07.16.07 - 08:41am
And this illustrated very quickly the first flaw of this collaboration between Channel 4 television and the Foreign Policy Centre (FPC), broadcast on Saturday evening amid much fanfare, with promises that the commission’s report would be dispatched to the offices of the Prime Minister and other political leaders. The murderous disaster in Iraq was something for Britain to wring its hands over but it was not something we had initiated nor something we continued to contribute to.
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07.15.07 - 10:34am
According to the story on Forbes.com, squadrons of attack planes have been added, the US air reconnaissance arm has almost doubled since last year and the B1-B bomber has been put back into action, with bombing rates so far this year four times that of the same period in 2006.
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07.14.07 - 09:27am
The Metropolitan Police squandered £111,000 of public money on a massive raid against a peaceful antiwar protest outside Parliament, it has been revealed. Brian Haw, 57, has staged a peaceful six-year vigil outside the Palace of Westminster, using a megaphone to signal his opposition to the war in Iraq. But following a legal crackdown, police moved in to remove most of his 40m of banners and placards, part of ongoing establishment attempts to stop his demonstration.
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07.12.07 - 09:01am
Rachel, 23, from Olympia, Washington, USA, was murdered by the Israeli army, crushed beneath the tracks of a Caterpillar bulldozer as she tried to stop the military flattening Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip in 2003. Her family are claiming the corporation should be held accountable as it knew its products were being used to perpetrate human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories.
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07.11.07 - 08:45am
The few reports that do escape Iraq regarding the generally ignored air war that is already going on there paint a terrible picture of slaughter from the skies and if the US pulls its troops back into fortified bases and escalates the bombing this will get worse. The signs are already there in Afghanistan, as the NATO commander, General Dan McNeill, now known as “Bomber McNeill”, changes US strategy and cranks up the civilian deaths.
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07.10.07 - 05:31pm
It is so rare to see someone prepared to tackle the appalling failures of the mainstream media, in the UK or the US, actually have an opportunity to get on the screens that it is not so much a breath of fresh air as a gale. Michael Moore absolutely laid into the feeble Wolf Blitzer on CNN earlier. Blitzer’s attempts to defend CNN from Moore’s charges regarding both the Iraq war and American health care were transparently weak.
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07.08.07 - 03:43pm
The British Foreign Office has lodged yet another appeal to the House of Lords in its continuing efforts to deny justice to the hundreds of families exiled from their former home, the Chagos Archipelago. In one of the most shameful acts in British history, in the 1960s the Government, through subterfuge and force, depopulated the Chagos islands in order to hand over the largest land mass, Diego Garcia, to the United States to use as a military base. Ever since, the Chagossians have been fighting to right this dreadful wrong and return home.
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