London Newswire Archive

24-08-2008 20:41

Nuclear Slush Fund

Nuclear Slush Fund is buying off Cumbrians, lock stock and barrel...Two months ago a question was directed to the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority at a conference organised by Core(Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment and funded by Friends of the Earth). The question was "how much money has the NDA 'given' to organisations/groups/hospitals/colleges etc over the last 3 years? Read more >>

24-08-2008 19:30

Olympic Handover to Free Hackney

A tank from the Free Hackney campaign was at the Hackney Handover in Hoxton St as the Beijing games ended to celebrate the handover of the Olympic protest baton from the Free Tibet Movement to the Free Hackney Campaign. Pictures copyright (C) 2008, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.
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24-08-2008 15:00

PR Push for Iraq War Preceded Intelligence Findings

The U.S. intelligence community buckled sooner in 2002 than previously
reported to Bush administration pressure for data justifying an invasion of
Iraq, according to a documents posting on the Web today by National Security
Archive senior fellow John Prados.

The documents suggest that the public relations push for war came before the
intelligence analysis, which then conformed to public positions taken by
Pentagon and White House officials. For example, a July 2002 draft [1] of
the "White Paper" ultimately issued by the CIA in October 2002 [2] actually
pre-dated the National Intelligence Estimate that the paper purportedly
summarized, but which Congress did not insist on until September 2002.

A similar comparison between a declassified draft [3] and the final version
[4] of the British government's "White Paper" on Iraq weapons of mass
destruction adds to evidence that the two nations colluded in the effort to
build public support for the invasion of Iraq. Dr. Prados concludes that the
new evidence tends to support charges raised by former White House press
secretary Scott McClellan and by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
in its long-delayed June 2008 "Phase II" report on politicization of
intelligence. Read more >>

24-08-2008 10:25

Zapatista solidarity protests at Edinburgh, Bournemouth and European Airports

Passengers hurrying into the main check-in at Edinburgh international airport on 22 August were greeted by an unusual sight. A massive banner proclaimed: “ MEXICO ...Sun…Fun…bloomin’ nice beaches…”, alongside a painting of a palm tree. A somewhat eccentric Mexican tourist board initiative perhaps?
Not exactly. “Torture….Death Squads…Human Rights Breaches…” continued the lower half of the banner, with a carefully painted AK47 illustrating the point. Read more >>

24-08-2008 02:09

Brian Haw - 7 years on, still going strong

Images of Brian Haw's peaceful demonstration in Parliament Square, London, UK.
Brian's protest, against war and to highlight the ridiculous SOCPA laws, is now in its seventh year.

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23-08-2008 18:48

FREE Monday Love Carnival After Party with Movimientos

After Carnival Party, Monday 25th August, 7pm-2am at The Good Ship 289 Kilburn High Road, London Read more >>

23-08-2008 14:50

Open Letter to the Canadian Prime Minister

I feel that some of your policies are beginning to depart from deeply held traditional Canadian values. And you are transforming the face of Canada with the mandate of a minority Government. You also have a majority in the House of Commons who voted, on behalf of Canadians, to support the request made by American War resisters to remain in Canada. Read more >>

23-08-2008 14:18

Rwanda: obscuring the truth about the genocide

Far from being radical, the attacks on France for its role in the 1994 war
are designed to whitewash Western intervention more broadly.
Barrie Collins, spiked-online.com, 13.08.2008 Read more >>

23-08-2008 13:55

Blockades: Acts of War

From July 21 - 31, Joint Task Force (mostly US, but also UK, France, Brazil and Italy) "Operation Brimstone" large scale war games were conducted off the US East coast in the North Atlantic. Its purpose may have been to prepare for a naval blockade of Iran. From what's known a naval deployment may be planned, and a blockade may ensue. The situation remains tense and worrisome. Read more >>

23-08-2008 13:29

Armenia's Struggle for Independence

Each country must find its own way, shaped by its immediate situation, and seen against the backdrop of its own specific cultural and political history. In the case of Armenia, it is evident that any perspective for real economic progress must be based on cooperation with its neighbors in the context of a regional development perspective. This means negotiating political solutions to the continuing conflicts with Azerbaijan and Turkey, in order to reestablish normal economic and trade relations. To achieve this, requires a capable leadership dedicated to the future of its nation and its people, as well as support from the international community. Armenians are seeking such leadership. Read more >>

23-08-2008 13:21

A week of free workshops, discussions & skill-sharing

The planning for the London FreeSchool week is going well with confirmed workshops and the such like starting to appear on the website. Bowl Court Social Centre, the original location for the weeks event, was sadly evicted a couple of weeks ago. However, the event lives on and has moved to the rampART (

http://www.rampart.co.nr) and LARC (

http://www.londonarc.org.) After all a free school should not be limited and contained by concrete walls!
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23-08-2008 10:58

National Green Day UK - Sept 28th - in the parks

Cannabis Campaigners from around the UK will gather in parks to draw attention to 80 years of unjust, unsound and ineffective cannabis prohibition, on Sunday Sept 28th. Read more >>

22-08-2008 23:17

Mid-Summer Alert—Update

Very Strange Timing for Little Georgia to Attack the Big Bear Read more >>

22-08-2008 21:01

London Olympics: a new phase in the waste of money

A New Stage in the London Olympic Competition to Spend Money Read more >>

22-08-2008 13:54

Track closed: 170 greyhounds need homes

PLEASE HELP THE WALTHAMSTOW GREYHOUNDS
HOMES NEEDED ASAP - 160-170 greyhounds are now redundant Read more >>

22-08-2008 11:23

Ken Livingstone - Thames Water scandal

Ken Livingstone tried to do over water usage in London, he blamed ordinary people and lectured them that they should stop leaving the tap on while brushing or having a long shower meanwhile Thames was losing 915 million litres a day, the regulator, the idiots paid to tell us what they are doing and then do nothing said - enough to fill 366 Olympic-sized swimming pools. He did not do anything about Thames Water and what he did do is a scandal, in London, most of the Victorian pipes in central and East London were bone dry and the problems were with North London, which cannot be fixed with plastic pipes. Thames Water replaced perfectly good cast iron pipes with plastic pipes and they do not even know their shelf life, some people predict 30 years. So you take out something that is perfectly OK, why? apparently Read more >>

22-08-2008 11:09

Shifting The Burden Of Proof Changes Nothing In The GM Debate

Imagine the scene: you walk into a bar and someone immediately faces you up, brandishing their fists, red with pent-up aggression clearly eager to send you on to the floor or worse. He screams into your face, spittle flecks flying across your nose and lips, “Prove to me that you deserve not to be punched repeatedly in the face!”
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22-08-2008 09:30

Climate Camp - Selected photos

Better late than never! A mixed bag of photos from the Climate Camp 2008. (All are copyright, but may be used for any sort of activism publicity.) Read more >>

22-08-2008 07:56

New body formed to unite Baluch Diaspora

Baluch [also spelled Baloch] who got politically divided under Biritsh Imperial rule are today stateless in southwest Asia. Their homeland was used for testing Pakistan's so-called Islamic Bomb in May 1998. Their persecution remains unmitigated both in Iran and Pakistan. A new body has been formed to unite the Baluch, a fiercely individualistic people.
Picture shows the Khan of Kalat Beglar Begi [Prince among the Princes] Suleman Daud Ahmedzai with international human rights activist Peter Tachell protesting Pakistan's forced annexation of Baluchistan. Read more >>