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  • Iraq Invasion 5th Anniversary - UK writer Tariq Ali PROTESTS Iraqi Genocide
    14 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Outstanding South Asian UK writer, historian, journalist and film-maker Tariq Ali (author of “Clash of Fundamentalisms” and many other books: ) has written a powerful statement on the ongoing Iraqi genocide on the occasion of the approaching 5th anniversary of the war criminal UK, US and Australian invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003: .
    This is the statement to the World by outstanding South Asian-British writer Tariq Ali:
    QUOTE: “Now we know the exact costs of war and occupation. It (…)

  • IRAQ : Join the global protests - demonstrate 15 March (Invasion 5th Anniversary
    13 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Join the global protests - demonstrate 15 March
    Assemble 12 noon, Trafalgar Square, London
    Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan Don’t attack Iran End the siege of Gaza
    "I really hope that on 15 March people will join the demonstration in Trafalgar Square at 12. To march against the war and march against the continued occupation which has come from this war. It had a rotten basis and nothing good will come of it." Nick Broomfield, Documentary film maker
    On his recent trip to the (…)

  • Join the global protests - demonstrate 15 March (stopwar.org.uk)
    8 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Wednesday, 30 January 2008 Assemble 12 noon, Trafalgar Square, London
    Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan Don’t attack Iran End the siege of Gaza
    On his recent trip to the Middle East, George Bush said: "Iraq is now a different place. Levels of violence are significantly reduced. Hope is returning to Baghdad."
    Try telling that to residents of the southern outskirts of Baghdad, whose homes were flattened on January 10, when US bombers unleashed 40,000 pounds of explosives in the (…)

  • Self-Serving
    14 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Each country has got its own Berlusconis, Blairs, Bushes or Popes. It is a kind of globalization thing and Blair may seem to have exaggerated recently in France whilst speaking about the current political situation. In reality he was just making another of his speeches on the "third-way" and that which he has really not been able to do; bring peace. Instead he has been able only to open discontent, the consequences of which he has sought to manage with repressive laws. Has the Blair era been (…)

  • Blair put forward as first 5 year term EU President
    7 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Patrick Wintour
    "I’ll be president of Europe if you give me the power - Blair"
    Tony Blair has been holding discussions with some of his oldest allies on how he could mount a campaign later this year to become full-time president of the EU council, the prestigious new job characterised as “president of Europe”. Blair, currently the Middle East envoy for the US, Russia, EU and the UN, has told friends he has made no final decision, but is increasingly willing to put himself forward for (…)

  • Stop Blair !
    7 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Petition against the nomination of Tony Blair as "President of the EuropeanUnion"
    http://www.stopblair.eu/
    We, European citizens of all origins and of all political persuasions, wish to express our total opposition to the nomination of Tony Blair to the Presidency of the European Council.
    The Treaty of Lisbon provides for the new post of President of the European Council, to be elected by the Council for a mandate, renewable once only, of two and a half years. Under the terms of the (…)

  • Kidnap and torture : new claims of Army war crimes in Iraq
    6 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Kidnap and torture: new claims of Army war crimes in Iraq
    the independent :: 2007-05-20 :: Tarek Hassan, One of Many Victims of the Occupation Hassan’s Wrist Tag Showing Clearly He was Being Held at BUCCA Camp The British Army is facing new allegations that it was involved in "forced disappearances", hostage-taking and torture of Iraqi civilians after the fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein. One of the claims is made by the former chairman of the Red Crescent in Basra, who alleges (…)

  • Revealed British plan to build training camp for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan
    6 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Revealed: British plan to build training camp for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan
    By Jerome Starkey in Kabul Monday, 4 February 2008
    The Afghan government claims they prove British agents were talking to the Taliban without permission from the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, despite Gordon Brown’s pledge that Britain will not negotiate. The Prime Minister told Parliament on 12 December: "Our objective is to defeat the insurgency by isolating and eliminating their leaders. We will not (…)

  • edward thompson and the growth of britain’s police state
    21 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    from CHIMES OF FREEDOM blog
    Dipping into the late Edward Thompson’s Writing by Candlelight it begins to become clear how Britain has become an embryonic police state without any serious opposition by the libertarian/left. It also becomes clear that the destruction of freedoms has come not from either that section of the population or from Marxist subversives but from the authoritarian tendencies of the British establishment itself.
    Thompson wrote of this trend to the police state during (…)

  • Tony Blair to take up £500,000 job as political adviser to US company
    13 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tony Blair to take up £500,000 job as political adviser to US company
    Phillip Webster – Times Online January 10, 2008
    Tony Blair is to take a job with JPMorgan Chase, the international financial services and investment banking group, The Times learnt last night.
    The former Prime Minister is to be a political adviser to the American firm which operates in more than 50 countries and whose assets are put at $1.5 trillion, with interests also in commercial banking and private equity. (…)