UK Newswire Archive
Analysis: US 'emulates' Israeli tactics
14-04-2004 17:49
Israeli' tactics / The US is taking tips from Israel to crush the Iraq insurgency With sporadic fighting in Falluja and US forces moving into position outside Najaf, the Arab press is pointing to similarities between US military operations in Iraq and the tactics Israeli forces employ in the West Bank and Gaza. Such similarities are not coincidental. The Israeli army has long experience of offensive operations in urban areas and it is experience that the Pentagon has been eager to draw upon. Israel and the US have developed a close military relationship over the years. Go to any US military exercise and Israeli observers are much in evidence.Cambridge Social Forum (type thing)???
14-04-2004 17:48
It's been suggested that we might like to get the ball rolling to form some kind of group in cambridge to do political stuff in a non-partypolitical, non-hierarchical way. Some have talked of a Cambridge Social Forum, others of being a part of the Dissent! Network which is coming together to oganise against the G8 meeting in the UK in summer 2005...many options are open. The important thing being, getting some political stuff happening outside the normal party focused or single issue pressure group styles.Manchester March - while Tony is in town
14-04-2004 17:40
A report on the a 'Stop the War Coalition' march in Manchester to co-incide with the Labour Party Spring Conference in the city. Made by Conor Hartnett as part of a City and Guilds in Digital Video Film technology run by Hulme Adult Education centre.PROTESTERS WHO HALTED ARMS TRAIN FACE COUR
14-04-2004 16:17
Six protesters who stopped trains full of weapons dealers from reaching one of the world?s biggest arms fairs, will defend their actions in court from 26th April.The truth of what's happening in Falluja has to get out.
14-04-2004 16:16
Jo Wilding, April 11th, FallujaTrucks, oil tankers, tanks are burning on the highway east to Falluja.
A stream of boys and men goes to and from a lorry that's not burnt,
stripping it bare. We turn onto the back roads through Abu Ghraib, Nuha
and Ahrar singing in Arabic, past the vehicles full of people and a few
possessions, heading the other way, past the improvised refreshment
posts along the way where boys throw food through the windows into the bus
for us and for the people inside still inside Falluja.
Falluja - no ceasefire, Americans are shooting at ambulances
14-04-2004 16:00
The following material was recorded at 10.30 pm (local time) Sunday, April 11, 2004 at Radio Netherlands in Hilversum between journalists Mindy Ran (MR) in Hilversum and Lee Gordon (LG) in Baghdad/Fallujah. Approximately 4 minutes of edited material from this recording has been broadcast (internationally) on 'Newsline', Radio Netherlands on April 12, 2004.New Reports on U.S. Planting WMDs in Iraq
14-04-2004 15:45
"50 days after the first reports that the U.S. forces were unloading weapons of mass destruction(WMD) in southern Iraq, new reports about the movement of these weapons have been disclosed."No ceasefire in Falluja
14-04-2004 15:24
Transcription of radio interview with British freelance journalist Lee Gordon, who is based in Falluja.‘The voice of a working class forgotten amid luxury lofts’
14-04-2004 14:33
New party believes it has found a gap in the market to the left of LabourFrom the Islington Tribune, 2 April 2004
Saboteurs Injured in Hunt Violence
14-04-2004 13:18
On Saturday 13th March two sabs were hospitalised as a result of a number of attacks by members of the Barlow Hunt at their last hunt of the season.The Human Cost of Consumerism - 200 Million +
14-04-2004 13:10
I do not have a book to sell.Easter Resurrection for Squatted Tourist Info Centre in Hebden Bridge
14-04-2004 12:12
POSH FLATS AND FISH SHOP PLANS GET BATTERING FROM LOCALS. WE NEED COMMUNITY SPACES AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING, NOT MORE PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT, SAY HEBDEN RESIDENTS.Local residents who took over a former Council building in West Yorkshire for five days over Easter have declared the occupation a resounding success. The residents occupied the former Tourist Information Centre in the Pennine town of Hebden Bridge.
Jo Wilding - Report from Falluja
14-04-2004 12:08
2004-04-13 | US snipers in Falluja shoot unarmed man in the back, old woman with white flag, children fleeing their homes and the ambulance that we were going in to fetch a woman in premature labour.The Human cost of Communism - 100 Million
14-04-2004 12:01
A new book claims that the victims of communism last century number between 85 and 100 million.DIY cafe opened at OCSET
14-04-2004 11:10
Today in the MidEast 13th of april
14-04-2004 10:36
Briefingin order to get the daily news , subscribe to my mailing list on the site , but i ll try posting everyday , the link is at the end of the article
Schools For Sale!
14-04-2004 10:28
the N.U.T's leader Doug McAvoy launches a blistering attack on Neo-Labour education policy'Tony Blair is taking the country towards the nightmare of top-up fees being extended to children in a privatised education system where schools are "marketised, franchised and sponsored", the leader of the largest teaching union warned yesterday'