Mark Curtis

Phoenix

Anchor at KPNX-TV (Phoenix, AZ)

News anchor for @12News. Got a tip? Reach me at [email protected] or call 602-444-1354.opinions are my own

Articles

Britain is aiding Israel’s nuclear force

3 weeks ago | nuclear-news.net | Mark Curtis |Christina MacPherson

Britain is aiding Israel’s nuclear force Israeli ministers may not see their nuclear weapons just as weapons of last resort, to be used if the country were threatened with annihilation. In the months after the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023, several Israeli policymakers and commentators—including heritage minister Amihai Eliyahu who was later suspended from the cabinet—suggested that Israel should use nuclear arms against Hamas fighters in Gaza.
Storbritannia vil også ha Ukrainas mineraler

1 month ago | steigan.no | Mark Curtis

DeclassifiedUK, 11. mars 2025. Da britiske tjenestemenn signerte et 100 år langt partnerskap med Ukraina i midten av januar, hevdet de å være Ukrainas «foretrukne partner» i utviklingen av landets «kritiske mineralstrategi». Men innen en måned, hadde Donald Trump presentert et forslag for Ukrainas president Volodymyr Zelensky, om å få tilgang til landets enorme mineralressurser som «kompensasjon» for USAs støtte til Ukraina i krigen mot Russland.
Britain wants Ukraine’s minerals too

1 month ago | diem25.org | Mark Curtis |John Broomer

It’s not just Trump. The UK views critical minerals as a government priority and wants to open up Ukraine’s vast resources to British corporationsWhen UK officials signed a 100 year partnership with Ukraine in mid-January, they claimed to be Ukraine’s “preferred partner” in developing the country’s “critical minerals strategy”.
Britain Wants Ukraine’s Minerals Too

1 month ago | popularresistance.org | Mark Curtis

Above photo: U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy looking up at Ukrainian flags while visiting Kiev on Feb. 5.Ben Dance / FCDO. “It’s not just Trump.”Mark Curtis reports on the U.K.’s scramble for Ukraine’s natural resources.
Britain Wants Ukraine’s Minerals Too

1 month ago | znetwork.org | Mark Curtis

When UK officials signed a 100 year partnership with Ukraine in mid-January, they claimed to be Ukraine’s “preferred partner” in developing the country’s “critical minerals strategy”. Yet within a month, Donald Trump had presented a proposal to Ukraine’s President Volodymr Zelensky to access the country’s vast mineral resources as “compensation” for US support to Ukraine in the war against Russia. Whitehall was none too pleased about Washington muscling in.
Valley veteran celebrating his 100th birthday shares his secret to a long life

2 months ago | abc10.com | Mark Curtis

PHOENIX — One of the things I love doing is sharing the stories of some of the incredible people I'm lucky enough to meet. That sounds like my kind of story! You're about to meet Mike Gomez: a man who loves his country, his family and a good glass of red wine. My kind of guy, although I'm more of a bourbon man. The thing you're going to come away with is that Mike was and is a warrior in every way. And sharp? His mind is amazingly fit.
‘National Scandal’: The BBC’s Gaza Cover-Up

Jan 16, 2025 | scheerpost.com | Mark Curtis

By Mark Curtis / Declassified UKDeclassified researched the BBC’s online coverage of 16 aspects of UK policy towards Israel and the pro-Israel lobby. “It is high time for the corporation to be truly held to account and be reformed in the public interest”, leading media professor says. The BBC is failing to report the various ways in which the UK government has supported Israel’s brutal war on Gaza, Declassified’s new analysis finds.
Good and bad war criminals

Dec 23, 2024 | declassifieduk.org | Mark Curtis

Very little is known about Operation Tango, a secret SAS mission to capture suspected war criminals in Bosnia in 1997. It was one of several clandestine special forces missions ordered by Tony Blair’s government in support of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. This had been set up in 1993 to try suspects for gruesome crimes committed during the conflicts in the Balkans.
‘A quagmire’: West Virginia could have four governors in less than 2 weeks

Dec 18, 2024 | wvnstv.com | Mark Curtis

CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — It sounds like a crazy idea, but it is possible that West Virginia could have four different governors over the course of 13 days. Gov. Jim Justice (R-WV) could take the oath of office to the U.S. Senate on Jan. 3, but he can’t hold both jobs at once so he’d have to resign as governor that day. That would set in motion a fascinating scenario. State Senate President Craig Blair (R) would become acting governor for five days. Then, on Jan.
UK links use of Storm Shadow missiles to nuclear arms

Dec 11, 2024 | declassifieduk.org | Mark Curtis

Putin’s dangerous nuclear weapons doctrine is being vilified by Britain’s media. Yet similar British and Nato policy is being ignored. A Storm Shadow cruise missile. (Photo: Lewis Joly / Alamy)Last May, then defence secretary Grant Shapps gave a revealing but little-noticed speech at a military conference in London. Shapps deprecated people for saying “there’s no point in our nuclear deterrent”, insisting “I know they are wrong”.