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  • UK under pressure to stem Afghan opium growth
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mark Oliver
    The home secretary, Charles Clarke, and EU interior ministers were today grappling with how to stop the flood of narcotics from Afghanistan, increasingly a responsibility of the UK.
    The UK is under pressure from EU countries to take a lead role in the fight against heroin production in Afghanistan, with Britain taking over the Nato mission in the country next May.
    As much as 90% of the heroin from Afghanistan ends up in Europe and there is concern about the impotency of (…)

  • Galloway’s frankness invigorates, shocks Americans
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Nichols
    Americans who are familiar only with the almost always empty words - and often empty heads - of this country’s political leaders can be a little shocked by George Galloway’s pronouncements.
    The British parliamentarian, who came of age in the brawling political landscape of his native Scotland, where a quick wit and a savage debating style are prerequisites for electoral success, does not mince words in the manner that most American pols do.
    Consider Galloway’s statement (…)

  • Mahathir calls US, UK terrorist nations
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Friday 09 September 2005, 9:22 Makka Time, 6:22 GMT
    US and British pilots whose bombs killed Iraqi civilians were murderers, and actions taken by those two countries during the invasion and occupation of Iraq amounted to terrorism, former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has said.
    Several British and US diplomats walked out in protest of Mahathir’s broadside against their countries in a speech at a national conference in Kuala Lumpur on human rights on Friday. Mahathir, who (…)

  • Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by MARCELLO MEGA
    A FORMER Scottish police chief has given lawyers a signed statement claiming that key evidence in the Lockerbie bombing trial was fabricated.
    The retired officer - of assistant chief constable rank or higher - has testified that the CIA planted the tiny fragment of circuit board crucial in convicting a Libyan for the 1989 mass murder of 270 people.
    The police chief, whose identity has not yet been revealed, gave the statement to lawyers representing Abdelbaset Ali (…)

  • Living together: an interview with Tariq Ramadan
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Oscar Reyes
    Tariq Ramadan is one Europe’s leading progressive Muslim scholars. He talked to Oscar Reyes about integration, multiculturalism and the role of the global justice movement after the London bombings.
    The British government says the London terror attacks have nothing to do with its foreign policy, the press chastises talk of the alienation among young Muslims, and Muslim leaders say the attacks have nothing to do with Islam. What steps need to be taken to move beyond these (…)

  • Exclusive: Downing Street reporter dissects pre-war Iraq intelligence
    29 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Michael Smith
    Details ’chill factor’ imposed around Iraq intelligence; Putting Downing Street docs in perspective
    LONDON — "The [U.S. WMD] Commission found no evidence of political pressure to influence the Intelligence Community’s pre-war assessment of Iraq’s weapons programs."
    That is only one of a number of strange conclusions by those charged with investigating the way flaky intelligence was used to justify the 2003 Iraq War.
    The most vociferous advocates of an attack on Iraq (…)

  • Impeach the criminal-in-chief
    27 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    August 26, 2005-Although the revelation received predictably little attention in America’s corporate media on May 1, the Times of London reported on a top secret internal British government memo that proves that George W. Bush was lying through his teeth when he took this nation to war in Iraq.
    The leaked memo is now known as the "Downing Street Memo," referring to the prime minister’s residence. Its authenticity has not been (…)

  • URGENT: House Investigation of Downing Street Minutes Nears Vote Deadline
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

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    Reported on Wednesday, August 24, by a meager number of media outlets (a search on Google News produced all of ONE result, this, from Political Affairs Magazine) Congressman Jim Leach (R) of Iowa has become the first Republican to publicly announce that he would cosponsor the bill (H. Res. 375) by representative Barbara Lee (D) of California.
    The bill, a resolution of inquiry, introduced by Lee in the House of Representatives on July 20, 2005 and referred to the Committee on (…)

  • Invitation to event - Planning and the Mayor’s London Food strategy
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear friend I would like to invite you to a one day event looking at how plannning can help the Mayor’s London Food Strategy deliver better health, social inclusion and more sustainable communities. The event will be held at City Hall on 19th September 2005. It will: introduce the London Food Strategy and explain how the strategy will affect planners expore the practical links between planning, health, social inclusion and sustainable communities provide practical case studies (…)

  • The next meeting of London Social Forum is now confirmed for Monday 5 September, 7.30pm
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    We will be discussing our Visions for London event which is also now confirmed for Saturday 29 October 2005 at City Hall.
    Michael Edwardes and hopefully Doreen Massey will be reporting back from a Conference in Rome on similar urban themes the previous weekend.
    The venue will be the meeting room, 1A Hollybush Place off Bethnal Green Road, E2 9QX.
    The street is a cul-de-sac first on the right after passing under the railway bridge adjoining the crossroads with Cambridge Heath Road.
    It (…)