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  • Demo brings ceasefire calls to UK
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Alexis Akwagyiram
    Thousands of demonstrators joined a march in London on Saturday calling for a ceasefire in Lebanon.
    On a bright afternoon many of central London’s streets were filled with thousands of people of all ages and races chanting in unison.
    "Ceasefire now! Ceasefire now!" was among the chants adopted by the placard holding throng, as was "Hands off Lebanon", and a number of others criticising Tony Blair and George Bush.
    Protesters from differing cultures and faiths were (…)

  • Dying for Good: Tony Blair and the great fight
    29 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ahh, the charming poodle, Tony Blair. How absolutely charming he can be at the podium, with his upperclassman diction and typical British aloofness!
    But when he gets around to speaking to the world press he doesn’t waste any time placing his foot firmly in his mouth and demonstrating his elitist disdain for 3rd world lives.
    Aside from his crass and incredible statements about how he feels "grief" for the dead civilians in Lebanon but still says me "must continue what we’re doing for we (…)

  • Bush And Blair Blowing Bubbles
    29 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush And Blair Blowing Bubbles By SusanUnPC Friday, 28 July 2006 at 14:34
    From Ray Close, via Larry Johnson and posted by SusanUnPC.
    Dear Friends:
    It became very clear during the Bush-Blair press conference on Friday morning, 28 July, that the American and British "formula" to resolve the Lebanon crisis rests on a hallucinatory expectation that several critically important developments can and will take place successfully between now and the time early next week when the U.N. Security (…)

  • The Truth Of British Premier’s "Urgent Diplomacy"
    29 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Truth Of British Premier’s "Urgent Diplomacy" Robert Fisk, The Independent Saturday, 29, July, 2006
    I dropped by the hospital in Marjayoun this week to find a young girl lying in a hospital bed, swathed in bandages, her beauty scarred forever by some familiar wounds; the telltale dark-red holes in her skin made by cluster bombs, the weapon we used in Iraq to such lethal effect and which the Israelis are now using to punish the civilians of southern Lebanon.
    And, of course, it (…)

  • Bush ’out of touch’ on stem cells
    24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Scientists have reacted with anger to US President George W Bush’s decision to veto a bill allowing federal funding for new embryonic stem cell research.
    They argue it will damage a promising field of medical research.
    Leading researchers labelled Mr Bush "hypocritical", "out of touch" and "selfish" over his decision not to sign into law a bill approved by Congress.
    Mr Bush argued that the law "crossed a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect".
    Polls suggest most (…)

  • Israelis Commemorate Terror Bombing of King David Hotel
    21 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    British anger at terror celebration By Ned Parker and Stephen Farrell
    The commemoration of Israeli bombings that killing 92 people has caused offence
    AS ISRAEL wages war against Hezbollah “terrorists” in Lebanon, Britain has protested about the celebration by right-wing Israelis of a Jewish “act of terrorism” against British rule 60 years ago this week.
    The rightwingers, including Binyamin Netanyahu, the former Prime Minister, are commemorating the bombing of the King David Hotel in (…)

  • Report: Britain’s ID Card Plan May Fail
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/...
    Report: Britain’s ID Card Plan May Fail
    UPI
    July 16, 2006 at 4:26PM
    British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s identity card idea may not come to fruition for another generation, e-mails leaked from Whitehall say.
    The Times of London said senior officials responsible for the multibillion-pound project believe that Blair’s program is set up to fail.
    Blair’s ID card plan proposes that eventually all Britain’s 50 million adults will carry ID cards that (…)

  • Murder In Samarkand - Documents: by Craig Murray:
    11 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.blairwatch.co.uk/murray/docs.html http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/documents/docs.html http://dahrjamailiraq.com/murray/
    The British Government have demanded that these documents be removed today so dahrjamailiraq may be the best mirror.)
    In publishing "Murder in Samarkand" I had wanted to publish the supporting documentation in the book to cooroborate my story, especially as the FCO is claiming that the story is essentially untrue. In that sense, perhaps the most interesting link (…)

  • The UK’s problem with Venezuela’s Chavez Frias is that he’s over there!
    8 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    From: Raymond F. Breakspear admin@intbel.com To: Editor@VHeadline.com Subject: The UK needs a Hugo Chavez
    Here in the UK we used to have a problem with Americans. What was the problem? "They’re over here!"
    Here in the UK we have a problem with Chavez. What is the problem? "He’s over there!"
    (And we still have a problem with Americans being over here corps-wise, if not in person, but more on that anon)
    We need a Hugo Chavez ... desperately. Now. Like yesterday would not be too (…)

  • Blair laid bare: the article that may get you arrested
    7 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the guise of fighting terrorism and maintaining public order, Tony Blair’s Government has quietly and systematically taken power from Parliament and the British people. The author charts a nine-year assault on civil liberties that reveals the danger of trading freedom for security - and must have Churchill spinning in his grave
    By Henry Porter
    In the shadow of Winston Churchill’s statue opposite the House of Commons, a rather odd ritual has developed on Sunday afternoons. A small (…)