UK Iraq Newswire Archive
Smash EDO Protesters in Court tomorrow
22-07-2007 12:23
Three anti arms trade protesters arrested at a blockade of EDO MBM at the time of the Israeli bombing of Lebanon last Summer are in Brighton Magistrates Court tomorrowBush Executive Order: Criminalizing the Antiwar Movement
21-07-2007 11:30
The Executive Order criminalizes the antiwar movement. It is intended to "blocking property" of US citizens and organizations actively involved in the peace movement. It allows the Department of Defense to interfere in financial affairs and instruct the Treasury to "block the property" and/or confiscate/ freeze the assets of "Certain Persons" involved in antiwar activities. It targets those "Certain Persons" in America, including civil society organizatioins, who oppose the Bush Administration's "peace and stability" program in Iraq, characterized, in plain English, by an illegal occupation and the continued killing of innocent civilians.SOCPA - the brown stuff
19-07-2007 23:36
mainstream media has recently been consistently reporting that gordon brown has lifted the restrictions on demonstrating near parliament. this is a lie. socpa has not been repealed, and if anything the police appear to have been given orders to crack down harder than ever on the handful of peaceful campaigners who daily dare to point out that our government is still committing genocide in iraqThe Devil's Genius
18-07-2007 22:21
Contrary to the devils’ predictions, invasion of sovereign Iraq met with resistance. Israel needs troops, American troops in the region to ensure the safe passage of water – and oil.Sadr comes to terms with Maliki
18-07-2007 15:18
Sadr apparently suspected that Maliki was behind the low-key military action by U.S. occupation troops against his militias, known as Mahdi Army.Iraqi children suffer psychological damage
18-07-2007 15:11
UNICEF is increasingly concerned that the number of vulnerable children in Iraq has outstripped the country’s capacity to care for them.Iraqi Oil Union President to speak in London
17-07-2007 21:51
The President of the Iraqi Federation Of Oil Unions (IFOU), Hassan Jum'aa Awad will speak on the struggle for trade union rights in Iraq and the opposition to the occupation's sponsored Oil Law.7pm, Wednesday 18th July
Small Hall,
Friends Meeting House,
173 Euston Road London NW1 (Nearest Tube: Euston)
Plan Iraq - Permanent Occupation
17-07-2007 21:29
Drawdowns, withdrawal, timelines, mission shifting, building democracy and all the other current and long-standing phony rhetoric aside, America is in Iraq to stay as a conqueror and occupier - that is, until Iraqis finally kick us out as they will in time in a part of the world long a graveyard for foreign invaders. But it won't happen quickly or before countless more thousands die, are injured, suffer immeasurably, are displaced, and lose everything.Whatever little, if anything, a new president does at home, the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan will remain with plans for Iraqi forces eventually to do most of our killing and dying for us. If or when they're up to it, the scheme involves US troops staying hunkered down inside their super-bases, used as needed outside them, with massive air power deployed freely to slaughter innocent victims on the ground whenever they resist what no one should ever have to endure.
An unpalatable truth for Bush: most foreign insurgents in Iraq are Saudis
17-07-2007 20:42
An article in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times detailing the national origins of foreign insurgents in Iraq has punctured a large hole in the Bush administration’s relentless propaganda against Iran. For months, the White House has been demonising Tehran for “meddling” in Iraq by establishing networks to arm, train and finance anti-US insurgents. Most foreign fighters, however, come, not from Iran, but Saudi Arabia, a close American ally, with which the Bush administration in particular has intimate ties.Full article | 1 addition | 1 comment
Police drop Prosecutions against Two Anti Arms Trade Activists
17-07-2007 12:02
17th July 2007Smash EDO Press Release
Police drop Prosecutions against Two Anti Arms Trade Activists
Bush: The logic of presidential-military dictatorship
16-07-2007 16:08
At President Bush’s July 11 press conference a significant exchange took place that has received very little media attention. Edwin Chen, who writes for Bloomberg.com, asked Bush, “How hard is it for you to conduct the war without popular support? Do you ever have trouble balancing between doing what you think is the right thing and following the will of the majority of the public, which is the essence of democracy?”Is the United States Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month? Or Is It More?
16-07-2007 12:20
No Inquest into the Death of Dr. David Kelly
16-07-2007 11:14
The Elephant in the Living Room of the United Kingdom"Where the law ends, tyranny begins" Henry Fielding
Just as Uncle Sam is busy shredding the constitution, so too is John Bull over here in the UK. But there is little concern being registered in the mainstream media, which subtly reinforce casual disregard for our laws.
Dr David Kelly was found dead on Harrowdown Hill four years ago. This is made prominent by the recent "abdication" of Mr Anthony Blair, and the publication of the diaries of his aide, Mr Alastair Campbell, seemingly transcribed and selected by the author himself. The death is spoken of as 'suicide' by almost all servants of the fourth estate. That the inquest was adjourned and never completed is not a cause for any wavering. The verdict has been assumed and so it stands.
There are many instances of this slide towards the whisper and the nods of ignorant agreement. The night after 52 persons met their deaths by bombing in London two years ago, Anthony Blair declared at the G8 summit that "a public inquiry would be ludicrous". Really? There has been no judicial response to these four atrocities, and yet it is widely accepted, including by "civil rights" spokespeople, that "radicalised" Muslims were the culprits.
The piece below underlines some central facts in the United Kingdom's handling of Kelly's high profile and unnatural death. Nothing was right about the ensuing investigation.
Mark Thompson asks for help to get liars out of the BBC
16-07-2007 01:11
Can we have a bit more of the old educate, inform and entertain please and less of the lies? Read the following memo from Mark Thompson, the Director-General of the BBC, to all BBC employees very carefully. Everyone who has evidence of BBC inaccuracy should contact him in the next 24 hours to make him aware of any programs which have mislead the general public. I believe his email address is:
mark.thompson@bbc.co.uk and the BBC's tel. no. at Television Centre is 0208 743 8000.
Air Force Quietly Building Iraq Presence
15-07-2007 18:53
Away from the headlines and debate over the "surge" in U.S. ground troops, the Air Force has quietly built up its hardware inside Iraq, sharply stepped up bombing and laid a foundation for a sustained air campaign in support of American and Iraqi forces.Brian Haw – now in his 7th year!
13-07-2007 12:39
The Bush domino effect drops also old buddies
13-07-2007 09:08
Unfortunately for the rest of humanity the U.S.A. conducts the global orchestra to the sound of American tunes. For the last six years the number one hit was a patriotic trumpet and drum duet that muted the rest of the more subtle orchestral sounds. Now those silenced instruments are elbowing their way back to audition level.“When will you teach this lad English?”
12-07-2007 18:31
The recent terror attacks on London and Glasgow, by an alleged Al-Qaida linked group of medical workers, has led many to question the causes behind the attack but has also raised questions in relation to the issues of migrant integration within the United Kingdom.Smash Edo Video Update
12-07-2007 16:48
First in a series of video updates froom the Smash EDO Campaign"Accidents" of War: The Time Has Come for an Honest Discussion of Air Power
12-07-2007 09:15
The first news stories about the most notorious massacre of the Vietnam War were picked up the morning after from an Army publicity release. These proved fairly typical for the war. On its front page, the New York Times labeled the operation in and around a village called My Lai 4 (or "Pinkville," as it was known to U.S. forces in the area) a significant success. "American troops caught a North Vietnamese force in a pincer movement on the central coastal plain yesterday, killing 128 enemy soldiers in day-long fighting." United Press International termed what happened there an "impressive victory," and added a bit of patriotic color: "The Vietcong broke and ran for their hide-out tunnels. Six-and-a-half hours later, ‘Pink Village' had become ‘Red, White and Blue Village."