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  • The London-Washington Axis Called Into Question
    7 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The traditional alliance of the British crown with its former American colony, an alliance that served as a foundation for the British foreign policy during the times of Winston Churchill and also Margaret Thatcher, is called into question today. In effect, the United Kingdom has no other option than choosing between its Atlantist commitment and its European interests. However, as Cedric Housez notes while analyzing statements by British leaders, they reject this choice. Today’s criticism of (…)

  • The death of freedom
    5 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The rights of ordinary people to speak out against an unjust war and atrocities unleashed in their name are being crushed. Fascism is at the door. Who else will fight it?
    On Christmas Eve, I dropped in on Brian Haw, whose hunched, pacing figure was just visible through the freezing fog. For four and a half years, Brian has camped in Parliament Square with a graphic display of photographs that show the terror and suffering imposed on Iraqi children by British policies. The effectiveness of (…)

  • Friends Don’t Let Friends Commit War Crimes
    4 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "You’re like an ambassador for peace," a Spanish journalist told me as we finished one of the dozens of interviews I gave in Europe. I did this interview right before I went to urge the Spanish Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs to oppose the war more strenuously.
    In reality, I did feel like an ambassador for peace as I traveled around Europe for 16 days in December.
    The Mayor of London held a reception in honor of our peace efforts at the new and very modern City Hall, near the (…)

  • Why I’m Happy I Evolved
    2 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By OLIVIA JUDSON
    IF chimpanzees observed New Year’s Day, they would have much to reflect on. In 2005, they joined humans, chickens and mosquitoes, as well as less famous occupants of the planet, on an exclusive but growing list: organisms whose complete genomes have been sequenced.
    What would they make of this news, I wonder? Perhaps they would resent the genetic evidence that they are related to us. Or perhaps they would, as I do, revel in being part of the immensity of nature and a (…)

  • FAR FROM NARNIA : Philip Pullman’s secular fantasy for children
    2 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by LAURA MILLER
    Every year at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England, a guest is invited to speak on the subject of religion and education. Sometimes, a prominent bishop is asked to deliver a lecture, but, as a rule, the event isn’t exactly a big draw. This year, the auditorium was filled, and another room, with a video feed, had to be set up for those who couldn’t fit into the main hall. The speaker, Philip Pullman, is fervently admired for his sophisticated trilogy of (…)

  • Ex-envoy to Uzbekistan goes public on torture
    1 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor
    Britain’s former ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, has defied the Foreign Office by publishing on the internet documents providing evidence that the British Government knowingly received information extracted by torture in the "war on terror".
    Mr Murray, who publicly raised the issue of the usefulness of information obtained under torture before he was forced to leave his job last year, submitted his forthcoming book, Murder in Samarkand, to the (…)

  • Former British Intel Professional Denounces British Govt. Attempting to Conceal It Used Torture
    30 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Help us beat the British government’s gagging order by mirroring this information on your own site or blog!
    See: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/6133
    Background: The UK government has been quick to deny that we practice, or tolerate the practice of Torture. So it is perhaps not suprising that they are determined that you should not see the following documents: http://users.pandora.be/quarsan/craig/telegrams.pdf http://users.pandora.be/quarsan/craig/npaper.jpg
    Craig Murray (…)

  • Renditions in Greece -MI6 Spook’s Name Revealed
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Proto Thema Newspaper, Sunday 25 December 2005, page 10
    “Guantanamo” nights took place during July, in Athens, according the details revealed by “Thema”, proving that the kidnapping and interrogations of Pakistanis living in Greece, didn’t just take place, but were a result of the total collaboration between the British secret services and the National Information Service of Greece (EYP). The ministers of Public Order, G. Voulgarakis and Foreign Issues, Petros Moliviatis, were fully (…)

  • PDA Report on International Peace Conference in London
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    London, England, December 10, 2005—Fellow PDA National Board Member Steve Cobble and I participated in an historic international peace conference in London on December 10 and in various related events the same week. We met with several Members of Parliament and will be working to facilitate teamwork and future events with them and members of the US Congressional Progressive Caucus.
    The conference, hosted by the Stop the War Coalition, was a great success. About 1,500 (…)

  • The Anti-Social Bastards in Our Midst : The Car Is Turning Us Into A Nation Of Libertarians
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by George Monbiot
    The road rage lobby couldn’t have been more wrong. Organisations like the Association of British Drivers and "Safe Speed" - the boy racers’ club masquerading as a road safety campaign - have spent years claiming that speeding doesn’t cause accidents. Safe Speed, with the help of some of the most convoluted arguments I’ve ever read, even seeks to prove that speed cameras "make our roads more dangerous"(1). Other groups, such as Motorists Against Detection (officially known (…)