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London Mayor 2008

27-12-2007 13:18

Brian Haw the peace campaigner is standing for London Mayor 2008

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Iraq: Struggle goes on! (by Latuff)

27-12-2007 07:26

Iraq: Struggle goes on!
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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Sombre Christmas in Iraq

25-12-2007 21:46

The Farid family is one of the relatively few Iraqi Armenian families remaining in the predominantly Shia area of Karrada. They moved from Basra to Baghdad during the Iran-Iraq war in the mid-1980s due to heavy bombing in southern Iraq.

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Iraqi Cardinal calls for release of Tariq Azziz

24-12-2007 16:30

Aziz is a Chaldean Christian, Iraq's biggest Christian group, and his presence in Saddam's government was often held up as evidence of the former Iraqi leader's religious tolerance

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Happy New Year! (by Latuff)

24-12-2007 04:23

Happy New Year!
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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Open Letter to the Directors of ITT over the proposed merger wth EDO Corp

23-12-2007 15:54

This has been sent to the home addresses of the directors of ITT Defence and ITT Ltd.

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Iraq: 'It's Madness'

23-12-2007 12:05

If the scale of the unimaginable tragedy the British have wrought in Basra was not of the historical enormity which it is and for which the UK will never be forgotten and likely, never forgiven, world wide (only second to the Americans, of whose accountability for unspeakable atrocities, words temporarily fail) with Prime Minister Gordon Brown again trying to dress up defeat as victory, as the British 'left' the city last week, it would be laughable. The British actually slunk off from their illegally inhabited palace in central Basra in September, to cower in a base well outside the town, spent, redundant and now with the loss of one hundred and seventy four tragically wasted lives, for UK government lies. Ironically, Iraqi women were photographed throwing sweets at the Iraq forces on December 16th's Sunday 'handover' of the Iraqi city to Iraqis. The sweets and flowers promised by the CIA backed, convicted embezzler, Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraq National Accord's Iyad Allawi to the invaders, transpired, absolutely predictably, to be rocket propelled and hand grenades, improvised explosive devices and ambush by varied imaginative booby traps and weaponry.

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Let us press Turkey to stop killing villagers and destroying their homes

23-12-2007 11:15

Under the guise of fighting terrorism, Turkish war planes are bombing Kurdish villages, killing innocent villagers, and destroying their homes and possessions.

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New Year's Eve Peace Vigil on Salisbury Plain

23-12-2007 00:01

Ordanance Survey map of Imber
The 'ghost village' of Imber, near Warminster in Wiltshire, was commandeered by the army in World War II for training purposes, with the promise that residents could move back after the war. That never happened and now the village is only open for a few days every year when the army are not activly training on Salisbury Plain.

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ITT offices targeted in Basingstoke

20-12-2007 18:53

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On 20th December at 13:30 15 activists targeted the ITT offices in Basingstoke, to protest against the takeover of Brighton arms manufacturer EDO MBM by the infamous ITT corporation, expected to be completed today.

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Mirage of Improvement in Iraq: Yet Another Facelift for the Failed Occupation

18-12-2007 13:41

The New York Times Nov 19 announces, "Baghdad’s Weary Start to Exhale as Security Improves."

The Washington Post Nov. 23 reports, "Returnees Find a Capital Transformed."

People in the US are willing to believe the establishment media telling them that refugees are returning to their homes in Baghdad in an environment of improved security and new hope.

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Manufacturing Threats - Sudan, Iran, and The War For Civilisation

18-12-2007 13:07

News that British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons had been jailed in Sudan after allowing her pupils to call a teddy bear Mohammed fed straight into the UK media’s hate factory and its “war for civilisation”.

The Gibbons story was mentioned in a massive 257 articles in UK national newspapers in the first week, providing an excuse to boost claims of “genocide” in Sudan in 10 of these.

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Brighton Arms Dealers to be taken Over by Company who Traded with Hitler

18-12-2007 11:12

Smash EDO Press Release

18/12/7

Brighton Arms Dealers to be taken Over by Company who Traded with Hitler

Contact Andrew Beckett or Chloe Marsh for more details

tel 07875708873

email  smashedopress@yahoo.co.uk

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Corporate oil giants scramble to plunder Iraq’s energy reserves

18-12-2007 08:09

When Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki finally sent the so-called “oil law” to be passed by the parliament in July, George Bush phoned to congratulate him personally. Maliki’s failure to push the legislation through had been a source of growing frustration and anger in Washington for more than a year. The law was needed to legitimise one of the main aims of the illegal US invasion of Iraq—to allow foreign corporations to assume control over the country’s state-owned energy resources on the most lucrative of terms.

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Do you want to send Gordon Brown a message?

18-12-2007 05:59

Dear Londoner

As you may know there is an election for London Mayor in the next few months. Is there a message you would like to be sent to Gordon Brown and Ken Livingstone?

Support Brian Haw for London Mayor 2008 and your message will be delivered.

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Blair: The Money Raker

14-12-2007 10:26

Blair, having served wealthy elites and Washington, while in office, continues his service but is also making a killing for himself.

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Channel 4 - Political Awards - nominate Brian Haw

11-12-2007 13:34

Channel 4 News are drawing up a short list of the 'most inspiring political personality of the last ten years'.

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Moazzam Begg and Andy Worthington on Human Rights in The War on Terror

11-12-2007 01:12

Audio Moazzam Begg
Moazzam Begg, Guantanamo Survivor and author of Enemy Combatant, Andy Worthington Journalist and Author of Guantanamo Files, a student from the Amnesty Society and Shazia Rashid from the Stop Islamophobia Society all spoke to a public meeting titled Human Rights in The War on Terror at Sheffield University on 10th December 2007.

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Murdochracy, Rudd Labor And Australian complicity In Iraqi Genocide

08-12-2007 11:06

Permitted by king-maker media mogul Rupert Murdoch but not supported by his newspapers in Australia, the new Rudd Labor Australian Government (sworn in on Monday 3 December 2007) will only PARTLY remove Australian forces from Iraq, making Rudd Labor clearly and unequivocally complicit in the continuing Iraqi Genocide (post-invasion excess deaths 1.5-2 million). Rudd Labor is thus renewing Australian complicity in the Iraqi Genocide and going against the wishes of an overwhelming majority of Australians who oppose Australia’s participation in the Iraq War

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The Corporate Takeover Of Iraqi Oil

07-12-2007 17:51

University of Liverpool School of Sociology & Social Policy Research Seminar Series 2007/08

Greg Muttitt and Ewa Jasiewicz PLATFORM

The Corporate Take-Over of Iraqi Oil

13th December 2007

Hearnshaw Lecture Theatre, Eleanor Rathbone Building, University of Liverpool
5.30pm