UK Newswire Archive
A Raw Deal or Fair Comment? Iran and the Western Media
03-10-2007 16:44
Parliamentary Roundtable Discussion,The Attlee Suite,
Palace of Westminster
London
3rd October, 7pm
Bush's Global 'Dirty War'
03-10-2007 15:33
George W. Bush has transformed elite units of the U.S. military – including Special Forces and highly trained sniper teams – into “death squads” with a license to kill unarmed targets on the suspicion that they are a threat to American military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to evidence from recent court cases.
UK-US Iraqi Holocaust And Iraqi Genocide - 3.9 Million Deaths
03-10-2007 14:58
Medialens - Iraq Body Count: “A Very Misleading Exercise”
03-10-2007 14:55
The mainstream media are continuing to use figures provided by the website Iraq Body Count (IBC) to sell the public a number for total post-invasion deaths of Iraqis that is perhaps 5-10% of the true death toll.As we recently reported, only a handful of media outlets covered a new ORB poll revealing that 1.2 million Iraqis had been murdered since the 2003 invasion. BBC Online provided a rare example:
“A UK-based polling agency, Opinion Research Business (ORB), said it had extrapolated the figure by asking a random sample of 1,461 Iraqi adults how many people living in their household had died as a result of the violence rather than from natural causes.
“The results lend weight to a 2006 survey of Iraqi households published by the Lancet, which suggested that about 655,000 Iraqi deaths were 'a consequence of the war'.
“However, these estimates are both far higher than the running total of reported civilian deaths maintained by the campaign group Iraq Body Count which puts the figure at between 71,000 and 78,000.” (BBC Online, ’US contractors in Iraq shootout,’ September 17, 2007;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6998458.stm) BBC’s Newsnight programme used IBC’s figures in the same way:
“More than a million Iraqis have been killed since the invasion in 2003, according to the British polling company ORB. The study’s likely to fuel controversy over the true, human cost of the war. It’s significantly up on the previous highest estimate of 650,000 deaths published by the Lancet last October... The independent Iraqi [sic] Body Count group puts the current total at closer to 75,000.” (Newsnight, BBC2, September 14, 2007)
These reports again raise serious issues about what IBC’s figures actually mean, how they are being used and misused to cast doubt on higher numbers, and about what IBC is doing to promote or reduce the confusion. (See our 2006 Media Alerts archive for previous analysis, beginning with:
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/06/060125_paved_with_good.php)
Crest Nicholson upsets Gloucestershire Residents
03-10-2007 14:25
UK police can now force you to reveal decryption keys
03-10-2007 12:49
Users of encryption technology can no longer refuse to reveal keys to UK authorities after amendments to the powers of the state to intercept communications took effect on Monday (Oct 1).Protest Total Oil this Friday in London
03-10-2007 10:54
CALL TO ACTION: 'Die-in' and demo at London TOTAL Oil HQ over Burma linksFRIDAY 5 OCTOBER
8:30 - 10:30 am
33 Cavendish Square, London, WC1
The Art of Racial Discrimination as practised by the Commonwealth of Australia
03-10-2007 00:28
UNHRC to be told Institutionalised Racial Discrimination jailed Phuong NgoThe Art of Racial Discrimination can only succeed with the deliberate and concerted efforts of the 3 branches of a "democracy": the Executive (the Prime Minister), the Judiciary (Judges and Laws) and the Parliament (Law makers):
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/story/unhrc-be-told-institutionalised-racial-discrimination-jailed-phuong-ngo
Afghanistan: A heroic resistance that puts us to shame
02-10-2007 21:20
Forget the Neo-Con, the Neo-Dem, the Neo-Lib and the Neo-Nuts. The role the demonization and dehumanization of the (many, many, many...) Empire’s enemies has played in supporting imperialism and colonialism can be more easily seen in those Western liberal and progressive writers, journalists, intellectuals and anti-war movement’s planners who always resort to human rights, women rights, gay rights’ violations of the Empire’s enemy of the month as the reason why we, the enlightened people, can’t surely sympathies, let alone support the "other" peoples who try to defend themselves and resist against wars of aggression and occupations, which is to say, colonialism and imperialism.Brown's Britain: 'Mother of Hypocrocies'
02-10-2007 21:02
Housing4All demonstration in Brum, Monday 8th Oct
02-10-2007 19:59
Demonstrate for accessible housing and against homelessness and disability discrimination at Birmingham City Council House, Monday 8th Oct, 1pmNorfolk hospital workers could strike
02-10-2007 19:50
A Free Market Tesconomy
02-10-2007 19:41
In support of the "Keep Tesco off Mill Road" campaign!US Politicians, Not Ahmadinejad, Have Blood on Their Hands
02-10-2007 19:09
How American politicians can call Iran a dangerous country and claim that it poses a threat to the U.S. is a mystery. On second thought, it is not a mystery. It just tells you that the politicians think you and I are so stupid that we will fall for the exact same parade of lies and exaggerations that was used to justify the war against Iraq.
Thatcher gave Pergau Dam arms company “unjustifiable” £300m contract
02-10-2007 17:33
In 1988 the Thatcher government illegally paid the Malaysian government £234 million from the overseas aid budget to secure an order for two British arms companies. Anti-fraud campaigner and former MCCS employee Rob McCartney reveals how they simultaneously lied to cover up important evidence about fraud allegations being made against one of the companies, and awarded it a £300 million contract without any apparent justification.Palestine Today – 100207
02-10-2007 17:22
Deaths in Mental Health Custody
02-10-2007 17:06
As deaths in mental health custody rise in British hospitals, the family of a woman who died a year ago today carry on a campaign for justice. Sandra Jean Allen died on 2nd October 2006 after systemic problems with her mental healthcare. Supporters of the campaign are urged to join at http://justice4sandra.blogspot.com or to email 
steven.allen@gmail.com