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  • Halt Ethnic Cleansing at Dale Farm, Essex, England
    1 August 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dale Farm in Essex, England, is thought to be Europe’s largest gypsy/Irish traveller site, and on 31 August is facing the violent eviction of its 1000 residents.
    The site was legally bought eleven years ago, but the local council refused to give planning permission for a permanent traveller site. The council have been harassing the travellers on the site for the past ten years to try to evict them.
    Everyone from the United Nations to the Catholic church has supported the travellers, (...)

  • Secret UK ’bio-weapon’ tests revealed
    26 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    27 October 2006
    Defence scientists secretly tested E.coli bacteria as a possible biological weapon in and around two British towns, documents revealed today.
    Between winter 1965 and November 1967 a series of Government trials involving the release of "microthreads" covered in the bacteria were carried out near Swindon and Southampton.
    The experiments are detailed in the 1966 Ministry of Defence report on the Microbiological Research Establishment at Porton Down, Wilts.
    It is being (...)

  • CAMERON AND OBAMA: THE WAR WILL GO ON FOR YEARS
    26 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Growing public opposition to war here and in the US is starting to have an impact on the politicians. But whatever the spin this week by Obama and Cameron, the reality is the war in Afghanistan will continue for at least another four years, with ever escalating loss of Afghan civilian and military lives. Thousands are going to die in a war that has no credible purpose or viable "exit strategy", outside of an increasingly desperate search for a way to get out without the US and its allies (...)

  • Belfast riots: Video of Irish youths attacking police vans
    22 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    A British news agency said Wednesday that one of its photographers had suffered a leg injury during sectarian clashes in Belfast, Northern Ireland, overnight Tuesday.
    Hundreds of rioters threw petrol bombs and attacked police vans in east Belfast on Tuesday as sectarian violence flared up for a second night in Northern Ireland.

  • SATURDAY’S CONFERENCE POINTS THE WAY FORWARD
    15 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last Saturday Stop the War organised a very successful conference on Afghanistan and the war on terror. Over 300 people turned up on the day to discuss the issue and to attend a number of sessions including on the aftermath of the war in Iraq, the Middle East uprisings, working round parliament, women and war, imperialism and art and war. The audience represented the diversity of the anti war movement with an especially good representation of young people. Discussions involved a wide (...)

  • “Churchill’s Secret War" by Madhusree Mukerjee - Churchill’s WW2 Bengali Holocaust (6-7 million killed)
    13 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Below is a review of “Churchill’s Secret War. The British Empire and the ravaging of India during World War II” by Madhusree Mukerjee. This book exposes how Churchill deliberately murdered 4 million Bengalis in 1942-1945, killing 6-7 million Indians in Bengal and adjoining provinces).
    The important and very readable book “Churchill’s Secret War. The British Empire and the ravaging of India during World War II” by Madhusree Mukerjee (Basic Books, New York, 2010) is an account of the (...)

  • WAS MY SON’S DEATH IN AFGHANISTAN A PRICE WORTH PAYING?
    6 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Six British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan in the last ten days. The father of one of them asked in an article in the Independent if his son’s death had been "a price worth paying", to which a serving soldier on leave from Afghanistan wrote in reply an emphatic "no". (SEE http://bit.ly/kL3f9b )
    During that time, nineteen US soldiers were also killed, along with other casualties among the Nato invading armies.
    As always, we do not have accurate (...)

  • WHAT OBAMA’S AFGHANISTAN "PROGRESS" LOOKS LIKE
    1 June 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Stop the War’s day conference on Afghanistan on Saturday 11 June could not be more timely. Since President Obama told the British Parliament on 25 May that the US/Nato forces were "preparing to turn a corner" and the Taliban’s momentum had been "broken", facts on the ground have exposed the reality.
    The day after Obama’s speech, eight US troops were killed, the highest daily figure for four years. The next day, two British soldiers were killed. The father of (...)

  • JUNE 11 CONFERENCE: AFGHANISTAN WAR 10 YEARS ON
    28 May 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    JUNE 11: CONFERENCE AFGHANISTAN AND THE WAR ON TERROR 10 YEARS ON CONWAY HALL, RED LION SQUARE, LONDON WC1R 4RL
    Tickets £5. To book call 020 7801 2768
    Speakers include: Tony Benn, George Galloway, Tariq Ali, Lindsey German, David Swanson. More details:
    Osama bin laden has been killed but the "war on terror" goes on. For all President Obama’s rhetoric about a diplomatic solution, there are more than double the number of US troops in Afghanistan than there were (...)

  • ’Free Palestine’ Lyrics censored by BBC - Big names join PSC campaign
    28 May 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Film director Ken Loach, Comedian Mark Thomas and Massive Attack frontman Robert del Naja have all added their names to a PSC letter which has been sent to Mark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC, condemning its actions in censoring the word ’Palestine’ from a song broadcast on Radio 1Xtra. The letter is printed here: Mark Thompson Director General BBC Television Centre Wood Lane London W12 7RJ
    19 May 2011
    Dear Mr Thompson
    We condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the BBC’s (...)