UK Iraq Newswire Archive
ATTN: Commissioner of police of the Metropolis
05-10-2007 21:57
Application has been made for return of Brian Haw's display/property, stolen by the met, before Southwark Crown Court.Good to talk: lets debate Britannia
05-10-2007 20:47
The future of the United Kingdom needs to be debated, beyond the parliamentary talk of a possible “snap general election” this autumn, with national issues including the direction of British foreign policy,Canada Refuses Entry to CODEPINK Cofounder's, Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright
04-10-2007 10:55
Update on Smash EDO Action - EDO Workers forced to break window to get to work
03-10-2007 23:51
At 5am Wednesday morning a barricade was built across Home Farm Road, EDO's security fence was breached, superglue was inserted into the keyholes of the factory doors and two activists locked on to the front doors of the factory...Campaigners Breach Security at Brighton arms Factory as Iraq Casualties reach 1m
03-10-2007 23:42
www.smashedo.org.ukWednesday 3rd October 2007
Smash EDO Press Release
Campaigners Breach Security at Brighton arms Factory as Iraq Casualties Reach One Million
reach One Million
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We Will Defy Government Ban on Anti-War March
03-10-2007 16:52
Stop the War President Tony Benn has delivered a letter to theHome Secretary Jacqui Smith to make clear why our Troops Out
demonstration at Parliament on Monday 8 October will take place,
despite the ban by the government and police. It is essential
that the voice of the antiwar majority in this country is present
at Parliament when Gordon Brown makes his long awaited statement
on Iraq.
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)
Brown's Britain: 'Mother of Hypocrocies'
02-10-2007 21:02
Anti-war play about the war in Iraq
02-10-2007 16:04
Iraq Will Have to Wait: Get Ready for the War against Iran
02-10-2007 08:35
The long-awaited “progress report” of Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker on the status of the occupation of Iraq has been made, providing Americans, via the compliant media, with the spectacle of loyal Bush yes men offering faith-based analysis in lieu of fact-based assessment. In the days and weeks that have since passed, two things have become clear: Neither Congress nor the American people (including the antiwar movement) have a plan or the gumption to confront President Bush in anything more than cosmetic fashion over the war in Iraq, and while those charged with oversight mill about looking to score cheap political points and/or save face, the administration continues its march toward conflict with Iran unimpeded.Peace Strike speeches from 29th September
30-09-2007 20:55
Injured Burmese Protesters Cremated Alive; I Hate All Iranians: US official
30-09-2007 15:14
Warning: Graphic MaterialStop the War Demo at Council House in Market Square, Nottingham
30-09-2007 12:46
Authorities Ban Anti-War March
29-09-2007 05:40
On Monday 8 October the Stop the War Coalition will be marching fromTrafalgar Square to Parliament calling for all troops to be brought home immediately. The police have now said that all demonstrations are bannedwithin a mile of Parliament whilst in session. This is a new development and threatens our democratic rights.IRAQ: Video - Voice to the voiceless: Iraqis under imperial terror
29-09-2007 01:59
Alive in Baghdad was formed to counter the sound-bite driven, “Live From” news model. Through the work of a team of Americans and Iraqi correspondents on the ground, Alive in Baghdad shows the occupation through the voices of Iraqis. Alive in Baghdad brings testimonies from individual Iraqis, footage of daily life in Iraq, and short news segments from Iraq to you.Anti-War Play on Iraq - The boy who dropped an egg on the world
28-09-2007 15:59
Jack's Hard Rub Theatre present the startling and contemporary play 'the boy who dropped an egg on the world' using mythology and the supernatural to look at war torn Middle East
73,846 U.S. Troops Dead
28-09-2007 14:29
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS ISSUES OFFICIAL REPORT CONFIRMING 73,000 U.S. TROOPS KILLED IN IRAQSAME GOVERNMENT AGENCY REPORT CONFIRMS 1.6 MILLION "DISABLED" BY THE WAR
Saddam offered to go into exile
27-09-2007 22:57
Reports Saddam offered to go into exile surfaced last year from the UAE. [1] The same report has just emerged from Spain, with the added information that Bush believed Saddam could be assasinated.This confirms that the war wasn't about regime change in the slightest.
An old Zionist dream: the partition of Iraq
27-09-2007 15:32
Finally the Imperial Senate calls for Iraq's partition.