As Israeli bombs fell on the Gaza Strip during its one-sided war between December 27, 2008 and January 18, 2009, millions around the world took to the streets in complete and uncompromising outrage. The level of barbarity in that war, especially as it was conducted against a poor, defenseless and physically trapped nation, united people of every color, race and religion. But among those who seemed utterly unmoved, unreservedly cold were some Palestinian officials in the West Bank.
It’s really time I started writing more about the country I live in, the country of my birth, the UK, a country that has the oldest, the most cunning, the most duplicitous (not to mention the most mendacious) of all ruling classes, after all they’ve been at it for five hundred years, finally being forced to come up with what they like to call parliamentary democracy over a century ago, but just how democratic is it? And can we really expect real change to come about through a system as corrupt and sclerotic as ‘parliamentary democracy’?
19 October, 2009 — MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media
A Gale Of Spring Air – Barbara Plett And The President
On September 24, we wrote to the BBC’s Barbara Plett:
Dear Barbara Plett
It’s hard to believe your article, ‘Debuts and diatribes at the UN’, was written by a member of an ostensibly [...]
18 October, 2009 — Global Research
Don Guttenplan, Quentin Young, Cindy Sheehan, Rick Rozoff, Robert Abele on The Global Research News Hour
– 2009-10-23
Britain: Government anti-terrorism strategy ’spies’ on innocent
Data on politics, sexual activity and religion gathered by UK government
– by Vikram Dodd – 2009-10-18
Geo-Strategic Chessboard: War Between India and China?
– by [...]
The only thing Obama’s got right so far about his warzone-of-choice is the name, worries Eric Walberg…It’s getting to the point that it’s hard to tell who is the biggest opponent of Obama’s plans to bring peace to AfPak: the Taliban, the Pakistani government, or the Nobel committee. Oh yes, or virtually the entire world beyond the Washington beltway.
Much is at stake today in South Africa at a time when criminal charges have been brought against the South African National Police Commissioner and those charges have implications for the country’s leading political party; in addition, there are ongoing investigations into arms deals that could lead all the way to top ANC leaders; information is beginning to leak out about secret negotiations between certain elements of the black resistance and the global elite even before ANC took power; and all of this information coming out at this time might indicate that the people’s interests were sold out long before the ink was dry on these arms deals.
16 October, 2009 — The Guardian
The government programme aimed at preventing Muslims from being lured into violent extremism is being used to gather intelligence about innocent people who are not suspected of involvement in terrorism, the Guardian has learned.
The information the authorities are trying to find out includes political and religious views, information on mental [...]
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