April 28, 2012
(Photo: isafmedia / Flickr) You Are All Suspects Now. What Are You Going to Do About It? Saturday, 28 April 2012 08:01By John Pilger, Truthout | News Analysis You are all potential terrorists. It matters not that you live in Britain, the United States, Australia or the Middle East. Citizenship is effectively abolished. Turn on your computer [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Babar Ahmad, European Court of Human Rights, Government of the United Kingdom, Habeas corpus, John Pilger, Richard O'Dwyer, United States
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April 18, 2012
Hanslope Park, where the Foreign Office kept a secret archive of colonial papers. Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian link to article http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/18/britain-destroyed-records-colonial-crimes Britain destroyed records of colonial crimes Review finds thousands of papers detailing shameful acts were culled, while others were kept secret illegally Ian Cobain, Owen Bowcott and Richard Norton-Taylor The Guardian, Wednesday 18 April 2012 Article history [...]
Tags: Britain, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Foreign Office, Government of the United Kingdom, Kenya, Mau Mau, Mau Mau Uprising, Tony Badger
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April 12, 2012
“Like many Palestinians, Sheikh Raed Salah feels that he does not have any other option but to struggle for justice,” writes Ismail Patel [EPA] London, United Kingdom - The circumstances surrounding Home Secretary Theresa May‘s decision to issue an exclusion order against Sheikh Raed Salah is a cause for great concern. It is unacceptable that the [...]
Tags: Government of the United Kingdom, Home Secretary, Ismail Patel, Israel, London, Raed Salah, Salah, Theresa May
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April 9, 2012
Abdel Hakim Belhaj, centre, has said he was tortured after being arrested in 2004 [EPA] The British government approved the rendition of Abdel Hakim Belhaj, a prominent fighter during the recent Libyan uprising, to the former regime of Muammar Gaddafi in 2004, according to reports in the British media. Documents said to be found in the abandoned offices [...]
Tags: Abdel Hakim Belhaj, Abdelhakim Belhadj, Al Jazeera, Government of the United Kingdom, Libya, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Moussa Koussa, Muammar Gaddafi
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April 9, 2012
Fatima Bouchar, the wife of Abdul Hakim Belhaj. Both were detained in 2004 in Bangkok with the help of MI6 and rendered to Libya. Photograph: Irina Kalashnikova for the Guardian Special report: Rendition ordeal that raises new questions about secret trials In 2004, Fatima Bouchar and her husband, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, were detained en route [...]
Tags: Crown Prosecution Service, Gaddafi, Government of the United Kingdom, Libya, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, LIFG, Muammar Gaddafi, Scotland Yard
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March 12, 2012
UK’s renewable energy sector has already suffered a series of blows with Tory MPs attacking subsidies, including those for wind farms. Photograph: Haydn West / Rex Features The UK government wants nuclear power to be given parity with renewables in Europe, in a move that would significantly boost atomicenergy in Britain but downgrade investment in renewable generation, according [...]
Tags: Britain, Claude Turmes, Edward Davey, European commission, European Union, Government of the United Kingdom, Renewable energy, UK government
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March 11, 2012
Britons Fund Own Orwellian Future? By RT March 10, 2012 “RT” – The British government is pushing through an anti-terror law that will enable it to monitor all private electronic communication, including social media. Ironically, people to be watched are set to pay for the privilege. Britain is already one [...]
Tags: Big Brother Watch, Britain, China, Closed-circuit television, Government of the People's Republic of China, Government of the United Kingdom, Open Rights Group, Security
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March 1, 2012
The British government has an international legal obligation not to deport people who have a credible fear of torture upon return. Convincing reports of arbitrary arrests and torture demand that the UK government suspend returns of rejected Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka until it can fairly and thoroughly assess their individual claims [...]
Tags: Asia, British government, Colombo, Criminal Investigation Department, Government of the United Kingdom, Human Rights Watch, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Refugee, Sri Lanka
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February 24, 2012
DELIBERATION – THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 2012 AT 1:17PM GILAD ATZMON www.deliberation.info/ Greetings citizens of the World, This is a message regarding our online news website deLiberation, only 3 weeks old but growing fast. deLiberation are thinkers, writers, artists and activists, each committed to freedom of thought and to telling the stories that [...]
Tags: British government, English language, Government of the United Kingdom, Israel, Ofcom, Press TV, PSC, Twitter
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December 22, 2011
Britain Asks US to Hand Over Bagram Detainee-For-Life The US government did not respond to Britain’s request by the required deadline by John Glaser, December 21, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In response to a court order, the British government has asked the U.S. to return to their custody [...]
Tags: Bagram, Barack Obama, British government, Geneva Conventions, Government of the United Kingdom, Habeas corpus, Obama administration, United States
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December 11, 2011
British government regrets death of Mustafa Tamimi Published yesterday 19:17 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The British government expressed regret at the death of Mustafa Tamimi, who died on Saturday after being fatally wounded by a gas canister fired by an Israeli soldier.”On behalf of the Government of the United Kingdom, I express our deepest regret [...]
Tags: British government, Government of the United Kingdom, Israel Defense Forces, Jerusalem, Ma'an, Mustafa, MustafaTamimi, Nabi Saleh, Nabi Salih, Palestine, Vincent Fean
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December 5, 2011
An EDF nuclear plant in Nogent-sur-Seine, France. The company was fined for spying on Greenpeace this month. Photograph: Francois Nascimbeni/AFP/Getty Images UK government shared intelligence with nuclear industry, documents show Greenpeace complains to high court after energy department passes details of legal battle to Nuclear Industry Association The British government has been quietly exchanging intelligence on [...]
Tags: Department of Energy and Climate Change, EDF Energy, France, Government of the United Kingdom, Greenpeace, Hinkley Point, Nogent-sur-Seine, Nuclear power
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November 19, 2011
. Westerners are taught to believe that torture is not a practice of a ‘civilised’ government and therefore does not take place within their military and security establishments [GALLO/GETTY] Following the fall of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, new allegations have emerged about the complicity of British and US officials in torture. Senior members of [...]
Tags: Abu Ghraib, Al Jazeera, Baha Mousa, British government, British nationality law, Government of the United Kingdom, Iraq, Libya, United States
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November 9, 2011
Westerners are taught to believe that torture is not a practice of a ‘civilised’ government and therefore does not take place within their military and security establishments [GALLO/GETTY] Following the fall of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, new allegations have emerged about the complicity of British and US officials in torture. Senior members of the [...]
Tags: 2003 invasion of Iraq, Abu Ghraib, Al Jazeera, Baha Mousa, British government, British nationality law, Government of the United Kingdom, Iraq, Iraq War, Libya, United States
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October 19, 2011
Severe but opaque: a very British verdict on Liam Fox Report into former defence secretary’s links to Adam Werritty is damning, but gently sidesteps awkward questions reddit this Liam Fox has already admitted most of the errors that the report confirms, but it fleshes out some details. Photograph: Fiona Hanson/PA Wire No misuse of public [...]
Tags: Fox, France, Government of the United Kingdom, Gus O'Donnell, Liam Fox, National security, Sri Lanka, William Hague
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September 10, 2011
How MI6 deal sent family to Gaddafi’s jail Exclusive: Libyan Islamist reveals how wife and children were ‘rendered’ before Tony Blair visit and Mona Mahmood guardian.co.uk, Friday 9 September 2011 18.04 BST Article history Sami al-Saadi is considering whether to sue the British government after he and his family were ‘rendered’ in an operation [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Government of the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Libya, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, List of intelligence agencies, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Tony Blair, Tripoli
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August 17, 2011
Rather than peeling back the complex layers of the riots like an onion skin, the UK government has instead chosen to respond as though the riots were a spontaneous exercise in criminality [EPA] The riots that have engulfed London and other major cities in England over the past week have finally receded, but in the wake of the horrific [...]
Tags: Crime, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, Government of the United Kingdom, London, Riot, Social history of England, UK government
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August 17, 2011
Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel want to synchronise nations’ tax policies as part of their attempt to save the eurozone. Photograph: Philippe Wojazer/AFP France and Germany have set out plans to create the first “true European economic government” headed by a single appointed leader, as part of major moves to synchronise tax and spending [...]
Tags: Angela Merkel, Economy of Europe, European Financial Stability Facility, Government of the United Kingdom, Herman Van Rompuy, Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the European Council, Tobin tax
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August 11, 2011
UK Intifada 10 August 2011 For days now Britain has been overtaken by violent riots and looting. It started in the capital city, London, and spread to other large cities such as Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham. Thousands of young people, most of them from the poverty-stricken class, took to the streets to express their anger [...]
Tags: British government, Brixton, David Cameron, Government of the United Kingdom, London, Poverty, Western world, Youth
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July 26, 2011
A no entry sign outside Heysham nuclear power station in Morecambe, Lancashire. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/Christopher Thomond Why must the UK choose between nuclear and renewable energy? That was the question George Monbiot asked recently in a blog that challenged me to answer four questions. Here is a concise version of my answers: the full version of [...]
Tags: Committee on Climate Change, Economics of new nuclear power plants, George Monbiot, Government of the United Kingdom, Low-carbon economy, Mott MacDonald, nuclearpower, Renewable energy
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July 21, 2011
The four Kenyans who were given the go-ahead at the high court to sue the British government over alleged colonial atrocities committed during the Mau Mau uprising. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Four Kenyans who claimed they were tortured at the hands of colonial officials during the Mau Mau insurgency in the 1950s have won the right [...]
Tags: British Empire, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Foreign Office, Government of the United Kingdom, Kenya, Martyn Day, Mau Mau Uprising, Torture
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July 5, 2011
Corporate Power? No Thanks Posted: 04 Jul 2011 11:38 AM PDT The machinations of the industry shouldn’t be allowed to spoil the case for nuclear power. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 5th July 2011 Power corrupts; nuclear power corrupts absolutely. The industry developed as a by-product of nuclear weapons research. Its deployment was [...]
Tags: Centre for Alternative Technology, Committee on Climate Change, George Monbiot, Germany, Government of the United Kingdom, Guardian, Hindenburg disaster, International Atomic Energy Agency, nuclearpower, Tokyo Electric Power Company
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July 5, 2011
Corporate Power? No Thanks Posted: 04 Jul 2011 11:38 AM PDT The machinations of the industry shouldn’t be allowed to spoil the case for nuclear power. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 5th July 2011 Power corrupts; nuclear power corrupts absolutely. The industry developed as a by-product of nuclear weapons research. Its deployment was [...]
Tags: Centre for Alternative Technology, Committee on Climate Change, George Monbiot, Germany, Government of the United Kingdom, Guardian, International Atomic Energy Agency, nuclearpower
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July 5, 2011
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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June 20, 2011
What’s it costing British taxpayers to bomb Libya? The UK government has shrouded the financial cost of bombing Gaddafi in secrecy and obfuscation Share310 Comments (190) Ian Katz guardian.co.uk, Sunday 19 June 2011 22.00 BST Article history Smoke rises after a Nato air strike on the Libyan capital, Tripoli. Photograph: Str/EPA This weekend provided [...]
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April 16, 2011
Bahrain regime accused of harassing UK-based students Students who attended Manchester protest say they had grants revoked and fear violent reprisals against families Share744 Robert Booth and Joe Sheffer guardian.co.uk, Friday 15 April 2011 19.23 BST Article history Bahrainis studying in the UK say they are paying the price of expressing support for protests in [...]
Tags: Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, Bahrain, BBC, Catherine Ashton, European Union, Government of the United Kingdom, Guardian, Saudi Arabia
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Been waiting a long time for this. But not surprised. Are you? Think first a Monbiot point of view
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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