UK Indymedia - UK Terror War Newswire Archive

Happy Birthday Binyam! actions: 6 Days for Six Year (18-24 July) & 24/7 demo

14-07-2008 14:42

Binyam Mohamed will be 30 years old on 24 July. Unlike most other people aged 30, on that day, Binyam will have spent one out of every five years of his life in illegal American detention. Join us for a week-long vigil outside the US Embassy in Mayfair (18-24 July) and/or at the 24/7 demo opposite Downing Street.

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July 11th 2008 - International Day of Truth Action - Photos

13-07-2008 20:34

Photos from the London protest at the BBC in White City and from protests around the world from the autonomous grassroots campaign for International Days of Truth Action on the Eleventh Day of Every Month until Justice.

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Another Demo at Heckler & Koch weapons manufacturers HQ in Nottingham

10-07-2008 22:35

On Tuesday 8th July, people had initially met on the corner of Abbey Bridge and the road leading to Lenton Lane. Then, arriving together, people gathered at the UK headquarters of Heckler & Koch, based within the Easter Park Industrial Estate on Lenton Lane, Nottingham.

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First, the "extremists", then the "radicals", then the world

10-07-2008 18:27

The ACPO recently released a strategy with which to tackle "extremism". This was circulated among local authorities and strategic partnerships in order to co-opt their help in delivering it. The strategy seeks to identify, isolate, muffle and divert any protest and concern that is not channelled through the "official" and "normative" streams, and to establish these "extremists" as enemies of democracy. First, they came for the "extremists" ...

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News International threatens Media Lens with legal and police action

10-07-2008 14:44

Following on from the news that News International threatened Media Lens with legal and police action, Media Lens has posted a new alert about the repression. This was in connection with their critical commentary on the bias of the Times over Iran and the nuclear issue. Media Lens, for those who have not encountered their work, are a small (three person) web-based team who analyse British media output, especially at the "liberal" end of the spectrum. Since 2001 they have been publishing free email 'alerts' about mainstream distortion and bias based on Chomsky and Herman's "Propaganda Model" in their book "Manufacturing Consent".

Related Indymedia article:

https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/07/402914.html

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http://www.medialens.org/alerts/index.php

Will be soon archived here:

http://www.medialens.org/alerts/08/080710_news_international_threatens.php

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Fairford Airshow - sell your bombs, brain wash your kids, and add your CO2

10-07-2008 10:08

Before you go to the airshow, remember Dylan's imortal words, "Fear to bring children, Into the world." Once it was the risk of all out nuclear war, now it is the near certainty of run away climate change.

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"Peace Action London" (Thursday 17th July)

09-07-2008 12:01

Time and Place Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008
Time: 1:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Charing Cross
City/Town: London, United Kingdom

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Suicide Note for the Organisers of Fairford Air Tatoo

09-07-2008 09:49

Plane Stupid protesters have hand a suicide note for use by the Director of this years Fairford Air Tattoo. The CIA have said that our biggest threat is climate change. How can flying bombers around the world help with this.

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Hotel Rwanda: Robin Philpots ok

09-07-2008 02:28

“The genocide in Rwanda was 100 percent the responsibility of the Americans!” Those are not the words of a political leader who has been marginalized like Robert Mugabe or a Fidel Castro. Nor are they the words of a nostalgic African activist bewailing the fall of the Soviet block. Former United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali made that statement in July 1998, and he repeated it to me in November 2002. People in the White House liked to call Boutros-Ghali “Booboo Ghali”, or “Frenchie”, in preparation for and during his firing from the United Nations conducted by the then United States’ Ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright, who vetoed his re-election on November 19, 1996.

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Rwanda: That Halo Over Romeo Dalliare's Head Has More Than One Hole in It!

09-07-2008 02:24

When International Criminal Tribunal prosecutor Carla Del Ponte learned from a Canadian newspaper in 2000 that the Rwandan Patriotic Front and its leader Paul Kagame were prime suspects in the April 6, 1994, assassination of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, she reportedly said: "If it is the RPF that shot down the plane, the history of genocide must be rewritten".

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Happy Birthday Binyam! actions

08-07-2008 12:31

The last Londoner in Guantánamo Bay turns 30 on 24/7 - after six years of illegal detention, he is suicidal and on hunger strike and facing the prospect of an unfair trial and the death penalty. In the run up to his 30th birthday, take action to get the British government to stop his trial and have him returned to this country.

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Scandal of Diego Garcia rendition flights strains US-UK relations

08-07-2008 12:03

Andy Worthington, author of “The Guantánamo Files”, reports on the latest developments relating to the British Overseas Territory of Diego Garcia: the exiled islanders’ latest salvo in their 40-year pursuit of justice, and the British government’s failure to tackle its US allies over the use of Diego Garcia for “extraordinary rendition” flights.

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Elephant in the Room Podcast

08-07-2008 11:00

This is an exclusive podcast produced by London Sound Posse and recorded at the premiere of the new Documentary "The Elephant in The Room" by Dean Puckett.

Featuring reactions to the new film and an interview with the director.

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Fairford Air Tatoo- Climate Catastrophy.

08-07-2008 08:55

It is that time of year agin, when Fairford gets ready for a fossil fuel burning jamborie. The governement tells us to pump up our tyres and cut food waste, but none of this applies to the Fairford Air Tatoo. Get your paint brushes out and paint out their signs with warnings of global climate catastrophy. See if the Airshow management can stop us. They are crapping themselves about protesters turning up.

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The Great Rwanda "Genocide Coverup"

08-07-2008 03:01

Just last week, a Spanish Judge issued 40 international warrants for current and former members of Kagame’s government, including senior staff at Rwanda ’s Washington Embassy. The warrants charge Kagame’s clique with war-crimes and crimes against humanity, that may even fit the definition of “genocide.” But, these are not the only international arrest warrants issued for Rwanda’s current leaders.

French Judge Bruguiere (famous for indicting “the Jackal”) has also issued international warrants against nearly a dozen members of Kagame’s inner circle, too. Bruguiere also met with Kofi Annan in late 2006 to personally urge the U.N. Rwanda Tribunal to prosecute Kagame for the assassination of Juvenal Habyarimana, the war-crime that re-ignited the four-year Rwanda War and the massive civilian killings in the war’s final 90-days.

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Company that Led Torture Training for Mexican Police Is UK's Risks Inc.

07-07-2008 17:31

To fully lay out the evidence for this article, HTML formatting is necessary. So this article includes a teaser and link to the Narco News article.

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LGC & Project 2012 Independence Day Picnic Report - 4 July

07-07-2008 12:59

To "celebrate" American Independence Day, the LGC took a break from its weekly vigil (we did that too!) and went to the park next the Embassy and held a freedom picnic and debate on what freedom, if it exists, means to us all now? Feel free to add any extra thoughts below...

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Times Newspapers threaten Media Lens with legal and police action

07-07-2008 08:42

Media Lens have felt the need to amend their 25th June alert, Selling the Fireball - George Bush and Iran following "repeated threats of legal and police action from Alastair Brett, legal manager of News International’s Times Newspapers on June 28 and July 2". This has now been picked up by The Guardian, in todays issue Peter Wilby has an article titled, publish and be damned. The original Media Lens report, before the amendments were made due to the legal threats can be read on this site and following is the message posted by the Media Lens Editors about the threats.

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7:7 Survivor's book causes consternation among British secret services

06-07-2008 14:09

Since 'The 4th Bomb' - a book by Tavistock bus bomb survivor Daniel Obachike was launched, its popularity has been mirrored by the regular attendance of secret services personnel attending seminars and meetings he's attended.
His eye witness account asserts that a European male planted the bomb on the bus before exiting after the bus driver suddenly opened the doors with no bus stop in sight

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BBC lies about 9-11 and WTC7

06-07-2008 03:50

Saw the BBC propaganda on Australias SBS saturday 5 july...what they didnt say is they lied