NZ Herald | 4 July 2015 [AM editor’s note: the BBC is doing its part to confirm that the world of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is the world we live. Of course the ‘terrorist’ has always been the establishment’s grass-roots political opposition as opposed to and distinct from the ‘radicals’ and ‘extremists’ who are the useful idiots…
Global Research | 2 July 2015 Last March the Chairman of Europe’s largest arms firm BAE Systems, Roger Carr, was appointed Vice Chairman of the BBC Trust. Will Carr’s close ties to the arms industry “get the best out of the BBC for licence fee payers” as its mission statement promises? On the trust’s web…
NZ Herald | 3 July 2015 Comedian and activist Russell Brand has labelled the British government’s call for a one minute silence today as “total bulls***”. David Cameron announced earlier in the week there would be a minute’s silence in memory of the 27 British tourists murdered after a gunman went on a rampage at…
Washington Post | 17 June 2015 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1qFb4oT3A0?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] This week British Prime Minister David Cameron will meet his Irish counterpart, Taoiseach Enda Kenny, in London to discuss matters such as the current political deadlock in Ireland and the potential British exit from the European Union. Yet the talk may not only deal with the future or the present: “Legacy issues”…
Robert Fisk | 28 May 2015 For Arabs – and for Britons who lost their loved ones in his shambolic war in Iraq – Blair’s appointment was an insult Tony Blair’s time as Middle East envoy representing the US, Russia, the UN and the EU has finally come to an end. Eight years after he…
Tech Dirt | May 28, 2015 “For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone” The old joke goes “George Orwell’s 1984 was a warning, not a ‘how to’ manual.” But that joke is increasingly less funny as…
SCF | 25 May 2015 Operation Unthinkable – Allies Were Bearing Secret Malice In late May 1945 Josef Stalin ordered Marshall Georgy Zhukov to leave Germany and come to Moscow. He was concerned over the actions of British allies. Stalin said the Soviet forces disarmed Germans and sent them to prisoners’ camps while British did…
Glenn Greenwald | 22 May 2015 Colonel Ian Henderson was a British official dubbed “the Butcher of Bahrain” because of atrocities he repeatedly committed during the 30 years he served as chief security official of that Middle Eastern country. His reign of terror began in 1966 when Bahrain was a British “protectorate” and continued when the…
RT | May 20, 2015 Government continues coverup of pedophile ring Over 1400 individuals are under investigation by British police as part of an inquiry into a historic VIP sex abuse network believed to include celebrities and politicians. Information released by Operation Hydrant, the group of police officers tackling the alleged ring, said that the…
RT | May 18, 2015 The Royal Navy has launched an investigation into whistleblower William McNeilly, who exposed horrid security lapses in UK’s trident nuclear program which make it easier for intruders to access some secured areas than enter “most nightclubs.” UK authorities are “concerned for the whereabouts” of the 25-year old whistleblower, who went…