I’d left the SWP and had been “asked to leave” the anti-war movement by the time of the Parliamentary vote on the Iraq war on 18th March 2003, so I missed this crucial decision. An interesting revelation from ElaneH about the lead up to the vote for war in Parliament, and an example of how […]
Tony and Cherie celebrate the Year of the Snake Last night’s Iraq War debate at Goldsmith’s — sponsored by Huffington Post and featuring Claire Short, Owen Jones, Mehdi Hassan and David Aaronovitch among others — asked “Was it worth it””, generating many outraged tweets and some interesting debate. Tweeted quotes include: Mehdi Hassan — “I
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Brilliant article by Johann Hari in the Independent yesterday on the real reasons behind the West’s compulsion to stage “humanitarian” intervention with things that go bang in countries whose people we helped keep down with more things that go bang. Take the present round of Middle Eastern revolutions rocking our oil-owning buddies including Libya, where
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Pic from Don’t Tea On Me The latest in the Guardian’s increasingly demented run of attempts to blame China for every disaster screeches out: “BP oil spill: failed safety device on Deepwater Horizon rig was modified in China”. Tim Webb’s article then goes on to admit: There is no evidence that the significant modifications to
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Welcome to the true face of war. When you start something as nightmarish as war, you open up the inevitability of atrocities, dead on all sides, the murder of innocents and the death of the souls of the perpetrators. Wikileaks has just released video of the massacre of a dozen Iraqi civilians that shows the
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What’s the chance of the Chilcott Iraq Inquiry arriving at a satisfactory objective conclusion? Andy Beckett asks in The Guardian if the inquiry can do a better job than past whitewashes. Then there are the inquisitors themselves. None of them is a lawyer, despite the Iraq war being a minefield of legal issues. All are
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