March This Monday!5 Oct 2007Despite an arcane law being used to ban this Mondays demonstration, CND Vice Presidents Tony Benn and Walter Wolfgang will lead the march jointly organised by the Stop the War Coalition and CND from a rally in Trafalgar Square towards Parliament. Assembling at 1pm at a legally permitted rally in Trafalgar Square, we will be marching [...]
John Bolton Incites Terrorism29 Sep 2007John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, told Tory delegates today that efforts by the UK and the EU to negotiate with Iran had failed and that he saw no alternative to a pre-emptive strike on suspected nuclear facilities in the country. (Source: Guardian) We have laws in Britain that make it a crime [...]
Burmese Repression Bad, British Repression Good29 Sep 2007The Government has decided to ban a peaceful march called by the Stop the War Coalition on 8 October. The protest has been called to demand all the troops withdrawn from Iraq immediately. The police have said all protests within one mile of Parliament are now prohibited. This is an affront to democratic rights and [...]
Bush Blackmailed Nations To Support Iraq Invasion27 Sep 2007MADRID - US President George W. Bush threatened nations with retaliation if they did not vote for a UN resolution backing the Iraq war, according to a transcript published Wednesday of a conversation he had with former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar. In the transcript of a meeting on February 22, 2003 — a month [...]
Bush Calls Burma ?Brutal?27 Sep 2007US President George W Bush has led international condemnation of Burma after more people were killed in its crackdown on popular protests. The US imposed sanctions targeting Burma’s military leaders and called on China, one of Burma’s closest partners, to put more pressure on the country. Beijing appealed for calm, and Burma’s neighbours, in unusually harsh criticism, [...]
US Mercenaries Murder 8+ Iraqis16 Sep 2007Officials are investigating a shooting incident in Baghdad in which at least eight civilians were reported killed by private US security contractors. The private security workers, who were employed by the US State Department, apparently opened fire after their convoy came under attack on Sunday. At least 13 people were also injured in the shooting in a [...]
150 Arrested At Washington Antiwar Protest14 Sep 2007WASHINGTON ? Thousands of protesters marched Saturday from the White House to the Capitol to demand an end to the Iraq war, leading to the arrests of at least 150 people. Many of the protesters were arrested without a struggle after they jumped over a barricade near the base of the Capitol. But some grew [...]
1.2 Million Killed In Iraq14 Sep 2007A startling new household survey of Iraqis released last week claims as many as 1.2 million people may have died because of the conflict in Iraq – apparently lending weight to a 2006 survey in the Lancet that reported similarly high levels. More than one million deaths were already being suggested by anti-war campaigners, but such [...]
USA: Iran Is Not Nice!11 Sep 2007Senior US officials have singled out Iran for criticism, a day after giving a progress report on security in Iraq. Gen David Petraeus, top US commander in Iraq, and US envoy to Baghdad Ryan Crocker both cited evidence of Iranian involvement in attacks on US troops. (Source: BBC News) Soooo… let’s see. The USA invents evidence for WMDs and [...]
Second General Attacks US Policy In Iraq1 Sep 2007A second key British general has criticised US post-war policy in Iraq. Maj Gen Tim Cross, who was the most senior UK officer involved in post-war planning, told the Sunday Mirror US policy was “fatally flawed”. His comments came after Gen Sir Mike Jackson, head of the Army during the invasion, told the Daily Telegraph US policy [...]
Ex-Head Of British Army Attacks Rumsfeld31 Aug 2007The head of the British army during the Iraq invasion has said US post-war policy was “intellectually bankrupt”. In a Daily Telegraph interview, former chief of the general staff, Gen Sir Mike Jackson, added that US strategy had been “short-sighted”. He said former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld was “one of the most responsible for the current [...]
Australia: US Tribunal A Charade23 Jul 2007The trial of Australian national David Hicks at Guantanamo Bay was a charade that served to corrode the rule of law, Australia’s top legal body has said. The Law Council of Australia called government support for the US military tribunal process shameful. In a report on the issue, the council drew a parallel with the case of [...]
US Government Sued By War Veterans23 Jul 2007A coalition of US military veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is suing the US government. The class-action lawsuit on behalf of hundreds of thousands of veterans claims they have been denied disability pay and mental health treatment. The legal case against the US Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) seeks widespread changes in the agency. It [...]
De Menezes – ?Two Years, No Justice?21 Jul 2007The second anniversary of the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes is to be marked by a ceremony on Sunday. The Brazilian was shot dead at Stockwell Tube station on 22 July 2005 by police who had mistakenly identified him as a suicide bomber. On Friday night an image of the Brazilian – accompanied by the words [...]
The Truth Behind The ?Liberation? Of Iraq11 Jul 2007George W. Bush – bringer of peace, democracy and freedom to Iraq. Here are some quotes from US soliders: “[The photo] was very graphic… They open the body bags of these prisoners that were shot in the head and [one soldier has] got a spoon. He’s reaching in to scoop out some of his brain, looking at [...]
US Kills 300 Iraqis A Day5 Jul 2007A state-of-the-art research study published in October 12, 2006 issue of The Lancet (the most prestigious British medical journal) concluded that — as of a year ago — 600,000 Iraqis had died violently due to the war in Iraq. That is, the Iraqi death rate for the first 39 months of the war was just [...]
Australia: We Want Iraq?s Oil4 Jul 2007Australian Defence Minister Brendan Nelson has admitted that securing oil supplies is a key factor behind the presence of Australian troops in Iraq. He said maintaining “resource security” in the Middle East was a priority. The remarks are causing heated debate as the US-led Iraq coalition has avoided linking the war and oil. Anti-war protesters say the government’s [...]
Colin Powell: Mass-Murderer, Liar And Hypocrite10 Jun 2007Above, Powell lying to the UN about Iraqi WMDs Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell has called for the immediate closure of the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “If it were up to me I would close Guantanamo not tomorrow but this afternoon,” Mr Powell told US NBC’s Meet the Press television programme. “Essentially, we [...]
Tories Want Iraq Inquiry10 Jun 2007The Conservatives are set to use a House of Commons debate to call for an inquiry into the war in Iraq. Shadow foreign secretary William Hague will push for a hearing by senior politicians, with powers to summon officials and military commanders. (Source: BBC News) Four years and 655,000 murdered Iraqis too late, you spineless Tory cunts.
Royalty Exempt From Danger16 May 2007Prince Harry will not be sent to Iraq because of the “unacceptable risks”, the head of the British army has said. (Source: BBC News) Yes, of course. We can’t have our aristos dying in Iraq, can we? Leave that to working class men and women. I’m sure they can give Harry an extremely important detail like counting [...]
The Canonisation Of Butcher Blair10 May 2007The Christian Socialist Movement, a political faith-based lobby group in London, praised Blair for speaking openly about his Christian faith throughout his time as prime minister. Despite his strong will to keep religion out of politics, Blair, an Anglican, has been one of the most publicly Christian prime ministers in Britain for more than a [...]
US Marine Shot Unarmed Iraqis10 May 2007A US Marine who led the unit accused of killing 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha shot five men as they stood with their hands in the air, another marine said. Staff Sgt Frank Wuterich then told his comrades to lie about it and blame the Iraqi army, a court heard on Wednesday. (Source: BBC News) Does this kind [...]
US Murders Primary School Kids7 May 2007An attack by a US helicopter against suspected insurgents in Iraq has killed a number of children at a primary school, Iraqi security sources say. The attack took place in Diyala province north-east of Baghdad, the sources say. The officer said police had spoken to eyewitnesses and that six children had been killed and six injured but [...]
Survey Says: US Troops Have Nazi Ethics3 May 2007A US survey of battlefield ethics among troops in Iraq has found widespread tolerance for torture in certain circumstances and problems with morale. The survey, by an army mental health advisory team, sampled more than 1,700 soldiers and marines between August and October 2006. The Pentagon survey found that less than half the troops in Iraq thought [...]
British General : Iraqi Resistance ?Right?2 May 2007Insurgents in Iraq are right to try to force US troops out of the country, a former British army commander has said. Gen Sir Michael Rose also told the BBC’s Newsnight programme that the US and the UK must “admit defeat” and stop fighting “a hopeless war” in Iraq. He told Newsnight: “As Lord Chatham said, when [...]
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