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"Cod are not very good swimmers so they are easily overtaken by trawlers and nets." - British government report on why cod fish are disappearing from the North Sea.
Done Deals - Presidential election rigging methods in 1960, 2000 and 2004
"Columbus (Ohio)...Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct.”
Isabel Losada - An Unhappy Second Birthday for the War on Terror A Furious Cycle of Killing Tortured use of the word 'democracy' Reagan's mantle Butler - Will Wash Whiter Than Hutton or Your Backbench Rebels Record Breakers Historic Deals Exit poll discrepancies and other Electoral Irregularities War on terror, war for profits or World War Three? (Part Two) Selective Condolences, Unremarkable Genocides The Anti-War Candidates - Phony and Genuine Shooting to Kill "Pacifying" Falluja, Again When Dick Met Katrina Natural Causes and No Third Parties? Thickly Padded Stories Here is the news - but where did it come from? Taking the Michael and the Tony out of Parliament News they missed The Global Gulag Archipelago Democratic Propaganda - Some Taxing Questions-Our countries become wealthier every day - so why is life getting harder for the majority? Who's afraid of a peaceful world? Persian Paper Tiger Beginning of the End of the Age of Endless Greed and Endless War 'Free Trade' Opposites? Beautiful Lies - Bush's Inaugural Speech Beautiful Lies - Bush's Inaugural Speech Denial all over again I did not have Sexual Relations with that Dossier Iraq: Should we stay or should we go? El Salvador in Iraq War on terror, war for profits or World War Three? Enjoying Freedom - At Home and Abroad Prevention of Terrorism Beacons of Liberty The Elections in Iraq The Gaza Bombings and The War on Terror Not justified – but caused Arming the Axis of Evil -Are British and American Intelligence involved in promoting nuclear proliferation? The Anti-War Movement , Political Strategy , The Media and The Intelligence Services Land War Book Review - 'The Spanish Civil War' by Anthony Beevor David Aaronovitch and Tony Blair – Conspiracy Theorists Bogus - Thirteen Myths about Asylum Seekers & Immigrants Only One More Vote Than God - My British General Election 2005 The Tsunami and Foreign Aid Hunting them Down Child Killers An Endless Spiral
...the alternative, that the Dalai Lama dies and everyone knows that peaceful negotiation is a waste of time – and that goes into the history book... well it’s just too awful to to contemplate.
'If you choose to respond to this incomprehensible brutality by perpetrating violence against other innocent human beings you may not do so in the name of my husband'.
A new poll of Iraqis has been reported as showing that a majority want the occupying forces to stay. If you actually read this poll in full you find out it says something very different.
According to President Bush 'The torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever' from Iraq. Now this is 'double-speak' - stating the exact opposite of the truth as in Orwell's book '1984' - since both secret police and torture cells remain but t
After the death of former US President Ronald Reagan the current President Bush has attempted to take on Reagan's mantle - and in many ways he genuinely is following in Reagan's footsteps in terms of policies, rhetoric - and the gap between the two.
Blair believes he has been 'vindicated' by the Hutton report but the public disagree.
Did you know when you make a donation to a charity a bank or credit card firm may be taking some of it?
Everyone wants to make poverty history these days – and it’s a very positive aim to have. The question is - how can we do it?
Exit Poll discrepancies and other electoral ‘irregularities’ in the Ukrainian and American Presidential elections are being covered very differently by most of the media.
However democracy isn't just a system - it's an ideology. If people don't believe in it they'll overthrow it or vote it out of existence. Occupation and repression only strengthen nationalist and fundamentalist movements.
if American soldiers are killed in combat that is held to justify killing civilians. How well would that defence hold up if the accused were Serb or Iraqi forces rather than Americans?
If American voters are left with a choice between Wesley Clark and George W Bush it will be no real choice - only a choice of which rhetoric they want to cover the same murderous 'war on terror'.
If you saw someone you thought was acting suspiciously would you be more likely to report it if you know that if you are wrong it might still end with that person being killed by the police?
In the end arguments over to what extent different war crimes are ‘comparable’ and whether the killing of civilians by coalition forces is deliberate or not are completely academic.
In the words of one Afghan it looks more like Africa than America – most of the victims are black and the government response was so late and badly organised that it’s hard to believe that these poor suffering people could be citizens of the country boast
Internal investigations by the MoD frequently come to the conclusion that the cause of death was 'natural causes' or 'suicide' whether the deceased are Iraqi civilians or British soldiers.
Jean Charles de Menezes – a Brazilian born electrician – was shot 7 times in the head without warning by police in London on the 22nd of July 2005.
Many journalists and reporters are also so heavily briefed by government and military press officers that they start to see the government or military line as the objective , balanced one.
Many voters in the British elections on the 5th of May might be forgiven for fearing that Tony Blair is right that it's a choice between him or Michael Howard - with more wars , poverty and higher taxes for cuts in public services whichever of them become
Most of the media avoided reporting what should have been some of the biggest news of 2004. This is an attempt to give a round up of ten major events that didn’t get the coverage they should have.
Most people will have heard of Guantanamo Bay but it, like the camps Solzhenitsin describes, is just one jail among many. They span not just an entire country but much of the world.
Berg, Pearl, Abu Ghraib, Lancashire & Rafah
Noam Chomsky has argued that dictatorships don’t require sophisticated propaganda – relying on force and threats.
Of course both camps are talking bollocks. The public, as usual, are far more perceptive and progressive than smug newspaper columnists.
On the 22nd of March, in a scene which sounds more like some science fiction of a horrific future conflict than reality, an unmanned drone fired missiles which blew a 67 year old man in a wheelchair to pieces as he returned from his daily prayers
Pakistan already has nuclear warheads and missiles capable of delivering them with a 1,500 km range and recently began test launches of cruise missiles which can also mount nuclear warheads.
people have had enough of the 'There is no alternative' line at home and the bogey man abroad. As British and American soldiers and reservists continue to die in wars which are of no benefit to anyone but a tiny handful of corporate executives and shareho
Politicians like Tony Blair are still promoting 'free trade reforms' as a way to reduce poverty and spread democracy around the world - and even 'save Africa'. What have the results been so far ?
President Bush claims that the enemies US troops face in Iraq are 'the exact opposite of Americans'. Are they really? There's a White Man's Burden myth on Iraq that claims our troops are still there to help Iraqis build a democracy.
President Bush’s speech on his inauguration for a second term was certainly full of uplifting and positive rhetoric about freedom. Unfortunately his policies continue to do little to extend freedom – and much to take it from people worldwide.
President Bush’s speech on his inauguration for a second term was certainly full of uplifting and positive rhetoric about freedom. Unfortunately his policies continue to do little to extend freedom – and much to take it from people worldwide.
Revelations about American and British torture in Iraq echo the shock over the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Then as now the American government and military claimed that the atrocity was the result of a few soldiers out of control. In both cases senior
Saint Tony went unto the Media and he was very Wroth saying 'Lo I appointed the Judge and decided what charges I should face and Behold has there not been a Miracle for I have been found Not Guilty on all charges.
Some argue that the majority are not always right. That may be true – but if we believe in democracy we support the majority view prevailing as long as the fundamental rights of every individual are protected.
Some of the Americans and Iraqis now running Iraq have a long history of organising torture and massacre - in some cases going back as far as El Salvador and Chile in the 1980s - and Vietnam in the 70s
That’s Bush and Blair, our modern day Griswalds, lost in the desert of Iraq, seeing ‘weapons of mass destruction’ where there are none, and linking the former Iraqi government to September 11th and anthrax attacks despite the FBI's (yes, that FBI) insiste
The 'war on terror' is supposedly about defending our freedom at home and providing freedom and human rights to the victims of tyranny abroad - 'humanitarian intervention' just like the Kosovo war. This is a lovely story and sometimes, by coincidence, it
The British government claim they want a new 'prevention of terrorism' bill to protect us and our democracy from terrorist attacks – but will it really do either?
The Bush administration have been very supportive of the overthrow of dictators in Georgia and Ukraine - but not in Uzbekistan , whose dictator Islam Karimov is responsible for torture and massacres. Here's why and what you can do.
The Iraqis who turned out to vote despite bombings and mortar attacks by Islamic fundamentalists did show amazing bravery. That's only half the story though.
The main obstacles to peace are those who remain in power by promoting further conflict - Arafat, Sharon and the Bush administration.
The murder of innocent people can never be justified by the killing of other innocent people
The notorious Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) went bankrupt after it's involvement in massive fraud and the laundering of drug money was revealed in 1992. Now it has been linked to funding Pakistan's nuclear programme
The only way to defeat Bush and Blair is to undermine them politically to the extent that they lose elections - that can only be done peacefully and won't happen till new elections are held (probably next year on both sides of the Atlantic).
The people of the Darfur region of Sudan need protection and agricultural assistance - not inaction, sanctions or regime change.
The Spanish civil war of 1936-1939 arguably led to World War Two and also provides many parallels with subsequent events right up to the present.
The truth is that they are two of the most imaginative writers and speakers of the 21st century who would never allow themselves to be tied down by anything so tedious as providing enough of the facts to spoil a good story.
There are endless myths about immigrants spread by politicians and newspapers.Most of them relate to supposedly ‘bogus asylum seekers’. These claims are usually ‘bogus’ and untrue. This is an attempt to give the actual facts about some of them.
This is an account of my election campaign. I campaigned for Rose Gentle in East Kilbride and Craig Murray in Blackburn - and stood myself as an independent candidate. Read all about it and about the wider election results in the UK.
UN officials doubt whether governments’ aid donations for Tsunami relief are as generous as they appear. Conditions put on aid and debt relief by the G8 countries, the IMF and the World Bank could make things worse. The Sri Lankan and Indonesian governme
Who could oppose this? Terrorist killings of civilians are wrong - no-one could deny that or that those responsible for them should be brought to justice. The only problem is it doesn't work that way.
Would there have been 4 major terrorist attacks in the Russian federation including Beslan within 2 weeks of each other if Russian troops were not killing Chechen civilians regularly?
“More violence will cause more violence and this will be an endless spiral” - Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi Governing Council