A defeat for Ukraine would usher in a new era of fear in the whole Euro-Atlantic area, as Putin continues his drive to rebuild the Soviet empire, writes Boris Johnson.
"It will be a turning point in history, the moment when the West finally loses its post-war hegemony, the moment when borders everywhere are suddenly up for grabs and aggression is seen to pay — and all because of a failure to stand up for Ukraine."
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Missiles could be placed at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk in case of potential war between Nato and Russia. The Guardian 1.2.24
The US is planning to station nuclear weapons in the UK for the first time in 15 years amid a growing threat from Russia, according to a report. Warheads three times as strong as the Hiroshima bomb would be located at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk under the proposals, the Telegraph reported.
The US previously placed nuclear missiles at RAF Lakenheath and removed them in 2008 after the cold war threat from Moscow receded. Pentagon documents seen by the newspaper reveal procurement contracts for a new facility at the airbase.
A Ministry of Defence spokesperson said: “It remains a longstanding UK and Nato policy to neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuclear weapons at a given location.”
<strong>Editorial:</strong> Priti Patel could have turned down the American request. By not doing so she dealt a blow to press freedom Fri 17 Jun 2022 17.34 BST
Culture and sport bodies should continue to "exile Putin's Russia from their ranks", a minister says.
UK ministers are meeting international allies to "ratchet up the pressure" on Vladimir Putin by taking more sporting, cultural and economic steps in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The culture secretary will try to mobilise more support to isolate Moscow at a summit of global sports ministers.
Nadine Dorries said culture was "the third front in the Ukrainian war".
Alan Wylie in Tribune Magazine , April 1, 2021.
During the pandemic, library workers have been deemed 'essential' and many forced to continue work – but government cuts have led to 1,000 closures in a decade, the real measure of how these services are valued.
Middle East Eye was present on a conference call with the authors of the EHRC report and almost 30 other journalists on Thursday morning.
The questioning largely focused on why the report had not been tougher, personally, on Corbyn. Not one journalist probed the inconsistencies, contradictions or omissions of the report.
Starmer clearly believes he has now firmly established his own political identity and laid the foundations for the transformation of Labour's electoral prospects – in the mould of Kinnock and Blair.
It may be that he has simply destroyed his reputation for moral and intellectual integrity – and inflicted a mortal wound on the soul of his party.
(Keir Starmer is not a leader of courage - but he may soon lead the UK)
| Roy Greenslade, The Guardian February 2, 2020: The aim of the charges is to halt whistleblowers and stop journalists giving them a platform.
Roy Greenslade is professor of journalism at City University and a Guardian columnist. He was editor of the Daily Mirror from 1990 to 1991
Jan Öberg 25.9.19: "...entire systems approaching existential breakdown – and not because of foreign adversaries but because of their own morally corrupt actions and policies – or system fatique: systems so worn out and tired (of itself, too) that the don’t have the energy needed for re-vitalization.
After decades of hawkish neoliberalism, the British Labour Party has become the stage for an unprecedented experiment. To what extent has Corbyn’s leadership been able to transform Blair’s party into a vehicle for egalitarian renewal? Can his project survive the maelstrom of the UK’s Brexit crisis?
Our pamphlet argues why Labour needs to adopt a clear anti-Brexit stance and act as a catalyst for change in Europe, says professor of global governance Mary Kaldor
Oh, the hypocrisy of it. The ignoble aims. The distraction. The outrageous lies and excuses. I’m not talking about America’s tweet-from-the-hip preside
Bevisene som gjorde at FN gjenopptok undersøkelsene ble lagt fram i boka «Who killed Hammarskjöld» av Susan Williams i 2014. Hennes undersøkelser viser med stor tydelighet at vestmaktene og viktige finansinteresser må ha stått bak nedskytinga av Hammarskiölds fly for å bevare sin kontroll over Kongo og landets enorme rikdommer. Tidligere undersøkelser bærer preg av å dekke over fakta framfor å grave dem fram.
by Max Fisher, NYT 5 July 2017
A formal assessment found that Germany could legally finance the British or French weapons programs in exchange for their protection.
The continued division of Cyprus suits Britain’s geopolitical interests, as well as those of world powers that see the Mediterranean island as a useful pawn in a longstanding game of chess. Darren Loucaides reports from a country that wants to determine its own future.
Privatised War
Fake news and false flags: How the Pentagon paid a British PR firm $500M for top secret Iraq propaganda
October 2, 2016 by Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith
Published in: All Stories, Privatised War
The leader’s closest ally, John McDonnell, also waded into the debate by insisting that the deal to “park” any changes on Trident policy was meant to “steady the ship” but insisted that neither he nor Corbyn would be silenced on the issue.
“On the Trident issue, as we did with Syria, there are strong differing views so there is always going to be a free vote. Jeremy and I and others will keep on campaigning and arguing the case but we recognise that these are really strong conscience issues,” he told the Guardian.
A source suggested that Corbyn had been persuaded because he knew that the renewal had already been passed by a vote in parliament.
However, the leader also took the opportunity to pass a new policy through Labour’s national executive committee promising to “honour our international treaty obligations on nuclear disarmament”, something that he believes would be breached by the renewal of Trident.
New Statesman , 2 Sept 2016
(Briefing - Corbyns favorittidning)
Peter Tatchell, who was a radical left candidate in the infamous Southwark and Bermondsey by-election of 1983, summarizes the outlook of Briefing, when he wrote in Labour London Briefing in 1981:
“Labour has long lost the radical and defiant spirit of its early pioneers. We now seem stuck in the rut of an obsessive legalism and parliamentarianism…reliant on the present token and ineffectual parliamentary opposition will advance us nowhere…we must now look to a new, more militant form of extra parliamentary opposition which involves mass popular participation”
Slavoj ZiZek i Information (urspr. Le Monde diplomatique oktober 2014): Sjældent er den multikulturalistiske antiracismes fallit blevet så tydeligt udstillet som med afsløringen af den konsekvente fortielse af pakistanske pædofiles mangeårige overgreb på skolepiger i en midtengelsk provinsby
Owen Jones 15 Dec 2015, "I’m an opinion writer: my opinions appear in the opinion section. But the media is swollen with opinion writers, and in too many cases their work ends up in the news section."
Tariq Ali: "Stop the War, of which I am a founder member, was created to oppose the crude war of revenge against Afghanistan in 2001. I remember arguing at the time that the war would be a disaster for Afghans, it would destabilise neighbouring Pakistan and would end without solving anything.
I was wrong on one point. It has not yet ended. "
MoD confirms that jets carried out ‘first offensive operation over Syria and have conducted strikes’ hours after MPs voted in favour of military action
By Oliver Tickell
1st October 2015
This week's Labour conference sent the party and its new leader, Jeremy Corbyn, soaring in popularity. So better get the knife in quick, writes Oliver Tickell. His refusal to commit mass murder in a nuclear attack gave his enemies just the cue they needed - including those who should be his loyal allies. We must not let them succeed.
The former environment minister, who served in the New Labour government for six years, later became a thorn in the side of Tony Blair and tried to stand against Gordon Brown for the leadership.
THE ORIGINAL DOWNING STREET "MEMO" (PDF) (Plain Text) (Annotated)
MAJOR PLAYERS–who are the people present at this meeting?
THE OTHER DOWNING STREET MEMOS AND DOCUMENTS
"The Downing Street Memo, recently leaked, reveals that President George W. Bush decided to overthrow Saddam Hussein in the summer 2002 and--determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policies--fixed the intelligence and facts. What has come to be known as the Downing Street Memos.
New Labour leader embarrassed as key poll is dismissed and senior figures describe his conference debut as chaotic and confusing.
"John Woodcock, the Labour MP for Barrow and Furness, where replacement Trident submarines would be built, welcomed the result. Woodcock, who backed Liz Kendall in the leadership contest, said: “It is good that Labour members have rejected the CND left’s plan to prioritise returning the party to the days of 1980s unilateral nuclear disarmament. This is a welcome sign that many rank-and-file Labour supporters want to keep us focused on the immediate concerns of the public rather than re-running old battles that risk splitting Labour apart.”"
"This suggests Trident will be renewed when MPs are asked to vote on the “maingate” decision next summer, possibly in June. The combination of centre-ground Labour figures such as Watson and Benn and the vast bulk of Conservative MPs would provide enough votes to defeat Corbyn if he joins forces with the SNP’s 56 MPs to oppose Trident."
Magna Carta is only one of the two Great Charters of English Liberty, writes Peter Linebaugh – and we should reclaim them both from the conservatives and neoliberals
Duff i FT , 30 jan. 2008: "MEPs stress the need for good collaboration between themselves and national parliamentarians in the scrutiny of EU foreign, security and defence policy. Indeed, the Lisbon treaty expressly requires there to be a special interpar
In a landmark decision, Britain ’s trade unions have voted overwhelmingly to commit to build a mass boycott movement, disinvestment and sanctions on Israel for a negotiated settlement based on justice for Palestinians. The motion was passed at the 2009 TU
Murray: CIA used Uzbek torture to create false intelligence; support for regime continues Craig Murray is a British political activist, former ambassador to Uzbekistan and current Rector of the University of Dundee. The Real News Network
Maryam Namazie: "In my opinion, a ‘moderate’ or ‘reformed’ religion is one that has been pushed back and reigned in by an enlightenment. And not before." Description of blogger: "Maryam is spokesperson for Iran Solidarity, Equal Rights Now, the One Law fo
"a British political activist, former ambassador to Uzbekistan and current Rector of the University of Dundee. While at the embassy in Tashkent, he accused the Karimov administration of human rights abuses, a step which, he argued, was against the wishes
The winner of the Guardian's online contest to solve the mystery of Blair's finances is Richard Murphy, a crusading accountant from Tax Research UK. His entry unearthed the small print of the Partnership (Accounts) Regulations 2008 to reveal that Blair ha
By Ian Gallagher and Daniel Boffey, Daily Mail 22nd November 2009. Photo of Protestors: Cathy Ashton, circled, at No10 in 1982, with Bruce Kent and Joan Ruddock, centre. "Other records detail the contact that Miss Ashton and fellow CND members had with th
"The idea of being sent to prison for owing someone quite a small amount of money seems hard to believe today, but it was still happening well into Victorian times. Life in Victorian prisons was very difficult from the moment of capture to the moment of d
About: "The Forum for Stable Currencies was co-founded by Lord Sudeley and Sabine K McNeill. It was the result of Lord Sudeley trying to get justice for two incidents in his family of unique notoriety: Lloyd’s bank had made his great-grandfather bankrupt
Nuclear Waste Advisory Associates (NWAA), a group of experts with over 200 years of collective experience of the issues involved in nuclear waste, have submitted detailed written evidence to the House of Commons' Energy and Climate Change Select Committee
"The academic paper at the centre of the latest questions was written in 2006 by Robert Muir-Wood, head of research at Risk Management Solutions, a London consultancy, who later became a contributing author to the section of the IPCC's 2007 report dealing
Jack Straw’s evidence at the Chilcot enquiry into the Iraq war yesterday [21 Jan 2010], and the discussion that it led to of deadlines and resolutions, tells an interesting and important story about the conduct of international relations and the problems
Windscale report. "An inquiry into last month's fire at Cumberland's Windscale nuclear power plant has blamed the accident on a combination of human error, poor management and faulty instruments. The fire happened on 10 October during a routine maintenanc
The Media Response to the Growing Influence of the 9 /11 Truth Movement Reflections on a Recent Evaluation of Dr. David Ray Griffin http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16505 The Media Response to the Growing Influence of the 9/11 Truth M
17 february 2010. Hundreds of peace protesters demonstrated Monday outside a factory in southern England where warheads for Trident nuclear submarines are made. Despite efforts from Britain's military to scale down long term spending, Defense Secretary Bo
Monday, 15 February 2010 The Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, Berkshire, was subject to the biggest blockade in years as 800 campaigners effectively blocked all entrances to the site for several hours. Anti-nuclear campaigners are intent on o
While BP’s shares recovered some ground to close 6.6% down — wiping another £5bn off the value of the group — investors were spooked after US Department of Justice officials reportedly said they were planning “to take action” to make sure BP had enough ca
BBC NEWS | UK Thursday, 7 February 2008 Muslim cleric not allowed into UK Yusuf Al-Qaradawi defended suicide attacks in Israel as "martyrdom" The controversial Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi has been refused a visa to visit Britain. The Home Office sai
sept 2007. Greenpeace överklagar transport av kärnavfall till kammarrätten - aktivisterna fortsätter vaka i Studsvik . Här gäller det transport av kärnavfall från Studsvik till Sellafield. Länkade Dokument * Norges miljöminister Helen Bjørnøys brev ti
20 July 2010 Last updated at 22:44 GMT Iraq inquiry: Ex-MI5 boss says war raised terror threat Baroness Manningham-Buller said the Iraq war "undoubtedly increased" the level of terrorist threat. The invasion of Iraq "substantially" increased the terrorist
Declassified letter sent by the former MI5 director general to John Gieve, permanent secretary at the Home Office, a year before Iraq invasion. In it, she wrote that there was 'no credible evidence' to suggest a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida
Manningham-Buller referred more than once to Sir David Omand, the government's security and intelligence coordinator at the time, who gave evidence to Chilcot earlier this year. MI6 had "over-promised and under-delivered" when it came to Iraq, Omand said.
Tony Blair must be prosecuted, not indulged like his mentor Peter Mandelson. Both have produced self-serving memoirs for which they have been paid fortunes. Blair’s will appear next month and earn him £4.6 million. Now consider Britain’s Proceeds of Crime
Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord with me abide. When other helpers fail and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O abide with me. Bliv kvar hos mig, se, dagens slut är när
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It can also be argued that this widening of the kind of risks that are included as part of security potentially represents a massive securitisation of every-day life. Indeed, the justification for maintaining the overseas aid budget is based on national s
"We can easily blame the children of Thatcher for their book-snatching ways, but surely, in our multi-screen, omni-connected world many of us are no longer availing ourselves of what the local library offers? Actually, figures last year from the Chartered