Detainee 239 by Felicity Arbuthnot

by Felicity Arbuthnot
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13 October, 2010

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” …and if any one saved a life, it would be as if s/he saved the life of all mankind. …” (Qur’an 5:32)

“How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.” (Henry David Thoreau,1817-1862.)

On Tuesday,13th April, as British politicians travelled the country, promising a brave new world on Election day (6th May) a letter was delivered to the British Prime Minister’s residence, Number 10, Downing Street.

Britain’s Hung Politics: The Death Throes of Parliamentary Democracy by Finian Cunningham

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by Finian Cunningham
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11 May, 2010

Despite the seeming ongoing ambiguity in the wake of the British national elections, one thing is clear: the spectrum of British polity has now officially shrunk to a meaningless, narrow band of monochrome politics, where the majority of citizens have no choice or influence on any important areas of policy. Democracy is being expropriated from the electorate.

This is reflected in over one-third of the electorate abstaining from voting on 6 May and none of the parties receiving any decisive support – resulting in a “hung parliament” where no one party can form a government. This unfortunate phrase could serve as an altogether more foreboding metaphor for the condition of British parliamentary democracy and western democracy in general.

Gordon Brown resigns as UK prime minister + David Cameron is UK’s new prime minister

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BBC News
11 May, 2010

Gordon Brown has announced he is resigning as UK prime minister.

Mr Brown has officially tendered his resignation to the Queen at Buckingham Palace, and recommended Conservative leader David Cameron succeed him.

[…]

via BBC News – Gordon Brown resigns as UK prime minister.

The carve-up in ‘the national interest’ begins By William Bowles

By William Bowles
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Creative-i
10 May, 2010

“The public and markets want…to see a “government in place”” — Alistair Darling

You didn’t need a visit to the Delphic Oracle in order to figure out what would happen, in any case I doubt that many want to visit Greece these days. So, on 8 May the carve-up began with Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats meeting a team of Tory advisors in order to strike a deal to try and form a ‘coalition’ government. So much for ‘first past the post’ electoral system, designed in pre-historic times to maintain the hegemony of the ruling class. And if a deal can’t be struck with the Tories the next stop will be the Labour Party, though a deal with Labour is unlikely as it would require every party, aside from the Tories that is, to vote with the Lib-Dem/Labour coalition on the substantive policy issues.

Gordon Brown to quit as Labour leader

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10 May, 2010

Gordon Brown has sensationally revealed he will quit as Labour leader.

In a speech outside 10 Downing Street, the PM said his party will elect a new leader by the time of its next conference in September.

But, he said, he will not stand or back any particular candidates.

[…]

via Brown to quit as Labour leader | The Sun |News|Election 2010

Unexplored Oil Reserves in the South Atlantic: Towards a New Falklands Conflict? by Finian Cunningham

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by Finian Cunningham
Global Research, February 22, 2010

Little England Struts Again

Exactly 28 years later, the spectre of the Falklands War makes a comeback. This was one of Britain’s last colonial wars – a sordid episode in the annals of the British Empire. In 1982, UK Prime Minister Margaret [Thatcher] sent a task force to “defend” the Falklands from long-held territorial claims by Argentina of Las Malvinas, which Britain had seized in 1833. The islands are approximately 300 kilometres off the coast of the South American mainland and 12,000km from Britain.

Some 900 servicemen – more than two-thirds of them Argentine – died in the 74-day Falklands War. The most notorious incident was the sinking of the Argentine navy cruiser, the General Belgrano, by a British submarine, HMS Conqueror, on 2 May, 1982. Two torpedoes dispatched 323 Argentinians to their watery graves. The attack was sanctioned by Thatcher and caused an international storm because it occurred outside British-declared territorial waters and the Belgrano was reported at the time to be sailing west, away from the disputed islands.

About Patria, Pageants and Poppies By William Bowles

By William Bowles
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17 November 2009

“Britain’s last surviving World War I veteran shunned Remembrance Day commemorations Wednesday because he was against the glorification of war” — ‘Britain’s last WWI veteran shuns Remembrance Day’

After eight years and tens of thousands of Afghan casualties, the occupiers are settling down to a war of unknown duration. And contrary to Brown’s earlier declarations that ‘al-Qu’eda’ was operating out of Afghanistan, Brown, all-dressed up for the Lord Mayor’s banquet told the assorted ‘dignitaries’,

“Mr Brown has acknowledged that al-Qaeda is not operating in Afghanistan but cautioned that it continued to recruit and train.

“Al-Qaeda rely on a permissive environment in the tribal areas of Pakistan and – if they can re-establish one – in Afghanistan,” Mr Brown warned.

“He said there were “several hundred” foreign fighters still based in the tribal areas of northern Pakistan, attending training camps to learn bomb-making and weapons skills.”” — ‘Brown plans Afghan handover talks’, BBC News Website, 17 December, 2009

Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires or just a graveyard with a pipeline running through it? by William Bowles

By William Bowles
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Creative-i
6 November 2009

“The US does not need a final victory over the Talibs. Despite their widely advertized ferocious conflict, the US and the Talibs manage to coexist quite successfully in Afghanistan…”[1]

Come on folks, it’s just good sense, there is no way the Empire can actually win the war in Afghanistan. As I have stated before it’s not about ‘winning’ but occupation. Afghanistan is basically a stepping stone on the way to some place else and leaving an oil pipeline behind with a friendly government in place to protect it. Ah, but the best laid plans of mice and men etc…

And this is why it bears no comparison to the idiotic occupation that the Soviets got sucked into, except for the slaughter of course. But from a strategic and economic perspective, along with Iran, Pakistan and India, Afghanistan commands the entrance to East Asia and there’s gold in them thar hills!

Legal Case Filed Against Four US Presidents And Four UK Prime Ministers For War Crimes

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For Justice For Iraq: Legal Case Filed Against Four US Presidents And Four UK Prime Ministers For War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity And Genocide In Iraq

For immediate release
Date: 7 October 2009

MADRID: Today the Spanish Senate, acting to confirm a decision already taken under pressure from powerful governments accused of grave crimes, will limit Spain’s laws of universal jurisdiction. Yesterday, ahead of the change of law, a legal case was filed at the Audiencia Nacional against four United States presidents and four United Kingdom prime ministers for commissioning, condoning and/or perpetuating multiple war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Iraq.

British intelligence services accuse Iran of designing nuclear warhead

Propaganda Alert

compiled by Cem Ertür
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30 September 2009

Economic 9-11: Did Lehman Brothers Fall or Was It Pushed? by Dr. Ellen Brown

by Dr. Ellen Brown
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September 7, 2009

A year after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008, questions still swirl around its collapse. Lawrence MacDonald, whose book A Colossal Failure of Common Sense came out in July 2009, maintains that the bank was not in substantially worse shape than other major Wall Street banks. He says Lehman was just “put to sleep. They put the pillow over the face of Lehman Brothers and they put her to sleep.” The question is, why?

The Lehman bankruptcy is widely considered to be the watershed event that changed the rules of the game for those Wall Street banks considered “too big to fail.” The bankruptcy option was ruled out once and for all. The taxpayers would have to keep throwing money at the banks, no matter how corrupt, ill-managed or undeserving. As Dean Baker noted in April 2009:

UK: New sanctions on Iran is a priority – Israel: Time is running out

Propaganda Alert

compiled by Cem Ertür
Featured Writer
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25 August 2009

1) Joint press conference with UK Prime Minister Brown and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu (25 August 2009)

2) [from the archives] US President Obama’s interview with BBC (1 June 2009)

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http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/Communication/PMSpeaks/speechgordon250809.htm

excerpts from: Transcript of press conference given by PM Benjamin Netanyahu and the PM of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown

(Israeli) Prime Minister’s Office website, 25 August 2009

QUESTION: […] [D]o you think that inevitably eventually a military action will have to be taken against Iran if everything else fails?

Max Keiser: Gordon Brown’s Bottom + Ben Bernanke on Tour + Unemployment

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August 7, 2009

On the Edge with Max Keiser Summer Special Edition

Obama & Merkel visit Buchenwald concentration camp: We will do everything we can so that something like this never happens again

Propaganda Alert

compiled by Cem Ertür
Featured Writer
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7 June 2009

1) Transcript of the Interview of US President Obama with Justin Webb of the BBC (2 June 2009)
2) Transcript of Foreign Minister Hillary Clinton’s interview on ABC’s ‘This Week’ (7 June 2009)

3) Obama and Merkel visit Buchenwald concentration camp (5 June 2009)
4) UK Prime Minister Brown’s words at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp (28 April 2009)

UK “Terror Plot”: Gordon Brown points finger at Pakistan (updated)

Updated: May 15, 2009 added an archived post from 2006

Updated: April 22, 2009 added “Police State UK for Pakistani students”

Updated: added pics and commentary

Propaganda Alert

compiled by Cem Ertür
Featured Writer
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11 April, 2009

Now that the UK Defense Minister has publicly announced Britain’s engagement in Obama’s “Af-Pak War” [1], it is hardly surprising that the latest wave of relentless false-flag terrorism propaganda by the British government and media specifically target Pakistani citizens living in the UK.