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  • When will someone on the British left break ranks?
    12 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Craig Murray’s appeals for scepticism regarding the latest supposed Muslim plot to carry out terrorist attacks have marked a possible turning point in popular attitudes towards the so-called war on terror.
    His blog has apparently been inundated with hits suggesting, as he puts it, that he has struck a nerve. Evidently, not everyone keeps swallowing this terror stuff uncritically. But his stance also has significance from another point of view: Murray is something of a hero on the left, but (…)

  • Blair’s legacy is a reckless adventure that’s wreaked havoc the world over
    8 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The prime minister sealed his fate by signing up in full to a policy now recognised by most Americans as a disaster
    by Jonathan Freedland
    The Americans can’t quite believe it. Getting rid of Tony Blair? Are you Brits crazy? Like Thatcher before him, Blair finds that the acclaim abroad lingers even when there is derision at home. Maggie was a legend in the States when she was shoved aside by the Tories, and the same is true of Blair. When he does his farewell tour - part Sinatra, part (…)

  • 7 members of Blair’s government resign
    6 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    7 members of Blair’s government resign
    By BETH GARDINER, Associated Press Writer
    LONDON - Seven junior members of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government resigned Wednesday to protest his refusal to leave office as calls for the British leader to announce when he will step aside gained momentum.
    The rebellion in Blair’s Labour Party flared despite strong hints by senior ministers that Blair planned to step down within a year, and a news report claiming the departure date would be July (…)

  • Brits Abandon Major Southern Iraq Base
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by M.J. Akbar
    WASHINGTON — On Friday, Aug. 25, the Washington Post published a startling story from its Baghdad bureau. I can do no better than to quote its opening paragraph: "British troops abandoned a major base in southern Iraq on Thursday and prepared to wage guerrilla warfare along the Iranian border to combat weapons smuggling, a move that anti-American cleric Moqtada Sadr called the first expulsion of US-led coalition forces from an Iraqi urban center. ’This is the first Iraqi city (…)

  • BUSH ’ASSASSINATED’ IN NEW TV DOCUDRAMA
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    PRESIDENT 31.08.06
    Held up by a secret service bodyguard in his dying moments after being shot in the stomach, this is President Bush being assassinated. Surrounded by a crowd of panicking onlookers, the American leader is pictured just seconds after being gunned down by a sniper following an anti-war demonstration. But rather than a repeat of JFK’s shooting or Ronald Reagan’s attempted assassination, this shocking image is part of a new Channel Four show. The dramatic scene, which has (…)

  • Pop goes the Weasel on Channel 4 News
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CHIMES OF FREEDOM Blog http://urlsnip.com/609513
    Of course, it’s not just the BBC that is a mouthpiece for Anglo-US imperialist propaganda. As the British state’s broadcasting system the BBC has always maintained the myth of providing fair, balanced reporting. It’s cynical old founder, Lord Reith, was fully aware of that hypocrisy when the BBC adopted the motto "Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation."
    Today, still pretending to be the nice, fair-minded English Aunty BBC it has always (…)

  • Only 20% Of Britons Believe Blair On Terror Threats
    26 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Only 20% Of Britons Believe Blair On Terror Threats Neo-Fascists need to stage real attack to reclaim credibility and obedience
    By Paul Joseph Watson August 23, 2006 Prison Planet.com
    A figure that is both telling and foreboding - that only one fifth of British citizens believe the Blair government is telling the truth on terror alerts - increases the chances of a staged attack to reinforce the notion that Islamo-Fascism is a real danger and not the invention of a ruthless Neo-Fascist (…)

  • THE LIQUID BOMB HOAX
    26 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Liquid Bomb Hoax: The Larger Implications
    By James Petras August 25, 2006 www.dissidentvoice.org
    The charges leveled by the British, US and Pakistani regimes that they uncovered a major bomb plot directed against nine US airlines is based on the flimsiest of evidence, which would be thrown out of any court, worthy of its name.
    An analysis of the current state of the investigation raises a series of questions regarding the governments’ claims of a bomb plot concocted by 24 Brits (…)

  • The Thought Police Have Arrived: Be Scared But Don’t Act Nervous
    22 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ‘Spot’ teams to spy on passengers
    London Times | August 21 2006
    ELITE teams of security officers are to be trained to monitor passenger behaviour at airports in a new attempt to combat terrorism.
    The “behaviour detection squads” will patrol terminals to monitor the gestures, conversations and facial expressions of passengers. One of their aims will be to spot those who may be concealing fear or anxiety.
    People deemed to be acting suspiciously will be taken for questioning and (…)

  • State Compliance in Action: Bigots Refuse to Board Plane with "Arabic"-Looking Passengers
    20 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mutiny as passengers refuse to fly until Asians are removed
    Passengers refuse to allow holiday jet to take off until two Asian men are thrown off plane
    CHRISTOPHER LEAKE and ANDREW CHAPMAN / UK Daily Mail | August 20 2006
    British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny - refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed.
    The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight (…)