Tony Blair
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ICH 25 February, 2010: John Pilger: Listen to the Heroes of Israel
Daily aggregation of news and analysis. Continue reading
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Short: Goldsmith ‘misled’ cabinet over Iraq
Channel 4: Former international development secretary Clare Short accuses Lord Goldsmith, the former attorney general, of misleading the Cabinet over the legality of the Iraq war. Katie Razzall reports. Continue reading
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Afghanistan and NATO: Figleaf summit By Eric Walberg
The conferees in London piously asked that the Taliban give up their links with Al-Qaeda and stop threatening the world. But the Taliban have never tried to export their beliefs. And the supposed link with Al-Qaeda is a false flag, since the Taliban and Al-Qaeda (to what extent it even exists) have never been operating… Continue reading
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Cutting Clare Short By William Bowles
The media give Clare Short short shrift at the Chilcot ‘inquiry’ transforming her into a “difficult” woman though nevertheless “entertaining”. Continue reading
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Clare Short says cabinet misled on Iraq war legality
Tony Blair’s cabinet was “misled” into thinking the war with Iraq was legal, ex-International Development Secretary Clare Short has told the UK’s inquiry. She said Attorney General Lord Goldsmith had been “leaned on” to change his advice before the invasion. Continue reading
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Inside the mind of a psychopath and the Chilcot ‘Inquiry’ By William Bowles
Reams have been written about the appearance of Tony Blair at the so-called inquiry. Very few if any have even come close to identifying the real nature of the beast called Tony Blair. Continue reading
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ATTEMPT TO BAN PROTEST OUTSIDE BLAIR INQUIRY
Negotiations between the police and Stop the War broke down today when it became clear that the government is trying to hide our legitimate peaceful protest from Tony Blair when he gives evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry on Friday. Continue reading
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DEFEND THE RIGHT TO PROTEST ON BLAIR INQUIRY DAY
The police are aiming to keep protesters out of sight this Friday when Tony Blair appears at the Iraq Inquiry. This contradicts a statement by Scotland Yard yesterday that they aim to “facilitate the protest as best we can”. Continue reading
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Smoking gun evidence that Blair knew Iraq war was illegal By Simon Walters
The Mail on Sunday has disclosed that Attorney General Lord Goldsmith wrote the letter to Mr Blair in July 2002 – a full eight months before the war – telling him that deposing Saddam Hussein was a blatant breach of international law. It was intended to make Mr Blair call off the invasion, but he… Continue reading
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Blair War Crimes Foundation calls on U.K. Attorney General to indict Tony Blair for war crimes in Iraq
It is necessary to make leaders hesitate before indulging in “the paramount war crime” to quote the judges of Nuremberg, of “unprovoked aggression against a defenceless country”. Unless leaders fear that they might be tried for their war crimes, we will live in an increasingly violent world, where The Geneva Conventions are treated as a… Continue reading
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Palestinian Protester to Blair: You are a Terrorist
“You are a terrorist, you are not welcome in the land of Palestine”. A Palestinian from the Hamdan family shouted these words in the face of Tony Blair, Quartet Representative for ‘Peace’ in the Middle East, when he arrived at the Iron Cage at the entrance of the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. A bodyguard of… Continue reading
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BLAIR PRESIDENT OF EUROPE? NO, A WAR CRIMINAL
Noam Chomsky, Bruce Kent, Baroness Jenny Tonge, Naji Haraj , John Pilger, Haifa Zangana and 3,346 other citizens have today on Thursday 22 October 2009 asked the United Nations General Assembly to uphold the United Nations Charter, The Geneva and Hague Conventions, and The Rome Statute of International Criminal Court and to charge Anthony Charles… Continue reading
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‘New’ Labour on the rocks? The last of the lackeys jump ship By Solomon Hughes
I got a sense of the complete exhaustion of the new Labour project when Will Hutton launched a crushing attack on 12 wasted years at a fringe meeting at the party’s conference. Hutton was speaking at a Policy Network fringe meeting…. Policy Network is an “international progressive think tank” founded by Blair in 2000 with… Continue reading
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First Order of Business for post-Lisbon EU: Appoint War Criminal As President by James Corbett
As the Daily Mail reported earlier this week, one of the first orders of business for the post-Lisbon EU will be to appoint Tony Blair as the first President of the European Union. This move has been fully expected ever since Tony Blair’s highly suspect conversion to Catholocism two years ago. Of course, the many… Continue reading
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The Downing Street memo Pt.2
Video: Ray McGovern: The person that leaked the memo did an “incredible” public service Ray McGovern talks with Paul Jay about the paper trail on the Iraq war, as revealed in the British “Downing Street memo”. Continue reading
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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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Tariq A. Al-Maeena: ‘US supporting Israeli-sponsored terrorism’
Hart expressed his alarm at the absolute lack of veracity of the spin machines of the western media when it came to reporting on Israeli ambitions and atrocities. Continue reading
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Media Lens: David Aaronovitch – A Different Kind of Compassion
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media January 10, 2008 — Media Lens If “The wages of sin is death”, the returns must seem altogether less bleak to Tony Blair. In November, Blair was reported to have received £237,000 for a 20-minute speech before an audience of Chinese entrepreneurs. While his Continue reading
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Blackwaters run deep By William Bowles
24 September, 2007 Mercenary armies are not new. Before conscription most wars were fought with hired hands, often consisting of soldiers from many countries serving under a single flag, so the use of mercenaries in Iraq, Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia (and let us not forget the hired killers who fought under the South African Continue reading
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Lies by Omission By William Bowles
6 October 2006 “An increasing number of people see a dark cloud hanging over Europe. They fear that the birthplace of the Enlightenment and the cradle of free speech is being silenced by the growing assertiveness of an intolerant strain of Islam.” — The Independent Editorial, Wednesday, 4 October 2006. The London Independent’s editorial headed Continue reading
The New Dark Age 