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From Ground Zero to Year Zero (..or what year did 9/11 take the world back to?) πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

19 Tuesday Jul 2011

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Southall Campaigner Walks Barefoot for Homeless

17 Sunday Jul 2011

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Met Police launch Operation Target

17 Sunday Jul 2011

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Met Police launch Operation Target.

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Lib Dem Cllr George Allen on the need for Welfare Reform

17 Sunday Jul 2011

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Lib Dem Cllr George Allen (Clerkenwell) on the need for Welfare Reform.

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πŸ‘§ Meeting Hassan Banna’s Great Grand Daughter πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¬

15 Friday Jul 2011

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Hassan Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, helped Colonel Gamal Nasser overthrow the corrupt king of Egypt and in return for this action the new President put him into a concentration camp and then executed.

To this day, many say that Nasser was destined to fail because of that action.

Indeed, there are those who believe that the Six-Day War was an act of God.

So it was some disbelief and considerable astonishment to discoverΒ that a nine-year-old girl who walked into a newsroom that I was working atΒ was his great grand – daughter.

She had come with her father, and could not believe it when I told her that I did not know who he was.

She didn’t like being called munckin either, or princess for that matter.

Munckins, she told me, were little people, and as she spoke I felt like one of them.

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Time for a Palestinian State πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ

15 Friday Jul 2011

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In this world of nations, there are some people who are clearly a nation, but for various reasons are unable to live in a land that belongs to them.Β  Sometimes – as in South Sudan – there clearly isn’t a nation, however because of Great Power intervention you find their appearance, which is a shame because there are people who have suffered for decades fighting for the right to be free. So, yesterday’s announcement by the Arab League – which has suddenly become a force in international politics – that it will back the Palestinians in their fight to be recognised at the UN as a state is welcome news to those who have long believed that they have been appalling treated by first the UN who did not recognise that they lived on the land now called Israel and by the state itself which has used the symbols, traditions and history of the Jewish faith as a justification to massacre a defenceless civilian population. Β A single day does not go by in the so-called Occupied territories when there isn’t an incident involving the most powerful army in the Middle East and the people it has held captive in West bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem.Β  This has never been a fair fight,Β which the Palestinians – despite the defiance and rhetoric of Hamas – have ever been able to win, which makes the intransigence of the European Union all the more disgusting and the announcement by the Barack Hussain Obama that he would never allow a Palestinian state come into being that much more heart breaking. America has never been a fair broker in this conflict – it knows that – and Obama knows also that he has let down everyone who cried on the day he became the first Black President of the world’s most powerful nation.

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The Murdoch Saga Continues…

15 Friday Jul 2011

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Empires built on Blood

14 Thursday Jul 2011

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It is often remarked that Great Britain’s was the empire on whom the sun never set. It was also the empire on the whom the never blood never ran dry, which makes the current figures released by the UN all the more ghalling.Β  It says that theΒ first six months of this year killed more civilians than at anytime through out the current conflict in Afghanistan.Β  From January to June, a total of Β 1,462 civilians were killed, aΒ 15 per cent increase on the same period last year.Β “The rising tide of violence and bloodshed in the first half of 2011 brought injury and death to Afghan civilians at levels without recorded precedent in the current armed conflict,” the report says. In a stark reminder, last night (Wednesday),Β  at least six more people were killed in a Nato raid on a house in Matun, in Khost province , which local Afghans said were civilians but Nato claim were insurgents.

Media reports always break such figures down to insurgent activity, etc, but the truth is that asΒ the occupying power, America along withΒ her Nato allies – just like Great Britain in its heyday –Β  know they are fully responsible for allΒ combat related deaths because it is their job to ensure a peaceful environment for human beings to get on with their day to day lives.

If they can’t, then they should leave.

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Now here’s a man, and he’s got a plan…

14 Thursday Jul 2011

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Playing the Long Game?

Ben Bernanke is currently explaining to an influential committee how his nation is going to tackle their astronomical debt burden. Critics say that apart from printing money, the chairman of the Federal Reserve hasn’t got any other plan. The time may come, one commentator claimed on yesterday’s CNBC, when China will call in that debt, it may well that Suez moment, when America reminded Great Britain that it was no longer a Great Power in a world dominated by two superpowers. So will China remind America that it is no longer has the economy to sustain its current military adventures? And has the miltary got too much power in the People’s Republic? There is no doubt that a move get America to pull back on its military engagements would play well in the Third World, increasing the incredible amount of goodwill that it already has among the weaker nations of the world. But China, despite its vast pools of wealth is still a very poor country, with millions of people still waiting to taste that Chinese miracle everyone keeps telling them that they are part of, and worse still, those people still have to find somewhere to live, in a land where there is too many people and not enough land. Having seen how the one true superpower in the world has squandered her wealth on expensive hitech weapons fighting inconclusive wars,  there doesn’t appear to be the taste for any military confrontation either – remember China lost a million men at Korea and her last adventure resulted in a thrashing from General Giap’s Vietnamese army.  So, my guess is that Ben Bernanke is betting that China has absolutely nothing to gain from crashing the system and far too much lose also from acting as a military superpower, which means that if  America is a status quo power, then her emerging rival is no great challenger, it’s not in its interest to be so.  As a result, the chairman of the Federal Reserve isn’t going to change his strategy, which is exactly what?

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The Longest War

13 Wednesday Jul 2011

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Hamid Karzai’s brother was killed yesterday, a shooting that the Taliban had claimed responsibility for. Taking out the brother of the President of Afghanistan, who was the governor of Kandahar, was they said their greatest achievement of this entire war.

Of course, this does not mean that the war is over in any way.

However, if one adds this on to the attacks in Kabul which began with a spectacular attempt to storm the capital a year or so ago, as well as the rising coalition casuality numbers – there is not a day when there is not a report of an incident resulting in a loss of life – and one can sense that America’s position around the bargaining table is getting that much weaker. Β Those who have been following this war from the beginning could see that the American-led invasion after the attacks on 9/11 was doomed to fail from the start. You can talk about the history, more recently that of the failed Soviet occupation, and of courseΒ that of Great Britain, and Alexander the Great. The reality though isΒ that by allying themselves with such characters as Ahmed Wali Karzai the Americans were never going to get a fully functioning state and as a result they were never going to secure the goodwill of the people of Afghanistan, which is, frankly, who they are currently fighting in this their longest war.

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