The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn
Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) - 19 Mar 2008
Summary: Five years on, and still we have not learnt. With each anniversary, the steps crumble beneath our feet, the stones ever more cracked, the sand ever finer. Five years of catastrophe in Iraq and I think of Churchill, who in the end called Palestine a “hell-disaster”. source: The Independentread more

for PDF version. Showstoppers – As Sussex Police try to censor anti-arms trade film…Plus, in Big Brother Britain. Peace activist’s vehicle tagged for surveillance, Celtic Heritage Trust win legal victory after free party fracas, daring a
SchNEWS - 19 Mar 2008
- A look at the some of the civil liberty quashing powers in the new Counter Terrorism Bill… Plus, Police pay out £44mil in compensation in the last 5 years, SuS laws are back, plans to build UK’s first coal plant in a generation, McDonalds to give ‘A-Level’ equivalents to staff, and more…

More Like Arbitrary Execution
UKWatch.net - 19 Mar 2008
During the period 1972-6, the gap in life expectancy between social classes I and V was 5.4 years for men and 4.8 years for women. By the time New Labour succeeded the Tories in government, these gaps had risen to 9.4 years and 6.3 years respectively. See tables 1 and 3 in: ?Life expectancy by social class?, UK Government Statistics. One of New Labour?s purported aims in office was to reduce these inequalities. Health Secretary Frank Dobson stated that ?Inequality in health is the worst inequality of all. There is no more serious inequality than knowing that you?ll die sooner because you?re badly off?; while Tony Blair himself wrote: ?Our society remains scarred by inequalities. Whole communities remain cut off from the greater wealth and opportunities that others take for granted. This, in turn, fuels avoidable health inequalities. The statistics are shocking enough. Families in these communities die at a younger age and are likely to spend far more of their lives with ill-health. Behind these figures are thousands of individual stories of pain, wasted talent and potential. The costs to individuals, communities and the nation are huge. Social justice demands action?. The interim research indicates that Labour have utterly failed in this aim. Examining Labour?s record, the British Medical Journal reported in 2005 that ?inequalities in life expectancy have continued to widen? and that ?When individual local authority districts are compared, the difference between the one with the lowest life expectancy (Glasgow City) and the one with the highest (East Dorset) has risen to 11 years. Since Victorian times, such inequalities have never been as high? (

Winter Soldier Marches Again
AlterNet: War on Iraq - 19 Mar 2008
Last weekend veterans gave eyewitness testimony about the horrors of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Let’s do them the honor of listening.