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  • Blair orders probe into Iraq abuse allegations
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ben Hall
    Tony Blair promised a full investigation into fresh allegations of abuse of Iraqis by British troops after a Sunday newspaper obtained a video apparently showing soldiers beating a group of youths.
    The Ministry of Defence launched an urgent probe after the News of the World published images from the video of soldiers kicking, punching and striking young civilians with batons. The newspaper said the incident was filmed during street riots in Basra in early 2004.
    The (…)

  • Exposed.. squad of British soldiers beat teenage Iraqis and shame their country
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SHAMED BY 42 BRAINLESS BLOWS
    By Robert Kellaway
    TODAY we expose a rogue squad of British soldiers who savagely attacked a defenceless bunch of Iraqi teenagers -and with 42 brutal blows brought shame on our nation and its proud army.
    The horrifying scenes on these pages will shock the world and ignite a huge military scandal.
    They were captured on a secret home video - apparently filmed for "fun" by a corporal-and show at least eight of his hulking comrades (…)

  • Britain’s Breaking Abu Ghraib Scandal
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In a shocking video obtained by the British newspaper, News of the World, shot in 2004 by an approving British Corporal who shouts encouragement during the minute long footage, British troops inside a military compound in Iraq are seen savagely beating Iraqi children who had been throwing stones at the base.
    The February 12th article, "Shamed By 42 Brainless Blows" reports that "The video - later shown to the corporal’s pals at their home base in Europe - was exposed to the News of the (…)

  • FSA Scrapes The Barrel For Solicitor
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Adrian Murtagh gains experience as fraudster at Marriott Harrison, then finds a place at government agency where he can put those skills to work
    LONDON, ENGLAND — (OfficialWire) — 02/12/06 — Adrian Murtagh (shown here), a former solicitor with City firm Marriott Harrison has found a home at The Financial Services Authority (FSA), in the United Kingdom.
    According to The Law Society, Murtagh is now working for the FSA-an independent body that regulates the financial services industry in (…)

  • "The Greatest Battles are yet to be Won"
    10 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    At last the truth behind the endless stream of 1984-type propaganda against Iran has finally emerged on the fringes of the British mainstream media (MSM). In the cover story of the current NEW STATESMAN, the well-respected investigative journalist, John Pilger, reveals how the recent manoevrings at the International Atomic Energy Authority and the incessant demonizing of Iran by washed-out quislings like Blair and his ’man-of straw’ Foreign Secretary are nothing more than a campaign to (…)

  • It’s capitalism or a habitable planet - you can’t have both
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Our economic system is unsustainable by its very nature. The only response to climate chaos and peak oil is major social change
    by Robert Newman
    There is no meaningful response to climate change without massive social change. A cap on this and a quota on the other won’t do it. Tinker at the edges as we may, we cannot sustain earth’s life-support systems within the present economic system.
    Capitalism is not sustainable by its very nature. It is predicated on infinitely expanding (…)

  • Blair-Bush deal before Iraq war revealed in secret memo
    5 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    PM promised to be ’solidly behind’ US invasion with or without UN backing
    by Richard Norton-Taylor
    Tony Blair told President George Bush that he was "solidly" behind US plans to invade Iraq before he sought advice about the invasion’s legality and despite the absence of a second UN resolution, according to a new account of the build-up to the war published today.
    A memo of a two-hour meeting between the two leaders at the White House on January 31 2003 - nearly two months before the (…)

  • Bush "Plotted To Lure Saddam Into War With Fake UN Plane"
    4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush "Plotted To Lure Saddam Into War With Fake UN Plane" By Andy McSmith Published: 03 February 2006
    George Bush considered provoking a war with Saddam Hussein’s regime by flying a United States spyplane over Iraq bearing UN colours, enticing the Iraqis to take a shot at it, according to a leaked memo of a meeting between the US President and Tony Blair.
    The two leaders were worried by the lack of hard evidence that Saddam Hussein had broken UN resolutions, though privately they were (…)

  • BUSH TO PLUNGE MIDDLE EAT INTO FURTHER CHAOS
    4 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Many folks including myself have regarded the Chaos taking place in Iraq as a quagmire. In restrospect I was mistaken. The plan , from day One, was to plunge Iraq and eventually Iran and Syria into a seething bloody mess. This is why there was no plan put in place to rebuild the country after Saddam was toppled. This is why Rumsfeld ignored the entreaties of the Joints Chief of Staff to deploy 400,000 to 500,000 troops to occupy the country after the war ended. Of course , owing to the (…)

  • The 100th British Soldier...
    31 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rounded numbers
    Rounded lives
    The 100th soldier
    From the UK dies
    Tears of grief
    Tears of shock
    The 100th soldier
    Another loss
    Mourning on
    Mourning off
    The 100th soldier
    We count the cost
    Of wars fought
    In our name
    Of loss loss
    With no gain
    Of cost cost
    To our shame
    The 100th soldier
    The 1st
    The 25th the 3rd
    The numbered souls
    On lists and roles
    Names no longer called
    This memoriam
    The final
    For them
    They drew their last breath
    Final thought...
    Noble cause?