The UK has been instrumental in consolidating relations between the disparate and isolationist opposition groups in Syria—not because the British elite want genuine democracy, of course, but because Syria’s President Assad would not acquiesce to the neo-liberal economic policies of the Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative (BMENAI).1 Unlike... » read this article

“Shame makes the world go around” - Morrissey Afghanistan. Iraq. Pakistan. Libya … Who will be next in the Anglo-American quest for Full Spectrum Dominance? Jonathan Evans, the head of Britain’s intelligence agency MI5, alleged that “Somalia has become the next destination after Pakistan for terrorist training due to the... » read this article

In the United States, where it is almost impossible to get elected unless you profess a strong religious faith, it would have passed completely unnoticed. Not one of the hundred US senators ticks the "No Religion/Atheist/Agnostic" box, for example, although 16 per cent of the US population does. But it... » read this article

Divide and conquer stratagems are back with a vengeance throughout the Arab world, fanning the flames of discontent and undermining national sovereignty. The stage is being set for a contrived "clash of civilizations," closely following the 1982 plan of Israeli strategist Oded Yinon, for which any form of peaceful coexistence... » read this article

Sweden is bound by different extradition agreements. It is not meant to grant onwards extradition to a third country without agreement from the extraditing country. But at the same level of the legal hierarchy there is a bilateral treaty between the US and Sweden that allows for extradition without consent... » read this article

With a few nylon tents and some amateurish banners, the Occupy movement has rattled the establishment The mayor of London demands a law against it to stop tent villages "erupting like boils" across the capital. If you lived like Boris, you too might be a bit paranoid about boils. The... » read this article

Protesters camped outside London's St Paul's Cathedral are to be allowed to stay until next year, lawyers acting for the group have claimed. Local authorities have offered protesters a deal "to stay on site until the new year" in return for the group agreeing to abandon their demonstration. John Cooper,... » read this article

“Many times you have fallen into the snare of greed. And given your throat up to be cut.” Rumi Britain’s fourth occupation of Afghanistan in two hundred years began in September 2001, when US Special Forces and friends, presumably Britain’s SAS, illegally invaded the country without UN knowledge or approval.1... » read this article

Editor's Comment: We have Martin Iqbal at Empire Strikes Back to thank for exposing this raw deception by the British Broadcasting Corporation in their attempt to reinforce the demonization of Col. Muammar Qaddafi and to justify NATO's destruction of Libya. In his report below, please note the contradictory statements within... » read this article

George Galloway talks with Libyan Rebel Question: What kind of medical doctor supports the slaughter of his fellow citizens by a foreign military? Source: Chris Sedlmair (Denmark)... » read this article

I keep hearing comparisons between the London riots and riots in other European cities—window smashing in Athens or car bonfires in Paris. And there are parallels, to be sure: a spark set by police violence, a generation that feels forgotten. But those events were marked by mass destruction; the looting... » read this article

From bizarre claims about the use of "mercenaries" to tongue-in-cheek travel advisories, countries long used to Western criticism of their own human rights records are relishing Britain's embarrassment over the riots sweeping its cities With its long colonial past and its carefully nurtured self-image as the mother of parliamentary democracy... » read this article

Editorial Comment: The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, decided to visit the south London suburb of Clapham where there had been serious rebelling, looting and burning of shop and cars for two nights. Boris was not very welcome as he had to interrupt his vacation to come back to England... » read this article

National Call for Solidarity with the British Uprising PROTEST POLICE TERROR IN LONDON We urge you to help organize protests at British consulates, BBC News offices and other sites in cities across North America. Endorse and circulate this call of action in solidarity with the British uprisings We call on... » read this article

Editor's Note: The corporate media call the poor youth who have been striking back in England "looters, rioters and criminals". For decades, the same media has been telling them they should have all those things in the shop windows they see in television ads and shop windows every day when they can barely feed their... » read this article

Sukant Chandan gets it right - pointing his finger directly at Cameron.  The British Prime Minister has vowed that rioters will pay for what they've done, as he addressed Parliament in the wake of clashes that engulfed the country. What started as a peaceful protest against police shooting a man in... » read this article

The first priority must be to restore calm and peace to Tottenham. This is vital for the safety and wellbeing of all Londoners. As Tottenham's Labour MP David Lammy has also said, justice can only follow a thorough investigation of the facts, but to understand those facts, we must have... » read this article

In their report below, the BBC announces the sudden and "unexplained" death of Sean Hoare, a former News of the World reporter and before that a reporter at The Sun, who blew the British media and political establishment wide open. He left News of the world in 2005. In March,... » read this article

Hundreds of thousands of public employees set to strike, with co-ordinated day of action on 30 June, 2011. By Britain is facing the largest wave of strikes since the 1980s as about 750,000 public-sector employees stage a protest against threatened changes to their pensions. The Public and Commercial Services (PCS)... » read this article

June 17, 2011 "The Guardian" - - Why do we still go to war? We seem unable to stop. We find any excuse for this post-imperial fidget and yet we keep getting trapped. Germans do not do it, or Spanish or Swedes. Britain's borders and British people have not been... » read this article