Substack, Jan 15, 2026

Lawlessness has been a common theme characterizing the events of the first weeks of the year. The kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the murder of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, the threat of bombing Iran by the Trump administration. Perhaps one of the worst violations of the law has slipped under the radar amidst the chaos — the continued genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the United Nations’ abetting of Israel and the U.S.’s efforts to ethnically cleanse the region.

Professor Norman Finkelstein, author and scholar of the Middle East, knows better than anyone how to interpret international action at the hands of the United Nations in relation to Palestine and Israel. As for the adoption of Resolution 2803 (2025) in November, Finkelstein tells host Chris Hedges, “[The resolution] abolished 70 years of UN history… [It] gave Gaza to Donald J. Trump.”

The resolution, Finkelstein points out, legitimizes Israel and the U.S.’s ethnonationalist and imperialist goals and delegitimizes the sanctity of international law. He explains, “there was a robust consensus on how to resolve the conflict, which means that Israel didn’t have a leg to stand on. But guess what? It now has a leg to stand on. It has you right here.”

Transcript………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/deconstructing-trumps-gaza-peace

January 20, 2026 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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