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  • The case for closing Guantanamo is overwhelming
    26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    More than four years after the American detention camp at Guantanamo Bay opened, the range of voices calling for it to close is widening. Overseas, it runs from the Democrat former US President Jimmy Carter, through UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to the conservative Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Here, advocates of closure now include the Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith, the Northern Ireland (…)

  • Archbishop of York attacks Blair
    26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Archbishop of York attacks Blair
    UPI | February 25 2006
    LONDON: John Sentamu, the Ugandan-born Archbishop of York, says British Prime Minister Tony Blair endorses "Idi Amin-style" practices by the United States.
    Sentamu believes Blair should have taken a stronger stand against the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo, the Times of London reported. The prime minister called it an "anomaly."
    "By declaring ’war on terror’ President Bush is perversely applying the rules of engagement that (…)

  • The Sanitized Horrors of Guantánamo Bay The U.S. has adopted the practice of force-feeding detainees
    26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Keith Barratt ("Welshman") 25 February 2006
    The United States and Iran share an expression of public opinion, one that still causes considerable distress to the majority of British:
    [In 1997] the people of Hartford, Connecticut, dedicated a monument to Bobby Sands and the other Irish Republican Army hunger strikers.... The monument stands in a traffic circle known as “Bobby Sands Circle,” at the bottom of Maple Avenue near Goodwin Park. The Iranian government named a street in Tehran (…)

  • US state terrorism War on Terra - global warming, 2005 hottest year & Coalition passive genocide
    24 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The greed- and racism-driven US War on Terra (the Earth, humanity, us) for control of resources is currently being WON by UK-, Australian- & Coalition-backed US state terrorism. US, Australia and Canada are the world’s worst greenhouse gas polluters per capita and now NASA reports that 2005 was the hottest year in a century. The post-invasion avoidable mortality in Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan now totals 2.1 million (the under-5 infant mortality totalled 1.7 million). The global (…)

  • UK radiation jump blamed on Iraq shells
    22 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Sunday Times - Britain The Sunday Times February 19, 2006
    UK radiation jump blamed on Iraq shells Mark Gould and Jon Ungoed-Thomas RADIATION detectors in Britain recorded a fourfold increase in uranium levels in the atmosphere after the “shock and awe” bombing campaign against Iraq, according to a report. Environmental scientists who uncovered the figures through freedom of information laws say it is evidence that depleted uranium from the shells was carried by wind (…)

  • Have the US and Britain have committed war crimes in Iraq?
    19 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Have the US and Britain have committed war crimes in Iraq?
    Selection Votes
    Absolutely not. 5% 34
    Most definitely yes. 93% 582
    I can’t make up my mind. 2% 10
    626 votes total
    go here to vote http://malakandsky.blogspot.com/

  • Special report: America’s Long War
    17 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US introduces radical new strategy
    de Simon Tisdall, Ewen MacAskill and Richard Norton-Taylor
    Concern is growing in Europe about US plans to involve governments in an expanded, all-out campaign against Islamist extremism from north Africa to south-east Asia, using beefed-up special forces, hi-tech weaponry and more intrusive surveillance and intelligence gathering.
    The Pentagon plan, designed to fight what it describes as "The Long War", envisages "long-duration, complex operations (…)

  • Brutal crimes against the Iraqis usually end with minor sentences:
    15 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From time to time, the soul of some justice and kind people stands up to show to the world the extent of abuses done by the invading forces in Iraq. While the whole world is astonished by such photos or videos, the British and USA governments take the opportunity to show to the world that they are sincere to the Iraqis and thus they call for investigation and will send the accused persons to a trial. Then after lengthy maneuvering, the court will end up with minor sentences that are too (…)

  • Global warming: passing the ’tipping point’
    13 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Our special investigation reveals that critical rise in world temperatures is now unavoidable
    By Michael McCarthy
    A crucial global warming "tipping point" for the Earth, highlighted only last week by the British Government, has already been passed, with devastating consequences.
    Research commissioned by The Independent reveals that the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has now crossed a threshold, set down by scientists from around the world at a conference in Britain (…)

  • Britain to probe Iraq ’abuse’ video
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pictures from a video apparently showing British soldiers beating a group of Iraqi teenagers have been published on Sunday by the News of the World, a British tabloid.
    The footage appeared to show soldiers dragging youths and kicking them.
    A military spokesman in Iraq condemned "all acts of abuse and brutality" by British troops, saying the allegations related to a "tiny number" of soldiers.
    The Royal Military Police are probing the incident, which the newspaper said happened in (…)