Chilcot Inquiry Protest, 29/1/20105 Feb 2010Click any of the pics for a gallery. Last Friday, I travelled down to London to take part in the protest outside the Chilcot Inquiry. We were there because Tony Blair was testifying, ostensibly explaining why he took this country to war over phantom WMDs. Well, he testified. He was smug and slick and he used [...]
Butcher Blair – Have Your Say!25 Jan 2010Tony Blair’s Judgement Day: Friday 29 January from 8.00am Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre Broad Sanctuary London SW1P 3EE Nearest tube: Westminster On Friday 29 January, Tony Blair will try to explain to the Iraq Inquiry the lies he used to take Britain into an illegal war. Writers, musicians, relatives of the dead, Iraqi refugees, poets, human rights lawyers, [...]
Dutch Say Iraq Invasion A War Crime12 Jan 2010An inquiry into the Netherlands’ support for the invasion of Iraq says it was not justified by UN resolutions. The Dutch Committee of Inquiry on Iraq said UN Security Council resolutions did not “constitute a mandate for… intervention in 2003″. The inquiry was launched after foreign ministry memos were leaked that cast doubt on the legal basis [...]
New Year, New Murders For Obama2 Jan 2010Missiles fired from a US drone aircraft have killed at least three people in north-west Pakistan, reports say. Another security official, quoted by Reuters, said the bodies were “burned beyond recognition”. On Thursday, at least three militants were reported to have been killed in another US drone attack in the same area. The US has carried out scores [...]
US Implodes Through Hypocrisy20 Dec 2009America’s top military officer has voiced concern about an incursion by Iran into Iraq that ended with Iranian soldiers seizing an Iraqi oil well. “All of us are concerned about the influence of Iran,” Adm Mullen told a news conference in Baghdad. “I worry a great deal about Iran’s view of destabilising this region as well and [...]
Troops Out Speeches29 Oct 2009Here are some speeches I recorded on my iPhone at the demo on Saturday. Please download them and feel free to use them in any way whatever.
Troops Out Of Afghanistan Demo, 24/10/0928 Oct 2009In the rush for the train, I forgot my SLR so I grabbed a few pics on my iPhone, please forgive the fuzziness. Click on the pic to see a gallery. On Saturday, I travelled down to London to take part in the Troops Out demo (details here). And amazing demo. It was so moving hearing [...]
A True Hero23 Oct 2009Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, who is facing a court martial because he refuses to return to fight in Afghanistan, will defy military orders from his commanding officer and join the 24 October demonstration. “I am marching to send a message to Gordon Brown. Instead of sending more troops, he must bring them all home. I?m [...]
Obama Murders Nine More Pakistanis21 Aug 2009At least nine people are reported to have been killed in north-west Pakistan in a suspected US missile strike. One or two missiles targeted a compound in the village of Dande Darpa Khel in the tribal region of North Waziristan, Pakistani officials said. (Source: BBC News) Another day, another terror attack by US drones on innocent Pakistanis. The [...]
America?s Crimes Not Newsworthy24 Jun 2009More than 50 people died in missile strikes by a US drone aircraft in a Taliban stronghold area of Pakistan, officials there have said. “Three missiles were fired by drones as people were dispersing after offering funeral prayers for Niazi Wali,” the official said, referring to a militant commander killed in an earlier drone attack. There have [...]
USA Admits ?Collateral Damage?21 Jun 2009Failure by US forces to follow their own rules was the “likely” cause of civilian deaths in Afghan airstrikes last month, a US military report says. US officials looked at seven strikes on Taliban targets in Farah province on 4 May, and concluded that three had not complied with military guidelines. The report accepts that at least [...]
Capitalism = Eternal War14 Jun 2009Global military spending rose 45% between 1999 and 2008, fuelled by the US-led “war on terror” and by increased wealth in China, Russia and the Middle East. In Western and Central Europe, military spending increased at a much slower rate than in any other part of the world, while the US accounted for 58% of the [...]
Remember Gaza Peace Demo30 May 2009A couple of Saturdays ago, I went on a peace demo that was all about remembering the terrible suffering sustained in Gaza in the recent Israeli attacks, attacks that are even now being investigated as war crimes. The day was warm and dry, the protestors optimistic and passionate. There was no hatred, just a tremendous [...]
US Terrorist Bombing Kills 100+ Afghans7 May 2009Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in Farah in western Afghanistan in protest at the deaths of civilians in US air strikes earlier this week. Witnesses said the crowd chanted “death to America, death to the invaders”, and demanded US forces leave Afghanistan. (Source: BBC News) So, while Obama and his cronies are bleating on about [...]
Dick Cheney – Proud Nazi21 Apr 2009Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney has urged the CIA to release memos which he says show harsh interrogation techniques such as water-boarding work. His comments follow the publication of memos written by Bush administration lawyers which justified the techniques. Mr Cheney said that the decision to publish the memos was a mistake. And it was misleading, he said, [...]
Obama Condones Past And Future Torture17 Apr 2009US President Barack Obama says CIA agents who used harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects during the Bush era will not be prosecuted. Rights groups have criticised his decision to protect CIA agents involved in the interrogation procedures. Amnesty International said the Department of Justice appeared to be offering a “get-out-of-jail-free card” to individuals who were involved [...]
Obama: Master Of Hypocrisy5 Apr 2009[Obama] was speaking ahead of a meeting with EU leaders in the Czech capital, Prague, hours after North Korea launched a rocket despite international warnings. Mr Obama condemned the launch: “Now is the time for a strong international response,” he said. “North Korea must know that the path to security and respect will never come through threats [...]
G20 CND Protest4 Apr 2009On Wednesday, I took part in the G20 protest organised by CND. It was a lovely, sunny day and everyone’s spirit was equally positive and warm. We didn’t even mind that the police with sub-machine guns were looking very grumpily at us. The day started with a protest outside the US Embassy and then we [...]
Paired Example Of Media Bias: NORTH KOREA = EVIL, USA = GOOD19 Mar 2009North Korean soldiers have detained two female US journalists, according to media reports. The reporters were arrested on Tuesday near a river on North Korea’s border with China, according to South Korean TV and newspaper reports. The journalists had apparently ignored warnings to stop filming in the area. (Source: BBC News) Okay, let’s start with the obvious point: If two [...]
Binyam Mohamed: Victim Of US Torture Thanks To Britain13 Mar 2009A UK resident freed from Guantanamo Bay has said he would not have faced torture or extraordinary rendition but for British involvement in his case. US interrogators told him, “This is the British file and this is the American file,” Binyam Mohamed, 30, told the BBC in his first broadcast interview. He said he wanted to see [...]
Obama?s Terror Attack Kills Another 24 Pakistanis, Gordon Brown Approves13 Mar 2009Missiles fired by an unmanned US drone have killed at least 24 people in Pakistan’s Kurram tribal region near the Afghan border, officials have said. Local officials said the dead were local Taleban and that the toll may rise. Thirty others were injured. Correspondents say this is the fifth drone attack on Pakistani territory since Barack Obama [...]
Obama Bombs More Pakistanis1 Mar 2009Missiles said to have been fired by US unmanned aircraft have killed seven people close to Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, Pakistani sources say. Two missiles reportedly struck a house in Sararogha, in South Waziristan, and the dead are believed to include suspected militants. (Source: BBC News) “Suspected” militants? Well, that’s good enough for the US to bomb an [...]
Gaza Peace Demo, 10/1/200911 Jan 2009For more pics from the demo, click the shot above. Yesterday, Sean, Matt and I travelled down to London to take part in the Gaza Peace Demo. It was a big demo, judging by previous ones I’ve been on. I’d say there were at least 50,000 there, maybe more. The BBC agrees with that number, the [...]
Stop The War Website Hacked11 Jan 2009I just got this email from the Stop The War Coalition: Stop the War Coalition Temporary email address stopwaruk@gmail.com STOP THE WAR WEBSITE AND EMAIL ATTACKED Stop the war has suffered a serious attack on its internet site, which has been hacked, we assume by supporters of Israel’s attacks on Gaza. Our website is down and our usual email address [...]
Menezes Inquest Corrupted2 Dec 2008The jury at the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes will not be able to consider a verdict of unlawful killing, the coroner has said. Sir Michael Wright said that having heard all the evidence, a verdict of unlawful killing was “not justified”. Mr de Menezes, 27, was shot dead by police at Stockwell [...]
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