Liberties
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War Comes Home to Britain By John Pilger
There is so much more that the erosion of liberal freedoms is symptomatic of an evolved criminal state. The haven for Russian oligarchs, together with corruption of the tax and banking systems and of once-admired public services such as the Post Office, is one side of the coin; the other is the invisible carnage of… Continue reading
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Police State: Liberty groups unite to defend UK rights
The government and the courts are collaborating in slicing away freedoms and pushing Britain to the brink of becoming a ‘database’ police state, a series of sold-out conferences in eight British cities heard yesterday. Continue reading
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Sign the Petition against new (UK) Home Office restrictions on non-EU artists and academics visiting the UK for talks, exhibitions, concerts or artists’ residencies
Visitors now have to submit to a series of arduous and expensive procedures to get their visa, and then more bureaucratic controls when they are in the UK. Continue reading
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Secret police unit set up to spy on British ‘domestic extremists’ By Jason Lewis
The Confidential Intelligence Unit (CIU) has the power to operate across the UK and will mount surveillance and run informers on ‘domestic extremists’. Continue reading
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David Halpin – Requiem for principle and law in Britain
How many citizens of this sceptred isle even know of Friends of Israel, let alone which member is an acolyte when he or she is speaking on Palestine. Continue reading
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UK military officer suspected of leaking secret Afghanistan data to rights group
Human Rights Watch has published very specific data related to civilian casualties in Afghanistan, which US and NATO forces feel undermines their efforts there. Continue reading
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No to the database state! Spam Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for one day!
A Facebook protest against the government’s planned £12 billion ‘super database’ of electronic communications has called on people to forward all their emails to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith for one day. Continue reading
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A ‘Police State’ Celebrates by Nora Barrows-Friedman
The Israeli government is stepping up efforts to suppress dissent and crush resistance in the streets. Police have been videotaping the demonstrations and subsequently arresting protesters in large numbers. Continue reading
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Wikileaks: Secret Gag Orders “UK undermines core Western values”
This month saw a secret UK court hearing, with secret participants, produce a secret order to secretly gag the population, the terms of which are secret and the revelation of which is punishable by upto 15 years of imprisonment. Continue reading
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Take Jane
Fans of ID cards often say, if you’ve done nothing wrong you have nothing to fear. They are naive. Continue reading
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The murder of Jean Charles de Menezes: Statement from the family
“Today is a very important day for our family and campaign for justice. We have spoken to Jean’s family in Brazil and they like us feel vindicated by the jury’s verdict. The jury’s verdict is a damning indictment of the multiple failures of the police and the lies they told. It is clear from the… Continue reading
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Tim Black: An intolerable attack on all of us, the people
The arrest of Damian Green is an historic insult against parliamentary sovereignty, and ultimately against us, the people. The police should retreat immediately. And parliament should seek to rediscover the sense of democratic purpose that once saw it clash with kings and lords in its defence of the people’s rights. Continue reading
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URGENT APPEAL FROM MENEZES FAMILY TO SUPPORTERS
I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the support you have given our family over the last 3 ½ years. We have been humbled by your support and on days like today, knowing that you are behind us, gives us the strength to carry on. Today was an… Continue reading
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Judge rules that the jury in the Charles de Menezes murder cannot consider the killing as unlawful
Coroner at the inquest into the police shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes has ruled that the jury cannot consider the verdict of unlawful killing. Instead he has ruled that they can only return a verdict of lawful or open. Continue reading
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Tom Burghardt: Preemptive Policing & the National Security State: Repressing Dissent at the Republican National Convention
19 November 19, 2008 Global Research Antifascist Calling… With “preemptive policing” all the rage in Washington, the whistleblowing website Wikileaks has done it again, exposing how repressive trends in the U.S. had real world consequences for democracy during September’s Republican National Convention (RNC) in St. Paul, Minnesota. On November 15, the global whistleblowers published a… Continue reading
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Mick Hume: It should not be an offence to belong to the BNP
This confirms the misplaced political obsession with the BNP, and the peculiar place that this small far-right party occupies in public life today. Many of those who were outraged by the authorities’ loss of disks containing personal data seem almost gleeful about the way that this leak has ‘exposed’ the BNP’s membership. Continue reading
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WIKILEAKS: NOTABLE DOCUMENT RELEASE ON THE BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY
WIKILEAKS PRESS RELEASE (English) For Immediate Release. Fri Nov 21 09:11:21 2008 GMT “BNP leak rocks Britain” The leak of details on the 12,801 secret members and contacts of the far-right British National Party continues to rock British politics, with over 1,315 English press articles appearing since Tuesday: news.google.ca/news?ie=UTF-8&tab=bn&ncl=1271913659&hl=en In the 24 hour period between… Continue reading
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Fighting The War On Terror In London – One Gig At A Time
Since the end of last year the Metropolitan police in London have powers to close down any live music event where they have not been given the personal details including addresses and phone numbers of all performers involved at least two weeks in advance. Continue reading
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Freedom of Speech: Where do Muslims Stand?
Where should Muslims stand on free speech? Are they too sensitive to criticism? Or are they simply opposing what they see as the desecration of their revered personalities? How do Muslims explain to essentially secular societies their sense of the sacred? How is it possible to reconcile these two principles – the love for free… Continue reading
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Campaign Against the Booze Bans
We believe public space should be exactly that – a place where we can come together as a public – to argue and campaign, to pursue our common goals, to chat with friends and socialise. It is a space in which we, the public, should set the rules. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 