UK History Newswire Archive
WikiLeaks reveals private security contractors killed Iraqis with impunity
27-10-2010 09:39
WikiLeaks’ release of nearly 400,000 US military documents from operations in Iraq between 2003 and 2009 brings to light new evidence that private security contractors killed civilians with impunity.The Afghan peace talks and the “war on terror”
25-10-2010 11:17
US and NATO officials revealed earlier this month that they are facilitating talks between senior Taliban leaders and the Afghan government of Hamid Karzai—a regime that Washington and its allies have sustained in power through a nine-year-long counter-insurgency war.Legal challenge to ban on gay marriage & straight civil partnerships
25-10-2010 10:59
Legal challenge to ban on gay marriage & straight civil partnerships
Gay couples will file applications for civil marriages
Heterosexual couples will apply for civil partnerships
Legal bid to end sexual orientation discrimination
Against Anti-Semitism and foreshortened analysis of the Middle East conflict
25-10-2010 09:59
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WikiLeaks: the largest classified military leak in history
23-10-2010 08:37
At 5pm EST Friday 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. The 391,832 reports ('The Iraq War Logs'), document the war and occupation in Iraq, from 1st January 2004 to 31st December 2009 (except for the months of May 2004 and March 2009) as told by soldiers in the United States Army. Each is a 'SIGACT' or Significant Action in the war. They detail events as seen and heard by the US military troops on the ground in Iraq and are the first real glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy to throughout.Hollywood - Weaponised Dream Factory: an Interview with Matthew Alford
22-10-2010 09:16
Where They Have Holes In Their SoulsWe bask in a certain reflected glory from the newspapers we read. To “take” The Times is to be far more intellectual, far more highbrow, than someone who takes the Mail. To read the Mail is to be far more responsible than someone who gawks in the Mirror. A Guardian reader is highbrow with a human face: intellectual, aware, like other “broadsheet” readers, but with a much greater commitment to making the world a better, fairer place. Independent readers share the same commitment, perhaps a little less earnestly.
Gay Russians win in European Court
21-10-2010 12:12
Gay Russians win in European CourtMoscow mayor declared to have acted illegally
Gay Pride parade must be allowed in Moscow, says Court
The Angolan death on BA77 at Heathrow
19-10-2010 20:20
The paper reported that on the plane Jimmy was energetically resisting deportation. No, he was energetically resisting the imminence of protracted hunger and poverty; he was resisting an unjust economic order that skewered his country resources away from him to the benefit of western powers.Stonewall gay marriage survey "flawed"
18-10-2010 09:35
Stonewall gay marriage survey "flawed"Marriage equality question buried in long list
Question is headed civil partnerships, not gay marriage
Survey method is "biased and unethical"
The Gay Liberation Front’s social revolution
13-10-2010 10:44
Forty years ago, the Gay Liberation Front challenged society's gender systemGLF’s radical critique of orthodox masculinity and femininity
Dissident Island in Manchester tonight
08-10-2010 18:25
Yemen: The covert apparatus of the American Empire
06-10-2010 20:42
Yemen is perhaps an excellent example of America being on the “wrong side of a world revolution,” as the secret war in Yemen being exacerbated in the name of “fighting al-Qaeda” is in actuality, about the expansion and supremacy of American power in the region. It is about the suppression of natural democratic, local, revolutionary elements throughout the country seeking self-autonomy in changing the nation from its current despotic, authoritarian rule sympathetic to American interests, into a nation of their own choosing. It is about repressing struggles for liberation.
Fascism in Britain, past and present
05-10-2010 18:00
Current fascist groups such as the BNP and EDL claim not to be racist....it is instructive, however, to compare their utterances with those of the British Union of Fascists in the last century.Did 9/11 really "change everything"?
26-09-2010 15:15
A call out from Amsterdam
20-09-2010 12:48
The Women Chainmakers' Festival 2010
19-09-2010 12:19
UG#517 - JFK and The Unspeakable (Khrushchev, Cuba, martyrdom of MLK/JFK)
19-09-2010 10:11
Who pays for the loss of life in Iran?
18-09-2010 14:13
"Iran’s aviation fleet which is chiefly comprised of Russian low-quality Tupelov and outdated Airbus and Fokker planes is one of the most vulnerable fleets in the world which suffers from increasing dilapidation and is considered to be highly at risk due to the unjust sanctions which are imposed against the country.In December 2005, BBC World published a report in which it was expressively stated that Iran’s civil and military aviation fleet is undergoing intense safety setbacks. The report came after an Iranian Air Force C-130E military transport aircraft crashed into a residential complex in Tehran, killing 128 people including 68 reporters and journalists that were supposed to cover a military drill off the country’s southern coast on the Persian Gulf."
Lovely work of U.S. policy. So "humanitarian."
Protests expected to increase as Tony Blair reveals he will travel with Pope.
11-09-2010 03:41
The Guardian reported, "protests could increase after it emerged that Tony Blair, who has been pelted with eggs and cancelled two public events in the past week, is likely to accompany the Pope on part of his trip".9/11 Truth News: A Website Focused on Responsible News and Information
10-09-2010 13:01
http://www.911truthnews.com/ for updates on under-reported news, effective activism being done by the international 9/11 Truth Movement, and highlights of the best research and scientific information.