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8 January 2013 — World Socialist Website
The leaders of three Labour Party-controlled city councils wrote a letter to the Observer, published December 29, warning that the scale of the Conservative/Liberal Democrat austerity agenda could lead to “the break-up of civil society”.
2 November, 2012 — Voice of Russia
The US is making new attempts to intervene the domestic crisis in Syria. Washington has made up a list of individuals and organizations it wants to see in the renewed leadership of the Syrian opposition and the new Syrian government after the victory over the “regime”.
15 February 2012 — Bahrain crackdown: Tactics & weapons imported from UK — RT
Pictures of a crackdown by heavily armed police on protesters in Bahrain appear to be similar to many others during the Arab Spring. This time the weapons, as well as the tactics, have been imported from the UK.
9 February 2012 — Deaths in Syria: Counting them (politically) correctly — RT
High casualty numbers in Syria are reported daily by the media, even though a blackout makes them unverifiable. Things became murkier after a human rights site, which enjoyed frequent citations, split in two and began giving conflicting reports.
The British-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR) is one of the most widely-quoted sources of Syrian casualty figures. However the group is currently experiencing an ownership row, which has left media outlets wondering how reliable this source is.
Currently there are two sites, each claiming to be the official Observatory. The original one is in Arabic with an English version on Facebook. The splinter site was launched in December, with most posts in English. Both call each other impostors.
1. EU: ECJ: Judgment: France’s appeal against the judgment of the General Court removing the PMOI the EU
2. UK: POLICE OFFICER ON JURY: ECHR: Police officer’s presence on jury made trial unfair
3. EU: EURO CRISIS: Statewatch Analysis: Draft Agreement on Reinforced Economic Union (REU Treaty) by Steve Peers
4. UK: AUGUST RIOTS: Policing Large Scale Disorder: Lessons from the disturbances of August 2011
5. UK: AUGUST RIOTS: HMIC report: The rules of engagement A review of the August 2011 disorders
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21 October 2011 — williambowles.info
Greek Govt Approves Cuts Amid Violent Protests
Wall Street Journal
By STELIOS BOURAS And ALKMAN GRANITSAS WSJ’s Stephen Fidler joins the News Hub to discuss a second day of violence in Greece as residents stage a second day of general strikes. Photo: AFP PHOTO / LOUISA GOULIAMAKI ATHENS—Greek lawmakers narrowly …
http://europe.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204618704576642682598222752.html
28 September 2011 — Media Lens
Ironies abound in the media reaction to the English riots that erupted between August 6-10.
16 September 2011 — The Independent
Troops fired tear gas during a curfew in a West Bank village to stop peaceful demonstrations
Palestinian protesters run from tear gas fired by Israeli troops in Nabi Saleh in January 2010 (Reuters)
Israeli troops fired tear gas indiscriminately and sometimes dangerously to enforce a daytime curfew inside a West Bank village to stop Palestinians holding a peaceful demonstration on their own land, a military whistleblower has told The Independent.
The soldier’s insight into the methods of troops comes as the Israeli military prepares for demonstrations predicted when the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas submits an application for the recognition of statehood to the UN next week.
28 August 2011 — RT
British prisons are full to bursting. Courts are working overtime sending young people to jail for their role in the recent riots in England. If they are sent to Leeds prison, they will be languishing alongside 85-year-old Norman Scarth.
The senior citizen plied the Arctic Sea during the Second World War, risking his life taking essential supplies to the Soviet Union on the most dangerous journey in the world. Now, he is serving six months in prison on the whim of a British judge. His crime is recording a court hearing. He said he did it because he has hard of hearing, but the judge did not accept it.
25 August 2011 — Manifesto Club
In the wake of the riots, home secretary Theresa May proposed broad new police powers ‘to impose a general curfew in a particular area’. Other politicians proposed powers to block social network sites, or to ban face coverings.
As we outlined in a Manifesto Club statement – there is absolutely no need for more police powers. The basic power of arrest for criminal damage and theft was all that was needed: yet this power was woefully applied.
Worse, open-ended powers (as with on-the-spot fines or dispersal orders) tend to be used in a petty way against perfectly innocent people. See our article, ‘Policing the Innocent, Ignoring the Riotous‘.
16 August 2011 — IRR
The director of the Institute of Race Relations comments on the recent riots.
Everyone is clutching at explanations for the riots – gangs, greed, family breakdown, lack of respect. But I would like to go into their deeper causes.
24 August 2011 — Home page: http://www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org
UK Riots: This from Channel 4 News Email, 19 August 2011:
First off a special investigation into just what happened in the crucial hours in and around Tottenham police station in north London, in the lead up to the recent riots. This programme has uncovered some startling new information about what the police and the IPPC – the police complaints investigation body – did or did not do as the family of Mark Duggan waited….and waited….and waited for answers about why he had been shot.
And as they waited at the police station, bystanders gathered, onlookers arrived, the word was out that trouble was brewing – so what actions did the police take? What was the plan which they put into place knowing a demonstration over the shooting was about to unfold.
Tonight we do not go into the whys and wherefores of how and why Mr Duggan was shot that day – that is not our focus. What we uncover though are some pretty stark indications that more could have been done – way more – in the vital hours which led up to violent street disorder
16 August 2011 — Morning Star
If riots are the voices of the unheard, they’ve come over loud and clear. But nothing we’ve heard from government [that] will bring an end to the causes of unrest.
17 August 2011 — williambowles.info – Strategic Culture Foundation
“At 9.22 the Brixton shopping centre appeared almost calm by comparison to Railton Road. Rubbish was strewn across the main A23 Brixton Road; burglar alarms rang vainly from looted shops; and knots of youths, black and white, drifted along in the almost complete absence of police.” – ‘Eyewitness: Looters moved in as the flames spread’
13 August 2011 — Dissident Voice
Over the last week, politicians and the mainstream media in the UK have been wheeling out their routine condemnations of the ‘mindless violence’ and ‘thuggery’ (a term whose etymology and connotations of black, hip-hop culture are consistent with the widespread tendency to racialize these events) of the rioters in London and other British cities. Note well the double standard: Continue reading this...
13 August 2011 — WSWS
Magistrates’ courts in London and other cities in England are handing down the harshest possible sentences to those accused of involvement in the riots that swept across London and other cities in England earlier this week.
A Soviet diplomat visiting the US once expressed incredulity toward the political content of mainstream newspapers there. In the USSR, he explained to his American interlocutors, it is necessary to threaten members of the press with torture in order to make them toe the correct political line. In the United States, however, you effect a similar result without coercion; the editors and journalists here seem to produce your propaganda of their own volition. How on earth do you manage it?
13 August 2011 — williambowles.info
A collection of stories mostly from independent journalists and media sources on the uprisings.
12 August 2011 — Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Much of the media coverage of the riots in England dwells on the issue of police restraint. There is a ‘public backlash against police restraint,’ the Washington Post explained (8/11/11), with some wanting ‘a tougher response to the rash of disturbances that has sullied Britain’s image.’ The problem is the ‘seemingly halting, even timorous, policing,’ according to one New York Times story (8/12/11). Another Times piece added:
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