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  • Blair refuses to back Iran strike
    16 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    TONY Blair has told George Bush that Britain cannot offer military support to any strike on Iran, regardless of whether the move wins the backing of the international community, government sources claimed yesterday.
    Amid increasing tension over Tehran’s attempts to develop a military nuclear capacity, the Prime Minister has laid bare the limits of his support for President Bush, who is believed to be considering an assault on Iran, Foreign Office sources revealed.
    US Secretary of State (…)

  • Tribute to a National Hero
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    RAF Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith, having refused to serve in Iraq in what he correctly believes is an occupation brought about by an illegal war, is predictably given an 8-month prison sentence, fined £20,000 costs and dismissed from his job. Kendall-Smith, now a national hero, follows in the steps of Ben Griffin who resigned from the Army SAS in a similar protest.
    Despite all the pompous huffing and puffing from a few military wallahs rolled-out for the occasion the fact (…)

  • Video from the british. Beyond Iraq and a Hard Place. A must see!!!
    13 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Very funny video from the british. Beyond Iraq and a Hard Place. A must see!!!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2JCLwhwTmM&search=hard%20place

  • The myth of the ‘honest broker’: Britain and Israel
    12 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The myth of the ‘honest broker’: Britain and Israel
    by Mark Curtis
    March 30, 2006 GlobalResearch.ca
    Britain’s apparent complicity in Israel’s military assault on Jericho prison should finally demolish an enduring myth about Britain’s foreign policy. Iraq’s supposed possession of weapons of mass destruction was not the only line peddled by the government to justify the invasion. Another was that Britain was an ‘honest broker’ in the Middle East and would influence Washington to press (…)

  • Situation in Iraq Could Not be Worse by Patrick Cockburn
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0411-21.htm
    Published on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Situation in Iraq Could Not be Worse by Patrick Cockburn A cruel and bloody civil war has started in Iraq, a country that President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair promised to free from fear and establish democracy. I have been visiting Iraq since 1978, but for the first time, I am becoming convinced that the country will not (…)

  • The Cannabis Man - "Is an Englishman’s home still his castle?"
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    There used to be a saying in this country…. It went somewhere along the lines that “an Englishman’s home is his castle.†If only such a thing were true today. As things stand such a fondly recalled maxim is only that – a vision of a gentler age, redolent of less intense times…. Times when what happened behind closed doors was acceptable as long as it, “didn’t frighten the horses.â€
    So, why is it assumed now that everything we do – all of our human activities – are open (…)

  • Group of British MP’s “Friends of Venezuela” to be constituted in London
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    British MP’s Establish “Friends of Venezuela” http://venezuelasolidarity.org.uk/ven/web/2006/labour_friends_venezuela.html
    Next Tuesday, March 28th, the setting up of a group of Labour MP’s “Friends of Venezuela” will take place in the House of Commons in London.
    A press release from the Venezuelan Embassy in London has indicated that the initial number of MP’s making up the group will be 102.
    “This is an extremely unusual initiative which is testimony to the high level of support (…)

  • How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate mass-consumer society (video)
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Century of the Self
    How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate mass-consumer society.
    This a must watch video
    The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?
    go to :
    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/

  • Blair’s inner circle and its ferocious grab for power
    7 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From forcing through ID cards to the erosion of parliamentary scrutiny, a determined clique is hijacking our democracy
    In January the commissioner of the Metropolitan police got into enormous trouble for saying that he couldn’t see why the Soham murders had become such a big story. Like every other journalist, I marvelled at his inability to see what makes a story run. But now, as I follow the news, I have developed a blind spot of my own. Piece by piece, month by month, Tony Blair’s (…)

  • BBC and Channel 4 censorship of the Cannabis Man!
    6 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    So where were we before Channel 4 and the BBC decided to rain on our parade? Well, we were having a little look at how it might actually be a good idea to try and take drugs out of the hands of dealers and protect citizens from crime and adulterated substances.
    Obviously this represents a concept that might be mistaken for joined up thinking so it’s unlikely that there will be a queue of politicians lining up to join us.
    However, before we get back to the straight forward sensible stuff (…)