UK Indymedia - UK Iraq Newswire Archive

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Update - Smash EDO's ITT's Hammertime is getting closer

27-09-2010 11:29

see www.smashedo.org.uk

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David Miliband anti-climaxes

26-09-2010 11:03

Two political cartoons showing the Miliband brothers' battle for the Labour leadership.

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Smash EDO: Fundraiser with bands from Gaza! And Hammertime update

21-09-2010 12:36

Hammertime is getting closer! 10am, Wednesday October 13th

If you have not already done so, text or email us your mobile phone number for text updates about the meeting point for the siege (

smashedo@riseup.net / 07538093930).

In the meantime...come to an exciting fundraiser with bands from Gaza!

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Smash EDO Benefit on Sunday 26th Sept - Resistancz Riddemz

17-09-2010 13:23

Resistanz Riddemz
A benefit for Smash EDO
Sunday 26th September, Cowley Club (12 London Road, Brighton)

Doors 6.30pm, bands start at 7

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Oxford Peace Plaque

15-09-2010 20:04

On Tuesday 21 September 2010 a peace Plaque will be unveiled in Bonn Square, Oxford.

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London and Cambridge contacts for Smash EDO's Hammertime

15-09-2010 11:39

ITT's Hammertime, Brighton, Wednesday 13th Oct 2010, 10am.
There are already local contacts available for London and Cambridge if you are travelling from there:
For London:

hammertimelondon@dsei.org
For Cambridge:

hammertime-cambridge@riseup.net

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Local contacts for Smash EDO's Hammertime

12-09-2010 20:01

On October 13th 2010 Smash EDO is holding a mass siege of EDO MBM/ITT in Brighton. This is the latest in a series of successful mass demos that have been attended by people from all over the UK. We need your help... If you want text updates about the demo please text your mobile number to 07538093930 or email it to

smashedo@riseup.net

PLEASE NOTE: If you have previously texted in your number for updates please do so again as the campaign phone got stolen and any numers lost.

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Flying the flag, faking the news

10-09-2010 12:12

In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger traces the history of propaganda to Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, who invented the term "public relations". Bernays believed in "engineering public consent" and creating "false realties" as news. Here are examples of how this works today.

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is blair's party really cancelled

08-09-2010 12:09

media reports might just be subterfuge. anyone still up for going?

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Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-Reporting of Fallujah's Cancer Catastrophe

07-09-2010 14:00

Compassion is sometimes a central theme of media reporting. On August 25, journalists across the UK described how a British woman, Mary Bale, had been filmed dropping a cat into a wheelie bin. The cat was later released unharmed. The Guardian reported and commented on the story on August 24 and 25. Matt Seaton wrote:

“OK, there are lots of acts of random cruelty involving humans on humans every day, but this was somebody's pet, for Pete's sake. Who would do such a thing?” (

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/24/coventry-cat-wheelie-bin)

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"The Militarization of Hollywood": Unlocking "The Hurt Locker"

07-09-2010 11:31

Why did "The Hurt Locker," a well-acted, tension-filled but otherwise undistinguished Hollywood war movie focusing on a military bomb-disposal team in Iraq, win the 2010 Academy Award for Best Picture?

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escape from Campsfield ends in recapture

06-09-2010 09:41

Two Iraqi refugees facing deportation to Baghdad made a dramatic escape from an asylum detention centre but were recaptured by police using dogs and a helicopter.

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Angry protests against Blair in Dublin

04-09-2010 15:39

ANGRY protesters greeted war criminal Tony Blair in Dublin when he staged the first of a planned series of book signings, with eggs and shoes thrown at him.

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Obama’s Iraq speech: An exercise in cowardice and deceit

01-09-2010 18:29

President Barack Obama’s nationally televised speech from the White House Oval Office Tuesday night was an exercise in cowardice and deceit. It was deceitful to the people of the United States and the entire world in its characterization of the criminal war against Iraq. And it was cowardly in its groveling before the American military.

The address could inspire only disgust and contempt among those who viewed it. Obama, who owed his presidency in large measure to the mass antiwar sentiment of the American people, used the speech to glorify the war that he had mistakenly been seen to oppose.

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BREAKING: Tony Blair shot & wounded!

31-08-2010 22:56

I can't remember!

So goes the line when the guilty are forced to face the truth.

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Black is Back Response to the Drawing Down of US Troops in Iraq

28-08-2010 15:24

President Obama has recently pulled approximately 90,000 US troops out of the Republic of Iraq, leaving about 50,000 there. The Obama administration has referred to this move as an end to the “combat mission” there and is hailing this drawdown as an achievement. The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations calls for the complete withdrawal of all US and foreign troops and security forces out of Iraq.

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Oona King gets hold of private details of Labour Party members

27-08-2010 00:02

London newspaper Evening Standard reports [Thursday 26 August 2010] that Oona King, Neil Kinnock's challenge to Ken Livingstone, has got hold of private details of Labour Party members. This should worry even those who despise Ken Livingstone. The availability of Labour Party members' details to Oona King shows that she is being backed by secretive forces. Very worrying.

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Stop the deportation of 26 year old Raba Hamad to Iraq

24-08-2010 17:24

Stop the deportation of Raba Hamad to Iraq. It is likely he wil be killed if he is deported to Iraq. He is 16 years old, has no money and will not be able to cope or survive if deported. We have pasted the information from a facebook page made in support of Raba Hamad. See below for details.

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The Long Road to The Hague: Prosecuting Former Prime Minister Tony Blair

23-08-2010 19:52

Ex-Prime Minister and post-Downing Street millionaire Tony Blair, to celebrate the publication of his book A Journey, is holding a ‘signing’ session at Waterstones, Piccadilly on 8 September. That this man, responsible for taking us into an illegal war, playing his part in the ruination of an ancient country because he ‘believed he was right’, should advertise himself in this way has caused outrage. Time, I think, to look at where we, and Blair, actually stand in terms of what we can and cannot do to call him to account.

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Imagine a World Without EDO - Demo this Wednesday

23-08-2010 07:51

4-6pm, Home Farm Road, Brighton