UK Column News – 15th August 2025

Mike Robinson, Mark Anderson and Vanessa Beeley with Friday’s UK Column News.

Sources:

Trump–Putin Summit: Peace Talks in a World Gearing Up for War

00:37 The Guardian: What’s at stake at the Trump-Putin Ukraine peace summit?

Going Underground (on X): Zelensky attacks Belgorod, Russia ahead of the Trump-Putin Summit to provoke Russia into a massive retaliation 

Russian Embassy, UK (on X): Russia has been and remains open to resolving the Ukraine conflict through political and diplomatic means

GOV.UK: Chief of the Defence Staff speech to CSIS

[…] NATO is stronger, Russia is weak; and the West has the military, economic and intellectual heft needed to buttress the global system.

Financial Times: Europe builds for war as arms factories expand at triple speed

 

Lebanon: The Small Nation in a Big Fight

09:14 The Cradle: ‘Strategy of surrender’: Hezbollah condemns Lebanese cabinet decision on disarmament

The Cradle: Majority of Lebanese oppose Hezbollah disarmament, say army ‘incapable’ of confronting Israel

Marwa Osman/MidEaStream (Telegram): Funeral in Southern Lebanon

UK Column: The Last Army Standing: The US-Zionist Plan to Disarm the Middle East

Marwa Osman/MidEaStream (Telegram): Marwa message

 

Neuro­warfare: NATO’s War for the Human Brain

17:12 The Truth Hound: NATO-Linked ‘Fictional’ War-Strategy Scenario Sees Human Mind as Ultimate Domain to Conquer

Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe: Author: Hervé Le Guyader

NATO Innovation Hub: Weaponization of neurosciences (PDF)

NATO’s Strategic Warfare Development Command: Navigating the Cognitive Battlefield: Key Takeaways from the 2024 NATO Communicators Conference

Joint Warfare Centre: The Three Swords Magazine – NATO’s JWC

National Institutes of Health (NIH): Cognitive warfare: a conceptual analysis of the NATO ACT cognitive warfare exploratory concept

 

Willsy Reports: Paloma Shemirani Inquest Updates

28:23 Resistance GB (YouTube): How the NHS Killed Her Daughter l Resistance Podcast #60 with Will Coleshill (on X): Paloma Shemirani (daughter of Kate Shemirani) Midway of Day 1

NHS doctor narrative effectively calls Paloma a liar in paloma’s signed court statement preceding her death.

 

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Blocked, AI Policing Pre Crime and the End of Online Freedom

37:00 Open Rights Group: Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks

Repo: Public Git Hosting

The repo.or.cz site is no longer available in the UK.

Pluralistic: “Privacy preserving age verification” is bullshit (14 Aug 2025)

Electronic Frontier Foundation: Today’s Supreme Court Decision on Age Verification Tramples Free Speech and Undermines Privacy

UK Parliament: Rt Hon Dame Diana Johnson DBE MP Minister of State for Policing and Crime Prevention (PDF Letter)

GOV.UK: AI to help police catch criminals before they strike

The Guardian: UK traffic to popular porn sites slumps after age checks introduced

 

Lebanon’s Survival at Stake: The Disarmament Controversy

45:23 Kataeb: Gemayel Demands Expulsion of Iranian Ambassador, Says Tehran’s Guardianship Is Over

The Cradle: Iranian security chief meets officials in Beirut amid push to disarm Hezbollah

The Cradle: Iran security chief in Baghdad for talks on ‘next phase’ of Resistance Axis

UK Column: Syria: Prey to the Globalist Cabal and Crony Capitalist Al Qaeda Regime

 

Lab Leak Concerns in Switzerland and Exercise Pegasus Reminder

56:58 Vereinwir: Time is running out to stop a lab leak in Switzerland!

Schweizerischer Verein WIR (YouTube): Time is running out to stop a lab leak in Switzerland

NHS England: Pandemic preparedness & Exercise Pegasus: Exercise Pegasus

GOV.UK: MHRA designated as WHO-Listed Authority: a milestone for UK life sciences and global health 

GOV.UK: Local resilience forums: contact details