With a Hard Brexit Looming, UK Invites 10,000 Foreign Troops Over for Military Exercises

The U.K. government’s martial-law option for Brexit would allow government ministers to impose curfews and travel bans, confiscate private property, and deploy the armed forces to any U.K. location of their choosing.

MintPress News Desk
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Theresa May | BREXIT Military

LONDON -- As the drama over Brexit continues to reach new heights, the U.K. government has raised eyebrows by announcing that it will host 10,000 foreign troops for a massive military exercise beginning the day after Brexit had been set to take place. The announcement of the exercise has raised the specter of a post-Brexit “martial law”

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St. Louis Police Declare All-Out War On Protesters, Media And Even Themselves

St. Louis Police have been engaged in a quasi-state of martial law, arresting and assaulting bystanders, member of the media and even an undercover police officer.

Michael Harriot
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Police arrest a man as they try to clear a crowd Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017, in University City, Mo. Earlier, protesters marched peacefully in response to a not guilty verdict in the trial of former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley. (AP/Jeff Roberson)

Before Circuit Judge Timothy Wilson found Police Officer Jason Stockley not guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith, St. Louis activists and religious leaders warned that it could get ugly. They said they were going to “shut it down.” They were right about the “ugly” part. Since then, every corner of St.

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Coming Soon To A City Near You: The U.S. Military’s Plan To Take Over America

According to a Pentagon training video created by the Army for U.S. Special Operations Command, the U.S. military plans to use armed forces to solve future domestic political and social problems.

John Whitehead
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Missouri National Guard line up behind police officers monitoring protesters in front of the Ferguson Police Department Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Missouri's governor ordered hundreds more state militia into Ferguson on Tuesday, after a night of protests and rioting over a grand jury's decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a case that has inflamed racial tensions in the U.S.

“Our current and past strategies can no longer hold. We are facing environments that the masters of war never foresaw. We are facing a threat that requires us to redefine doctrine and the force in radically new and different ways. The future army will confront a highly sophisticated urban-centric threat that will require that urban operations

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German Gov’t Mulls Revinsing Consitution To Alllow Martial Law

The current constitution says Germany can only call in the army domestically, and only for a national emergency.

Jason Ditz
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Special police forces prepare to search a neighboring shopping center outside the Olympia mall in Munich, southern Germany, Friday, July 22, 2016 after several people were killed in a shooting.

Once again underscoring how quickly security officials will look to parlay any incident into an increase of power, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Hermann is pushing for a revision of the German Constitution after Friday’s mass shooting in Munich to remove limits on using the military domestically, limits that were put in place immediately after

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Turkish Military Stages Coup, Institutes Martial Law

The military said it seized control “to reinstall the constitutional order, democracy, human rights and freedoms, to ensure that the rule of law once again reigns in the country, for the law and order to be reinstated.”

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Turkish soldiers are seen on the Asian side of Istanbul, Friday, July 15, 2016. A group within Turkey's military has engaged in what appeared to be an attempted coup, the prime minister said, with military jets flying over the capital and reports of vehicles blocking two major bridges in Istanbul. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told NTV television: "it is correct that there was an attempt," when asked if there was a coup.

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's armed forces "fully seized control" of the country Friday, according to a statement from the military published by a Turkish news agency, as gunfire was heard outside military headquarters, fighter jets buzzed over the capital and vehicles blocked two major bridges in Istanbul. The prime minister, however, said there was

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New Report Proves Police Preparing For Rioting On A National Scale

Considering massive worldwide demonstrations in the U.S. and elsewhere it becomes apparent politicians and their enforcement agencies comprehend the greatest threat to their power.

Claire Bernish
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A police officer throws an object at protestors, Monday, April 27, 2015, following the funeral of Freddie Gray in Baltimore. Gray died from spinal injuries about a week after he was arrested and transported in a Baltimore Police Department van.

Fascism doesn’t often sweep in overnight and take over some hapless nation’s government; rather, it gradually seeps into the cultural fabric — as is quietly taking place all around the globe, evidenced by an upsurge in sales of riot equipment that has gone largely unnoticed. A new report from analysts with industry research group, Sandler

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