Archive for February, 2007
Anti-War Demo, London
I’ve just returned from the Stop The War demonstration in London, protesting against the renewal of Trident and demanding the immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Turn-out was good – participation had to be in the tens of thousands, at least.
Here are some pics from the day.
Boo!!!
Hiss!!!
Luminous Green Skeletons Against The War (LGSATW).
Protesting against a [...]
Filed under: Activism, Iran, Iraq, UK, WMD | 18 Comments
Tags: War
Iraqi insurgents’ claim to be “fighting for the liberation of their country” is, according to Prime Minister Tony Blair, “a palpable lie.” Let’s leave aside for a moment the question of whether it is appropriate for Blair, a man who deceived his country into an illegal war, to accuse others of lying. More important is [...]
Filed under: Iraq, Media, News and politics, US | 44 Comments
Tags: International & Foreign Policy, occupation, resistance, Terrorism, War
Rejectionist Round-up
The rejectionists are doing their thing again. In the face of a growing Palestinian peace offensive, Israel has announced that it will refuse to recognise the new Palestinian national unity government. Miri Eisin, spokeswoman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, yesterday confirmed that Israel will refuse to hold peace talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas [...]
Filed under: Iran, Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, US | 3 Comments
Tags: "peace process", Syria
Testimony of Torture
Ali Shalal, a professor of theology, recently testified before the War Crimes Commission in Kuala Lumpur to the torture and abuse he suffered whilst detained in Abu Ghraib by Coalition forces in Iraq.
“On the 13th October, 2003 while I was going to prayer in the mosque in Al-Amraya, the American troops arrested me. They tied [...]
Filed under: Iraq, News and politics, Torture, US | 10 Comments
Tags: Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights
Israel’s response to the new Palestinian National Unity government, which agrees to respect previous agreements but does not explicitly renounce violence or recognise Israel’s “right to exist”, has been unequivocal. Said Prime Minister Ehud Olmert,
“A Palestinian government that won’t accept the Quartet conditions won’t receive recognition and cooperation…The American and Israeli positions are totally identical [...]
Filed under: European Union, Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, US | 9 Comments
Tags: Syria
“Slowly, painstakingly, but inexorably, Hamas is moving away from its traditional notion that Palestine is an Islamic waqf [land-in-trust] ‘from the river to the sea…Hamas is signaling that it accepts Israel as a political reality today and is intimating that it would accept a final agreement with Israel ‘according to the parameters of the [1991] [...]
Filed under: European Union, Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, UK, US | 12 Comments
Tags: Hamas, International & Foreign Policy, International Law, United Nations
Spreading Freedom
Australian newspapers reported on Wednesday that United States is to build a new military base in Geraldton, Western Australia. The facility will join existing major U.S. spy bases in Australia at Pine Gap and North West Cape. The decision was announced formally after three years of secret negotiations by Defence Minister Brendan Nelson, who went [...]
Filed under: European Union, Israeli / Palestinian, Latin America, News and politics, Torture, US | 2 Comments
Tags: Australia, Democracy, International & Foreign Policy, Syria, United Nations
The Iranian Disease
Writing for The Guardian on Thursday, Timothy Garton Ash argues that although we must stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, we shouldn’t bomb it to do so. In his words,
“The cure would be worse than the disease.”
Certainly, it would. According to Paul Rogers of the Oxford Research Group, an attack on Iran would [...]
Filed under: Iran, News and politics, US, WMD | 25 Comments
Tags: International & Foreign Policy, War
The “Iran Crisis” Is Over
Defence Secretary Des Browne yesterday told MPs that maintaining Trident (Britain’s not-so-independent nuclear deterrent) is “overwhelmingly sensible” to protect future generations from the threats we may or may not face. “Once you accept that that threat is there, you commit to a deterrent,” he said. The money quote:
“[Deterrence is] not an outmoded concept…As far [...]
Filed under: Iran, Media, News and politics, Quote of the Day, UK, WMD | 24 Comments
Tags: Des Browne, Trident
I’m surprised that this still needs saying, but, evidently, it does. The current civil conflict in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) is not an internal Palestinian matter. Any attempt to analyse the fighting between Fatah and Hamas militants without discussing the critical role played by Israel and sections of the international community in engineering [...]
Filed under: European Union, Israeli / Palestinian, News and politics, US | 12 Comments
Tags: Democracy
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