9/11 remains one of the most misunderstood events in modern history. The first myth is that it came out of the blue on an unsuspecting America. In fact it is known that 11 countries provided advance warnings to the US about the 9/11 attacks, including Russia and Israel which sent 2 senior Mossad experts to […]
Posts Tagged ‘Iraq’
Baha Mousa: not due to just a few rotten apples
Sep 9th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.The killing of Baha Mousa, who died from 93 wounds inflicted by British soldiers at Basra in September 2003, cannot be dismissed as the obscene work of a few violent bullies who got out of control in this shameful incident. Nor is it reassuring to hear the MOD intone that all necessary reforms have now […]
Share:
RIP Brian Haw, peace campaigner
Jun 19th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Brian Haw, veteran Parliament Square peace campaigner, died yesterday aged 62. His death was announced today in a joint press release by the Parliament Square Peace Campaign and his family. Brian Haw set up camp in Parliament Square Gardens in June 2001 in response to sanctions against Iraq, and his campaign was widened following the […]
Share:
Labour hasn’t learned the right lessons from Iraq
May 27th, 2011 by Owen Jones.The last of Britain’s troops left Iraq last Sunday with just a cursory mention in the press. What a contrast to eight years earlier, when they poured across the border with Kuwait in a hail of missiles, bombs and bullets, the international media following their every move. It’s true that a national debate on Iraq […]
Share:
What Bin Laden’s death really means
May 3rd, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Osama Bin Laden’s killing is a huge symbolic victory for the US, but just that – symbolic. Al Qaeda always was, and remains, a quintessentially decentralised organisation and over the last decade Bin Laden has never been able to sustain any significant organisational capability because of the risk of electronic detection. To that extent his […]
Share:
Accountability breakdown: they keep getting away with it
Jan 24th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Four breakdowns in the last three days all point to the same central flaw which is now endemic in British society. Public order policing is out of control and clearly would have remained so for many years had not the undercover police spy Mark Kennedy gone native. Phone hacking of public figures we also now see has […]
Share:
How do you deal with a dishonest Prime Minister?
Jan 21st, 2011 by Michael Meacher.The Chilcot Inquiry seems to be getting near the truth about the lead-up to the Iraq War (nearly 8 years on after the event), but there are certain profound constitutional questions which even it may not answer, perhaps not even raise. The most profound is: how should the State hold to account a Prime Minister […]
Share:
The Left Was Right!
Dec 11th, 2010 by Mark Seddon.Self justification, we are told, is an unhealthy preoccupation. But just for a change – and considering the enormity of the issues that are and have been at stake, I got thinking the other day about just some of them. I also got thinking about how those of us who have argued passionately for them […]
Share:
Inquiry essential into ‘Britain’s Abu Ghraib’
Nov 8th, 2010 by Michael Meacher.The evidence now emerging about systemic abuse by British soldiers against Iraqi prisoners is exceptionally serious. We have preened ourselves hitherto that, by contrast to the Americans who routinely used torture in their Bagram detention centre in Afghanistan and Abu Ghraib in Iraq (as well as in their global secret network of ‘black prisons’ where […]
Share:
Tariq Aziz Should Not Hang
Oct 28th, 2010 by Mark Seddon.The decision by Iraq’s high tribunal to pass a death sentence on Tariq Aziz, once the international face of dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime, over “the persecution of Islamic parties”, has the feel of retribution about it. After all, this sentence follows from the fifteen year sentence meted out to Aziz last year for his part in the killings […]
