Chris Marsden

November 6, 2013

Police State UK: The NSA spy scandal and the attack on press freedom By Chris Marsden

Recently released police documents on the August 18 arrest and questioning at London’s Heathrow airport of David Miranda, the domestic partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, are a serious warning on the advanced stage of the decay of democracy in Britain and internationally. Continue reading

Liberties, Media

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November 3, 2013

Police State UK: New threats against the Guardian newspaper and Snowden in Westminster debate By Chris Marsden

Tthe [parliamentary] debate sponsored by three MPs underscored the degree to which all three main parties are intent on suppressing evidence of mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency and the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). The debate—called by Julian Huppert of the Liberal Democrats, Conservative Dominic Raab, and the Labour Party’s Tom Watson—renewed… Continue reading

UK

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October 19, 2013

Police State UK: Guardian faces parliamentary investigation over Snowden revelations By Chris Marsden

Britain’s Guardian newspaper is facing an investigation by at least one parliamentary committee, in line with demands made by Prime Minister David Cameron, concerning the exposures of Edward Snowden, the whistleblower from America’s National Security Agency (NSA). Continue reading

Media, UK

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August 31, 2013

Britain’s vote against Syrian military action provokes political crisis By Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland

Bitter recriminations have followed the parliamentary defeat of a UK government motion intended to authorize military action against Syria. Continue reading

UK

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June 1, 2013

Who Was Behind the Woolwich Killing? Criminality of Britain’s Ruling Elite By Chris Marsden

The killing of soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, London has lifted a corner of the carefully constructed veil of lies, intrigue and criminality surrounding British foreign policy. Continue reading

National Security State, UK

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November 2, 2012

Money Laundering and Offshore Fraud for the Rich, Economic Austerity for the Poor By Julie Lévesque

Drug cartels, fraud, tax evasion and money laundering are common answers to those questions. Despite this reality and even in this era of fiscal austerity, the question world leaders avoid is: why is secret banking still allowed? Are they capable of putting a term to it but unwilling to do it because of the benefits… Continue reading

Capitalism, Global Research

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February 15, 2012

Britain’s Socialist Workers Party covers for imperialist regime change in Syria By Chris Marsden

The first response of Washington, London, and Paris to the revolutionary overturns in Tunisia and Egypt was a pre-emptive campaign for regime change in Libya, working through local proxies whose task was to prepare the way for military intervention. The pattern is being repeated in Syria. It falls to the various ex-left tendencies to conceal… Continue reading

Syria

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January 1, 2012

Arab League Mission To Syria Becomes Focus Of Demands For Military Intervention By Chris Marsden

The visit by Arab League observers to Homs, Hama, Idlib, Deraa , the Damascus suburb of Douma and other conflict zones has become the focus of concerted demands for the Western powers to intervene militarily into the ongoing civil war in Syria. Continue reading

Syria

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October 18, 2011

War Crime Alert: Sirte destroyed by NTC-NATO offensive in Libya By Chris Marsden

Once considered to be a showpiece of urban development in Libya, Sirte has been the target of NATO bombing and NTC attacks since shortly after the fall of Tripoli in late August. In the last ten days, it has been the object of an intensified offensive. The Post states that ‘the damage wreaked in Sirte… Continue reading

Libya, NATO

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